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Personal papers of Alice Parry Levick of Harlesdon, [Middlesex] (c.1833-1896), comprising order of service for funeral, and In Memoriam card, both 1896. 2 items.

Personal papers of Amos Parr Middleton (m. 1841, d. 1850), son of Dr Middleton of Leamington, Warwickshire, including papers relating to service in the 1st Regiment of Lancers, British Auxiliary Legion in Spain, 1835-1837 (E 6/2). 2 items.

Personal papers of Blanche Rosa Minnie Baker Gabb (1874-c.1953), including a birthday book, inscribed "on her 9th Birthday" (E 5/1); travel diaries, to Italy, 1893 (E 5/5/1), to Scotland, 1894 (E 5/5/2), to Norway, 1896 (E 5/5/3), to Italy and Sicily, 1900 (E 5/5/4), to Switzerland, 1900 and 1901 (E 5/5/5-6), to the Austrian Tyrol, 1904 (E 5/5/7), to Ireland, 1906 (E 5/5/8), to Switzerland, 1908, and Devon and Cornwall, 1912 (E 5/5/9); MA degree certificate, Trinity College, Dublin, 1906 (E 5/6); passports, 1913, 1920, 1930 (E 5/8/1-3); account book, 1914-1928 (E 5/9); diaries, 1939, 1942-1944, 1948-1951 (E 5/10/1-8); war-time Christmas card (photocopy) from Col D. R. Paterson, A.F.H.Q., North Africa, 1943 (E 5/11); order of service for funeral (E 5/12/1). 12 items.

Personal papers of John Walter Cecil Baker Gabb, comprising a birthday book, 1878; New Year card, 1885; order of service for funeral, 1929; and Inland Revenue succession and legacy duty papers, 1920-1938. 4 items.

Personal papers of Lucie Marie Caroline Middleton (1815-post 1880), the daughter of William Morgan and Anne Morgan (née Lewis) of Abergavenny, including certificate of baptism into the Roman Catholic church and admission into the Ursuline Convent at Dinan, Brittany, as Sister Marie-Angèle, 1876 (E 7/2). 2 items.

Personal papers of Mary Morgan of Abergavenny, comprising probate of will and codicil, 1895 (will dated 1876, codicil dated 1888), 1895 (E 8/1); copy of the said will of Mary Morgan, and also that of Emma Sophia Morgan, of Bath, 1919 (E 8/2); and receipts for funeral expences, 1895, and executors' undated final account. 3 items.

Personal papers of Richard Frederick Baker Gabb (c.1840-1919), including a certified copy of baptism, 1840, 1859 (E 2/1); commission as ensign, 9th Monmouthshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1860 (E 2/3); passports, 1872, 1884, 1886 (E 2/5); account, in verse, of his and his wife's traverse of the Joch Pass between Engleberg and Engstlen Alp, Switzerland, 1888 (E 2/7); label, formerly attached to "this old fashioned ice axe", probably the property of J. Knyvett Wilson of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was killed on the Riffelhorn, [Switzerland], 1865, where it was found by R. Baker Gabb, 1889 (E 2/8); levée of officers who joined the Volunteer Forces not later than 1860, 1910-1911 (E 2/9); notice and letters relating to the recruitment of members to the Abergavenny Civilian Volunteer Corps, 1915 (E 2/10); order of service for funeral, 1919 (E 2/12); and executors' papers, including Inland Revenue succession and legacy duty papers, 1919-1938 (E 2/13). 13 items.

Personal papers of Rosa Mary Baker Gabb (c.1843-1911), wife of Richard Baker Gabb, comprising a birthday book, 1884; death certificate, 1911; and a printed card of The Times death notices, 1911. 3 items.

Poem, called Abergavenny, beginning:. "Gwrando arni i, Arglwydd Grist, rwy fi yn drist ofnadwy,. Am na bawn i, yn ddiwad, yn nghenol gwlad Sir Fynwy. . . ", [?late 19 cent.]. Welsh.

Printed comMemorative paper napkins, comprising the programme of Lord Kitchener's arrival in London on his return from South Africa, [12 July 1902]; souvenir of the Women's Suffrage march and mass meeting at the Albert Hall, London, Saturday, 3 June [?1911]; souvenir and programme of the opening of Parliament by King George V and Queen Mary, [1910 x 1936]; and programme of King George V and Queen Mary's visit to Dartmouth, Devon, [1910 x 1936].

Programmes, comprising the White Castle pageant, 1911 (J 3/1); the National Eisteddfod, Y Fenni, 1913 (J 3/2/1-3); the Pageant of Gwent, given at Maindiff, p. Llandeilo Bertholau, co. Mon., on the occasion of Eisteddfod Y Fenni, 1913 (J 3/3/1-2); the Peace Celebration festivities of the borough of Abergavenny, with a list of Abergavenny dead appended, 1919 (J 3/4); the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire Fête and Pageant in aid of the Students' War Memorial Union to be held at Cardiff Castle, enclosing a Western Mail and South Wales News supplement relating to the same, 24 and 25 June 1931 (J 3/5/1-2); the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Monmouthshire and Glamorgan Branch, Jubilee Festival Historical Pageant, at Vauxhall, Monmouth, 1 June 1935, enclosing a programme of the same (J 3/6/1-2); the 50th anniversary charter celebrations of the charter to the bor. of Abergavenny, 1949 (J 3/7/1-2); jubilee celebrations of the Victoria Cottage Hospital, Abergavenny, 1952 (J 3/8).

Publications of the Cambrian Archaeological Society, comprising Archaeologia Cambrensis, April 1902, containing "Notes on the older churches in the four Welsh dioceses," including Partrishow church (K 16/1), and formerly enclosing six photographs of the exterior and interior of the church, now transferred to Dept of Maps and Prints (see introduction); and off-prints from Archaeologia Cambrensis, comprising Partishow Church, Breconshire, by Archdeacon Thomas, 1904 (K 16/2), enclosing two copies of Partishow church, by John Davies, [?late 19C.] (K 16/3-4); Llanthony Prima, by Iltyd Gardner (K 16/5); Some fonts of Gwent and Hereford, and the carving down of fonts in general, by Iltyd Gardner, 1917 (K 16/6); The Scandinavian settlement of Cardiff, by D. R. Paterson, 1921 (K 16/7); The Caerleon excavations, by V. E. Nash-Williams, 1927 by the committee of the Monmouthshire and Caerleon Antiquarian Association (K 16/8); and The Caerleon amphitheatre: a summary, by Tessa Verney Wheeler, 1928 (K 16/9).

Publications of the Monmouthshire & Caerleon Antiquarian Association comprising Notes on the ancient domestic residences of Tre-owen, Killwch, and The Waen, by Octavius Morgan, MP, and Thomas Wakeman, 1861 (K 24/1); Excavations at Caerwent, Monmouthshire, on the site of the Roman city of Venta Silurum, 1899-1910 (K 24/2/1-8); An account of some of the rude stone monuments and ancient burial mounds, in Monmouthshire, by M. E. Bagnall-Oakeley, 1889 (K 24/3); The Lordship, castle and town of Chepstow, otherwise Striguil; with an appendix of the Lordship of Caerleon, by James G. Wood, 1910 (K 24/4); Some features of the monastic buildings disclosed by recent excavations within the precincts of Tinterne Abbey, by James G. Wood, 1912 (K 24/5); Proceedings, 1912-1914, 1922-1928 (K 24/6/1-6).

Publications of the National Library of Wales, comprising Librarian's report to the annual meeting of the Court of Governors, 1943, including the receipt of the Baker-Gabb Deeds and Documents (K 25/1); Annual Report, 1971-72, including the receipt of a donation of material from Col D. R. Paterson (K 25/2); Journal and Journal off-prints, containing articles by J. Conway Davies, 1943-1946 (K 25/3/1-10).