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Ceremony of dedication : Mametz Wood memorial

  • NLW ex 2596.
  • File
  • 1987

A programme, 11 July 1987, of the service held to unveil the memorial at Vallée des Gallois, Mametz, to commemmorate members of the 38th (Welsh) Division who lost their lives in battle.

Concert programmes,

Programmes of concerts at which Madame Barbier performed, or which were organised by her, in France, England and Wales, 1886-1921.

D. R. Davies Collection of Drama Scrap Books,

  • GB 0210 DRDIES
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1982 (accumulated [c.1920]-1982) /

Scrapbooks containing press cuttings etc., 1900-1982, relating largely to Welsh drama, theatrical activities and popular entertainment in Wales and amongst Welsh communities in English cities, including material on dramatists of Wales, 1932-1953; drama in Wales, 1922-1982; Welsh actors, 1932-1946; theatre cuttings, 1931-1953; fairs, folklore and folk-dancing in Wales, 1936-1938; children's theatre, 1959-1967; Welsh National Theatre, 1900-1978; and information on theatre in Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia, America, and other countries.

Davies, D. R., (of Aberdare), 1919-1978

Estat au vray du trésor royal, année 1675.

A transcript, [18 cent., second ½] (watermark similar to Churchill, no. 317, dated 1770), of a summary account of the revenue and expenditure of the French Treasury, mainly for the year 1675 but compiled in 1678 by Gédéon Berbier du Metz, garde du Trésor royal, for king Louis XIV.
It includes incomes from ordinary taxes deducted in the généralités (ancient French tax dominions) on woods, bridges, roads and Paris duties, from the 'Cinq Grosses Fermes', gabelles and other indirect taxes, royal farms and 'Parties casuelles' (incomes related to the selling of public charges), from extraordinary taxes in Pays d'états (free-tax French lands) and Church 'don gratuit' and levies, and from the selling of annuities, 1674-1677 (ff. 4-65 recto); expenses from king's rolls and gifts, 1674-1678 (ff. 66-80 recto); with a total sum for the year 1675 (f. 80). The original summary account is believed to have been destroyed during the French Revolution.

Du Metz, Gédéon Berbier, 1626-1709.

Les Aventures de Tristran,

  • NLW MS 5667E [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [14 cent.].

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

Letters from Howard de Walden from Gallipoli and France,

  • NLW Facs 1032.
  • File
  • [2007].

Photcopies of letters from Lord Howard de Walden to his son John Osmael Scott-Ellis from Gallipoli, 1915, and from France, 1917.

Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, b. 1880

Music,

A volume containing 'Rousseau's Dream' by J. B. Cramer; Swiss airs and a Swiss dance; a quadrille; waltzes by Carl Maria von Weber, Balduci [sic, for Boildieu?], Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johan Nepomuka Hummel, etc.; a German drinking song; Gaelic, Tyrolese (one by Joseph Kuffner), Irish, French, Danish and German airs; marches; a pastorale by Franҫois Adrien Boildieu; a harp air; gallopades; a polonaise; Hungarian melody; preludes for the harp by P. M. Meyer ('Not to be copied'); hymn-tunes (to words by Thomas Kelly, William Cowper, John Newton, Joseph Addison, Reginald Heber, etc.); Scotch airs (to words by Miss --- Drinkwater); chants by Sir J. Stepenson; a psalm-tune; a Portuguese song ('modinha'); etc.

Tales translated from the French

'The Story of the king Constant the Emperor' and 'The Friendship of Amys and Amiles', being transcripts by F. W. Bourdillon of thirteenth century French prose tales translated by him.

The diary of William Floyd,

  • NLW ex 2899.
  • File
  • [1913].

Photocopies of a typewritten transcript by the writer Elaine Morgan of her father William Mansel Floyd’s diary which was written by him whilst on active service in France, August-December 1914. The original diary was donated to the Imperial War Museum in 1987.

Llythyrau : Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf,

  • NLW ex 2394.
  • file
  • 1917-1918.

Llythyrau, 1917-1918, oddi wrth Owen Thomas o'r Aifft a Phalesteina, ac oddi wrth ei frawd Tom o Ffrainc at eu brawd a'u chwaer ym Modorgan, Môn, pan oeddynt yn filwyr yn ystod y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf.

Llythyrau'r Preifat Dan Evans (Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf) = Private Dan Evans (WW1) letters

  • NLW ex 2905.
  • File
  • [1915]-1916

Tua un llythyr ar hugain oddi wrth y Preifat Dan Evans, Ffisilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig, a anfonwyd ganddo at ei rieni Daniel a Mary Evans yn fferm Maesglas yng Nghaeo, Sir Gaerfyrddin, o Wersyll Milwrol Cinmel ym Modelwyddan ac o faes y gad yn Ffrainc. Yn eu plith mae llythyr oddi wrth ei gyfnither Mary yn Saesneg a llythyr oddi wrth Preifat J. G. Davey at rieni’r milwr yn nodi i'w mab gael ei daro yn ei dalcen gan ddarn bach o shrapnel. Collodd ei fywyd ar 19 Awst 1916 yn ddwy ar hugain mlwydd oed. Yn amgaeedig mae copi o erthygl 'The secrets of the little tin box, the WW1 letters of Caio-born Private Dan Evans, RWF' gan y rhoddwr a baratodd yn 1996 a llungopi o restr a ddarparwyd gan Gomisiwn Beddau Rhyfel y Gymanwlad yn nodi'r rhai a enwir ar Gofeb Thiepval. = Approximately twenty one letters from Private Dan Evans, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, to his parents Daniel and Mary Evans at Maesglas Farm in Caeo, Carmarthenshire, written from Kinmel Military Training Camp in Bodelwyddan and on active service in France. Included is a letter from a cousin Mary and from Private J. G. Davey to the soldier’s parents informing them that their son had been ‘hit in the forehead by a small piece of shrapnel’. He died in France on 19 August 1916 aged twenty two. Enclosed is an article by the donor entitled 'The secrets of the little tin box, the WW1 letters of Caio-born Private Dan Evans, RWF', together with a copy of a printed list issued by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission which identifies Private Daniel Evans as missing.

Evans, Daniel.