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Letters from Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) to Mr R. Guy Harland relating to the donor's musical compositions. English. Guard and file (1981). Donated by Mr R. Guy Harland, Colwall Green, Malvern, May 1981.

Copies of letters, 1941-1942, to Rene Le Roux ('Meven Mordiern') from Roparz Hemon and Guillaume Berthou ('Guillaume B. Kerverziou'), relating to the establishment of a standardised orthography of Modern Breton, and formerly in the possession of Armand Keravel; together with copies of documents and correspondence, 1940-1963, relating to Keravel, including letters from Yann Fouere and Joseph Martray.

Autograph letters, mainly of North Wales interest, from Robert Cholmondeley (afterwards Earl of Leinster) (1584?-1659), 13 March 1633/4, to Sir Roger Mostyn, kt (1559/60-1642); letters from Joseph Bunbury, Llay, 19 October 1676, to Sir Roger Mostyn, first baronet (1623/4-1690); letters from William Lloyd, bishop of Lichfield, Chester and Coventry (formerly bishop of St Asaph) (1627-1717), 6 May 1693, to Richard Mostyn, Penbedw (?the son of Sir Roger Mostyn, first baronet); letters from Richard Mostyn, Penbedw, 15 December 1693, to Sir John [?Conway]; letters from Thomas Puleston, Nantclwyd, 8 August 1720; letters from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, fourth baronet (1749-1789), Wynnstay, 15 March 1745/6, to Richard Williams, Penbedw; a statement dated 20 May 1678, signed by Owen Thelwall and others, relating to the burial of Dorothy Lloyd, alias Meredith, at Nannerch; financial memoranda, 15 April 1704, relating to Sir John Conway and a certain Mr Mostyn.

Letters, 1840-1863, from Richard Cobden and Catherine, his wife, to Hugh Williams, Catherine’s brother; Hugh Williams to his family; etc.

Press cuttings and typescript copies of letters and postcards from Rhodesia and articles in the Cape Times written by Huw Williams (1860-1922).

Letters from Pryse Pryse, Gogerddan to Charles Deare, Temple, London relating to Gogerddan estate matters, and a letter to the same from B. A. Griffiths, B[recknock] & A[bergavenny] Canal Office, Llanelli, Breconshire. English. Between boards.

Seventy-two letters, mainly from Maurice James (1916-1968) to his mother in Bala, co. Merioneth, describing his tour of Canada, the United States of America and Mexico with a friend, Anthony S. Brennan of Huddersfield, between May 1957 and August 1958. The tour included a six-month stay at Cecil Lake, British Columbia, where Maurice James served as headmaster of the local school during the winter of 1957. Also included (ff. i-xiii) are introductory notes and a list of the letters, compiled by D. Tecwyn Lloyd.

A volume, 1863, entitled Letters from Llangollen and based on a series of nineteen letters describing a tour in North Wales and which were published in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph in September 1863. Cuttings from the paper are interspersed with illustrative prints (mainly of churches, castles and other edifices in Wales and England), a few cuttings from other sources, and additional manuscript notes apparently by the author, John Holland.
There are references to the 'Ladies of Llangollen' (ff. 19-22), Dinas Brân (ff. 23-25 verso) and other local features of Llangollen. Pasted onto f. 38 is an envelope, postmarked at Sheffield, 12 September 1863, and addressed to John Holland at Upper Bangor, together with a photograph presumably originally enclosed in the envelope and which probably depicts Holland's correspondent.

Nineteen letters, 1879-1884, from Josiah Pitman and eight holograph letters from Mabel Woodford, 1895-1896, to Edward Hall at Covent Garden.

Some thirty letters, 1902-3, from Gwynydd Sisson (d. 1909), wife of the Reverend Lewis Pryce (1873-1930), Wrecsam. Addressed to her mother Cornelia Elizabeth Sisson, Plas Gwilym, Wrecsam, they contain news of her stay in India.

Photcopies of letters from Lord Howard de Walden to his son John Osmael Scott-Ellis from Gallipoli, 1915, and from France, 1917.

Letters, 1847-1873 and n.d., from Henry Griffiths of Brecon, Liverpool and Bowden, mainly relating to education in Wales and to the proposed Normal School at Brecon. One letter, 1854, contains adjudications in both Welsh and English by Griffiths on essays submitted for competition at an eisteddfod (see also a letter, 1854, relating to the adjudications), while another, 1862, to William Roberts, tutor at Brecon Independent College, relates to Griffiths's application for the Theological Chair at Carmarthen Presbyterian College.
Also included is a letter, 1889, from Samuel Job of Illinois; a letter, 1906, from Hugh Williams ('Hywel Cernyw') at Pontypridd; and a letter, 1928, from Caleb Lewis at Blaina, Monmouthshire. The last two letters relate to the Welsh periodicals of the time.

Holograph and autograph letters, 1954-63, to the donor from Gwenfron Moss, London Mission, at Martandam and at Parassala, Travancore, India.

Five letters, 1844-1854, from Griffith Davies (1788-1855), F.R.S. to his daughter, Sarah Dew, and a transcript of his Memoir by his nephew, Thomas Barlow; notes of a sermon on Zechariah vi, 13 by John Elias (1774-1841) and of a sermon on Ephesians i, 22-3 by John Williams, Brynsiencyn (1854-1921).

Letters, 1824, from George Rice Rice-Trevor, 4th Lord Dynevor to his future wife, Frances Fitzroy.

Three letters, two dated 1979 and the third, 1987, from George Ewart Evans to David Michael. In the second letter he thanks the recipient for sending him [Evan Jones's] book Cymdogaeth Soar-y-mynydd (Swansea, c. 1979). In the third letter he describes a meeting with George M. Ll. Davies at a holiday camp which he had established for the unemployed in an old brewery in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Seven holograph letters and one Christmas card, 1896-1899 and undated, from Fred[erick] W[illiam] P[earce] Jago [Cornish scholar] from Plymouth, to (as per address or by inference) H[enry] T[obit] Evans at Lampeter and Carmarthen. The letters relate largely to a mutual interest in the Cornish language. Specific points referred to include the address of a Truro bookseller who could provide recipient with books on Cornish, the writer's friendship with [the Reverend John] Bannister, variant forms of the writer's name, the death of the Cornish language owing to the pressure of English, the lack of a printed literature, etc., the survival of Cornish dialect in West Cornwall, the writer's published glossary of the Cornish dialect [The Ancient Language and the Dialect of Cornwall with an enlarged Glossary . . . (Truro, 1882)] and his English - Cornish Dictionary . . [(London, 1887)], unpublished manuscript copies of second editions of these two works which the author had offered to sell to the Royal Institute of Cornwall, the possibility that Professor [John] Rhys [of Oxford University] would assist with publication, the state of the Welsh language and the danger to it from English pressure on the eastern border and 'Forster's law of education', the need for 'at least bilingual teaching in the Welsh schools and the employment of native teachers', the lack of information relating to the use of Cornish in church services, the last sermon preached in Cornish, recipient's visit to Cornwall and newspaper articles by him describing the visit, the Breton and Manx languages, the [South African] war, and recipient's newspaper work.

Nine letters, 1835-1850, to R. H. Grundy, printseller, of Manchester and Liverpool, from the artist David Cox (1783-1859), mostly relating to the latter's work.
The letters contain references to paintings, among them an oil painting of Harlech Castle, submitted for an exhibition at Liverpool (ff. 4-8), and sketches sold to R. H. Grundy (ff. 12, 15-16). A memorial card of David Cox, 1859 (f. 18), and a letter from his son, David Cox, 1870 (f. 19), are also included.