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Notebook containing transcripts from 'A Manuscript of Tables ... written 1697', 'Gofrestr Mr Moses Williams oi Holl Lyfrau Cymraeg - p[r]intiedig ... 1717', 'A Catalogue of Welsh Books - 1802' and 'A Catalogue of the Revd. J. Davids's Books - taken August 22nd 1798'. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 62.) English, Welsh. Boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Notebook described as 'Papurau Twrne Llwyd Maentwrog', being a solicitor's letter book, probably that of J. Lloyd. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, November 1959.

Notebook in the hand of Evan Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog containing a translation of extracts relating to Rhiwbach Quarry from a book by G. J. Williams and notes on quarrying and rules and conditions of service at the Rhiwbach Slate Quarry and the railway. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 156.) English. Between boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

A notebook containing 'Family and Personal Miscellanea' in the hand of Charles Bowen (1809-82), rector of St. Mary-on-the-Hill with Upton, Cheshire. It was begun in 1838 and contains pedigrees showing the descent of Charles Bowen from the family of Bowen of Gurrey, Carmarthenshire, and a few personal press-cuttings, 1821-[44] (e.g. a report of a sermon preached by him at the opening of the new church of Llanvihangel-Rhydithon, Radnorshire, 1838).

Notebook of David Evans, carpenter, of Cefngarn, containing two elegies (in Welsh)- one to the Reverend Ebenezer Richard (1781-1837) - and accounts of wages. Welsh, English. Donated by Mrs Peggy Miller, London, September 1980.

Notebook of David Tegid Jones ('Tegid Wyn') containing poetry and antiquarian notes mainly relating to Merionethshire, together with earlier miscellaneous poetry. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 21.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y- gest, 1959-1961.

A notebook kept by Dr. John Pughe ('Ioan ap Hu Feddyg') when he was a student at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, 1836-7.

Notebook of E. Ernest Morgan of Hafod containing extracts from the works of J. D. Davies on the history of West Gower, the Roman Road on Rhosili Down, Caerphilly and Cardiff Castles, Neath and Margam Abbeys, and 'Nooks and Corners of Pembrokeshire'. English. Cloth. Donated by Dr Iorwerth Hughes Jones, Sketty, April 1968.

Notebook of Elizabeth Madgwick, Porthcawl, containing sermons, addresses, prayers and memoranda relating to the Sisterhood at Rhiw, Bridgend, co. Glam. From the library of her grandson, Desmond E. Jenkins, FRSA.

Notebook of Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). Welsh, English. Purple grain. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

Notebook of John Evans, Pontbrendu containing sermon notes. Welsh, English. (Formerly Oakford MS 1.) See also NLW MSS 14036-14060. Donated by Mr S. Jones, Oakford, Llanarth, January 1942.

Notebook, 1759-1797, of John Hartley [of Ynysgyffyllog, Dolgellau, Merioneth], containing accounts, prescriptions for horse medicine, poetry, etc.

Notebook of John Robert Pryse ('Golyddan', 1840-62) containing lecture notes on chemistry, taken while he was a medical student at Edinburgh University.

A note-book bearing on the fly-leaf the inscription 'R. G. Vivian, London, 6 August 1886' [Richard Glynn Vivian, founder of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea]. The contents consist of miscellaneous memoranda, and a record of expenditure in London and on the continent (Bayreuth, Brussells, Frankfurt, Innsbruck, Liege, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris, Vienna, etc.), 1887-1890. Items of expenditure recorded include travelling expenses, hotel bills, daily disbursements, and sums expended on the purchase of china, enamels, miniatures, paintings and prints, and other art objects. The following are a few of the purchases recorded - a pencil miniature of a lady of the family of the 4th duke of Richmond, by John Comerford, date 1827; a sketch, oil on panels, of two women embracing, by Annibal Carracci; miniatures of Mrs. Siddons and Mrs. Berry, in gold lockets with pearl borders, by R[ichard] Cosway ; a picture of 'The Cathedral Church of S. Nicholas, Newcastle on Tyne', by T[homas] M[iles] Richardson, senior; a framed oil painting 'Foxgloves', by John Constable; 'A Study of Clouds in colours', 9 July 1819, by John Constable; miniatures by Sir W[ illia]m John Newton, including those of Lady Adela Ibbetson, Prince Esterhazy, John Opie, R.A., and the Countess of Oxford, etc. The entries recording the purchase of miniatures, etc., are very often illustrated with pen-and-ink, thumbnail sketches of the object purchased. Many of the items whose purchase is recorded in the present note-book, are now in the Glynn Vivian Gallery at Swansea.

Notebook of Robert Owen, Bron Seiont, Pont Rug, containing his notes on Richard Humphreys Morgan, Phonographia sef Llawfer yn trefn Mr Isaac Pitman wedi ei chyfaddasu i'r iaith Gymraeg [Wrexham 1878] and exercises in shorthand.

Notebook of the late Archdeacon Henry John Stewart, former rector of Llangorwen, co. Card., and vicar of Cockett, Swansea, containing accounts relating to the parish and church of Llangorwen, 1906-7, and to St Peter's National school and St Peter's church, Cockett, 1907-9; and personal and household accounts, 1947-53. (NLW ex 738). Scrapbooks of Benjamin Aubrey Williams (1870-1960), Hirwaun, containing press cuttings and other miscellaneous printed material mainly relating to the Penderyn, Hirwaun and Aberdare districts; press cuttings of a series of articles by J.A. Webb, Swansea, on 'The comparative floras of Glamorgan and Caithness'; MS. notes on Glamorgan flora; and family photographs (NLW ex 739-41).