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Archive of the Skenfrith Son et Lumiere production, 1982-1983, which was staged on three consecutive days in August 1983, including the script ‘Ynysgynwraidd’ (The story of the oldest Marcher Castle) which was written by Bob Forrest-Webb, together with annotated photographs, programme and a copy of The Skenfrith Parish Magazine, including an account by Bob Forrest-Webb entitled 'The Skenfrith saga'. Over three thousand pounds was raised towards the restoration of the window in St. Bridget’s Church, Skenfrith, through the Skenfrith project.

Photographic prints of a 16th century English manuscript book containing five distinct series of decorative alphabets and numerous calligraphic specimens, probably the work of Robert Jones. The original manuscript is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Six variations for string quintet by Dr Ernest L. M. Prichard. (Formerly Ernest L. M. Prichard MS 5.) Music notation, English. Between boards. Donated by the Honourable Mervyn Roberts, Abergele, April 1959.

Six temperance cards, in Welsh, 1892-1897, signed by Mary and David Mathias and their four sons, members of Lloyd St Congregational chapel, Llanelli, co. Carm.; together with a postcard, postmark 1912, containing a photograph of 'The Oldest Sunday School Class in the World' (Nazareth Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Tal-y-bont, co. Card.).

Six letters from [Sir] Lewis Morris, London and Penbryn,and a group of nineteen lettersaddressed to the Right Reverend Connop Thirwall, bishop of St Davids, etc. See Annual Report 1963-4, page 41. Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Winifred A. Myers, London, September 1963.

A collection of ephemera and papers relating to Sister Florence Mulfra Williams (1902-1983) of London, originally of Swansea, Glamorgan, who served during the Second World War in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), and was one of the first nurses to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation in April 1945.

Over sixty autograph letters, 1806-1815, from Major-General (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Sir Thomas Picton (1758-1815), most of them written to Lewis Flanagan, London. Some of these letters were printed in West Wales Historical Records, Vols XII and XIII.

A parole, signed by Sir Thomas Myddelton, 8 May 1645, to John Walcot, prisoner at the Red Castle, to travel to Walcot and return at the end of seven days, with a receipt by Thomas Myddelton for £50 for Walcot's ransome, 19 May 1645.

Letters and newspaper cuttings relating to the visit which Sir Thomas Marchant Williams (1845-1914) paid to Canada in 1913. Most of the letters are addressed to Henry Blackwell (1851-1928), New York, who preserved and bound them.

(i) An autograph draft of Sir Thomas Hanmer's 'Garden Book' (ff. 7-87 verso), which appears to be an earlier draft than either Bettisfield 1667 or the 'MS volume of 1659' from which the 'Garden Book' was first printed with an introduction by E. S. Rohde in 1933. Its condensed style contrasts with the more detailed and formal text of the printed edition. It ends with an index of plants mentioned in the text (ff. 83-87 verso). (ii) A text of Edward Norgate's treatise 'An Exact and Compendious Discourse concerning the Art of Miniature or Limming ...' (ff. 89-116 verso), in the hand of Sir Thomas Hanmer, dated 15 February 1663/4. This text shows much variation from that of the only printed edition, based on Bodleian Tanner MS 326 [ed. Martin Hardie, 'Miniatura; or, the art of limning' (Oxford, 1919)]. Hanmer's abbreviated text ends at the foot of p. 70 of Hardie's edition. Hardie lists eight other manuscripts. (iii) Notes in Latin on Aristotle's 'Rhetorica' (ff. 2-6, and inverted text ff. 140 verso-141 verso); 'Notae Grammaticales' (inverted text ff. 137-138 verso); fragments of English prose, one beginning 'Freindsheep has this in it ...' (inverted text, inside back cover and f. 140); all in later hands of seventeenth century.

A manuscript entitled Llewelyn, an Historic Play in Five Acts by and in the hand of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848).

A holograph letter, 1866, from Sam[uel] Ferguson, poet and antiquary, from Dublin, to M. le Capitaine Biol?, referring to prospectuses and subscription papers in connection with the recipient's studies, the Fenian revolt in Ireland (with a quotation relating to Fenian cooking-places from John O'Mahony's translation, 1857, of Geoffrey Keating: Foras Feasa ar Eirinn), and the writer's survey of Tre Caerau [Tre'rceiri] in Caernarvonshire. Endorsed is a full-page sketch or 'Rough Survey of the British Fortress called Tre Caerau' by the writer.

Document relating to appointing Sir Robert Mends (c.1767-1823) as Captain of the ship Owen Glendower, 1822. He was born in Pembrokeshire.

Draft rent account book, 1851-1860, compiled for Sir Richard Puleston, 2nd bart, of Emral, Flintshire, comprising brief accounts of estate receipts and, in more detail, accounts of estate expenditure, mainly rates, taxes, repairs and payments to servants, and local craftsmen and tradesmen.

Transcripts, [c. 1827] (watermark 1825), in an unknown hand, of journals of tours in Wales and parts of England undertaken by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in 1793 and 1801-1803, taken from manuscripts now at Cardiff Central Library, MS 3.127 and MS 4.302.
The journals include a tour of North Wales, 12 April-1 August 1801 (ff. 1-88, original pagination 1-176), and tours of South Wales, 25 April-14 July 1802 (ff. 96-160, pp. 1-128), 1 May-7 July 1793 (ff. 164-180, pp. 1-33) and 14 May-11 June 1803 (ff. 183-190 verso, pp. 1-16). These are all published, in edited form, in The Journeys of Sir Richard Colt Hoare through Wales and England 1793-1810, ed. by M. W. Thompson (Stroud, 1983). An additional fragment of a tour from Hagley to Stourhead, 24-27 August 1802, is also included (ff. 91-95, pp. 1-10); this is not recorded by Thompson. Each individual tour is accompanied by a list of places visited (ff. 89-90, 162-163, 181-182, 191). A letter, 28 September 1904, from Emmeline Salvin, concerning the volume's provenance, has been tipped in on f. ii.

Sketches and memoranda, relating mainly to Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, Merioneth, and Caernarvonshire, made during a tour in North Wales, 1799, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 'second baronet (1758-1838; D.N.B., xxvii, 26), lists of places in Merioneth and Caernarvonshire at which he fished, notes on lakes in North Wales, and 'Catalogue / of / Pictures and Portraits / at / Hagley Hall / Worcestershire / The Seat of Ld Lyttelton / Taken by Sir R. C. Hoare Bt.'

A manuscript containing music set to Welsh words for the Sir Owen M. Edwards (1858-1920) memorial number of Cymru, January 1921.

A volume of transcripts containing a collection of speeches by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, delivered in Parliament, the Guildhall, the Privy Council, and the Courts of Star Chamber and Exchequer, 1557/8-1571 and undated; a prayer by Sir Nicholas Bacon; a collection of poems entitled 'The Recreatyons of his Age'; letters from Sir Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth, William Cecil, baron Burleigh, Robert Dudley, 1st earl of Leicester, the Privy Council, and Sir Francis Walsingham, 1564-1578 and undated; and an undated letter from Queen Elizabeth to Sir Amyas Powlett. At the end of the volume is a free-metre verse in Welsh in an eighteenth century hand.

Eleven letters, 1854-1902, some incomplete, from Sir Llewelyn Turner (1823-1903), Parkia, Llanfair-is-gaer, co. Caernarfon, to John Breese (1830-58), town clerk of Pwllheli, and to 'Mr Wynn' [possibly Frederick George Wynn, Glynllifon, co. Caernarfon], relating mainly to the maintenance of Caernarfon Castle and harbour, and to the Royal Welsh Yacht Club.