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Address on Rudyard Kipling,

An address on 'Rudyard Kipling's witness to the need of missionary effort in India' delivered by Arlunydd Penygarn at a meeting of the Cardiff 'Fortnightly' club [February 5, 1892], also notes for a paper read by him at a meeting of the Cardiff Naturalists Society, 19 October, 1888.

Arlunydd Penygarn.

Arlunydd Penygarn Manuscripts,

  • GB 0210 MSAPGARN
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  • [1846]-1915 /

Papers, [1846]-1915, of Thomas Henry Thomas ('Arlunydd Penygarn') comprising correspondence, geological and antiquarian notes, translations of manuscripts and miscellanea largely of Welsh interest, including an account of the 'Mari Lwyd' and material relating to 'druidic' books and runes.

Thomas, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1839-1915.

Glamorgan monuments,

Notes on pre-Norman monuments and casts at Cardiff Museum, notes on ancient crosses at Llandough, Llandaff, Llantwit Major, Merthyr Mawr, etc.

Heraldry,

Letters from Sir Joseph Bradney and George [C]. Williams and notes relating to an old Morgan coat of arms at Llanrhumney Hall, Monmouthshire.

Letters and photographs,

A letter, 1911, from the explorer Fridtjof Nansen to Marianne R. Spencer, Oxford, and a letter, 1912, from Marianne Spencer to Arlunydd Penygarn in Cardiff, together with photographs.

Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930

Letters relating to arms and pedigrees,

Three letters, 1912, from John Stuart Corbett, Cardiff to Arlunydd Penygarn relating mainly to a shield of arms at Llanrumney Hall, Monmouthshire, together with a pedigree of the Morgan family in the hand of Corbett.

John Stuart Corbett.

Letters,

Letters, 1863-1915, to Arlunydd Penygarn. The correspondents include [Llewellyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn], 3rd baron Mostyn, Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, John Ruskin, Llywarch Reynolds, Godfrey Charles, 2nd Baron (afterwards Viscount) Tredegar, T[homas] H[enry] Huxley, Sir John Evans, Charles Darwin, Sir Andrew [Crombie] Ramsay, John Morley, Edward Dowden, [Sir] L[aurence] Alma-Tadema, Louise de la Ramee ('Ouida'), John Griffith (Llangynwyd), Francis Edmund Anstie, R[ichard] St John Tyrwhitt, Thomas Cox, John Stuart Corbett, E[rnest] H[oward] Griffiths (Cardiff), David Howell ('Llawdden'), and Sir Joseph Bradney; there is also a letter from Arlunydd Penygarn to J. Wynne Parry, Caernarvon.

Mari Lwyd,

A translation by W[illiam] Eilir Evans of an account by William Roberts ('Nefydd') of the origin of the Glamorgan custom called 'Mari Lwyd'.

William Eilir Evans.

Miscellanea,

Notes by Arlunydd Penygarn on the geology of South Wales; an outline of a proposed work on 'The Literature of Parody'; translations by James Ifano Jones of 'Buchedd Mair Vadlen' and 'Buchedd Martha' as contained in Havod MS. 23.

Jones, James Ifano.