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Photocopies of two press cuttings relating to the Welsh singer Leila Megane (Margaret/Maggie Jones, 1891-1960), wife of the composer T. Osborne Roberts (1879-1948), purchased with NLW MSS 15281-310 in February 1980 (see Annual Report 1979-80, p. 63), one showing her congratulating the winner of the Osborne Roberts prize at the National Eisteddfod at Ebbw Vale, 1958, and the other an undated cutting in Italian giving an account of the welcome concert arranged for the Prince of Wales at Rome which included a performance by Leila Megane.

A draft, with numerous emendations, of an essay in Welsh on Welsh folklore.

A CD copy of the website for the 'Just Say No' Campaign, 1997, designed by Jeremy Clulow, Webs Wonder Design

A notebook, dated 8 January [18]47, in the hand of Robert Davies, containing carolau plygain and other free metre poetry in Welsh.

A copy of Alexander Falileyev's study 'Shamans, Poets and Mabinogi: Linguistic Reconstruction and Typological Perspective', submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998

A copy of a thesis 'Gaelic Lexical Resources in Primary Schools', presented by Moray J. Watson for the degree of MLitt (Aberdeen, 1995), and presented for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998

Additional Gwynedd Family History Society publications on microfiche: Memorial Inscriptions 214 (Llanddeiniolen, co Caernarfon); 223 (Betws-y-coed, co Caernarfon); 229 (Llechylched, co. Anglesey); 230 (Caergeiliog, co Anglesey); 248 (Maentwrog, co Merioneth); 253 (Dolgellau, co Merioneth); Parish Registers 02 (Llanbadrig, co Anglesey); Marriage Indexes P08 (co Merioneth, 1754-1812); list of Memorials and Plaques A03 (Blaenau Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Trawsfynydd and Maentwrog, co Merioneth)

A copy of Nesta L. Harries's study entitled 'The Welsh Woollen Industry' written for her final examination at St Catharine's College, Tottenham, London, early 1950s, and containing samples of materials produced in woollen mills throughout Wales.

A file of correspondence and papers relating to the Conservative Party's campaign in the North Wales constituency in the June 1994 European Election.

Transcript and index on microfiche of the 1891 census returns for Merthyr Tydfil, co. Glamorgan.

Copies of correspondence, 1868-1869 and undated, of Thomas Hughes Ford Davies, mostly from Abercery, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, and the Bath & Cheltenham Hotel, London, relating to his military training, his education at Oxford, Conservatism and the 1868 General Election.

Two volumes bearing the title 'Amryw ysgrifau' by the Reverend L. Rheidol Davies (1872-1952) containing press cuttings, 1937-51, of articles, which appeared in Y Llan, Yr Haul a Y Cyfaill Eglwysig; together with a few in his hand. He was Vicar at Llandeilo'r-fân and Llanfihangel Nant Brân, Breconshire, 1928-43; he travelled extensively and included are articles which he wrote about his visits to Ireland, Norway, America, Italy, Greece, Brittany, Switzerland and Egypt, together with some photographs. He edited a volume of poems by Thomas Daniel ('Pabellwyson'), Tannau byrion Pabellwyson (Cardiff, 1930) which includes an article by the editor on the characteristics of France and Spain, and included are cuttings of the poems.

The National Library was allowed to photocopy a dissertation by E. Margaret Humphreys entitled 'Edgar Leyshon Chappell (1879-1949) A Biography' which was submitted for the Diploma in Continuing Education (Local History) at the University of Wales Cardiff, 1993.

Copïau o ddau lythyr, 1883, oddi wrth 'Myfyr Morganwg' (Evan Davies, 1801-88), Pontypridd, at y newyddiadurwr 'Morien' (Owen Morgan, ?1836-1921), a oedd wedi eu gludo y tu mewn i gopi o Myfyr Morganwg, Gogoniant Hynafol y Cymmry (Pontypridd, 1865).

Indenture of apprenticeship, June 1897, of Eluned and Gwyneth M. Jones's father, John Jones of Pwll Farm, Llanelli, co. Carmarthen, to George Mercer, Llanelli, General Contractor, for a period of four years; together with details, including cost, prepared by John Jones, for the rebuilding of a retaining wall at the Adelphi Wharf, Waterford, Ireland, for the Great Western Railway, 1931-2.

Mi'at-'awamil' or Mi'at-'amil', an adaptation of Abubakr Jurjani's Arabic treatise on the hundred grammatical regents, in Persian verse, in the forms of a qasidah.

The Pand-namah or Book of Counsels by Sa'di of Shiraz (full name Musharrif ul-Din Muslih ibn'Abd Ullah) (d. 1291). Written in Nasta'liq, lapsing in places, especially in the margins, into Shikastah. Two columns to a page divided into four oblong compartments of irregular size. Headpiece and four illustrations in gold and colours. Borders and spaces between the lines in gold. Headings in red.

A copy of Husain bin 'Ali al Wa'iz al-Kashifi's Persian commentary on the Qur'an-Mawahib-i-'Aliyyah.

Forty-three letters, 1932-1942, from Alyse Gregory, author and wife of Llewelyn Powys, to James Venn, bookseller, of Weymouth, a Mr Dibben and another correspondent, with a postcard, 1937, from Llewelyn Powys to James Venn.