- NLW MS 1766E, 1767D
- File
- [1771-1849]
Part of Crosswood (Mont.) Manuscripts
Two volumes of notes, extracts, and memoranda relating to the agriculture and domestic economy of Wales, mainly in the hand of Walter Davies.
Part of Crosswood (Mont.) Manuscripts
Two volumes of notes, extracts, and memoranda relating to the agriculture and domestic economy of Wales, mainly in the hand of Walter Davies.
Letters and papers from the library of Ellis William Jones of Plasteg, Bala, largely relating to agricultural co-operation in Wales, and with particular reference to the Welsh Agricultural Organisation Society Limited, Stapleton-Cotton House Limited, etc. Among them are addresses and notes; a notebok containing the names and postal addresses of officers and committee members of agricultural co-operative societies in Wales; letters from J. Nugent Harris, secretary to the Agricultural Society, 1909, Charles O. Hughes, Menai Bridge, 1925, George Florance Irby, 6th baron Boston, 1925, and R. Parry, Bangor, secretary to the Stapleton-Cotton House Ltd, 1925, with some typescript and draft replies; typescript copies of testimonials to E. W. Jones from Lord Boston, Major-General A. E. Sandbach, C.B., D.S.O., Bwlchycibau, Colonel the Hon. R. Stapleton-Cotton [of Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, etc.], R. J. Lloyd Price, Rhiwlas, Bala, 1911, D. D. Williams, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1911, and J. E. Jones, vicar of Rhosygwaliau, Bala, 1911; and cyclostyled copies of addresses delivered at the Liberal Speakers' School at Oxford and at the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge, 1925.
Amaethyddiaeth a thir/Agriculture and the land
Conference: 'The BSE Crisis: a Welsh Response'
Part of Crosswood (Mont.) Manuscripts
Diaries and journals of tours in North and South Wales kept by Walter Davies at various times from 1797 to 1822, and containing references to agriculture and other industries.
First World War: Memoranda and Reports,
Part of Lord Davies of Llandinam Papers,
Includes miscellaneous correspondence, 1917-18; notes on the national shipyards, 1918; a memorandum on the War Efficiency Group; David Davies, 'The Boom of Beaurocracy [sic] and the Powerlessness of Parliament', undated; a copy of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Tuberculosis, 1919; a file of papers on Aircraft Acceptance Park, 1917-18; a paper on Welsh agriculture; correspondence and papers, 1917, on the Royal Army Medical Corps; and a copy of Sir Henry Norman's report on disabled soldiers, 1916.
Norman, Henry.
The file contains an envelope addressed to 'John Rees, Adviser in Agricultural Botany'; correspondence, 1923-1925, between John Rees and D. Lleufer Thomas relating to the Welsh Housing & Development Association Yearbook, 1924; a letter from the National Museum of Wales to the National Library of Wales, 1955, enclosing the material as a donation from John Rees's widow, and a copy of the acknowledgement letter from the Library to Mrs Rees, 1955.
Rees, John, d. 1955
Part of J. H. Davies, Cwrt Mawr, papers
Correspondence and papers, 1896-1897, relating to aspects of the land question in Wales, including the manifold problems faced by Welsh tenant farmers, the report of the Royal Commission on Land in Wales, the convention of public meetings and conferences, and the appointment of delegates to attend conferences. The correspondents include H. Tobit Evans, 1896, D. Lloyd George, 1896, and W. Llywelyn Williams, 1896.
Evans, H. Tobit (Henry Tobit), 1844-1908
Part of Crosswood (Mont.) Manuscripts
Miscellaneous notes and extracts made by Walter Davies and dealing with the language, literature, and agriculture of Wales.
Part of Crosswood (Mont.) Manuscripts
Notes made by Walter Davies on a journey undertaken on behalf of the Board of Agriculture through Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, and Glamorgan [1811], and dealing particularly with the geology of the counties and with their agriculture and other industries.
Richard Vaughan's Moulded in Earth,
Typescript draft by Ernest Lewis Thomas ('Richard Vaughan', 1904-1983) of his first novel, Moulded in Earth (London, 1951), with corrections by the author, being the final draft submitted to the publishers, incorporating a number of changes to the earlier manuscript draft (now NLW MS 14799C).
Vaughan, Richard, 1904-1983
Part of Crosswood (Mont.) Manuscripts
Two volumes of diaries and journals of tours in North and South Wales kept by Walter Davies at various times between 1797 and 1817. They contain special references to agriculture and other industries, and most of them appear to have been used by him in the compilation of General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of ... Wales (London, 1810-1815).
Part of Robin Reeves Papers
Thesis: 'Welsh Agriculture 1815-1914' (University of London Ph.D.) by David Wesley Howell (typescript).
Howell, David W., 1940-, dissertant.
Surveys relating to farming in Wales, 1989-1995, including the results of a survey carried out to assess the attitudes of farmers in Anglesey towards farming unions, 1989; and a survey on Welsh farming in general, 1995, concerning issues such as organic produce, animal cruelty and farming subsidies.