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Marches of the Aberystwyth Boys Brigade Bugle Band. (Formerly Jack Edwards MS 46.) In boards. Donated by Miss Elizabeth Richards, Aberystwyth, 1942.

A wages account book of the Margam estate [co. Glamorgan], recording wages paid to artificers, hauliers, and labourers employed on the demesne and other places on the estate, and to persons employed in the kitchen garden, pleasure grounds, and nursery at Margam, August 1851 - February 1856.

Records, 1927-1963, of the White House charity, Folkestone, Ty Gwyn Charity Convalescent Home, Llwyngwril, and Boverton Girls' Camp and Hafod Rest Home, Llantwit Major, including account books, financial statements, deeds, visitors books, admission and attendance registers, minute books, a medical log book, superintendents' reports, letters, and other associated papers.

Manuscript legal document attestation of the family record of Margaret Evans (born in South Wales in 1849), confirmed to the Court in Columbiana, Ohio, by her guardian Arthur G. Hayden, in order to claim moneys bequeathed to her by her late grandfather James Jones, 1868.

Papers, 1743-1994, of or relating to Margaret Mostyn Jones of Wern House, Mostyn, Flintshire, and to members of her family, and including a journal, 1861-1864, kept by her while employed by Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover; correspondence, 1876-1932, to and from Margaret Mostyn Jones, including letters, 1890-1894, written to members of her family while living in Ohio; an autobiographical essay, 1929-1932, by Margaret Mostyn Jones; together with papers, 1743-1874, mainly of Flintshire interest.

Deeds, wills and documents, 1718-1767, relating to people and properties in the parish of Llanrhidian, Glamorgan.

A copy of Margaret Olwen Tallerman's PhD thesis 'Mutation and the Syntactic Structure of Modern Colloquial Welsh' (University of Hull, 1987).

The Library was kindly allowed to photocopy the diary of the novelist, poet and artist Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans', 1909-1958) for 1947.

A group of correspondence including letters from Margiad Evans (Peggy Eileen Whistler) to her sister Nancy [Nightingale]; a notebook containing a revised manuscript draft of the second (concluding) part of Margiad Evans's unpublished autobiographical essay 'The Immortal Hospital or Some Recollections of Our Childhood' (folios numbered 46-83; see also NLW MS 23369C and NLW, Margiad Evans Papers, September 1982 Donation 22-23); a script ‘December day’ broadcast by the BBC in 1954; and a guest book for Springherne, near Ross on Wye, 1937-9, run by the Whistler sisters with writings by Nancy Nightingale who wrote under the name Sian Evans.

Twelve letters, 1954-1956, from the novelist, poet and artist, Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), mainly to Alan and Dorothy Hancox, containing personal news and references to her writings (ff. 1-16 verso), together with five letters from her husband, Michael Williams, to the same (ff. 17-26 verso).

Twelve letters and one Christmas card, 1938-1943, from the author and illustrator Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), to the donor's father, Thomas Kennedy Butcher (ff. 2-23), together with one letter to Mr Butcher from Arnold Thorpe, 1964 (f. 33).
Also included are photographs of Margiad Evans, 1938-1940 (ff. 25-32), a photocopy of her inscription in Mr Butcher's copy of her novel, The Wooden Doctor (1933) (f. 24), and a typescript copy of her radio script 'December Day', broadcast on 31 December 1956 (ff. 34-50) (see also NLW MS 23373E).

Literary and personal papers, 1854, [c. 1932]-1960, of the novelist, poet and artist Margiad Evans comprising mainly manuscript and typescript drafts of both published and unpublished works and including a draft of her second novel The Wooden Doctor (Oxford, 1933), also manuscript and typescript drafts in preparation for her first published volume of poetry, Poems from Obscurity (London, 1947), manuscript essays, and typescript radio scripts by or based on Margiad Evans's work; together with journals for 1933-1934 and 1935-1939, which include mainly literary and personal notes; and miscellaneous papers.

A radio script and a cutting of an article ('Margiad Evans') from The Listener, 11 November 1971, both by P. J. Kavanagh; and an off-print of 'Margiad Evans and Tendencies in European Literature' by Professor Idris Parry, reprinted from The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1971, part II.

Papers relating to and created by Margiad Evans (Peggy Eileen Whistler), [1930s]-[1958x1965], comprising material for an unpublished critical biography of Margiad Evans, compiled by W. Arnold Thorpe, [1936x1965], including transcripts by Thorpe of poems, prose and letters by Margiad Evans, scripts of radio broadcasts and extracts of reviews of Margiad Evans's published prose works; correspondence relating to information on Margiad Evans; biographical and related material; Whistler family photographs; notes by W. Arnold Thorpe and source material; together with manuscripts and papers of Margiad Evans, including drafts and copies of poems, some unpublished [c. 1945]-[1958]; unpublished and published prose works, [c. 1930s]-[1958]; notebooks and journals, which include drafts of poems and prose pieces, 1942-[1950s]; correspondence, mainly from Margiad Evans to her husband, 1934-1958; reviews of Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness[1943-1952]; drawings including drawings representing eighteen out of the thirty illustrations for Alfred Williams, Tales from the Panchatantra (Oxford, 1930); and family papers, 1939-[1950s].

Additional papers donated October 2021: see added Series.