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Papers, 1840-1853, 1931, mainly of Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire interest, together with material relating to Robeston Hall, Pembrokeshire.

Manuscript material, [c. 1937]-1907, collected by Selwyn Jones, comprising letters to Lewis Jones Roberts; tune-books containing hymns and anthems; and a notebook of William Ellis Gloag.

Papers, 1885-1955, from the collection of Roderic Bowen, comprising letters from his father Evan Bowen, and also correspondence and papers relating to the Cardiganshire Liberal Association and the Churchill Presentation Fund.

Personal and family papers of Sir W. Goscombe John, 1822-1953, comprising letters and cards, 1889-1953; other personal papers, 1870-1952; and genealogical notes and memoranda, partly in his hand, 1822-1952, with additional notes accumulatd by a later family historian, [1970x1990].

Papers of Charles Davies, including scrapbooks, 1880s, personal and family papers, 1880s-1950s, academic notes, [c.1918]-1953], correspondence, 1918-1953, personal journals, [?1920s]-1940s, literary papers, [c.1920]-1953, printed material, [1920s]-[1940s], testimonials, 1920-1947, financial papers, 1924-1953, and papers of Dr Constance Bullock-Davies, including school and college notes, [1910s]-[1920s], manuscript drafts of short stories, poems and essays, [1920s]-[1930s], testimonials, 1921-1936, correspondence, 1925-1967, and household accounts, 1931-1934.

Papers of William Humphrey Watkins, 1912-1968, comprising 'English literature of travel from 1350-1750' (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Wales), 1919; album containing cuttings, photographs and illustrations, mainly relating to natural history in Radnorshire, [1912]-1914; copies of W. J. H. Watkins and H. S. L. Watkins, 'How to Look at Geographical Pictures', First Series, 6th edn (1966) and Second Series, 4th-6th edn (1964-1967), with related photographs, notes, correspondence and other papers, [1960s]; notes on education in Llanfihangel Rhydithion, Radnorshire, 1848-1920, by William Watkins, [1930s]; and correspondence, 1958-1963.

Papers of D. Caradog Jones, [c.1940]-1978, comprising records relating to the Labour Party and Welsh rural areas, 1951-1959; general correspondence, 1951-1978; and papers and press cuttings, [1940x1959], concerning D. Caradog Jones and Montgomeryshire politics, 1940s-1950s.

Papers of Horace Morgan, 1899-1974, including notes on the history of Ystradgynlais and a typescript copy of his thesis 'The history of religion in the parish of Ystradgynlais: a study in proletarian culture'; typescript of an article 'The passing of the old canal at Ystradgynlais'; typescript copies of stage plays written by him, 1940s; and lists of baptisms, new members and burials at Beulah chapel, 1899-1928.

Papers of Frank H. Cleaver, 1924-1985, mainly accounts, including personal, family and household expenses, 1924-1985; expenses for his work in Argentina, 1929-1931; and summaries of accounts, 1949-1968.

Forty-one deeds and documents, 1758-1921, relating to the estates of the Priestley family of Hirdrefaig and the Panton family of Garreg-lwyd and Plas-gwyn, co. Anglesey, in the parishes of Beaumaris, Llanrhuddlad and Pentraeth, co. Anglesey, Beddgelert and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, co. Caernarfon, Llanfrothen, co. Merioneth, Finchley, co. Middlesex, and in the parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, city of London, including a probate copy of the will of William Barton Panton of Garreg-lwyd, 1875.

Accounts of the grocer William Evans, 1913-1945; together with some receipts, 1898-1923, a tithe bill, 1898 and tenancy documents for properties in Llanfihangel Penbedw, Llanfair Nant-gwyn, Castellan Chapel and Penrith (Penrhydd), [Pembrokeshire].

Court rolls (town courts, piepowder courts, courts of the fairs, and great tourn courts), 1361-1402, of the borough of Caernarfon. The rolls were transcribed and translated (with an an introduction) by Gwilym Peredur Jones and Hugh Owen, in Caernarvon Court Rolls 1361-1402 (Caernarvonshire Historical Society Record Series No. 1; Caernarfon, 1951).

Papers, 1935-1945, of the Rev. B. George Rees, Curate of Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), Rector of Llansannor (1944-48), and a WEA lecturer on literature at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre and elsewhere. The papers include letters, 1939-1940, from a number of authors and poets, responding to requests by Rees for their thoughts on lecture subjects such as 'Life and Literature'.
The respondents include W. H. Auden, [1939] (ff. 2-3), Winston Churchill, 17 January 1939 (f. 8), C. Day Lewis, [?1939]-1940 (ff. 10-12), Aldous Huxley, 27 March 1940 (f. 16), Glyn Jones, April 1939-February 1940 (ff. 19-27), Herbert E. Palmer, February-March 1940 (ff. 35-44), John Cowper Powys, February-March 1940 (ff. 45-47), J. B. Priestley, 10 January 1939 (f. 48), Dylan Thomas, September 1939-February 1940 (ff. 56-60), and Emlyn Williams, 8 February 1940 (f. 63); a few respondents, such as Glyn Jones (f. 25) and Dylan Thomas (ff. 59-60), supplied Rees with brief essays. Also included are notes, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to Rees's lectures (ff. 66-91); and papers, 1935-1945, relating to his Church career, including letters and telegrams concerning his Institution at Llansannor, August-September 1944 (ff. 92-100), sermon notes (ff. 102-109), and parish magazines and pages from annual reports relating to Laleston, 1935-1944 (ff. 110-120).

The collection consists mainly of correspondence regarding the death of R. Silyn Roberts and the sale of his books, the Workers Educational Association, Bethel Chapel in Tanygrisiau, Merionethshire, the death of the brother of Mary Silyn Roberts in Australia and other matters. Also, there are letters written by Mary Silyn Roberts and R. Silyn Roberts to Professor F. Rönning, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1904-1922. -- There are lectures and general notebooks which belonged to Mary Silyn Roberts when studying at the University College of Aberystwyth, pre 1905; reports and letters regarding the Women's Land Army in Wales, 1914-1918; a photograph of the grave of R. Silyn Roberts and a ticket of a meeting at Mynydd y Cilgwyn Chapel, 1846.

One of two albums of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century (see also NLW MS 11982D), containing press cuttings, printed matter, and some manuscript material compiled probably by a member of the family of Ffoulkes of Eriviatt, Henllan, Denbighshire.
The press cuttings include obituaries of Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley, canon of Hereford Cathedral, 1889, Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes, vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1894, and Canon Howell Evans, vicar of Rhyl, 1892; accounts of the Ober-ammergau Passion Play, 1870, 1880, 1890; and articles on The Welsh Land Commission, [1894], Welsh Disestablishment, 1893, 'Discovery of Celtic Antiquities in Derbyshire', 1901, and 'New Church Chancel at Buckley', 1901. Among the printed items are hymns to be sung at the funeral of Henry Wynne Ffoulkes, Odd Rode, 1904, a memoir of Charles Butler Clough, M.A., dean and chancellor of St. Asaph, 1860, order of service at the opening of a new organ at Whittington, [1884], the charge of cruelty to a horse against Miss Frances Power Cobbe and her coachman David Evans heard at Barmouth Petty Sessions, 1902, verses to Peirce Wynne Yorke in honour of his attaining his majority, 1847, and a Form of Intercession with Almighty God on behalf of Her Majesty's Naval and Military Forces now in South Africa (marked with the rubber stamp of St. Thomas’s Church, Rhyl), 1900. The manuscript material includes verses entitled 'Mary's Ghost. A pathetic Ballad', 'Miss Elizabeth Fortescue in Italy' by T. V., 1834, and 'To some Young Ladies going to spend the Spring & Summer at Putney Heath', and a copy of the memorial inscription of Emma, fourth daughter of Capt. Beauchamp Proctor, R.N., and Anne, his wife, who died at Paris in the sixth year of her age, 1827. The volume is indexed (pp. iii-xxvi).

A Latin manuscript written on parchment in the second half of the thirteenth century and containing (a) ff. 1 recto-10 verso, the prose narrative generally known as Daretis Phrygii de Excidio Troiae Historia, and (b) ff. 11 recto-64 recto, a text of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae in eleven books, followed, f. 64 recto-verso, by a brief list of names (place-names, river-names, etc., beginning with 'Armorica') and their derivations. According to the colophon on f. 64 verso the scribe was William of Wodecherche, former lay brother of Robertsbridge [Abbey, Sussex] ('hanc hystoriam brittonum scripsit frater Willelmus de Wodecherche laicus quondam conuersus pontis Roberti cuius anima requiescat in pace. Amen'); there is an almost identical colophon in MS Bodl. 132. The manuscript has the red crayon pagination associated with Archbishop Matthew Parker, the numbering in this case being 1-127, and in Parker's time, and perhaps from the beginning, it appears to have been bound with Phillipps MS 26641 (William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum) and Phillipps MS 26642 (Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hibernica, etc., and Edmund Campion, 'Two bookes of the histories of Ireland, purchased at Sotheby's by 3rd Earl Iveagh, and now Farmleigh Library, Dublin, Benjamin Iveagh Library, IV E 6). The text of the Historia Regum Britanniae is of the 'Variant Version' published by Jacob Hammer in 1951 (see 'Publications about Described Materials note). It should be added that the text includes the reading 'Que multa exercens ueneficia . . . haberet' (f. 36 verso), cf. Hywel D. Emanuel, 'Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie: a second variant version', in Medium Aevum, XXXV, pp. 103-10). The manuscript begins, f. 1 recto, 'Epistula cornelii ad Crispum salustium in troianorum hystoria. que in Greco a darete hystonographo facta est. Cornelius Gaio Crispo salutem' . . 'Explicit epistula. Narratio Daretis Trolani Excidii'; f. 10 verso, 'Explicit Troie Excidium. Incipit hystoria brittonum tracta ab antiquis libris brittonvm', with Geoffrey of Monmouth's prologue added in the margins in a sixteenth century hand ('Historla Galfridi Monumetensis. Cum mecum multa . . . interno gratulatur affectu'); f. 11 recto, the Geoffrey of Monmouth text, beginning 'Britannia insularum optima. . .', with running title 'hystoria brittonum' and a note, probably by Matthew Parker, 'hic liber multum variat a communi galfrido quamuis in multis concordant'; f. 64 recto, 'Explicit hystoria brittonum correcta et abbreuiata', followed by another note probably by Parker, 'et cum vulgari galfrido: non concordat' (a note in the margin of f. 63 verso, 'in hoc libro augustinus non habetur', is also probably by him). The divisions into books are marked and there is a lacuna in Book XI between ff. 62 verso and 63 recto (apparently by the loss of the two middle bifolia of the quire) although the pagination is continuous. On f. 64 verso William of Malmesbury's dedicatory letter to the earl of Gloucester has been inserted in a sixteenth century hand (cf. f. 10 verso).

(I) Printed ephemera, 1975-1995, in Breton and French, comprising leaflets, posters and miscellaneous papers relating to various political campaigns and cultural activity in Brittany, including language rights, especially in education, the campaign for a Breton television channel, and the arrest in 1995 of Breton activists for sheltering Basque refugees. (Ii) Photocopies of proceedings at political meetings and printed ephemera, 1925-96, in Breton and French, relating to educational, religious, cultural and political activities in Brittany, including an appeal for support for the plight of Basque refugees, 1993-6. (Iii) Printed ephemera, 1994-6, in French and Breton, relating to current issues, including nuclear disarmament, Basque refugees, and the insufficient use of the Breton language on French television; together with newspaper cuttings concerning the twinning of Caerphilly and Fishguard with Breton towns. (Iv) Additional ephemera, 1988-96 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural and political activities in Brittany. (V) Additional printed ephemera, 1993-7 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural, political and religious activities in Brittany; together with a photocopy of an article, 1897, by F[rancois] Vallée (secretary of the committee for the preservation of the Breton language) on the Breton movement in Wales. (Vi) Additional printed ephemera, 1995-7 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural, educational, political and religious activities in Brittany. (Vii) Additional printed ephemera, 1997 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural, educational, political and religious activities in Brittany. (Viii) Additional printed ephemera, 1997 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural, political and religious activities in Brittany; together with press cuttings relating to the result of the Devolution Referendum in Wales, September 1997. (Ix) Additional printed ephemera in Breton and French, 1981-98, relating to cultural, educational, political and religious activities in Brittany, including election addresses, March 1998. (X) Additional ephemera (June and July donations) in French and Breton, 1998 and undated, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany; in particular to the twenty-first film festival in Douarnenez, July 1998, featuring Welsh films. (Xi) Further printed ephemera, in Breton and French, comprising six posters, 1998 and undated, relating to political activities in Brittany, including three representing Union Démocratique Bretonne. (Xii) Further printed ephemera, 1995-8 and undated, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, political and educational activities in Brittany. (Xiii) Further printed ephemera, 1991-8, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany. (Xiv) Further printed ephemera, 1983-99, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including the words of the Breton national anthem 'Bro goz ma zadoù' by François Jaffrennou ('Taldir', 1879-1956), and the text of a song by 'Glenmor' (Milig ar Skanv, 1931-96) with a French translation. (Xv) Further printed ephemera, 1987-99, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including an appeal for financial support to establish a Diwan school in Vannes in September 1999; and a timetable for a Breton radio station 'Arvorig FM', North Finistere. (Xvi) Further printed ephemera, mainly 1988-99, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including the thirteenth National Festival of the Breton language at Spézet, May 1999, and the twenty-second film festival at Douarnenez, July 1999; together with a leaflet advertising activity holidays for children in a Breton summer camp organised by the An Oaled association in Treglonou. (Xvii) Further printed ephemera, mainly 1999, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including papers relating to Ni Hon-Unan formed in 1998, notably photocopies of press cuttings, 1998-9, assembled by the movement, newsletters, February-April 1999, and a leaflet published for the European Elections, 13 June 1999; together with a programme of the Lorient Interceltic Festival, August 1999. (Xviii) Further printed ephemera, 1995-9, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including Keltia Musique, a catalogue of Breton and Celtic music, 1999, and Adsa, no. 2, July-August 1999, a newspaper featuring cultural issues in Brittany; together with a booklet published in 1998 concerning protected plants in Les Monts d'Arree, Finistère. (Xix) Further printed ephemera in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including two printed poems 'Euskadiz' and Diwar meneziou ma bro' by Yann-Fanch Kemener, 1986; photocopies of articles published in Le Peuple Breton, 1972-3, concerning the imprisonment of Welsh language campaigners; press cuttings relating to the Rugby World Cup held in Wales in 1999; together with a disk containing a study by Christian Le Bras, April 1994-May 1996, produced with financial support from the Institut Culturel de Bretagne, entitled 'Languages celtiques at television: dynamique et developpements Bretagne: bout du tunnel ou morte lente.'. (Xx) Further printed ephemera, mainly 1999-2000, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational, environmental and political activities in Brittany, including a pamphlet, with a bibliography, published to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the writer Youenn Drezen (1899-1972); a pamphlet, Le Voyage du Sant Efflam, giving an account of the construction of the coracle and its voyages around the Celtic countries, 1997-8; together with copies of the cultural newspaper Adsa, nos. 3-6, September/October 1999-May/June 2000. (Xxi) Further printed ephemera, mainly 2000, in French and Breton, accumulated by the late Hervé Person (Tud Diwar Ar Maez), relating to cultural, educational, environmental and political activities in Brittany, including a paper 'Les perspectives de l'agriculture en Bretagne', from a special session held 25 Jan. 2000 by the Economic and Social Council of Brittany; a leaflet advertising the twenty-third film festival at Douarnenez, Aug. 2000; together with copies of the cultural newspaper Adsa, July, August and Oct./Nov. 2000; and a compact disc, 2000, in honour of Glenmor (Milig ar Skanv, 1931-1996), containing recordings of his poems, performed by various artists, which has been transferred to the Sound and Moving Image Collection (CD 1188).

Thirty-two holograph letters largely to Peter Williams and/or his wife [Elizabeth] Williams, Brenig View, Tregaron, from D. Davies, Ton, Ystrad, etc., 1901-1913 (biographies of the writer's grandfather, 'Sasiwn' [C.M. Association meetings] at Llangeitho), L. Rhystyd Davies, Brynamman, 1924 (the health of the recipient [Peter Williams], personal), Evan Evans, Laura Place, Aberystwyth, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), James D. Evans, Y Tabernacl, Aberystwyth, 1934 (thanks for a parcel), J. Ceredig Evans, Welsh Mission, Shillong, Assam, etc., 1907-1929 (the schooling of the writer's son at New Quay, news from the mission field, the death of Peter Williams, etc.), Morgan [James], Maesycwmmer, [19]37 (personal, reference to Thomas Jones's Rhymney Memories), Joseph Jenkins, Llandovery, [19]26 (the death of Peter Williams), D. and E. Jones, Patagonia, 1911 (personal), David Jones, Glanyrafonisaf [Tregaron], 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), Evan Jones, Pont l'Abbé, Finistère, 1906-1910 (the success of the writer's mission, subscriptions towards a new meeting-house at Lescouil), W. Jenkyn Jones, Quimper, 1923 (personal), John G[wynfil] Jones, Columbus, Ohio, to his brother and sister, 1889 (personal), M. H. Jones, Penllwyn, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), Stephen Jones, Bridgend, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), 'Winnie' [Winifred Jones, Neuaddlas, Tregaron], S. S. City of Venice, at Colombo, 1928 (personal, the writer's voyage to the mission field at Lushai in India), Abraham Morris, Llantarnam, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), [Sarah Jane Rees] ('Cranogwen'), Llangranog, [19]09 (meetings of ['Undeb Dirwestol Merched y De']), John Rowland, Cardiff, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), Annie Williams, Milwaukee, Wis., 1891 (personal, thanks for pictures, news of the writer's family), Peter D. Williams, Blaendyffry[n], Sparta, Monroe Co., Wis., 1889-1892 (personal, news of family and friends, accounts of religious services, the writer's farm), [Henry Jones Williams] ('Plenydd'), Chwilog, [19]23 (personal, the writer's health, etc.) (on the dorse of a circular advertising leaflets compiled by the writer on behalf of the temperance movement), and Robert [Williams], The Vicarage, Llandilo, 1914-1926 (the writer's appointment to the archdeaconry of Carmarthen, the death of Peter Williams).

Material from manuscript and printed sources compiled largely by William Fowler Carter, Maidsmere, near Bromsgrove, towards a study of the early genealogy of the family of Kenrick of Nantclwyd, Cerniogau, etc., and of the associated family of Wynn. Accompanying the material are letters largely to W. F. Carter from G. J. Murray Atkins, Diocesan Registry, Lichfield, 1935, J. C. Ballantyne, University of Glasgow, 1913 (autograph), J. Harvey Bloom, Upper Tooting, [1922]-3, W. Ll. Davies, National Library of Wales, 1935 (autograph), Crayford Edwards, barrister, Burbage, near Hinckley, 1918, C. T. Flower, Public Record Office, 1935 (autograph), A. Ranken Ford, Gray’s Inn, London, 1917 (autograph), Thomas Allen Glenn, Meliden, etc., 1911-22 (one autograph), Frederick Wm. Hackwood, Balham, 1917 (to Sir Geo. Kenrick), Strachan Holme, Bridgewater [Collieries & Ellesmere Estates] Office, Walkden, Manchester, 1915 (autograph), Cyril C. C. Kenrick, Westgate-on-Sea [1922], [Sir] Geo. H. Kenrick, Edgbaston, 1908- 35 (with copy replies), Bernard Kettle, Guildhall Library, London, 1915, J. B. Marsland, Wyberton Rectory, Boston, 1923, H. H. Meakin, Longnor Vicarage, Shrewsbury, 1918 (to [ ] Blackett), D. C. Lloyd Owen, Four Oaks, 1915 and undated, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1911, William Rees, University College . . ., Cardiff, 1935, Mary Sampson Smith, Llangollen Fechan, 1911, A. H. Stanton, Hambleden Rectory, Henley on Thames [1922], W. B. Stewart, Birkenhead, 1912 (to Sir George Kenrick), Ethel Stokes, London, 1935, Annie Wynn, Llanfihangel, near Borth, 1911, and Edward W. Wynne, Aberystwyth, 1917. There are also typescript copies of letters to the Kenrick family from R. Obbard, Redhill, 1901, Greene Kendrick, Waterbury, Conn., U.S.A., 1901-02, and Henry Rigg, Bayswater, London, 1901 and undated.

A manuscript copy, [1820s]-[1830s] (watermark 1814), of tours of North Wales undertaken in the Autumn of 1817 (pp. 1-30) and October 1819 (pp. 31-90) by Captain Henry Hanmer and his wife Sarah, including descriptions of visits to Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the Ladies of Llangollen (pp. 10-11, 14-19, 45).
The itinerary includes Llangollen, Wrexham, Beddgelert, Caernarfon, Bangor, Llanberis, Holyhead, Conway and St Asaph, and includes descriptions of Dolbadarn Castle (pp. 55-58), the Penrhyn slate quarries (pp. 65-66) and Parys and Mona copper mines (pp. 69-73). A number of related poems and tales are interspersed throughout the text (pp. 4-101), including verses by Anne Grant (p. 19), Anna Seward (pp. 22-29), Sir Walter Scott (pp. 31-33), W. Sotheby (pp. 37-45), W. R. Spencer (pp. 48-53), Dr [William] Dodd (pp. 61-62), and Amelia Alderson Opie (pp. 88-89). They are followed by further transcripts in the same hand (pp. 107-120), including verses by Thomas Noel (pp. 112-118) and Sir Walter Scott (pp. 119-120), and, in a different hand (pp. 121-139), verses by Byron (pp. 121, 125), R. B. Sheridan (p. 121) and Robert Southey (p. 123). The volume contains numerous cuttings from engravings, either pasted or tipped in (pp. 1-103 passim); several of these are by Henry Gastineau and are taken from Wales Illustrated: In a Series of Views... (London, 1830), as is the printed description of Llangollen on pp. 101-102. Inserted at the end (pp. 187-198) is a pamphlet by S. G. Perceval, The Ladies of Llangollen: New and interesting facts ([?1909]), transcribing extracts from the present manuscript. A press cutting, [1829], concerning the Ladies of Llangollen is pasted inside the front cover. Pressed flowers are pasted in on pp. 57, 64-65, and the remains of a leaf has been placed in an archival envelope.