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Llungopïau o bedwar llythyr, 1915, oddi wrth aelodau o'r teulu Owen a ymfudodd o Batagonia i Moora, Gorllewin Awstralia, at eu perthynas Maggie Owen yn Abergele. = Photocopies of four letters in Welsh, 1915, from members of the Owen family who emigrated to Moora, Western Australia, from Patagonia, to their relative Maggie Owen in Abergele.

Yr Ymwelydd Blyneddol; neu Almanac a Dydd-lyfr, am y flwyddyn 1838, Mold, with diary entries by Owen Owens, Rhes-y-cae.

The coat of arms, coloured, of the Owen family of Orielton, Pembrokeshire.

The Homes of Wales, a translation, 1926, by Arthur Simon Thomas (Anellydd) (1865-1935), rector of Trefilan, Cardiganshire, of Owen Morgan Edwards: Cartrefi Cymru ... (Wrexham, 1896).

A volume of sermons by and in the autograph of Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) (1806-1889).

Letters and papers, 1927-1938, accumulated by Sir Alfred T. Davies, relating to the Owen Glyndwr Memorial Institute, Glyndyfrdwy, Merionethshire, and Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire.
The file includes ten letters, 1932-1934, from Walter L. Irvine, landscape architect, to Sir Alfred T. Davies, President of the Memorial Committee, concerning proposed gardens for the Institute (ff. 7-25); papers relating to the commemorative stone, 1931, the opening of the memorial hall, 1932 (ff. 26-32), and the foundation and administration of the Institute (ff. 33-40). In addition, the file contains two letters, 1927-1928, addressed to Sir Alfred T. Davies from J. Elias Jones, regarding the preservation and future of Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire (ff. 42-5).

A copy of L. J. Roberts: Owen Glyndwr: Darlith (Gwrecsam, c. 1904), with manuscript notes by Lewis Davies Jones (Llew Tegid) (1851-1928).

An overseers' book of receipts and payments for the parish of St Nicholas, Haverfordwest Union, 1848-1868. The name of Gwynne Vaughan Bowen, overseer, occurs in 1849, 1868, etc.

For xerox copies of original material donated at the same time, see NLW Facs 396-404.

A telegram from the P[ress] A[ssociation] to the Cambrian News, Aberystwyth, [ ] September [19]39, quoting unconfirmed Associated Press reports of fighting at Danzig and the bombing of Polish towns, a Reuter statement relating to a broadcast by Hitler and the proclamation by Danzig of itself as a part of Germany, and unconfirmed reports from Paris of the beginning of the German offensive.

Photocopies of an article by W. N. Davis, Dinuba, California, relating to Stephen S. Jones and family who emigrated in 1878 from Cardiganshire to Jackson County, Ohio, together with copies of letters from America and from relations in Wales and poetry entered in a literary meeting in Oak Hill, 1893, together with a copy of an undated photoghraph of Stephen and Anna (Morgan) Jones taken in Jackson.

A volume containing humorous prose (ff. 4-16 verso) and poetry (ff. 19-33), [1867], by a young woman identifying herself as 'Angelina Workington' (f. 9), for her uncle, 'Slatey Hughes Esquire', as a memento of their visit to Llandudno and the surrounding area in July 1867.
The volume consists of a fanciful prologue (ff. 4-6), followed by equally fanciful accounts of excursions to the Great Orme (ff. 9-10 verso, 12-13 verso) and Capel Curig (ff. 14 recto-verso, 16 recto-verso), and poems entitled 'Ffos Noddyn' (ff. 19-20), 'A Growl from Gelert's Ghost' (ff. 22-25), 'The Streamlet's Song' (ff. 27-29) and 'Excelsior' (ff. 31-33). The manuscript is written mainly in black ink, with some words in red, blue, green and gold paint. In addition there is an illuminated title page (f. 2) and dedication (f. 3), with further illuminations or decorative initials on ff. 4, 8, 9, 16, 19, 22, 31; together with five pen drawings (ff. 7, 11, 15, 17, 22) and a photograph of the Great Orme, Llandudno (pasted in on f. 8). The name 'Angelina Workington' is presumed to be a pseudonym; the writer may actually be the Isabella Slater to whom the volume was gifted in 1862 (see f. 1).

Oskosh Welsh Centennial, 1947 (typescriptby Howell D. Davies). English. Green cloth, Donated by Howell D. Davies, Oak Park, Illinois, February 1954.

A copy of Orin David Gensler's PhD thesis 'A Typological Evaluation of Celtic/Hamito-Semitic Syntactic Parallels', University of California at Berkeley, 1993.

Original typescript of 'Y plentyn wrthododd ran Iesu', a translation into Welsh by Gwenan Creunant Davies of the play 'The boy who wouldn't play Jesus' by Bernard Kops, for performance at Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig, Christmas 1982.

Original typescript of a list, compiled by the late Professor William Rees, Cardiff, of the contents of the Bute collection of records, papers and maps, upon which the NLW Preliminary Schedule of the Marquess of Bute Collection is based.

Two sheets of accounts made with Thomas Warburton, Chamberlain and Chancellor of North Wales, and Dorothy Wynne [mother of William Wynne, serjeant at law] of the profits of the original seal of cos. Caernarvon, Anglesey, and Merioneth, together with the fines, prefines, and recoveries levied at the Great Sessions of cos. Merioneth, Caernarvon, and Anglesey, 1718.

A volume of transcripts of leases, grants, charters, etc., 1704-1755, relating to the issues and profits of the origianl seal for cos. Caernarvon, Anglesey, and Merioneth, and of sums of money payable for fines and recoveries levied in the said counties, compiled for reference by William Wynne, serjeant at law, who was granted a lease of the original seal in 1729. The volume is indexed.

Original MS of The Self and Immortality by Professor Hywel D. Lewis, M.A., B. Lit. English. Between boards. Donated by Professor Hywel D. Lewis, Normandy, Guildford, July 1973.

Original MS (incomplete) of The Atonement and Intercession of Christ by D. Charles Davies (edited and translated by D. E. Jenkins); original MS of the preface to Dysgeidiaeth Iesu Grist by J. Cynddylan Jones; MS of the bibliography to Thomas Charles of Bala by Thomas Shankland. Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from J. R. Morris, Caernarfon, December 1947.