Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - George Eyre Evans Manuscripts, (GB 0210 MSEYRE) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 05, 2017 Printed: May 05, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH. https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/george-eyre-evans-manuscripts archives.library .wales/index.php/george-eyre-evans-manuscripts Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk George Eyre Evans Manuscripts, Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 4 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 5 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 5 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 MSEYRE George Eyre Evans Manuscripts, Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: George Eyre Evans Manuscripts, ID: GB 0210 MSEYRE Virtua system control vtls004365110 number [alternative]: GEAC system control (WlAbNL)0000365110 number [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1669-1939 / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 485 volumes. Physical description: Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: Welsh Iaith | Language: Latin Iaith | Language: Ancient Greek Iaith | Language: French Iaith | Language: Dutch Iaith | Language: German Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Title based on contents. [generalNote]: Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note George Eyre Evans (1857-1939), Unitarian minister, historian and antiquary, was born in Colyton, Devon, on 8 September 1857, the son of the Rev. David Lewis Evans and his wife Ophelia (née Powell). He moved to Carmarthen in 1864 when his father became a tutor at Carmarthen College. He was educated at Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 MSEYRE George Eyre Evans Manuscripts, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Carmarthen, Gwilym Marles's academy in Llandysul and Liverpool University. He became a Unitarian minister like his father, served as minister of the Church of the Saviour at Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1889-1897, and later devoted many years to unpaid service at the Unitarian chapel in Aberystwyth. For eighteen years he was a researcher for the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire. He was a member of the Cambrian Archaeological Society from 1903 and was the secretary of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society from its formation in 1906 until his death. He was elected to the Court of Governors of UCW Aberystwyth in 1919, and to the Councils of the National Museum of Wales in 1921 and the National Library of Wales in 1924. He lived in Aberystwyth from 1898-1928, then returned to Carmarthen, where he died on 9 November 1939. He published many books on historical, antiquarian and religious subjects, including a History of Renshaw Street Chapel, Liverpool (London, 1887), Whitchurch of Long Ago (Oswestry, 1893), Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897), Colytonia (Liverpool, 1898), Cardiganshire, a Personal Survey (Aberystwyth, 1903), Lampeter (Aberystwyth, 1905) and Lloyd Letters (Aberystwyth, 1908). He also published a private magazine entitled Antiquarian Notes from 1898 until at least 1905. On his death he left a number of unpublished works still in manuscript. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Papers of George Eyre Evans, 1669-1939, including personal papers; family papers; notes, transcripts, correspondence and other papers relating to his religious and antiquarian interests and to his publications; copies of printed books and journals with insertions and annotations; and various original manuscripts collected by him. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition NLW MSS 4280-4300, 7945-7984; George Eyre Evans; Aberystwyth and Carmarthen; Various donations; 1910-1934 (see file level descriptions for further details) NLW MSS 13271-13685; George Eyre Evans; Carmarthen; Bequest; 1940 NLW MSS 14631-14639C; George Eyre Evans; Aberystwyth; Donation; October 1917 Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged at NLW as follows: Eyre Evans Manuscripts; George Eyre Evans Bequest; Ex Libris Society Journal. Cyfyngiadau ar fynediad | Restrictions on access Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 MSEYRE George Eyre Evans Manuscripts, reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library. Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright laws apply. Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material See also NLW, George Eyre Evans Collection. Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Evans, George Eyre, 1857-1939 -- Archives. (pwnc) | (subject) • Evans, George Eyre, 1857-1939 -- Correspondence. (pwnc) | (subject) Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container Sub-fonds NLW MSS 4280-300, 7945-84. vtls004680980: Eyre Evans Manuscripts, Dyddiad | Date: 1785-[1934]. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content: Papers of, or collected by, George Eyre Evans, 1785-[1934], including a large amount of correspondence, extracts and transcripts from various sources, press cuttings, articles, an album of bookplates and material relating to Lampeter, to ancient monuments and to the Cambrian Archaeological Association. Disgrifiad ffisegol | Physical description: 61 vols. Iaith y deunydd | Language of the material: Nodyn | Note: Formerly known as Eyre Evans 1-61. Nodyn | Note: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 MSEYRE George Eyre Evans Manuscripts, Preferred citation: NLW MSS 4280-300, 7945-84. Trefniant | Arrangement: Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 4280-4300, 7945-7984. Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids: The descriptions are also available, together with a detailed list of contents, in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume 2 (Aberystwyth, 1951). Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container NLW MS 4280E. File - Mayors of Aberystwyth, &c., 1901 / NLW MS vtls004365114 4280E. (WlAbNL)0000365114 NLW MS 4281C. File - Notes on Carmarthen, 1911 / NLW MS vtls004365116 4281C. (WlAbNL)0000365116 NLW MS 4282B. File - Darllenfa Penparciau, 1908-1909. NLW MS vtls004365118 4282B. (WlAbNL)0000365118 NLW MS 4283C. File - Solicitor's disbursement book, 1824-1828. NLW MS vtls004365120 4283C. (WlAbNL)0000365120 NLW MSS File - Poems, [19 cent.]. NLW MSS 4284-4285C. 4284-4285C. vtls004365121 (WlAbNL)0000365121 NLW MS 4286C. File - The history of John Bull, [19 cent.] / NLW MS vtls004365128 4286C. (WlAbNL)0000365128 NLW MS 4287E. File - Miscellaneous essays, 1910, 1912 NLW MS vtls004365132 4287E. (WlAbNL)0000365132 NLW MS 4288E. File - Glamorgan tithe commutation, etc., [19 cent.]. NLW MS vtls004365140 4288E. (WlAbNL)0000365140 NLW MS 4289D. File - Llangoedmore parish records, 1903. NLW MS vtls004365142 4289D. (WlAbNL)0000365142 NLW MS 4290C. File - Letters, 1824, [1853]. NLW MS vtls004365144 4290C. (WlAbNL)0000365144 NLW MS 4291E. File - Press cuttings, &c., 1889-1905. NLW MS vtls004365147 4291E. (WlAbNL)0000365147 NLW MSS File - Articles by 'Philip Sidney', 1899-1905 / NLW MS 4292-4294D. 4292D. vtls004365149 (WlAbNL)0000365149 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 6 GB 0210 MSEYRE George Eyre Evans Manuscripts, NLW MS 4295B. File - Lewis Glyn Cothi, [?1900] / NLW MS vtls004365157 4295B. (WlAbNL)0000365157 NLW MS 4296C. File - The centenary of printing in 1909. NLW MS vtls004365162 Aberystwyth, 4296C. (WlAbNL)0000365162