A wages account book of the Margam estate [co. Glamorgan], recording wages paid to artificers, hauliers, and labourers employed on the demesne and other places on the estate, and to persons employed in the kitchen garden, pleasure grounds, and nursery at Margam, August 1851 - February 1856.
Manuscript legal document attestation of the family record of Margaret Evans (born in South Wales in 1849), confirmed to the Court in Columbiana, Ohio, by her guardian Arthur G. Hayden, in order to claim moneys bequeathed to her by her late grandfather James Jones, 1868.
A group of correspondence including letters from Margiad Evans (Peggy Eileen Whistler) to her sister Nancy [Nightingale]; a notebook containing a revised manuscript draft of the second (concluding) part of Margiad Evans's unpublished autobiographical essay 'The Immortal Hospital or Some Recollections of Our Childhood' (folios numbered 46-83; see also NLW MS 23369C and NLW, Margiad Evans Papers, September 1982 Donation 22-23); a script ‘December day’ broadcast by the BBC in 1954; and a guest book for Springherne, near Ross on Wye, 1937-9, run by the Whistler sisters with writings by Nancy Nightingale who wrote under the name Sian Evans.
Twelve letters, 1954-1956, from the novelist, poet and artist, Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), mainly to Alan and Dorothy Hancox, containing personal news and references to her writings (ff. 1-16 verso), together with five letters from her husband, Michael Williams, to the same (ff. 17-26 verso).
Twelve letters and one Christmas card, 1938-1943, from the author and illustrator Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), to the donor's father, Thomas Kennedy Butcher (ff. 2-23), together with one letter to Mr Butcher from Arnold Thorpe, 1964 (f. 33). Also included are photographs of Margiad Evans, 1938-1940 (ff. 25-32), a photocopy of her inscription in Mr Butcher's copy of her novel, The Wooden Doctor (1933) (f. 24), and a typescript copy of her radio script 'December Day', broadcast on 31 December 1956 (ff. 34-50) (see also NLW MS 23373E).
A radio script and a cutting of an article ('Margiad Evans') from The Listener, 11 November 1971, both by P. J. Kavanagh; and an off-print of 'Margiad Evans and Tendencies in European Literature' by Professor Idris Parry, reprinted from The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1971, part II.
One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.
Jones, Marianne, Pentremawr, Abergele Accounts of tours (1824-1844), NLW MS 3598B
One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.
Jones, Marianne, Pentremawr, Abergele Accounts of tours (1824-1844), NLW MS 3597B
One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.
Jones, Marianne, Pentremawr, Abergele Accounts of tours (1824-1844), NLW MS 3595B
One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.
Jones, Marianne, Pentremawr, Abergele Accounts of tours (1824-1844), NLW MS 3596B
One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.
Jones, Marianne, Pentremawr, Abergele Accounts of tours (1824-1844), NLW MS 3599B
One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.
Jones, Marianne, Pentremawr, Abergele Accounts of tours (1824-1844), NLW MS 3594B
Photocopies of the pedigree of Marilyn Foreman including references to the Wogan family of Wiston, co. Pembroke, and the Vaughan family of Golden Grove, co. Carmarthen, and to Richard Davies (?1501-81), Bishop of St Davids.
Great Exhibition Almanack .... 1851, used by Thomas Owens, mariner, of Bryngwallter, Penbryn, Cardiganshire, to record entries concerning his voyages; extracts from the log of the SS Great Britain on voyages from Melbourne to Liverpool (inverted text ff. 29 verso-31, 54 verso-6); transcripts of carols and other verse, including 'Hanes ail fordaith y Brig Albion i'r America' (ff. 2-16; see also NLW MSS 9383A, 21965A); and miscellaneous notes and accounts.
