Dangos 14836 canlyniad

Copies kept by W. J. Parry, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire of letters which he wrote as secretary of Eisteddfod Cymreigyddion Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, 1863-1867.

The minute book, 1870-1886, and statement of accounts, 1878-1891, of the committee of managers of the Pontgarreg (Cardiganshire) British School.

A manuscript entitled A true Copy of an Ancient memorable Treatise of Record touching the Progeny and Descent of the Honorable Name & Family of the Herbert's, by Commission from Edward IV. An. Dom. 1460, the copy including genealogies of and notes on the family of Herbert, lords of Raglan, earls of Pembroke, and their descendants, together with similar information on other Monmouthshire families.

A book which belonged to one William Lewis in 1818, consisting of original sermons bound with several printed items.

A transcript made in 1805 by Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) (1764-1833) of the treatise on Welsh bardism by Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) (1747-1826) which was published by Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo) (1787-1847) as Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain (Abertawy, 1829), together with a few hymns, including Addysg i'r Iefaingc by Tomos Glyn Cothi.

Miscellaneous financial accounts, memoranda, copies of hymns, names of preachers, sermon notes, etc., most of them relating to the Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Tregaron, and ranging in date from c. 1841, when the volume belonged to Samuel Lloyd, to c. 1882.

Miscellaneous personal, parish and estate papers belonging to the owners of the Bathafarn and Llanbedr estates, 1758-1863.
They comprise lists of Denbighshire freeholders, 1758, [18th cent.]; extracts from the records of various Denbighshire parishes, 1811-1837; diary entries and other personal papers of John Jesse, 1822-1863; financial and personal papers of Joseph Ablett, 1814-1828; estate and household management records from Llanbedr Hall, 1829, 1856-1859; and papers concerning medical matters and the history of Lancashire, [c. 1787], 1823-1863.

An account book bearing the name of John Evans, grocer, Oswestry, 2 May [18]50. All the accounts, however, have been cut away, leaving only a few memoranda.

A ledger of Edward Roberts, grocer, Mount Street, Bala, for the period 1863-72.

Mansfield's Commercial Diary, 1853, with manuscript entries and memoranda, 1853-5, of a Monmouthshire? brewer, largely relating to the recovery of debts.

Two volumes relating to the genealogy of the Homfray Davies family of Cwrt y Gollen, Powys, compiled by Derek Homfray Davies.

Photocopies of the journal for 1819 of Lady Eleanor Butler, one of the Ladies of Llangollen, and of her daybook, 1806, containing jottings of conversations and anecdotes, 1805-6.

Letters, 1847-54, to Hugh Jones ('Erfyl') from H. Gryffydd, Bodlondeb, near Gwyndy, Anglesey, together with enclosed lists of errors in Y Bibl Darluniadol, 1844-50.

Photocopies of crew agreements and log sheets of the ship Mimosa from its maiden voyage in 1853 to the last one in 1872, and including the voyage which took emigrants to Patagonia in 1865. The donor is the author of Mimosa: the life & times of the ship that sailed to Patagonia and its companion volume Mimosa's voyages : official logs, crew lists and masters (Talybont, 2007).

Photocopies relating to the genealogy of Benjamin Williams III whose great grandfather Benjamin Williams (d. 1896) emigrated from Wales in 1853 to the United States and was one of the early Welsh settlers in Middle Granville, New York .

Photocopies of papers relating to Llyfr Melyn Tyfrydog (NLW MS 23969F) which is a volume in the hand of Hugh Hughes ('Y Bardd Coch o Fôn). The originals are in the possession of the donor John Iwan Parry Hughes, a descendant of Hugh Hughes, and include photocopies of his family tree and the family crest .

Four letters to the actor Huw Tudor, 1993-1994, from the Royal College of Heraldry, Australia, relating to his application for a coat of arms.

Typescript notes relating to the set and sound requirements for the production of the play which was staged at Dynevor Castle, 13-18 August 1968.

Photocopies from the catalogue of the manuscripts of R. Gwyneddon Davies held at the University of Wales Bangor compiled by his son R[obert] G[wyneddon] D[avies], 1916-1917.

A photocopy of an MA thesis presented at Liverpool University, 1964.