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A copy of Moo Song Goh's PhD thesis, 'Western and Asian portrayals of Robert Jermain Thomas (1839-1866), pioneer Protestant Missionary to Korea: A historical study of an East-West encounter through his Mission' (University of Birmingham, 1995).
A copy of Moo Song Goh's PhD thesis, 'Western and Asian portrayals of Robert Jermain Thomas (1839-1866), pioneer Protestant Missionary to Korea: A historical study of an East-West encounter through his Mission' (University of Birmingham, 1995).

One of two albums containing material relating to the life and work of John Gibson (1790-1866), sculptor, including biographical material in the form of manuscripts and press cuttings; original pencil sketches, pen-and-ink sketches and engraved prints; letters, mainly to John Bernard Crouchley; miscellaneous papers relating to Gibson and to other sculptors and artists; etc.

'Diferyn Difyrrwch neu ganiadau plygeiniol er coffadwriaeth am ymddangosiad Duw yn y cnawd', being a collection made by G. C. Griffith of 'englynion', 'carolau', and other poems by Robert Hughes (Neuadd y blawd), William Griffith ('Gwilym ab Gryffydd', 1794), John Thomas (Pentrefoelas, 1800), David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifionydd'), G. C. Gryffydd (1816), and Richard Jones (Trefdraeth).

A photostat facsimile of an abstract of a survey taken on 15 February 1652/3 upon the forfeiture for the delinquency of Richard Chorley of the Chorley estates in the townships of Chorley, Healey, Chernock-Richard, Walton in le Dale and Walton cum Fazakerley near Liverpool, all in the county of Lancaster, with abstracts of leases, particulars of chief rents, estimates of enclosures and waste lands in Walton, 1639, and a copy of a survey of wastes in Darby, Everton and Wavertree, 1639.

An album of family papers preserved by Martha Maria and Susanna Maria Atwood, granddaughters of Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne (1751-1819), clerk, of Tyglyn Aeron, Cardiganshire, c. 1819, including genealogical charts of the families of Jones (Tyglyn), Parry (Noyadd), Lloyd (Lloyd Jack), Thomas (Newcastle Emlyn) and Gwynne (Monachty), wills, marriage settlements, commissions, transcripts of monumental inscriptions, autograph letters of Alban Thomas, M.D., 1757-1766, Henry Jones (Tyglyn), 1748, John Jones (Ystrad), 1805, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848), 1808, Alban Thomas Jones [Gwynne], 1808, and others, together with miscellaneous papers.

The seventh in a series of nine volumes of the letter books, 1836-1844, of William Day, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. The volumes, some of which have lists of contents, consist of copies of his reports, copies of his letter to the Poor Law Commission, London, to colleagues, and to the officials of Boards of guardians, circulars, memoranda, etc., and relate to various Poor Law Unions in Wales and to some in England, particularly in Shropshire.

A volume containing a catalogue of the books, paintings and sculptures at Glanrheidol, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire (ff. 31 verso-50), compiled 1856-1858, by James Hughes, Glanrheidol, and an amanuensis, with additions in pencil in Hughes' hand regarding the relocation of some of the paintings within the house. The books, mostly on the subjects of biography, English literature, history, law, religion, science, topography and travel, were mainly published in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteeth century; very few are in Welsh or about Wales. The library and works of art were transferred after Hughes's death to Llidiardau, Llanilar, the home of his daughter Elizabeth, wife of George Williams Parry (1811-74), Llidiardau, and an inventory in her hand of the books, jewellery, paintings, etc., brought there in 1861 is tipped in on f. 51; a supplementary catalogue in her hand of books at Llidiardau, 1866, is added on ff. 1 verso-3, 4, 5. A memorandum, 1874, in her hand in pencil recording the loan of a book occurs on f. 48 verso. The volume was previously used, [c. 1820], for a catalogue of the contents of an unnamed library (ff. 3 verso, 4 verso, 5 verso-30 verso). These books, arranged under broad subject headings and mostly on agriculture and horticulture, biography, history, law, literature, religion, science and travel, were mainly published during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; a small number are in Welsh or about Wales. A few memoranda in pencil, [c. 1820], record loans of books to individuals (ff. 1, 6, 9).

Seven letters and two telegrams, 1939-1950, from the composer, actor and playwright, Ivor Novello, to Dorothy and Evelyn Wright, containing mainly personal news (ff. 1-13); together with additional personal papers, 1908-1955, compiled by the Wrights, including twelve letters to them from Lloyd Williams, Novello's secretary, [?1940]-[?1944] (ff. 5, 14-19 verso), actors Peter Graves, 1951-1955 (ff. 22-24 verso), Leslie Henson, 1942 (f. 25), and Barry Sinclair, 1943 (f. 26), and Neville Chamberlain, 1938 (ff. 20-21); also included are a memorial tribute to Ivor Novello, 1951 (ff. 27-28 verso), photographs of him and his associates, [1910s]-[1940s] (ff. 29-34), and press cuttings, 1939-1951 (ff. 39-46).
The collection contains references to theatrical productions at Johannesburg, 1947 (f. 8), the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth, [1940] (f. 14), the Palace Theatre, Manchester, [?1941] (f. 15), and the Adelphi Theatre, London, 1943 (f. 18).

Llanfair-juxta-Harlech, Merioneth, vestry book and Churchwarden's accounts, 1814-1816.

A volume of Churchwardens' accounts for the parish of Llanfair-juxta-Harlech, Merioneth, 1700-1813 (ff. 1 verso-66 passim, 78 verso, 79 verso). The accounts from 1710 to 1732 are in the autograph of Ellis Wynne, Lasynys, who held the living of Llanfair from 1711 to his death in 1734 (ff. 8-30 verso passim), and those from 1732 to 1750 in that of his son and successor, William Wynn (ff. 31, 32-40).
Also included are minutes of vestry meetings held in the years 1734, 1736, 1757, 1768, 1770, 1772 and 1774 (ff. 52 verso-53, 54 recto-verso, 59-60, 73 verso); several signed receipts of Churchwardens and overseers of the poor for the later eighteenth century (ff. 44 verso, 58 verso, 61-62, 63, 64-65, 72 verso-74 verso); and two lists of Churchwardens of the parish, the first, for 1700-1750, 1773-1823, in various hands (ff. 3 verso, 4 verso-5 verso, 6 verso-7 verso, 8 verso), and the second, for 1700-1747, in the hand of William Wynn (75 verso-76 verso). The accounts for 1748 only are recorded in Welsh (f. 39).

Transcripts of court rolls, 1678-1700, 1703-1705, estreats, 1580, 1744, and a rental, 1661, of the borough and manor of Norton, Radnorshire, with original presentments for the Easter leet, 1734.

A circular letter, 30 December 1964, from John Allen Moore, Director of the European Baptist Press Service (News Agency of the European Baptist Federation), to EBPS Reporters, in which he wishes them success in their various activities relating to religious journalism in 1965.

The last in a series of three volumes of account books of Market Gate farm in the parish of Jefferston, Pembrokeshire, 1849-1861, containing particulars of wages, crop and stock prices, receipts, and disbursements, and a journal recording work done on the farm, 1852-1855.

Material collected by Principal John Humphreys Davies (1871-1926) when he was editing The Life and Opinions of Robert Roberts ..., including notes on the career of Robert Roberts (1834-1885) by J. H. Davies and Howell Roberts (Hywel Tudur) (1842?-1922) and letters, mainly to J. H. Davies.

Five finely bound 'folders' containing typescript and manuscript works commissioned for Celtic Connections, Opening / Oscailt, 9 March 2001. They include words by Michael Coady and music by John Metcalf, together with words by Menna Elfyn and a manuscipt score of Eifion Wyn's 'Mis y Mêl' by Brian Hughes which was commissioned by Islwyn Evans of Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion.

The Pand-namah or Book of Counsels by Sa'di of Shiraz (full name Musharrif ul-Din Muslih ibn'Abd Ullah) (d. 1291). Written in Nasta'liq, lapsing in places, especially in the margins, into Shikastah. Two columns to a page divided into four oblong compartments of irregular size. Headpiece and four illustrations in gold and colours. Borders and spaces between the lines in gold. Headings in red.

Correspondence of various individuals, including Robert Aspland, Unitarian minister, the Reverend William Ettrick, Richard Hart, David Simpson, divine, and a letter from Robert Gray, bishop of Bristol, to William Rae Wilson, traveller and author; a group of letters to booksellers in London, one being from Michael Lort, antiquary; a group, relating mainly to financial and trade matters, addressed to Henshaw Latham and to Latham Rice and Co., Dover; a group dealing with legal, financial and business matters addressed to a London attorney-at-law and to Messrs Bell and Higginson, London.

Cofysgrifau'n perthyn i Eglwys Gymraeg Mayer Street, Hanley, c.1874-1982, gan gynnwys anerchiad ar hanes y Cymry yn Hanley, pregethau cylchwyl, papurau yn ymwneud â Peter Williams (Pedr Mostyn), Ysgrifennydd yr Eglwys, 1850-1857, ffotograffau o aelodau'r Eglwys ac aelodau'r Ysgol Sul.