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A group of about one hundred and eighty business letters, 1880-91 (with some of the period 1897-1908), largely written by George W. Farren, general manager, Welsh Granite Company Limited, Yr Eifl Quarry, Trevor, Caernarvonshire, to his foreman, Thomas Hughes, Cae-glas, Llanaelhaearn. Some letters refer also to emigration and to the Welsh Granite Company's School.

A manuscript copy of a study entitled 'Emigration to North America: An annotated bibliography of material likely to promote, or discourage, Welshmen to emigrate to North America, 1791-1900', being a research project presented by Richard E. Huws for the Associate of the Library Association qualification at the College of Librarianship Wales, 1973.

Photocopies from the memorandum book, 1865-1916, of Richard Ellis [originally from Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire], who sailed aboard the Mimosa to Patagonia in 1865, and a photocopy from a newspaper of an article in Spanish relating to the diary.

Cuttings of the account contained in NLW MS 21902A as it appeared, with variations and additions, in Y Genedl Gymreig, January-February 1914; letters and cards, 1915-1925, from Robert John Griffith in New South Wales; and a broadsheet with verses by John Ellis Jones ('Elidirfab') in memory of John Griffith, Fron, Nant Peris, 1903.

Letters, 1855-1904, of miscellaneous provenance, including letters, 1871-1894, to and from Welsh emigrants to Australia and the United States of America (ff. 11-24, 49-50, 69-70, 108-123); a letter, 1855, from the artist Penry Williams relating to a proposed visit by Lady Charlotte Guest to the Vatican; and a letter, 1857, from the Rev. Calvert Richard Jones, photographic pioneer, to his friend Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam, written from Nice. Other correspondents include Owen M. Edwards (1) 1891, Thomas E. Ellis (1) 1892, David Lloyd George (5) 1879-1892, William E. Gladstone (3) 1857-1875, Sir Lewis Morris (2) 1890-1895, Daniel Owen (1) 1885 and John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) (4) 1891-1904.

Ten letters, 1894-1925, from, to, or relating to the Rev. Dr William Hopkyn Rees, including three, 1912, from the Rev. Dr Timothy Richard, some of which are quoted in H. T. Jacob's biography of W. Hopkyn Rees; with related printed items, 1883-1925; and five letters, 1894-1915, from a Welsh immigrant family in Patagonia.

Two groups of letters from Welsh emigrants to America, 1846-1847, 1870-1878, together with letters relating to emigration from Wales, 1948-1955.

Portions of two letters, 1865, from John Jones (Talhaiarn) (1810-1869) written from London, when he was assisting in the Crystal Palace planning, to W. W. P. Williams, and relating to the proposed colonisation of a part of Patagonia by Welshmen; also a part of a letter from W. W. P. Williams to Talhaiarn on the same subject.

Ten typescript articles and transcripts, 1973-1984, nearly all written or compiled by Dr Clare Taylor, Aberystwyth.
They comprise: (i) 'America 1851-1852', dated April 1973, a translation by Mari Ellis of the diary of Iorthryn Gwynedd (NLW MS 9521A), with an introduction by Clare Taylor; (ii) 'The Phillipps Manuscript: A Chapter in Early Welsh Migration to the West Indies and to the United States', 1973, a transcript of NLW MS 92B with an introduction by Clare Taylor (the introduction only was published, with the same title, in National Library of Wales Journal, 19.3 (Summer 1976), 243-248); (iii) 'A Description of Trinidad 1881-1882', 1973, a transcript of [?part of] NLW MS 17267D; (iv-vii) 'A Victorian Guide to Wales', 1973 and undated, four volumes containing transcripts from nineteenth-century trade directories of descriptions of individual parishes in Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire; (viii) an article, 1979, entitled 'The Journal of an Absentee Proprietor: Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech', concerning NLW, Slebech Estate Records 4292-4302; (ix) 'Isaac Williams of Cardiganshire – the Christian poet – an introduction to his nature poetry', 1984, an article subsequently published in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1986), 115-126; and (x) 'NLW MS 15505 Picton Papers and Letters', [n.d.], consisting of transcripts (and in some cases translations from the Welsh) of letters of Welsh-American interest in NLW MS 15505E, as well as NLW MS 14111D and elsewhere. Items i-iv and viii-ix are photocopied or cyclostyled, while v-vii and x are carbon copies.

A group of holograph letters and postcards from the collection of, and mainly addressed to, John Jones, J.P., bookseller, Bethesda. The writers include J. N. Crowther ('Glanceri'), 1906-1922; [Richard Davies] ('Mynyddog'), undated; Owen Evans, Liscard, 1913; Dame M[argaret] Lloyd George, Criccieth, to H. E. Jones, Bethesda [1935]; H[ugh] D[erfel] Hughes, 1864; Rhys J. Huws, Staylittle, 1906; [John Jones] ('Mathetes'), Llangollen, 1858; L. D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), Bangor, 1904-1917; [Sir] Hugh Owen, London, 1878; W. J. Parry, Bethesda, etc., 1898-1899; John H. Roberts, Liverpool; [Samuel Roberts] ('S.R.'), Conway, 1882; [John Thomas] ('Eifionydd'), 1904; and Henry J. Wilson, House of Commons, 1904. Also included in the group are an English translation of a letter from John Jones to his mother, 1864, and an incomplete address by W. Jones on Sunday School instruction, 1858.

A volume of transcripts of poetry, mainly 'cywyddau' and 'englynion', by Iowerth Fynglwyd, William Llŷn, Huw Cae Llwyd, Gwilym ap Sefnyn, Dafydd Nanmor, Thomas Prys, Syr Dafydd Trefor, Aneurin Gwawdrudd ('Anearan Gwowdrudd'), Rhys Pennardd, Iolo Goch, Gutun Ceiriog, Siôn Mawddwy, Dio ap Ifan Du, Rhys Goch Glyndyfrdwy, Dafydd ap Edmwnd, Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug, Philip John Philip, Siôn Philip, Owain Gwynedd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Siôn Cent, David Jones, Rhys Wynn, Siôn Tudur, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Meredydd ap Rees, Llywelyn ap Gutun, Syr Owain ap Gwilym, Griffith Philip, Rowland Vaughan, Richard Philip, Edmwnd Prys, Robin Ragett, Tudur Aled, John Prichard Prys, Robert Klidro, Ellis Rowland 'o Harlech', Hugh Llwyd 'o Gynfal', Huw Morris, Lewis Morris, Mr. David Roberts, Rice Lloyd, Moris ap Robert, Bala, and Thomas Jones, Orsedd Las. The greater part of the volume was written in the early eighteenth century. Among slightly later hands at the end of the volume is that of William Jones of Orsedd Las. At the end of the volume is a letter from a Welsh emigrant, written from Delaware, 21 September, 1828.

Dyddlyfr John Davies, Blaenafon, Troed-yr-aur, Ceredigion, yn disgrifio ei daith, yng nghwmni ei chwaer Elizabeth, o Lerpwl i Sydney, Awstralia, Tachwedd 1865–Chwefror 1866; ynghyd â’i brofiadau yn Sydney, Chwefror–Mai 1866. = Journal of John Davies, Blaenafon, Troed-yr-aur, Cardiganshire, describing his voyage, in the company of his sister Elizabeth, from Liverpool to Sydney, Australia, November 1865–February 1866; with an account of his experiences in Sydney, February–May 1866.