Dangos 15050 canlyniad

One of two manuscripts containing a copy of S. R. Meyrick, ed.: Heraldic Visitations of Wales and part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613 ... by Lewys Dwnn, deputy herald at arms ... 2 vols (Llandovery, 1846) presented to Meyrick (1783-1848) by the Committee of the Welsh Manuscripts Society, with letters from John Evans, secretary to the Society, Augusta Hall (1802-1896), Benjamin Hall (1802-1867), Joseph Morris and Thomas William King (Rouge Dragon).

Papers of John Jones, farmer, Ffynonwen, Llangunllo, annotated by his son, Dr. D. Rhys Jones, Cardiff. They include letters received by John Jones from a smith, a fuller, etc., accounts, bills, and papers relating to religious, educational, parochial, and agricultural affairs in the Llangunllo district, and a 'bidding' letter, 1859, and other printed circulars.

Letters, 1872-80, to Edward Breese from Robert Jones (Rotherhithe), Thomas W. Hancock, Sir Lewis Morris, J.O. Halliwell [Phillips], Brinley Richards, and Robert Williams (Rhydycroesau).

Copies of letters, 1802-1822, to John Richard Jones, Ramoth, from William Braidwood and Archibald McLean, both of Edinburgh, and from john Richard Jones to Archibald McLean, and of a circular letter from The Church of Christ, Meeting in Pleasance, Edinburgh, to certain Baptist churches in England and Scotland.

A collection of papers, 1997-2004, relating to Lesley McCarthy's campaign to prevent the building of schools on old refuse tips in Conwy and Newport, including correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings with task groups and various bodies, press cuttings and other miscellaneous papers.

Notebook, 1914-1916, kept by Nursing Sergeant Davies of 'C' section of the 130th (St John) Field Ambulance unit, attached to the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army. It includes a diary, November 1914-June 1916 (ff. 1-12), describing duties in Britain before embarkation for France on 3 December 1915, and subsequent activities on the Western Front prior to the Battle of Mametz Wood.
A draft application for an army commission (ff. 45, 46 verso) suggests that Sergeant Davies was a native of Carmarthenshire and a former miner. The notebook also contains medicinal recipes (ff. 13-14, 44 verso, 45-6), ration tables (ff. 8 verso-9, 14), and poetry in both English and Welsh (ff. 22 verso-23, 31-44, 49-53). An additional folio, tipped into the volume (f. 16a), contains further diary entries, October 1916, and suggests the existence of a second volume, subsequently lost.

Llungopïau o nodiadau ymchwil y Dr Meredydd Evans ar bapurau'r Dr J. Lloyd Williams (1854-1945), botanegydd a cherddor. Seiliwyd y nodiadau ar eitemau 1-145 yn y rhestr a baratowyd, [1949], o'r llawysgrifau a phapurau a dderbyniwyd gan Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru yn fuan ar ôl marw J. Lloyd Williams yn 1945. Disodlwyd y rhestr hon bellach gan Dr J. Lloyd Williams Music MSS and Papers, 2004, sydd yn cynnwys y papurau a dderbyniwyd yn 1945/6 a hefyd ychwanegiadau diweddarach.

The file comprises eleven notebooks containing research notes on the life and times of Owain Glyndwr by Llwelyn Slingsby Bethell, together with a typescript study entitled 'Owain Glyn Dŵr and the Defence of Wales, 1400 to 1416'.

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'.

A manuscript copy of a study entitled 'Emigration to North America: An annotated bibliography of material likely to promote, or discourage, Welshmen to emigrate to North America, 1791-1900', being a research project presented by Richard E. Huws for the Associate of the Library Association qualification at the College of Librarianship Wales, 1973.

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 copy of a thesis 'The Story of the Coming of the Celts and its Place in Modern Irish Discourse' presented by Dr Tok Freeland Thompson for the degree of M.A. (Berkley, 2002), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.

A copy of a thesis 'Joseph Cooper Walker (1761-1810): Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards' presented by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile for the degree of Ph.D.(Galway, 2001), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.

A copy of a thesis 'Secular and Clerical Images of Kingship in early Christian Ireland and early Buddhist India' presented by Dr Maxim Fomin for the degree of Ph.D. (Cork, 2003), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003, together with an article by Maxim Fomin entitled The Early Medieval Irish and Indic Polities and the Concept of Righteous Ruler printed in Cosmos 15 (163-197), 1999.

Papers of Alwena Roberts ('Telynores Iâl), 1923-1981, renowned harpist and teacher of the harp. The collection comprises letters, albums containing the autographs of many famous people, a diary, invitations to various functions, press cuttings, and other miscellaneous papers, together with papers of John Peter Roberts, Alwena Roberts's father, including his letters to and from members of his family, and birth, marriage and death certificates of various members of the family. The collection includes a letter, 1932, from J. Lloyd Williams, to the Principal of the University of Wales, explaining his reasons for resigning from the Music Committee of the University.

Commonplace book, 1866-1916, in Welsh, of Owen Roberts (1848-1917), Frondeg, Tre-garth, co. Caernarfon, containing transcripts of hymns and secular verse, and notes of local events, including notes concerning chapel activities and the Penrhyn slate quarry.