Dangos 15051 canlyniad

A copy of an address in Welsh delivered by Dr Douglas A. Bassett at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Ceredigion, Aberystwyth, relating mainly to John Karan Evans ('Jack Evans', 1907-91), the first president of the National Society of Welsh Americans established in 1980.

'Reverend L. Ton Evans and the United States occupation of Haiti', a typescript article by Scott H. Olsen on the Reverend Lewis Ton Evans (1861-1933), Ystrad, Rhondda, Baptist missionary to Haiti; together with related papers. cf. NLW Facs 780.

Cuttings of twenty-seven of the series of thirty-eight articles by Dyfed Evans on Robert Owen (1885-1962), Croesor, published in Y Cymro and later collected in Bywyd Bob Owen (Caernarfon: Gwasg Gwynedd, 1977).

A typescript English translation of an interview with the contralto Madam Esther Cooper Jones, as reported by Lyn Ebenezer in Y Cymro, 9 July 1974, p. 4.

An indexed volume entitled 'Rough Methods of Analysis' containing diagrams and explanations of chemical methods and processes used in the steel industry, principally compiled by J. H. Ridsdale, Middlesbrough. It includes a letter, 1907, from Arthur Caddick, Lincoln, to 'Jack' (probably J. H. Ridsdale) concerning 'the Sulphur method'. The volume was passed down to generations of workers at the Port Talbot steel works.

A bound copy, entitled 'Llef y Proffwydi', of the pamphlet by Saunders Lewis and Lewis Valentine, Paham y Llosgasom yr Ysgo1 Fomio (Caernarfon, 1936), inscribed by Lewis Valentine, 4 Dec. 1936, and including a pasted-in photograph of Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams, and related press cuttings.

Copies of Bill Meilen's two collections of verse entitled 'Fields of Pain' (a chronicle of the Korean War, 1951-3) and 'Trumpet Shadows' (written on visits home to Wales over two decades).

A copy of The New Testament in Welsh and English presented in 1937 to John Richard Waters on being accepted into full membership of Tabernacl church, King's Cross, London. The volume bears the signature of the Rev. H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed', 1860-1953), minister of Tabernacl church, 1904-1940.

A copy of John Hicklin, The Ladies of Llangollen (Chester, [1847]), and of Sara Pugh Jones, Plas Newydd and the Ladies (Llangollen, 1968); together with press cuttings, 1929-34, mainly relating to the publication of Mrs Eva Mary Bell's The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen (London, 1930). [Main group of Hamwood Papers in NLW MSS 22967-96].

Typescript transcript of an address in Welsh presented to John Hughes (1873-1932), composer of the hymn-tune 'Cwm Rhondda', by the Pontypridd District Baptist Churches, co. Glamorgan.

Airman's Service and Pay Book (entries for the period 1939-1949) of Cyril Phillips' brother-in-law Richard Kenneth Lewis (1920-1991); a printed list of successful entrants to the Royal Air Force Aircraft Apprentices School, Halton, co Buckingham, 1936; official programme of the Royal Air Force Empire Air Day, 1938; and a Battle of Britain brochure, 1950.

Biographical notes, compiled by David C W Marshall, on William Jones Williams (c 1773-1847), Holyhead, pastor of Grafton Street Baptist chapel, Soho, London.

Typescript copy of an article, in two parts, on David Jones (1793-1873), Sydney, published in Times on Sunday (Australia) on 14 and 21 February 1988. See also NLW Facs 548.

Printed prospectus of St Margaret's School for Girls, Richmond Road, Cardiff, conducted by Mrs & Misses Simpson, with pupil's report from the school.