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Mr Gwynne kindly allowed the Library to produce print-outs of his database, comprising an index to Montgomeryshire marriages extracted from parish registers and bishop's transcripts, dating from the sixteenth century onwards.

Papers relating to organisations with which Cameron was involved, including brochures, 1979-1983, correspondence and papers, 1979-1986, relating to meetings and conferences of the Cambrian Archaeological Association; papers, 1981-1990, relating to Council for the Protection of Rural Wales investments, 1981-1984, and the Ceredigion branch, 1982-1989; circular correspondence and printed material relating to the National Trust, 1980-1984; circular correspondence and memoranda relating to Dyfed Archaeological Trust, 1981-1984; and correspondence, papers and notes relating to historical matters, 1978-1984, and Cardiganshire churches, [1980s].

The fonds comprises case papers, 1903-1973, dealing with interested parties within Wales and/or the London area who had some sort of Welsh connection. Included are papers dealing with land and property transfer, receivership and company liquidation, defamation and compensation, opposition to parliamentary bills, the settlement of personal estate, contempt of court and general legal matters. Not all of the issues addressed in the files actually resulted in court cases. The majority of the files consist of legal papers such as instructions and notes to counsel, briefs to counsel, opinions of counsel, affidavits, statements, declarations, summonses, claims and orders, often in draft form or as official copies, and solicitors' charges and bills. These are usually accompanied by correspondence made up of original letters and copy letters, both office copies and carbon copies, as well as handwritten notes and occasional telegrams, bills and receipts. Frequently, the files also contain associated documents such as copies of leases, agreements and deeds, plans and maps, accounts, reports and transcriptions of evidence, together with relevant printed material such as sale particulars, parliamentary bills and published reports.

Papers collected by Sir James Weeks Szlumper, 1882-1900, mainly relating to railways in Glamorgan and the south of England, namely the Barry Dock & Railway, the Vale of Glamorgan Railway, the Plymouth, Devonport and Southwestern Junction Railway, the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway and the proposed Lynmouth and Minehead Light Railway; and material relating to the court cases involving Pethick Bros of Plymouth v. the Vale of Glamorgan Railway and James Nuttall of Manchester v. the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Company.

Synopsis of Old English Phonology by A. L. Mayhew (printed text and MS interleaved). (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 33.) English. Green skiver. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Sylwadau ar weinyddiaeth y sacrament gan y Parchedig David Davies, Oshkosh. Lledr. Rhoddwyd gan y Parchedig D. Howell Davies, Oak Park, Illinois, Mawrth 1954.

The original manuscript of the vocal score of 'Sylvia', an operetta in two acts by W. Rhys-Herbert, words by Maude Elizabeth Inch, 1906.

Pedigree book, [mid 17 cent.], each page consisting of a printed arrangement of fifteen empty roundels and eight shields to accommodate four generations, together with a larger shield for an achievement; partially used to enter the Welsh ancestry of King James I, based on George Owen Harry, The Genealogy of ... James ... King of great Brittayne ... (London, 1604) (see p. 38). Apparently in the hand of Sylvanus Morgan (1620-1693) whose pedigree appears on p. 1, although a note by J. E. Oldfield (inside front cover) suggests the scribe to have been Peter Vaughan, sometime of Jesus College, Oxford.

Syllabus and notebook, 1933-1934, of James Gilbert Lane (1889-1952), a teacher at St Peter's elementary school, Cardiff.

Transparencies connected with the professional and personal life of Sydney Wignall. Included are images of the 1981 Loch Ness Expedition, Domestic scenes, Royal Navy vessels, visit to Texas & New Mexico, North Molton Parish church.

Papers, 1907-1915, amassed by the donor's grandfather, the Rev. Sydney Cooper, comprising ephemera, notes, press cuttings and various periodicals relating to the campaign against Welsh Church disestablishment.

Deeds, 1310-1427, relating to lands in the area of Swineshead in Holland, Lincolnshire, owned by the (de) la Warre family together with some 19th century notes on the descent of the Gresley, Warenne, De la Warre, and West families.

Estate and family records of Baker and Browne of Sweeney Hall, Oswestry, Leighton of Loton Park, Shropshire, Parker of Whitehouse, Worcestershire, and Charlton of Ludford, Herefordshire, including title deeds, 1563-1854, a volume of important papers relating to Major-General Thomas Mytton (1608-56), who served the Parliamentary cause in north Wales during the civil war; papers of Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, [c. 1660]-1681; account books of the estates of the Charlton family of Park, Shropshire, 18 cent., letter-books of Sir Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn (1783-1856), British Ambassador to Denmark, 1831-1851, and a bundle of papers and notebooks relating to the estate of Miss Fanny Williams-Wynn who died in 1857.

Minute book, December 1870-May 1873, of the Swansea School Board, with an index at the beginning of the volume.

A microfilm copy of Swansea Central Library MS A1.57, 'a composite manuscript of fragments of Welsh and Latin Catholic devotions written about 1600 by William David Llewelyn of Llangynidr, Brecknockshire, and another unidentified scribe' (see Geraint Bowen, 'Rhai Defosiynau Resiwsantaidd Cynnar', National Library of Wales Journal, vol VIII, 1963-64, pp 389-96).

A series of reminiscences by Welsh survivors on Svalbard, Spitsbergen, 1942-1943, collated by Boyd Williams, 2006.

Surveys of monumental inscriptions, including original photographs and negatives, at St Illog's church, Hirnant, St Ffraid's church, Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain, and St Melangell church, Pennant Melangell, co. Mont., 1986-7; together with photographs and negatives of gravestones at Llanwddyn church, co. Mont. Negatives and original photographs have been transferred to Photographs and Maps Department 15/8/2000. Further records, including original photographs, of a survey, 1988, of monumental inscriptions at St Wddyn's Church, Llanwddyn, co. Mont.

A survey in two volumes by Melvyn Davies of the Worms Head & Mainland Caves, 1-47 undertaken between July and September 1989; a survey of the Gower Coast Caves by R. T. Sutton, Melvyn Davies and Dr Graham Jenkins, September 1990; together with surveys of the caves of the South Gower Coast, Worms Head to Porteynon Point by Melvyn Davies, January 1987, and another copy with a few additions by Andrew Davies, and from Porteynon Point to Pwlldu Bay by Melvyn Davies, May and August 1990.