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A manuscript of the French prose romance of Tristran, Chevalier de la Table Ronde, illuminated on vellum.

Autograph letters, mainly of North Wales interest, from Robert Cholmondeley (afterwards Earl of Leinster) (1584?-1659), 13 March 1633/4, to Sir Roger Mostyn, kt (1559/60-1642); letters from Joseph Bunbury, Llay, 19 October 1676, to Sir Roger Mostyn, first baronet (1623/4-1690); letters from William Lloyd, bishop of Lichfield, Chester and Coventry (formerly bishop of St Asaph) (1627-1717), 6 May 1693, to Richard Mostyn, Penbedw (?the son of Sir Roger Mostyn, first baronet); letters from Richard Mostyn, Penbedw, 15 December 1693, to Sir John [?Conway]; letters from Thomas Puleston, Nantclwyd, 8 August 1720; letters from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, fourth baronet (1749-1789), Wynnstay, 15 March 1745/6, to Richard Williams, Penbedw; a statement dated 20 May 1678, signed by Owen Thelwall and others, relating to the burial of Dorothy Lloyd, alias Meredith, at Nannerch; financial memoranda, 15 April 1704, relating to Sir John Conway and a certain Mr Mostyn.

Typewritten extracts from a notebook kept by William Barrow, harbour master, Portmadoc, containing details of sailings and arrivals of ships at Portmadoc, 1861; a printed copy of Can o Goffadwriaeth, neu Hanes am y Schooner Hannah, o Gaernarfon ... by Elizabeth Davies, widow of one of the men lost on the schooner Hannah, 8th October 1880; a programme of the seventh annual festival of the Ardudwy Temperance Choral Union, 18 June 1873.

A microfiche copy of Krista L. Ovist's PhD thesis, 'The Integration of Mercury and Lugus: Myth and History in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Gaul' (University of Chicago Divinity School, 2004).
A microfiche copy of Krista L. Ovist's PhD thesis, 'The Integration of Mercury and Lugus: Myth and History in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Gaul' (University of Chicago Divinity School, 2004).

Two 18th century manuscripts, comprising 'Tlysau'r Beirdd wedi ei gasglu ... [gan] Benjamin Simon, Bardd o Aber Gwili ... MDCCLI' (NLW MS 5474A) and 'Llyfr Dafydd ab Gwilim, Bardd o Lanbadarn Fawr Yngharedigion, a ysgrifenwyd ... gan Benjamin Simon Bardd a Henefydd ... MDCCLIV' (NLW MS 5475A).

Llyfryddiaethau Caradog Prichard, D. Tecwyn Evans, Dr Lewis William Lloyd (1939-1997), Elizabeth Watkin-Jones ac Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan) wedi'u paratoi gan Dafydd Guto Ifan, rhwng 2004 a 2013, ynghyd ag erthygl ganddo yn dwyn y teitl 'Ffynonellau: Y Ffilm: The Inn of [the] Six[th] Happiness (1958)', Tachwedd 1958.

An autograph letter, 7 February [16]93, from Humphrey Humphreys, bishop successively of Bangor and Hereford (1648-1712), to Peers Maudit, Windsor Herald; letters and genealogies sent to Bishop Humphreys, 1704-1707, by Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms (1661-1729), and Thomas Humphreys, mainly concerning the pedigree of Sir William Humphreys, a sheriff of the City of London, with notes thereon and on Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (1592?-1666), by Bishop Humphreys.

Material relating to the production of Lady Charlotte Guest's English translation of the 'Mabinogion' (London, 1838-49), including facsimiles, a letter from Joseph Fisher, engraver, to Guest, 1838, a modernized (Welsh) version of the tales of 'Branwen ferch Llŷr' and 'Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed', possibly made by John Jones ('Tegid'), original sketches, proofs of illustrations, etc.

'Collectanea de rebus celticis' by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick. They include notes on the Celtic language; 'Nomina Cantredorum Wallensium' taken from Cotton MS Domitian A. VIII in the British Museum; a pedigree of the Lloyd family of Mabws, Cardiganshire; a transcript of a letter from John Gillies, Perth, with a translation by him of 'the Gaelic Chronicle of the Kings of Scotland'; a translation of 'an ancient Irish Poem entitled the thirteen wonders of Ireland, by the Revd. Jas Hely A.B.'; letters from Charles Roach Smith and F. Hall; and miscellanea.

A copy of Moo Song Goh's PhD thesis, 'Western and Asian portrayals of Robert Jermain Thomas (1839-1866), pioneer Protestant Missionary to Korea: A historical study of an East-West encounter through his Mission' (University of Birmingham, 1995).
A copy of Moo Song Goh's PhD thesis, 'Western and Asian portrayals of Robert Jermain Thomas (1839-1866), pioneer Protestant Missionary to Korea: A historical study of an East-West encounter through his Mission' (University of Birmingham, 1995).

One of two albums containing material relating to the life and work of John Gibson (1790-1866), sculptor, including biographical material in the form of manuscripts and press cuttings; original pencil sketches, pen-and-ink sketches and engraved prints; letters, mainly to John Bernard Crouchley; miscellaneous papers relating to Gibson and to other sculptors and artists; etc.

'Diferyn Difyrrwch neu ganiadau plygeiniol er coffadwriaeth am ymddangosiad Duw yn y cnawd', being a collection made by G. C. Griffith of 'englynion', 'carolau', and other poems by Robert Hughes (Neuadd y blawd), William Griffith ('Gwilym ab Gryffydd', 1794), John Thomas (Pentrefoelas, 1800), David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifionydd'), G. C. Gryffydd (1816), and Richard Jones (Trefdraeth).

A photostat facsimile of an abstract of a survey taken on 15 February 1652/3 upon the forfeiture for the delinquency of Richard Chorley of the Chorley estates in the townships of Chorley, Healey, Chernock-Richard, Walton in le Dale and Walton cum Fazakerley near Liverpool, all in the county of Lancaster, with abstracts of leases, particulars of chief rents, estimates of enclosures and waste lands in Walton, 1639, and a copy of a survey of wastes in Darby, Everton and Wavertree, 1639.

An album of family papers preserved by Martha Maria and Susanna Maria Atwood, granddaughters of Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne (1751-1819), clerk, of Tyglyn Aeron, Cardiganshire, c. 1819, including genealogical charts of the families of Jones (Tyglyn), Parry (Noyadd), Lloyd (Lloyd Jack), Thomas (Newcastle Emlyn) and Gwynne (Monachty), wills, marriage settlements, commissions, transcripts of monumental inscriptions, autograph letters of Alban Thomas, M.D., 1757-1766, Henry Jones (Tyglyn), 1748, John Jones (Ystrad), 1805, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848), 1808, Alban Thomas Jones [Gwynne], 1808, and others, together with miscellaneous papers.

The seventh in a series of nine volumes of the letter books, 1836-1844, of William Day, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. The volumes, some of which have lists of contents, consist of copies of his reports, copies of his letter to the Poor Law Commission, London, to colleagues, and to the officials of Boards of guardians, circulars, memoranda, etc., and relate to various Poor Law Unions in Wales and to some in England, particularly in Shropshire.

A volume containing a catalogue of the books, paintings and sculptures at Glanrheidol, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire (ff. 31 verso-50), compiled 1856-1858, by James Hughes, Glanrheidol, and an amanuensis, with additions in pencil in Hughes' hand regarding the relocation of some of the paintings within the house. The books, mostly on the subjects of biography, English literature, history, law, religion, science, topography and travel, were mainly published in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteeth century; very few are in Welsh or about Wales. The library and works of art were transferred after Hughes's death to Llidiardau, Llanilar, the home of his daughter Elizabeth, wife of George Williams Parry (1811-74), Llidiardau, and an inventory in her hand of the books, jewellery, paintings, etc., brought there in 1861 is tipped in on f. 51; a supplementary catalogue in her hand of books at Llidiardau, 1866, is added on ff. 1 verso-3, 4, 5. A memorandum, 1874, in her hand in pencil recording the loan of a book occurs on f. 48 verso. The volume was previously used, [c. 1820], for a catalogue of the contents of an unnamed library (ff. 3 verso, 4 verso, 5 verso-30 verso). These books, arranged under broad subject headings and mostly on agriculture and horticulture, biography, history, law, literature, religion, science and travel, were mainly published during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; a small number are in Welsh or about Wales. A few memoranda in pencil, [c. 1820], record loans of books to individuals (ff. 1, 6, 9).

Seven letters and two telegrams, 1939-1950, from the composer, actor and playwright, Ivor Novello, to Dorothy and Evelyn Wright, containing mainly personal news (ff. 1-13); together with additional personal papers, 1908-1955, compiled by the Wrights, including twelve letters to them from Lloyd Williams, Novello's secretary, [?1940]-[?1944] (ff. 5, 14-19 verso), actors Peter Graves, 1951-1955 (ff. 22-24 verso), Leslie Henson, 1942 (f. 25), and Barry Sinclair, 1943 (f. 26), and Neville Chamberlain, 1938 (ff. 20-21); also included are a memorial tribute to Ivor Novello, 1951 (ff. 27-28 verso), photographs of him and his associates, [1910s]-[1940s] (ff. 29-34), and press cuttings, 1939-1951 (ff. 39-46).
The collection contains references to theatrical productions at Johannesburg, 1947 (f. 8), the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth, [1940] (f. 14), the Palace Theatre, Manchester, [?1941] (f. 15), and the Adelphi Theatre, London, 1943 (f. 18).

Llanfair-juxta-Harlech, Merioneth, vestry book and Churchwarden's accounts, 1814-1816.