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A volume containing arithmetical exercises and examples, used by Edward Williams (born c. 1841), Rhoswidol, Penegoes, co. Montgomery, at Rhydyfelin Parochial School, 1858-9.

Register of members, 1901-14, of Ramoth Baptist church, Aber-cuch, co. Pembroke, with their financial contributions, and other memoranda including a list of deacons. Items found loose inside have been tipped in on ff. 2 verso-4.

A group of eleven parchment bifolia written in the same hand, and which form about one fourth part of a manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century, containing a version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-ca. 1298), archbishop of Genoa.

A group of twenty-five volumes, forming part of a once larger series, containing subject of word indexes of scriptural, theological, historical and literary references compiled, and written partly in a shorthand script, by William Lloyd (1627-1717), successively bishop of St. Asaph (1680-92), Lichfield (1692-9), and Worcester (1699-1717). In some cases title-deeds largely of the early seventeenth century have been used as protective covers, while eleven bifolia used for a similar purpose have been detached to create NLW MS 11330D (see 544, below).

Six scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings and manuscript notes compiled by the Reverend John Evans, Liverpool, approximately during the period 1884-1910. They contain accounts of religious and public meetings in Liverpool and elsewhere (e.g. the Liverpool Institute prize distribution, 1884, the opening of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, 1893); obituaries (e.g. Thomas Rees, D.D., Swansea, 1885, Edward Stephen ('Tanymarian'), 1885, Edward Matthews, Ewenny, 1892, John Hughes, D.D., Caernarvon, 1893, John Evans ('Eglwys Bach'), 1897, Thomas Gee, Denbigh, 1898, Dr. Joseph Parry, 1903, etc.); sermons and addresses (e.g. by Principal Thomas Charles Edwards, John Phillips, Bangor, Owen Evans, D.D., London, H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed'), etc.); poetry, generlaly in the form of 'in memoriam' verses; portraits; rules of Rose Place Day School, Liverpool, established in 1844; a table of events in the history of Tabernacle Congregational Church, Liverpool, from 1800 to 1907; a history of Chatham Street Calvinistic Methodist Church, Liverpool, from 1839 to 1910; Brief Sketch of the past & present of Denbigh Castle (n.d.), etc. The volumes are indexed.

Letter, dated 23 August 1939, from Dylan Thomas to Thomas Taig, enclosing a selection of poems intended 'for some kind of dramatic presentation' (f. 1). The writer encloses holograph fair copies of two of his poems: 'Find meat on bones that soon have none ...' (ff. 2-4) and 'Ears in the turrets hear ...' (ff. 5-6). He also encloses his own transcripts of George Woodcock's poem 'Landore' (f. 7), and Alan Pryce-Jones's 'Voyage' (ff. 8-9), together with three published issues of Keidrych Rhys's periodical Wales, 1937-8 (ff. 10-69), one of which bears Dylan's signature, and notes (f. 69 verso).
Thomas Taig was active in the Swansea Little Theatre, and intended to present poems by Welshmen writing in English at a London theatre at the end of September 1939; see further Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters, ed. by Paul Ferris (London, 2000), pp. 438 and 452n.

A minute book of the Hawarden Choral Society from its revival on 1 November, 1909, until its dissolution on 10 October, 1910; together with additional memoranda dated 11 January, [19]11. The volume is in the hand of Geo. T. Gartell.

Nine volumes of registers of cases of the Penllyn District Nursing Association, 1896-1937.

A typescript copy of a report to the Caernarvonshire Rural Community Council of a survey of Caernarvonshire conducted by Mr. Robert Owen, O.B.E., M.A., Croesor, during the period 19 January to 22 June, 1934.

A photostat facsimile, dated 16 July 1937, of an incomplete manuscript, [14 cent., second ½]-[15 cent., first ¼], of the Laws of Hywel Dda in the Dimetian Code, then belonging to the Massachusetts Historical Society (MS 5).

Almanac a Dyddiadur am y flwyddyn 1849 ... gan John Roberts, Caergybi, with manuscript entries of preaching engagements by Morris Morgan (1828-1901), a student at Haverfordwest Baptist College. The writer, a native of Llanboidy, subsequently held pastorates at Erwood, Brecknockshire, New Wells, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Cradley, Worcestershire, Tondu, Glamorgan, and Colmore Row, Birmingham.

Arthur Mee: Magic in Carmarthenshire. The Harrieses of Cwrt-y-Cadno, being a brochure printed at the 'Star' Office, Llanelly [in 1911], for private circulation. Inset are a printed list of additions and corrections, and two holograph letters from the author from Llanishen, Cardiff, to F. S. Price, Swansea, 1924-30.

A collection of annotated documents bearing the autographs of Welsh bishops and others. They include a letter testimonial, 1683, from Humphr[ey Lloyd], bishop of Bangor; a holograph letter from W[illiam Fleetwood], bishop of St. Asaph, 1711; warrants, 1722, of A[dam Ottley], bishop of St. Davids, for the payments of dividends due to him upon stock in the South Sea Company's books; an acquittance, 1731, signed by Benj[amin Hoadley], bishop of Salisbury (bishop of Bangor, 1716-21); a decree, 1740, by R[ichard Reynolds], bishop of Lincoln (bishop of Bangor, 1721-3), concerning a University of Oxford fellowship; a holograph letter, undated, from Matt[hias] Mawson (bishop of Llandaff, 1739-40); an acquittance, 1757, signed by John [Thomas], bishop of Salisbury; an acquittance, 1771, signed by Edwd. [Willes], bishop of Bath and Wells (bishop of St. Davids, 1743); a holograph letter from J[ohn Ewer], bishop of Bangor, to Richd. Burn, Westminster, 1772; an acquittance, 1750, signed by J[ohn Gilbert], bishop of Salisbury (bishop of Llandaff, 1740-9); a certificate, 1791, from E[dward Smallwell], bishop of Oxford (bishop of St. Davids, 1783-8), to the treasurer of the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty relating to the institution of a clerk in South Stoke, Oxfordshire; a certificate, 1795, by W[illiam Stewart], bishop of St. Davids, relating to the perpetual curacy of Talley; and a holograph letter from [George Murray], bishop of St. Davids, 1802; etc.

Papers of, and relating to, Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins of Cilbronnau, Llangoedmore, Cardiganshire, chief justice of Bombay. They include a copy order on his call to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, 1883; the printed minute of his appointment to the Privy Council, together with a covering letter and a printed form of the oath, 1916; an autograph letter, 1926, from Arthur James Balfour, 1st earl of Balfour, lord-president of the Council, to Sir Lawrence Jenkins, on the occasion of the latter's retirement from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; and press cuttings.

'A Sketch of Life and Literary Labours of [Robert John Pryse] Gweirydd ap Rhys' written 'by my daughter Grace, in 1866'. A copy, in the same hand, of an undated covering letter from 'Gweirydd ap Rhys' to [Thomas Gruffydd] ('Tavalaw') indicates that the 'Sketch' was prepared with a view to the formation by 'Tavalaw' of a petition for a 'Civil Annual Grant' for 'Gweirydd ap Rhys'.

A notebook containing memoranda and accounts of Evan John, farmer and weaver, of Gwernogau, Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn, Carmarthenshire, and father of Thomas Evans ('Tomos Glyn Cothi'; 1764-1833), from 1769 to 1780, with later entries for 1788. The volume mainly contains weaving patterns, entries of hiring agreements by his children as farm-servants (e.g. Thomas Evans at Salach and Pantybetws, Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn, etc., 1775-6), and particulars of the purchase of barley, oatmeal, peeled corn, and timber, and of the sale of butter, beeswax, honey, hides, and tallow. The volume also includes a stanza of a hymn in a later hand.

Parochial settlements for the parish of Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire, 1837-43, including a holograph letter, 1837, from Sarah Evans, Llangollen, widow of the late James Evans, a pauper of the parish of Guilsfield, to Mr. Holywell, overseer of the poor.

Letters, 1955, addressed mainly to T. I. Ellis, relating to securing a knighthood for Dr T. H. Parry-Williams 'for his services to Wales', including letters from Goronwy [Roberts] and James Griffiths. [He was knighted in 1958].

A bookplate from a book presented by the National Library of Wales to the Education Department (Celtic Section) at Ruhleben Camp, Germany, 1915, for the use of Welsh civilian prisoners interned there.

A Book of Private Prayer used as a scrapbook, 1927-1944, by the Rev. B. G. Rees, Curate of Defynock (1934-36), Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), and Rector of Llansannor (1944-48); the volume consists mostly of press cuttings and letters relating to his ordination and career and his column in the Bridgend Advertiser, with some syllabuses for his lecture courses at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre with the WEA and YMCA (45 ff.). Also included are proofs, [?1938], of W. H. Auden's twenty-seven sonnet sequence 'In Time of War', for publication in W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Journey to a War (London, 1939), pp. 259-285; the proofs contain a very few manuscript emendations by the author and suggested titles for some of the sonnets and were given to Rees by Auden (see Auden's letter, NLW MS 24059E, f. 2) (6 ff.).