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Five letters and two postcards, 1943-1944, from Gordon Bottomley to Leslie Harries, Llandysul, discussing the latter's proposed free translation into Welsh of Bottomley's verse drama 'Kirkonnel Lea' (see his Lyric Plays (London, 1932)).
The translation was subsequently published as 'Daldir Circonnel' in Leslie Harries and Jack Hughes, Chwe Drama Fer: Trosiadau (Llandysul, 1944), pp. 47-62.

An incomplete copy of Rhys Jones, Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru ... (Amwythig, 1773), lacking title-page, some preliminaries, and pp. 265-300 of the text. Y Rhagymadrodd (ff. vii-ixv) is a page-proof copy bearing emendations, possibly in Rhys Jones's hand. A mock title-page (f. v) and the missing text (pp. 265-99) have been supplied by Peter Bailey Williams (1763-1836), antiquary, together with additional poems by Guto'r Glyn, Hywel ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Rhys, Syr Lewis Meudwy, Owain Gwynedd, Syr Phylip Emlyn, Roger Kyffin, and William Llŷn (pp. 301-426), annotations to the text, and other items. Items found loose in the volume have been tipped in at the end and include Enwau ac ychydig o hanes rhai Beirdd gorchestol probably in the hand of the Reverend David Ellis (1736-1795), Cricieth (pp. 439-49).

Copi o'r gyfrol Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru... (Amwythig, 1773) wedi'i golygu gan Rhys Jones, yn dwyn enw George Brymer, Highgate, Garndolbenmaen, 1860, ac yn cynnwys marwnad ganddo i'w fab John a fu farw 19 Rhagfyr 1866, yn ddwy ar bymtheng mlwydd oed; ynghyd â thoriad o'r wasg o Cronicl Cymru yn rhoi adroddiad am ei angladd.

Recollections of agriculture in the vale of Edeyrnion, 1857-1870, written in 1928-1929 by Gomer Roberts, then of Bryn Llyfin, Llanfair, Ruthin.

Black & white & col photographs of Gomer Lewis' studio, his (and possibly other artists) artworks.

The original typescript of Dr Enid Roberts's work Gwaith Siôn Tudur I a II (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1980).

A copy of Goliath and David by Robert Graves (London 1916), ‘privately printed for a select circle of friends’, including an incomplete letter from the author to his friend Frank [Francis] Jones-Bateman, 27 March 1917, in reply to his criticism of the poems in Goliath and David. The letter was written from Erinfa, Harlech. Frank Jones-Bateman, a fellow officer of Graves in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was killed during the attack on Engelfontaine on 4th November, 1918, aged 22.

An issue (Cyfrol 1, Awst 1841) of Goleuni Glan Ceri, a hand-written magazine in Welsh edited by Thomas Emlyn Thomas (Taliesin Craig-y-felin, 1822-1846), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster. The magazine was circulated from house to house within the parishes of Penbryn, Troed-yr-aur and Betws Ifan, co. Cardigan (see Yr Ymofynnydd, 1 (1901), 268-9).

An autobiography of Robert Thomas of Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire, written 1863-1864, describing his early life in Llanfechain and other places in Montgomeryshire and Salop, 1836-1852 (ff. 2-9 verso, 11-23 verso), a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne, September-December 1852 (ff. 23 verso-51 verso, 56 recto-verso) and, in some detail, his life in the Australian goldfields between December 1852 and April 1854 (ff. 56 verso-149 verso). The volume also contains an incomplete summary of contents (f. 1 verso) and a log of his return voyage from Melbourne to London, May - August 1862 (ff. 10 recto-verso, 52-5).

(Gynt Borth-y-gest MS 84.) Rhwng byrddau. Prynwyd o lyfrgell Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Copies kept by W. J. Parry, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire of letters which he wrote as secretary of Eisteddfod Cymreigyddion Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, 1863-1867.

Gohebiaeth a nodiadau'n ymwneud â chenhadon Cymreig. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 7.) Mewn byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.

Printed volume including data recording the names of fishermen and the number of fish caught in north Ceredigion lakes (Llyn Conach, New Pool, Llynpenrhaidr and Llyn Dwfn) owned by the Gogerddan estate, 1944-1960.

An offprint of Glynnis M. Cropp, 'The Medieval French Tradition' (with comments on NLW MS 5038D) from Boethius in the Middle Ages. Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the Consolatio Philosophiae, edited by Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen and Lodi Nauta (Brill, 1997).

A printed sale catalogue, August 1932, of Glynllivon Park, Llanwnda, Caernarvonshire, with marginal notes by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, and press cuttings.

A copy of Leonid Morgan's work '''Glynllech'' Families, Abercraf [Price & Powell]', together with a family tree showing the relationship with other families in the parishes of Ystradgynlais and Ystradfellte, co Brecon.

Manuscript and typescript drafts, [1970s]-[1995], by Glyn Jones of his unfinished poem 'Seven Keys to Shaderdom', on which the version published in The Collected Poems of Glyn Jones, ed. by Meic Stephens (Cardiff, 1996), pp. 111-131, was based.
The published poem consists of seven sections with a prose Prologue, represented in the manuscript by multiple drafts (ff. 1-202, 208-224). Section I was previously published as 'Shader's Vision' in Poetry Wales 19.3 (1984), 51-2, the Prologue and Sections I-III appeared as 'Prologue and Three Fragments' in Glyn Jones, Selected Poems, Fragments and Fictions (Ogmore-by-Sea, 1988), pp. 133-144, and Section V was published in Poetry Wales 28.2 (October 1992), 18-19. The manuscript also includes other material including drafts and fragments of other poems, notes, images and completed lines (ff. 203-207, 225-279). Some leaves re-use miscellaneous letters, newsletters, television drama scripts and other papers. A self-portrait sketch in ink by Jones is on f. i verso.

Typescript copies of Glyn Ifans, Canllaw Traethawd (Llandysul, 1974), short guidelines for writing different types of essays, with examples, and of Gwynt yr ynysoedd bach (Llandysul, 1975), a diary of an educational voyage, July 1970, from Swansea, on board the Uganda, to Madeira, the Canary Islands and Tangier; together with an undated letter from Gwasg Gomer.

Copïau teipysgrif o Glyn Ifans, Canllaw Traethawd (Llandysul, 1974) sef cyfarwyddyd byr ar ysgrifennu gwahanol draethodau, ynghyd â phatrymau ohonynt, ac o Gwynt yr ynysoedd bach (Llandysul, 1975), dyddiadur mordaith addysgol, Gorffennaf 1970, o Abertawe, ar long yr Uganda i Madeira, Ynysoedd y Caneri a Tangier; ynghyd ̂a llythyr, heb ddyddiad, oddi wrth Gwasg Gomer.