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A commonplace book entitled 'Thomas Salubury's Book of Scraps and Diversities', compiled by Thomas Salusbury of Denbigh (b. 1761), third son of Robert Salusbury of Cotton Hall. It contains medical and culinary recipes, many of them attributed to North Wales Physicians; notes on contemporary events during the Napoleonic Wars; press cuttings; anecdotes of George II and Lord Chatham; notes on sermons preached by the Rev. Mr. Edwards at Wrexham, 1787, Bishop Horsley, 1805, the Rev. Mr. Mason at Denbigh, 1807, and the Rev. Mr. Philips at Denbigh, 1818; notes on notable members of the Salusbury family; genealogical extracts from the family Bible at Cotton Hall; and particulars of the birthdays of the compiler's relatives, friends, and acquaintances.

Lists of persons who supplied horses to the Swansea Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry, 1799-1803; a return of the Swansea Gowerland and Cilvey Volunteer Legion, 25 September - 6 December 1800; a notice issued by Lieut.-Col. Thomas Morgan, 3 May 1803, to the Swansea Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry; an invoice by Edward Davies, London, for military equipment, 10 September 1803; a sawyer's bill, 1798, and a receipt for House and Window duties, 1803, made out to Thomas Morgan; a tithe notice, Llanrhystud, 1842; a poor rate receipt, and an account for Pentre farm and garden, Manordeifi, 1845; a letter by James Butler, 1773; a notice by Thomas Morgan, steward to the Duke of Beaufort, prohibiting the erection of buildings adjoining Swansea Castle, 1797; a letter by Rhys Davies, 1804; a note by David Evans, tailor, on Llanfair trefhelygen, Cardiganshire; a draft of an article 'on the Union of Church and State' by Mr. FitzWilliams; and extracts from Llangollen Church Sunday School Catechism, 1870.

Press cuttings, including the issue of Y Drafod, 12 June 1925, containing obituary notices and appreciations of Mrs. Anne Lloyd Jones, widow of Michael D. Jones; press cuttings relating to the Chubut Settlement; a patent to Mihangel ap Iwan to practise as a doctor in the Argentine, 1927; autographs of guests at a banquet given to Mihangel ap Iwan, 1923, programme of the consecration of the 'St. David's' Lodge, No. 3952 of Freemasons at Buenos Aires, 1920; and a memorial card for Ebenezer M. Morgan, Trelew, 1910.

Draft of a short adventure novel in three chapters entitled 'The White Violet', written c. 1885 by Alan James Gulston (1813-1886) of Derwydd and Dirleton, co. Carmarthen, brother of Josepha Heath Gulston ('Talbot Gwyn', 1811-1859) the novelist. The novel is set in South Africa during the Cape Frontier (or Kaffir) Wars of 1779-1879, and the draft contains numerous corrections to the text. A reference on the first folio to the author's novel Warren Knowles, published in London in 1885, suggests an approximate date for this composition.

Renshaw's Almanack & Diary, 1886, with entries by Llwyd ap Iwan.

Particulars by Mihangel ap Iwan concerning the consumption of meat by rural workers in Nant y Pysgod, Patagonia, 1928-1929.

A file of promissory notes relating mainly to the Flint Lead Works, 1832-1845; a letter from Henry Trappes, Manchester, to George Roskell, 1854; and receipts for rents due to the Earl of Powis from tenements in Cefn-coch and Cornorion, 1879-1882.

Sermon notes by J. Gwynoro Davies.

Letters, 1879-1894, from Thomas Charles Edwards, Aberystwyth and Bala, to J. Gwynoro Davies, Barmouth.

Papers of Rev. Daniel Rowland Thomas, pacifist and scholar, including order of services for his induction as minister at Aberdare, 1939 and Merthyr Tydfil, 1945; radio scripts of services conducted by him which were transmitted by the BBC; a programme for his lecture tour in the United States as a visiting lecturer in Biblical Studies in 1967; his poem written for CND Cymru, 1999; press cuttings of articles by him and a leaflet for a Peace festival held in Ammanford in 1990, when he was one of the guest speakers. = Papurau'r Parch. Dr Daniel Rowland Thomas, heddychwr ac ysgolhaig, gan gynnwys taflenni trefn gwasanaeth ei odeinio'n weinidog yn Aberdâr, 1939 ac yn Merthyr Tudful yn 1945; sgriptau o wasanaethau yn ei ofal a ddarlledwyd gan y BBC; rhaglen ei daith ddarlithio i'r Unol Daleithiau fel darlithydd gwadd ar astudiaethau Beiblaidd yn 1967; cerdd a luniodd i CND Cymru, 1999; torion o'r wasg yn cynnwys erthyglau ganddo a thaflen Gŵyl heddwch, Rhydaman, 1990, pan oedd yn un o'r siaradwyr gwadd.

A volume of papers from the Mytton library at Halston, consisting of draft dissertations by Dr. Humphrey Foulks of Marchwiel and other papers:- 'a dissertation of the literature of the antient Britains'; 'a dissertation on the places of worship, judicature, and sepulture of the antient Britains'; 'a short dissertation on the state of the lordship of Denbigh'; 'an essay about the setting of land'; a fair copy of a preface to 'The modern Antiquity of Wales'; a draft title-page and preface to a projected edition of Robert Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived, and Sir John Wynn's 'History of his own family'; drafts and transcripts of letters and documents relating to Welsh history; transcripts from 'Mr. Owen Salisbury's painted book'; transcripts of annals of the rebellion in North Wales; pedigrees; lists of the sheriffs of Flint and Denbighshire to 1739, extended by another hand to 1741; transcripts of monumental inscriptions in Bangor [on Dee], Wrexham, Gresford, Marchwiel, and Montgomery; a valor of Bromfield and Yale, 11-12 Henry VIII; and holograph letters by Rees Powell, Llanharan, 1736, Thomas Lewis, St. Asaph, 1736, and E. Lloyd, Ripple, 1737.

The holograph manuscript of a speech delivered by Madame Clara Novello Davies at the Neath National Eisteddfod, 1934.

An incomplete bardic address entitled 'The Golden Key to the Court of Don'; a letter to 'Myfyr' by D. Llewelyn ('M. G. Hafren'), 1852; 'Cân Gorsedd Alban Elfed, 1856', by John Evans ('Ieuan Wyn'); 'Cân i Ddyffryn Pencoed' by Ivor Aneurin Davies ('Ap Myvyr'), 1847; 'englynion i'r Trydanwawl (Electric Light)'; 'Tysteb Myfyr Morganwg' by Jonathan Reynolds ('Nathan Dyfed'); a 'Solsticial' poem dedicated to the Earl Salisbury by William John ('Mathonwy'); and a 'Bugeilgerdd' written for the Cardiff National Eisteddfod, 1883.

A commonplace book compiled early in the nineteenth century and containing copies of contemporary English poetry, mainly by Scott, Byron, Campbell, Thomas Moore, and William Roscoe; verses 'inscribed to the worthy inhabitants of Carmarthen' by 'Mr. Davies, Cringell'; a pamphlet, issued by the Financial Reform Association, Liverpool, entitled The Peers' Plunder and the People's Poverty; and cuttings from The Atlanta Argus, 1883, Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 1884, and other sources.

A file of draft and printed election addresses, with correspondence relating to the same, by Sir John Herbert Lewis, 1891-1910.

Letters mainly addressed to H. Cernyw Williams by Elias H. Jones, Llangernyw, 1905, Henry Jones, Glasgow, 1897-1921, Charles Davies, Liverpool and Cardiff, 1883-1925, Thomas Charles Edwards, Aberystwyth and Bala, 1886-1895, C. H. Spurgeon, 1887-1888, and Owen Thomas, Newtown (to John Williams at Pwllheli), 1849.

The Franco-Welsh text of the ceremony of the entry of the Gorsedd into St. Donat's Castle, 9 August 1934, composed by Morgan Watkin at the request of Geoffrey Crawshay.

Holograph music by John A. A. Williams ('Brochmael'):- 'The Lord is my Shepherd', 1932; 'O Lamb of God'; and hymn-tunes and carols.

A journal of a tour of parts of England and North and West Wales, July-August 1791, containing descriptions of towns, castles, inns and scenery and of incidents along the way.
The unnamed author, possibly a member of the Wilson family of Broomhead, Sheffield (based on contextual materials filed seperately), travelled with two companions, starting from Cambridge on 11 July 1791. The English itinerary included Oxford, Birmingham, Coalbrookdale and Shrewsbury (ff. 1-8, rectos only). In Wales they visited Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llangollen, Bala, Conwy, Bangor, Caernarfon, Beddgelert, Dolgellau, Machynlleth, Aberystwyth, Devil's Bridge, Cardigan and Carmarthen (ff. 9-25, rectos only, 24 verso). The journal includes an eyewitness account of the Priestley Riots in Birmingham on 14 July (ff. 6-7), and of an altercation between [?Richard Tavistock] Price and three apothecaries in Bala, 21 July (f. 12). A recurring theme is their difficulty in hiring appropriate transport from various landlords (ff. 19, 20, 25). The volume includes three pencil sketches of scenery (ff. 26 verso, 27 verso, 28 verso) and rough accounts (f. 29 verso, inside back cover, front and back covers). The bill, [16] July 1791, for their stay at the Tontine Inn, opposite the Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, has been tipped in on f. 26.

Four items, 1922, relating to Richard Hughes' play, 'The Sisters' Tragedy', comprising a letter, 24 June [1922], from Hughes to the critic and playwright Padraic Colum concerning the production of the play (f. 2), enclosing a copy of the first edition, signed and corrected by Hughes (ff. 3-20), and a printed sheet of reviews (f. 21); and a cutting from The Weekly Westminster Gazette, 10 June 1922, p. 15, containing a review of the play (f. 1).
Also included is a programme, December 1943, for a production at the Belasco Theatre, New York City, of 'The Innocent Voyage', the stage adaptation of Hughes' novel A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929) (ff. 22-31).