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An album compiled by T. Lewis Old, Aberystwyth, containing printed matter, press cuttings, and correspondence relating to the National Eisteddfod and in particular to the accompanying Singing Festival ('Gymanfa Ganu Genedlaethol') held at Aberystwyth in August, 1916. A few items at the end relate to a similar Singing Festival held in conjunction with the National Eisteddfod at Birkenhead in September, 1917.

Notes, mainly for speeches by Lloyd George, identified as follows: House of Commons debate on education, 9 July 1902; House of Commons budget speech, 29 April 1909; Mile End, 21 November 1910; Swansea, 28 May 1912; Select Committee on Marconi affair, March 1913; ?Trocadero, 18 May 1916; National Eisteddfod of Wales, Birkenhead, 7 September 1917.

Correspondence, 1907-1934, of Philip Thomas, mostly addressed to him as General Secretary of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Neath, 1918 (ff. 16-387 passim).
Also included are a list of subjects and donors at the National Eisteddfod, Aberystwyth, 1916 (ff. 5-15); verses in Welsh written to Philip Thomas on his seventy-third birthday, 1930 (ff. 395-396); four letters of protest, 1934, at the invitation by Neath Council to the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society to visit Neath in 1936 (ff. 397-401 verso); and a musical programme for a reception at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Birkenhead, 1917 (f. 249).

An essay on 'Hiwmor mewn Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg' by T. J. Thomas ('Sarnicol'), submitted for competition at the Birkenhead National Eisteddfod, 1917.