Dangos 15051 canlyniad

Agenda and minutes, 1948-56, of the Liberal Party of Wales Council meetings. Contents include handwritten and typed notes and minutes, some newspaper cuttings, and Liberal Party of Wales pamphlets and leaflets. The donors' father, the late Elfyn Lloyd-Morris, was a member of the party and was writing a book about its history.

Collection of scripts formerly held as stock at the Drama Association of Wales as donations/loans from theatre companies across Wales. The collection also includes some letters from donors, play flyers, stage directions and notes from numerous playwrights/directors.

Records relating to the administration of the diocese of St Davids and Dean and Chapter of St Davids Cathedral since 1397, comprising episcopal registers, bishops' transcripts, marriage bonds and affidavits, and chapter act books, as well as records relating to: the ordination, appointment and resignation of clergymen and other individuals; the licensing of curates and other individuals; the licensing and consecration of land and buildings; faculty papers; dilapidations and sequestrations; augmentations, the creation of new parishes and boundary changes; dissenters' meeting houses and Roman Catholic chapels; episcopal revenues and accounts; Brecon Collegiate Church; parochial returns; deeds; consistory courts; visitations; correspondence; and miscellaneous volumes and papers, including terriers and documents relating to episcopal elections.

Further records, including correspondence, sermons and papers relating to conferences, were received in April 2016; a watercolour painting of St Davids Cathedral (1791), has been transferred to the NLW visual collection.

Additional records, 2008-2016, among them visitations, correspondence and material pertaining to events, together with papers and photographs relating to the Cathedral, 1994-2008, were received in September 2016.

Three documents, dated 1920, belonging and relating to the Reverend J. T. Davies (1881-1966), Dean of Bangor 1951-55 (SD/P/440); May 2019.

Posters of the Saint Davids Diocesan Guild of Bellringers advertising monthly practice meetings, 2003-2009, quarterly meetings, 2002-2010, the Annual General Meeting, 2006, and striking competitions, 2005 and 2007, together with a copy of striking competition rules, and a statement of accounts to 1 June 2009; August 2021.

Register containing a list of parishes in the Diocese of St Davids that deposited tithe apportionments in the diocesan Registry Office, c.1836/7; April 2023.

Two eighteenth-century documents relating to the appointment of a Bishop to the see of St Davids, together with an unknown printed page dated 1673; October 2024.

Papers from the Bishops’ Office comprising routine administrative records and other material relating to the work of the Bishop, 1990-2020. Material includes meeting notes (staff meetings, Area Deans meetings, Cytun Finance committee, Bishops meetings, and other ministry meetings); action plans and letters, correspondence and papers relating to specific ministry subjects or Commissions, appointments, Ad Clerums, and other miscellaneous papers. Also correspondence and papers of Bishop Wyn, and some printed items including newsletters (Pobl Dewi), yearbooks, leaflets, and training material; February 2025.

Minute book, 1952-64, of the Diocesan Youth Council/Committee; September 2025.

Thirty-six typescript and manuscript letters, 1977-1994, from Thomas Dilworth, University of Windsor, Ontario, to Huw Ceiriog Jones, Bow Street and the National Library of Wales, concerning their research into the poet and artist David Jones as well as relating personal news.
Also included are a printout of an email exchange between Jones and Dilworth, September 2021, and explanatory notes (in Welsh) by the donor, 2024.

Cyfieithiadau i’r Gymraeg, 1958-1988, gan Trefor Williams (bu f. 1988), ysgolfeistr ym Mhorthmadog a Llandudno, o nifer o ddramâu Saesneg. Fe’i cyflwynwyd tros nifer o flynyddoedd mewn cystadlaethau cyfieithu yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol o dan amrywiaeth o ffugenwau megis 'Tudur', 'Madog', a mwy. Ymhlith y casgliad mae copïau Saesneg o ddramâu ochr yn ochr â’u cyfieithiadau Cymraeg, e.e. 'Educating Rita' (Willy Russell 1947-) a 'Death of a Salesman' (Arthur Miller 1915-2005).
Yn wreiddiol o Drefor, sir Gaernarfon, bu Trefor Williams, ynghyd â J.T. Jones, yn gyfrifol am sefydlu Clwb y Garreg Wen, Porthmadog.

Cyfres o lythyrau a chardiau cyfarch oddi wrth J. T. Jones, wedi eu cyfeirio at Trefor Williams a’i deulu, ac at Owen Parry, ynghyd â deunydd coffadwriaethol am J. T. Jones a gasglwyd gan deulu’r rhoddwr; Chwefror 2025.

Archive of the Cambrian Coast Line Action Group comprising papers created and collected during the campaign to prevent the closure of the Cambrian Coast railway line between machynlleth and Pwllheli and to improve services an the line along with the archive of the Welsh Railways Action Group, formed in 1971 to co-ordinate between various railway campaigns in wales and to campaign for improvements to the Welsh railway network as a whole and papers and publications relating to local rail campaign groups in west Wales, along the Heart of Wales line and in the Wrexham area.

Reports, 1874-1926, drawn up by William Galloway and others (including his son, Christian) relating to the mining of coal and other minerals in Wales and elsewhere around the world, examining matters including mining engineering, geology, the economics of working minerals (sinking shafts, mineral extraction, mineral quality, labour, maintenance, transport and selling prices) and the history of mineral working; the reports comprise examinations of mines, mineral fields, mineral seams and other geological strata, as well as statistics, maps, plans, diagrams, photographs, sketches, correspondence, inventories, itineraries and notes; the archive also includes related material, 1957.

Travel journal, [late 1790s] (watermark 1796), of Richard Cust [stationer and gentleman naturalist, of Westminster and Carlisle], containing his 'Observations on the Picturesque Scenery of North Wales in the Autumn of the year 1783' (ff. 7-73 passim), together with thirteen monochrome wash watercolours of landscapes viewed (ff. 15, 16, 23, 25, 26, 28, 35, 41, 42, 46, 47, 49, 50). The journal primarily describes Cust's impressions of the scenery in terms of the ideals of the picturesque and the sublime; the entries are undated.
As explained in the introductory section (ff. 2-5) the Observations were transcribed by Cust from his original 1783 travel journal, with the illustrations being based on brief sketches. Cust and his unnamed companion(s) travelled by coach from London (f.7) to Llangollen (ff. 8 verso-9), then via Conwy (f. 10) and Bangor (f. 13) to Anglesey (ff. 13 verso-17 verso) and Caernarfon (ff. 19 recto-verso, 22 recto-verso). From there they went on excursions up Snowdon (ff. 24-34 passim) and to [Aberglaslyn] (ff. 34 recto-verso, 37-38) and Llanbenys [Llanberis] (ff. 39-40 verso, 43 recto-verso, 44 verso-51 passim, 54-55 verso), before returning to Conwy (ff. 57 recto-verso, 59-61 verso) and Llangollen (ff. 64-65 verso, 68-69, 70 verso, 72-73). There are descriptions of the castles at Caernarfon (ff. 19 recto-verso, 22 recto-verso), Dolbadarn (ff. 40 verso, 43, 55) and Conwy (ff. 57 recto-verso, 59-60); four of the watercolours also depict Dolbadarn Castle (ff. 41, 42, 46, 47), the others are mostly views of mountains and rocky outcrops. The narrative is incomplete and breaks off after a description of the River Dee at Llangollen (f. 73); additionally, eleven pages have been left blank to provide space for further illustrations (ff. 20, 21, 29, 32, 36, 53, 56, 58, 66, 67, 71, usually with indicative captions written in pencil on the otherwise blank versos).

Papers, 1838-2023, mainly of Lucy Penny and Mary Casey, comprising manuscripts and papers, 1838-2005, relating mostly to John Cowper Powys and the Powys family; over seven thousand letters, [c. 1860]-[20 cent., last ¼], comprising correspondence of Lucy Penny, Mary and Gerald Casey and members of the Powys and related families; and catalogues describing the collection, 2012-2023.

Welsh Salmon and Trout Angling Association archive including minutes of meetings, annual reports, photographs, membership records and official WSTAA papers.

One of two association copies at NLW, presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the Rt Hon. David Lloyd George (1863-1945)) to his uncle, Richard Lloyd (1834-1917), of the 1909 Finance Bill, popularly known as the People's Budget, being a copy of the Bill as first introduced into the House of Commons. A copy of the Bill as amended in Committee and on Report can be found as NLW MS 4480E.

Papers of and acquired by R. Bryn Williams, mainly relating to the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, including a diary of Joseph Seth Jones, one of the first wave of emigrants on the Mimosa to Patagonia, 1865, and correspondence, 1865-1868; correspondence of his brother, Robert Charles Jones, 1867-1877; copy records of the Welsh courts in Y Wladfa, 1872-1881; letters and minute books relating to Vrondeg Baptist Chapel, 1875-1887, Gaiman, 1877-1891, Eglwys Llanddewi, 1891, Eglwys Bryn Gwyn and Cyfarfod Misol Y Wladfa (Calvinistic Methodists), 1881-1955; papers relating to the Centenary Celebrations of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 1952-1962; letters from the founders of the Welsh colony, 1866, and from others who had experienced life there; letters to R. Bryn Williams from Patagonia and from Wales relating to Patagonia, [c. 1941-1961]; research notes and manuscripts of books and radio plays by R. Bryn Williams, 1942-1962; miscellaneous records relating to Wales and elsewhere collected by Williams, 1865-1962; papers relating to John S. Williams, 1901-1962; papers and press cuttings on the history, culture and industry of Patagonia, 1869-1962; and typescripts of published and unpublished works, lectures, scripts, etc.

Papers relating to the activities of David Davies, Llandinam, including relating to contracting in the construction of railways, the establishment of the Ocean Coal Co. Ltd, legal papers collected for the 1883 and 1884 Barry Dock Bills, and his son Edward Davies's letter-books.

Papers of journalist Patrick Hannan including correspondence, research notes, interviews for articles and scripts television and radio programes along with copies of articles. It contains interviews with leading political figures including Peter Hain, Rhodri Morgan, Alun Michael, Dafydd Wigley and Ieuan Wyn Jones as well as correspondence with the composer Daniel Jones.

A holograph essay on 'Addysg yn Nghymru: Yn gosod allan ansawdd bresenol a neillduolion yr addysg a weinyddir; awgrymiad at ddiwygiad; yn nghyda'r pwysigrwydd o gysylltu Ysgolion Elfenol a'r sefydliadau Gramadegol a'r Colegau' written by 'Ofydd' [i.e., Hugh Pritchard, Llannerch-y-medd, co. Anglesey], and submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod at Caernarfon [1880]. Bound in at the end of the volume is a cutting, from Baner ac Amserau Cymru, of the adjudication of Thomas Powell [sic], [University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff]. One half of the prize money was awarded to 'Meurig ap Iorwerth' ( Mr. M. E. Morris, Minffordd, Portmadoc, co. Caernarvon).

Manuscript and typescript notes of lectures, addresses and articles, [c. 1940]-1960, by David James Jones ('Gwenallt') relating to his upbringing and the background to his poetry, Christianity and society, Communism, the decline of religion, the poet and Christianity, hymnology and hymnists, and aspects of poetry and literary appreciation.

The Welsh Quoits Archive, comprising material relating to British quoiting, the majority of the material relating to quoiting in Wales, including: match programmes, posters and flyers, match listings and statistics; rules and regulations of quoiting; press cuttings relating to quoiting matches, quoiting clubs and club members; newsletters; correspondence between quoiting clubs, between individual club members and between clubs and members of the public; items relating to notable quoiting club occasions such as centenaries and anniversaries; and miscellaneous material relating to quoiting, including information relating to the history of the game. The bulk of the material relates to quoiting in Wales, mainly involving international matches (the majority of which were against Scotland) played on Welsh soil. One particularly notable item is a copy of a printed booklet titled The History of Quoits in Wales by Albert Baker (published by J. R. Davies in 1949), which is enclosed with a letter, 14 December 2000, to Linda Evans, Joint Secretary of the Welsh Quoiting Board, from Darryl Baker, grandson of the author (see under heading Quoiting: Wales: Correspondence: Letters to Linda Evans).

Papers of Sir David Rowe-Beddoe, later Baron Rowe-Beddoe of Kilgetty, businessman and life peer who was a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 2006 until his death in 2023. His numerous public roles included being chairman of the Welsh Development Agency from 1993 to 2001, appointed chairman of the Wales Millennium Centre in 2001 and made a Life President in 2010, chairman of the Representative Body of The Church in Wales from 2002 to 2012, appointed president of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2004 having previously been a governor and chairman of the board (1993-2004).

The diary, 1839-1841, of Sarah Pahud (née Walker), daughter of a Dolgellau family and wife of Henri Pahud, a Swiss born Paris businessman. The diary is written in English and French.
Pahud describes her honeymoon tour with her husband through France (English, pp. 1-8), Italy (French, pp. 8-30), Switzerland (French, pp. 31-46) and Germany (French, pp. 46-51), April-June 1839; a journey from Paris to Manchester via Dover and London, October 1839 (French, pp. 52-56); and a visit to her family in Dolgellau, travelling via Paris, London and Chester and returning via Birmingham and London, June-September 1841 (English, pp. 56-96). She also visits friends in Barmouth (pp. 75-79) and Ruthin (pp. 80-87) and describes the consecration service of St David's Chapel, Denbigh, 27 August 1841 (pp. 84-85). There are references to Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, with an eyewitness account of Chopin's perceived state of health, 3 May 1839 (pp. 7-8). There are also a few further miscellaneous memoranda, [1858] (ff. 114, 184).

Six contemporaneous volumes, [1690s], of pedigrees and armorials of royal and noble families of mainland Europe, written in the same hand.
These include French, Burgundian, Hungarian and Dutch heraldry and genealogies. A whole volume (15057B) is devoted to the de Croy family who may have commissioned the work.