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Thirteen letters in Welsh, c. 1861-1871, from Rees Williams, Sandy Creek, and his brother Thomas Williams, Carisbrook, both in Victoria, Australia, addressed to their cousin Rees Lewis (Ap Tudful, 1804-1886), Merthyr Tudful, printer, publisher and bookseller, together with two letters, 1863, one from Rees Williams to his father Daniel Williams, St Clears, carpenter, the other from John Thomas, St Clears, to Rees Lewis. The letters principally relate to sums of money owed to Rees and Thomas Williams but also include requests to Rees Lewis to send out Welsh hymn-books to Australia. Also included are a letter, 1857, from the Reverend David Charles Davies to ?Rees Lewis and two letters, 1863-1869, from Welsh emigrants in Pennsylvania.

Two awdlau by the Reverend Jonathan Machreth Rees ('Machreth', 1855-1911), London, entered for the chair competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Caernarfon, 1894, and Colwyn Bay, 1910.

Eleven letters, 1829-1834, from William Cobbett (1763-1835), journalist and politician, to William Williams (1788-1865), at the time a merchant of Watling Street, London, but later MP for Coventry and then for Lambeth, mainly concerning political matters.

Saith llythyr, 1966-1978, oddi wrth Dr Emyr Wyn Jones (Emyr Feddyg) at ei gyfaill, William John Jones, Gladstone, Aberdaron, gof y pentref, ynghyd ag erthygl fer o bosib yn llaw William Jones ei hun.

Minute-book of the Radnorshire Society, a small group of Radnorshire gentlemen living in London, from its inception in 1789 to its demise in 1812, reflecting the Society's main preoccupation, that of fostering agricultural improvements in Radnorshire by offering premiums, especially for the cultivation of turnips (see R. C. B. Oliver, The London Radnorshire Society, 1789-1812, and its Chief Officers, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 59 (1989), 79-89). The Society should not be confused with the Radnorshire Agricultural Society which was not established until 1809 (see W. H. House, Radnorshire Agricultural Societies, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 15 (1945), 28-32). The minute-book also contains the rules of the Society (ff. 2v-3v) and included is a resolution, 1791 (ff. 16, 17) to subscribe to a Welsh-English dictionary, probably that of John Walters published in London in 1794.

The first of six volumes of pocket diaries of the Reverend Thomas Roberts ('Scorpion', 1816-87) for 1845, 1869, 1881-1883 and 1885-1886 (using the printed Almanac a Dyddiadur (Llanrwst) for 1845, Y Dyddiadur or Dyddiadur Yr Annibynwyr for the other years). Brief daily entries in English, except for 1869 which was used only for accounts in 1869-71 and as a diary for January 1886. The 1845 diary records a year as a student at Brecon College; it includes reference to the execution of Thomas Thomas 'murderer of the butter merchant' on 10 April. The other volumes reflect life as a busy Independent minister in Llanrwst who was also post-master; there are references to building a new chapel ('New Tabernacl') in 1881-2, to frequent floods, to skating on the Conwy in the hard winter of 1881, to denominational and literary friends, notably Dr William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog') and W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'). The diaries also include accounts, with some details of the sale of Scorpion's publications, and sermon notes in Welsh. On the flyleaf of MS 22358 is a priced list of books including 'MSS Copy of Brut y Brenhinoedd' valued at £10.5s.

The last of three volumes containing indexed transcripts by Mrs Mary A. Jones, Johannesburg, of poetry in Welsh by her uncle Richard Williams (Gwydderig, 1842-1917).

Ten letters in Latin, 1762-1764, from Laurent Theodor Gronovius, Dutch naturalist, to Thomas Pennant, traveller and naturalist, mainly relating to their natural history studies and exchanges of books and specimens.

A catalogue of the library at Easton Court, co. Hereford, illustrated with skilfully executed pen-and-ink vignettes. The volume may well have been compiled and illustrated by Sir Joseph Russell Bailey (1840-1906), 2nd baronet and 1st baron Glanusk, shortly before the death of his grandfather, Sir Joseph Bailey, the first baronet, in 1858. The frontispiece bears the name J. Bailey, one vignette depicts an event in 1856 (f. 6v) and no books published after 1858 appear to be catalogued.

Draft typescript (Transcript from the Shorthand Notes of Messrs J Moore & Son ...) of the minutes of proceedings of the Royal Commission on the Welsh Church, days 1-4, 19-20, 26-27 October 1906, varying somewhat from the published Minutes of Evidence of the Commission. The evidence relates to the parishes of Abergwili, Carmarthen, Llanelli, Llan-gain and Llanpumsaint, co. Carmarthen.

Letters and accounts, 1821-1823, of Walter Churchey of Brecon, solicitor, relating to the Penoyre estate, co. Brecon, and forwarded by him to the owner, the Reverend Thomas Watkins (1761-1829), whilst the latter was on the Continent, together with two letters from Samuel Church of Brecon, solicitor (ff. 7r-v, 28v). The letters and accounts give detailed information concerning estate matters such as rents and rent arrears, the leasing of farms, tithes and repairs, and contain numerous references to local affairs and events. Notes on the volume, compiled by its previous owner Nigel Temple, have been tipped in at the front (ff. ii-xii).

Very extensive contemporary manuscript additions to John Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae (London, 1716) bringing the ecclesiastical fasti to 1743 and those of Oxford and Cambridge to 1755 and 1754 respectively, ?in the hand of the Joseph Smith whose autograph appears on p. 1 (possibly Joseph Smith, provost of Queen's College, Oxford). The additions, some of which are included in later editions, appear to be taken from manuscript and printed sources and personal communications received by the writer. Bound into the volume are two printed items: A Catalogue of the Principal Members of the Conventual and Cathedral Church of Ely ... from ... AD 673 to the present Year 1756 (Cambridge, 1756) (ff. 7-10) and A List of the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales, since the Restoration 1660 to the year 1753 (ff. 11-12).

Rental, 1822, of the estate of Lewis Price Jones, Glanyrannell, co. Carmarthen, comprising properties in the parishes of Cynwyl Gaeo, Llandeilo, Llansadwrn, Llansawel, Llanwrda, Llan-crwys and Talley, co. Carmarthen, and Llanddewibrefi, co. Cardigan; with miscellaneous memoranda, 1822-1823.

Black and white photographs of some one hundred and fifty items from the collection, including those sold at Sotheby's in 1960.

The second of two notebooks (see also NLW MS 22319B) containing a list and index compiled, 1952, by T. W. Hughes, agent to the Gregynog estate, of pictures and sculpture collected by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.
Typescript lists and rough notes found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (NLW MS 22321C).

The first of two notebooks (see also NLW MS 22320B) containing a list and index compiled, 1952, by T. W. Hughes, agent to the Gregynog estate, of pictures and sculpture collected by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.