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The first of three volumes containing indexed transcripts by Mrs Mary A. Jones, Johannesburg, of poetry in Welsh by her uncle Richard Williams (Gwydderig, 1842-1917).

Autograph copy, with revision, of the radio play 'Pry Ffenast' by John Gwilym Jones, first broadcast on BBC Welsh radio, 1 March 1961, and later published in Pedair Drama (Dinbych, 1971).

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).

Journal of Mary Anne Eade describing a tour, May-June 1802, from Clapton through North Wales to Ireland, with an explanatory note, 1803, by her husband William Eade (f. ii).

Some thirty letters, 1871-1905, from various correspondents, to Cecil George Savile Foljambe (1846-1907), later Viscount Hawkesbury and Lord Liverpool, concerning the history of Nottinghamshire families and churches, together with related notes, sketches, photographs and press cuttings.

Journal of Susan Eleonora Watkins (1768-1847), widow of the Reverend Thomas Watkins of Penoyre, co. Brecon, describing a tour, 1830, from London through Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy to Zurich (ff. 1-36v), and a visit to the Isle of Wight, 1835 (ff. 37v-43).

A volume of verse, 1776-1814, by various authors, connected with the family and friends of the Rev. Henry Thomas Payne (1759-1832), archdeacon of Carmarthen, including several compositions relating to the marriage of Maria Payne to the Hon. John Hyde and their departure for India (ff. 14 verso-15 verso).
The authors include Sir William Jones (f. 4 verso), Henry Mackenzie (ff. 10-12), Anna Snelling (ff. 14 verso-15 verso), Thomas Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton (ff. 17 verso-18), Robert Jephson (f. 31 verso), Edward Young (f. 32), Peter Pindar (f. 40 verso), Charlotte Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (f. 41), Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irvine (ff. 49 verso-50), Thomas Powys (ff. 56 verso-57 verso), and the Rev. Thomas Payne (ff. 59 verso-60). The verses include riddles and charades (ff. 33, 35 verso, 38 recto-verso) and epitaphs (ff. 46 verso-47, 54).

Original typescript, 1971-1978, with manuscript additions, of 'The English Curiosity Man in North Wales', an historical and topographical account of North Wales by Peter Alford, illustrated with photographs, based on the author's field trips in the area, 1966-1975. Fifteen articles based on the work were published in Country Quest, May 1976-November 1978.

Thirteen letters, 1954-1958, from Henry St John Rumsey (b. 1884), Guy's Hospital, London, to A. Raymond Hawkins, author of Notes on ... Llangenny, Breconshire (1954), relating to the Rumsey families, in particular the Rumseys of Crickhowell (see Theophilus Jones, History of Brecknockshire, IV, 258-65); together with related enclosures including photographs of an armorial pedigree of the Romsey family down to 1682 and of a genealogical table compiled by St John Rumsey corresponding to the pedigree.

A number of miscellaneous documents, 1781-1843, including correspondence of the Maxwell family of North Shields, and papers relating to the Percy Main Colliery, and to the Percy Main Missionary Society.

Deunydd yn ymwneud â mordeithiau aelodau Urdd Gobaith Cymru i wahanol wledydd ar fwrdd y llong Orduña rhwng 1934 a 1939, gan gynnwys rhestr o'r teithwyr, teithlyfrau, traethodau llawysgrif ynglyn â'r mordeithiau, ffotograffau a phapurau amrywiol eraill, gan gynnwys llythyr, 1950, yn gresynu bod yr Ail Ryfel Byd wedi rhoi terfyn ar y mordeithiau.

Letters, 1955-1973, to Charles E. Harvey in connection with his research on the Reverend Francis Kilvert; two copy letters from Charles Harvey to Mrs Essex Hope, niece of the diarist, and Frederick Grice of the Kilvert Society; together with explanatory notes by Charles Harvey on the letters (ff. i-ii) and other related items.

A transcript of Suits or setts of lessons for the Harpsicord or Spinnet (London, 1732) by Richard Jones, with pencil corrections.

Account book, 1925-1943, of D. W. Price of Felindre, Three Cocks, Breconshire, builder, carpenter and undertaker. Miscellaneous accounts and invoices found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (MS 21885iiE).

Thirty-three letters and cards, 1926-1929, 1954-1965, from David Jones, artist and writer, to Douglas Cleverdon. The earlier series (ff. 1-37) concerns David Jones's engravings on copper for the edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner published by Douglas Cleverdon in 1929.

Cant tri deg a saith o ddyddiaduron, 1914-1995, John Alaska Davies (1902-1995), Gorrig, ger Llandysul; ynghyd â'i lyfrau nodiadau; dyddiadur, 1915, ei dad Thomas Davies (m. 1916); ei chwaer Rachel Ann Davies, 1915, gyda chyfraniadau helaeth gan John Alaska Davies; a'i fab Geraint, 1942, a gollodd ei fywyd mewn damwain awyren yn bedair ar bymtheg oed.

A copy of a paper by B. William Murphy, Maryland, USA, entitled 'Creation and Destruction. Notes on Dylan Thomas' used by Colin Edwards (d. 1994), California, when preparing his incomplete and unpublished work on Dylan Thomas.

Photographic prints of a draft letter, 27 December 1872 with an additional note dated 31 January 1873, from Michael D. Jones (1822-98) to an unknown recipient, regarding further emigration to the Welsh Colony in Patagonia.

Research papers, 1974-99 and undated, assembled by the donor John Freer relating to local history in Monmouthshire, including notes on Bailey Street Presbyterian Church, Bryn-mawr; Bethany Baptist Church, Llanvaches; Griffithstown Methodist Church; Hope Presbyterian Church, Pandy; Lion Street Congregational Church, Blaenavon; Llantilio Crossenny Church; Paran Presbyterian Church at Man-moel; Pen-y-waun Congregational Chapel, Llanfihangel Llantarnam; St Illtyd's Parish Church, Mamhilad; St Luke's, Pontnewynydd; Seion Independent Chapel, Rhymney; Seion Independent Chapel, Llanofer; Twyn Gwyn Baptist Church, Ynys-ddu; Underwood Baptist Free Church, Llanmartin; a guide 'Where to find places of worship in Monmouthshire?' and a list of borough, municipal and private cemeteries; together with photocopies of information sheets on the poet 'Islwyn' (Reverend William Thomas, 1832-78) and his association with Capel y Babell, Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Ynys-ddu, produced by the Sirhowy Valley Country Park; a survey, 1974, of the Monmouthshire Canal (Crumlin Branch); and a pamphlet from an exhibition on railways and tramroads in Rogerstone, 1742-1992.

Further printed ephemera, mainly 1999, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including papers relating to Ni Hon-Unan formed in 1998, notably photocopies of press cuttings, 1998-9, assembled by the movement, newsletters, February-April 1999, and a leaflet published for the European Elections, 13 June 1999; together with a programme of the Lorient Interceltic Festival, August 1999.