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An account book of receipts and disbursements by Owen Hughes, overseer of the highways for the parish of Llanwnda, Caernarvonshire, for the year ending 25 March, 1843. The accounts relate to Rhydynogfelan road, Lone Coch, from Tymawr to Bontfayn, Voryd road, from Saron to Mount Pleasant, from ffrood y Caedy to Penyfridd, from 'Weslian' Chapel to Ishoreb, from Voryd to Caedoctor Bridge, from Bontnewydd to Alldloydmawr, from Frood y Caedy to Tynlon, Lone y Clip, etc.

Highway rate assessment book of Mawr Lower Hamlet, parish of Llangyfelach. English. Between boards. Donated by J. R. E. Jenkins, Cardiff, May 1969.

Family papers and estate records of the Evans and Davies-Evans families of Highmead, Cardiganshire. -- The estate records includes rentals and inventories of the estates of Highmead, 1800-1890, Penylan in the parish of Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, 1817-1850, Dolgadfan and Trefeglwys in Montgomeryshire, 1850-1859, and Pantglas in Carmarthenshire, 1879-1897, and of the estate of James Evan Bayly in the parish of Llanwenog, Cardigan, 1822-1840; account books of the Highmead estate, 1757-1899; records of various estates and farms in Carmarthenshire, and Breconshire; and deeds of estates in Breconshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Glamorgan, Pembrokeshire and Radnorshire, 1549-c. 1880. -- The family and personal papers include the diaries of Anne Evans, John Jones of Blaenos, the Rev. D. H. T. G. Williams, Herbert Davies-Evans, and his son H. Davies-Evans, 1790-1891; pedigrees of, and biographical notes on, the Davies-Evans family and the Llwynhelig family and other genealogical records, family and business letters, late 18th-20th centuries; legal precedents, agricultural memoranda, press cuttings, school exercise books, drawings and sketches, a large body of letters received by Major Herbert Davies-Evans, and miscellaneous papers relating to his service in the militia and in the South African War, 1891-1903 and a group of letters addressed to Anne Evans, 1786-1802. -- Other papers include election papers for Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire, 1802-1841; returns and orders of the Carmarthenshire Yeoman Cavalry, 1804-1809; accounts of overseers of the poor and vestry minutes for Llanwenog, 1805-1817; court leet records of the manors of Mabedrid and Mabelview, Carmarthen, 1811-1836; Carmarthenshire turnpike records, 1822-1830; and the log books of four ships, kept by H. D. Evans, 1856-1858.

Jerome's De viris illustribus in the semi-humanistic hand of Milo de Carraria, who was active as a scribe in Italy, Cologne, Bruges and London from 1437 to 1447 (see Duke Humfrey and English humanism in the Fifteenth century: Catalogue of an Exhibition held in the Bodleian Library Oxford (Oxford, 1970), p. 13).

Two letters of Mrs Hester Lynch Piozzi (formerly Thrale), one to William Parsons, 1786, and the other to Robert Dalgliesh, 1815.

Two letters, 1799, from Hester Lynch Piozzi to Joseph Cooper Walker, Irish historian and writer.

A letter, 1799, from Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) to [John Wynne] Griffiths [sic], Garn, near Denbigh, and two stanzas endorsed Mrs Piozzi's Brynbella's Marr. with Mr. Thrayle by Dr. [Samuel] Johnson [1709-1784].

Papers of Thomas Owen ('Hesgin'), 1904-1956, comprising letters received, and copies of letters written by him to various newspapers and individuals, 1940-1956; literary compositions, including essays and short stories, submitted by him for competition at various eisteddfodau, including the National Eisteddfod of Wales; two volumes of autobiographical essays and reminiscences; nine volumes of press cuttings, mainly of articles by 'Hesgin' which appeared in newspapers and other publications, 1904-1956; scrapbooks and notebooks; and a minute book and other material relating to the Swansea district committee formed in connection with the National Petition for the Legal Recognition of the Welsh Language in Wales, 1938-1939.

Herodoti Historiaia: Cum Vita Homeri. Tom. II, with MS notes by T. F. Roberts. Latin, Greek, English. (Formerly Printed Books DC8053.) Blue cloth.

Herodoti Historiaia: Cum Vita Homeri. Tom. I, with MS notes by T. F. Roberts. Latin, Greek, English. (Formerly Printed Books DC8052.) Blue cloth.

An elderly lady wearing a shawl and hat standing outside her whitewashed and thatched cottage.

Llyfr cofnodion, 1931-1969, yn ymwneud â chyfarfodydd Arolygwyr Addysg Cymru a gynhaliwyd ym Mhîl a Chynffig a mannau eraill i gystadlu am her-gwpan golff.

One of two manuscripts containing notes and abstracts of wills, Chancery proceedings and other documents relating to Herefordshire families, collected by George Sherwood, together with a few original documents.

One of two manuscripts containing notes and abstracts of wills, Chancery proceedings and other documents relating to Herefordshire families, collected by George Sherwood, together with a few original documents.

A manuscript, [1826x1845], entitled 'The Morris, and all other Officers attending upon it', relating to the meeting of veteran Morris dancers at Hereford races in 1609, an event reputedly arranged by John Hoskins. The manuscript is a transcript of part of a larger work which was published as a tract, Old Meg of Herefordshire for a Mayd Marian and Hereford Towne for a Morris Daunce ... (London, 1609). Also included are two letters, 1845, from William Cooke, vicar of Banbury, to an unnamed descendant of John Hoskins at Harewood, Herefordshire, concerning 'a celebrated Morris Dance exhibited before his Sovereign by yr [sic] memorable and learned Ancestor - Mr Sergeant Hoskyns'.

Welsh Black Cattle Society Private Herd book, 1913-1920, of Owen Griffith, Tan-y-llyn, Chwilog, and afterwards of Derlwyn, Pwllheli, co. Caernarfon. Related papers, 1921, found loose inside have been tipped in at the beginning of MS 22850. With NLW MS 22850A.

Welsh Black Cattle Society Private Herd book, 1913-1920, of Owen Griffith, Tan-y-llyn, Chwilog, and afterwards of Derlwyn, Pwllheli, co. Caernarfon. Related papers, 1921, found loose inside have been tipped in at the beginning of MS 22850. With NLW MS 22851A.

Letters, 2001-2010, from Herbert Williams, writer, freelance journalist and radio producer, to the donor, mainly discussing his literary work.