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A list of place names in the ordnance map of Glamorgan, 25 inches to the mile, compiled by George Thomas Clark (1809-1898).

A Latin-English vocabulary and veterinary recipes, etc.

An account book containing particulars of rent paid in respect of Craflwyn in the parish of Beddgelert by Pierce Griffith to Robert Parry, 1748-1759, to Mrs Marylandia Parry, 1760-1768, and to Richard Parry, 1769-1770, and by Martha Pritchard to Richard Parry, 1771-1777, together with details of miscellaneous payments mainly in respect of agricultural produce.

One of three volumes containing notes with an index by Edward Bensley on John Owen's Epigrammata (ed. Renouard, Paris, 1794).

Papers, 1864-[1910], of John Griffiths, relating mainly to his career as an artist and Principal of the Bombay School of Art in India, comprising thirty-eight letters, 1864-1905, mainly from colonial administrators and officials in India and London, including several Governors of Bombay, and from noted artists (items 1-38); together with miscellaneous papers, 1870-[1910] (items 39-47).
The correspondents are Evelyn Baring, Government House, Calcutta, 2 January 1874 (item 1), [Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of] Northbrook, June-October 1876 (items 2-3), [Sir] George Birdwood, India Office, 19 October 1888 (item 4), [Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl] Brassey, [n.d.] (item 5), [Sir] Ja[mes] Clark, Bagshot Park, 1864-1865 (items 6-8), John Collier, 11-15 June 1905 (items 9-10, with a draft reply by Griffiths on item 9), Arthur Ellis, [Equerry to the Prince of Wales], January-March 1876 (items 11-13), [Sir] B. H. Ellis, Calcutta, 1874, and India Office, 1885 (items 14-15), [Sir] James Fergusson, Governor of Bombay, 8-12 October 1882 (items 16-17), H. B[artle] E. Frere, 1870-1972 (items 18-19), William Gill, 15 July [?1880] (item 20), [Sir] A[rthur] E[dward] Hardinge, Commander in Chief, Bombay [Army], 2 March [1881x1886] (item 21), [G. R. C. Harris, Baron] Harris, [Governor of Bombay], 16 April 1893 (item 22), [George James Howard, Earl of] Carlisle, 20 September 1892 (item 23), [Donald James Mackay, Baron] Reay, [Governor of Bombay], 6 April 1890 (item 24), F. G. J. [Mackay, Baroness] Reay, 16 October 1890 (item 25), Daniel Maclise, 1 September 1865 (item 26), [Sir] M[axwell] Melvill, 24 March [?] (item 27), George [Porter], Archbishop of Bombay, 21 August 1889 (item 28), Samaldas Parmanand[d]as, [Divan of Bhavnagar], 24 October 1883 (item 29), Val Prinsep, 21 April 1882 (item 30), [Sir] J[ohn] Scott, [?1890s] (items 31-32), Takhtsinhji, [Maharaja of Bhavnagar], 3 March 1893 (item 33), [Sir] R. Temple, [?Governor of Bombay], Matheran, [1877x1880] (item 34), T. H. Thornton, Delhi, 2 January 1877 (item 35), G. F. Watts, 23 July 1865 (item 36), W[illiam] Wordsworth, 24 December 1890 (item 37), and J. Young, Freemasons' Hall, Byculla, 30 October 1888 (item 38). Other papers include an account of a tiger shoot, 16-18 May 1883 (item 39); a table plan for a Farewell Dinner to [G. R. C. Harris, Baron] Harris, 14 February 1895 (item 42); an illustrated brochure concerning the 'Sir J. J.' School of Art, [1910] (item 43); and six newspaper cuttings, 1894-1898, concerning Sir Charles Hutton Gregory and his wife Mrs Fanny Stirling (item 47).

Some fifty-six letters, 1945-1961, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Marjorie Tilden encouraging her to persevere with her writing; together with two letters from Littleton Powys to Miss Tilden, and about sixteen from Lord Dunsany and Lady ? Dunsany discussing and praising her work.
There are also copies of extracts from some of the letters presumably in the poet's own hand and two volumes of her poetry Songs and Sonnets (1942), and Star Crossed (1947 and 1966) for which J. C. Powys contributed the foreword.

Eight letters, 1957-1961, from John Cowper Powys, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to Miss Marjorie L. Gay, Edinburgh, together with two letters, 1960, 1964, from Phyllis Playter, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to Miss Gay.

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

Register of members of the Llandyssul Benefit Society, compiled [?1875]-[1895] (watermark 1869), listing members from the establishment of the Society in 1853 to 1895 (ff. 1 verso-30).

Papers of Winchester Welsh Society collated by Gareth Davies as the final Treasurer. = Papurau Cylch Cymry Caerwynt wedi'u crynhoi gan Gareth Davies fel y Trysorydd olaf.

Notebook, 1905-1907, of T. Gwynn Jones, mostly written in pencil, used by him during his stay in Egypt during the Winter of 1905-6 as a diary and for composing English poetry.
The volume contains diary entries for his voyage to Egypt, 21 October-5 November 1905 (ff. 22 verso, 23-28 rectos only), the beginning of his stay there, in Alexandria, Cairo and Helouan, 6 November-23 December 1905 (ff. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34-37), and the return voyage, 28 April-13 May 1906 (ff. 21 verso-22). Also included are some eighteen poems in English, dated 4 December 1905-6 April 1906, mostly drafts, some crossed through or heavily revised, the majority being love poems to his wife (ff. 2 verso-5, 6, 7-17, 18-19, 20, 21). Some are published: 'The Ferry' (f. 7 recto-verso) in David Jenkins, Thomas Gwynn Jones: Cofiant (Denbigh, 1973), p. 169, 'I saw thee' (ff. 8 verso-9) in ibid., p. 109, and 'A Memory' (f. 10 verso) in the Western Mail, 30 September 1920, p. 4; while 'The Rising Sun' [published as 'Come my love'] (f. 11) and 'I will come to thee' (f. 13 verso) were set to music by Robert Bryan (both scores published 1921). Three further verses, October 1905 and February 1907, are in Welsh (ff. 23 verso-24, 37 verso). Eight pages are written in shorthand (ff. 17 verso, 24 verso-31 verso, versos only), these remain undeciphered by the cataloguer. Jones's travel book Y Mor Canoldir a'r Aifft (Caernarfon, 1912), which relates incidents recorded in the diary, such as the Coptic wedding (ff. 34-35 verso), is based mostly on his letters to his wife rather than on the present manuscript.

Dyddlyfrau, Chwefror 1857-Gorffennaf 1858 (NLW MS 24055B, tt. 1-272) ac Awst 1858-Gorffennaf 1860 (NLW MS 24056B), y cenhadwr Methodist dinesig David Williams, yn cofnodi ei ymweliadau â Chymry yn Llundain ar ran y Genhadaeth Gymreig yn Llundain. Arwyddir y dyddlyfrau yn rheolaidd gan arolygydd Williams, y Parch. Owen Thomas, Jewin Crescent. = Journals, February 1857-July 1858 (NLW MS 24055B, pp. 1-272) and August 1858-July 1860 (NLW MS 24056B), of the Methodist city missionary David Williams, recording his visits to Welsh people in London on behalf of y Genhadaeth Gymreig yn Llundain (the Welsh Mission in London). The journals are periodically signed by Williams's superintendent, the Rev. Owen Thomas, Jewin Crescent.
Wedi'u cynnwys gyda'r cyfrolau mae ffotograff o David Williams, [?1880au], a ffotograff modern o ddarlun wedi'i fframio ohono, y ddau yn perthyn i gyfnod ei weinidogaeth yng Nhapel Peniel, Tremadog (1865-1891). Cyhoeddwyd pedwar llythyr ar ddeg oddi wrth David Williams, ynglŷn â’r genhadaeth yn Llundain, yn Y Drysorfa, cyfres newydd, 11-14 (1857-1860). = Also included are a photograph of David Williams, [?1880s], and a modern photograph of a framed portrait of him, both relating to his time as minister of Peniel Chapel, Tremadog (1865-1891). Fourteen letters from David Williams, concerning the London mission, were published in Y Drysorfa, n.s., 11-14 (1857-1860).

Bound report by H. F. H. Dolling, engineer to the Welsh Hospital Board, November 1970, relating to the adaptation of St Mary’s Hospital, Penarth, as a smallpox unit, including his drawings. It was the last smallpox hospital to be built in the UK before its eradication in 1977. Also included is a memorandum prepared from memory in 2009 by Professor Gareth Crompton, Chief Medical Officer for Wales, 1978-1989, and then Professor of Public Health at the University of Wales College of Medicine, which deals with the smallpox outbreak in Church Village and Bridgend in 1962.

A collection of six letters, [1936]-1950, from Dylan Thomas, comprising one letter to Caitlin Thomas, [6 September 1945], mainly concerning money, work and their living arrangements (f. 3), and three letters to his parents, D.J. and Florence Thomas, sent from Oxford, 12 January 1947 (ff. 4-9), from Florence, Italy (but giving as his address that of the family's next destination on Elba), 19 July 1947 (ff. 10-12), and from New York, 26 February 1950 (f. 13); together with typescript copies, possibly by Thomas, of two letters from him, dated 9 March 1936 and 13 July 1938, to Wyn Henderson (the presumed original letters are in the University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library) (ff. 1-2).
All the letters appear in Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters: New Edition, ed. by Paul Ferris (London, 2000).

Journal of a tour of North Wales and the North of England, 11 July-8 August 1848, by the sisters E[lizabeth] and Jane Weston of Brixworth, Northamptonshire, and their nephew R[obert] Henry Hewitt of Dodford, Northamptonshire (ff. 1-22 verso). The volume is mostly in the hand of Elizabeth, except for a single entry by Henry (ff. 16 verso-17 verso) and possibly Jane (ff. 4 verso-5).
The Welsh itinerary included Conwy (ff. 1-2), Caernarfon (ff. 4-8), [Llan] Ffestiniog (ff. 9-12 verso), Llanberis (ff. 13-14 verso) and Caernarfon (ff. 14 verso-15). The group's excursions included visits to Anglesey (f. 2 verso), Llanddwyn Island (ff. 5-6), a Nantlle slate quarry (ff. 6 verso-7 verso), and Blaenau Ffestiniog (ff. 11-12) as well as to the various castles (ff. 1 verso-2, 2 verso, 5, 14 verso), waterfalls (ff. 9-10, 12) and other sights. In Llanberis they visited the grave of the Rev. Henry Wellington Starr of Northampton, who died on Snowdon in 1846 (f. 14). They subsequently went by ship to Liverpool (ff. 15-16 verso), and by train to Scarborough (ff. 16 verso-21), finally returning, via York (ff. 21-22), home to Northamptonshire. Items loose within the volume have been tipped in; these comprise a transcript, by Elizabeth Weston, of the inscription on the gravestone of the Rev. Starr (f. 24), a printed obituary relating to Daventry, 1863 (f. 25), and a printed hymn, 1864 (f. 26).

Notes for a guided tour of the commote Uwch Aled, Denbighshire written by Robin Gwyndaf, 2011.

Notebook in Welsh of James Jones (father of Captain Francis Jones, Herald Extrordinary of Wales) including 'Darlith ar Batagonia', written at the beginning of the twentieth century, whilst living in the country for eight years as a young man, together with an English translation by John Roach, grandson of James Jones's brother. = Llyfr nodiadau James Jones (tad yr Uwchgapten Francis Jones, Herald Extraordinary of Walesar daith ), yn Gymraeg, wedi'i ysgrifennu ar ddechrau'r ugeinfed ganrif pan fu'n byw yno am gyfnod o wyth mlynedd, gan gynnwys 'Darlith ar Patagonia', a chopi o gyfieithiad i'r Saesneg ohoni gan John Roach, ŵyr i frawd James Jones.