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Cerdd i Glynn Silyn Roberts a Meilir Silyn Roberts (a adwaenwyd fel Bill), meibion Silyn a Mary Silyn Roberts, gan y bardd, llenor a'r ysgolhaig T. Gwynn Jones. Ysgrifennwyd y gerdd pan oedd Glynn a Meilir yn blant a chyn geni Rhiannon, trydydd plentyn Silyn a Mary; ynghyd â dalen yn cynnwys copi teipiedig o'r gerdd, gyda'r arnodiad: 'Ymgais i ddehongli'r gwreiddiol' (mae'n amlwg o'r gwreiddiol mai 'Y Ddau Ddewin' ddylai'r teitl fod, nid 'I Ddau Ŵr Bach', fel a geir yn y dehongliad). = Poem addressed to Glynn Silyn Roberts and Meilir Silyn Roberts (known as Bill), sons of Silyn and Mary Silyn Roberts, by the poet, author and scholar T. Gwynn Jones. The poem was written when Glynn and Meilir were children and prior to the birth of Rhiannon, Silyn and Mary's third child; together with a sheet of paper containing a typed copy of the poem, alongside an annotation: 'Ymgais i ddehongli'r [gerdd] gwreiddiol' ['An attempt to interpret the original [poem]'] (it is obvious from the original poem that the title should read 'Y Ddau Ddewin' ['The Two Wizards'], not, as has been interpreted in the copy, 'I Ddau Ŵr Bach' [''To Two Little Men']).

The correspondents include: Dr Gwenan Jones (3), 1915-1925, Gwyneth Vaughan Jones, Barry, 1918, G. Hartwell Jones (3), 1911-1920, Professor Sir Henry Jones, Glasgow (5), 1892-1915, Sir Henry Haydn Jones MP (5), 1913-1919, Sir Henry Stuart Jones (4), 1919 and undated, J. Cynddylan Jones, 1903, Rev. J. Puleston Jones (4), 1895-1923, J. Walter Jones, Neath (2), 1920-1925, Llew Tegid, 1908, Owen Rowland Jones (7), 1899-1907, Trebor Aled, 1890, R. Vaughan Jones, Bootle (6), 1909-1912, T. Gwynn Jones (13), 1907-1924, and William Jones MP (2), 1905-1907.

Llythyrau, 1909-1949, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth E. Tegla Davies, O. M. Edwards (12), T. Gwynn Jones (13), H. Elvet Lewis (2), Thomas Richards, 'Meuryn', 'Moelona' (4), J. Ellis Williams (3) a R[ichard] Hughes Williams (2).

The file contains corresondence, 1968-1969, accumulated by Sally Roberts Jones as secretary of the English Language Section of the Academi. The correspondence relates to the first and other early meetings of the section and includes letters and references to many prominent Anglo-Welsh and Welsh language writers including Dannie Abse, Alison Bielski, W. H. Boore, Brenda Chamberlain, Alexander Cordell, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Pennar Davies, Rhys Davies, Tom Earley, Raymond Garlick, Ll. Wyn Griffiths, Peter Gruffydd, Cledwyn Hughes, Richard Hughes, A.O.H. Jarman, Glyn Jones, Harri Pritchard Jones, John Idris Jones, R. Brinley Jones, R. Gerallt Jones, Sally Roberts Jones, T. Gwynn Jones, Roland Mathias, Bill Meilen, Gerald Morgan, Robert Morgan, T. J. Morgan, James Morris, Leslie Norris, D. Parry-Jones, T. H. Parry-Williams, Cecil J. L. Price, A. G. Prys-Jones, Alun Richards, Kate Roberts, Meic Stephens, Gwyn Thomas (Bangor), R. George Thomas, Aled Vaughan, Richard Vaughan, Gwyn Williams (Trefenter), Herbert Williams and Raymond Williams.

Letters, 1934, from Sir Walford Davies and T. Gwynn Jones, relating to Walford Davies's composition written as a memorial to John Griffith, and published as Ah! gentle may I lay me down. Words taken from William Blake and Edmund Prys (Cardiff, 1934).

Papers relating to the life and career of Edward Morgan Humphreys, including letters to E. Morgan Humphreys, from several prominent Welsh figures, 1900x1955, relating to professional matters, such as his articles and contributions to newspapers, requests for articles, radio talks, addresses, literary works, public appointments, his involvement with the eisteddfod and various committees; together with some letters relating to personal affairs, politics and literary matters and letters written to him in his role as an editor; miscellaneous and family ('Dyffryn') correspondence, which are mostly letters of the families of E. Morgan Humphreys' great-grandfather, the Rev Richard Humphreys, and of his grandfather, the Rev Edward Morgan, [1800]x1953; articles, radio scripts and addresses by E. Morgan Humphreys, 1902x1955; together with some personal and family papers, 1841x1955; articles, poetry, adjudications and letters to the editor of Y Genedl etc., by T. Gwynn Jones, 1890x1949; and other miscellaneous papers accumulated by E. Morgan Humphreys, [1762]x1955. Some of the family correspondence was published in 'Some Nineteenth Century Letters', in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1925-1926.

Papurau, 1916-1971, yn ymwneud â chyhoeddiadau F. Wynn Jones sef Godre'r Berwyn (1953) a Canmlwydd Siloh (1962), ynghyd â phapurau ymchwil yn ymwneud â'r cofiant arfaethedig i'w dad-yng-nghyfraith T. Gwynn Jones. Ceir hefyd rhai o'i bapurau personol ef ei hun sy'n cynnwys llythyrau, 1916-1918, a anfonodd tra'n filwr adeg y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf ac fel carcharor rhyfel yn 1918; a llythyrau'n ei longyfarch ar gael OBE yn 1957. Ychwanegwyd rhai nodiadau cefndirol gan Emrys Wynn Jones.

Papurau Thomas Owen Jones ('Gwynfor'), [c. 1889]-1969, yn cynnwys gohebiaeth, llyfrau nodiadau, dyddiadur, dramâu, storiâu, cerddi, traethodau, sgyrsiau a darlithoedd, adroddiadau a thorion o'r wasg yn ymwneud â 'Gwynfor' a byd y ddrama yng Nghymru, a chopïau o gerddi a anfonwyd ato gan Thomas Gwynn Jones (1871-1949), Robert Williams Parry (1884-1956), ac eraill; ynghyd â llythyrau at Madge Jones,1941-1969, ynglŷn â Gwynfor a'i waith. = Papers of Thomas Owen Jones ('Gwynfor'), [c. 1889]-1969, comprising correspondence, notebooks, a diary, plays, stories, poems, essays, talks and lectures, reports and press cuttings relating to 'Gwynfor' and the drama movement in Wales, and copies of poems addressed to him by Thomas Gwynn Jones (1871-1949), Robert Williams Parry (1884-1956), and others; together with letters to Madge Jones, 1941-1969, concerning Gwynfor and his work.

Manuscript score of 'To daffodils' = 'Cennin aur' (English words, Robert Herrick; Welsh translation, T. Gwynn Jones). Arranged for T.T.B.B unaccompanied male voices. Published Magor: Mansel Thomas Trust, Ref: MT009 [1998?].

Papers relating to Thomas Gee, Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist and politician, of Denbigh, including a biography; extracts from her father's letters sent by Mrs. S. M. Matthews, Amlwch, to Mr. Jones [?T. Gwynn Jones], 1912; 'Adgofion am fy Anwyl Dad' [Thomas Gee] written in pencil by one of his children; correspondence, 1891, between Thomas Gee (copies of letters) and St. John Charlton, Cholmondeley, Malpas, Cheshire, concerning the tithe of Eglwys-Wen farm, which Thomas Gee held as tenant; reports of Sunday Schools in the Ruthin District, 1887-1888; extracts from the minute book of 'Cyfarfodydd Ysgolion Dosbarth Rhuthyn', 1882-1898, containing references to Thomas Gee; press cuttings relating to Thomas Gee's Education Scheme, 1896; notes on the Land Question; sermon notes; verses in memory of Thomas Gee, 1898; and a few printed items including a circular, February, 1893, containing Thomas Gee's suggestions for the Disendowment of the Church of England in Wales, and a copy of the Disestablishment Bill, 1895.

A minute book of the Literary Society of Gerlan Calvinistic Methodist Church, Gerlan, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, covering (with some gaps) the period 1906-19. Among the entries are detailed reports of lectures by Principal [Thomas] Rees, Bangor (on 'David Livingstone'), Professor [Sir] John Morris-Jones, Bangor ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion' and 'Pantycelyn'), Thomas Shankland, Bangor ('Morgan John Rhys, y Jacobin Cymreig'), S. Maurice Jones, Caernarvon ('Olion Hen Hanes Cymru', with illustrations, by the recorder, of Caernarvon Castle, Valle Crucis Abbey, the parliament house of Owain Glyndŵr at Dolgellau, Cefn Brith, etc.), J. H. Jones ('Je Aitsh'), Liverpool ('Y Cymro trwy lygad Said'), [Lewis Davies Jones] ('Llew Tegid') ('Trioedd hen a newydd), [Robert] Gwyneddon Davies and Mrs. [Grace] Gwyneddon Davies ('Alawon Gwerin'), T. Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth ('Pantycelyn'), etc.

Holograph, autograph, and typescript messages of greetings for publication in the first number of Y Cymro, 3 December, 1932. The writers include D[avid] Miall Edwards; Ifan ab Owen Edwards (with a covering letter from R. E. Griffith); D[avid] Emrys Evans, University College of North Wales, Bangor; D[avid] Tecwyn Evans; D[avid] Lloyd George (with a covering letter from A. J. Sylvester); Peter Hughes Griffiths; W. J. Gruffydd; E[dward] Ernest Hughes; John Jenkins ('Gwili'); C[adwaladr] Bryner Jones; and T. Gwynn Jones.

Thirteen exercise books, those numbered I-XII containing miscellaneous poetic and prose compositions (many in draft form), by, and in the hand of, Isaac Jones, Diserth, co. Flint [father of Thomas Gwynn Jones, professor of Welsh literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth]. The items include 'pryddestau' entitled 'Abel' (a draft and a more finished version, composed for competition at an eisteddfod at Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1891), 'Cartref', 'Y Nefoedd', and 'Naaman y Syriad' (draft) (composed for competition at eisteddfodau or literary festivals at Abergele, 1885, 1889, and 1890, respectively), and 'Y Croeshoeliad'; a draft of a romance in serial form called 'Teulu'r Groesffordd' (seven chapters completed, chapter 8 incomplete); a short story called 'Hywel Tudur yr Hendre'; a draft of the beginning of a novel to be called 'Teulu'r Hafod'; draft or final versions of short dissertations or essays on such topics as 'Geirwiredd' (for competition at an eisteddfod at Llanrwst, 1891), 'Cadwraeth y Sabbath yn ei berthynas a llwyddiant tymhorol' (incomplete), 'Y Ddeddf air Efengyl', 'Y Tair Gardd' (1922), 'Peryglon y Swydd i Ysbryd y Blaenor' (headed by a pencilled note, in another hand, reading 'Papyr a ddarllenwyd yn Nghymdeithasfa Caerlleon, gan Isaac Jones, Dyserth'), and 'Gwyrthiau'; an incomplete copy of a letter referring to tithe legislation, addressed to the editor of Y Faner; and other incomplete fragments. The note-book numbered XIII contains a copy of the poem by T. Gwynn Jones entitled 'Dyddiau y Parch. Richard Owen' [see Dyddiau y Parch. Richard Owen, gyda Chynyrchion Buddugol Ereill, gan Gwynvre ap Iwan a Gwilym Meredydd (Wyddgrug, 1891)]. This is probably the actual holograph copy of the poem, which, under the pseudonym 'Deigryn Hiraeth', T. Gwynn Jones submitted for competition at a literary festival held at Abergele, Christmas 1888. Included with the note-books are a holograph note from Mrs. S[arah] E[lin] Jones, sister of T. Gwynn Jones, undated, a holograph letter from Owen Jones, husband of the said Mrs. S. E. Jones, Diserth, [19]53, and a letter from the said Owen and S. E. Jones, Dyserth, [19]53, [all three to D. Gwenallt Jones, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth], and all relating to the note-books, which were being forwarded to the recipient. Included also are typescript notes compiled by, and bearing the initials of, A[rthur] ap G[wynn] [son of T. Gwynn Jones], listing, and commenting on, the contents of each individual note-book.

A holograph copy of the adjudication by T[homas] Gwynn Jones [professor of Welsh Literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth] on the four poems submitted for the chair competition at the Denbighshire Chair Eisteddfod [held at Denbigh, 3, 5, 6 June], 1922.

Holograph letters to William Porter including:- (a) Eleven letters, 1907-1909, from [the Reverend] E[dward] O[wen] Davies, y Bala, Principal Ellis Edwards, The Theological College, Bala, J. C. Evans, The Grammar School, Bala, [the Reverend] J. T. Alun Jones, registrar, The Theological College, Bala, [Professor] A[rchibald] R[obert] S[tirling] Kennedy, Edinburgh and Ford, Dalkeith (3), James Kennedy, Edinburgh, the Reverend John Owen, secretary, The Theological College, Bala, from Liverpool, [Professor] John Owen Thomas [of the Theological College, Bala] from Liverpool, and Evan Williams, Flint, all relating mainly to the recipient's appointment as lecturer in, and subsequently professor of, Hebrew at the Theological College, Bala. (b) Twenty-eight letters from [Professor] F[rancis] C[rawford] Burkitt, Cambridge, [19]06-1907 (4) (recipient's [doctorate] dissertation (see NLW MS 12920E above), the possibility of publishing the work, the degree of D.D. conferred on the writer, a comment on Robert H[atch] Kennett: In Our Tongues . . . (London, 1907)), [Professor] Marcus Dods, Edinburgh, 1902 and undated (2) (advice with regard to preaching), [Professor] E[rnest] Norman Jones [of the Theological College, Aberystwyth] from Three Cocks, Breconshire, and Swansea, [19]26 (8) (personal, college business, grants to students, the death of J[ohn] H[umphreys] Davies [principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth], speculation as to whether [Dr.] Tom Jones [Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, 1916-1930] would succeed him), [Professor] T[homas] Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth, [19]29 (personal, thanks for a copy of Scotsman, the writer's proposed book on Welsh folk-lore), [the Very Reverend] J[oseph] Armitage Robinson, The Deanery, Westminster, 1906 (publication of recipient's [doctorate] thesis), [Professor] W[illiam] B[arron] Stevenson, The University, Glasgow, and The British Museum, 1907-1918 (3) (comments on the town of Bala, suggestions as to the syllabus recipient could follow on taking up his appointment [as the writer's successor at the Theological College, Bala], suggestions as to the classifying and cataloguing of the books in Bala College library, possible means of extending library accommodation at Bala College), and [the Reverend] J[ohn] O[wen] Thomas [previously professor at the Theological College, Aberystwyth] from Barry, Bala, and Abergele, 1926-1928 (9) (personal, recipient's move to the chair of New Testament studies [at the Theological College, Aberystwyth], references to ministerial and academic colleagues).

Llythyrau, 1914-1933, at Ellis D. Jones, yn bennaf yn ymwneud â sefydlu Neuadd Goffa Owain Glyndŵr yng Nglyndyfrdwy, 1931-1932, y gohebwyr yn cynnwys T. E. Ellis (3), T. Gwynn Jones (3) a Syr John Edward Lloyd (2), ynghŷd â llythyrau eraill, 1936-1952, rhai ohonynt wedi'u cyfeirio at Syr Alfred Thomas Davies a'r gohebwyr yn cynnwys Syr John Ballinger (1) a W. Ambrose Bebb (3); ac eitemau amrywiol sy'n cynnwys cynllun, 1932, ar gyfer plannu planhigion ar dir Neuadd Goffa Owain Glyndŵr, llyfr lloffion yn ymwneud yn bennaf â'r Neuadd Goffa, a nodiadau yn ymwneud ag Owain Glyndŵr, ac â threfn gwasanaeth sefydlu'r Neuadd Goffa, 5 Medi 1931 = Letters, 1914-1933, to Ellis D. Jones, mainly relating to the establishment of the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall in Glyndyfrdwy, 1931-1932, the correspondents including T. E. Ellis (3), T. Gwynn Jones (3) and Sir John Edward Lloyd (2), together with other letters, 1936-1952, some of which are addressed to Sir Alfred Thomas Davies, the correspondents including Sir John Ballinger (1) and W. Ambrose Bebb (3); and miscellaneous items which include a proposed 'planting plan', 1932, for the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall grounds, a scrap book mainly relating to the Memorial Hall, and notes relating to Owain Glyndŵr, and to the order of service at the establishment of the Memorial Hall, 5 September 1931.

Over seventy letters and cards, 1917-1986, of miscellaneous provenance from twentieth-century Welsh writers to various recipients; the correspondents include E. Tegla Davies (1) 1956, W. J. Gruffydd (1) 1952, R. T. Jenkins (1), 1946, David James Jones (Gwenallt) (1) 1953, T. Gwynn Jones (9) 1923-1939, J. Saunders Lewis (5) 1931-1976, Caradog Prichard (4) 1962-1972, Kate Roberts (28) 1937-1983, D. J. Williams (6) 1917-1969, and T. H. Parry-Williams (1) 1953.

Letters, 1920-77, to Geraint Dyfnallt Owen from various correspondents including Édouard Bachellery (2) 1934-5, W. Ambrose Bebb (1) 1935, Aneirin Talfan Davies (7) 1939-77, Roparz Hemon (1) 1937, T. Gwynn Jones (3) 1937-44, Sir J. E. Lloyd (3) 1936-7, Bob Owen, Croesor (1) 1932, and Alun Llywelyn-Williams (19) 1940-5.

Fifty letters and cards, 1924-1955, to Owain Llewelyn Owain from various correspondents, including Frances Lloyd George (2) 1945, Mathonwy Hughes (1) 1945, R. W. Jones (Erfyl Fychan) (2) 1927-1932, T. Gwynn Jones (1) 1942, T. Llechid Jones (1) 1929, William Owen Jones (Eos y Gogledd) (1) 1927, Bob Owen, Croesor (1) 1930, Thomas Parry (1) 1942, and Daniel Protheroe (6) 1927-1933, the latter including autograph music.

Fifteen testimonial letters, 1899-1921, for Dafydd Rhys Jones ('Jones Pat'), headmaster of the Gaiman Higher Grade School, Chubut, 1906-1915, and of the Cwmystwyth, Pontrhydfendigaid and Ysbyty Ystwyth Council Schools, Cardiganshire, 1902-1906, 1917-1941.
Among the referees are Professors Edward Anwyl, 1900 (ff. 4-5), and T. Gwynn Jones, 1919 (f. 16). Also included are extracts from the annual reports for Cwmystwyth School for 1903-1905 (f. 19) and newspaper cuttings, [c. 1916]-[1953], mostly relating to Devil's Bridge and Ysbyty Ystwyth (ff. 20-21).