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A typescript copy, 1940, of a work entitled 'The Tribal System in Wales Examined', together with notes on signalling, 1917.

Music manuscripts and papers of the composer and teacher, Gilmor Griffiths.

Sgriptiau dramâu Gwynne D. Evans, 1946-[1979], gan gynnwys rhai a ddanfonwyd i gystadleuthau yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, ac a ddarlledwyd ar y radio ac ar y teledu; sgriptiau 'Pobol y Cwm'; ynghyd â phapurau’n ymwneud â’i waith fel cynhychydd Under Milk Wood a Dan y Wenallt.

Personal and professional papers of Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans, a senior civil servant, industrial relations expect and British representative to the International Labour Organisation. The papers comprise material relating to Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans' professional interests including correspondence with officers and representatives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and ILO member states, politicians and civil servants within the UK Government relating to industrial relations, correspondence and papers relating to his chairmanship of the Local Government Commission for Wales along with his personal correspondence and ephemera, and notes on research undertaken by members of his family into his life and career.

Papers, 1917-1980, of Tom Macdonald, including manuscript drafts of his published and unpublished novels and short stories; non-fictional writing and research notes relating to his work as a journalist; correspondence; poetry; plays; a collection of newspaper cuttings; minutes of committee meetings, 1917-1921; educational certificates, 1918-1919.

Original records, copies of official records, copies of press cuttings, copies of photographs, research notes and draft publications, 1914-2022, relating to fire services in south, west and central Wales, collected and compiled by Keith Mills and including the work of a number of research collaborators (mostly former firefighters), as well as correspondence between them and Keith Mills.

Papers of, or relating to, poet and writer William Henry Davies, comprising autograph fair copies, [c. 1916], of fifteen poems by Davies, some of then apparently unpublished, submitted to James Guthrie for publication by the Pear Tree Press under the title Quiet Streams, together with a letter, 1916, from Davies to Guthrie; and a manuscript bibliography of published works by Davies, [c. 1958]-[c. 1979], compiled by Lloyd Tyrrell-Kenyon, 5th baron Kenyon of Gredington.

Records of the Welsh Army Corps, 1914-1916, including correspondence and accounts, 1914-1916; applications for commission, 1914-1916; and records relating to administration of the units of the Welsh Army Corps, 1914-1916; minutes of the National Executive Committee, 1914-1921; records relating to Ministry of Labour, 1915-1925; and personal papers of Owen W. Owen, 1895-1928.

The collection consists almost entirely of correspondence predominately relating to Ifor L. Evans detainment in Germany during the Great War (1914-1918); letters and postcards between Ifor, his parents (Mr W. J. Evans and Mrs M. Evans) and grandmother; letters between Ifor, friends and others; correspondence between Ifor's parents and a range of individuals, mostly with regard to Ifor's situation; a series of letters to Mrs M. Evans from Mary Harold of Brae-Maray, Maeduff. The only material which is not correspondence is a loose selection of newspaper cuttings containing articles on German prisoners of war, as well as a few odds and ends (see series ILE/5 Miscellaneous for more details).

Llawysgrifau a chopïau teipysgrif o gerddi Gwenallt, 1922-[1968], yn cynnwys 'Mynach','Ynys Enlli', a cherddi eraill a gyhoeddwyd; sgriptiau, dramâu ac anerchiad, yn bennaf ar gyfer y radio,1947-1952; llyfrau, nodiadau rhydd a phenawdau'n cynnwys nodiadau a gopïwyd o lyfrau ac erthyglau wedi eu paratoi ar gyfer darlithoedd, sgyrsiau, anerchiadau, gweithiau cyhoeddedig ac ysgolion, 1913-1958; llythyrau, at Gwenallt yn bennaf, a rhai at ei weddw, 1926-1970; deunydd yn ymwneud â'i gofiant i Idwal Jones (1958) yn cynnwys llyfrau nodiadau a chopïau drafft o ran o'r llyfr yn ogystal â chaneuon, cerddi a pharodïau gan Jones, 1922-[1958]; a llyfr cofnodion,1929-1933, 'Cymdeithas yr Hwrddod' a ffurfiwyd gan Gwenallt ac Idwal Jones yn Aberystwyth. Derbyniwyd cyfrol o gerddi cynnar, heb eu cyhoeddi, a hefyd cyfrol o nodiadau llawysgrif, Medi 2013 a llyfr nodiadau yn cynnwys dyfyniadau o lyfrau Saesneg a drafftiau o gerddi cyhoeddedig gan Gwenallt yn Gymraeg yn Nhachwedd 2015. = Manuscripts and typescripts of poetry by Gwenallt, 1922-[1968], including 'Y Mynach', 'Ynys Enlli' and other published poems; scripts, dramas and an address, mostly written for radio, 1947-1952; notebooks, loose notes and headings containing notes copied from books and articles in preparation for lectures, talks, addresses, published works and for school, 1913-1958; letters, mostly to Gwenallt, with some to his widow, 1926-1970; material relating to his biography of Idwal Jones (1958) including notebooks and drafts of parts of the book as well as songs, poems and parodies written by Jones, 1922-[1958]; and a minute book, 1929-1933, of 'Cymdeithas yr Hwrddod', formed by Gwenallt and Idwal Jones at Aberystwyth.

A further volume of early poetry in Gwenallt's hand, not published, and a volume of manuscript notes were received, September 2013.

Papurau ychwanegol Gwenallt yn cynnwys llyfr nodiadau gyda dyfyniadau o lyfrau hanesyddol Saesneg yn bennaf. Tua chanol y gyfrol ceir cerdd: ‘Y gweithfeydd hyn’ [cyhoeddwyd yn Christine James (gol.), Cerddi Gwenallt: y casgliad cyflawn (Llandysul, 2001) fel ‘Y gweithfeydd segur’ ac yn wreiddiol yn Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 25 Awst 1943], a dau englyn: ‘Er cof am David Lewis, Dolanog’ [cyhoeddwyd fel ‘Er cof am Ddafydd Lewis, Gwasg Gomer’, yn Cerddi Gwenallt a chyn hynny yn Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 8 Medi 1943]; derbyniwyd Tachwedd 2015.

Llyfr nodiadau yn cynnwys dyfyniadau yn llaw Gwenallt, [1962]-[?1968], o lyfrau diwinyddol yn nodi’r gweithiau printiedig, rhifau tudalen a rhai ffynonellau llawysgrif. Maent yn ymwneud â John Bunyan, Williams Pantycelyn ac eraill ac mae’r mwyafrif mewn Saesneg; derbyniwyd Medi 2016.

Derbyniwyd papurau ychwanegol ym mis Rhagfyr 2021.

Bwndel ychwanegol o bapurau Gwenallt, yn cynnwys tri llyfr nodiadau, nodiadau ar bapurau rhyddion, album yn ymwneud â dadorchuddio plac ar gartref y bardd ym Mhenparcau ym Mawrth 1997, rhai ffotograffau, dau dâp caset o Ŵyl Gwenallt, Pontardawe, Hydref 1984, a ffeil o lythyrau oddi wrth Gwenallt at Nel Owen Edwards, 1935-1936, cyn eu priodi; Rhagfyr 2022.

Papurau David Thomas Davies, 1913-1961, yn cynnwys copïau llawysgrif a theipysgrif o ddramâu cyhoeddedig a rhai nas cyhoeddwyd, a hefyd ei gyfieithiadau Saesneg a Chymraeg o ddramâu, ynghyd â llyfr lloffion, gohebiaeth, a deunydd arall yn ymwneud â'i yrfa fel dramodydd. = Papers of David Thomas Davies, 1913-1961, including manuscript and typescript copies of published and unpublished plays, and also his English and Welsh translations of plays, together with a scrapbook, correspondence, and other material relating to his career as a dramatist.

Derbyniwyd papurau ychwanegol, 1913-[1959], yn cynnwys sgriptiau teledu a radio, cytundebau cyhoeddi, nodiadau ar Twm o’r Nant a dramâu Groegaidd, ynghyd â phortread o D. T. Davies mewn olew, ffotograffau teuluol a chartwnau, yn Hydref 2013.

Mae'r casgliad yn cynnwys papurau teuluol a phersonol,1913-1997, gan gynnwys tystysgrifau cofrestru sifil, gohebiaeth deuluol, tystysgrifau'n ymwneud â chysylltiad Huw Tudor â'r Seiri Rhyddion, a thaflenni gwasanaethau angladdau; papurau yn ymwneud â'r theatr, 1953-1993, yn cynnwys deunydd yn ymwneud â chyfnod Huw Tudor yn RADA, rhaglenni theatr a thorion perthynol o'r wasg; a phapurau amrywiol, 1957-1998, yn cynnwys torion o'r wasg ynglŷn â rhannau Huw Tudor ar y radio a'r teledu, deunydd yn ymwneud â'r Teulu Brenhinol, taflenni gwasanaethau coffa, a thestunau erthyglau a ysgrifennwyd gan Huw Tudor. = The collection comprises family and personal papers, 1913-1997, including civil registration certificates, family correspondence, Huw Tudor's freemasonry certificates, and funeral service cards; papers concerning the theatre, 1953-1993, including material concerning Huw Tudor's period at RADA, theatre programmes and related press cuttings; and miscellaneous papers, 1957-1998, including press cuttings concerning Huw Tudor's radio and television roles, material relating to the British Royal Family, memorial service cards, and the texts of articles written by Huw Tudor.

Papers relating to fringe Nationalist and left wing groups, 1963-1989, including material relating to Welsh Nationalist and Republican Groups, 1963-1989, material relating to Welsh left wing groups, 1969-1979, and papers relating to solidarity groups and campaigns, 1968-1989; published political material such as newspapers and periodicals, 1913-1989, records and papers of Cofiwn, 1970-1990, including material relating to the American Indian Movement Tour of Wales, 1986; papers relating to campaigns and activities of groups such as the the Owain Glyndwr Society, 1975-1990; papers relating to maritime history and heritage, 1973-1995; and miscellaneous papers, mainly relating to organisations in Aberystwyth, 1976-1989.

Papers of A. J. Sylvester, 1909-1986, including shorthand diaries and notebooks, 1912-1953; subject files, 1914-1948, including files relating to the First World War, 1914-1920, the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1920, Germany and the Second World War, 1936-1944; material relating to the Liberal Party, politics and elections, 1918-1945; Lloyd George family letters and papers, 1912-1985; general correspondence, 1912-1983; and papers relating to A. J. Sylvester's publications, 1945-1986.

Letters and related papers of Augustus John and Dorelia McNeill, [?1912]-2017 (mostly [?1912]-1969), sent to, or collected by, Tristan de Vere Cole. The collection includes letters of Augustus John to Mavis de Vere Cole, 1934-1959, and to her son Tristan de Vere Cole, [1947]-1961, together with letters of Dorelia McNeill to Mavis de Vere Cole, [?1949]-1961, and to Tristan de Vere Cole, 1951-1968. Also included are letters addressed to, or sent by, Augustus and Dorelia John and other members of their family, [?1912]-1969, including several from Michael Holroyd, 1966-1969, together with miscellaneous items, 1928-[?1961], in the hand of Augustus John.

Papers of Edwin John and his daughter Sara John, 1911-[?2005], including family and other correspondence, 1911-2004; press cuttings, 1931-1985; and theses and other papers relating to Gwen John, [?mid 20 cent.]-2002.

Papurau John Eilian, 1911-2018, 2022, yn cynnwys gohebiaeth, ei awdl ‘Maelgwn Gwynedd’, awdl fuddugol Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Bae Colwyn 1947, a'r bryddest ‘Meirionnydd’ y dyfarnwyd iddo'r goron yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Dolgellau 1949, a cherddi eraill ganddo; papurau’n deillio o’i gyfnod fel newyddiadurwr; ac erthyglau ganddo a gyhoeddwyd mewn cylchgronau. = Papers, 1911-2018, 2022, of John Eilian, comprising correspondence, his poem in strict metre ‘Maelgwn Gwynedd’ which was awarded the chair at The National Eisteddfod held at Colwyn Bay in 1947, and the winning crown poem ‘Meirionnydd’ at The National Eisteddfod at Dolgellau in 1949 and other poems by him; papers relating to his work as a journalist; and articles published in periodicals.

A small group of the papers of (Morgan) Goronwy Rees (1909-1979), former Principal of the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, 1953-1957, including correspondence, articles, notebooks and photographs. They relate mostly to Goronwy Rees's literary work, his resignation as Principal of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and his links to the Cambridge Spy Ring and Soviet espionage.

Cofnodion Urdd Gobaith Cymru, yn cynnwys papurau gweinyddol, yn eu plith adroddiadau a gohebiaeth, 1931-1990; cofnodion Pwyllgor, is-bwyllgorau a phaneli yr Urdd, 1939-1995, cofnodion ariannol, 1931-1996l, papurau yn ymwneud â theithiau tramor a drefnwyd gan Urdd Gobaith Cymru a Negeseuon Heddwch ac Ewyllys Da, 1931-1984; cofnodion, dogfennaeth ariannol ac arall perthynol i Gronfa Goffa O.M. Edwards, 1928-1976; papurau yn ymwneud â changhennau (adrannau ac aelwydydd), 1938-1960; gohebiaeth a phapurau yn ymwneud â chyrsiau a drefnwyd gan yr Urdd,1948-1965, a phapurau eraill yn ymwneud â'r cylchgronau, 1948-1990; trefniadau ar gyfer gwahanol wyliau, 1936-1995; cofnodion gweinyddol ac ariannol yn ymwneud â'r gwersylloedd yn Llangrannog a Glanllyn,1940-1995; deunydd printiedig, 1932-1963; llythyrau at O.M. Edwards, 1910-1920; cofnodion yn ymwneud â'r Cyngor, 1972-1991, a Chwmni yr Urdd, 1972-1989; cofnodion yn ymwneud ag aelodau staff, 1975-1995; gohebiaeth a thaflenni yn ymwneud ag Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd,1930-1965; papurau yn ymwneud â Maes yr Eisteddfod, 1972-1985, seremonïau yr Eisteddfod, 1952-1982, sioeau'r theatr, 1981-1991, a chystadlaethau; a chofnodion yn ymwneud â threfnu pob un o'r Eisteddfodau Cenedlaethol, 1946-1996 = Records of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, comrpising general administrative papers, including reports and correspondence, 1931-1990; records of Urdd Committee, sub-committees and panels, 1939-1995; financial records, 1931-1996; papers relating to overseas trips organized by Urdd Gobaith Cymru and international meetings, 1931-1962; papers relating to the Messages of Peace and Goodwill, 1931-1984; minutes, financial and other records of the O. M. Edwards Memorial Fund, 1928-1976; papers relating to the Welsh School, Aberystwyth, 1939-1952; papers relating to branches (adrannau and aelwydydd), 1938-1960; correspondence and papers relating to courses organized by the Urdd, 1948-1965; papers relating to the annual conferences to discuss the Urdd's magazines, 1952-1973, and other pars relating to the magazines, 1948-1990; arrangements regarding various festivals, 1936-1995; administrative and financial records relating to the camps at Llangrannog and Glanllyn, 1940-1995; printed material, 1932-1963; letters addressed to O. M. Edwards, 1910-1920; records relating to the Council, 1972-1991, and Cwmni'r Urdd, 1972-1989; records relating to staff members, 1975-1995; correspondence and literature relating to the Urdd National Eisteddfod, 1930-1965; papers relating to the Eisteddfod Maes, 1972-1985, Eisteddfod ceremonies, 1952-1982, theatre shows, 1981-1991, and competitions; and records relating to the organisation of individual National Eisteddfodau, 1946-1996.

The fonds comprises a substantial group of letters and papers, 1911-1972, acquired by Frances as private secretary to Lloyd George, including some business papers, notebooks of reminiscences and printed items. There are letters from a number of prominent politicians and public figures. There is also a small group of letters and papers, 1912-1965, concerning Lloyd George himself, papers, 1933-1946, relating to Jennifer Longford's schooldays, and a few papers relating to other members of the Stevenson family, notably Frances's sister Muriel and brother Paul. The material in sub-fonds G was loaned by Mrs Ruth Nixon of Camberwell to the National Library of Wales to be digitised in March 2013 and subsequently returned to her a few months later. Some of this material was subsequently purchased by NLW in 2017 and catalogued as sub-fonds H. The 2017 purchase includes various articles about Lloyd George, a draft memorandum partly in the hand of Lloyd George and partly in the hand of Frances Stevenson regarding the early part of the First World War, letters from Frances Stevenson to her family, including some from the Versailles Peace Conference, notes following Lloyd George's speeches and papers relating to Jennifer Longford including letters between her and Lloyd George.