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A collection comprising correspondence, poetry, notes, extracts and miscellanea (mainly relating to religious matters), an account book from Haverfordwest, sermons by several individuals, a journal of Timothy Davies, Caeronnen, and hymns by Reuben Davies ('Prydydd y Coed').
Jones, Rees Jenkin, 1835-1924
Rees Jenkin Jones Family Papers
The fonds consists of personal papers and correspondence, 1826-1967, of members of the family of Rees Jenkin Jones, namely the Rev. John Jones (1802-1863), Mrs Anne Griffith Jones (1852-1899), Dr Goronwy Jones (1881-1945), the Rev. Simon Jones (1879-1967) and the Rev. Rees Jenkin Jones (1835-1924) himself, together with estate records, 1620-1916, of the Clettwr estate, Cardiganshire, Cilgell Isaf estate, Carmarthenshire, and of premises in Aberdare, Glamorgan. Much of the material relates to the Unitarian cause in Wales.
Jones, Rees Jenkin, 1835-1924
Rees family, St Dogmaels, papers
Journal of a voyage to America by John Rees (1819-1900) of Granant (later of Hendre), St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, 1847; together with miscellaneous papers of his three sons Willie Rees (b. 1893), Joseph Watkin Rees (1894-1976) and Benjamin Rees (b. 1896).
A Second World War prison camp Red Cross procurement diary, May 1942 - October 1944, listing the prisoners' names, ranks, numbers, regiments, next of kin and camps, including Stalag VIIIB, Stalag XXA, Stalag XXID, Stalag XVlllA, and recording items of clothing sent by the families of prisoners, all of whom appear to be from the Aberdare area, and organised by the Welsh Red Cross.
British Red Cross Society
A collection of recusant texts in English copied partly from printed sources. Contains the lives of Saints Catherine of Alexandria (ff. 1-15v), Barbara (ff. 15v-64v), Dorothy (ff. 64v-8), Modwen, with verse prologue, the life translated from Noua legenda anglie. Enprynted ... by Wynkyn de Worde ... 1521 (ff. 68-80), Ursula, in verse (ff. 80-91v), The Complaynt of St Marie Magdaleyne in verse (ff. 92-104v), John of Beverley (ff. 104v-13v) and Erasmus (ff. 113v-17). Folios 117v-35v are blank. There follow the tracts A dialogue of dying wel from the Italian of Peter of Lucca copied from the Antwerp edition of 1603 (ff. 136-64v); John Fisher, A spirituall consolation, and the tracts printed with it in the edition of c. 1578 (ff. 164v-202v); The distributing of spirituall exercises for all the daye (ff. 202v-19); The spirituall conflict [from the Italian of Lorenzo Scupoli] probably from the 1598 edition (ff. 219-44); An epistle in the person of Christ to the faithfull soule by Lanspergius, from the 1595 edition, fragmentary text (ff. 244-7v). Apart from f. 69, an inserted leaf, all is written by a single clear but stilted hand, probably female. Crude coloured initials and decoration. Phillipps MS 13839.
Recruiting poster entitled 'Y darn papur',
Recruiting poster entitled ‘Y Darn Papur’ is a Welsh version of the famous ‘The Scrap of Paper.’ History of the poster included on wrapping, which reads as follows: Gift of R. H. D. who initiated it and had it produced as Clerk to the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (R. Humphrey Davies, Museum of Welsh Antiquities, UCNW).
Records of the Welsh Patagonian Gold Fields Syndicate Ltd. English, Spanish. Between boards. Donated by Mrs A. B. Emlyn Evans, Gwalchmai, August 1947.
Records of the overseers of the poor of Ffestiniog. The records were originally in the form of a scrapbook; they were remounted and rebound at NLW, January 1953. Purchased from the Reverend J. Benson Jones.
Records of the overseers of the poor of Ffestiniog. The records were originally in the form of a scrapbook; they were remounted and rebound at NLW, January 1953. Purchased from the Reverend J. Benson Jones.
Records of the overseers of the poor of Ffestiniog. The records were originally in the form of a scrapbook; they were remounted and rebound at NLW, January 1953. Purchased from the Reverend J. Benson Jones.
Records of the Guild of Welsh Playwrights comprising a visitors' book of its discussion group, 1959-82 (NLW ex 1563), a minute book of meetings, 1970-83 (NLW ex 1564), and the final number, Winter 1986, of its newsletter Stage Directions (NLW ex 1565).
Records of the Diocese of Wrexham
Twenty-seven boxes of papers relating to the Roman Catholic Church, Wrexham Diocese. Material includes Ad clerums 1897-1946; Pastoral letters 1913-1935; Histories of missions (mainly N. Wales) 1888-1893; Misc. papers relating to seminaries and colleges (St. Sulpice; Vallodolid; Ushaw; Up Holland; Oscott; Lisbon; Cotton College), c.1920-1946; Parish statistics 1922-47; Visitations to 1947; Religious orders in diocese to 1947; Financial papers 1901-47; Ordinations 1938-45; Reconciliations 1926-46; Marriage dispensations 1895-1947; Parish financial returns 1930s; Deeds, conveyances c.1914-1939; Papers of Bishop John Petit (relating primarily to the Second Vatican Council) c. 1960s; Prayer books and other printed items; Newscuttings 1930s.
This collection remains uncatalogued (a working list is available in Box 1).
A further deposit of papers relating to the Roman Catholic Church, Wrexham Diocese. 3 boxes.
The Catholic Church for England and Wales
Records of Mayer Street Church, Hanley
Cofysgrifau'n perthyn i Eglwys Gymraeg Mayer Street, Hanley, c.1874-1982, gan gynnwys anerchiad ar hanes y Cymry yn Hanley, pregethau cylchwyl, papurau yn ymwneud â Peter Williams (Pedr Mostyn), Ysgrifennydd yr Eglwys, 1850-1857, ffotograffau o aelodau'r Eglwys ac aelodau'r Ysgol Sul.
Eglwys Gymraeg Mayer Street (Hanley, England)
Fifteen notebooks containing 'Cyfrif o'm Goruchwyliaeth' or records of visits to Welsh patients at Liverpool hospitals and elsewhere, 1896-1913, by the Reverend John Evans (1847-1921), Calvinistic Methodist Town Missionary, of Beaconsfield Street, Princes Road, Liverpool. Mounted or stitched into the volumes are a large number of relevant letters and postcards addressed to John Evans, among the correspondents being J. J. Roberts ('Iolo Caernarfon'), Portmadoc, 1897-[9], Griffith Ellis, Bootle, 1898-1908, Rosina Davies, Treherbert, 1898, [Evan Rees] ('Dyfed'), Cardiff, 1902, W. Pari Huws, Dolgellau, 1904, Thomas Levi, Aberystwyth, 1904, The Religious Tract Society, 1904-7, [J. O. Williams] ('Pedrog'), 1906-11, etc.
Evans, John, C.M. Minister of Liverpool, 1847-1921.
Records of Glandwr Congregational Church, Llanfyrnach, &c.
Original records, 1746-1794, of Glandwr Congregational Church, Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire, together with notes by John Lloyd James (Clwydwenfro) (1835-1919), who published a history of the church in 1902, and by David Morgan Lewis (1851-1937).
James, J. Lloyd, 1835-1919
Records of Ceredigion Methodist Circuits
Records, 1853-1966, of Methodist Circuits in Ceredigion, including minute and account books and registers of baptisms.
Records of baptisms at Saron Congregational Chapel, Llangeler in the hand of the Reverend Thomas Jones. English. Leather. Donated by Mrs B. Howard, Killay, Swansea, August 1971.
Records and Reminiscences of Beguildy by M.E. Jones, Beguildy.
Records and genealogy of the Charlton family
Records and genealogy of the Charlton (Charleton) family from 1177 to 1843, compiled, about 1843, from manuscript and record sources in the British Museum and the Heralds' College and illuminated, with arms emblazoned, by E. Worrall. The volume contains an account of Hawys Gadarn [1291-before 1353] of Powys.