Papers, 1946-2017, of Captain Ted Lees, relating to Island Farm Prisoner of War Camp, Bridgend. Captain Lees was the camp's Intelligence Officer and interpreter during the period 1946-1948, when it held some of the most senior German officers, including Feldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt.
The papers include a nominal roll of senior prisoners compiled by Lees (ff. i-ii, I-XVI); some eighteen letters to Lees, from von Rundstedt and others, 1946-1948, 1957 (ff. 1-21); a typescript statement by von Rundstedt concerning the Blomberg-Fritsch affair of 1938 (ff. 22-25); a typescript memorandum, dated 9 July 1947, from a prisoner to a 'Herr Bieri' [?Frederick Bieri of the IRCC], concerning the Geneva Convention (ff. 30-36); Lees's manuscript recollections of von Rundstedt, 1953 (ff. 54-57); and a copy of a War Office urgent memorandum (U.M./4202(P.W.1m)), dated 8 September 1947, enclosing a categorised nominal roll of senior German officers detained in the UK (ff. 38-53). The letters to Captain Lees, mostly in German, are from Generalmajor [Walter] Leuze, 10 May 1946 (f. 1), [Generalmajor Hans] Erdmann, 3 December 1946 (f. 2), von Rundstedt, 25 December 1946 (f. 3), [Generalmajor Burkhart] Muller-Hildebrand, 2 February 1947 (ff. 4-5), [Konteradmiral] Hans Voss, 13 August 1947 (f. 6), General der Flieger Hans-Georg von Seidel, 14 August 1947 (f. 8), General der Artillerie Anton[-Reichard Hermann Friedrich Maria] Fr[ei]h[er]r v[on] Bechtolsheim, 19 August 1947 (f. 9), Dr Rudolf Aettig, 9 December 1947 (f. 11), [General] Gunther Blumentritt, 26 February 1948 (f. 13), and [General Edwin Graf von] Rothkirch [und Trach], 1 May 1948 (f. 14). Also included are a letter to Lees's wife from von Rundstedt, 10 February 1948 (f. 12), a Christmas card from Voss, made in camp, [1946x1948] (f. 17), a note from Voss certifying the handing over of medals to Captain Lees, [1946x1948] (f. 18), and correspondence, 1957, between Lees, Wilhelm Bauer de Betaz and a Manchester bank, concerning the whereabouts of Bauer de Betaz's medals (ff. 19-21). Items subsequently added to the papers include typescript translations of two of the letters into English (ff. 7, 15), photocopies of parts of the Blomberg-Fritsch and Geneva Convention typescripts (ff. 26-29, 37, kept for conservation purposes) and printouts of web pages relating to Lees and von Rundstedt, 2010, 2017 (ff. 62-64).

A volume principally containing pasted-in cuttings of one hundred and ten English hymns, apparently removed from a copy of Hymns: Selected for the Use of Sunday Schools (Bridgend: printed by William Leyshon, [1854]) (title page pasted in on f. 1), nearly all interspersed with manuscript hymn tunes in staff notation in black ink (ff. 1 verso-107 verso), followed by cuttings of a series of chants (ff. 108-114 verso) and index of first lines (ff. 115-116) taken from the same book.
The remainder of the volume contains thirteen further hymns and hymn tunes entirely in manuscript (ff. 116 verso-128) and further cuttings of printed hymns from various sources (ff. 128 verso-138 verso, versos only). Based on the name on the front cover and the book's place of publication the compiler of the volume may be John Price of Bridgend, pharmacist and teacher at Bridgend's English Wesleyan Sunday School (see Rev. Thomas Osborn, Memorials of Mr. John Price of Bridgend (London and Bridgend, 1862)). None of the cuttings appear to have text on the pasted-down sides and may therefore derive from galley proofs or other pre-publication versions of the book; no complete copy of the book has been seen by the cataloguer.

Transcripts of monumental inscriptions from the Unitarian graveyard at the foot of Newcastle-hill, Bridgend, Glamorgan, in the autograph of William Davies, Bridgend, together with an autograph covering letter from Davies to George Eyre Evans, 26 May 1903.