Showing 15110 results

Papers of Julian Williams, former set designer in the Design Department of BBC Wales, including scripts of plays broadcast during the 1960s, among them works by Saunders Lewis and Gwenlyn Parry. The collection includes papers, photographs, and a few books relating to the donor’s family, including his parents Thomas Basil and Rhyda Ann Williams, his great-aunt Professor Mary Williams, and her husband G. Arbour Stephens of Swansea.

Papers of Julie Morgan, Member of the Senedd for Cardiff North until May 2026, and previously a Member of Parliament for Cardiff North, 1997-2010.

An autograph letter, 1789, from Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817), painter, written from South Wales to William Anderson (1757-1837), marine painter, Southwark. The Merthyr Tydfil iron-works are mentioned in the letter.

A CD copy of the website for the 'Just Say No' Campaign, 1997, designed by Jeremy Clulow, Webs Wonder Design

Papers, 1997, relating to the 'Just Say No' 1997 devolution referendum campaign, including correspondence, strategy papers, campaign materials, and papers relating to the Charter Movement; also included in this file are further papers regarding the 'Just Say No' campaign, including material collected from the internet.

Copies of appendices and tables from K. H. Edwards's University of Wales College, Cardiff, dissertation based on the account books and diaries of William Williams (1806-1890), Brynmawr, grocer and draper; they include a schedule of leases for the Brynmawr area, 1800-1895, and other summaries based on documents in the NLW Badminton Collection.

Notebooks, 1946-1979, of Kate Davies, writer, of Pren-gwyn, Llandysul. The contents of the notebooks include reviews of her published books, lecture notes, poetry, notes on local and family history, poetry by her father Daniel Thomas, etc.

Words and music of a song entitled 'Kate O' Shane' by G. Lindsay.

A small group of letters, [1945]-1983, written by Kate Roberts and on her behalf, to Mrs Hilda Edmunds, Cardiff, who used to do cleaning work for Kate Roberts and her husband when they were living in the Rhondda.

Microfilm copies of manuscript and printed material relating to Katherine Philips ('The Matchless Orinda', 1632-64) held at the National Library of Wales, Cardiff Central Library, the University of Texas at Austin, Worcester College, Oxford, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Yale University, and Hertfordshire County Record Office; together with copies of the guide Orinda: The Literary Manuscripts of Catherine Philips (1632-1664) (Adam Matthew Publications, 1995)

The first of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 756B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall, antiquary and bookseller of King's Lynn, Norfolk. NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips, whilst NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).
The volume contains corrected fair copies of fifty-five poems, with the titles only of two others. See Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 4 vols (London, 1980-1997), II, part 2, compiled by Peter Beal (1993), pp. 128-129, and The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, ed. by Patrick Thomas, 3 vols (Stump Cross, Essex, 1990-1993), I: The Poems (1990).

The second of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 755B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall. NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand whilst NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).

A volume of transcripts of prayers, devotions, epitaphs, verses, etc. from printed and family sources by Mrs Katherine Thomas (?of Herefordshire), together with verses by her on the deaths of her children, Katherine (1665) and Dorothy (1676) and of her husband (1671) and on other occasions, also a copy of verses by Elizabeth Peirce, daughter of Dr Peirce (possibly Bishop William Peirs) of Bath.

Papers, 1929-[1987], of Kathleen Joan Smith, author, actress, playwright and former assistant governor of Holloway. In 1960 she moved to a smallholding in Clynnog Fawr from London. The papers include a typescript of her novel Twelve months, Mrs Brown: A novel of prison life [pubished in 1964] and a playscript, 1975; manuscripts of a number of plays scripted by her including 'Six days of justice', 1973, for Thames Television and 'The Brontë story', 1986; and scripts written for the series 'Within these walls' in the 1970s. Also included are programmes and posters of plays written by her and in which she appeared as an actress, together with her birth certificate, 1929, and election address as a Conservative candidate for the Caernarfon constituency in the 1970 General Election.

Kearsly's Pocket Ledger, with entries of payments possibly by a Cardigan solicitor. English. Leather. Donated by Roderick P. Waldo Lewis, Earley, October 1972.

Includes manuscript notes and two letters in Welsh, 1980.

Papers, 1936-1986, of literary journalist, editor and poet William Ronald Rees Jones (Keidrych Rhys), comprising a significant amount of correspondence, 1936-1986, from numerous individuals, largely in the recipient's capacity as editor of Wales magazine and including literary articles, poetry, etc. submitted for publication; miscellaneous papers, 1936-1938, 1943-1969, relating to the Wales magazine and consisting mainly of publicity and editorial material; articles, both published and unpublished, and notes, [1950s]-[1960s], by Keidrych Rhys, mainly relating to literature and the arts; and drafts of apparently unpublished poetry, [1950s]-[1960s], by Keidrych Rhys.

The collection comprises: correspondence and papers on specific subjects (files 1-83); and correspondence received from constituents (files 84-271).

A letter, 1980, writen by Keith Best to the Secretary of State for Wales, Nicholas Edwards, was donated by Rhys Evans, Cardiff, in 2002.

Original records, copies of official records, copies of press cuttings, copies of photographs, research notes and draft publications, 1914-2022, relating to fire services in south, west and central Wales, collected and compiled by Keith Mills and including the work of a number of research collaborators (mostly former firefighters), as well as correspondence between them and Keith Mills.