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The third in a series of nine volumes of the letter books, 1836-1844, of William Day, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. The volumes, some of which have lists of contents, consist of copies of his reports, copies of his letter to the Poor Law Commission, London, to colleagues, and to the officials of Boards of guardians, circulars, memoranda, etc., and relate to various Poor Law Unions in Wales and to some in England, particularly in Shropshire.

The fourth in a series of nine volumes of the letter books, 1836-1844, of William Day, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. The volumes, some of which have lists of contents, consist of copies of his reports, copies of his letter to the Poor Law Commission, London, to colleagues, and to the officials of Boards of guardians, circulars, memoranda, etc., and relate to various Poor Law Unions in Wales and to some in England, particularly in Shropshire.

The sixth in a series of nine volumes of the letter books, 1836-1844, of William Day, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. The volumes, some of which have lists of contents, consist of copies of his reports, copies of his letter to the Poor Law Commission, London, to colleagues, and to the officials of Boards of guardians, circulars, memoranda, etc., and relate to various Poor Law Unions in Wales and to some in England, particularly in Shropshire.

The fifth in a series of nine volumes of the letter books, 1836-1844, of William Day, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. The volumes, some of which have lists of contents, consist of copies of his reports, copies of his letter to the Poor Law Commission, London, to colleagues, and to the officials of Boards of guardians, circulars, memoranda, etc., and relate to various Poor Law Unions in Wales and to some in England, particularly in Shropshire.

The first in a series of nine volumes of the letter books, 1836-1844, of William Day, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner for Wales and Shropshire. The volumes, some of which have lists of contents, consist of copies of his reports, copies of his letter to the Poor Law Commission, London, to colleagues, and to the officials of Boards of guardians, circulars, memoranda, etc., and relate to various Poor Law Unions in Wales and to some in England, particularly in Shropshire.

Letters and papers 1834-1990, of and relating to the Poole Hughes family of Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire. The papers comprise letters and correspondence, printed matter, pedigrees, certificates, some photographs, deeds and other historical documents. Accumulated originally by the Rev. Canon W. W. Poole Hughes (1865-1928), warden at Llandovery College and later by his wife Bertha Cecil (nee Rhys), 1877-1962. Some later items were added by their daughter Esther.

A composite volume comprising Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin (Llundain, 1634) lacking title-page, and Llyfr y Psalmau, wedi ev cyfieithv a'i cyfansoddi ar fesvr cerdd yn Gymraeg by Edmund Prys, Archdeacon of Merioneth (Llundain, 1638) with many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marginal and additional notes in Welsh, English, and Latin. The manuscript additions include a prayer in Welsh (Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin B8v), verse in Welsh by Ellizabeth Price 'i dyrfa Llandanwg'(ibid 06), englynion by 'H.M.' [Huw Morus] and 'H.E.R.' (ibid Aa1v), a riddle in Latin (ibid Gg7), and entries relating to the births and baptisms of the children of Richard Poole of Tyddin y Felin, Llanfair-iuxta-Harlech, co. Merioneth (f. ii, ibid Mm2v, Llyfr y Psalmau A1v), and of Richard Vaughan, esq., of Corsygedol (f. iv verso).

Pontypridd Union: Rateable value at a given rental of seven parishes; correspondence; and a printed valuation list. English. 1/2 leather. Donated by W. Brynmor Davies, Porthcawl, June 1960.

Papers of Goronwy R. Jones, 1941-1969, including correspondence, 1941-1969, files relating to trade union activities at several collieries, 1958-1967, notes and notebooks, typescripts relating to the South Wales coal industry, 1962-1967, and printed items, 1958-1963; papers of William J. Fortt, 1958-1968, including papers relating to the South Wales coal industry and the South Wales Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, notes, drafts of speeches and press cuttings.

A letter book of the Pontithel Chemical Company, Three Cocks, co. Brecknock, 1899-1902.

The minute book, 1870-1886, and statement of accounts, 1878-1891, of the committee of managers of the Pontgarreg (Cardiganshire) British School.

Deeds, probate records and family settlements, [13 cent., first ¼]-1861, 1896, relating to the Orlandon and Pontfaen estates, Pembrokeshire.

A photocopy of an account book, 1950-2003, of the Ponterwyd and District Fox Destruction Society.

A typescript catalogue, compiled 1926-7 by Daniel Evans (d. 1944), JP, Sheffield, with manuscript additions to 1934, of books in Welsh and English presented by him to the War Memorial Hall Library, Pontargothi, co. Carmarthen.

A typescript account of Ponc y Foryd Lime Kiln in the parish of Llanwnda, Caernavonshire, by W. G[ilbert] W[illiams, Rhostryfan], together with extracts from a memorandum book of Richard Parry, Plas Llanwnda (U.C.N.W., Bangor, Porth-yr-aur MS 6829 (11)), recording sales of lime at the kiln during the period 1814-1815.

A copy of 'Pompey', a translation by Katherine Philips (The Matchless Orinda) of 'La Mort de Pompée' by Pierre Corneille, together with songs by the translator, a prologue by Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon, and an epilogue by Sir Edward Dering. The text bears corrections and additions in Katherine Philips's hand, e.g. the last six lines on f. 38. 'Pompey' was first performed and published in Dublin in 1663. Textual differences indicate that this version cannot be derived from the subsequent London editions of 1663 and 1667 [first, Dublin, edition not available for consultation in NLW].

An album containing ninety-three holograph letters and documents, 1810-1915, apparently one of a series of at least five volumes brought together, [20 cent., first ½], by a member of the Malcolm family of Poltalloch, Argyll, Scotland, as a collection of the autographs of prominent legal, political, ecclesiastical and other public figures.
Fifty-six of the letters, 1894-1915, are addressed to George Cave, [later Viscount Cave] (ff. 5-7, 13-28, 36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-54, 56); three, 1868-1874, are to his father, Thomas Cave, MP (ff. 13, 31, 49). The typescript index to the contents on f. 2 records items, no longer present, from Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Queen Victoria, George IV and others.

A volume of tracts, c. 1679-1689, almost entirely political in content, mostly printed (many of them rare), a few in manuscript, collected and bound by Thomas Sebastian Price of Llanfyllin, recusant and antiquary [DWB, Montgomery Collections, 55 (1957), 26-7, 33, 58 (1964), 143-54] in whose hand there is a contents list on ff. ii-[1]. The tracts are grouped under state trials (items 1-5), poems (items 6-32, 28-32 being broadside ballads) and political tracts (items 33-58). The manuscript items are Lord Rochester's 'An allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace' (item 12), with unrecorded variant readings, Abraham Cowley's 'Epitaph on Richard Crashaw' (item 14), Richard Duke's 'Epithalamium upon the marriage of Captain William Bedloe' (item 23), John Dryden and Lord Mulgrave's 'An Essay Upon Satyr' (item 24), with unrecorded variant readings, and 'The Duke of Monmouth's Letter to the King' (item 25); also in manuscript are a copy of the royal pardon to the Earl of Dunbarton and others, 1685, addressed to Thomas Price (item 43) and, evidently on waste paper, a list of Anglesey parishes (item 15) and a table of distances, 'from Dovy to Machenlleth six miles' and from Machynlleth to various English towns, giving stages (item 59, end flyleaf). There is some contemporary marking in crayon and annotation, notably in item 42, adding names of those present at the Council in Whitehall on 22 October 1688 to hear declarations concerning the birth of the Prince of Wales, and, in item 10, identifying persons in Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel. A full typescript list of the contents of the volume is NLW ex 1246.

Papers, c 1972-87, including correspondence, minutes, newsletters, leaflets and printed material, relating to the Plaid Cymru National Left Group; Devolution to Wales; the Anti-Apartheid Movement; and the Welsh Language Society. Among the correspondence are three letters from Dafydd Wigley, 1984 and 1987, and a note from Dafydd Orwig, 1985. The printed material includes a pamphlet by Gareth Meils entitled Cymru Rydd, Cymru Cymraeg, Cymru Sosialaidd, 1972; a Government publication entitled Devolution: The New Assemblies for Wales and Scotland, 1976; and Keep Wales United With Britain: Vote No to the Welsh Assembly, issued by the No Assembly Campaign during the 1979 referendum

Papurau, c 1972-87, gan gynnwys gohebiaeth, cofnodion, cylchlythyrau, pamffledi a deunydd printiedig, yn ymwneud â 'Gr43wp Chwith Genedlaethol Plaid Cymru'; Datganoli i Gymru; y Mudiad Gwrth-Apartheid; a Chymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg. Ymhlith yr ohebiaeth ceir tri llythyr oddi wrth Dafydd Wigley, 1984 a 1987, a nodyn oddi wrth Dafydd Orwig, 1985. Y mae'r deunydd printiedig yn cynnwys pamffled gan Gareth Meils yn dwyn y teitl Cymru Rydd, Cymru Cymraeg, Cymru Sosialaidd, 1972; cyhoeddiad gan y Llywodraeth, Devolution: The New Assemblies for Wales and Scotland, 1976; a Keep Wales United With Britain: Vote No to the Welsh Assembly, a baratowyd gan ymgyrchwyr yn erbyn Cynulliad i Gymru yn ystod Refferendwm 1979