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Winifred Coombe Tennant Papers Sub-fonds
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2014 Donation: Diaries,

Journals of Winifred Coombe Tennant, 1897-1908 (1 vol.) and 1909-55, with her observations on her war work, public life and politics. Peter Lord (editor) used these for Between two worlds: the diary of Winifred Coombe Tennant, 1909-1924 (Aberystwyth, 2011).

Art patronage,

Correspondence with Welsh artists, art patrons and administrators of art institutions, together with annotated catalogues, ephemera and press cuttings, almost all relating to Winifred Coombe Tennant's activities as a patron of Welsh art and art in Wales. Throughout this group of papers are notes added by Alexander Coombe-Tennant.

Gorsedd y Beirdd and the National Eisteddfod,

Papers, 1917-1957, of Winifred Coombe Tennant, mainly relating to 'Gorsedd y Beirdd' and to the National Eisteddfod of Wales. They include correspondence, 1917-1954, concerning the Gorsedd and the National Eisteddfod, her efforts to assist British prisoners of war, 1940-1941, and general interest; minutes, memoranda and reports of various committees associated with Gorsedd y Beirdd, 1922-1954; articles by Winifred Coombe Tennant and other miscellaneous papers, 1918-1947; press cuttings, photographs, postcards, badges and other ephemera, 1917-1954; printed material, including Gorsedd proclamation programmes, 1918-1954, programmes of Gorsedd meetings, 1925-1951, lists of officers and members of the Gorsedd, 1923-1949, 1924-1959, 1947, annual reports of the Eisteddfod Council, 1937-1950, Eisteddfod programmes, 1917-1952, articles and other items relating to Gorsedd y Beirdd and eisteddfodau, 1918-1957.