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Ja. Davies, Rumney, to [?Taliesin Williams]. Sending Miss Tocker's trial with thanks. 'Your father left us Wednesday morning for Penmain'. The addressee's engagement with Mr Perkins. On the dorse in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg is a list of Welsh words ending in -in, etc.

A request for a poetic flower or two for his scrap-book.

R12/1122/2/2.
Jack and Jill, a pantorhyme by Dorothy Eaves.
First broadcast: 1932.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown.
Typed Script with written annotations.
An imagined origin of the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill. It explains why the siblings all the way to the well on top of the hill instead of simply retrieving the water from a tap. There is speculation that there is something special about the water. Snakey Jake is also up to something.
Subjects: Nursey Rhymes, Jack and Jill, Cunning, Medicine, Coal, Children.

R12/1122/1/4
Jack and the Beanstalk, by Carey Grey.
First broadcast: 20 August 1931.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown
Typed Script with written annotations.
An imagined sequel to Jack and Beanstalk. Jack and his mother are now wealthy, but not necessarily happy. Jack needs to decide who to marry, Patty who runs the farm, or Lady Dahlia the Baron's daughter.
Subjects: Fairy tales, Romance, Wealth, Happiness, Greed, Family.

A [?draft] letter to the press, [1963], from the author and playwright Jack Jones, Rhiwbina, Cardiff, responding to a letter criticizing his review of a book on the theatre.
The letter is written on the reverse of The Sunday Times calendar for Ju[ne] 1963.

A note containing another reference to Basset, etc., written on part of a bill. Endorsed: 'Jack Walton's Death-bed address to his God.'

The addressee's infamous Epistle and his low opinion of the people of Bristol. His "Poems" will render him infamous enough. Endorsed: 'Placo, al Bulgin.'

Photograph of a boy wearing a short-sleeved white shirt and a school cap. A wooden box on which is printed 'Virol Limted London' is strung around his neck by a piece of string attached to two nails in the sides of the box. The box contains pencils. This believed to have been taken by Joy Thomas (nee Morgan) on her scholarship to Jamaica in 1937.

A woman squatting on the ground. Around her are arranged fruit and vegetables (including cassava, lettuce and tomatoes) in neat rows and piles, many on a piece of sackcloth.

Two young girls wearing hats and looking at the camera.

A Jamaican lady balancing a tin bowl on her head. In the bowl are foliage and an item wrapped in newspaper.

Typescript pedigree, [1970], compiled by the donor, of her ancestors the James family of Meifod and Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, and latterly the United States.

James Griffith, Secretary, Carmarthen, to Mr Taliesin Williams, Merthyr Tydvil. Is directed by the Committee of the Cambrian Society in Dyfed, to request the addressee to favour him with his answers to the annexed Queries (relating to Welsh antiquities and literature). Printed.

Advice of a bill drawn upon the addressee.

The extraordinary bareness of the addressee's country in ash and elm. The reason - the practice of making bandies for bandy matches with young ash and elm. Requesting him to communicate this to the public. Endorsed by EW: 'On young Elm Trees'.

Account of Thomas, Miles, and John Williams and their property in Jamaica. The rum he has brought. See also No. 739 for an earlier letter.