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Letters of William A. Salter (Brigadier S.A.) descriptive of a visit to the Far East. English. Cloth boards. Donated by R. G. Salter, Birmingham, August 1942.

Letters of William A. Salter (Brigadier S.A.) descriptive of a second visit to the Far East. Vol. ii. English. Cloth boards. Donated by R. G. Salter, Birmingham, August 1942.

Letters of William A. Salter (Brigadier S.A.) descriptive of a second visit to the Far East. Vol. i. English. Cloth boards. Donated by R. G. Salter, Birmingham, August 1942.

Letters, 18 January 1697/8-1827, from Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), bishop of St Asaph, two of them to Peter Le Neve (1661-1729) and one to an unknown recipient relating to a petition from some of 'the Parishioners of Mallwyd against Mr. Meredith their Minister'; from John Egerton (1721-1787), bishop of Bangor, to Richard Phelps, Whitehall; from Richard Watson (1737-1816), bishop of Llandaff, to Thomas Percival (1740-1804), physician, Manchester, and to an unknown recipient; from Thomas Burgess (1756-1837), bishop of St Davids, to the Duke of Sussex [Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843)]; from Robert Watson (?1730-1781) to an unknown recipient.

Two holograph letters, early seventeenth century, the one [?1610] from Tho: Salusburye [bookseller, etc., in London, 1593-1604], at his house 'in cloth fayer in London', to Sir John Wynne, kt., 'att his house in Gwyder', the other, undated and imperfect, from Wylliam Holland, St. John's Coll: Cambridge, to his brother, Mr. [ ] Holland at P[ennant?] in Eglwyse vaghe. Sir John Wynn was anxious to know whether the Psalms had been translated into Welsh and Thomas Salusbury had sent him 'a coppy of them yt are printed' [i.e. the small volume of Edward Kyffin's Psalms (1603)]. He [Edward Kyffin], according to Thomas Salusbury, had finished about fifty before his death seven years previously in the time of the great sickness [?1603]. The letter also contains mention of Archdeacon [Edmund] Price and of an edition of Camden's Britannia. The William Holland letter relates to family matters and is an attempt to show that he is not unnatural but well-disposed towards his kindred.

Three holograph letters from Thomas Price of [Christ Church] Oxford, to George Townshend, 1st marquess Townshend, viceroy of Ireland, 1771-1772 ( improvements to Oxford, the writer's hints for the embellishments of cities executed by the architect [John] Gwyn, the writer's system of education, improvements to Blenheim, noblemen at Oxford, an event in Denmark, opportunities of service by the writer to the recipient).

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.

Eleven letters, 1776-1788, from Thomas Charles, Bala, to Edward Griffin.

Including letters by Richard Lewis, joiner, when he worked at Trevtham House, and genealogical vouchers.

Twenty-six autograph letters and cards, 1886-1898, from Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899), M.P. for Merioneth, to Thomas Jones, Brynmelyn, Llandderfel, and three letters, 1904, from David Robert Daniel (1859-1931) to Thomas Jones.

Letters, 1871, sent by Sir Lewis Morris (1833-1907) to Smith Elder & Co., publishers, London.

Letters, 1891-1912, from or on behalf of Sir Alfred Thomas, M.P. (1840-1927), later 1st Baron Pontypridd, to Josiah Towyn Jones (1858-1925).

Letters from Richard Rigby, politician, some of them addressed to William Rogers, Monmouth.

Four holograph and two autograph letters, 1929-1947 and undated, written by Richard [Arthur Warren] Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929), to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leach. The writer refers to a visit to the Adirondacks, a cruise with Harrison (Hal) Smith, the sale of 11,000 copies of his novel, his indebtedness to Henry Leach for the title of A High Wind in Jamaica, the schooling of his children, his removal from Laugharne Castle to Talsarnau, Merioneth, etc.

A holograph letter from Ric[hard] Cobden to [Joseph] Sturge, 1849 (the progress of the peace movement, a tribute to Henry Richard); correspondence, 1872-8, relating to the proposed publication by the Cobden Club of the letters of Richard Cobden, including holograph letters to Henry Richard from Thos. Thomasson; Mrs Catherine Anne Cobden; Thomas B. Potter; [Sir] Louis Mallet; Henry Ashworth; [Sir] Thomas Bazley; [Sir] Edward Baines; C[harles] Cobden; W. Cowper Temple; and others; and copies of correspondence between Mrs. Catherine Anne Cobden, Thos. Thomasson, Henry Richard, and others; and holograph letters to Henry Richard from John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 1878 (the writer's proposed biography of Richard Cobden; A. J. Mundella, 1882; J[ohn] Thomas, Congregational minister, Liverpool, 1887 (Samuel Morley's contribution to Congregational and other causes in Wales, the writer's proposed biography of the Reverend Thomas Rees, Swansea); and others. Bound with the letters is an offprint of an article by the donor, the Reverend H. R. Evans, M.C., M.A., on 'Henry Richard and Cobden's Letters', published in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1958, pp. 54-81.

Letters of Mary Ann Elias (d. 1857), daughter of John and Harriet Elias, Tre'r-gôf-isaf, Llanbadrig, Anglesey, to her parents and other relatives, together with letters of various other correspondents. English. Between boards. Purchased from the Reverend H. Jones Davies, Llangollen, April 1961.

Nineteen letters, 1790-1796, written by Lady Anne Erskine, appointed by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, as her successor at Trevecca, to Thomas Haweis, 'Father of the South Seas Mission', and a receipt by Lady Erskine to Dr. Haweis for a loan of £100 with an assignment of her right to the sum of £100 left her by a codicil to the will of her 'very dear friend Jenetta Paine Haweis' in the event of her failure to repay the loan.

Four letters, mostly in English, May-October 1831, May 1834, from John Jones (Tegid), Oxford, to Henry Jones, Merthyr Tydfil, mainly concerning Tegid's dispute with William Bruce Knight on the proposed reform of Welsh orthography (see W. B. Knight, Remarks, Historical and Philological, on the Welsh Language (Cardiff, 1830) and John Jones, Reply to the Rev. W. B. Knight's 'Remarks' on Welsh Orthography (Cardiff, 1831)).
Tegid quotes excerpts from letters of support received from Aneurin Owen (f. 1 verso), the Rev. Walter Cecil Davies (f. 2), George Phillips, BA, (f. 2) and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) (f. 5). Also included are holograph poems, in Welsh (ff. 5 verso-6, 7, 10), including 'Merch ieuanc mewn darvodedigaeth', 1833 (f. 7), which was published in the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory, 5 (1833), 56.

Letters of John Gibson, editor of The Cambrian News, Aberystwyth. English. Between boards. Donated by Ida Jones, Rhayader, June 1966, and by Mr P. A. Daniell, London, December 1975.