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Letter from Sir L. A. Selby-Bigge of the Board of Education to Principal E. H. Griffiths, referring to the proposed release of H. T. Flint and Frank Dixey from military service. Confirms he has written unofficially to the War Office, but doubts an official request to the Army Council would be successful 'unless the circumstances were quite extraordinary.
Selby-Bigge, L. A. (Lewis Amherst), Sir, 1860-1951.
Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas. In envelope postmarked Codford St Mary, Wiltshire, 17 Jan 1917.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Letter from Principal E. H. Griffiths to Sir L. A. Selby-Bigge of the Board of Education, asking if the Board could submit to lord Derby a request to release Mr H. T. Flint, Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator in Physics, and Mr Frank Dixey, Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator in Geology, from military service, in order that the work of their Departments be carried on efficiently. Encloses letters of support for both individuals.
Griffiths, E. H. (Ernest Howard), 1851-1932
Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas. In envelope postmarked Wanstrow, Somerset, 16 Nov 1916.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Letter from Principal E. H. Griffiths to Miss Dorothy Davies, asking to meet to discuss a letter from the Board of Education, requiring immediate action. Letter not in archive.
Griffiths, E. H. (Ernest Howard), 1851-1932
Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas. Formerly in envelope postmarked 16 Jan 1917, Codford, Wiltshire.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent, dated 'Sunday'. Formerly in envelope dated 14 Jan 1917, Lydd.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Letter from J. F. Roberts, Vice-Chancellor of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth to Principal E. H. Griffiths, forwarding a letter from Alfred T. Davies, Board of Education, dated 12 Mar 1917, intended for Griffiths, as present holder of the office of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales.
Roberts, J. F.
Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas. In envelope postmarked Lydd/Loughton, Kent, 12/13 Dec 1916.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Letter from Alfred T. Davies, Board of Education to J. F. Roberts, Vice-Chancellor of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. [Roberts subsequently forwarded the letter to Principal E. H. Griffiths, as present holder of the office of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales]. The letter quotes from a statement which confirms a willingness to accept prisoners' records of study as part of a course of study or examination - the addressee is asked to confirm if their University will subscribe to this statement.
Davies, Alfred T.
Letter of support for the proposal to release Frank Dixey from military service, from Prof. T. Franklin Sibly. Notes that 'the efficiency of the teaching will be materially reduced unless Mr Dixey is enabled to return.'
Sibly, T. Franklin (Thomas Franklin), 1883-1948
Letter of support for the proposal to release H. T. Flint from military service, from Prof. A. L. Selby. Mentions that the Ministry of Munitions may require the Physics Department to examine optical instruments, but that given current staffing, this may be impossible.
Selby, A.L.
Letter from Principal E. H. Griffiths to Miss M. O. Davies, S. R. C. [Students' Representative Council?], requesting a list of students who have received parental permission to volunteer, and confirmation of the length of time the students will volunteer for, in respect of those who had not already provided this information.
Griffiths, E. H. (Ernest Howard), 1851-1932
Letter from Elizabeth Benson, Secretary of the Women's National Land Service Corps, to Principal E. H. Griffiths, confirming that names of volunteers are not required, only numbers, in order to establish how large an area will be planted for the coming year. Suggests staff volunteers could be accomodated separately, and be reassured that they would not find themselves working under the direction of one of the students.
Benson, Elizabeth.
Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent. Formerly in envelope postmarked 2 Jan 1917.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
Letter relating to the Rebecca riots,
A letter by Godorfig, i.e. Edward Davies, Dolcaradog, Machynlleth, written for publication in the Welsh Gazette (see issue for January 24th 1901) in the course of a newspaper controversy relating to the Rebecca riots, 1842-1844.
Davies, Edward, 1820-1908.
Letter regarding response to the Jacobite uprising
Letter from the King's Council, September 1715, to John Morgan, 'Lord Lieutenant of South Wales' [recte Monmouthshire], concerning the Jacobite rising and in particular the preparation of the militia and the arrest of papists. Signatures listed as follows: Nottingham, Sunderland, Bolton, Marlborough, Devonshire, Sommers, and Orford.
Nottingham, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1647-1730
Letter re portrait of Lewis Morris and copying of same,
Photocopy of a letter from B.O. Jones, Aelfryn House, Trefor, Caernarfonshire, to Mr. [R.H.] Edwards, Bodafon Isaf, Penrhosllugwy, Anglesey, 8 July 1908. According to this letter, many skilful artists, including a Polish refugee called Mr. Lyons and Mr. Wm. Griffith later of Portmadoc, were employed by 'the over-shrewd the late Mr. H. Hymphreys of Carnarvon' circa 1875 in copying original portraits of great Welshmen. The writer refers to an original portrait of Lewis Morris copied by the said Mr. Lyons and notes that the two artists, Mr. Lyons and Mr. Wm. Griffith, were amongst those who exhumed the skull of Lewis Morris.
A holograph letter, 2 December, 1683, written by Tho. Wynne from Philadelphia in 'pensivanla' to his honoured friend Peirs Pennant, Esqre., at Buchtan, near Mostyn, North Wales. Thomas Wynne, author of The Antiquity of the Quakers, Proved out of the Scriptures of Truth ... ([London] 1677) and An Anti-Christian Conspiracy Detected and Satan's Champion Defeated ... ([London] 1679), emigrated to America in 1682, having with John ap John purchased of William Penn 5,000 acres of land to be laid in the Welsh Tract, and he subsequently became Associate Justice of Sussex County and representative of that county in the Legislative Assembly at Philadelphia. The writer refers in a postscript to a 'braue tracke' of land in his possession called Pennant Gwyn ('on a fine descending hill and a fine spring and[e]r it'), but the letter relates otherwise to the writer's Welsh associations and in particular to the security of his Welsh estate (references to the recipient's mother and brother John, to John Salsbury of Bachegrig [Back-y-graig] and his family, to Rich. Blackburn and his family, and to the recipient's mother[-in-law] at Gwysany, the treachery of Roger Hughes and the writer's daughter, a report by daughter Betty Rowdin [Rowden] that the recipient had refused to allow the writer's goods to be removed from the recipient's house at Caerwis, the writer's treatment by Abell Kershaw and his wife, the latter's seizure of the writer's estate at Bronvadog and their refusal to give the writer's two 'litle ones' any food and clothing for the voyage and their stealing of Betty Rowdin's flannel out of John Brigdale's house).
Wynne, Thomas, 1627-1692