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Circular from Alfred T. Davies, Board of Education. Asks that the recipient consult and help circulate the enclosed booklet from the British Prisoners of War Book Scheme (Educational), and assist their efforts where possible.

Letter from Principal E. H. Griffiths to Alfred T. Davies, Board of Education. Explains that his letter to J. F. Roberts of 13 Mar was forwarded to himself as present holder of the office of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales. Informs that he has signed the statement sent by Professor Gilbert Murray on 23 Feb. Notes that resolutions of Senate are not valid until confirmed by the University Court, which will not meet until July. Add that Senate were in favour, and is confident that the Court will take the same position. Will ask the Executive Committee of the Court to take action on behalf of the Court, in their upcoming meeting on 20 Apr.

Letter from Principal E. H. Griffiths to Miss M. O. Davies, S. R. C. [Students' Representative Council?], requesting a list of students who have received parental permission to volunteer, and confirmation of the length of time the students will volunteer for, in respect of those who had not already provided this information.

Letter from Elizabeth Benson, Secretary of the Women's National Land Service Corps, to Principal E. H. Griffiths, confirming that names of volunteers are not required, only numbers, in order to establish how large an area will be planted for the coming year. Suggests staff volunteers could be accomodated separately, and be reassured that they would not find themselves working under the direction of one of the students.

Letter from Principal E. H. Griffiths to Mrs. M. E. Marshall of the British Prisoners of War Book Scheme (Educational), noting that he has attempted to raise funds with little success in the past, but will continue to endeavour to help.

Letter from Professor Gilbert Murray of the Board of Education to Principal E. H. Griffiths, regarding the British Prisoners of War Book Scheme (Educational). He is seeking to arrange with examining bodies, such as the University, to accept prisoners' records of study as part of a course of study or examination, in order to encourage participation in the scheme. Refers to 'accompanying papers' and a 'statement' which are not in the archive.

Letter from Principal E. H. Griffiths to Sir L. A. Selby-Bigge of the Board of Education, thanking him for writing to the War Office concerning the proposed release of H. T. Flint and Frank Dixey from military service.

Letter from George R. Thompson, The Laboratory, 69 Dock Street, Newport, to Mr R. H. Greaves, in support of Greaves' application for exemption from call up. Confirms that 'your special knowledge and skill is of the greatest value', and hopes a case for exemption will be successful. A note indicates that a copy of the letter was sent to the Royal Society and to Sir L. A. Selby-Bigge).

Letter to H. Frank Heath of the Board of Education, confirming receipt of his letter of 18 Jan 1916 with reference to the case of Mr R. H. Greaves. The letter referred to is not present in the archive.

Over eighty letters in Welsh, 1862-1864, from Corporal John Griffith Jones (1843-1864; born at Penisa'r-waun, Caernarvonshire), 23rd Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, to his family in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, relating his experiences as a soldier with the Union Army during the American Civil War (see Y Casglwr, 33 (1987), 13 and Y Cyfaill o'r Hen Wlad, 28 (1865), 27). Also included are five letters, 1862-1872, from his fellow soldiers to his family; two letters, 1863-1864, to him from his mother, Mary Jones, and his grandfather John Jones, Llanrug, Caernarvonshire; and two letters, 1860-1865, from his grandfather to his father Richard M. Jones. A photograph of Corporal Jones in uniform, purchased with the letters, has been transferred to the Department of Pictures and Maps and a reproduction placed with the letters.

Llawysgrifau'r Parchedig William Phillips (1861-1944), Gwalchmai, yn ymwneud â'i ymweliad i Wladfa Patagonia ym 1891. = Manuscripts of the Rev. William Phillips, (1861-1944), Gwalchmai, Congregational minister, relating to his visit to the Welsh Colony in Patagonia in 1891.

A volume containing a copy, 1669, in the hand of Thomas Rowlands, clerk, of 'History of the Gwydir Family' by Sir John Wynn (1553-1627), Gwydir, Caernarvonshire (ff. 2-84 verso). It is the earliest known dated copy of a recension of the work represented by thirteen other copies (see below). It is probably the manuscript belonging in 1674 to Morris Parry, rector of Llaneilian-yn-Rhos, Denbighshire, from which the copy in NLW MS 3075D was made, and the manuscript described by Angharad Llwyd as 'a quarto volume of Syr John Wynn's History of Gwydyr, Ancient, and in good preservation' which in 1828 was in the possession of Richard Lloyd Williams of Hafodwryd, Penmachno, Caernarvonshire, then residing at Llwyn, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbighshire (see Transactions of the Cymmrodorion or Metropolitan Cambrian Institution, 2 (London, 1828), 44). Bound together are pedigrees and memoranda in several early-eighteenth century hands, including notes copied 'out of Penbedw MS' (NLW MS 3075D, p. 90), being transcripts of marginalia from 'Dr Humphreys's Copy' (Brogyntyn I.13, ff. 62 verso-3, 76) (ff. 85-6); a note on Meredith Wynn ap Evan ap Robert and his descendants (see also NLW MSS 27B, pp. 111-114, 16969B, pp. 128-132 and 21253D, ff. 27 verso-28 verso, where 'H. Bangor 1700' is given as the source) (ff. 89-91); pedigrees of the Wynn family of Gwydir and its collateral branches (ff. 86 verso-91, 95-98 verso); and 'Arfau pump brenhinllwyth Cymru' (f. 121 verso, inverted text).

An incomplete transcript by Lewis Morris ('Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn') of 'Cywydd Hiraeth' by Goronwy Owen.

The second edition (or reissue), [1740], of Francis Willughby's De Historia Piscium Libri Quatuor (Oxford, 1686) [ESTC N51867, where it is dated c. 1743]. The work is made up of the De Historia Piscium Libri Quatuor (ff. 2-177), together with 'Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium' (London, 1740) (ff. 178-205) and a sequence of some 187 engraved plates from the first edition (on the rectos of ff. 206-392). The plates have been extensively annotated (with English and Welsh names, and eyewitness accounts), and sometimes further illustrated (on ff. 215, 224, 244, 248, 281 verso, 283, 295, 341 verso, 347), by Welsh polymath Lewis Morris.
Morris' marginal notes glossing the printed text appear on ff. 4 recto-verso, 85, 88 verso-90, 92, 97-104 verso, 115 verso-116, 118, 137, 146, 165 recto-verso, 175 verso-176, 178, 188 verso-189, 191, 192, 194 verso-195 verso, 197, 198 verso-199, 200, 202-204; his Welsh translations of fish names on ff. 16 verso-18; and extensive notes on fish on ff. 206-391 passim. These last set of notes reflect Morris' retrospective interest in fish seen on the coast of Anglesey (ff. 189, 213, 215, 227, 240, 242, 250, 251 verso, 280 verso, 281 verso, 283, 284, 285, 286, 341 verso, 347) and elsewhere (ff. 224, 248, 295 verso) before his departure to Cardiganshire in 1742. Further accounts of fish seen in Cardigan Bay are on ff. 241, 243 verso, 295 (dated 1747) and 311 (dated 1745). It is possible that these notes form the basis of Lewis Morris' projected, but unpublished, Natural History of Anglesey (see Dafydd Wyn Wiliam, Lewis Morris: Deugain Mlynedd Cyntaf ei Oes 1700/1-42 ([Bodedern], 1997), p. 150). See also Maredudd ap Huw, 'Pysgod Lewis Morris', Tlysau'r Hen Oesoedd, 37 (Ebrill 2015), 3-10.

A manuscript of the second half of the thirteenth century containing 'Y Gododdin', a series of awdlau lamenting warriors slain in battle at Catraeth, and believed to have been originally composed by Aneirin at the end of the sixth century (pp. 1-24). The awdlau are followed by four poems known as the gorchanau: Gorchan Tudfwlch (pp. 25-26), Gorchan Adebon (p. 26), Gorchan Cynfelyn (pp. 26-28) and Gorchan Maeldderw (pp. 28-38).
The manuscript was written by two scribes: scribe A (pp. 1.1-23.5, 25.1-30.11) and scribe B (pp. 23.6-24.21, 30.12-38.22). The hand of scribe B is also responsible for Peniarth MS 14, pp. 1-44 and Peniarth MS 17; see Ingo Mittendorf, 'Sprachliche und orthographische Besonderheiten eines mittelkymrischen Textes aus dem 13. Jahrhundert (Gwyrthyeu e Wynvydedic Veir)', in Akten des Zweiten Deutschen Keltologen-Symposiums, ed. S. Zimmer, R. Ködderitzsch and A. Wigger, Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 17 (Tübingen, 1999), p. 129. Daniel Huws suggests the Cistercian abbey of Aberconwy as a likely location of the scriptorium; see Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Cardiff and Aberystwyth, 2000), 75.

An album of press cuttings, 1902, relating to the transfer of Welsh settlers from the Chubut Valley, Argentine, to Canada.

Brief for the defence in the case heard at the Carmarthenshire Assizes, July 1870, against Evan and Hannah Jacob of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, co. Carmarthen, for the manslaughter of their daughter, Sarah Jacob (1857-69), the 'Welsh Fasting Girl'; the brief includes transcripts of depositions by witnesses, taken before the magistrates at Llandysul, and of related correspondence.

Welch papers. Bib Hall 150, by John Walters and others. English, Welsh. 1/2 calf. Donated by George Williams, Porthcawl, November 1952.

Twelve letters, 1900-1902, from Edward Thomas to Sir Owen M. Edwards, his erstwhile tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford, written shortly after Thomas had left university, their main purpose being to ask for guidance in seeking employment; they also reflect his attachment to Wales and his interest in the Welsh language.

Minute book of the Morriston War Fund, 1914-1919.
The beginning of the volume is a copy, in the same hand, of the contents of NLW MSS 12263B for 1914-1916 (ff. 2-39). The minutes for February 1916-February 1918 then continue to the end of the volume (ff. 39-87, rectos only) which is then inverted and the minutes continued to July 1919 (ff. 53 verso-74 verso, 77 verso-86 verso, versos only).