Manuscript volumes once in the possession of Richard Hall Williams, including a book of hymns in Welsh with the autograph of a Richard Williams and William Williams; a volume containing newspapers cuttings ('Byegones') from the Oswestry Advertizer, 1871-1873, and a ledger, [1869]-[1892], relating to businesses in the Newtown area.
Hymns; letters to the Reverend J. Gwyddno Williams;miscellanea. (Formerly J. Gwyddno Williams MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from the Reverend J. Gwyddno Williams, Llannefydd, 1948.
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.
Hymns, englynion, poetry and notes by G. Penar Griffiths. Welsh, English. (Formerly Penar Griffiths MS 17.) Cloth. Donated by the sons and daughters of the late Reverend G. Penar Griffiths, per Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Swansea, July 1942.
A volume of hymn-tunes, [19 cent., second ½], including works by John Ambrose Lloyd (Emrys Llwyd, 1815-1874), Mold, Richard Mills (Rhydderch Hael, 1809-1844), Llanidloes, and John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt, 1822-1877), Aberystwyth, in the hand of J. Jones, with notes in Welsh and English and an alphabetical index of tunes.
A tune book, [c. 1835], containing unattributed hymn-tunes and anthems. The register of a singing school held at Brynhenllan, north Pembrokeshire, 1835 (ff. 48-50), and notes on the rudiments of music (ff. 1-2), are also included in the volume.
Hymn-tunes and chants in the hand of Arthur C. Edwards, Aberystwyth. (Formerly Arthur C. Edwards MS 4.) English. Between boards. Purchased from R. A. Scott, Esq., Clapham Common, March 1940.
Autograph hymn-tunes, 1947, by J. T. Rees , Bow Street, co. Cardigan. 'Copied' on some indicates the copying of tunes into the two MS volumes which appear to be the composer's definitive collection of his hymn-tunes (NLW Minor Deposits 779-80).
Hymn-tunes, etc. collected by George Harries, who was associated with the Congregational church of Trefgarn Owen, Pembrokeshire, and including La Carmagnole, which is said to have been sung by the French troops who landed at Fishguard in 1797.
Harries, George, Trefgarn Owen Collection of hymn-tunes, etc. (19 cent.), NLW MS 2880A
Hyn ac Arall y Dysteb, a volume relating to NLW MS 20928E. See also NLW MS 20928E. English, Welsh. Cloth. Donated by Mrs Eluned Roberts, Claughton, Birkenhead, April 1972.
An essay entitled 'Henafiaethau Llanarth a'r Cymydogaethau' (the antiquities of the Llanarth district of Cardiganshire) written by 'Ceredig ab Cunedda', 24 June, 1875, and submitted for competition at a Crown Eisteddfod held at Llanarth on 29 July, 1875. Inset is an elegy ('Galareb') on the death of Benjamin Evans, Aberaeron, by 'Omega'.
