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Correspondence, press cuttings, papers and campaigns of the Aberfan Disaster and the Aberfan Disaster Fund, 1966-1968; religious life of Aberfan, 1967-1968, and miscellanea, 1958-1980; personal correspondence, 1958-1967; press cuttings, 1967-1973; journals and leaflets, 1968-1979; and papers relating to his ministry in Melbourne, Australia, 1990.

Papers and correspondence of Frank Evans, 1941-1989, mainly relating to his time when he was a prisoner of war in Japan and to his return visits in 1981 and 1984, 1941-1945, 1980-1989, including a scrap book containing photographs, press cuttings, correspondence and miscellanea; together with letters, photographs, and papers concerning his imprisonment at the Shamshuipo and Oeyama prison camps, 1941-1945, 1980-1989.

A manuscript copy of a song for four voices, with piano accompaniment, entitled 'Gadael Tir' [the music being by W. O. Jones, and the words by Humphrey Jones]. The song was composed for competition at an eisteddfod (Eisteddfod Talaeth Gwynedd), held at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Whit Monday, 1922.

An essay entitled 'O Ddinodedd i Enwogrwydd. John Gibson, R.A., y Mynor - Gerfiwr Cymreig Bydenwog' [From Obscurity to Fame. John Gibson, R.A., the world-famous, Welsh marble sculptor], by the Reverend B. Menai Francis [Congregational minister]. The work had won a prize at an eisteddfod held at Conway, and according to the author's obituary notice in Y Dysgedydd, 1930, pp. 73-8, had been published in an unspecified, Welsh newspaper. The present copy consists of cuttings, printed on one side only, mounted in a note-book. A manuscript list of chapter headings is given at the beginning, and a postcard photograph of the bust of John Gibson in Conway parish church, has been pasted in as frontispiece.

A copy of Lett's Office Diary and Almanac for 1879, with copious manuscript entries [by Lady Marianna Augusta Hamilton, widow of Sir James- John Hamilton, 2nd bart., of Woodbrook, co. Tyrone, and Plas Llanstephan, co. Carmarthen, ob. 1876]. From 1 January to 20 May, and from 18 to 31 December, Lady Hamilton was in residence in her London home, the remainder of the year being spent at Llanstephan. The entries relating to the period of residence at Llanstephan contain several references to the [National] schools there and at Llanybree.

A copy of Henry Grove, A Discourse of Secret Prayer, together with Two Essays on Prayer ... (3rd ed., London, 1742).

'Taflen o Brisiau Gwehyddion Velindre a'r Cylchoedd, Ebrill y 3ydd, 1880', listing the prices charged for their products by weavers in the Felindre area of Carmarthenshire in 1880.

A bound volume inscribed on the outer cover 'Tregrug Inclosure, 1808', and containing printed and manuscript material relating to the enclosure of lands, including wastes called Common Coad y Pane and The Forest, within the manor of Tregrug, co. Monmouth. The printed items consist of a copy of An Act for inclosing lands in the Manor of Tregrug in the County of Monmouth, 1808, and of an act relating to enclosure procedure entitled An Act for consolidating in one act certain provisions usually inserted in acts of inclosure; and for facilitating the mode of proving the several facts usually required on the passing of such acts, 2d July 1801 (London, 1807). The manuscript entries include declarations, subscribed 2 August 1808, by Thomas Fulljames [of Hasfield, co. Gloucester, gent.], as commissioner, and Robert Wright Hall [of Cirencester], as surveyor, that they would discharge their respective duties in connection with the enclosure faithfully; a nomination, subscribed 2 August 1808, by proprietors of land within the manor, of William Morgan of Mamhilad, co. Monmouth, esq., as banker in connection with the project; an affidavit, signed 9 August 1808, by George Long and William Womack, land surveyors, concerning the survey they had made of the lands to be enclosed; copies of notices of meetings to be held, and of declarations issued re public carriage-ways, public foot-paths, and private roads, 1808-1809, signed by Thomas Fulljames; reports of meetings held, and of business transacted, 1808-1809, also signed by Thomas Fulljames; copies of the announcements of allotments to be sold and of the conditions of sale; the commissioner’s statement of account, 1808-1809; and a declaration, signed by the Reverend John Thomas, clerk, and Thomas Jones, esq., Justices of the Peace, 27 June 1810, concerning the completion of certain public carriage roads.

Two daily report books, April 1952 - November 1953, of the Porth Dinllaen lifeboat station (carbon copies).

A volume lettered on the outside, upper cover 'Sheriffs of Monmouthshire, 1541 and subsequently', and containing a record of the sheriffs of Monmouthshire, 1541-1937, with notes on their armorial bearings. The volume was compiled in 1937, by William Gardner of Newport, on the instructions of Frederick Pring Robjent, of Fields House, Newport, sheriff of the county, 1937-1938, whose armorial bearings (emblazoned) appear at the beginning of the volume.

'Cyflawn Fynegydd i'r Ysgrythyrau Sanctaidd neu Eiriadur ac Egwyddorawl Ddangoseg i'r Bibl Cyssegrlan', being an incomplete (letters a-d), expository concordance to the Bible in Welsh. The work is in seventeen sections, with a duplicate copy of section sixteen.

A copy of F[rederick] H[enry] A[mbrose] Scrivener: H. KAINH ΔIAΘHKH Novum Testamentum. Textus Stephanici A.D. 1550. Accedunt variae lectiones editionum Bezae, Elzeviri, Lachmanni, Tischendorfii, Tregellesii. (Cambridge and London, 1877), with numerous manuscript, marginal annotations.

A list containing the names of some one hundred and thirty-six former students of the Neuadd-lwyd school or academy ('Myfyrwyr Athrofa Neuaddlwyd'), giving in some instances, the dates of their entering the academy, of commencing their career in the ministry (where applicable), and of death. Occasionally, notes such as 'Went to America', or 'To Rotherham where he died', are added.

A note-book bearing on the fly-leaf the inscription 'R. G. Vivian, London, 6 August 1886' [Richard Glynn Vivian, founder of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea]. The contents consist of miscellaneous memoranda, and a record of expenditure in London and on the continent (Bayreuth, Brussells, Frankfurt, Innsbruck, Liege, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris, Vienna, etc.), 1887-1890. Items of expenditure recorded include travelling expenses, hotel bills, daily disbursements, and sums expended on the purchase of china, enamels, miniatures, paintings and prints, and other art objects. The following are a few of the purchases recorded - a pencil miniature of a lady of the family of the 4th duke of Richmond, by John Comerford, date 1827; a sketch, oil on panels, of two women embracing, by Annibal Carracci; miniatures of Mrs. Siddons and Mrs. Berry, in gold lockets with pearl borders, by R[ichard] Cosway ; a picture of 'The Cathedral Church of S. Nicholas, Newcastle on Tyne', by T[homas] M[iles] Richardson, senior; a framed oil painting 'Foxgloves', by John Constable; 'A Study of Clouds in colours', 9 July 1819, by John Constable; miniatures by Sir W[ illia]m John Newton, including those of Lady Adela Ibbetson, Prince Esterhazy, John Opie, R.A., and the Countess of Oxford, etc. The entries recording the purchase of miniatures, etc., are very often illustrated with pen-and-ink, thumbnail sketches of the object purchased. Many of the items whose purchase is recorded in the present note-book, are now in the Glynn Vivian Gallery at Swansea.

An album bearing on the inside upper cover the inscription 'Sarah Davies, Ffosrhydgaled [in the parish of Llanychaearn, co. Cardigan], Dec[ember] 30 1850'. The contents include a few autographs, copies of poems, pencil sketches, and illustrations including a water colour painting of a coastal scene signed 'W. E. Richardes'.

A bound attested copy of the apportionment of rent charge payable in lieu of tithes in the parish of Sputty Ystwyth, co. Cardigan, as confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in 1848, prefaced by copies of an agreement and award made prior to the apportionment and confirmed by the Commissioners in 1842 and 1848 respectively.

Rider's (1736.) British Merlin …' with manuscript memoranda and accounts by Rich[ard] Davies [vicar of St. John, Brecon]. The entries cover the period 1737-1748 and relate to the schooling of the writer's children, the thatching of 'John Carnarvon's house, the receipt of tithe corn, agreements with servants and workmen, monetary gifts and loans to individuals, deliveries to carriers, leases of the Vicarage house, the churchyard, Spittal tithe corn, etc.

An exercise book containing an incomplete? autobiography and reminiscences of William Jones, Allt [d]du Cottage, Tregaron. The work was compiled during the period 1912-1915 and is entitled '[B]raslun o anes bywyd William dy congar ['The Conqueror'?] of Enedigaith yd yn awr'.

An account book of an agricultural sale (livestock, implements, etc.) at Waunfawr, parish of Caron Isclawdd, co. Cardigan, 1874, together with later accounts, partly unrelated, to 1877. Laid down on the inside upper cover are printed conditions of sale, witnessed by David Williams, clerk to the Board of Guardians [of the Tregaron Union].