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A collection of miscellaneous music made by Annie Almeria McL. Cookes, 1841.

A collection of miscellaneous music for the piano.

A collection of miscellaneous songs.

Papers relating to the Local Authority Survey, 1985-1987, comprising replies from local authorities in Wales, 1985, and in the United Kingdom, 1986, in response to circulars from Gareth D. Evans; Standing Orders from various local authorities, [1986]; samples of circular letters, 1986-1987; letters received by GDE, 1986-1987; and draft of summary of replies received and their subsequent analysis, 1986.

A 'List of Monasteries, &c., in Great Britain to which is added a List of Monastic Cartularies with an Index, 1835'. The monasteries, churches, and castles are arranged alphabetically under counties, and particulars are given of the dates of foundation, of the situation of the monastic houses, and of the orders to which they belonged. The List of Monastic Cartularies was drawn up by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt., and is printed in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. I, 1834. The volume also includes a 'List of monastic churches still made use of for Divine Service' taken from The Gentleman's Magazine, 1814.

An incomplete copy of Nicholas Culpeper: The English Physician Enlarged ... (edition unknown), with additional manuscript notes on herbs by William Bona, Llanpumpsaint, who has also indicated every herb known to him and grown in his garden. Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) (1764-1833) has entered what appears to be a list of money gifts at a so-called bidding in Carmarthenshire, possibly on the occasion of his own marriage.

A manuscript containing recipes for dyeing wool and cotton; household and medical recipes; miscellaneous accounts, 1852-1867; a copy of Reynolds' Original Birmingham Almanack ... 1850.

An incomplete draft of a log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923 - 15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Aber-soch, shipping engineer. Found loose inside NLW MS 22633iA.

Transcripts of documents relating to the offices and duties of the Auditor of Wales, the Master of the Mint, and the Chamberlain of the Royal household, mainly in the reign of Queen Anne, with a list of titles, offices, and revenues granted to their eldest sons by the several kings of England from Henry III to Henry VII.

A volume of press cuttings, circa 1865-1869, relating mainly to parliamentary affairs, elections, etc.

A facsimile copy, presented to Sir William Thomas Lewis (afterwards 1st Baron Merthyr), of a study by W. Nelson Greenwood, Lancaster, illustrated with statistical tables and diagrams, entitled The influence of atmospheric pressure on the free flow of the Tidal Wave in the Bristol and St George's Channels, 1890.

A collection of over seventy autograph and typed letters and cards from Sir John Barbirolli, together with some from Evelyn Barbirolli to the singer Parry Jones between 1936-1963, and a further group of autograph and typed letters and cards, 1925-1963, to Parry Jones, signed by a number of prominent men and women of the day, including John Coates, Lilian Baylis, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Sir Neville Cardus, Ernest Newman, Ian Parrott, Maurice Miles, Steuart Wilson, Peter Gellhorn and others.

Log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923 - 15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Aber-soch, shipping engineer, describing races, regattas and sailings on Merseyside, the North Wales coast, in particular the Llŷn peninsula, Menai Straits and Anglesey, and the Isle of Man (see Beti Isabel Hughes, The Log-books of the yacht Ayesha and the S. C. Y. C. at Abersoch, Cymru a'r Môr, 16 (1994), 116-23). A reference to the formation of the South Caernarfonshire Yacht Club is found on f. 5. An incomplete draft of the same, 21 May - 3 September 1927, found loose inside the volume, has been filed separately (MS 22633iiA).

A scrapbook containing autographs, franks and prints compiled, [1831]-[c. 1867], probably by Sarah Dorothy Grey of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees (later Sarah Dorothy Robinson of Silksworth Hall, County Durham, and Quedgeley, Gloucestershire).
Nearly all the autographs are in the form of 'free fronts', mostly dated 1806-1839, being franked address panels signed by Members of Parliament (or Lords) to allow them free postage (ff. 2-110 passim; a number of these are addressed to members of the Grey family of Norton). The prints include engravings depicting Royalty (ff. 1 verso, 4, 16, 34), topographical and architectural views (ff. 4 verso-111 passim) and female fashions of 1830 (ff. 10 recto-verso, 28 recto-verso). Also included are cuttings of a few ballads (ff. 12, 18, 22 verso, 72) and two 'skit notes' (f. 18). Items found loose inside the volume (19 ff.) have been placed in an archival envelope; these include eleven free fronts, 1828-1837, and three invitations (in French) to the Robinson family to attend events at the French Court in Paris, 1867.

The fonds comprises research material relating to drovers and drove roads in Wales, and in other parts of Britain and Ireland, reflecting R. G. Avent's interest in the subject. The papers include manuscript notes, notebooks and offprints from journals and magazines, together with some related publications. Also included is a card index containing references to relevant printed sources, some of which are cross-referenced with the notes.

A manuscript entitled Causes in Chancery gathered by Sir George Carye, one of ye Masters of the Chancery ..., containing reports of cases in Chancery from 1469/1470 to 1603.

Medical recipes and prescriptions bound with four pamphlets, namely Herbal, neu Lysieu-Lyfr ... Wedi eu casglu allan o waith N. Culpeper, ... Gan D. T. Jones (Caernarfon, 1816-1817), in three parts, and Drych i Ddwfr Cleifion ... (Caerfyrddin, 1765).

Two tracts - (a) a description of England, in fifteen chapters, compiled in 1445, beginning 'tractatus iste compendiose extractus de diversorum historiographorum diversis ... describit Angliam ... '; (b) a genealogical chronicle in the same hand projected from Adam to Brutus and from Brutus to Henry VI, but in execution brought only to Edward I, with a continuation in a sixteenth century hand to Henry VIII (1518). The pattern of this genealogical chronicle is that of the Promptuarium Bibliae attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. The text begins 'Adam in agro damasceno ...' (cf. Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg (Cardiff, 1940), p. xiii) and has lines added for the Saxons, kings of Britain, princes of Wales, the different divisions of Saxon England, kings of England, princes of Demetia, princes of Venedotia, &c.

The file comprises papers relating to a proposed Bibliography of British Dog Books, 1960, 1976-1979, together with stray insurance certificates, 1977, 1980.