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Political papers of Jonathan Edwards, Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. The papers comprise correspondence, speeches, campaign material, diaries, papers on policy and notes. Tops include the UK leaving the European Union (Brexit), devolution, agriculture, banking, assisted dying, transport and regulation of the press..

Papers of the Rhys Davies Trust (est. 1991), relating mainly to the administration of the Trust and the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Included are five files of papers relating to the Trust’s financial matters, consisting of valuation reports (2014-2019), account, tax, and investment statements together with related correspondence (2008-2014), and a number of cash and cheque books (2008-2018); five files of Trust administrative documents and correspondence (2008-2020), including papers relating to meeting minutes, accounts, publishing matters, website design, royalties (both of the works of Rhys Davies and of Anna Kavan), funding applications, and the Rhys Davies Short Story competition. Correspondents include Meic Stephens, Peter Finch, and M. Wynn Thomas.

Seven further files contain papers (1895-2012) relating to the life and works of Rhys Davies (1901-1978), apparently collected during research for the biography ‘Rhys Davies: a writer’s life’ (Cardigan: Parthian, 2013) by Meic Stephens, secretary of the Trust 1991-2012. The papers consist of correspondence ([1920s]-2012), including letters from Rhys Davies, Lewis Davies, Louis Quinain, Meic Stephens, Fred Blackmore, David Ellis, John Harris, and Gwyn Pritchard; and photographs (1918-1990), mainly of Rhys Davies and friends and family, including Lewis Davies, Gertrude (‘Gertie’) Davies, Anna Kavan, Fred Urquhart, Louise Callender, Colyn Davies, Nina Hamnett, Esther & Charles Lahr, Raymond B. Marriott, Louis Taylor, and Philip Burton; together with notes and cuttings.

Additionally, the archive contains three files of press cuttings and copies of articles (1929-[1987]), collected and written either by or about Rhys Davies, including articles from Keidrych Rhys’s ‘Wales’, and ‘Anglo-Welsh Review’; several items of memorabilia, comprising Rhys Davies’s passport (stamped 1968-1978), OBE medal (awarded 1968), a decorative glass plaque with lettering ’RHYS’ (undated), an ‘MD Magazine’ 10th anniversary medal (1967), and a small box of rosary beads; and nine printed books, consisting of Rhys Davies’ works ‘Marianne’ (London: 1951, signed by author), ‘A Time to Laugh’ (two copies, 1937 & 1938, both with note & signature of Davies), 'Selected Stories' (London/Dublin: [1945], with slip dated 1945), and 'Boy With a Trumpet' (London: 1949, with undated press cutting); together with ‘The Last Sister’ by Fred Urquhart (London: 1950, with note by author), ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ (with slip dated 1945), and translations of Anna Kavan's works ‘L’adversaire Céleste’ (Paris: 1947, with a sketch dated 1951) and ‘Mercury’ (Valencia: 2006, with a letter to the Rhys Davies Trust).

Chwech llyfr cerddorol y delynores Ffranses Môn (1919-2000). Yn cynnwys cyfansoddiadau amrywiol yn y Gymraeg gan gynnwys 'Bedd Llywelyn', 'Y Wenynen', ac un yn yr iaith Sgots sef 'Ae Fond Kiss'. Trosglwyddwyd i'r rhoddwr gan gyfeilles i Ffranses ar ôl iddi farw.

Cyfres o ddisgrifiadau o farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd mewn gwahanol groniclau a cherddi. Defnyddiwyd yr atgynhyrchiadau hyn, ochr yn ochr â deunydd gwreiddiol, mewn arddangosfa a gynhaliwyd yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 1982-83, i nodi saithganmlwyddiant marwolaeth Llywelyn ein Llyw Olaf ar 11 Rhagfyr 1282. Fe'u rhwymwyd gan Adran Gadwraeth LlGC.

Secretary's copy of the Welsh Mountain Sheep Breeders' Flock Book, vol. 7 (1912-13), inscribed 'Official copy' on the front cover, including manuscript amendments and minutes of the 19th General Meeting held at Porthmadog in August 1913, signed by the President of the Welsh Mountain Sheep Flock Book Society, C. Bryner Jones, 22 July 1914. The blank pages at the end of the volume contain handwritten minutes of a Special Meeting at the Royal Show Ground Shrewsbury, 1 July 1914, following the resignation of R. N. Jones as Secretary and arrangements for the appointment of his successor at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, Newport, on the 22nd July.

Papers of Lily F. Chitty, Pontesbury, Shropshire, relating mainly to her work in indexing Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1846-1900. Included are a typescript copy, in two volumes, of the index compiled; 4 notebooks, 2 log books, and a petty cash book, 1932-1950, relating to the compilation of the work; a box file containing notes and correspondence and a file of correspondence, 1931-1964, relating to the Index Committee which had been set up, the correspondents including Sir John Edward Lloyd, Sir Cyril Fox, H. J. Randall, T. Jones Pierce, T. E. Morris, J. D. K. Lloyd, V. E. Nash-Williams, and Willoughby Gardner. Also included are notebooks relating to Cambrian Archaeological Association meetings, 1952-1955, 1962-1967; personal correspondence and photographs, 1951-1977; and various offprints, etc.

Additional papers consisting of First World War Honourable Discharge Certificates (right half only) found amongst the estate of Lily Frances Chitty, sister-in-law of Mary Derwas Chitty (née Kitson Clark), and transferred to the donor by the latter's daughter, Anna Georgina Chitty. Also included is research, compiled by Barbara Reardon, on the individuals named in the certificates; July 2023.

Papurau'r adroddwr, beirniad ac arweinydd llwyfan cenedlaethol J. R. Jones, Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion, yn cynnwys nodiadau, torion, llythyrau, a ffotograffau ynglŷn â bywyd gwledig, cymeriadau dylanwadol a difyrrwch y byd eisteddfodol. Papurau ychwanegol, yn bennaf tystysgrifau, deunydd printiedig, a thapiau yn cynnwys cyfweliadau â J. R. Jones; Gorffennaf 2023.

Text files created by Roger Lee Brown, being transcripts of three reports on the rural deaneries of the Diocese of St Asaph, 1729, 1749, and 1791. Original documents being the Records of the Diocese of St Asaph, SA/RD/16-22; SA/RD/26; SA/RD/28

Copi o'r gyfrol, 'Y Mynach a'r Sant': dwy awdl gan D. Gwenallt Jones (Llandysul, 1928). Cyflwynwyd y copi hwn i D. Ernest Williams, Pontardawe, 12 Ebrill 1929, a cheir ynddo englyn cyfarch yn llaw Gwenallt.

Cyfansoddiadau cerddorol Arnold V. Davies, Y Drenewydd (1914-92). Derbyniodd y rhoddwr y papurau sydd yn y ffolder gan y cyfansoddwr, a chynnwys yr amlen gan ei nith, Mrs Janet Yendole.

The papers of Lord German, relating to his time as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, a Member of the National Assembly for Wales and Deputy First Minister. The files comprised press coverage, campaign material, speeches, correspondence between party leaders in the National Assembly for Wales, coalition negotiations in 2000 and 2007 and work as Deputy First Minister of Wales.

Seven letters and Air Letters, [?January 1946], 22 September 1947-10 May 1948, from John Cowper Powys, Corwen, Merionethshire, to actor, theatre director and writer Reginald Pole, in New York City, Denver, Colorado, and West Hollywood, mostly concerning Pole's unpublished novel, 'To An Unknown God', and Powys's attempts to facilitate its publication in Britain or America (ff. 1-6, 9-12).
The letters contain advice on literary agents and publishers (ff. 2 verso, 9-10 verso), a detailed discussion of the novel (ff. 3-6 verso), a self-portrait cartoon (f. 9 verso), references to Romain Rolland's 'Jean Christophe' novels, to which Pole's novel is compared (ff. 10-11), and the text of an open letter, or 'blurb', to publishers concerning the novel (f. 12 recto-verso). Also included are two envelopes, one incomplete (postmarked 21 November and 1 December 1947), for which the letters are absent (ff. 7-8); a typescript copy, with emendations, of the open letter (ff. 13-14) and an alternative typescript introduction to the novel (f. 15). The letters are variously signed 'Jack', 'Jack the Ripper', 'John C.P. ', 'Jack not the Ripper' and 'JCP'; the letter dated 18 October 1947 (ff. 3-6) is unsigned and may be incomplete. The first letter (f. 1) has an envelope in the hand of Marian Powys, having presumably been forwarded by her.

Research papers of Alun John Yorke Richards relating to the slate industry in North Wales.

Papers, printed material, photographs and maps pertaining to the River Wye and River Usk fisheries, including Wye River Board fishery committee minutes, the personal papers and publications of J.A. Hutton (former Chair of the Wye Fishery Board), and diaries and correspondence of R. Pashley (the 'Wizard of the Wye'); both Hutton and Pashley are substantial figures from the early 20th century concerning the Wye salmon stock and fishery.

Papers, posters and photographs relating to the work of NUS Wales; Additional papers and booklets, 1994-2017, including reports and policies, and material relating to conferences and training; July 2024. Further group of papers consisting of Welsh-language campaign posters, 1992-2016.

Typescript legal memoir by the donor's father, His Honour Trevor Morgan (1892-1976), barrister on the Welsh Circuit, regional traffic commissioner for Wales (1941-48), and county court judge of West Wales (1948-68), written after he retired in c. 1970.

Harry Secombe scrapbook containing original photos, cards, magazine articles, and letters between Harry and a fan, Elsie Baldwin.

Typescript of 'Billy Boston Story' by Jack Winstanley, a biography of Billy Boston, the Welshman who went on to become a Rugby League legend for Wigan and Great Britain. He also became the first Black player to represent Great Britain on a Lions tour in 1954, and earned a knighthood in 2025.

Collection of over a hundred letters, August 1916 - November 1918, sent home by three brothers from Swansea during the First World War. Richard, Gabriel and Ivor Eustis sent the letters to various family members while they were serving in different theatres during the war, including Palestine, Saxon, Egypt, France and Italy. A book about the letters/family was published as, Having a Go at the Kaiser: A Welsh Family at War (2018).