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Transcripts of an interview with Lord Harlech relating to his period as British Ambassador to the United States, 1961-1965.

An inventory and valuation, n.d., of A.J. Chapple (Bala Press) Ltd. (Seren Office) (NLW ex 728). An inventory and valuation, 1955, of the business of Messrs R.E. Jones & Bros. Ltd., Conwy, printers, bookbinders, stationers and process engravers (NLW ex 729).

An inventory of farming stock, Whitchurch. English. (Formerly E. M. Bishop MS 16.) In an envelope. Donated by Alwyn Andrew, Liverpool, 1945.

A photostat facsimile of an annotated inventory of a hundred Welsh medals compiled by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda.

An ode to Princess Victoria (aft. Queen Victoria) written by Thomas W. Booker for the Gwent and Dyfed royal eisteddfod and musical festival held at Cardiff, 1834, and a receipt on silk from The Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian of an account of the proceedings at the various meetings of the eisteddfod.

An offprint [from Y Beirniad, 1915] of 'Bytheiad y Nef', a translation by the Reverend D Tecwyn Evans of 'The Hound of Heaven' by Francis Thompson, presented by the translator to the Reverend T C Lewis with a covering letter, 1919. The copy bears numerous revisions in the hand of D Tecwyn Evans and notes in the hand of T C Lewis.

An offprint of article 'Tolosani versus Copernicus' by Andrzej Kempfi, in Organon 16/17; and a cutting of his (Kempfi's) article 'O walijskim jako jezyku zywym' from Gazeta Niedzielna 4 wrzesnia 1983.

A manuscript album, entitled 'An Omnium Gatherum' (f. 1 verso), compiled during the 1820s (dated 1822 and 1826 on ff. 73 verso, 106) by Harriette Grant (1789-1863; later Harriette Wingfield Stratford), daughter of Henry Grant (1743-1831) of Gnoll Castle, Glamorgan. The volume includes literary excerpts, antiquarian notes, riddles, and poems, written in English, French and Welsh, together with numerous well-executed watercolur, ink and pencil studies, some noted as being 'after Rembrandt' (ff. 1 verso, 7 verso, 10, 16, 17 verso).
The drawings include views of the Vale of Ebbw from Abercarne (f. 5), Neath Castle (f. 40), view from the fishing stool at Gnoll (f. 41 verso), Llantwit Church from the terrace at Gnoll Castle (f. 58), the upper lodge at Gnoll (f. 69), part of the chapel of Neath Abbey (ff. 78 verso, 80), Arthur's Stone in Gower (f. 81 verso), a female Glamorgan peasant (f. 98), a male Welsh peasant (f. 99), Briton Ferry Church (f. 100 verso), a female peasant (f. 104), Gnoll Castle (f. 105 verso), and Melin Crython (f. 160).

An imperfect copy of a Bible, the various parts of which were printed between 1598 and 1601 - Old Testament (Geneva version), 1599; Apocrypha, 1599; New Testament, 1598; Revelation of St. John, 1600; and The Whole Book of Psalmes, 1601 - and which was used in the parish church of Oswestry during the reign of Charles. It contains numerous manuscript notes mainly relating to the family of Moody in Oswestry and the surrounding district.

A volume, [1805] (watermark 1800), in the hand of 'J.W.L.' [probably Sir James Winter Lake, bart], containing an outline of Robert Southey's poem 'Madoc'.
The outline consists of a prose summary of the contents of parts one (ff. 7-111) and two (ff. 113-218) of the poem, as first published in Robert Southey, Madoc, 2 vols (London, 1805), with numerous quotations from the text throughout. A list of characters (ff. 4-5) and closing notes (ff. 218-219) are based on Southey's Preface. Also included are some of Southey's notes on Bards from the appendix to Vol. 1 (ff. 66-68); a description of the beaver from Thomas Pennant, History of Quadrupeds, 2 vols (London: B. White, Fleet Street, 1781, ESTC T113535), pp. 383-387 (ff. 71-76); several ink and watercolour drawings (ff. 2 verso, 5, 6, 7, 70 verso, 75 verso, 112, 113, 219), some based on plates in the printed work; and four prints which have been pasted into the volume (ff. 3 recto-verso, 6 verso, 85 verso). The volume was written to commemorate 'the departure of an affectionate son to Prince of Wales's Island [now Penang, Malaysia] in the East Indies on Sat[urda]y April 20 1805' (see f. 3); the new chaplain assigned to Penang in 1805 was the Rev. Atwill Lake, son of Sir James Winter Lake, Edmonton, Middlesex.

A copy of a BTh dissertation by Mervyn Hugh Phillips entitled 'An outline theological assessment of the devolution process in Wales' (University of Oxford, 2001)

A manuscript containing a poem entitled An Pempthak Pell, which relates to the fifteen mysteries of the rosary, written by Henry Jenner in Cornish, with a literal translation into English.

An unbound copy of Nephelococcygia or Letters from Paradise by Herbert M .Vaughan, signed by the author, and a letter from him to G. V. Roberts. (Formerly G. V. Roberts MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Patrick Roberts, Pencader, June 1965.

An imperfect copy of John Parry: A Brief Account of the British or Cambrian Music; 1742, with manuscript titles, and with transcripts supplied by D. Emlyn Evans.

Plans and surveys by Edward Andrew Downham (d. 1931) of ancient earthworks in Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire and Merioneth.

Minute books, accounts and other papers relating to the Rose of May Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters, Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire, instituted 20 July 1866 and dissolved 3 August 1869.

Papers, 1966-2015, relating to the filming and production of Under Milk Wood (1972), directed by Andrew Sinclair, together with papers relating to the financing and distribution of the film and to other Dylan Thomas projects.

Over a hundred letters, 1964-1980, from Aneirin Talfan Davies to Katharine Taylor Loesch, University of Illinois, Chicago, relating mainly to personal matters but also containing references to his work and to Welsh and English literature.

A manuscript containing an address in Welsh on the British and Foreign Bible Society, with a prayer in English.