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Copies of appendices and tables from K. H. Edwards's University of Wales College, Cardiff, dissertation based on the account books and diaries of William Williams (1806-1890), Brynmawr, grocer and draper; they include a schedule of leases for the Brynmawr area, 1800-1895, and other summaries based on documents in the NLW Badminton Collection.

A copy of the eighteenth issue of the 'Yonges Family Newsletter', Spring 1998.

A facsimile copy of 'Thou Art the One Truth' (1935) and two of 'My Last Duchess' by Grace Williams (1906-1977), which belonged to the late baritone Louis Berkman. The latter work was specially composed for him by Grace Williams, in 1975, to the words of Robert Browning and one of the copies contains manuscript additions by her; together with concert programmes and promotional material, 1975-88, relating to performances of the work by Louis Berkman.

Additional Gwynedd Family History Society publications on microfiche : Memorial Inscriptions 210 (Llanfigael, co Anglesey); 214 (Llanddeiniolen, co Caernarfon); 215 (St Cybi, Holyhead); 249 (Llandecwyn, co Merioneth); Census Indexes: 31 (Llanwnda, co Caernarfon); 37 (Trawsfynydd, co Merioneth); 39 (Llanfrothen, co Merioneth)

A copy of S. Davies, The Reverend Samuel Davies ''The First'', and his Times, relating to Samuel Davies (1788-1854), Wesleyan Methodist minister, Cilcain, Flintshire, re-written by Leonard Twiston Davies in 1932, containing pasted-in photographs, postcards, typescript pedigrees and notes; together with the original Welsh version, Y Parch. Samuel Davies, 1af, a'i Amserau..., published in 1866, bearing the name of Samuel Twiston Davies and set in a protective wooden frame at the end of the volume.

Photocopies of papers relating to elections in Radnorshire, forming part of the Radnorshire Quarter Sessions Records transferred from the Library to the Powys Record Office in 1990, comprising poll clerks books, 1841, for the Penybont, Painscastle, Colwyn, New Radnor, Presteigne, Rhayader and Knighton Districts(S.1023-30).

National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland:Index on CD-ROM, Disc 1997:1

A volume containing hymn tunes by R. Wright in manuscript composed for hymns mostly from Congregational Church Hymnal (1885) and Sunday School Hymnary (1905).

The diaries of the late Reverend Francis Insull for 1945 and 1946 during his period of service in the Middle East as Assistant Commissioner Church Army; together with a copy of the Mid-East Review, no 5, January 1946, edited by him.

Three typescript volumes containing details of monumental inscriptions in cemeteries (including Welsh cemeteries) located in Portage County, Ohio, USA, arranged as follows: miscellaneous townships; Edinburg and Palmyra townships, 1805-1993 (vol v); and Paris and Charlestown townships, 1818-1993 (vol viii).

A copy of the fifteenth issue of the 'Yonges Family Newsletter', July 1997.

A copy of Alun R Jones's PhD thesis 'A Critical Study of the Literary Works of Lewis Morris, 1701-1765' (Jesus College, Oxford, 1997).

Manuscripts and printed works, 1818-1895, of Lady Charlotte Guest (née Bertie, other married name Schreiber), comprising journals, 1824-1891 (with gaps); papers relating to the iron and coal industries at Dowlais, 1818-1853; and copies of her printed books, 1888-1895.

Five printed volumes and a proof copy, 1935-1956, of poetry by Clifford Dyment, all containing annotations, emendations or inscriptions in his hand; together with a small bundle of miscellaneous personal items, 1929-1978.

Papers relating to the Aberfan disaster, collected by the donor's father, William Tudor, secretary of the Aberfan Parents' & Residents' Association.

Administrative papers of Plaid Cymru National Left/Chwith Genedlaethol including agendas, minutes, motions, correspondence, along with publications discussion papers.

Journal of an unidentified writer from Edmonton, North London, recording several cycling tours in south-east England and north Wales, 1916-1918 (ff. 1-27), in particular a tour, entitled 'A Sentimental Journey... to Wales... 1918. The Diary of the Pilgrim of Love', 6-20 July 1918 (ff. 10-27), in which he retraced the route of a tour the previous year (see also ff. 3 verso-4 verso), in the unrealised hope of seeing again his first love Hilda. The journals were written retrospectively based on contemporaneous notes.
Commencing from London and travelling via Shrewsbury (ff. 12 verso-13), the Welsh itinerary included Pentrefoelas, Denbighshire (f. 14 recto-verso), Harlech (ff. 15 verso-19), Betws-y-Coed (f. 21 recto-verso), Conwy (f. 22), Caernarfon (ff. 22 verso-23), Betws-y-Coed again (f. 24 recto-verso), Rhyl (f. 25 recto-verso) and Chester (ff. 25 verso-26). Also included in the volume are accounts of earlier excursions, including tours of East Anglia, 1917 (f. 2 recto-verso, beginning lacking), and Hampshire, Sussex and Surrey, Easter 1918 (ff. 6-7), and journeys to Reading, Berkshire, [11]-[12] May 1918 (ff. 7 verso-8 verso), and Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, [18-20 May] 1918 (f. 9 recto-verso). A few sketches and fragments of prose are to be found at the end of the volume (ff. 108 verso (inverted text), 109 verso). The volume also contains transcripts of poetry, some by the author (ff. 4 verso-5, 10, 13, 17-18, 109 verso). The text is supplemented by fifty-two of the author's own photographs (ff. 3, 7-27 passim), cuttings of twenty-four Frank Patterson illustrations for the magazine Cycling (ff. 1 verso-7 passim, 10 verso-11 verso, 20-25 verso passim) and other cuttings. The writer was born in 1898 (f. 7 verso) and was of conscription age but had received temporary exemption from enlistment (see f. 3).

Commonplace book, [1850s]-1898, of the Rev. William Rees, curate of St John-juxta-Swansea, Glamorgan (1848-1861), and vicar of Bettws, Carmarthenshire (1861-1865), and Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire (1865-1898), containing quotations and other transcripts from printed sources and material relating to Rees, his family history and to genealogy and local history in the Swansea area more generally.
Material relating to Rees and his work includes memoranda concerning Bettws Church, 1862-1865, including registers of attendance, lists of parish poor and copy letters (ff. 295 verso, 296 verso, 297 verso-302, 303, 304 verso); registers of attendance at Llanboidy Church, 1866-1868, 1876-[1897] (ff. 257 verso-264, 266 verso-271, 289-292); copies of nine letters published in The Welshman (1867) concerning his mixed language services at Llanboidy (ff. 153 verso, 154 verso-163 verso); transcripts of deeds, 1822, 1880, relating to family property in St John-juxta-Swansea (ff. 222 verso-229 verso); and copies of eleven letters to Rees, 1895-1898, mainly concerning the death of his wife (ff. 244 verso-247). Genealogical and historical material includes pedigrees and notes relating mostly to families in the Swansea area, as well as Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire (ff. 3 verso, 15 verso, 69, 166 verso, 174, 175, 180-184 verso, 191 verso, 198, 200 verso-217 verso, 240 verso-241, 264 verso, 271 verso-278, 280 verso-281 verso, 285-286, 287 recto-verso, 297, 303 verso, 309-310, 311, 312-314, 316); transcripts from parish registers and other records, mostly eighteenth-century, relating to Llangyfelach (ff. 159, 165-166, 171 verso, 175, 176, 193, 195 verso-196 verso, 198 verso-200, 215, 216, 217-218, 221 verso- 222, 230, 231 verso-236, 237 verso-240, 288, 295) and Llansamlet (f. 197 recto-verso, 244, 315 recto-verso); transcripts from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century wills, together with lists of wills, mainly relating to Llangyfelach (ff. 167, 169-171, 173-174, 176 verso-179, 180 verso, 218, 278 verso-280, 284 verso, 286 verso, 292 verso-295); names and other genealogical information extracted from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manorial and taxation records relating to the manors of Kilvey and Clase, and to the hamlets of Parcel Mawr and Parcel Penthery [Penderry], Llangyfelach (f. 167 verso-168 verso, 172 recto-verso, 174 verso-175 verso, 185-191, 236 verso-237, 240, 241 verso-243 verso, 310 verso); miscellaneous transcripts and notes relating to Rees's ancestors, the Popkin family (ff. 176, 191 verso-192 verso, 195, 197 verso-198, 230 verso-232, 288 verso); and a transcript of the diary of Lewis Thomas [of Swansea] for January-October 1684 (ff. 282-284, 307-308 verso). The general quotations and transcripts, [1850s]-1897, concern a wide variety of subjects, including theology, history, Biblical history, literature, philosophy and Welsh poetry (ff. 2-3, 4-68 verso, 69 verso-148, 149-154, 164 recto-verso, 167 verso, 171 verso, 243, 247 verso-248 and 301 verso-306 passim). Items found loose within the volume, including two leaves excised between ff. 281 and 282 (now ff. 307-308), miscellaneous original documents collected by Rees, 1754-[mid 19 cent.] (ff. 320-325), and newspaper cuttings, [?1825]-[1933] (ff. 331-336), have been placed in an archival envelope (ff. 307-336).

Manuscript poem, 1848, in an unknown hand, entitled 'Aber-Conway or a Gleaning from Cambrian History', concerning the tribulations of Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (ff. 2-39). It is apparently unpublished.
The poem is subdivided into four Cantos, with Canto III also including 'Llewellyn's Song' (ff. 28-29 verso). It is preceded by an introduction, possibly in a different hand, which confuses Llywelyn ap Gruffydd with his grandfather Llywelyn the Great (f. 1 verso). The poem is dated 29 June 1848, and signed by means of a monogram, possibly 'SJ' or 'JS' (f. 39). There are minor emendations throughout, mostly in ink.

Papers of Robert Colley comprising a butterfly survey, illustrated with photographs, of the Llanrhystud transect, 2000-2007; and two field notebooks containing Chough surveys in the same area, 2003-2004.