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Officers of the Crown

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.

Press cuttings,

  • NLW MS 9676B.
  • File
  • [mid 19 cent.].

Press cuttings of letters and articles contributed to North Wales newspapers by John Wynne, schoolmaster, of Caernarvon, author of Sir a Thre' Caernarfon, fel yr oedd ac fel y maent yn 1860; and a copy of a letter addressed by him to Lord Derby expressing satisfaction at the appointment of a bishop of Bangor, 1861. The press cuttings have been pasted in a book containing an incomplete essay on the early history of Britain and a list of Caernarvon residents.

Public libraries,

Papers by John Ballinger:- 'Public Libraries in 1882'; 'Hopes and fears for libraries in Great Britain'; 'Notes on a library catalogue'; and 'Books for very young children'.

John Ballinger.

R. G. Avent: Drove Roads Research Papers

  • GB 0210 AVDROV
  • Fonds
  • [c. 1920]-[c. 1990]

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.

Avent, R.G. (Ronald G.)

Recipes, &c.

  • NLW MS 901A
  • File
  • c. 1850-c. 1867

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.

Reports,

Mainly printed reports of the committee into various projects and other topics concerning motorway landscaping, 1957-1970.

Scrapbook.

  • NLW MS 16279D.
  • File
  • [1831]-[c. 1867]

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.

Robinson, Sarah Dorothy, 1813 or 1814-1902

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams poetry,

  • NLW MS 16546D.
  • File
  • [early 19 cent.].

Transcripts, [early 19th cent.] (watermark 1803), in an unknown hand, of odes, ballads, dialogues and satirical letters of English political interest, composed by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in the period 1732-1745.
With the exception of 'To Kitty Walker' (f. 62), all the works appear, with mostly minor variations, in The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams..., 3 vols (London, 1822). The contents list (f. i recto-verso) includes titles of additional poems, after f. 119, which were subsequently cut from the volume.

Hanbury Williams, Charles, Sir, 1708-1759.

Statistics,

Statistical information produced by, or collected by, the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association relating to all aspects of the coal trade, both within the United Kingdom and in other countries across the world. Material comprises bound volumes of tabulated information regarding the UK and international coal industries, international trade, wage rates for miners, colliery price lists, annual summaries of Association members, revisions of Assurances, and statistics on the coal trade of foreign countries.

Stone crosses,

  • NLW MS 10344D.
  • File
  • [1889x1908] /

A scrap-book containing material collected by Eleanor Lloyd, part author of a Book of Sundials, towards a book on Stone Crosses, including notes, sketches, photographs, and printed matter.

Lloyd, Eleanor.

The Council of Churches for Wales

Minutes, reports, papers and letters relating to the Council of Churches for Wales and its various interests, 1955-1990, including Annual Reports, 1973-1982; papers relating to conferences, 1959-1986; papers of various sub-committees under the Council, 1959-1986, especially the Industry Committee, 1972-1986; papers relating to the 'Family of God' festival (Gŵyl Teulu Duw), 1984-1986; and papers relating to the 'People Next Door' campaign (Pobl Drws Nesa) held by the British Council of Churches to bring churches closer to the community, 1965-1967.

Council of Churches for Wales

Tides in the Bristol and St George's Channels

  • NLW MS 4469E
  • File
  • 1890

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.

Welsh Secondary Schools Association Records,

  • GB 0210 WSSA
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1984 /

Records accumulated by Dr John Herbert, 1968-1984, comprising Welsh Secondary Schools Association records, minutes and papers, 1968-1984; and Headmasters' Association and Secondary Heads Association minutes, correspondence, discussion papers and related material, 1969-1984.

Welsh Secondary Schools Association; Headmasters' Association; Secondary Heads Association; John Herbert.

Welsh Topography

Miscellaneous notes and papers collected by Walter Davies and relating mainly to British topography, history, archaeology, agriculture, etc.

Women

The file consists of printed items - leaflets, policy statements, reports, issues of journals - on the general theme of women's rights and women's issues.

Yacht's log-book

  • NLW MS 22633iA
  • File
  • 1923-1927

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).

Boumphrey, Joseph, Liverpool and Abersoch, 1881-1951 Yacht logbook (1923-1927), NLW MS 22633iA

Yacht's log-book: incomplete draft

  • NLW MS 22633iiA
  • File
  • 1923-1927

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.

Boumphrey, Joseph, Liverpool and Abersoch, 1881-1951 Yacht logbook (1923-1927), NLW MS 22633iiA

Zoology and ornithology,

Notes by Thomas Pennant on British zoology and ornithology, accounts and lists of subscribers to his British Zoology, and details of zoological specimens received by him.

Thomas Pennant.

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