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The fifth of six volumes of translations from Homer, Hesiod and Apuleius, by Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron; 1780-1843).

Legal precedents, mainly copies of wills. The volume probably belonged to Richard Jones, Oswestry.

Letters addressed to Richard Griffith ('Carneddog') by Elizeus Williams ('Eifion Wyn'), 1924-1928; Walter S. Jones, ('Gwallter Llyfnwy'), Llanllyfni, 1928-1930; and Ellen Closs, Nant Peris; and letters from Henry Owen, Middle Granville, U.S.A., 1869-1871, to William Williams, Gwastad Annas.

A collection of anthems and hymn-tunes including 'Duw sydd Noddfa' by Richard Mills ['Rhydderch Hael'].

Autograph album, 1866-1868, belonging to the journalist John Griffith (Gohebydd), compiled during visits to Reconstruction Era America to report for Baner ac Amserau Cymru. The album contains eighty-four signatures and inscriptions, mainly by Senators and other senior politicians and social reformers (ff. 3-49).
The signatories include the future Presidents James A. Garfield (f. 32) and U[lysses] S. Grant (f. 37), future Vice-Presidents Tho[mas] A. Hendricks (f. 7) and Schuyler Colfax (f. 26), Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (f. 36), presidents pro-tem of the Senate L[a] F[ayette] S. Foster (f. 19) and B[enjamin] F. Wade (f. 22), the abolitionists and social reformers Frederick Douglass (f. 38), Wendell Phillips (f. 45) and Anna E. Dickinson (f. 46), the actor James E. Murdoch (f. 41) and the writer R[alph] Waldo Emerson (f. 43). A few autographs are of Welshmen (ff. 44, 49).

One of two association copies, presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the Rt Hon. David Lloyd George (1863-1945)) to his uncle, Richard Lloyd (1834-1917), of the 1909 Finance Bill, popularly known as the Lloyd George Budget, being a copy of the Bill as first introduced into the House of Commons, together with a copy of the Bill as amended in Committee and on Report.

A collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, 1804-2005, purchased or received by donation from various sources by the National Library of Wales during the period May 2004-May 2008 and boxed as one volume.

A collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, 1645-[1993x1999], purchased or received by donation from various sources by the National Library of Wales during the period April 2013-November 2020 and boxed as one volume.

A book of Hours, of unidentified Use, in Latin with a few rubrics in Catalan, [first half of the fifteenth century], from Catalunya or the Pyrenees, containing Calendar (ff. 1-11 verso), Gradual Psalms (ff. 12-27), the Hours of the Virgin, the Mass of the Virgin (ff. 80-6 verso), the Office of the Dead (ff. 87-140), the Penitential Psalms (ff. 141-56), and Litany (ff. 156-66 verso).
The Calendar includes many saints whose cult was particularly important in Spain and Catalunya, including Agatha, Eulalia (of Barcelona, Feb. 12, and [?of Merida], Dec. 10), Baudelius, Quiteria, Justa and Rufina of Seville, Abdon and Senen of Cordoba, Laurence, Felix of Gerona, Theccla, patron of Tarragona, Callistus, patron of Seville, Cecilia, Barbara; similarly the Litany includes Just and Pastor of Alcala de Henares, Cyricus, Theccla and Eulalia; others, such as Radegunde of Poitiers, Tropimus of Arles and Rufus of Avignon mentioned are associated with south and western France. Prayers to St Eulalia are also included in Lauds (f. 51 verso) and Vespers (f. 74 verso). Rubrics by hand I in Catalan on ff. 85 verso-86 verso crossed out, but mostly legible, confirm provenance in the paísos catalans.

A manuscript volume in English and Welsh, 1854-1858, compiled by Griffith Griffiths, shopkeeper, Pen-y-graig, Llangwnnadl, Caernarvonshire, mainly containing medicinal recipes (NLW MS 23711iA).
A medico-botanical map of the world, [c. 1868], and two pamphlets, [1930s], relating to his grandson, the medical herbalist Griffith Griffiths, Bangor, and the family's cure for 'wild warts' ('y ddafad wyllt') are filed separately (NLW MS 23711iiC).

Two personal copies of the journal Dock leaves which belonged to the artist Arthur Giardelli (1911–2009). Dock leaves, vol. I, no. 2 (Easter 1950), includes his article : ‘The Glyn Vivian art gallery’, and a letter, dated June 1950, from Raymond Garlick. Dock leaves, vol. II, no. 5 (May 1951), contains two letters, dated October 1951, from Friedrich R. Könekamp, author of the article ‘Artists and specialists’, published in this edition.

Papers of Owen Morris Williams, shoemaker and musician, Morfa Nefyn (1870-1958), including anthems, letters, etc.

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.

Photographic copy of a typescript of 'Gwaith Siôn Tudur', edited by Enid P. Roberts.

Nineteen letters, 1879-1884, from Josiah Pitman and eight holograph letters from Mabel Woodford, 1895-1896, to Edward Hall at Covent Garden.

Minute book, 1918-1929, of Cymdeithas Gymraeg Bootle a’r Cylch.

Letters, 1944-1967 and undated, to Dr William Thomas, Trefloyne, Tenby from D. J. Williams, Waldo Williams, and Sybil Thorndike.