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The file includes correspondence with Alun Talfan Davies (1 letter); Aneirin Talfan Davies (9 letters), and Clara Novello Davies (1 letter).

Papers, 1911-2005, of and relating to the singing career of donor's mother, the contralto Esther Cooper-Jones, originally from Ynyshir but who lived in Aberystwyth until her death. She won many National Eisteddfod solo prizes in her youth and then went to London where she was lead singer in the Ivor Novello chorus, including certificates and concert programmes, biographical material, letters fron Clara Novello Davies, her tutor, and newspaper cuttings relating to her son Ivor Novello.

Album, 1893-1922, containing press cuttings relating to concerts given by The Royal Welsh Ladies' Choir, conducted by Madame Clara Novello Davies, and their visit to America in 1893 where they won the Champion Prize at the World's Fair in Chicago. Nellie Griffiths was 'a well known Welsh soprano'.