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File contains newspaper articles, including an item from the Western Mail (16th November 1996) on the series 'Outside Looking in', a letter from Patrick Hannan to the Western Mail and a copy of 'Y Drych', the North American Welsh newspaper dates August 1995 with a feature on Patrick Hannan on pages 2 and 14.

The file comprises letter from George Thomas MP to David Llewellyn on various subjects including Llewellyn's retirement from Parliament, the 1959 General Election, Llewellyn's knighthood, the investiture, the press and the Aberfan disaster.

File contains agendas, minutes and supporting papers of the Welsh Conservative Party National Assembly for Wales group for 2005.

File contains newspaper articles covering the 1974 General Elections in Carmarthenshire.

File contains Gwynfor Evans' election addresses, and those of Roger Thomas, the Labour Party candidate for the 1979 General Election campaign in the Carmarthen constituency.

File comprises letters to Susan E. Williams in her capacity as Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan with some related to Royal visits to the county. Correspondents include Raymond Gower MP, George Thomas MP, Nicholas Edwards MP and Lord Chalfont.

File contains agendas, minutes and supporting papers of the Welsh Conservative Party National Assembly for Wales group for 2007. Includes updates on the potential 'All Wales Accord' discussions to form a government with the Welsh Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru.

The first report of the Aberfan Disaster Fund management committe, 21 Oct. 1966-Aug. 1968. Copy of no. 9, bound in red paper covers.

Pupils' work for the French items of the 1974 prizegiving. Also a French crossword book, 1972, a French vocabulary, 1974, copies of Ladycross project anthologies, 1967-1974, and Christopher Morgan's farewell cards. Also copies of 'The red book', the Ladycross year-book, for 1965, 1971, 1972 (extracts) and 1973/4, containing contributions by or relating to Christopher Morgan, and a school prospectus, c.1974. Also letters from parents and pupils, 1975-1980, some relating to Chris Morgan's organised cycle tours.

Copy survey of the lordship of Malláen, p's Llanwrda and Cil-y-cwm and hamlet of Llandingad, all co. Carm., by David Lewis, surveyor, 24 May 1833, bearing in mind the articles in a presentment of the customs made on 7 May1701. The court leet is held twice a year in either of the villages of Llanwrda and Cil-y-cwm. There are about 230 freehold tenements and cottages with 17,060a. of land, and no copyhold tenures. The lordship contains 22,400a, including 164a. also claimed by the lordship of Mabelfyw. Also observations relative to the boundaries of the lordship. Written on paper embossed with the Royal Arms, and appearing like a Public Record Office copy, including an examination mark (x'd), but not attested or dated. A marginal note is dated 1907.

The second report of the Aberfan Disaster Fund management committe, Aug. 1968-Aug. 1970.

11(i). University College of Swansea English, Old English, French and Italian examination papers, 1968-1970, WJEC, JMB and other examination boards' GCE 'O' and 'A' level and CSE English examination papers, 1971, and teaching notes. Also letters from the Welsh Arts Council relating to Dial-a-Poem, 1971, and Leicestershire Education Department, 1971.

11(ii). University College of Swansea teacher training notes and assignments, including placements at, and reports on, Neath grammar-technical school.

11(iii). English assignments, 1968-1970.

11(iv). Department of Education psychology, French and sociology assignments, 1970-1971. Also Christopher Morgan's Diploma in Education extended essay on 'Underachievement at school' and his dissertation, 'The aims, organisational problems and practical implications of "publishing" children's writing in the secondary school', 1971.

Copies of 'Rumpus' poetry magazine, no's 1-6 (two copies of each, edited by Christopher Morgan), and related papers. The first two numbers are undated, and are assumed to be late 1968 and early 1969.

Maureen Hughes (comp.) and Aberfan & Merthyr Vale Writers and History Group, 'Aberfan - our hiraeth ; an anthology in poetry, prose and pictures' (Aberfan & Merthyr Vale Community Co-operative, March 1999 ; p/bk, 270 pp., list of subscribers).

Poetry collections containing contributions by Christopher Morgan, including 'No walls broadsheet', no's 1-4, 6-11, 13-16 (no's 5 and 12 missing), 1968-1969; 'Quickest way out', no. 2, [post 1969]. Also a Glamorgan College of Education Anglo-Welsh Poetry Manuscript Exhibition catalogue, comprising entries by 22 poets, 1975, including Dannie Abse, Alison Bielski, Gillian Clarke, Antony Conran, Roland Mathias and Christopher Morgan. Also 'Selected poems by Paul L. Weare'.

Print-out of the www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/politics/aberfan website, intended as a starting point for researchers.

Iain McLean & Martin Johnes, 'Aberfan : government and disasters' (Cardiff : Welsh Academic Press, 1st imp., Oct. 2000 ; p/bk, xv, 274 pp., biblio., index).

Petition (39 names) by the "cultivators of the soil and growers of wool" in the hundred of Newcastle, co. Glam., to the House of Commons, protesting against the importation of 26,799,367 bushels of foreign corn in 1818, duty free, and of 13 million pounds of foreign wool in three quarters of a year, at a duty of a halfpenny and a fraction per pound, when the petitioners are paying probably 30% taxes on everything they can grow. They pray for a committee of inquiry, and duties on the imports to bring their cost up to that of "the productions of the soil of the United Kingdom". Several of the signatories have the first name or the family name/patronymic 'David', Lord Ogmore's mother's maiden name.