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A copy of A Journey to Llandrindod Wells, in Radnorshire ... By a Countryman. The Second Edition ... (London, 1746), with, inserted, a letter and three sheets dated 15 February 1928 written to Sir John Ballinger (1860-1933) by Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney (1859-1933), giving notes of identification of the persons named in the book.

Mainly unrelated deeds, 1488-1861, relating to property in Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

A large collection which includes correspondence; transcripts and extracts from parish registers and bishops' transcripts, from wills and administrations, from public and private records, from monumental inscriptions, and from printed sources; pedigrees compiled from manuscripts notes and printed sources, and genealogical notes; a copy of The Diary of the Revd. William Jones, 1777-1821 ..., 1929, with additions; a copy of Rider's British Merlin, 1734, with additions; copies of poetry and of metrical translations into Latin; a copy of The Parish Priest ..., [1841]; material accumulated during the preparation of A History of Monmouthshire; a copy of Plantae Woodfordienses ..., 1771, with additions; and a rate book of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern parish, 1889. The majority of references in this collection are to Monmouthshire or places within that county. Correspondence is substantial and a list notes Bradney's principal correspondents as follows: Sir John Ballinger, Aberystwyth; G. R. Brigstocke, London and Ferryside; J. H. Canning, Newport; D. Stedman Davies, Llandrindod; John Davies, Aberystwyth; John Davies, Pandy; Sir Leonard Twiston-Davies, Rockfield Park; T. C. Evans ('Cadrawd'), Llangynwyd; William Haines, Y Bryn, Llangattock-iuxta-Usk; Fred J. Hando, Newport; Lemuel Hopkin James, Ystrad Mynach; J. Ifano Jones, Cardiff; W. H. O. Kemmis, Frome; J. Hobson Matthews, Cardiff and Monmouth; T. Matthews, Llandebie; Edward Owen, London; Egerton G. B. Phillimore, Corris; D. Rhys Phillips, Swansea; Thomas Richards, Maesteg and Bangor; Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, Swansea; G. N. W. Thomas, Devizes.

A letter, 1933, from Joseph Bradney to [?Sir Leonard Twiston Davies].

Letters from various correspondents including J. A. Bradney (ff. 45-60), Thomas Eborall Cooke (ff. 111-114) and Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff (ff. 19, 115-124).

Ten letters, 1923-1926, from Joseph Alfred Bradney, Tal-y-coed, Monmouthshire, to E. I. Williams, Pontypridd (ff. 1-21); two letters, 1938-1952, from E. I. Williams to E. Silk, headmaster of Nant-y-glo Secondary School, the former listing Charity Schools, 1737-1847, in the parish of Aberystruth (ff. 23-6; and two letters, 1941-1942, concerning the loan of documents of Monmouthshire interest including some of the above (ff. 27-8).

Letters reflecting Phillimore's and Bradney's shared antiquarian interests, as well as their mutual taste for rude limericks. Bradney habitually wrote to Phillimore in Latin.

Pedigrees and related notes, some in the hand of Sir Joseph Bradney.

A copy of Pryse's Handbook to the Radnorshire & Breconshire Mineral Springs: With Various Descriptive Journeys and Excursions Therefrom to Numerous Places of Interest in Central Wales (Llanidloes, 1872), with identifications and additions, transcribed from A Journey to Llandrindod Wells, 2nd edn (1746), in the autograph of Sir Joseph Bradney.

A sermon on Hebrews xiii, 12, 13, written in 1824 by Micah Thomas (1778-1853), principal of the Baptist College at Abergavenny, with a letter, 20 September 1924, to Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney (1859-1933) from E. I. Williams, Pontypridd.

A presentation copy to Sir Cyril Fox (1882-1967) of a poem entitled Carmen, printed in 1924, by Achydd Glan Troddi (i.e. Sir Joseph Bradney) (1859-1933), with a covering letter, dated 1917, from the author.