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Correspondence and other papers, 1947-1982, of the antiquarian J. D. K. Lloyd, Garthmyl, relating to his friend the poet Sir John Betjeman, including four letters, seven postcards and a compliments slip, some typed, 1970-1978 and undated, from Betjeman to Lloyd (ff. 1-4, 7-14). The letters are mostly personal, routine or frivolous; there are references to a print interview conducted by Wilfred De'Ath (f. 7) and to architectural conservation, with several mentions of Lloyd's brother, Wyndham E. B. Lloyd.
Also included are a postcard, 23 March 1970, from A. L. Rowse, Oxford, to Betjeman, later forwarded by him to Lloyd (f. 5), a postcard, 1 June 1973, from an unknown sender, enclosing a pasted-on press cutting of part of Betjeman's 'Lenten Thoughts…' (f. 6) and a carbon copy typescript letter, 23 July 1975, to Peter Topley, likely from Betjeman (f. 15); Betjeman's notes for a talk on poetry at Newtown High School, [18 December 1963] (f. 16); transcripts by Lloyd of '"9 AM" Unpublished poem by John Betjeman; of which Wyndham has his MS copy' (f. 17) and of the [12] March 1974 letter (f. 18; see f. 7); a list by Lloyd of poems omitted from [an unspecified edition of Betjeman's Collected Poems] (ff. 19-20); printed ephemera and invitations for Betjeman's Honorary Degree ceremony at Trinity College Dublin on 10 July 1975, attended by Lloyd (ff. 22-32); and press cuttings relating to Betjeman, 1947-1982 (ff. 33-40), including the 1974 Wilfred De'Ath interview 'The lonely Laureate' (f. 38; see ff. 7, 18). Betjeman signs several letters 'Evan ap etje' (ff. 3-4, 8-9, 10, 14) and addresses Lloyd as 'Widow' or 'Gwyddo' [i.e. 'Gweddw'?].

Janet Jones was selected from 1099 other female applicants to embark on a tour of the USA to spread awareness Wales and Welsh culture. Leather bound scrapbook entitled, 'National Hostess of Wales Goodwill Tour 1955'. A typed paper pasted to a page at the beginning of the volume reads "Prepared for: Miss Janet Jones as a memento of her successful Goodwill Tour by the Public Relations Department, British Travel Association, 336 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N.Y.". The scrapbook contains newspaper cuttings of articles and photographs, telegrams, letters, typed daily schedules, and interviews.

A notebook containing a medical list for the South Camp at Frongoch internment camp, Merioneth, 17 July-18 August and 22 October 1916, compiled by Tomás O Donncadha (Tomás O Donohoe).
The lists, compiled daily, 17-23 July, 25 July, 29 July-2 August (ff. 4-10, rectos only, 11-13, 14) and 3-18 August (ff. 3 verso-7 verso, versos only, 8 verso-10 verso, 13 verso, 14 verso-20), are variously headed 'Hospital List', 'Medicine' or 'Medical List' and include the names of patients and their prisoner numbers. Three further lists, 22 October 1916 and [n.d.], are included on loose sheets (ff. 21-23). The volume also includes lists of Irish words and phrases (ff. 1 verso-2 verso, 18 verso-19). The volume is written mostly in pencil. Frongoch housed over 1800 Irish republicans between June and December 1916; the South Camp was located in an old whisky distillery, the nearby North Camp consisted of wooden huts. O Donohoe writes 'Farewell' on f. 19 verso and the end of the volume coincides closely with the release of the majority of the prisoners in mid-August.

A manuscript volume containing abstracts of title, [c. 1816] (watermark 1814), relating to the estates of Sir Mark Wood of Gatton, Surrey (formerly of Piercefield, Monmouthshire), in the counties of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan.
The volume is in three sections (labelled A, B and F), abstracting Wood's title to the castle and manor of Pencoed, [Llanmartin], the manor of St Brides [Netherwent] and other properties in Monmouthshire, purchased from Thomas Mathews (pp. 1-106); Mathews' title to leasehold estates in Monmouthshire, including Gillylaes [Gelli-las, Llanfihangel Llantarnam] (pp. 107-145); and a supplemental abstract of Wood's title to estates in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan purchased from Mathews and others (pp. 146-346). In all some thirty-eight deeds are abstracted, the majority in abstract A. Abstracts A and B also include legal opinions of J[ohn] Holliday, Lincoln's Inn, dated 1794 and 1795 respectively (pp. 105-106, 143-145). The abstracts contain no reference to Wood's ownership of Piercefield, which had been sold in 1800.

Script of a lecture given by Ted Harrison, at the National Library of Wales in December 2022 entitled 'The boy from Barry who became a Fleet Street legend', on the cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth. Also included are photocopies of the slides used in the lecture.

Barddoniaeth o'r ail ganrif ar bymtheg hyd yr ugeinfed ganrif, gan gynnwys gweithiau gan Alan Llwyd (f. 2), W. J. Gruffydd (f. 14), Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (f. 76), Ray Howard-Jones (ff. 98-104), R. Williams Parry (ff. 106-110), Saunders Lewis (ff. 132-136), Vernon Watkins (f. 146), Harri Webb (ff. 153-154), Katherine Philips (The Matchless Orinda) (f. 158), ac Euros Bowen (ff. 161-169), ynghyd â nifer o feirdd llai enwog a rhai darnau anhysbys. Cynigiwyd rai o'r cerddi mewn cystadlaethau eisteddfodol (ff. 36-51, 53-61, 63, 113-124). Mae nifer o'r cerddi yn llaw y beirdd eu hunain, eraill yn gopïau neu mewn teipysgrif. Ceir hefyd garol plygain, a nodwyd i lawr [?19 gan., ¼ olaf] (ff. 155-157 verso), a llythyr, 1994, oddi wrth Jon Meirion Jones at Dafydd Ifans yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru yn ymwneud â Dafydd Jones (Isfoel) y Cilie (ff. 149-150). = Poetry, seventeenth to twentieth centuries, including works by Alan Llwyd (f. 2), W. J. Gruffydd (f. 14), Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (f. 76), Ray Howard-Jones (ff. 98-104), R. Williams Parry (ff. 106-110), Saunders Lewis (ff. 132-136), Vernon Watkins (f. 146), Harri Webb (ff. 153-154), Katherine Philips (The Matchless Orinda) (f. 158), and Euros Bowen (ff. 161-169), together with many lesser-known poets and some anonymous pieces. Some of the poems were submitted for competition at eisteddfodau (ff. 36-51, 53-61, 63, 113-124). Many of the poems are autograph while others are copies or in typescript. Also included is a plygain carol, noted down [?19 cent., last ¼] (ff. 155-157 verso), and a letter, 1994, from Jon Meirion Jones to Dafydd Ifans at the National Library of Wales regarding Dafydd Jones (Isfoel), Cilie (ff. 149-150).

A typescript précis of the text of NLW MS 24191B, a journal of an 1816 tour of New York State and the Niagara Peninsula, Upper Canada (ff. 1-7 verso), together with endnotes (ff. 7 verso-8). The typescript contains annotations, corrections and underlinings throughout. The folio numbers and quotes given are not always entirely accurate.

A photographic copy, May 1870, of a pedigree of Sir Peter Mutton of Llannerch, chief justice of north Wales, showing also some of the descents of his second wife Ellen (née Williams), compiled on parchment in, or soon after, 1634/5 by Griffith Hughes.
The roll is an example of a target pedigree (style 7 in Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996)). It includes sixty coats of arms around the circumference, representing the most distant ancestors, with a further twenty-one mostly impaled shields dispersed within the body of the pedigree. At the centre is the personal coat of arms, with twenty-seven quarterings, of Mutton Davies, grandson of Peter Mutton, together with two cartouches. The copy is monochrome and on a reduced scale and is assembled from two photographs; it can be discerned that the majority of the coats of arms on the original were fully painted.

Pedigree and achievement, 1654, of John Edwards (1619-1673) of Stanste [Stansty], Denbighshire, compiled and executed by Randle Holme II, containing thirty-nine other fully painted coats of arms, mostly impaled, tracing Edwards's descent in the male line from Coel Godebog and Cadwalader ap Cadwallon, through their mutual descendant Rhodri Mawr, alongside his paternal grandmother's descent from Morion ap Morgenew, Lord of Dyffryn Clwyd.
The names of individuals, together with additional biographical and genealogical information, are enclosed in roundels, with those of the earliest royal and noble figures being surmounted by crowns, coronets or caps of maintenance as appropriate. The pedigree is mostly arranged as two parallel lines of descent, except the final three generations where other relatives such as siblings and John Edwards's son and stepchildren are recorded, without heraldry. The title, beginning 'The Genealogie or Pedegree of John Edwards of Stanste', is given in a scroll cartouche at the head of the roll; the achievement of John Edwards, with eleven quarterings, is placed at the foot. There are a few additions in a different hand, [?1670s], including notice of the marriage of John Edwards the younger (aged 2 in 1654) to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Robert Lloyd of Llanychan; two sections of text appear to have been altered by scraping away the original ink. The pedigree is an example of Style 3 in Michael Powell Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996), pp. 11-12.

Gwaith y rhoddwr, nith T. Gwynn Jones, mewn teipysgrif, a ysgrifennodd ar gais ei phlant ac sy’n cynnwys atgofion am y llenor, ynghyd â choeden deulu sy'n dangos y berthynas rhyngddynt.

Proflenni gali o ddrama Saunders Lewis gyda nodiadau, a nodyn yn llaw'r dramodydd yn gofyn am broflen ychwanegol.

Copiau o'r cerddi a ddewiswyd ar gyfer y gyfrol Cerddi '73 (Golygydd R. Geraint Gruffydd), Gwasg Gomer, Llandysul 1973, a nifer o'r rhai a wrthodwyd. Ceir hefyd ffurflenni a gohebiaeth ynglŷn â'r gyfrol.

Tystysgrif a gyflwynwyd i'r rhoddwr, fel Maggie Jones, gan Bwyllgor Addysg Sir Gaernarfon am waith rhagorol yn Safon VI yn Ysgol Prenteg am y flwyddyn yn gorffen 31 Gorffennaf 1916.

Pamffledi etholiadol (2), 1934, a ddosparthwyd ar ran y Parch H. Samuel pan oedd yn ymgeisydd dros Blaid Cymru yn Etholiad Cyngor Plwyfol Llangiwg, Morgannwg. = Two election pamphlets, 1934, of the Rev. H. Samuel as a Plaid Cymru candidate in Llangiwg Parish Council Election.

Hanes ar ffurf dyddiadur o fordaith William Parry, gweinidog anghydffurfiol, i Efrog Newydd, 19 Ionawr-11 Mawrth 1847, ar fwrdd y llong Ohio. Nodir awdur yr hanes fel Owen B. Parry, Amlwch, nai William Parry (t. 7). = An account, in diary form, of the voyage of William Parry, a dissenting minister, to New York, 19 January-11 March 1847, on board the ship Ohio. Stated to be written by his nephew Owen B. Parry, Amlwch (p. 7).

Drafft, [1909], yn llaw T. Gwynn Jones o'i awdl 'Gwlad y Bryniau', awdl fuddugol Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1909, Llundain. = A holograph draft, [1909], of 'Gwlad y Bryniau' by T. Gwynn Jones, the winning awdl at the 1909 National Eisteddfod in London.
Mae'r llawysgrif yn gyfrol gyfansawdd, gyda nifer fawr o ddalennau (ff. 2-6, 8, 10-22, 25, 27-29, 32, 34-35) wedi eu tynnu allan o lyfr poced (LlGC, Papurau Thomas Gwynn Jones D320 erbyn hyn) sydd yn cynnwys drafft cynharach o rannau o'r awdl. Mae'r gweddill yn ddalennau newydd yn cynnwys rhannau diwygiedig o'r gerdd (ff. 1, 7, 9, 23-24, 26, 30-31, 33, 36-44). Mae'r testun yn cynnwys nifer fawr o newidiadau a diddymiadau, ac yn y ffurf ddiwygiedig yma mae'n cyfateb yn agos iawn i'r fersiwn orffenedig (gw. LlGC, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru - Cyfansoddiadau a beirniadaethau 1909/1). Cyhoeddwyd yr awdl gyntaf yng Nghofnodion a Chyfansoddiadau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1909 (Llundain), gol. gan E. Vincent Evans (Llundain, 1910), tt. 25-36, a'i ail-argraffu yn T. Gwynn Jones, Detholiad o Ganiadau ([Y Drenewydd], 1926), tt. 20-44. = The manuscript is a composite volume, with many folios (ff. 2-6, 8, 10-22, 25, 27-29, 32, 34-35) being leaves removed from a pocket book (now NLW, Papurau Thomas Gwynn Jones D320) which contains an earlier draft of parts of the awdl. The remaining folios are new leaves containing revised sections of the poem (ff. 1, 7, 9, 23-24, 26, 30-31, 33, 36-44). The text contains many emendations and deletions and in this revised form corresponds very closely to the submitted version (see NLW, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru - Cyfansoddiadau a beirniadaethau 1909/1). It was first published in Cofnodion a Chyfansoddiadau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1909 (Llundain), ed. by E. Vincent Evans (London, 1910), pp. 25-36, and re-printed in T. Gwynn Jones, Detholiad o Ganiadau ([Newtown], 1926), pp. 20-44.

Nodiadau cefndirol yn Saesneg i gyd-fynd gyda'r perfformiad cyntaf o'r opera Serch yw'r doctor (y geiriau gan Saunders Lewis a'r gerddoriaeth gan Arwel Hughes) ar Wasanaeth Cartref y BBC, 24 Chwefror 1958, ynghyd ag 'Opera ddigri Gymraeg newydd', erthygl Leslie Wynne Evans, Coleg y Brifysgol, Caerdydd.

Two volumes, [2015], comprising ‘A millennium of Clement ancestry’ by Dillwyn Clement bearing the Clement coat of arms with the motto ‘I's gorau ein gorau’. The first file contains the ancestry of the Clement family especially in Wales and the second file is an appendix to the study.

Copi o Dafydd Ionawr [David Richards], Cywydd y Drindod (Wrecsam: A. Hughes, 1793, ESTC T65254 / Libri Walliae 4325), gyda nodiadau a diwygiadau yn llaw'r awdur, [1793x1827]. = A copy of Dafydd Ionawr, Cywydd y Drindod (Wrexham: A. Hughes, 1793, ESTC T65254 / Libri Walliae 4325), containing manuscript notes and emendations in the hand of the author, [1793x1827].
Mae yna nifer o ddiwygiadau i gorff y gyfrol (tt. 4-203 passim, 251-382 passim; 64 tt. i gyd) ac ar y diwedd (tt. 383-385); mae llawer o'r adolygiadau yma hefyd yn ymddangos yng ngopi LlGC W.s. 1793 sydd, er hynny, yn cynnwys llawer mwy o ychwanegiadau. Mae yna hefyd fân nodiadau a llinellau o farddoniaeth, mewn pensil yn bennaf (tu mewn i’r cloriau ac ar tt. a-b, ii, vi, 386-388), a rhestr Errata mewn inc (t. a). Ni ymddengys i’r adolygiadau gael eu hymgorffori mewn unrhyw ffordd yn argraffiadau 1834 ac 1851 o’r Cywydd. = There are numerous emendations to the main body of the book (pp. 4-203 passim, 251-382 passim; 64 pp. in total) and at the end (pp. 383-385); many of these emendations also appear in NLW's W.s. 1793 copy, which however contains many more, and more substantial, additions. There are also miscellaneous notes and lines of poetry, mostly in pencil (inside the covers and on pp. a-b, ii, vi, 386-388), and a list of Errata in ink (p. a). The revisions do not appear to have been incorporated in any way into the 1834 and 1851 editions of the work.