Dangos 15043 canlyniad

Papers, [1790]-1921, of and collected by Benjamin Piercy and his estate, relating to civil engineering projects and to the Piercy estate in Flintshire and Denbighshire. They include copies of plans of the following railways: the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay; the Whitchurch, Wrexham and Mold; the Flintshire, Oswestry and Newtown; the Oswestry and Llangynog; the Denbighshire and Shropshire; the North Wales and Birkenhead; the Birkenhead, North Wales and Stafford; the Porthdinlleyn; and the Llangammarch and Neath. There is also a large number of working plans of railways in north-east Wales, particularly those for which Benjamin Piercy was engineer, as well as collections of Acts of Parliament relating to railways in England and Wales, bills, minutes of evidence, speeches, petitions and reports of Railway Commissions. The archive also includes a volume of Acts of Parliament relating to the navigation and conservancy of the river Dee, some Acts relating to north Wales waterworks, copies of correspondence, 1881-1885, between Benjamin Piercy and Henry Robertson of Pale, and minute books, 1888-1920, of the Piercy Trustees, and papers and deeds of Benjamin Piercy's estate mainly in Wrexham, and Marchwiel parish, 1881-1921.

An autograph album belonging to Lizzie Rowlands (née Jones), Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, containing entries, 1860-1911, by R. J. Derfel, Thomas E. Ellis, William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') and others including a number of prominent Calvinistic Methodist ministers; together with pasted-in photographs of some of the above and family memoranda. The album was originally owned by Lizzie Jones's father Evan Jones, London House, Bala (f. iv) and includes notes taken by him from sermons heard at Calvinistic Methodist Association and other meetings, 1847-1849 (ff. 1-6 verso). Items found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (NLW MS 22010iiE): a letter from Lizzie Rowlands, 1885, and from Thomas Charles Edwards, Bala, 1896, relating to Lizzie Rowlands's association with Mary Jones, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, and an address by Mrs Rowlands, 1904, containing an account of the walk to Bala to purchase a Bible as recounted by Mary Jones herself.

Correspondence between the donor Rosemary Markham and Peter Prendergast, Kyffin Williams, Jonah Jones, Martin Tinney and others relating to an appeal for the donation of artworks towards the exhibition 'Art for Mercy' at the Washington Gallery, Penarth, 22-24 November 2002, to raise funds for Tearfund, together with minutes of the organising committee and exhibition and auction catalogue. Also included is a letter (in Welsh), 2008, to the donor from David T. Jones, Jonah Jones's son, relating to the project 'Cofio Jonah Jones'.

Seven letters, 1854, from the botanist William Pamplin (1806-99), later of Llandderfel, to his first wife Caroline (née Hunneman), while he was on a walking tour of North Wales with his friend Alexander Irvine (1793-1873), together with botanical notes, 1855, by Pamplin; also included are printed articles, 1899 and 1937, relating to him.

Research by Dr. Clive Gareth Grey on the work of Rowland Huw Prichard, namely: 1) 'The 'Other' Hymn Tunes of Rowland Huw Prichard of Bala (1811-1887)'; 2) 'Sixteen Hymn Tunes including 'Hyfrydol'. Arranged and reharmonised by Clive Gareth Grey. Revised 2021'; 3) 'Un deg chwech o donau. Trefnwyd ac ail-harmoneiddwyd gan Clive Gareth Grey. 2021'. Copies of the above were printed and bound at NLW.

A group of fifty-four holograph letters, 1929-1932, from Thomas Jones, Cerrigellgwm[-isa], Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire, to Evan Roberts, Llandderfel, Merioneth, relating to the writer's literary and musical pursuits. Some letters refer to the Welsh ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America. Also included in the collection is a holograph letter, 15 November, 1932, from Einion Jones, Cerrigellgwm-isa, to Evan Roberts, enclosing a pedigree of his father Thomas Jones and a copy of the latter's last poem.

A holograph letter from Henry M[orton] Stanley to [John] Griffith ('Y Gohebydd'), 1872, and a holograph letter from the latter to [Thomas] Gee, Denbigh, 1872 (Stanley's reluctance to allow the Welsh press to refer to his Welsh descent); and a holograph letter from Thomas Gee to Robert Griffith, bookseller, Caernarvon, 1840 (the loan of a hymnbook to the Reverend John Jones, Tal-sarn).

Papers and photographs, 1988-1990, relating to the design and construction of the cope for the Archbishop of Wales, The Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop George Noakes, made by members of Monmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Needlework. Also included are letters from the Archbishop and letters from Rhiannon (Jewellery in the Celtic medium), Tregaron, commissioned to design the gold morse (clasp) for the cope.

Diary for the period 30 September-9 December 1941 of Lady Megan Lloyd George (1902-66), Member of Parliament for Anglesey, 1929-51, and for Carmarthen, 1957-66, containing occasional entries relating to the progress of the Second World War with references to Winston Churchill and other contemporary figures.

Records of the Welsh Liberal Party, 1966-1988, including Executive Committee and General Council minutes, 1967-1987; Annual General Meeting papers and correspondence, 1982-1987; correspondence and papers relating to local government reform and electoral reform, transport, economic policy and nationalisation, Welsh affairs, devolution, and Welsh Liberal Party structure and finance, 1963-1987; papers relating to annual conferences, 1968-1987; papers relating to parliamentary and other elections, 1969-1989; correspondence and papers relating to individual parliamentary constituencies, 1970-1980; Local Government and Parliamentary Boundary Commission submissions, 1981-1983; Standing Committee and Policy Directorate papers, 1975-1982; press releases, 1980-1988; party publications, 1975-1981; records of county Liberal Associations, 1973-1988; and records of Caernarfon Division Liberal Association, 1961-1975.

Three additional files comprising minutes of meetings of the Welsh Liberal Party, 1981-2 and 1987. This group remains uncatalogued.

Papers of Glyn Tegai Hughes including diaries, letters, papers relating to his political interests, research papers, and Gwasg Gregynog ephemera.

Transcripts of sermons preached, 1743, by Griffith Jones (1683-1761), Llanddowror.

A manuscript containing transcripts of sermons, 1743, by Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, possibly in the same hand as NLW MS 85A.

An appreciation of the art of J. D. Innes (1887-1914), landscape painter, by, and in the hand of, Augustus John, R.A.

Photocopies of three letters, 1942-4, from Augustus John (1878-1961) to Robert Sielle (1895-1983), exhibition agent and frame maker, and five letters, 1942-4, from him to Augustus John, relating to his portrait of Vivien Leigh which was subsequently borrowed by the National Portrait Gallery in 1972

Papers of the poet and writer Professor Tony Curtis, largely comprising material relating to the literary and visual arts, which includes poetry, prose, plays, talks and lectures, essays and articles, reviews, radio and television broadcasts by Tony Curtis, material relating to literary works edited by Curtis and correspondence to and from Curtis.

(Tentative) fonds date of 1879 refers to proposed original date of Victorian print in June 2021 papers under heading Tokens for the Foundlings.

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Papers of Sir Evan Vincent Evans, 1880-1933, including correspondence, 1881-1927 (comprising general correspondence to Sir E. Vincent Evans, 1881-1927, letters relating to the Ignatius Williams manuscripts, 1906-1922, drafts and copies of letters from Vincent Evans, 1893-1927, letters addressed to others, 1892-1923; and miscellaneous letters, 1894-1927, mainly those with unrecognisable signatures); bibliography of Welsh printed books, 1701-1807; minutes of the Board of Celtic Studies, 1933; records of the Diphwys Slate Quarry, 1924-1927; papers relating to education in Wales, 1887-1888; the London Committee of the Cardiff Medical Society, 1890; the National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1887-1926; the National Library of Wales, 1924-1927; the National Museum of Wales, c. 1900-1928; the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales, 1911-1933; Royal Commission on Public Records, 1914-1916; the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves, 1914; the University Board of Celtic Studies, 1922-1927; the University of Wales, c. 1893-1927; the Vincent Evans Testimonial Fund, 1898-1899; and the Welsh Club, 1893-1913; together with copies of speeches and addresses delivered by Vincent Evans; and miscellaneous papers, [c. 1880]-[1930].

Four holograph letters to the Reverend Dr. [William] Buckland, Christ Church, Oxford, from J[oshua] Trimmer, Caerna[r]von, etc., 1834-1836 (a 'good budget' of 'diluvial news' from Caernarvonshire, the 'alluvia' of Dublin Bay, etc.) (together with one draft reply), and from J[ohn] E[ddowes] Bowman [the elder], from Varteg near Ponty Pool, Monmouthshire, and from Gresford, near Wrexham, 1836 (papers read at the British Association meetings at Bristol, the excavation of the Cefn bone cave); and one holograph letter from Geo. Cumming, Dolhyfryd, near Denbigh, to the Reverend Edward Stanley (of Adderley) [sic] at the British Association, Bristol, 1836 (observations on the limestone caves at Cefn).

A typewritten transcript, with manuscript insertions, by K. M. Davies and W. Lloyd Davies, Bournemouth, of the enclosure award of Henllan Wastes and Denbigh Green, 1814. The transcript was made at the County Offices, Ruthin, in November 1936. Inset are a typewritten copy of the article on the award by W. Lloyd Davies which appeared in the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, Vol. IX, pp. 247-71, and a 'pull' of the map accompanying the article.