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Letters to the Reverend William Pugh, William Pugh, Argoed and others from Evan Ellis, Evan Evans, O. A. Poole, Ellis Owen and others. (Formerly Bontddu MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs Anne Pugh, Bontddu, July 1941.

Letters to Theophilus Rees, &c., of the Cambrian Settlement, Beulah, Pennsylvania from Samuel Jones, Caerllegan [parish of Mydrim, Carmarthenshire] and others. Welsh, English. Purchased from the Reverend Ronald Hughes, Waunfawr, Aberystwyth, June 1978.

Seven letters with related papers, 1764-[c. 1835], addressed to Thomas Pennant (ff. 3-10), his son David Pennant (ff. 13-17, 19) and David's wife, Louisa (ff. 11-12, 18) of Downing, Flintshire, on subjects including ornithology, zoology and wildlife drawings.
The correspondents are W[illiam] Myddelton, 2 March 1775, enclosing a note of hand of Thomas Pennant, 22 July 1774 (signature cut), donating £100 to a Welsh charity school in Gray's Inn Road (ff. 3-5); the Rev. Edward Williams, 24 August [?1795] (watermark 1794), including a watercolour drawing of a half-timbered house in Shrewsbury, and 26 September [1797] (watermark 1795), concerning the death of Mrs Emma-Elizabeth Corbet of Sundorne Castle (ff. 6-10); Katherine Plymley, Longnor, 18 January 1811 (ff. 11-12); Hugh Davies, Beaumaris, 5 November 1816, enclosing three pencil drawings of puffins (ff. 13-17); Margaret Roscoe, [12] August 1829 (f. 18); and [Canon] William Williams, Ysceifiog Rectory, 1 March [?1835], concerning the dilapidated state of the church at Ysceifiog (f. 19). Also included are financial accounts, 1764-1765, of the artist Peter Paillou relating to drawings purchased by Thomas Pennant (ff. 1-2).

Six letters to the Reverend Thomas Davies, chaplain at H. M. Prison, Cardiff, from John Thomas Lloyd, Wybunbury, near Nantwich, 1880 (personal, the writer's indebtedness to the recipient), George Rowlands (letter-head of W. Thomas & Co., millers, Port Adelaide), 1881 (personal, thanks to the authorities at Cardiff), [ ] Cardiff, 1880 (personal, the writer's reformed life) (incomplete), Prison Commission, Home Office, 1898-1903 (2) (an offer of the chaplaincy of Wakefield Prison, the notice of recipient's retirement from the Prison Service), and the Visiting Committee, H. M. Prison, Cardiff, 1904 (a resolution by the writers on the occasion of the recipient's retirement).

Letters to Thomas Davies, Haverfordwest from Ernest Bowen Rowlands and poems by Rowlands (typescript and MS). English. Between boards. Donated by G. A. Dickman, Haverfordwest, February 1974.

Letters to Thomas Dyke from William Dyke and others. (Formerly Thomas Dyke MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Mr Grenfell Jones, Abergavenny, June 1971.

Some fifteen letters, 1884-90, from various correspondents, to Thomas Gibbon of Newcastle Emlyn, registrar of marriages in the town, c. 1910-1926, mainly concerning personal matters, in particular his marriage and purchase of furniture, and including a letter, 1889, from a Welsh emigrant describing his life in Argentina.

Seventeen letters, [1820x1853], mainly to Thomas Protheroe, Newport, co. Monmouth, solicitor, principally asking for favours and money and including four from Phillip Phillips Morgan 'The Prophet of Risca ... The Second Ruler of the Earth and a Trew Prophet and a frind to the Poor' (ff. 8, 11, 13-14), all apparently preserved because of their crankiness or illiterate English.

Letters to W. Casnodyn Rhys, press cuttings, etc. (Formerly W. Casnodyn Rhys MS 4.) Welsh, Spanish, English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs Jessie M. Rhys, Swansea, June 1944.

Letters, 1890-1901, to William Latham Bevan (1821-1908) mostly relating to Bevan's Appendix to his diocesan history and discussing in particular local history and place-names; together with miscellaneous notes mostly in Bevan's hand. Correspondents include Henry Tobit Evans (2) 1901, John Fisher (1) 1893, and Egerton Phillimore (3) 1890-1893.

Thirty-four letters, 1886-1907, to William Marcus Thompson (1857-1907), barrister-at-law, mostly relating to his editorship of Reynolds's Newspaper and to political life, in particular the activities of the Independent Labour Party and the Social Democratic Federation. The correspondents include Horatio Bottomley (3) 1899-1905, H. Hamilton Fyfe (1) 1894, David Lloyd George (1) 1901, H. M. Hyndman (3) 1893-4, and Benjamin Tillett (2) 1899-1901. Also included are a few legal and other papers.

Letters to William Evans from W. Ll. Davies, J. G. Davies, O. M. Edwards, J. Morris Jonesand others. Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by William Evans, Cardiff, after 1955.

Letters to William Horstall, Chester, on his silver wedding and to William Horstall, Prestatyn, on his marriage. English. Between boards. Purchased from Mr Tom Lloyd Roberts, Caerwys, December 1972.

Nine letters, 1963-83, addressed to William Robert (Bill) Carrick, including seven from the novelist Richard Vaughan, dated 1963-9 and 1981.

Letters to Winifred, Lady Ingestre (afterwards Pennoyer) from John Betjeman, Dame Melba, H.R.H. Princess Alice and others. English. Between boards. Donated by Judge Gwyn Morris, Q.C., London, October 1973.

Letters, 1937-1939, to William R. Edwards, 'Wil y Glo' (d. 1985), Llanafan, co. Cardigan, together with miscellaneous documents, 1848-1917, formerly in his possession, relating mainly to the Frongoch lead mines and to other property in the parishes of Llanafan and Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, co. Cardigan.

Letters written by Arthur Thomas, Cardigan to his parents while on naval service. English. Between boards. Donated by Arthur Thomas, Cardigan, July 1962.

Letters written by Dylan Thomas to Maurice Carpenter (2), Edith Sitwell, and Cordelia Sewell. English. Between boards. Purchased from Sotheby's & Co. Ltd, London, December 1965 & December 1972.