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A typescript précis of the text of NLW MS 24191B, a journal of an 1816 tour of New York State and the Niagara Peninsula, Upper Canada (ff. 1-7 verso), together with endnotes (ff. 7 verso-8). The typescript contains annotations, corrections and underlinings throughout. The folio numbers and quotes given are not always entirely accurate.

A collection of research papers, mostly of the period 1970-80, accumulated by musicologist Joan Rimmer, largely relating to Nansi Richards (Telynores Maldwyn), with some relating to John Parry (John Parry Ddall) and Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin). The papers include letters, offprints, and manuscript music scores, including one copied in 1895 by W. Ll. Roberts of Penyceunant.

Script of a lecture given by Ted Harrison, at the National Library of Wales in December 2022 entitled 'The boy from Barry who became a Fleet Street legend', on the cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth. Also included are photocopies of the slides used in the lecture.

Secretary's copy of the Welsh Mountain Sheep Breeders' Flock Book, vol. 7 (1912-13), inscribed 'Official copy' on the front cover, including manuscript amendments and minutes of the 19th General Meeting held at Porthmadog in August 1913, signed by the President of the Welsh Mountain Sheep Flock Book Society, C. Bryner Jones, 22 July 1914. The blank pages at the end of the volume contain handwritten minutes of a Special Meeting at the Royal Show Ground Shrewsbury, 1 July 1914, following the resignation of R. N. Jones as Secretary and arrangements for the appointment of his successor at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, Newport, on the 22nd July.

Casgliad bychan o bapurau Gwladys Megan Tibbott, Aberystwyth, aelod gweithgar o Gymdeithas Alawon Gwerin Cymru, gan gynnwys llyfrau nodiadau a mân gyhoeddiadau perthnasol. Cynhwysa'r casgliad ddrafftiau o ddarlith ar Miss Jennie Williams (Mrs Ruggles-Gates), fel casglwr alawon gwerin, darlith a draddodwyd gerbron Cymdeithas Alawon Gwerin Cymru. Hefyd yn cynnwys nifer o raglenni o gyngherddau cerddorol dros y blynyddoedd.

Typescript legal memoir by the donor's father, His Honour Trevor Morgan (1892-1976), barrister on the Welsh Circuit, regional traffic commissioner for Wales (1941-48), and county court judge of West Wales (1948-68), written after he retired in c. 1970.

Manuscript story, [1896x1908], entitled 'Gibbet or Cross?', by Allen Raine; together with a copy of Carmarthenshire Life (Autumn 2008), including an article 'Allen Raine, a voice from the past' by Carol Byrne Jones.

A copy of the donor's memoir, titled 'An unconventional childhood', describing time spent in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills (Meghalaya, India) from 1945-1960, as the daughter of Welsh Presbyterian Church missionaries.

Seven letters and Air Letters, [?January 1946], 22 September 1947-10 May 1948, from John Cowper Powys, Corwen, Merionethshire, to actor, theatre director and writer Reginald Pole, in New York City, Denver, Colorado, and West Hollywood, mostly concerning Pole's unpublished novel, 'To An Unknown God', and Powys's attempts to facilitate its publication in Britain or America (ff. 1-6, 9-12).
The letters contain advice on literary agents and publishers (ff. 2 verso, 9-10 verso), a detailed discussion of the novel (ff. 3-6 verso), a self-portrait cartoon (f. 9 verso), references to Romain Rolland's 'Jean Christophe' novels, to which Pole's novel is compared (ff. 10-11), and the text of an open letter, or 'blurb', to publishers concerning the novel (f. 12 recto-verso). Also included are two envelopes, one incomplete (postmarked 21 November and 1 December 1947), for which the letters are absent (ff. 7-8); a typescript copy, with emendations, of the open letter (ff. 13-14) and an alternative typescript introduction to the novel (f. 15). The letters are variously signed 'Jack', 'Jack the Ripper', 'John C.P. ', 'Jack not the Ripper' and 'JCP'; the letter dated 18 October 1947 (ff. 3-6) is unsigned and may be incomplete. The first letter (f. 1) has an envelope in the hand of Marian Powys, having presumably been forwarded by her.

Harry Secombe scrapbook containing original photos, cards, magazine articles, and letters between Harry and a fan, Elsie Baldwin.

A volume principally containing pasted-in cuttings of one hundred and ten English hymns, apparently removed from a copy of Hymns: Selected for the Use of Sunday Schools (Bridgend: printed by William Leyshon, [1854]) (title page pasted in on f. 1), nearly all interspersed with manuscript hymn tunes in staff notation in black ink (ff. 1 verso-107 verso), followed by cuttings of a series of chants (ff. 108-114 verso) and index of first lines (ff. 115-116) taken from the same book.
The remainder of the volume contains thirteen further hymns and hymn tunes entirely in manuscript (ff. 116 verso-128) and further cuttings of printed hymns from various sources (ff. 128 verso-138 verso, versos only). Based on the name on the front cover and the book's place of publication the compiler of the volume may be John Price of Bridgend, pharmacist and teacher at Bridgend's English Wesleyan Sunday School (see Rev. Thomas Osborn, Memorials of Mr. John Price of Bridgend (London and Bridgend, 1862)). None of the cuttings appear to have text on the pasted-down sides and may therefore derive from galley proofs or other pre-publication versions of the book; no complete copy of the book has been seen by the cataloguer.

Copy of the score Battle of the Trees/Der Kampf der Bäume, based on the work of Taliesin by the Lithuanian composer Bronius Kutavičius. The piece was originally commissioned by John Metcalf on behalf of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival in 1996, and this copy was gifted to the donor by the composer.

Typescript of 'Billy Boston Story' by Jack Winstanley, a biography of Billy Boston, the Welshman who went on to become a Rugby League legend for Wigan and Great Britain. He also became the first Black player to represent Great Britain on a Lions tour in 1954, and earned a knighthood in 2025.

Three letters, April-May 1806, from Richard Llwyd (The Bard of Snowdon), Beaumaris, to Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 2nd baronet, of Nannau, concerning Vaughan's pedigree which Llwyd was then compiling, together with drafts of the pedigree and other related notes (ff. 1-13).
The papers comprise: (i) a letter, [?mid-April 1806], discussing Vaughan's descent from the Williams family of Ystum Colwyn and enclosing a draft of the pedigree (ff. 1-4); (ii) a letter, dated 22 April 1806, enquiring as to the whereabouts of a letter sent by Llwyd a week earlier (whose contents match ff. 1-4) (f. 5); (iii) a letter, dated 14 May 1806, enclosing a revised draft of the pedigree and a list of outstanding issues to be addressed (ff. 6-8); (iv) an undated document detailing Vaughan’s descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn (ff. 9-12); and (v) a description of six inscribed Elizebethan stone tablets at Nannau (f. 13). Also included is (vi) one letter, 27 November 1818, from Llwyd, Chester, to Vaughan's brother Colonel G[riffith] H[owel] Vaughan of Rûg, Corwen, containing a transcript of a document detailing revenue from ancient escheat (or King's Rent) in Edeirnion in 1509-1510 (ff. 14-15).

Two volumes, [2015], comprising ‘A millennium of Clement ancestry’ by Dillwyn Clement bearing the Clement coat of arms with the motto ‘I's gorau ein gorau’. The first file contains the ancestry of the Clement family especially in Wales and the second file is an appendix to the study.

Manuscript journal of a tour of south and west Wales, as well as parts of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, 4 June-2 October 1805 (ff. 3-32 verso passim), also including several contemporary illustrations and later pasted-in engravings.
The writer is unknown but appears to be female and was travelling in the company of her 'Papa' and several other presumed relatives. Beginning in Gloucester (ff. 3-4), the journal then recounts a journey down the River Wye from Ross-on-Wye to Chepstow (ff. 7-8, 10-11 verso) and an extended stay at Swansea, 16 June-30 July (ff. 13-14, 16-17, 19, 21-22), before proceeding to Pembrokeshire (ff. 22 verso-23, 26-28 verso), Aberystwyth (ff. 29-31 verso) and Dolgellau (ff. 32 recto-verso), where the narrative ends abruptly, mid-sentence. The volume includes descriptions of Gloucester Cathedral (ff. 3-4), Margam Park (ff. 12-13), the Brownslade estate, [Castlemartin] (ff. 26-27 verso), St Govan's Head (ff. 26 verso-27 verso), the lower River Teifi (ff. 28-29), Devil's Bridge (ff. 29 verso-31) and the house at Hafod, Cardiganshire (f. 31 recto-verso). The illustrations are of pen and wash in a naïve style and comprise eight full page drawings (ff. 2, 6, 9, 15, 18, 20, 24, 25) and three text illustrations (ff. 8, 14, 17) all depicting views along the route. Conversely the fifteen engravings, [1831]-[1845], pasted into the volume depict various views in England, Wales and India and are, with a single exception, unrelated to the text (inside front cover, ff. 1 verso, 2 verso, 33-44 (rectos only)).

An uncorrected, bound, proof copy, [?April 1937] of David Jones, In Parenthesis: Seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu (London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1937).
The proof is effectively identical to the three sets used to produce the corrected proofs now NLW, David Jones (Artist and Writer) Papers LP4/4-6, dated 7-17 April 1937; parts of the subsequent revise (ibid, LP4/8-9) were passed for press. In Parenthesis was published in June 1937, corresponding to the date inscribed on the front cover.

A dissertation by Elsie M. Price, entitled 'The Welsh Woollen Industry', submitted in 1969 as part of a course at C F Mott Teacher's Training College (Liverpool) during the 1960s. The work is typed and bound, and includes photographs together with samples of wool and weave for blankets and clothing.

Notes by T. Ivor Davies and T. Charles Jones, from contemporary sources including the Coroner's Court records, a public meeting at Beaumaris and service at Bangor Cathedral, relating to the sinking of the 'Rothsay Castle' steam packet on 17th August 1831, on its journey from Liverpool to Beaumaris, during which over a hundred and forty lives were lost.