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Literary, family and business papers, 1732-1982, of Lewis Lewis ('Awenfab o Wynfe', 1837-1906), poet, of Gwynfe, Carmarthenshire, his son, Dr Ivor Lewis, St Asaph, and other members of his family, including drafts of poetry by Lewis Lewis; denominational diaries, 1848-1908; and letters, including correspondence, 1854-1947, between Lewis Lewis and relatives and friends in the United States and Canada.

Papers of Lewis Jones, Bodegryn, Rhyl, first sub-editor of Y Llan (c. 1881). The collection includes a note by Lewis Jones referring to instructions sent to him by Henry Thomas Edwards (1837-1884), dean of Bangor, when Y Dywysogaeth ceased publication and Y Llan was first issued as a Church (of England) in Wales newspaper; the original manuscript of the leading article in the first number of Y Llan, in the autograph of dean Edwards; letters, 1881, to Lewis Jones from the dean; a printed report, 1879, of a committee representing the four Welsh dioceses, dealing with the Welsh Church press; a letter, 1862, from Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872), bishop of St Asaph, relating to Rhyl Church; a letter, 1892, from John Owen (1854-1926), dean of St Asaph (afterwards bishop of St Davids) to Lewis Jones; etc.

A pryddest entitled Ruth, written for the Brymbo eisteddfod, Christmas 1874, by Lewis Jones (Rhuddenfab), Ruthin.

An imperfect copy, lacking title-page, and all following f. cxxxvi, of an unidentified early sixteenth-century printed edition of the Latin Decretales of Gregory IX. The text ends at the beginning of c. 1, X, De fideiussoribus, III, 22. Preceding the Decretales are sixteen originally-blank paper leaves, and a vellum leaf containing a fragment of a medieval Latin text, in a XIII cent. hand, originally used as a front pastedown, now raised and left as a fly-leaf. The covers bear blind-tooled rolled decorations of Oldham's 'heads in medallions' type, similar to his HM. h (29), identified as a London production of 1533-44; see further J.B. Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Bindings (Cambridge, 1952), 54 & plate L.
The volume was owned at the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth centuries by 'Lewis Johnes', who added his name on ff. 16, xlvv, xlvi and inside rear cover. He also added pen trials and Welsh poetry to the sixteen preliminary blank leaves. The poems include an early cywydd attributed to Siôn Tudur (c. 1522-1602) (ff. 9 verso-10), a text seemingly first attested in Cardiff MS 2.114 of 1564-5, see Enid Roberts, Gwaith Siôn Tudur (Caerdydd, 1980) I, 672; an incomplete cywydd, attributed elsewhere to Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (c. 1485-1553) (f. 12); and a series of 37 englynion of gnomic type, each beginning with 'Eira mynydd ...' (ff. 5 verso-9). These englynion are not among those appearing in Oxford Jesus College MS 111 (Llyfr Coch Hergest), col. 1028-9 (see Kenneth Jackson, Early Welsh Gnomic Poems, Cardiff, 1935, 22-6), and their form and contents suggest that they are later-dating imitations of the genre, seemingly unattested. The name of Lewis Johnes (or Jones), again in a late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century hand, also appears in the first part of NLW MS 5283B (pp. 7, 98, 119, 126, 161, 166 and 170), a collection of cywyddau, mostly written in his hand, which begins with the above-mentioned poem attributed to Siôn Tudur. Johnes' legal connection, exemplified by his ownership of the Decretales, may also be reflected in the legal script which he adopts when writing his name on pp. 98 & 126 of this manuscript, a volume which also bears the names of Evan Johnes (p. 166), Hughe Johnes (p. 55) and Harry Jones (pp. 13, 43, 88, 140), possibly kinsmen.

Lewis family papers, &c., in the hands of Jenkin Lewis, E. Griffiths and others. (Formerly Rees Jenkin Jones MS.) English. In boards. Donated by Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea.

Reports written by Lewis Davies Jones (Llew Tegid) (1851-1928) of meetings of Cymdeithas Lenyddol Annibynwyr Cymreig Bangor, 1877-1882.

A 12th century transcript of Leveticus & Numeri, glossed.

Letts Scribbling Diary, with entries by David Pritchard. English. Boards. Donated by Mr William Morris Jones, Penrhyndeudraeth, per the Reverend R. O. G. Williams, June 1972.

Lettersfrom the Reverend Peter Williams to his sons Eliezer Williams and Peter Bailey Williams. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 1.) English. Between boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Letters, etcfrom George Bernard Shaw, mostly to his aunt Georgina (Mrs Frederick Shaw) and to Arthur F. Bernard Shaw and Miss Constance Shaw. English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs Gertrude Mary Shaw, Berkhamsted, July 1962.

Seven holograph letters to John Jones, Gellifaharen, from Thos. Davies, Jes[us] Coll[ege, Oxford], 1817 and undated (4) (the tithes of Llandysil), Titus Evans, Alltyrodin Lodge, 1840 (a parish meeting) (autograph), and Saml. Griffiths, Troed[rhiw]ffenyd [Llandysul], 1841 and undated (2) ( appointments); and miscellaneous documents including an agreement to submit to arbitration a dispute concerning a lease of houses at Pencarnuket [Llandysul], 1819, and an attested extract, 1845, from the parish register of Llanfihangelar-arth recording the marriage of David Jones of the parish of Llangeler and Mary Lloyd, spinster, of the parish of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, 1823.