Dangos 15051 canlyniad

'Collectanea de rebus celticis' by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick. They include notes on the Celtic language; 'Nomina Cantredorum Wallensium' taken from Cotton MS Domitian A. VIII in the British Museum; a pedigree of the Lloyd family of Mabws, Cardiganshire; a transcript of a letter from John Gillies, Perth, with a translation by him of 'the Gaelic Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland'; a translation of 'an ancient Irish Poem entitled the thirteen wonders of Ireland, by the Revd. Jas Hely A.B.'; letters from Charles Roach Smith and F. Hall; and miscellanea.

Records of the Welsh Town-Planning and Housing Trust Limited, established in 1913, including minute books, deeds, correspondence, financial papers and printed material relating to housing estates in Barry, Burry Port, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Newtown, Rhiwbina, Weston Rhyn and Wrexham, and other associated papers.

Notes for an essay or address on 'Anfarwoldeb yr enaid' by Edward Roberts, ' ty Capel, Great [?Mersey] Street, Liverpool'.

Welsh Salmon and Trout Angling Association archive including minutes of meetings, annual reports, photographs, membership records and official WSTAA papers.

One of two association copies at NLW, presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the Rt Hon. David Lloyd George (1863-1945)) to his uncle, Richard Lloyd (1834-1917), of the 1909 Finance Bill, popularly known as the People's Budget, being a copy of the Bill as first introduced into the House of Commons. A copy of the Bill as amended in Committee and on Report can be found as NLW MS 4480E.

Papers of and acquired by R. Bryn Williams, mainly relating to the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, including a diary of Joseph Seth Jones, one of the first wave of emigrants on the Mimosa to Patagonia, 1865, and correspondence, 1865-1868; correspondence of his brother, Robert Charles Jones, 1867-1877; copy records of the Welsh courts in Y Wladfa, 1872-1881; letters and minute books relating to Vrondeg Baptist Chapel, 1875-1887, Gaiman, 1877-1891, Eglwys Llanddewi, 1891, Eglwys Bryn Gwyn and Cyfarfod Misol Y Wladfa (Calvinistic Methodists), 1881-1955; papers relating to the Centenary Celebrations of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 1952-1962; letters from the founders of the Welsh colony, 1866, and from others who had experienced life there; letters to R. Bryn Williams from Patagonia and from Wales relating to Patagonia, [c. 1941-1961]; research notes and manuscripts of books and radio plays by R. Bryn Williams, 1942-1962; miscellaneous records relating to Wales and elsewhere collected by Williams, 1865-1962; papers relating to John S. Williams, 1901-1962; papers and press cuttings on the history, culture and industry of Patagonia, 1869-1962; and typescripts of published and unpublished works, lectures, scripts, etc.

Papers relating to the activities of David Davies, Llandinam, including relating to contracting in the construction of railways, the establishment of the Ocean Coal Co. Ltd, legal papers collected for the 1883 and 1884 Barry Dock Bills, and his son Edward Davies's letter-books.

Papers of journalist Patrick Hannan including correspondence, research notes, interviews for articles and scripts television and radio programes along with copies of articles. It contains interviews with leading political figures including Peter Hain, Rhodri Morgan, Alun Michael, Dafydd Wigley and Ieuan Wyn Jones as well as correspondence with the composer Daniel Jones.

A holograph essay on 'Addysg yn Nghymru: Yn gosod allan ansawdd bresenol a neillduolion yr addysg a weinyddir; awgrymiad at ddiwygiad; yn nghyda'r pwysigrwydd o gysylltu Ysgolion Elfenol a'r sefydliadau Gramadegol a'r Colegau' written by 'Ofydd' [i.e., Hugh Pritchard, Llannerch-y-medd, co. Anglesey], and submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod at Caernarfon [1880]. Bound in at the end of the volume is a cutting, from Baner ac Amserau Cymru, of the adjudication of Thomas Powell [sic], [University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff]. One half of the prize money was awarded to 'Meurig ap Iorwerth' ( Mr. M. E. Morris, Minffordd, Portmadoc, co. Caernarvon).

Manuscript and typescript notes of lectures, addresses and articles, [c. 1940]-1960, by David James Jones ('Gwenallt') relating to his upbringing and the background to his poetry, Christianity and society, Communism, the decline of religion, the poet and Christianity, hymnology and hymnists, and aspects of poetry and literary appreciation.

The Welsh Quoits Archive, comprising material relating to British quoiting, the majority of the material relating to quoiting in Wales, including: match programmes, posters and flyers, match listings and statistics; rules and regulations of quoiting; press cuttings relating to quoiting matches, quoiting clubs and club members; newsletters; correspondence between quoiting clubs, between individual club members and between clubs and members of the public; items relating to notable quoiting club occasions such as centenaries and anniversaries; and miscellaneous material relating to quoiting, including information relating to the history of the game. The bulk of the material relates to quoiting in Wales, mainly involving international matches (the majority of which were against Scotland) played on Welsh soil. One particularly notable item is a copy of a printed booklet titled The History of Quoits in Wales by Albert Baker (published by J. R. Davies in 1949), which is enclosed with a letter, 14 December 2000, to Linda Evans, Joint Secretary of the Welsh Quoiting Board, from Darryl Baker, grandson of the author (see under heading Quoiting: Wales: Correspondence: Letters to Linda Evans).

Papers of Sir David Rowe-Beddoe, later Baron Rowe-Beddoe of Kilgetty, businessman and life peer who was a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 2006 until his death in 2023. His numerous public roles included being chairman of the Welsh Development Agency from 1993 to 2001, appointed chairman of the Wales Millennium Centre in 2001 and made a Life President in 2010, chairman of the Representative Body of The Church in Wales from 2002 to 2012, appointed president of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2004 having previously been a governor and chairman of the board (1993-2004).

The diary, 1839-1841, of Sarah Pahud (née Walker), daughter of a Dolgellau family and wife of Henri Pahud, a Swiss born Paris businessman. The diary is written in English and French.
Pahud describes her honeymoon tour with her husband through France (English, pp. 1-8), Italy (French, pp. 8-30), Switzerland (French, pp. 31-46) and Germany (French, pp. 46-51), April-June 1839; a journey from Paris to Manchester via Dover and London, October 1839 (French, pp. 52-56); and a visit to her family in Dolgellau, travelling via Paris, London and Chester and returning via Birmingham and London, June-September 1841 (English, pp. 56-96). She also visits friends in Barmouth (pp. 75-79) and Ruthin (pp. 80-87) and describes the consecration service of St David's Chapel, Denbigh, 27 August 1841 (pp. 84-85). There are references to Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, with an eyewitness account of Chopin's perceived state of health, 3 May 1839 (pp. 7-8). There are also a few further miscellaneous memoranda, [1858] (ff. 114, 184).

Six contemporaneous volumes, [1690s], of pedigrees and armorials of royal and noble families of mainland Europe, written in the same hand.
These include French, Burgundian, Hungarian and Dutch heraldry and genealogies. A whole volume (15057B) is devoted to the de Croy family who may have commissioned the work.

Deeds relating to Llancarfan and elsewhere in Glamorgan, 1604-1705.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register, 1695-1725, of Llandanwg, recording christenings, marriages and burials.

'A copy of The Terrier of Trefeglwys Parish' made in 1776; notes on Trefeglwys charities; extracts from Trefeglwys wills, including that of Richard Wilson of Bwlchyllyn (1713-1782), 17[8]2; etc.

Material relating to the history of the SDP, SDP-Alliance and Liberal Democrats in Wales, 1980-6, including minutes of meetings, campaign material, conference papers, policies of the SDP and Liberal Democrats, SDP regional minutes, and a record of the donor's parliamentary campaigns.

Four letters in the hand of Richard Bennett, 1918-1928, together with one in the hand of his father Edward Bennett, 1 January 1863, and a letter to Alun Jones Hughes from Cecil Vaughan Owen, 1981; together with photocopies of some six further letters from Richard Bennett, dated 1908-1932.
Additional papers (2023 donation) comprise three letters, 1933 and 1935, from Richard Bennett, two of which were sent to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Hughes, together with a notebook containing an address by him, 1934, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Melinbyrhedyn Chapel.

Llythyrau Richard Bennett (1860-1937) at y Parch. J. D. Jones, Gellifor (1868-1929); ynghyd â chopïau o ddau lyfr gan Bennett ar Fethodistiaeth, a chyfrol goffa iddo.