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The visitors' book of Gwydir Castle, Llanrwst, Denbighshire, April 1889 - May 1894.

Some fifty letters, 1933-1948, from Ifan ab Owen Edwards and R. E. Griffith to the architect D. T. Jones, Aberystwyth, relating to work carried out by the latter for Cwmni Urdd Gobaith Cymru (The Welsh League of Youth, Inc.), including letters concerning the Welsh school at Lluest, Aberystwyth.

A copy of Margaret F. Harris's (née Davies) PhD thesis, 'Little England beyond Wales as a regional unit' (Birbeck College, 1949).

Notes, 1776, by the Reverend Joseph Robertson, literary critic, on the tours of Scotland undertaken by Thomas Pennant in 1769 and 1772, seemingly made from Pennant's 'A tour in Scotland' (Warrington, Chester, London, 1774-1776), with a section from 'The Critical Review', June 1776, containing Robertson's review of Pt II of the work inserted between ff. 8 and 9.

Typescript copy of a diary kept by L. E. Latchford, 20 January 1940-23 February 1941, when he was employed at HM Customs and Excise, Swansea, as well as being an air-raid warden. It provides a day-by-day record of civilian life and reactions during the period of the 'phoney war', Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain and contains particularly vivid accounts of the bombing of Swansea. Also included are three letters from publishers and a reader's report, 1979-1980, concerning an attempt to publish the work (ff. i-iv). Extracts from the diary were serialized in the 'South Wales Evening Post', 2-17 September 1980.

An Oxford DPhil thesis by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, 1978, entitled 'A Study of Y Seint Greal in relation to a Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus', studying the provenance of the Middle Welsh prose romance and its relation to its Old French sources.

A notebook, 1882, containing sheep earmarks from farms in the parishes of Penmachno, Caernarvonshire, Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, and Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire.

Some thirty letters, 1925-1940, from the Dutch scholar Theodor Max Chotzen to Dr E. D. Jones. Written mainly in Welsh, they contain personal news, details of the writer's publications, references to contemporary Welsh scholars, and observations on political events in Wales. Also included is a letter, 1946, from his widow containing information concerning her husband's imprisonment by the Germans and subsequent death on 27 February 1945.

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.

A register of Salem Baptist church, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, containing a brief history of the cause, details of membership, births, baptisms and deaths, and other memoranda pertaining to the church, 1797-1847. A note by Thomas Edwards ('Iorwerth Goch'), Lletty Ifor, Mountain Ash on f. 74 records that the volume was used by him while compiling 'Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Salem, Glanyfferi, o'r dechreuad hyd 1890' (Aberdar, 1891). Also included are memoranda by Thomas Edwards including an account, 1897, of the descendants of William and Phebe Jenkin, Cwmslac, St Ishmael, Carmarthen, in the hand of his son Llewelyn Morgan Edwards (ff. 34-71).

Thirteen letters, mainly from Dr Henry Grey Macnab (1761-1823; DNB) addressed to Frederick Boothe, Spring Gardens, London, concerning his life in France (ff. 3-20v), but also including three letters, 1817-1819, to Macnab from the Under-secretary of State to the Interior Department, Paris; Edward, duke of Kent, Brussels; and Count Laffon de Ladebat in French, referring to Macnab's The views of Mr Owen of Lanark impartially examined ... (London, 1819) which he translated into French and published in 1821.

Dau lyfr lloffion yn cynnwys llythyron, ffotograffau, darnau o farddoniaeth, tystysgrifau geni, a thorion o'r wasg, 1913-1986, wedi'u pastio yn y cyfrolau, yn ymwneud ag Elias Garmon Owen, Gaiman, Chubut, Patagonia (1892-1986).

Survey of the manor or lordship of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, co. Glamorgan, containing answers to articles of enquiry presented to twenty-one named jurors, followed by sections containing details of properties, tenants, rents and services.

A composite volume comprising Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin (Llundain, 1634) lacking title-page, and Llyfr y Psalmau, wedi ev cyfieithv a'i cyfansoddi ar fesvr cerdd yn Gymraeg by Edmund Prys, Archdeacon of Merioneth (Llundain, 1638) with many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marginal and additional notes in Welsh, English, and Latin. The manuscript additions include a prayer in Welsh (Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin B8v), verse in Welsh by Ellizabeth Price 'i dyrfa Llandanwg'(ibid 06), englynion by 'H.M.' [Huw Morus] and 'H.E.R.' (ibid Aa1v), a riddle in Latin (ibid Gg7), and entries relating to the births and baptisms of the children of Richard Poole of Tyddin y Felin, Llanfair-iuxta-Harlech, co. Merioneth (f. ii, ibid Mm2v, Llyfr y Psalmau A1v), and of Richard Vaughan, esq., of Corsygedol (f. iv verso).

Notebook and loose leaves containing carols, hymns and other verse including a hymn headed 'Hymnau Iw Canu yn Cymdeithas Dyngarol Eglwys-Bach' attributed to Evan Evans [?Ieuan Glan Geirionydd] (f. ii verso); a marwnad to a young Vale of Conwy man, John Thomas (ff. 1-5 verso); eight verses of the carol plygain commencing 'Roedd yn wlad [sic] hono fugeiliaid yn gwilio' sometimes attributed to John Richards (Siôn Ebrill) (ff. 6-9 verso); the hymn 'Y gân Newydd' [commencing 'Mae'r gwaed a redodd ar y groes'] by 'Robt. Ap Gwilim ddu o Eifion' [Robert Williams] (f. 10 recto-verso); and a carol attributed to Morris Gryffydd, Llanllechid (ff. 11-13 verso).

Sheep register, printed and sold by W. Whittington, Wind Street, Neath, used to record earmarks and pitch-marks, together with a few muzzle-marks, relating to large tracts of counties Brecon, Cardigan and Radnor, and parts of counties Carmarthen and Montgomery. These particulars, relating to over five hundred farms and sheep-walks, were compiled by Thomas John Davies, Carreglwyd, Pontrhydfendigaid, co. Cardigan.

Miscellaneous papers, 1877-1935, of the Ashton family found loose inside a ledger filed separately (NLW MS 21704iD). They include personal and business correspondence, and also accounts, including those of Richard Ashton (see NLW MS 21704iD).

A ledger containing miscellaneous accounts, mainly for repairs of buildings and farm implements in the Machynlleth area, by Richard Ashton, Post Office, Aberhosan, carpenter and wheelwright.

Two notebooks containing drafts of poems by Elwyn Davies, 1966-1969 and 1969-1970. Many of the poems were published in his two volumes of poetry, Words Across the Water (Swansea, 1970), and A Lifting of Eyes (Llandybie, 1974).

Medieval medical texts, written in Italy in the fourteenth century: Nicolaus [Salernitanus], Antidotarium (ff. 1-21 verso); [Johannes de Parma], Collectiones omnibus capitulorum libri Mesue (ff. 22-25); Compilatio flebotomie de qualibet vena (ff. 25-26); recipes, 'Cassia fistulatum...' (ff. 26-27); recipes in two later hands of XIV or XV cent. (ff. 27-37).
Folios 1 and 2, 6 and 7, 18 and 19 are palimpsests. The lower script, partly legible under ultra-violet light, is from a book of transacts of a notary, Albericus [?], 'notarius sacri palatii', written not much earlier than the medical texts; there is reference in one document (f. 12) to 'villa de quart' [?Quart, near Aosta].