Pattrwm Dewisol Rannau o Ganiadau y Parchedig Rees Prichard, Gynt Ficcar Llanymddyfri; Ar ddull Gairlyfr Cymraeg, a Saesnaeg, Hynod o hawdd a gwasnaethgar I ddysgu plant ieuaingc, a'u hegwyddori yn y ddwy iaith yn y Grefydd Gristnogol. Gan Edward Barnes, Athraw Ysgol... A Specimen of Select Pieces of the Poems of the Rev. Rees Prichard ... The whole will be contained in 10 Numbers ... By Edward Barnes, School Master ... (Chester, 1795), with manuscript corrections (there is no record of the parts having been issued from Chester, but a sixteen-paged pamphlet bearing the same title was issued by Thomas Williams, Dolgelley, circa 1802); and a fragment of a broadside, issued by John Ross, Carmarthen, 1764, entitled An Invitation to Bethlehem..., being a translation by J. Morgan of Rees Prichard's poem 'Awn i Fethlem'.
The last of three volumes of minute-books, 1904-1946, of the Merthyr Tudful branch of the Operative Bricklayers' Society, later incorporated with the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers.
Llungopïau o bapurau yn ymwneud ag ymchwil y rhoddwr i deulu a ymfudodd i Awstralia tua canol y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Mae'r deunydd yn cynnwys copi teipysgrif o lythyr wedi ei gyfieithu, 1856, a sgrifennwyd yn wreiddiol yn Gymraeg gan Sarah Jones, Aberaman, at ei phlant yn Awstralia, copïau o gerddi a sgrifennwyd gan 'Magpie', 11 Mai 1863, ac o gerddi wedi eu cyfieithu i Saesneg gan Richard Rees, Sydney, 1985, ac erthygl gan Cynthia Rees, Rhosllannerchrugog, yn olrhain hanes teulu a gyrfa Edward Edwards a aned yn Nhrelogan, Sir Fflint, yn dwyn y teitl 'From Trelogan to New South Wales', 2003.
A copy of a thesis 'The Reflexes of Indo-European *p in Celtic' presented by Dr Mícheál Ó Flaithearta for the degree of Ph.D. (Galway, 2002), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.
The fourth of six volumes of pocket diaries of the Reverend Thomas Roberts ('Scorpion', 1816-87) for 1845, 1869, 1881-1883 and 1885-1886 (using the printed Almanac a Dyddiadur (Llanrwst) for 1845, Y Dyddiadur or Dyddiadur Yr Annibynwyr for the other years). Brief daily entries in English, except for 1869 which was used only for accounts in 1869-71 and as a diary for January 1886. The 1845 diary records a year as a student at Brecon College; it includes reference to the execution of Thomas Thomas 'murderer of the butter merchant' on 10 April. The other volumes reflect life as a busy Independent minister in Llanrwst who was also post-master; there are references to building a new chapel ('New Tabernacl') in 1881-2, to frequent floods, to skating on the Conwy in the hard winter of 1881, to denominational and literary friends, notably Dr William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog') and W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'). The diaries also include accounts, with some details of the sale of Scorpion's publications, and sermon notes in Welsh. On the flyleaf of MS 22358 is a priced list of books including 'MSS Copy of Brut y Brenhinoedd' valued at £10.5s.
The second of six volumes of pocket diaries of the Reverend Thomas Roberts ('Scorpion', 1816-87) for 1845, 1869, 1881-1883 and 1885-1886 (using the printed Almanac a Dyddiadur (Llanrwst) for 1845, Y Dyddiadur or Dyddiadur Yr Annibynwyr for the other years). Brief daily entries in English, except for 1869 which was used only for accounts in 1869-71 and as a diary for January 1886. The 1845 diary records a year as a student at Brecon College; it includes reference to the execution of Thomas Thomas 'murderer of the butter merchant' on 10 April. The other volumes reflect life as a busy Independent minister in Llanrwst who was also post-master; there are references to building a new chapel ('New Tabernacl') in 1881-2, to frequent floods, to skating on the Conwy in the hard winter of 1881, to denominational and literary friends, notably Dr William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog') and W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'). The diaries also include accounts, with some details of the sale of Scorpion's publications, and sermon notes in Welsh. On the flyleaf of MS 22358 is a priced list of books including 'MSS Copy of Brut y Brenhinoedd' valued at £10.5s.
A treatise by W. D. Davies entitled 'The Sufficiency of the Doctrine of Christ as defined in the Exposition of Faith in the Council of Chalcedon' which won the Ellerton Essay Prize at Oxford, 1923.
A typescript dissertation, in two volumes, submitted in 1965 for the degree of M.A. (Manchester) by Donald R. Buttress, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, on 'An Architectural History of Llandaff Cathedral, with special reference to the rebuildings of the 18th and 19th centuries'.
A typescript register of Welsh missionaries compiled, late 1940s, by Nellie Dean of the London Missionary Society and subsequently given to the Reverend Dr W. T. Owen, containing biographical details of over a hundred missionaries.
Four scrapbooks, 1937-1952, compiled by the musician and composer Dr Richard Maldwyn Price (1890-1952), Welshpool, comprising pasted-in press cuttings and programmes mainly relating to performances of music composed and conducted by him.
Additional Dyfed Family History Society publications on microfiche comprising indexes to the 1841 census returns for the Pembrokeshire enumeration districts of St Davids, Fishguard, Haverfordwest, Milford, Narberth, Newport and Pembroke
A file of papers, 1979-1980, accumulated by John Jenkins relating to the claims of Llandovery College and Llandovery Town Rugby Football Club to be founder members of the Welsh Rugby Union at an inaugural meeting held at the Castle Hotel, Neath, 12 March 1881; including letters to and from John Jenkins, the Welsh Rugby Union and the historian Dr Gareth Williams; evidence provided by John Jenkins in support of Llandovery College; press cuttings and press releases.
Miscellaneous papers, 1940s-1997, of the artist John Elwyn (John Elwyn Davies, 1916-1997), consisting mainly of exhibition catalogues, printed material relating to other artists' work, including pamphlets and ephemera produced by the Old Stile Press, papers relating to artists' societies, minor correspondence and personal papers.
Additional bound copies of typescript transcripts and indexes of census returns and parish registers compiled by the late E. Alwyn Benjamin, Penarth, including census returns, 1841-81, for North Cardiganshire Rural Districts and for Aberystwyth and district, 1841-81.
Twenty six letters, 1922-1937, from D. J. Williams, Fishguard, to Flora Forster. They relate mainly to their personal relationship, but also contain references to his imprisonment, 1937 (ff. 48-9), George M. Ll. Davies (ff. 29 verso-30, 41), the 1922 parliamentary election (ff. 1-3), Saunders Lewis (f. 14 verso), and Welsh nationalism (ff. 45-8).
Sgriptiau dramâu a luniwyd gan Gwilym Meredydd Jones (1920-1992), gan gynnwys y gomedi 'Dipyn o lanast' y dyfarnwyd yr ail wobr iddi yn Eisteddfod Pontrhydfendigaid 1988; a dramâu a anfonodd i Eisteddfodau Powys, 1991-1992.
Copi o Rhestr Testynau Cylchwyl Lenyddol a Cherddorol a gynhaliwyd o dan nawdd Ysgol Sabothol South Poultney, Unol Daleithiau'r America, 1905; ynghyd â llythyr, 1905, oddi wrth Now Pritchard, at JWJ [?John W. Jones, 'Ioan Eryri'] yn ei hysbysu iddo ennill y wobr gyntaf yn y gystadleuaeth ateb cwestiynau ysgrythurol yn yr eisteddfod honno ac y cynhelir eisteddfod arall yn Poultney ym mis Mai; ynghyd â beirniadaeth, heb ddyddiad, ar gystadleuaeth traethodau ar 'Cyssylltiad yr Eglwys ag addysg elfenol y wlad yn ystod y ganrif diwedaf' a 'Cymhwysderau athrawon ac athrawesau yr Ysgol Sul'
An autograph Latin poem (8 lines) by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Castleisland, written on the end-paper (p. 818) of his copy of Antonio de Herrara, Tercera parte de la historia general del mvndo ... (Madrid: por Alonso Martin de Balboa, 1612). The poem begins 'Discurrens dubiae placidus, compendia vitae' and is signed 'E. H: 12. Sept. 1612'. Published posthumously with the title 'For a Dyal' and with some textual differences in Occasional verse of Edward Lord Herbert, baron of Cherbery and Castle-Island, deceased in August, 1648 (London, 1665).
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron, 1583-1648
