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A copy of Alfred Neobard Palmer: A History of Ancient Tenures of Land in the Marches of North Wales (Wrexham, 1885), with two autograph letters from Palmer (1847-1915) to William Martial Myddelton (1852-1929), 1886.

Five autograph letters and a telegram, 1899-1900, to J. T. Jones, Liverpool from Joseph Parry (1841-1903) and one autograph letter from J. Varley Roberts, Oxford, all relating to the Liverpool National Eisteddfod of 1900.

A composite volume containing verse and prose written in various hands, mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries, with additions of the 18th century.

Autograph letters, 1832-1879, to the Thomas family of Pantyclochydd and others in the Llanwenog district, Cardiganshire from relatives and others in New York, Cleveland (Ohio), Salt Lake City (Utah), Rhymney (Monmouthshire), Dowlais (Glamorgan) and Carmarthen.

A printed leaflet relating to the Haddenham Village (Buckinghamshire) Pageant held on Whit Monday (i.e. 20 May) 1929, which included a Druidical Whitsun Ceremony; also included is a copy of Invocation to [the] Sun given at the ceremony, and a letter dated 21 May 1929 from Walter Rose to Sir John Ballinger (1860-1933) relating to the ceremony.

A letter, 12 May 1893, to Arthur Charles Humphreys Owen (1836-1905), Glansevern, Montgomeryshire from Bulkeley O. Jones, Warden of Ruthin Grammar School, accompanying a copy of a manifesto, dated 17 April 1893, prepared by the Warden and others, including Alfred George Edwards (1848-1937), bishop of St Asaph, on behalf of the Governing Body of the school, giving their views as Governors against action contemplated by the Denbighshire County Education Authority and the Charity Commissioners in relation to the school, together with a note dated 8 May 1893 by Arthur Charles Humphreys Owen.

Rhestr o Ffugenwau Cymry ac Eraill, being a dictionary, compiled by Henry Blackwell (1851-1928), New York of Welsh bardic and other pseudonymous names, including those used by Welsh writers in the United States of America, etc.

A commonplace book kept by the Honourable John Scott, M.P. [? for Boroughbridge, 1802-5, son of the first earl of Eldon], in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It contains poems, epigrams, epitaphs, parodies, metrical translations of the classics, etc., by J. Scott, W. 'Spencer, J. Fenton, and others, including ' Prologue to - Nothing, spoken at a Masquerade at Wynnstay, Septr. 1800, by a Character of a Strolling-Player' ; letters and copies of letters mainly to and from John Scott ; ' An account of the present State of England', by C. Heberden ; a copy of an address delivered at Oxford, June 25, 1800, by William Crow[e], entitled 'Oratio Crewiana'; miscellaneous quotations and extracts; etc.

Notes taken by Owen Edwards, afterwards of Melbourne, Australia (d. 1893), of lectures on ethics and Christianity delivered by Dr Lewis Edwards (1809-1887) at Bala College in 1865, together with notes written in 1867 on philosophical works and on Herodotus (484?-425? B.C.), Book V.

A letter dated 28 April 1925 from J. Rhosydd Williams, Rhosllannerchrugog to Sir John Ballinger (1860-1933), first librarian of the National Library of Wales, containing information about William Jones, chandler, Porthmadog, who founded a Church of Christ at Porthmadog, and also particulars about the Scottish Baptists church at Criccieth and about Dr W. Jones Williams, Middlesborough.

Five letters, 1844-1854, from Griffith Davies (1788-1855), F.R.S. to his daughter, Sarah Dew, and a transcript of his Memoir by his nephew, Thomas Barlow; notes of a sermon on Zechariah vi, 13 by John Elias (1774-1841) and of a sermon on Ephesians i, 22-3 by John Williams, Brynsiencyn (1854-1921).

An illustrated copy of The Litterary Life of Thomas Pennant, Esqr. Copy of the Original MS ... signed by Pennant, 1 March 1790, being possibly the actual copy offered by Pennant to Richard Bull in a letter dated 29 May 1790 (see NLW MS 5500C). It is followed by printed copies of some of the appendices to The Literary Life of the late [sic] Thomas Pennant, Esq. ... (published 1793), including A Letter from a Welch Freeholder to his Representative (Chester, 1784), Of the Patagonians (Darlington, 1788), Flintshire Petition (1779) and A Letter to a Member of Parliament on Mail Coaches (London, 1792); a copy of American Annals; or Hints and Queries, for Parliament Men, 1775-8; broadsheets, 1792, 1798, etc.

A commonplace book of Robert Edwards, Tai Draw, near Bala. It contains notes on astrology, witchcraft, legerdemain, geography, natural history, Biblical history, medicinal and household recipes, arithmetical and other tables, algebraical problems, poems, and a copy of a Welsh letter written in 1722-3, by a man born and bred in America to his kindred in the Bala district.

A miscellany of prose and verse, collected and copied, in part, by Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn), editor of Ceinion Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, from various printed and manuscript sources. It contains notes on customs and folk-lore, a pryddest entitled 'Golygdrem o ben Bryn Cae Mawr, Penmachno', by Owen Gethin Jones, englynion and cywyddau by many of the earlier bards together with some by Edward Morus and Owen Gruffydd; extracts from the 'Iolo Manuscripts', from Celtic Remains by Lewis Morris, and from the works of Thomas Pennant, triads, pedigrees of North Wales families, letters from Goronwy Owen to William and Richard Morris, etc.

'Short Pedegrees of Divers, Noble-Men, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen and Women of Pembrook-shire; containing All, or most of the Eight Ancestors from whom they are Descended. Together With the Armes of most of them', being a transcript, made by John Tinkler in 1888, of Chetham Library (Manchester) MS. 6715.

Letters to James Donne, Oswestry, from Theophilus Jones, Brecon, and W. J. Rees, Cascob, Radnorshire; a letter from James Donne to Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon); and a short account by W. J. Rees of David Lloyd (1752-1838), vicar of Llanbister, Radnorshire.

Letters, 1893-1897, from Charles Ashton, Dinas Mawddwy, to Hubert Smith, Bournemouth (sometime town clerk of Bridgnorth), and press cuttings, 1899, relating to Charles Ashton, etc.

Research papers of Dr Richard John Phillips (1921-1994) relating to his work on the statesman and author Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863), comprising five chapters of a projected biography; correspondence and notes relating to manuscript and published sources; together with card indexes, arranged chronologically and by subject.