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Letter book, 1846-1850, of H[er] M[ajesty's] S[team] S[loop] 'Geyser' containing copies of letters, Nov. 1846-May 1850 (ff. 1 verso-131), and memoranda, June-Dec. 1847 (ff. 179-180), sent by her commander, F[rancis] T[homas] Brown, mainly to his superiors.
The 'Geyser' was employed in famine relief in Western Ireland, Jan.-Apr. 1847 (ff. 6-34), and at the port of Setubal and elsewhere in Portugal during the Patuleia Revolt, June-July 1847 (ff. 43-52). She was subsequently stationed in the Cape Colony (South Africa) and Mauritius, Nov. 1847-May 1850 (ff. 63-131), and was sent on diplomatic missions, meeting with local chiefs and rulers in Madagascar and the Comoros Islands (ff. 81-102). The letters range from brief memoranda to lengthy reports and letters of proceedings; they include references to routine ship business and disciplinary matters, intelligence reports and accounts of diplomacy and treaty negotiations. Two additional copy letters have been pasted into the volume (ff. 119a, 122a).

Letter book of Hendre-Ddu Slate Quarry Ltd, Porthmadog. See also NLW MS 19654E. English. 1/2 leather. Purchased from J. E. Young, Criccieth, January 1967.

Letter book of George Burrell. See also NLW MSS 20899D, 20901D. English. Vellum. Purchased from Sotheby & Co., London, July 1972.

Letter book of Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). English. Marbled paper. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

Papers of Leslie Wynne Evans, [1846x1985], including correspondence, 1931-1974, many of which relating to his research work; research papers and source materials, [1846x1985], including papers of Sir John Herbert Lewis, 1916-1923 and Sir Alfred T. Davies [1904x1949], correspondence of O. M. Edwards, 1907-1911, and xerox copies of Board of Education records, 1880-[c. 1920]; drafts and fragments of articles, chapters etc, [1930x1985]; miscellaneous papers including papers relating to University College, Cardiff, 1962-1977, notes, articles, maps and photographs, [1937]-[1977].

A copy of Lesley W. Hanlon's thesis, [2000], relating to manuscript NLW MS 5025B (Bourdillon 25), namely La temple de Bocace by Georges Chastellain (c. 1459-1463), including a transcript of the text, published in 1999 as An examination and transcription of George Chastellain Le Temple de Bocace (ca. 1463) ...

A collection of papers, 1997-2004, relating to Lesley McCarthy's campaign to prevent the building of schools on old refuse tips in Conwy and Newport, including correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings with task groups and various bodies, press cuttings and other miscellaneous papers.

A copy of a thesis 'Joseph Cooper Walker (1761-1810): Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards' presented by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile for the degree of Ph.D.(Galway, 2001), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.

A manuscript of the French prose romance of Tristran, Chevalier de la Table Ronde, illuminated on vellum.

A copy of S. Davies, The Reverend Samuel Davies ''The First'', and his Times, relating to Samuel Davies (1788-1854), Wesleyan Methodist minister, Cilcain, Flintshire, re-written by Leonard Twiston Davies in 1932, containing pasted-in photographs, postcards, typescript pedigrees and notes; together with the original Welsh version, Y Parch. Samuel Davies, 1af, a'i Amserau..., published in 1866, bearing the name of Samuel Twiston Davies and set in a protective wooden frame at the end of the volume.

Papers collated by Leonard Owen, CIE, Gerrards Cross, relating to his work as treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1952-1964, and to the Welsh Dictionary of National Biography.

Personal diaries, 1892-1949, which include detailed accounts of his years in retirement at Barmouth, Merionethshire, from 1939 and subsequently at Ty'n y Ceunant, Islaw'r dref, Dolgellau; draft notebooks, 1895-1946, containing records of appointments, activities and descriptions of holiday visits, including many to Wales, detailed accounts of ascents of Cadair Idris, Merionethshire, and other British mountains, including Snowdon, Elidir Fach and Elidir Fawr in Caernarfonshire, and Pumlumon, Cardiganshire; registers of correspondence, 1939-1940, 1943-1944; a register of snapshots [which are not part of the archive], 1906-1940; a volume of statistics of his mountain ascents, holiday travels, and walks, 1892-1951, and family papers (including some relating to L. W. Brown of Bath), 1846-1926.

A photocopy of a thesis by Nelly Blanchard entitled 'Leo Weisgerber und die Bretagne', submitted by her for her maîtrise at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, in June 1998. The thesis, in German, includes copies of original documents from archives in Berlin, Koblenz, Marburg, Freiburg and Bonn