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Aberystwyth County School : : Papers,

  • NLW MS 17406D.
  • File
  • 1894-1917.

Press cuttings, typescript and manuscript notes and accounts, correspondence and printed material, 1894-1917, relating mainly to Aberystwyth County School and its headmaster, David Samuel, and to other Welsh county schools and education in Wales.
The material relating to Aberystwyth County School includes details of a court case, July 1903, involving David Samuel and Mary Isabel Guilbert, a pupil at the school. The remaining material includes typescript and manuscript notes and accounts [by C. M. Williams, Carmarthen], 1894-1914, relating to other county schools in Wales; correspondence, 1903-1917, including two telegrams, dated 30 July 1903, to C. M. Williams, a letter, 1903, to David Samuel from R. H. Guilbert and two letters, 1904, to C. M. Williams from J. Austin Jenkins, Cardiff; and a printed copy, dated May 1902, of a Board of Education report on education and school administration in Wales.

Addresses,

A notebook containing three addresses in Welsh by Philip Thomas entitled 'Braslun o Hanes Caniadaeth Grefyddol yn Nghymru' (f. 1-9 verso), 'Y dull goreu o gyfranu addysg i blant' (ff. 10-14 verso), and 'Holi' (ff. 15-21), delivered to Cymanfa Gerddorol Methodistiaid Dosparth Castellnedd, Good Friday, 1891, Cyfarfod Daufisol Ysgolion Sabbothol Methodistiaid Castellnedd at Fforest, Aberdulais, January 1891, and Cyfarfod Daufisol Castellnedd at Bethlehem Green, 7 May 1893, respectively; and 'The Laws of Questioning', notes taken from a work by Dr Vincent (ff. 22-24 verso).

Philip Thomas.

An account book

A ledger, 1877-1888, kept by Edwin Jones, showing detail the expenses incurred by boarders at Brynarvor School, Towyn, a printed prospectus of Brynarvor School, and a time table of evening classes held, 1881-1882.

Brynarvor Private School (Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales)

Association of Welsh Local Authorities Records,

  • GB 0210 ASSWLA
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1976 /

Records of the Association of Welsh Local Authorities, 1928-1976, including minutes of annual meetings, 1952-1973; minutes of council meetings, 1952-1973; cash books, 1958-1973; administration papers, 1953-1976, papers relating to the withdrawal of railway services in Wales, 1962-1970; and subject files, 1952-1974, relating the interests and activities of the Association, such as water resources, transport, education, and the Welsh economy.

Association of Welsh Local Authorities.

Autograph letters

A group of forty-two autograph letters, 1839-72, addressed chiefly to 'Nefydd', and similar in character to those earlier groups of 'Nefydd' letters which have been previously described (NLW MSS 7163-6, 7176-7). -- The writers include: 'Ceinwalch', Llanover; J. C. Davies, Holywell; Christmas Evans; John Evans, Llansantffraid Glan Conwy; Dd. Griffiths, Cwmavon; Thomas Griffiths, Cae Newydd; Anne Hiley, Varteg; J. Hiley, Llanwenarth; H. E. P. Hughes, Neath; 'Ieuan ap Gruffydd', London; Daniel Jones, Risca and Llanelly; Jane Rowland Jones, Liverpool, and 'Elin'; Jane Jones, Llanelly, Cowbridge, and Cross Inn; J. Jones, Zion, Merthyr; Josiah Thomas Jones Carma, and Aberdare; Theophilus Jones, Philadelphia; Wm. B. Jones, Emporia, Kansas; L. W. Lewis ('Llew Llwyfo'); [John Owen] 'Owain Alaw', Chester; John Prichard, Llandudno, to Ellis Evans; A. Roberts [sister of 'Nefydd']; 'Nefydd' to his wife and to Daniel Jones; D. Rhys Stephen; Eliza Hannah Thomas, Cross Inn, to Eliza Jane [Roberts]; Thos. Thomas, Pontypool; [David Williams] 'Alaw Goch' Aberdare; J. Williams, Newtown; J. Williams, Rhos, to Ellis Evans; Owen Williams, Holywell; and [William Williams] 'Creuddynfab'.

Autograph letters

One of two volumes comprising a group of two hundred and twenty-four autograph letters and copies and fragments of letters covering the period 1823-1917 and addressed chiefly to 'Nefydd'. -- There are references to British Schools at Holywell, Abertillery, Llanelly, and Pantyphilip; a proposal to transfer Ellis Evans's Baptist manuscripts to Llangollen Baptist College; a proposal to publish the works of 'P. A. Môn'; Baptist activities in America and Australia; the Baptist cause at Caerleon and in Monmouthshire generally; a proposal to safeguard 'Carnhuanawc's library; and the Vronissa Lead Mine, Ruthin. David Morris, writing from Tasmania, states that on the night of his wife's funeral he was given ten shillings by 'Shoni Sgubor Fawr'. -- The writers include: D. Oliver, Merthyr; J. G. Owen, Brynsaithmarchog; Wm. Palmer, Liverpool; Edw[ard] Parry, Chester; D. Phillips, Caerleon; Philip D. Phillips, Utica, New York; Ben Price; Thos. Price, Aberdare; John Prichard, Llangollen; David Rees, Llanelly; Edward Roberts ('Iorwerth Glan Aled'), Denbigh and Rhumney; Edward Roberts, Haverfordwest; [John Roberts, Tredegar]; W. Roberts, Tredegar; 'Nefydd' to [Jane Williams, Aberpergwm], John Michael, Abergavenny, Robert Ellis ('Cynddelw'), etc.; Lewis Thomas, Port Adelaide, South Australia; J. R. Loomis, University of Lewisburg, and P. L. Davies, Camden, Pennsylvania, with copy replies; Jas. Rowe, Risca and Fishguard; Robert Saunders, British and Foreign School Society, London; James Spencer, Llanelly; D. Rhys Stephen, Swansea; 'Teilo', Llandilo; Evan Thomas, Maesaleg; George Thomas, Pontypool; [John Thomas] ('Eifionydd'); John Thomas, ('Pencerdd Gwalia'); John Thomas, Llanelly; J. Thomas, Liverpool; W. Thomas, Newport; T. E. Watkins ('Eiddil Ifor') to the editor of The Monmouthshire Merlin; B. Williams, Merthyr; Edward Williams, Aberystwyth; H. Williams, Bettws; Hugh Williams, Pentrebach, Pontypridd, to Caleb Lewis and 'Ap Nefydd'; J. Williams, Rhos; John Williams, Newtown; Lewis Williams, [Llanddulas]; J. Mostyn Williams, Liverpool; J. O. Williams ('Pedrog') to Evans; M[aria] J[ane] Williams, Ynislas [and Aberpergwm]; Owen Williams, Holywell; William Williams ('Creuddynfab'); etc.

Ben G. Jones Papers,

  • GB 0210 BENJONES
  • Fonds
  • 1889-1989 (accumulated [c. 1930]-1987) /

Papers, 1889-1988, of Ben G. Jones, including academic notes, 1932-1935; personal letters, 1942-1968; political papers, 1935-1985; correspondence relating to politics in Merionethshire, 1963-1967; press cuttings, 1958-1963, printed material relating to the four main political parties in Wales, 1949-1966; papers relating to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1939-1988; minute book, 1889-1909, of the London Welsh Mutual Improvement Societies' Union; papers deriving from the compilation and publication of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1953-1986; papers relating to his public life, 1968-1984, including the Kilbrandon Commission, 1936-1969, the BBC, 1968-1978, UCW Aberystwyth, 1968-1985, and the Agricultural Land Tribunal, 1980-1984; minute book, 1889-1909, of the London Welsh Mutual Improvement Societies' Union; and papers relating to the status of the Welsh language and to teaching and broadcasting through the medium of Welsh, 1965-1987.

Jones, Ben G. (Benjamin George), 1914-1989

Bishop John Owen Papers,

  • GB 0210 JOHNOW
  • Fonds
  • 1872-1958 /

The collection comprises John Owen's diaries, 1889-1926; notebooks containing press cuttings, accounts, extracts from the Bible and historical notes; and an address book (box 1); the memoirs of John Owen entitled 'College Friends', letters, 1872-1894, including many letters concerning the tithe rent charge, papers on the 1889 Welsh Intermediate Education Bill (box 2); a catalogue of the books in the library of Bishop John Owen, 1908, speeches, draft speeches and sermons, letters and papers relating to the disestablishment and disendowment of the church in Wales, papers concerning educational matters, 1891-1895 (box 3); letters, 1893-1897, many on religious matters, including issues of church reform, some of family interest, some congratulating John Owen as Bishop of St Davids in 1897 (box 4); an incomplete manuscript, the final printers' copy and the typescript text of 'The Early Life of Bishop Owen' (box 5); letters, 1898-1905, some relating to sermons and prayers following the death of Gladstone, the 1902 Education Bill, church defence, the fire at the Bishop's Palace at Abergwili in 1903, the new Bishop of Llandaff in 1905, and matters of diocesan interest, and there are also papers, 1904-1905, concerning education, Lloyd George and the Western Mail (box 6); letters, 1897-1914, some relating to the proceedings of the Welsh Church Commission, diocesan matters, church defence etc. (box 7); correspondence and papers, 1914-1917, many relating to the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales, the Welsh Church Act, 1914, and related matters (box 8); letters, 1906-1915, some relating to the role of the church in politics, education, church defence, the Welsh Church Bill etc. (box 9); correspondence and printed material, 1914-1919, concerning disestablishment, the Welsh Church Act, the Postponement Bill and the war, the tithe and disendowment (box 10); letters and papers, 1910-1926, concerning the tithe and the Welsh Church Bill, the Welsh Church Act, the Church Commissioners, matters relating to the diocese of St Davids (box 11); bundles of letters, 1922-1926, relating to church and diocesan matters, disestablishment and finance (box 12); correspondence and papers, 1914-1926, relating to disendowment, the government of the Church in Wales, the constitutions of the Governing Body and the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, drafts, notes and correspondence concerning 'The Later Life of Bishop Owen' (box 13); papers, 1907-1918, concerning Bishop Owen's life and work, including the typescript draft of 'The Early Life of Bishop Owen' (box 14); typescript drafts of 'The early Life of Bishop Owen' (box 15); manuscript texts of 'The Later Life of Bishop Owen', and miscellaneous source materials relating to Bishop Owen's life and work (box 16); papers concerning church matters, 1889-1925, including material relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, the 'Diocesan Board of Finance', the 'Million Pound Fund' appeal, commutation capital, the St Davids Board of Finance etc., together with the correspondence of Miss Eluned Owen, 1954-1965 (box 17); papers relating to voluntary and parochial contributions, 1905-1908, together with an extensive collection of press cuttings (box 18).
Additional papers (boxes 19-21) comprising the letters of Bishop John Owen, his wife Amelia Owen and their family, together with the recollections of their daughter, Gwenonwy Davies, and of her husband the Very Reverend J. T. Davies, Dean of Bangor, were received in August 2017.

Owen, John, 1854-1926.

D. A. Thomas (Viscount Rhondda) Papers,

  • GB 0210 DATMAS
  • Fonds
  • 1874-1934 /

Papers of D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, including letters to D. A. Thomas on political matters such as working conditions in the mining industry, education, church disestablishment, and the temperance movement, 1891-1910 (mainly 1891-1895); drafts and copies of letters from D. A. Thomas on similar subjects, 1891-1895; miscellaneous letters, 1893-1895; subject files, 1874-1917, on the coal industry, including the Cambrian Navigation Collieries, the Mining Association of Great Britain, the South Wales Liberal Federation, temperance and disestablishment; scrapbooks of press cuttings, 1894-1927, relating to Cymru Fydd, D.A Thomas, Merthyr politics and Keir Hardie, the Lusitania, and Lady Rhondda; miscellaneous items, 1897-1934, including genealogical material and congratulatory addresses to D.A.T.; circulars and memoranda.

Thomas, D. A. (David Alfred), 1856-1918.

Durrant's Press Cuttings,

  • GB 0210 DURRANTS
  • Fonds
  • [1895]-[1939] /

Press cuttings relating to Wales and Welsh culture, such as religion, politics, literature, music, education, St. David's Day celebrations and the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, individuals, and the National Library of Wales [1895]-[1939].

Durrant's Press Cutting Agency.

George M. Ll. Davies Papers

  • GB 0210 GEOIES
  • Fonds
  • 1826-1964 (mainly 1900-1947)

Diaries etc, 1903-1930; sermons; addresses and articles, 1916-1948; correspondence, notes and articles relating to penal reform, 1907-1917, Ireland, 1920-1924, education, 1925-1931, reparations, 1926-1931, Tom Nefyn Williams, 1926-1931, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1916-1947; poetry, 1900-1947; genealogical and miscellaneous notes and family papers, 1884-1926; articles and addresses by various authors, 1903-1949; letters to and from George M. Ll. Davies, other members of the family and others, 1826-1964.

Davies, George M. Ll. (George Maitland Lloyd), 1880-1949

Intermediate and higher education in Wales,

An extract from the minutes of the Council of the University College of Wales, 30 June 1870, relating to an interview between Henry Richard and W. E. Gladstone on the subject of an Exchequer grant to the College (item 1); and a draft (or copy) of a letter, 4 July 1883, from Henry Richard (item 2) and of a statement on intermediate education in Wales, signed by nearly all the members of Parliament for Welsh constituencies, to be sent to Mr Gladstone (item 3).

John Clement Records,

  • GB 0210 JOHENT
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1958 /

Records accumulated by John Clement as a civil servant, 1942-1958, including records of the Welsh Reconstruction Advisory Council, 1942-1945; records relating to education and hill sheep farming, 1942-1943; papers relating to the Welsh woollen industry, 1954-1958; and records relating to the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, 1954-1958.

A further box of papers was received August 2007. This group remains uncatalogued.

Clement, John, (civil servant), [alive 1942-1990]

Letters from F. W. P. Jago

  • NLW MS 12859B.
  • File
  • 1896-1899

Seven holograph letters and one Christmas card, 1896-1899 and undated, from Fred[erick] W[illiam] P[earce] Jago [Cornish scholar] from Plymouth, to (as per address or by inference) H[enry] T[obit] Evans at Lampeter and Carmarthen. The letters relate largely to a mutual interest in the Cornish language. Specific points referred to include the address of a Truro bookseller who could provide recipient with books on Cornish, the writer's friendship with [the Reverend John] Bannister, variant forms of the writer's name, the death of the Cornish language owing to the pressure of English, the lack of a printed literature, etc., the survival of Cornish dialect in West Cornwall, the writer's published glossary of the Cornish dialect [The Ancient Language and the Dialect of Cornwall with an enlarged Glossary . . . (Truro, 1882)] and his English - Cornish Dictionary . . [(London, 1887)], unpublished manuscript copies of second editions of these two works which the author had offered to sell to the Royal Institute of Cornwall, the possibility that Professor [John] Rhys [of Oxford University] would assist with publication, the state of the Welsh language and the danger to it from English pressure on the eastern border and 'Forster's law of education', the need for 'at least bilingual teaching in the Welsh schools and the employment of native teachers', the lack of information relating to the use of Cornish in church services, the last sermon preached in Cornish, recipient's visit to Cornwall and newspaper articles by him describing the visit, the Breton and Manx languages, the [South African] war, and recipient's newspaper work.

Jago, Frederick William Pearce, b. 1817.

Letters from Henry Griffiths,

  • NLW MS 16836E.
  • File
  • 1847-1928.

Letters, 1847-1873 and n.d., from Henry Griffiths of Brecon, Liverpool and Bowden, mainly relating to education in Wales and to the proposed Normal School at Brecon. One letter, 1854, contains adjudications in both Welsh and English by Griffiths on essays submitted for competition at an eisteddfod (see also a letter, 1854, relating to the adjudications), while another, 1862, to William Roberts, tutor at Brecon Independent College, relates to Griffiths's application for the Theological Chair at Carmarthen Presbyterian College.
Also included is a letter, 1889, from Samuel Job of Illinois; a letter, 1906, from Hugh Williams ('Hywel Cernyw') at Pontypridd; and a letter, 1928, from Caleb Lewis at Blaina, Monmouthshire. The last two letters relate to the Welsh periodicals of the time.

Letters to Henry Richard : A-E

The first of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Sheldon Amos (Sydney, New South Wales), Henry Austin Bruce, first baron Aberdare, Elihu Burritt (New Britain, Conn.), Josephine E. Butler, Sydney Charles [Buxton], earl Buxton, Estlin Carpenter, Joseph Chamberlain, F. W. Chesson, J. J. Colman (Norwich), Leonard Courtney, John Stewart [Gathorne-Hardy], second earl of Cranbrook, Henry W. Crosskey, R. W. Dale, Edward Henry [Stanley], fifteenth earl of Derby, Charles W. Dilke, L. L. Dillwyn, George Dixon, Henry T. Edwards (dean of Bangor), Lewis Edwards (Bala) and Thomas Charles Edwards (Aberystwyth).

Letters to Henry Richard : F-J

The second of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Henry Fawcett, (Mrs) M. G. Fawcett, Dudley Field, Hugh Fielden, Lord [Edmond] Fitzmaurice, W. E. Forster, W. H. Fremantle, Joseph F. B. Frith, Thomas Gee, H. M. Milner Gibson, J. H. Gladstone, W. E. Gladstone, Granville George [Leveson-Gower], second earl Granville, John Griffith (Y Gohebydd), Lord Richard Grosvenor, first baron Stalbridge, George Hadfield, John Hampden (Croydon), Sir William Harcourt, H. D. Harper (Jesus College, Oxford), Thomas Harris, Arthur Hobhouse, Alfred Illingworth, Basil M. Jones, J. Viriamu Jones and Michael D. Jones.

Letters to Henry Richard : L-W

The third of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Leone Levi, W. F. Maitland, John Matthews (Aberystwyth), Edward Miall, Sir George Osborne Morgan, Samuel Morley, Sir Lewis Morris, William Morris (Kelmscott), A. J. Mundella, Thomas Nicholas, R. Barry O'Brien, Sir Hugh Owen, Frédéric Passy, Auguste Pierantoni, Lyon Playfair, Sir Henry Ponsonby, J. H. Puleston, Alexander Raleigh, Stuart (afterwards baron) Rendel, James H. Rigg, Sir Owen Roberts, Lady Frances Russell, G. W. E. Russell, Pietro Sparturo (Naples), John Poyntz [Spencer], fifth earl Spencer, Herbert Spencer, Edward Lyulph [Stanley], fourth baron Stanley of Alderley and fourth baron Sheffield, W. Co[w]per Temple, J[ohn] Thomas (editor of Y Tyst Cymreig), Jos[eph] Thompson, G. O. Trevelyan, Cypri[e]n Valton (Turin) and J. Carvel Williams.

Letters,

Twenty holograph letters addressed largely to David Davies. The writers include S[amuel] Price Davies [son of Sir David Davies], Bickling Vicarage, Bishop Stortford, and London, 1847-1848 (2) (Rhosybedw estate matters, the writer's visit to Frood Vale, the thinning of 'Galt Hugh Shon', personal), Henry Heald, London, 1848 (2) (the production of title-deeds of the Llwyn estate) (together with a copy of a letter from Messrs. Hill & Heald, London, to John Morgan, solicitor, Llandovery, 1848, relating to the same), Henry Jones [of Llwyn], from Abermeurig, undated (2) (money matters, rumours of a discovery in London of a box belonging to an old woman at Cayo and supposed to contain gold), [the Reverend] Richard Jones, Llanyblodwel, etc., 1846-1848 and undated (8) (one addressed to his brother Henry) (the management of the Llwyn estate, Sir David Davies's opinion of the writer, the success of the writer's son, the progress of the Llandovery Institution and its contribution to education in Wales), George Lloyd, Brunant, 1838 (3) (the writer's claim for payment of principal and interest on a bond), J. E. Morgan [niece of Sir David Davies], Berkeley Street [Berkeley Square, London], [1848] and undated (2) (money matters, thanks for a couple of woodcocks, the illness of the writer's cousin), and Josh. Tyler, Grays Inn, 1838 (an opinion on Mr. Lloyd's claim).

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