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Autograph Letters

One of four volumes comprising three hundred and sixty-four autograph letters and copies and drafts of letters of the period 1787-1930. The two main groups among them are those addressed to 'Nefydd' and Daniel Jones, but there are also two very much smaller groups of letters to Benjamin Jones ('P. A. Môn') and Benjamin Thomas, Baptist minister at Culmstock, Devon, and nephew of Joshua Thomas, Leominster. They are generally of personal, religious, or Baptist interest, although a number of letters addressed to 'Nefydd ' relate also to his educational activities. -- Among the subjects discussed in MSS 7163-6 are British Schools at Penmorfa, Llandygwydd, Devynnock, Llandilo, Abertillery, Llantrisant, Cwmdare, and Five Roads, Llanelly, and appeals for financial assistance for the Baptist churches at Caernarvon, Tenby, Cwmsarnddu, Llanfyllin, and Stanhope Street, Liverpool. Letters from America are chiefly of a denominational character. David Thomas, Llwyn, discusses the reaction in Carmarthenshire to the French Revolution and refers to meetings held at Carmarthen and Llandovery to pledge loyalty to the Government and to burn an effigy of Tom Paine. Several of the letters are endorsed with sermon notes and memoranda by 'Nefydd' and Daniel Jones. -- The writers in the present group include: S. B. Jackson to the minister, superintendent, and teachers at the Baptist Church, St. Thomas's Buildings [Liverpool]; Jno. James, Aberystwyth and Bridgend (one to Christmas Evans); James Jarman and John Williams; John Jenkins, junior, Cardiff; Ll. Jenkins, Maesycwmwr, to ['Ap Nefydd']; Sarah R. Jenkins, Newport, to Mrs. Edwards; Thomas Johns, Cymmer, Porth; Messrs. Jones & Bickerton Williams [Liverpool]; Benjamin Jones ('P. A. Môn'), Holyhead; P.A. Môn', on behalf of the Baptist church at Holyhead, to Baptist ministers and brethren of Anglesey; D. Jones; Catherine Jones, Ruthin, to her husband, Willm. Jones, Liverpool; Jane Jones and Daniel Jones, Liverpool, to Mrs. Morgan, Erryd, near Llandovery; Daniel Jones, Liverpool, to Enoch Lloyd, Mold, to his aunt, to the Committee of the Friendly Society meeting at Byrom Street Church [Liverpool], to the Committee of the Baptist Building Fund, to the Reverend J. Bowman, Formby, to 'P. A. Môn', to the Chester Baptists, to Dr. Williams, Islington, to David Jones Lewis, to Jane Jones, to 'Nefydd', to the Baptist Church at Great Crosshall Street, and to the Cymreigyddion Society of Liverpool; David Jones, Independent minister, Drewen; David Jones, Llannefydd; David Jones, Star, Newcastle Emlyn; Eliza, daughter of the Reverend Daniel Jones; Evan Jones, Casbach; Evan Jones, Llanwrtyd Wells; E. Jones, Denbigh; E. K. Jones, Wrexham, to Caleb Lewis, Blaenau; George Jared Jones, Melbourne; Hugh Jones, Manchester, to Roger Owen at Liverpool; Jane Jones, Llanelly and Tongwynlais; Jane -, to Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'); Jno. Jones, Pwllheli; John Jones, ('Talhaiarn'); John Jones, Llannefydd; J. R. Jones; Lewis Jones, Pwllheli; Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion'), Tremadoc; Robt. Jones, Liverpool; R. A. Jones, Swansea; Theophilus Jones, Pughtown and Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; T. D. Jones at Ely; William Jones and John Griffiths, on behalf of Great Crosshall Street Baptist Church, to the Association meeting at Bangor; Wm. Jones, Assistant Secretary, Religious Tract Society; Wm. Jones, Ebbw Vale; Wm. B. Jones ['Ap P. A. Môn'], New York and Kansas; J. Joshua, Cross Ceelg; John Kelly, for the proposed Dissenting Association at Liverpool; J. Lang; Thos. Langdon, Leeds, to [Benjamin] Thomas at Wellington; R. Lewin, Toronto; R. R. W. Lingen, Committee of Council on Education, London; R. Littler, New York; John Lloyd, Amserau Office, Liverpool; D. Marples [Liverpool]; G. Medley, Byrom Street Chapel Book Society, Liverpool; J. Morgan; Llandovery; Thos. Morgan, New Inn [Cwmsarnddu]; Thomas Morgan, Cardiff; William Morgan, Holyhead; John Morris, Garn Vach; and Saml. Morris, Liverpool.

Autograph Letters

One of four volumes comprising three hundred and sixty-four autograph letters and copies and drafts of letters of the period 1787-1930. The two main groups among them are those addressed to 'Nefydd' and Daniel Jones, but there are also two very much smaller groups of letters to Benjamin Jones ('P. A. Môn') and Benjamin Thomas, Baptist minister at Culmstock, Devon, and nephew of Joshua Thomas, Leominster. They are generally of personal, religious, or Baptist interest, although a number of letters addressed to 'Nefydd ' relate also to his educational activities. -- Among the subjects discussed in MSS 7163-6 are British Schools at Penmorfa, Llandygwydd, Devynnock, Llandilo, Abertillery, Llantrisant, Cwmdare, and Five Roads, Llanelly, and appeals for financial assistance for the Baptist churches at Caernarvon, Tenby, Cwmsarnddu, Llanfyllin, and Stanhope Street, Liverpool. Letters from America are chiefly of a denominational character. David Thomas, Llwyn, discusses the reaction in Carmarthenshire to the French Revolution and refers to meetings held at Carmarthen and Llandovery to pledge loyalty to the Government and to burn an effigy of Tom Paine. Several of the letters are endorsed with sermon notes and memoranda by 'Nefydd' and Daniel Jones. -- The writers in the present group include: Thomas, Llwyn, to his brother Benjamin Thomas at Wellington and Culmstock; E. Thomas, Bethel Cottage and Cardigan; E. Thomas, Tredegar; Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'); George Thomas, Brynmawr; G. G. Thomas, Abersychan; Jenkin Thomas, Oxford; J. Thomas, Tongwynlais; J. Thomas, Liverpool; N[athaniel] Thomas, Cardiff; Timothy Thomas, Islington, to Benjamin Thomas at Culmstock; Zachariah Thomas, Beudyau, to his son Benjamin Thomas at Wellington, Somerset; Wm. Tongue; James Webb, Hounslow; A. Williams, Rhos; W. Williams, Holyhead; Daniel Williams, Little Worton and Cardigan; D. Williams, Miskin; Ebenezer Williams, Defynog; E. P. Williams, Bassaleg; George Williams, Manchester; W. H... .; J. Williams, Newtown; J. Williams, Hirwaun; James Williams, Kinstanley; James Williams, Bwllfa Colliery, Aberdare; John Williams, Dolbenmaen; J. P. Williams, St. Dogmaels, on behalf of Penuel Baptist Church; L. Williams, Llanddulas; Llewellyn Williams, Seren Gomer Office, Carmarthen; Owen Williams, Secretary, Liverpool Cambrian Building Society; O. Williams, Holywell; Rowland Williams, Liverpool; S. Williams, Hermon; Wm. Williams, Caernarvon; Wm. Williams ('Creuddynfab'); Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Wynnstay; 'Y. C. G.', Holyhead, to David Jenkin, Seren Gomer Office, Swansea; and [Joshua Thomas], Leominster, to [Benjamin Thomas] at Wellington; together with some unsigned fragments and drafts. -- This volume also includes seventeen miscellaneous letters of transfer of membership, mainly to Salem Baptist Church, Blaenau, 1829-53.

Letters to Eirene White

The file comprises letters again reflecting Lady White's many activities and interests. There are many letters on educational matters, notably concerning the new University of Wales, Cardiff, formed by the merger of two university colleges. The correspondents include Lord Heycock.

Heycock, Llewellyn, 1905-1990

Board of Education Records

This section comprises correspondence, papers and records accumulated by O. M. Edwards as Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales under the new Welsh Department of the Board of Education from 1907. It consists of correspondence files; notebooks recording details of Edwards's visits to Welsh schools; a register of visits, 1909-1910; and two reports on Welsh education, 1892 and 1911, prepared by O. M. Edwards.

Great Britain. Board of Education.

Report on Welsh Intermediate Schools

A draft manuscript report prepared by O. M. Edwards on intermediate schools in Wales, discussing the provision of intermediate schools; further education; the inspection of the intermediate schools; the development of the Central Welsh Board; the differentiation of school curricula; the teaching of English, Welsh history and geography; the education of future teachers; and the responsibility for progress.

Correspondence

One of four volumes containing a collection of nearly two hundred letters addressed to Thomas Powel. They relate to matters of Welsh education, bibliography, philology and Celtic subjects. The principal correspondents are Isaac Taylor, Settrington, 1878; Thomas [James] Thirlwall, Nantmel, 1896; John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'), 1882; James R[ichard] Thursfield, Dresden, 1873; J[ames] H[enthorn] Todd; T[homas] Fisher Unwin, 1911; C[harles] J[ohn] Vaughan, dean of Llandaff; Professor C[harles Edwyn] Vaughan, Cardiff, 1897; Gwyneth Vaughan [Annie Harriet Hughes], 1906; T. R. Wardale, 1890; Sir John Williams, 1894; T[homas] Marchant Williams, 1883-1884; E[dward] P[erceval] Wright, Dublin; and William W[atkin] E[dward] Wynne, Peniarth, 1860 (to Thomas Stephens).

Scrapbook,

A scrap-book inferentially compiled by John Lloyd Jones ('Clwydwenfro'; 1835-1919) containing press cuttings and a few manuscript items. Some of the cuttings are dated within the 1850s-1870s and among the more interesting titles are 'Hynodion Cwm Rhondda .... Testyn Cystadleuol Eisteddfod y Porth, Nadolig, 1861'; 'Collegiate and University Education in Wales'; 'Llythyr oddiwrth y Parch. Morris Phillips, Cenhadwr i India'; 'Teyrnged i Goffadwriaeth Ioan Pedr'; 'Beirniadaeth ar Gyfansoddiadau Barddonol Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Aberdar, Awst 1861'; 'Llangollen Great National Eisteddfod' [1858]; 'Y Ffrwydriad yn Abercarn'; 'Sketches of Cardiff Preachers'; etc. The manuscript material comprises a tale entitled 'The Bride of Santa Croce', 19 November 1856, described in an annotation by J. Ll. James as 'the composition of the late John Griffith Davies (son of the Rev. J. Davies ['Siôn Gymro'], Glandwr, Pembrokeshire) who wrote it and sent it to John Lloyd James, then a student at Carmarthen College, that he might fill up the outline', and verses entitled 'Y Messiah', etc. addressed to John Ll. James, Berllandawel, Llanglwydwen and annotated in the latter's hand 'J. G. Davies, Yetwen, pan yn Narberth', etc. The outer upper cover is inscribed, in the hand of J. H. Davies, 'Articles and poetry from Cyfaill y Werin and other papers'.

General letters to O. M. Edwards

The series comprises letters, 1880-1920, addressed to O. M. Edwards, from his first arrival at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, until the time of his death. Many of the letters are from prominent Welsh public figures. The early letters relate to Edwards's career as a student at the UCW, Aberystwyth, the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford. Some concern his preaching engagements, his plans and ambitions, while others give local news from the Llanuwchllyn area. Following his appointment as Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1889, many of the letters concern his academic work and university responsibilities, and there are numerous requests for references and testimonials from students and former students. Some correspondents write in relation to educational matters in Wales, notably the passage and operation of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 1889, and the affairs of the University of Wales. -- From the 1890s onwards many letters concern O. M. Edwards's editing of Cymru and Cymru'r Plant, and later Wales, Heddyw and Y Llenor. Intermingled with these letters are some which refer to personal events in Edwards's life: his marriage in 1891, the death of his father in 1895, and the death of the eldest son Owen ab Owen in 1897. In 1899 many letters concern the death of Thomas Edward Ellis MP, the selection of Edwards as his successor as Liberal MP for Merionethshire, and his brief sojourn in the House of Commons until July 1900. -- Throughout these years the letters abound with references to educational matters, notably within the Universities of Wales and Oxford. Others relate to Welsh literary and cultural matters, the publication of Cyfres y Fil and the organization of Urdd y Delyn. A few letters concern Edwards's researches, writings and academic publications. -- From 1907 onwards many of the letters relate to O. M. Edwards's duties as Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales. Throughout the remaining years there are numerous communications from Edwards's former students at Oxford, invitations to deliver lectures and attend various functions and events, and letters relating to the editing of journals, notably Cymru and Cymru'r Plant. Others concern literary, cultural and publishing matters, and many relate to educational themes. These are interspersed with congratulatory messages on receipt of the Medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1915 and a knighthood in January 1916. Many of the letters from the final years refer to O. M. Edwards's personal, health and family problems.

Urdd y Delyn

An account book

An account book, kept by Edwin Jones, headmaster of Towyn British School, 1864-1873, and including weekly payments by pupils attending day and evening school, an expense account for stationery, statements of expenses incurred by the Towyn Literary Meeting, 1865, and the Choral Society, 1867, memoranda of the terms of agreement between the managers and headmaster, and a piece of Welsh prose entitled 'Mae dwy ochr i ystori'.

Towyn British School (Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales)

Educational papers

  • P1
  • Series
  • 1891-1926 (lacking 1899-1903, 1905-1906, 1909, 1911-1912, 1919-1921)
  • Part of J. E. Powell Papers

This group reflects J. E. Powell's keen interest in educational matters and his involvement with Denbighshire County Concil and especially the Central Welsh Board and includes letters, reports, draft speeches, newspaper cuttings etc.

Griffith Jones, Llanddowror

  • NLW MS 8864E
  • File
  • 1917

An essay entitled 'Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, ac Addysg Cymru' submitted by G[riffith] Pen[n]ar Griffiths ['Penar'] for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Birkenhead, 1917.

Griffiths, Griffith Pennar, 1860-1918

'Brad y Llyfrau Gleision',

Transcripts by Robert Oliver Rees of two letters, 1848, by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd') relating to the reports of the Commissioners on the state of education in Wales.

Robert Oliver Rees.

Erthyglau ac anerchiadau,

Articles and addresses by David Samuel mainly on Welsh literature, history and education, 1890-1909, and an account of his tour in the United States of America, 1889.

David Samuel.

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