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Printouts of images scanned from a letter, dated 1562, from the Gentlemen of Glamorgan to Sir Henry Sidney, Lord President of the Marches of Wales, sent by e-mail by the donor,

A letter (posted at Penarth 27 February [18]91) written by [David Jones], a member of the crew of the ship Madras, from on board the said ship, to his sister Miss M. E. Jones of Aberaeron, prior to setting sail for Amboyna in China. The ship with its crew, which included some fourteen men and boys from Aberaeron and district, was lost without trace [see Carmarthen Journal, 25 March 1892, and L.H. Lewis; Penodau yn Hanes Aberaeron, 1970, tt. 159-160, 162-163]. Also notes listing the names of the numbers of the crew who came from Aberaeron and district and giving some particulars concerning the vessel and two other vessels called the Caledonia and Ianthe.

A letter, April 1992, to Margaret Thomas from the Rt. Hon. John Smith, MP, in response to a message of good wishes for the forthcoming Labour Party leadership contest, together with the Order of Service for John Smith's Memorial Service held at Westminster Abbey, July 1994.

Letter-book of Sir Andrew King, London, merchant, containing copies of his outgoing correspondence written, 1663-5, just before his departure for and during his residence in Madrid where he was in the service of Sir Richard Fanshawe, the British Ambassador to Spain (ff. 2-26 verso, 105 verso-28 verso inverted text), and, 1667-78, after his return to Great Britain and his residence in London (ff. 49-103 verso inverted text). The letters written from Madrid are mostly to British merchants in London, Spain and elsewhere, and relate mainly to his commercial ventures, especially to his designs to import grain and olive oil into Spain to alleviate the shortages of those commodities there; many of the letters are to Sir Joseph Williamson, Whitehall, informing him of the economic, political and social conditions in Spain, and of the movements of the Dutch fleet, intelligence about which King obtained from British merchants and consuls resident in Spanish ports. A letter to Daniel Wycherley, whose son, the dramatist William Wycherley was also one of Fanshawe's gentlemen in Spain, assures him that his son is not proposing to convert to Roman Catholicism (f. 125). The letters from London comprise correspondence written, 1667-72 (together with a copy of one letter written in 1662), mostly to British colonists in the West Indies, especially to Sir James Modyford in Jamaica, and merchants in England, including Giles Vanbrugh, Chester, sugar-merchant, father of the architect and dramatist Sir John Vanbrugh, mainly relating to the engaging of servants for service in Jamaica; and, 1672-8, mostly to agents of the Royal African Company in Barbados, Guinea and Jamaica, concerning the supplying of negro slaves to the West Indies.

Correspondence of various individuals, including Robert Aspland, Unitarian minister, the Rev. William Ettrick, Richard Hart, David Simpson, divine, and a letter from Robert Gray, bishop of Bristol, to William Rae Wilson, traveller and author; a group of letters to booksellers in London, one being from Michael Lort, antiquary; a group, relating mainly to financial and trade matters, addressed to Henshaw Latham and to Latham Rice and Co., Dover; a group dealing with legal, financial and business matters addressed to a London attorney-at-law and to Messrs Bell and Higginson, London.

Autograph letters, 1712-1769, of Thomas Tanner, bishop of St Asaph (1674-1735), Paul Panton the elder (1727-1797), Sir William Meredith, 3rd bart (d. 1790), and Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis and Baron Herbert of Chirbury (1703-1772).

A holograph letter from Henry M[orton] Stanley to [John] Griffith ('Y Gohebydd'), 1872, and a holograph letter from the latter to [Thomas] Gee, Denbigh, 1872 (Stanley's reluctance to allow the Welsh press to refer to his Welsh descent); and a holograph letter from Thomas Gee to Robert Griffith, bookseller, Caernarvon, 1840 (the loan of a hymnbook to the Reverend John Jones, Tal-sarn).

Autograph letters from J. Williams, Town Hall [? ---], 5 September 1830, to a Mr Jones of Scholarcae, Llanberis, and from Richard Jones, Congregational minister, Milnthorpe, Westmoreland, 27 October 1836, to his father, John Pritchard, Singrig, Dolwyddelan, near Llanrwst.

Three letters, 1900-1901, from Caroline Vanderhoff to Helen Owen, Weston-super-Mare.

Letters from numerous correspondents addressed mainly to David Morgan Richards (1853-1913), journalist, Aberdare, together with copies of letters sent by him, most of them dealing with affairs in the Aberdare district.

Miscellaneous autograph letters, the correspondents including John Barrow (Prince Edward Island), Francis Buckland, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Philip Burne-Jones, John 3rd Marquis of Bute, William Benjamin Carpenter, David Charles (the younger, Carmarthen), Frances Power Cobbe, Griffith Davies, F.R.S., John Cadvan Davies (Cadvan), W. Cadwaladr Davies, G. A. Denison (archdeacon of Taunton), J. P. Earwaker, Edward Edwards (Llanuwchllyn), Sir Owen M. Edwards, John Gwenogvryn Evans, Lewis Edwards, Thomas Charles Edwards, Robert Ellis (Cynddelw), Thomas Edward Ellis, Max Förster (Munich), Thomas Frewen, W. E. Gladstone, Laurence Housman, Father Ignatius (Llanthony), John Banks Jenkinson (bishop of St. Davids), L. D. Jones (Llew Tegid), W. Basil Jones (bishop of St. Davids), Joseph Loth (Rennes), H. E. Manning, Sir Lewis Morris, J. H. Newman, Kate Norgate, James Gordon Oswald, C. T. Owen (Hampstead), Sir Richard Owen, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Joseph Parry, John Cowper Powys, J. Roland Phillips, Evan Rees (Dyfed), William Rees (Llandovery), Henry Richard, Brinley Richards, Sir John Rhys, Jeremy Taylor (a modern transcript), Connop Thirlwall (bishop of St. Davids), Brandon Thomas, William Thomas (Islwyn), Sir John Williams (first President of the National Library of Wales), Samuel Wilberforce (bishop of Oxford), and E. Llywelyn Williams (New York).

Miscellaneous autograph letters, 18-20 cents.

Miscellaneous autograph letters, including some from Daniel Evans ('Eos Dar'), John Frost, Edward King, Henry Nettleship, and Thomas Pennant, and one to David Harris (Carno).

Autograph letters, 1826-1863, from Dr. Charles Lloyd to John Jones (afterwards of Aberdare), David Lloyd, and Rees Jones, and from Elizabeth Enoch and David Lloyd to John Jones.

Letters, 1720-1741, from Isaac Maddox (1697-1759), bishop of St Asaph, and from Erasmus Lewis (1670-1754), to [Judge] Henry Watkins.

Letters from Christopher Bassett, junior, to Edward Griffin, junior, 1774-1775, and from Thomas Lewis, Harpton, to Peter Rickards, Evenjobb, 1748-1771, and one letter, 1825, from Emma Roberts, authoress.

Letters from T. Thomas, Farndon, to Charles Hanbury, London, 1822, relating to a poem by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, and from Reginald Blewitt, Member of Parliament for Monmouth, 1840, relating to Chancery reform.

Miscellaneous autograph letters, the many correspondents including Matthew Arnold, John Bright, Robert Browning, W. L. Childe, Joseph Edwards ('Mynorydd'), Thomas Charles Edwards, D. Emlyn Evans, John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion'), Benjamin Jowett, Arthur Kavanagh, 'The Ladies of Llangollen', Edwin Durning Lawrence, Sir Hugh Owen, John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), Robert Owen (social reformer), Stuart Rendel, Sir John Rhys, John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'), and Maria Jane Williams.