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George Eyre Evans manuscripts Aberystwyth (Wales)
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Aberystwyth miscellanea,

An album compiled by George Eyre Evans, containing a collection of one hundred and ninety-five autograph letters, manuscript poems and other documents, printed notices, broadsides, circulars, photographs, etc., of Aberystwyth interest. The majority relate to the Aberystwyth Dispensary, later known as the Aberystwyth Infirmary, and particularly to the payment of subscriptions, 1821-1844. Others relate to the erection and renovation of St Michael's Church, 1825-1846; the restoration of the parish church of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1867; the opening of the Public Library, 1906; and the Exhibition of the Centenary of the Introduction of Printing, 1909.
Included in the volume is a typescript schedule of the documents.

Press cuttings, &c.,

An album containing press cuttings, reprints of articles in the Aberystwyth Observer, 1899-1905, posters, etc., mainly relating to Aberystwyth and Cardiganshire, and minutes of the committee of the 'Highgate Men's Club', Whitchurch, Shropshire, founded in 1889, with correspondence and other papers relating to the club.