Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries,
- Box 11.
- Ffeil
- 1973-1974.
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Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries,
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Papers of Cyngor yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol / National Eisteddfod Council, 1970-1972; Papers of Professor T. Hudson Williams; and Reports of meetings of 'Cy1ch yr Hengerdd', held in Jesus College, Oxford, 1972-1977.
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Papers relating to the Church in Wales, including minutes of the Standing Liturgical Commission of the Church in Wales, 1957-1968; St. Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, 1961-83; Leaflets on Orthodoxy, 1961-1966, and other religious items.
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Drafts of, and notes on Irish texts, including: a typescript copy of "Elegies for Mediaeval Tipperary Lords" by Anne O'Sullivan; proofs of "Cath Maige Tuired - The Second Battle of Mag Tuired" edited by Elizabeth A. Gray published by the Irish Texts Society in 1982; typescript of a translation by Nicholas Williams of "The Adventures of Hugh Geraghty" by Edmund Oge Magennis (f1. c. 1715); and various press cuttings of Irish interest, 1959-1978.
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Various societies and bodies with which Idris Foster was connected, including: Theatr yr Ymylon Ltd., 1976-1978; The Sir Thomas Parry-Williams Trust, 1978; Bethesda housing report, 1982; Llandovery College Developmental Appeal, 1984; The Fourth Colloquium on Welsh Medieval Law, Aberystwyth, 1974; Cy1ch yr Hengerdd, 1973-1978; The Welsh Schools Trust, 1961-1962; The International Arthurian Congress, Winchester 1951, and Cardiff 1969; International Celtic Congress, Penzance 1975 and Oxford 1983; Undeb Cymru Fydd, 1964-1965; The British Council, 1958-1964; funeral service cards, membership cards, etc.
Copies of university dissertations,
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36/1 Cyril Walford Routley, "The Dobunni and the Silures during the Roman occupation of Britain", M.Litt., Bristol University, two volumes (1976). 36/2 Jeffrey W. Thomas, "A Study of Language, Metre and Style in the writing of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) 1737-1810", B.Litt., Oxford university (1974). 36/3 Nesta Lloyd, "A History of Welsh Scholarship in the first half of the Seventeenth century, with special reference to the writings of John Jones, Gellilyfdy", D.Phil., Oxford University (1970). 36/4 Nigel Robert Haywood, "Studies in the Historical Grammar of Cornish", M.Phil., Oxford University, [c. 1980]. 36/5 Ethel K.R. Roberts, "The Political Activities of William Rees" [Gwilym Hiraethog] B.A. [Liverpool] (1924). 36/6 J.F. Sharp, "Dioceses of Wales - Bede - York - Canterbury" [n.d.]. 36/7 John Williams James, "A History of the Origins and Development of the Celtic Church in Wales", D.D., Durham University [n.d.]. 36/8 Brinley Jones, "An Examination of Semantic Developments in Welsh 1545-1625", D.Phil., Oxford University (1959). 36/9 John Peters, "A Critical Study of the life and works of Moses Williams 1685-1742", Oxford, not accepted, two versions [n.d.]. 36/10 T. M. Charles-Edwards "A Comparison of Old Irish with Medieval Welsh Land-Law", D.Phil., Oxford University (1971).
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Facsimile copy of P. Vinogradoff and F. Morgan Survey of the Honour of Denbigh, 1334 (London, 1914), with a number of marginal notes which appear to be in the hand of F. Morgan.
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Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries[I],
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Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries[II],
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Unarranged correspondence. Included is an inscribed card sent by the poet and artist David Jones, 1950, to Gervase Mathew, who later presented it to Idris Foster.
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Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Correspondence, 1947-1977, notices of meetings and programmes, 1954-1978, and drafts of articles for the Transactions of the Society.
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Papers relating to the University of Wales and its constituent colleges, 1936-1984, and the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, 1955-1975.
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Files of minutes of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries, 1978-84, including a letter, 1982, from Margaret Thatcher, and other items relating to various museums.
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Minutes and correspondence of the Ancient Monuments Board for England, 1981-2, and the Ancient Monuments Board for Wales, 1979-82; plates and illustrations of ancient monuments mainly relating to Caernarfonshire; and miscellaneous correspondence relating to ancient monuments, 1960-81.
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Ireland and the Irish Language, including: a file, 1979-82, concerning the Irish Texts Society; a typescript copy of "Country Storyteller - A Galway Shanachie and his Lore" by Tomas O Broin; corrected galley proofs of the volume The Celtic Realms by Myles Dillon and Nora K. Chadwick published in London in 1967; copies, 1955-70, of Eire - Bulletin of the Department of External Affairs; notebooks on scholarly Irish texts kept by Idris Foster; miscellaneous correspondence, 1958-81, including letters from Daniel Binchy, 1960, Myles Dillon (6), 1958-62, D. Simon Evans (3), 1960, Proinsias Mac Cana (2), 1962, William O'Sullivan (3), 1960-1, and Calvert Watkins, 1962; together with printed items of Irish interest, 1909-78.
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Draft and typescript versions of articles, lectures and broadcasts received by Idris Foster. Includes Francis Jones, "The Lords of Stackpole Court", 1972, A.M. Allchin, "Crossing a Shore; an Introduction to the Poems of Gwyn Thomas", 1983, L. Fleuriot, "Brittonic and Gaulish during the First Centuries A.D.", O'Donnell Lecture for 1977, J.L. Campbell, "The Collection of Folklore in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland", 1950, Gerald Morgan, "Poets and Patrons in Medieval Wales", Sir John Rhys Prize Essay 1962, Daniel Jerkins, "Religious Heritage and National Consciousness", 1971, Francis Jones, "Cadets of Golden Grove" IV - VII., Jane A. Earthy, "The Mors Pilati in the Cornish Ordinalia", 1966, Francis Jones, "Heraldry of the Princes of Wales", 1959, Ifor Williams, "Cofiwn", Richard B. White, "The Burial of Branwen verch Llyr", 1970, Harold Tudor, "The Origin of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod", 1959, W.R. Evans, "Cilwch rhag Olwen", comedi gerdd, 1971, Richard Hughes, "The Future Looks Back", 1950, Glyn Daniel, "The Mirror of Early Wales", Gregynog Lectures 1968, Leonard Owen, "The City", translated from the Welsh of T.H. Parry-Williams, 1965, N.J.A. Williams, "Gaulish Ieuru and Karnitu", B. Hill, "The Benefactions of Thomas Wilkins of Llantrissent and Thomas Wilkins of Llanblethian to Jesus College, Oxford", Frederick Rees, "The University and Broadcasting", 1962, Michael Wardell, "Hengwrt", 1949, Aquiles D. Ygobone, "The Colonizing Feat of the Welsh People' in Patagonia", 1952.