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A photostat facsimile of a letter written c. 1506 [but see note at 678 below] by Gruffydd Dwnn (c. 1500-c. 1570) (also Don or Donne), Kidwelly to his brother Sir Edward Don[ne], with a press cutting and correspondence relating to the letter and its writer.

Letter, dated 27 September 1971, from Mrs Gwladys E. Lewis to the Reverend D. Jacob Davies inserted within a signed copy of her work, Alun Lewis, my son (Aberystwyth, [?1971]); together with an undated photograph of the Alun Lewis memorial plaque at Aberdare Library, and a note, in Welsh, by the donors providing background information about the letter. = Llythyr, dyddiedig 27 Medi 1971, oddi wrth Mrs Gwladys E. Lewis at y Parchedig D. Jacob Davies, wedi ei osod o fewn copi a lofnodwyd ganddi o'i gwaith, Alun Lewis, my son (Aberystwyth, [?1971]); ynghyd â ffotograff heb ei ddyddio o gofeb Alun Lewis yn Llyfrgell Aberdâr, a nodyn gan y rhoddwyr yn esbonio cefndir y llythyr.

A letter, 1971, from Norman Tucker (1894-1971) to Professor A. H. Dodd (1891-1975).

A typescript letter (with brief manuscript end-note), dated 25 October 1928, from W. G. Perrin of the Society for Nautical Research to an undisclosed recipient enclosing a transcript, c. 1823, of a letter, dated 1 August 1823, written aboard HMS Fury by William Harvey Hooper, ship's purser. HMS Fury, under the captaincy of William Edward Parry, was on an exploratory voyage to seek out the Northwest Passage.
Hooper's letter contains a sketch map of part of the voyage (f. 6) and a table containing meteorological data (f. 11). The material also includes typescript notes relating to HMS Fury, HMS Hecla and Captain Parry.

Letter from Snowdon to the Gateway of the Sea, being a description of a tour by Charles A. Stephenson. English. Morocco. Purchased from R. G. Booth, Hay-on-Wye, November 1965.

A photocopy of a letter, [?1999], from Ted Roberts, Perth, Australia, to John Owens, Abergele, regarding Welsh settlers at Moora, north of Perth, Western Australia, many of whom came from Patagonia.

Letter from the gateway of the sea to the Berwyn mountains, a description of a tour by Charles A. Stephenson. English. Morocco. Purchased from R. G. Booth, Hay-on-Wye, November 1965.

A photocopy of a typescript transcript of a letter, 1789, from Thomas Lloyd, Cilgwyn, near Cardigan, to William Wilberforce (1759-1833), written on his return from Jamaica and relating to the maltreatment of slaves.

Llythyr, tua 1875, yn llaw y 'Cyrnol' R. E. Jones, Rawson, Patagonia, yr Ariannin, lle mae'n sôn am yr helynt a fu pan gipiwyd pump ar hugain o Gymry a oedd yn byw yn yr ardal gan Indiaid, ynghyd â chopïau teipysgrif o'r llythyr a chyfieithiad Saesneg ohono gan y rhoddwr.

An autograph letter of Edward, third baron Herbert of Cherbury (c. 1633-1678), written from Dublin, 23 October, 1672; poetry in English and Latin, including an eulogy of King William III (1650-1702), written in 1697, possibly by one of the Herbert family.

A letter of introduction, signed 27 May 1834, by Azariah Shadrach, Congregational minister and author, Aberystwyth, recommending John Jones, a member of his congregation at Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, who was selling copies of Scott and Henry's Commentary ...

A holograph letter from [the Reverend] John Elias ('o Fô'), Llanfechell, to Mr. F. Carmichael, Llysdulas, near Amlwch, 1822 (explaining the effects of revivals upon the behaviour of the congregations at Welsh Nonconformist religious meetings).

A letter signed and subscribed by [Sir] L[eoline] Jenkins, Secretary of State, from Whitehall, to Lord [ ], 1683 (a directive for the officers of the militia to be in readiness, in view of the discovery of a 'horrid designe' [Rye House Plot]).

A holograph letter, 2 December, 1683, written by Tho. Wynne from Philadelphia in 'pensivanla' to his honoured friend Peirs Pennant, Esqre., at Buchtan, near Mostyn, North Wales. Thomas Wynne, author of The Antiquity of the Quakers, Proved out of the Scriptures of Truth ... ([London] 1677) and An Anti-Christian Conspiracy Detected and Satan's Champion Defeated ... ([London] 1679), emigrated to America in 1682, having with John ap John purchased of William Penn 5,000 acres of land to be laid in the Welsh Tract, and he subsequently became Associate Justice of Sussex County and representative of that county in the Legislative Assembly at Philadelphia. The writer refers in a postscript to a 'braue tracke' of land in his possession called Pennant Gwyn ('on a fine descending hill and a fine spring and[e]r it'), but the letter relates otherwise to the writer's Welsh associations and in particular to the security of his Welsh estate (references to the recipient's mother and brother John, to John Salsbury of Bachegrig [Back-y-graig] and his family, to Rich. Blackburn and his family, and to the recipient's mother[-in-law] at Gwysany, the treachery of Roger Hughes and the writer's daughter, a report by daughter Betty Rowdin [Rowden] that the recipient had refused to allow the writer's goods to be removed from the recipient's house at Caerwis, the writer's treatment by Abell Kershaw and his wife, the latter's seizure of the writer's estate at Bronvadog and their refusal to give the writer's two 'litle ones' any food and clothing for the voyage and their stealing of Betty Rowdin's flannel out of John Brigdale's house).

Photocopy of a letter from B.O. Jones, Aelfryn House, Trefor, Caernarfonshire, to Mr. [R.H.] Edwards, Bodafon Isaf, Penrhosllugwy, Anglesey, 8 July 1908. According to this letter, many skilful artists, including a Polish refugee called Mr. Lyons and Mr. Wm. Griffith later of Portmadoc, were employed by 'the over-shrewd the late Mr. H. Hymphreys of Carnarvon' circa 1875 in copying original portraits of great Welshmen. The writer refers to an original portrait of Lewis Morris copied by the said Mr. Lyons and notes that the two artists, Mr. Lyons and Mr. Wm. Griffith, were amongst those who exhumed the skull of Lewis Morris.

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.

A letter by Godorfig, i.e. Edward Davies, Dolcaradog, Machynlleth, written for publication in the Welsh Gazette (see issue for January 24th 1901) in the course of a newspaper controversy relating to the Rebecca riots, 1842-1844.