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Cyfrol o gerddi yn llaw Ellis Roberts (Elis Wyn o Wyrfai), [1866]-[1882], yn y mesurau caeth yn bennaf, gan gynnwys beddargraffiadau a chyfieithiad o emynau; cerdd brintiedig i W. R. M. Wynne, a Mrs Wynne, yn dilyn eu priodas, Mai 20, 1891, a cherdd goffa i’w wraig, 1892; copi o’i bregeth a draddodwyd ganddo yn ei wasanaeth ordeinio yn Eglwys Gadeiriol Llanelwy yn 1893; ynghyd â dau lythyr a ysgrifennodd at ei ferch Esther Margaret (‘Essie’), 1894 a 1895 a ‘Marwnad ar ol y diweddar Barch. Ellis Roberts (Elis Wyn o Wyrfai), Llangwm’ gan awdur dienw. = A volume of poems in the hand of Elis Wyn o Wyrfai, [1866]-[1882], mainly in strict metre, including epitaphs and translations of hymns; two of his printed poems: Welcome home. To W. R. M. Wynne, Esq, and Mrs Wynne, after their marriage, May 20, 1891, and In memoriam. My wife, 1892 and a copy of his ordination sermon preached at St Asaph Cathedral, 1893; together with two letters from him to his daughter Esther Margaret (‘Essie’), 1894 and 1895 and an elegy to the poet by an unknown author.

Diary, 1 May 1851-18 September 1852, of Lieutenant Herbert M[illingchamp] Vaughan, 90th Light Infantry, mostly while stationed at Ballincollig and Cork, Ireland. The diary contains an account of his various duties, his social and recreational activities, including balls, regattas, parties and picnics, and hunting and shooting.
Vaughan's company was at Ballincollig until late 1851, when it removed to nearby Cork; the regiment was sent to Dublin in August 1852 (f. 112 verso). Additionally Vaughan spent most of September 1851 on leave in London (ff. 38-46 verso) and was at home at Plas Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, [9] October-[29] December 1851 (ff. 49-65 verso). Among the incidents recounted are the death by suicide of one of his men during an assignment to transport ammunition (ff. 8-11); [George W. Stone] performing Electro-Biology [i.e. hypnotism] experiments on some of his men (ff. 26 verso, 29 verso-30); several visits to the Great Exhibition in London (ff. 39 verso-43 verso passim); attending the Cork garrison races, [21] April 1852 (ff. 86-87 verso); and a riot by paupers at Cork workhouse, [9] May 1852 (f. 90 recto-verso). Vaughan assisted in keeping order during the Cork County by-election in March 1852 (ff. 82-83) and in Cork City at the General Election in July 1852 (ff. 102 verso-103 verso). His main preoccupation in open season was fox hunting and shooting game (ff. 49 verso-84 verso passim). A memo found loose within the volume, dated 31 July 1852 with additions to 1855, has been tipped in inside the back cover (f. 122, see also f. 109).

A manuscript copy, 1729, of Henry Rowlands's 'Antiquitates Parochiales', transcribed by 'G.M.' [William Morgan] (pp. 1-146). The synchronism of free tenants for 1300-1700, 'Synchronismi quinque lustrales liberorum tenentium comot Maenei', is included (pp. 127-146) but the manuscript also includes an addendum not recorded elsewhere, in the hand of William Morgan and possibly a later addition, updating it to 1725 (pp. 147-148). The tract entitled 'Bellum Mariscum', absent from some copies, is also present (pp. 151-160).
Items found loose in the volume have been placed in an archival envelope (pp. 163-168).

A transcript, [c. 1904], in the hand of Thomas Parry of Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, of the Taicroesion Pedigrees, originally compiled in about 1723 by John Ellis of Taicroesion Uchaf, Llechylched, Anglesey, containing pedigrees of North Wales families, primarily those of Anglesey and Caernarfonshire (pp. 1-505).
The pedigrees are transcribed usually one to a page, on the rectos only; the pedigrees for Bodorgan (pp. 23-24), Gwedur (pp. 131-132), Llanddyfnan (pp. 187-188), Mysoglan (pp. 227-228), y Llys yn y Penrhyn (pp. 287-288), Stymllyn (pp. 317-318), Treiorwerth (pp. 343-344) and Mostyn (pp. 387-388) extend over two pages, while there are two pedigrees each on pp. 55, 479 and 495. The contents are listed on ff. v-vi. The text throughout is framed in double red lines and titles are stamped in black ink. Some twenty pedigrees have additions and corrections in pencil (pp. 2-423 passim). Another transcript by Thomas Parry, which is practically identical in content and format and presumably of similar date, is now NLW, Broom Hall MS Vol. 3; that volume is stated to have been copied from John Ellis's original manuscript (now Bangor MS 13564), then owned by the lawyer R. D. Williams, in 1904. Items found loose within the volume (6 ff.), including manuscript and printed pedigrees, have been tipped in on blank leaves (pp. 507-517).

Notebook of George Henry Strick of Swansea and Brynaman, tinplate manufacturer, recording detailed notes and observations of a visit to America, September-November 1890, where he met with fellow industrialists and visited numerous blast furnaces, steelworks, ironworks and other industrial sites in several states.
Beginning apparently in Philadelphia, PA, 25 September-1 October (ff. 1-4), Strick then participates in a lengthy excursion, visiting the Warwick Furnace, [Pottstown, PA], 6 October (ff. 4-9), Lebanon [Valley] blast furnace, [Lebanon, PA], [?7 October] (ff. 10-11), Altoona Railway Works, [Altoona, PA], 8 October (ff. 11-12), the Edgar Thomason and Homestead works, the Isabella and Lucy furnaces, the Carbon Iron Co. works and adjoining aluminium works, all in Pittsburgh, PA, 9-11 October (ff. 12-17), Joliet Steel Works, South Chicago, IL, 14 October (ff. 18-22), various mines and limestone quarries, Bessemer blast furnaces and steel rolling plant, Bessemer Steel Works and the Ensley and Thomas furnaces, all in Birmingham, AL, 16-17 October (ff. 22-31), blast furnaces in Talladega and Anniston, AL, 18 October (ff. 32-35), Basic Steel Works in Chattanooga, TN, and blast furnaces in South Pittsburg, TN, 20 October (ff. 35-38), the town of Middlesboro, KY, 21 October (ff. 38-42), zinc works and a blast furnace in Pulaski, VA, 22 October (ff. 42-44), and Baltimore, MD, 24 October (ff. 45-46), before returning to Philadelphia, 26-28 October (ff. 46-48). While in Philadelphia and Baltimore particularly (ff. 1-4, 45-48) he discusses with fellow tinplate manufacturers and importers the state of the tinplate industry and the level of tinplate exports from Wales to America, against the background of the Tariff Act of October 1890 (The McKinley Tariff). The notes were compiled by Strick in November 1890 during the return voyage (see f. ii).

Some ninety-nine letters and postcards, 1975-2013, from the poet and local historian Ruth Bidgood, Abergwesyn and later Beulah, Powys, addressed to the Rev. James Coutts, and frequently also to his wife Stevie, discussing her poetry, publications and public readings, her daily life and her family, containing frequent references to friends including Anne Cluysenaar, Angela Morton and A. M. (Donald) Allchin (ff. 1-188, 191-214).
Also included are typescript copies of eighteen of Bidgood's poems and sequences of poems, published and unpublished, [c. 1979]-2014, notably 'Hymn to Sant Ffraed' (ff. 215-225), most given by her to Coutts and a few re-typed by him, and cuttings and photocopies of a further fifteen poems from periodicals, 1983-2002 (ff. 25, 37-38, 52-53, 70, 116, 120, 215-265); typescript drafts, cuttings and photocopies of articles, interviews and reviews, [1978]-2006 (ff. 266-299), including two typescript articles by Donald Allchin (ff. 279-293); and a letter from Bidgood's friend Mary [MacGregor], of Myddfai, to James Coutts, 2 June 2009 (ff. 189-190). Many of the letters were written on the backs of sixty-three of Bidgood's own photographs, so as to resemble postcards; besides these a further twenty-nine of her photographs are also included amongst the letters.

A dissertation, by the donor, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the BA History degree at the University of Southampton (13/5/2021), entitled 'You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs: an investigation into the role of Western correspondents and governments in the cover-up of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932-33'. The contribution of the journalist Gareth Jones in uncovering the Holodomor is covered in this study.

Manuscript valuation, dated 8 January 1828, of the Mather Parkes & Co. leadworks in Bagillt, Flintshire (ff. 1-6, rectos only). It was compiled by one Robert Daglish (see f. 6), who is possibly the engineer Robert Daglish (1779-1865) or his son Robert (1809-1883).
The valuation lists 116 items, including two steam engines, rolls and tables in the rolling mills, weighing machinery, three large smelting furnaces and new buildings, together with many smaller items of equipment and piping. The firm of Messrs Mather Parkes & Co., which was based in Liverpool, had been dissolved in July 1827; it is unclear which of the several leadworks in Bagillt was operated by the company.

Autograph album, 1909-1924 (mainly 1909-1910), also containing verses and illustrations. The name inscribed inside the front cover is M. Evans, Penlan, Pontyberem, who may have been a student at Carmarthen Presbyterian College and Aberystwyth University. Most of the entries are written in English but there are some in Welsh, including verses by Eifion Wyn, Ben Bowen, and Ben Davies.

Proflen gyntaf, wedi ei rhwymo, o adargraffiad 1925 o waith William Williams, Pantycelyn, Aleluia, neu, casgliad o emynau ar amryw ystyriaethau, 1-6 (1744-7).

A volume containing records of goods received of the Minera Silica Quarries of Graig Fawr and Tir Celyn, near Wrexham, 1936-1947.

An archive relating to the life history of the Welsh boy soprano, Tom Howell (born 1911), including a letter from the BBC dated 1925 offering an engagement to broadcast, press cuttings relating to his singing awards, prize certificates, and ribbons, letters, a music sheet book for pianoforte, R.A.F. ID service tags and Service Book from his WWII military service as 1127491 Cpl. RAF in the Japanese campaign, a June 26th, 1943 copy of Ceylon Review regarding the Allies' victory over Japan in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), a group photograph of NTTC (Non-Technical Training Centre) R.A.F. India Equipment Accounts 1944 including Tom Howell, and a pocket watch inset with his photo portrait as a youth.

A manuscript account of an excursion to North Wales and Cheshire, 3-[6] September 1829, by Elizabeth Bower, [of Broxholme House, Doncaster], travelling with her husband John Seddon Bower (f. 1-19).
The couple left their lodgings at Crosby on 3 September and boarded the Prince Llewelyn steam packet at Liverpool (f. 1 verso), sailing along the North Wales coast (ff. 2-5) to Beaumaris (ff. 5-6 verso). They crossed the Menai Bridge (ff. 7-9) and proceeded to Bangor (ff. 9-10 verso), Conway (ff. 12-13 verso) and Chester (ff. 14 verso-18), returning to Liverpool and then Crosby on the [6] September (f. 19). Included are descriptions of Penrhyn Castle, Bangor (f. 11 recto-verso), and Eaton Hall, Chester (ff. 16-18).

Seven typed letters signed (all ‘Megan Lloyd George’) to J.W. Robertson-Scott, editor of ‘The Countryman’ (1942 (2), 1943 (3), 1951 and 1957).

A printed copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Britannie vtriusq[ue] regu[m] et principum origo & gesta insignia ex antiquissimis Britannici sermonis monumentis in Latinum traducta, 2nd edn ([Paris]: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1517, Adams G445), containing marginal annotations and underlinings throughout, in Latin, Welsh and English, by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (ff. 1-99 verso passim).
The annotations are written in at least two different inks and occasionally in pencil. Vaughan's inscription 'Dauydd ap Mredydd Glais a ysgrifennodd historia brenhinedd y Bryttanied o Vruttus hyd Gadwaladr Vendiged pan oedd Crist 1444 ar llyfr membrwn sydd gyda Mr Jon: Jones o Ysgeifiog', [?1620s], on f. 100 verso refers to the manuscript now Peniarth MS 22 (see Daniel Huws, Repertory).

A lengthy autograph musical quotation signed by Italian composer G[ioachino] Rossini, Paris, 14 April 1863, and dedicated to Welsh pianist and composer [Henry] Brinley Richards.
The quotation consists of nine bars from an unidentified piece for piano in E-flat major, in 3/4 time with the time signature 'Mod[era]to'.

Papers and documents of Corporal Herbert L. G. Lewis of the Royal Engineers, a Prisoner of War in the Stalag XX-A camp from May 1940 to April 1945, including a diary, attestation and discharge certificates, service and pay books, German exercise book, maps, and a programme for a 1943 Christmas concert held in the castle at Gniew (Mewe in German), Poland.

Casgliad o lythyrau a phapurau yn ymwneud â beic modur T. H. Parry-Williams, KC 16, yn cynnwys dau lythyr at Buddug Thomas (mam y rhoddwr) oddi wrth T. H. Parry-Williams, 1963, ac un gan Amy Parry-Williams, ei wraig, 1976. Ymhlith y casgliad hefyd mae ffacsimili o blât KC 16, y beic modur.

Eighteen envelopes, all postmarked 1966, which originally contained contributions towards the Aberfan Disaster Fund; from the estate of the donor's parents, Mary and Donald Hughes. Donald Hughes was a local government officer with an appointment at Pantglas school on 21st October 1966 and arrived moments after the landslide hit the school. He then spent the day and night helping with the emergency and recovery efforts and was later involved in the administration of the disaster fund.

Letter from the King's Council, September 1715, to John Morgan, 'Lord Lieutenant of South Wales' [recte Monmouthshire], concerning the Jacobite rising and in particular the preparation of the militia and the arrest of papists. Signatures listed as follows: Nottingham, Sunderland, Bolton, Marlborough, Devonshire, Sommers, and Orford.