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Papers relating to Hughes a'i Fab, Cyhoeddwyr, including correspondence, 1887-1975; financial papers, 1947-1976; business papers, 1830-1971 and printing and publishing material, [1930-1975]. There are many letters from prominent Welsh authors regarding their work being published and papers concerning the history and general administration of the company.

Typescript and manuscript notes relating to the Hughes family of Bodaden, parish of Llanwnda, co. Caernarvon; and typescript copies of five probate items including a digest of the will of Owen Hughes, 12 September 1729, an inventory of the goods, etc., of the said Owen Hughes, 5 November 1729, an extract from the will of John Hughes, 3 May 1748, the will (complete) of John Rowland, 13 July 1750, and an inventory of the goods, etc., of the said John Rowland, 'who died the 27th day of August [recte July] last (1750)', all three persons named being of the parish of Llanwnda aforesaid. The whole has been bound as a slender, octavo-size volume, having on the outside, upper cover a label inscribed 'Llanwnda. Ewyllysiau Teulu Bodaden (1729-48)'.

Letters, 1859-1860, from Humphrey Jones, Aberystwyth, Wesleyan preacher and revivalist, to David R. Davies, Wesleyan preacher, Aberdare.

A volume, [16 cent., second ½], probably in the hand of Thomas Powell (d. 1588), Parc y Drewen, Whittington, co. Salop, containing a much shortened text of Humphrey Lhuyd's English version of Brut y Tywysogion, upon which version David Powel based his Historie of Cambria, now called Wales ... (London, 1584) (see Brut y Tywysogion ..., ed. by Thomas Jones (Cardiff, 1952), pp. xiv-xviii). Omissions mainly involve passages relating to events outside Wales, church affairs and the papacy, anecdotes, explanations of Welsh personal and place-names, and the arguments against Polydore Vergil. Three other copies are known: BL, MS Cotton Caligula A VI; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum MS 847; and NLW, Llanstephan MS 177. Also included are a pedigree of the kings and princes of North Wales from Cadwaladr to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (ff. iv-v verso), a painted coat of arms of Cadwaladr (f. 1), and an index of personal and place-names (ff. 168-70 verso). Six lines of English verse are added in a contemporary hand on f. 171 verso.

A volume entitled Humphrey Smith's Astronomical Book, Aug[us]t 10th, 1793, being notes on elementary astronomy.

Hunangofiant Daniel Owen ar ffurf llythyr, dyddiedig 4 Mehefin 1891, yn ei law ei hun, [at Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf), golygydd Y Cymro]. Cyhoeddwyd yn Y Cymro, 11 Mehefin 1891, t. 2, a'i ailgyhoeddi yn Isaac Foulkes, Daniel Owen y Nofelydd (Lerpwl, 1903), tt. 1-8. = A holograph autobiographical account by Daniel Owen in the form of a letter, dated 4 June 1891, [sent to Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf), editor of Y Cymro]. It was published in Y Cymro, 11 June 1891, p. 2, and reprinted in Isaac Foulkes, Daniel Owen y Nofelydd (Liverpool, 1903), pp. 1-8.
Ceir ambell i frawddeg ychwanegol yn y llawysgrif na gyhoeddwyd yn Y Cymro (ff. 4-5, 9). Ysgrifennwyd y llythyr ar gefn dalennau o Gofrestr Etholwyr, 1879, ar gyfer Llanelwy a Rhyl. = The manuscript contains a few sentences which were not published in Y Cymro (ff. 4-5, 9). The letter is written on the reverse of leaves from an 1879 Register of Electors for St Asaph and Rhyl.

An autobiography written by Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion') in 1887; papers relating to his Testimonial, 1894; and genealogical records of the Roberts family of Isallt, Llanfihangel y Pennant, Caernarvonshire.

Hunangofiant Syr Henry Lewis, Bangor, wedi ei drefnu a'i gyfieithu i'r Gymraeg gan H. Jones-Davies. Mae'r hunangofiant ar ffurf cyfrol o dorion o'r Goleuad, ynghyd â rhagair mewn llawysgrif a thabl cynnwys a nodiadau hunangofiannol gan Syr Henry Lewis. Rhwng byrddau. Prynwyd oddi wrth y Parchedig H. Jones Davies, Llangollen, Ebrill-Mai 1961.

An exercise book containing an incomplete? autobiography and reminiscences of William Jones, Allt [d]du Cottage, Tregaron. The work was compiled during the period 1912-1915 and is entitled '[B]raslun o anes bywyd William dy congar ['The Conqueror'?] of Enedigaith yd yn awr'.

Llyfr nodiadau yn dwyn hunangofiant (anorffenedig) gan ac yn llaw y Parchedig W. E. Penllyn Jones, Hen Golwyn yn dwyn y teitl 'Braslun o hanes fy mywyd'. Mae'r gyfrol hefyd yn cynwys tudalennau rhydd sy'n dwyn nodiadau ynghylch cyfarfodydd crefyddol, nodyn parthed dechrau gweinidogaethu yn Hen Golwyn ym Mehefin 1880, nodiadau pregethau, hanes ei urddo, aayb; hefyd, tudalennau rhydd o ddyddiaduron 1871 a 1883 yn dwyn nodiadau parthed dechreu pregethu yn Llanuwchllyn ym 1875, cyfarfodydd crefyddol, testunau pregethau, aayb, a nodiadau ynghylch taith bregethu yn UDA yn ystod 1883 = A notebook containing an incomplete autograph autobiography by the Reverend W. E. Penllyn Jones, Old Colwyn entitled 'Braslun o hanes fy mywyd'. The volume also includes loose pages containing notes relating to religious meetings, a note relating to beginning his ministry at Old Colwyn in June 1880, texts of sermons, an account of his ordination, etc.; also, loose pages from diaries of 1871 and 1883 containing notes relating to beginning his preaching career in Llanuwchllyn in 1875, memoranda relating to religious meetings, texts of sermons, etc., and notes relating to a preaching tour of the USA undertaken during 1883.

Hunangofiant yn dwyn y teitl 'Bras-gamau fy mywyd' gan y Parchedig David Adams (1876-1962), gweinidog Annibynol, Llechryd (teipysgrif). Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan y Parchedig D. J. Roberts, Aberteifi, Rhagfyr 1964.

Hunangofiant, 'Casgliad o dermau a arferwyd mewn crefftau a diwydiannau Rhos', a 'Llysenwau Pobl y Rhos', oll gan William Philips. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan y Parchedig William Phillips, Bangor, Tachwedd 1959.

Hunting diaries, 1867-1881, of the Neuadd-fawr, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, pack of hounds in and around the Teifi valley, recording weather conditions and the number of hares killed each season.

Five letters, 29 January-23 February 1931, from the poet Huw Menai, Gilfach Goch, to Dermot Spence, [of William Heinemann Ltd.], concerning their attempts to publish his volume of poetry 'Back in the return' (ff. 1-3, 5-11). It was eventually published by Heinemann two years later as Back in the Return and Other Poems (London, 1933).
Also included is a carbon copy typescript letter, 18 February 1931, [from Spence, on behalf of] Heinemann, to Huw Menai (f. 4). The letters contain references to Leonard Woolf (ff. 1, 4, 6-7, 11) and comments on J. B. Priestley's novel The Good Companions (London, 1929) (ff. 2-3) and Robert Graves, Poems 1926-1930 (London: Heinemann, 1931) (ff. 7-10).