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A file entitled 'Amryw o Gasgliad Gwilym Cowlyd'. It includes lists of books received by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ['Gwilym Cowlyd']; draft correspondence; notes; a transcript of the programme of the 1903 prayer week at Llanrwst; a collecting book for the Jubilee Celebrations at Llanrwst, 1887; a catalogue of a sale of books and manuscripts, etc. at Cowlyd House, Llanrwst, 1897; a copy of an agreement for the lease of a printing press to John Lloyd Roberts, Llanddoged, 1891; and a poster of 'The Institutional Gorsedd ... and Bardic Anniversary' held on the banks of Llyn Geirionydd, 1899.

A box file of miscellaneous papers belonging to Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion'), including letters by O. Ll. Jones, Liverpool, 1856, H. M. Drummond Hay, Perth, 1858, John Jones, Tremadog, 1842, Edward Morgan, Dyffryn, 1896, Dr Robert Roberts ('Isallt') and George Rushby, Chester, 1856; miscellaneous notes by 'Alltud Eifion'; 'Can y Palm Oil, 1849' by 'Bardd Treflys' [Richard Roberts]; 'Araith ar Addysg' by D. Roberts; press cuttings; and examples of Porthmadog printing.

Printer's copy, 1828, of a satirical song entitled 'Conversation Between the Bridewell and Town Hall. A Parody on The Celebrated Comic Chant, called The Monument and St Paul's'. The song, possibly unpublished, was written by J. D. Burall, cabinet maker, and sung by him at the Festival of St John's in the Indefatigable Beaufort Lodge, Swansea, and was arranged for piano by Mr Louis Barree, Professor of Music, Swansea.
The title page (f. 1) contains a wash drawing depicting the old Guildhall, Swansea, the Bridewell (prison), Swansea, and a night watchman.

The tune book of John Roberts, Llanegryn, 1826, and later of Bontdolgadfan, containing anthems, hymn-tunes and psalm-tunes by John Roberts, Pantyniwl, John Williams, Abermawddach, H[ugh] Jones, Maesglasau, W. Williams, Llanegryn, John Edwards, Llangadog, the Reverend Richard Phillips, Bala, John Roberts, Llanbrynmair and others; and a hymn for use in Sunday Schools ('Yn ysgol bur fy Nuw').

A group of letters, 1920-1925, to Mr Evan M. Jones of the Council School, Glyndyfrdwy, Denbighshire, Secretary of the Executive Committee which proposed to raise funds in order to erect a village hall and library as a memorial to Owen Glyndwr.

A book of psalm-tunes and anthems compiled by Lewis Lewis, Gogerddan, 1805, containing works by Thomas Williams, Llanbadarn Fawr, Richard Thomas, D[avid] Harri[e]s, Edward Jones, John Williams [Dolgellau] and J[ohn] Ellis.

A cartulary of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Shrewsbury, compiled and written between 1278 and 1292, with a few leaves containing miscellaneous charters and a pedigree of the descendants of 'Guillaume, seigneur de bellesme', added later.

The original manuscript of 'An Acco[un]t of the Poll for member of Parliament for the Borough of Shrewsbury taken June 29 & 30th. 1747, in which the Proceedings of the Mayor at that Election are fully vindicated', with a reprint of the text from the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, bound with the following pamphlets: The Poll for the Borough of Shrewsbury, 1796; the same for 1807; A Short Account of the Mandamus Cause ... 1806; A Correct Alphabetical list of the Burgesses who voted ... at the Election for the Borough of Shrewsbury, 1812; A Correct Alphabetical List of the Freeholders who voted ... at the Election for the County of Salop, 1831; A Correct Alphabetical List of the Burgesses who voted ... at the Election for the Borough of Shrewsbury ..., 1830; A Correct Alphabetical List of the Electors who voted at the Election of Representatives for the Borough of Shrewsbury, 1832; the same for 1835, 1841 and 1847; The Alphabetical List of the Burgesses of the Town of Shrewsbury in the Castle Ward within, entitled to vote ... 1848-1849; Alphabetical List of the Electors who voted at the Election of Representatives for the Borough of Shrewsbury, 1852; A Correct Alphabetical List of the Electors who voted at the Election of Councillors for the Castle Ward within ... 1855; and mounted cuttings of lists of voters showing how they voted at borough elections, 1857 and 1862.

Original copies of the opinions of people from all parts of Wales towards the 2005 G8 Summit. The papers were collected by the donor during three months travelling around Wales on her bike, named as the Blossom Bike Tour.

A manuscript volume, [1747x1748], written by an unidentified scribe, entitled 'A Catalogue of the Representatives in Parliament for the Counties & Boroughs In Wales From the first returns of them A[nn]o 1542 to this present Parliament Conven[e]d A[nn]o 1747' (f. 4), listing the Members of Parliament of all county and borough seats in Wales, with the exception of Monmouthshire and Monmouth (ff. 5-62).
The seats are listed alphabetically by county with MPs then listed chronologically by monarch and regnal year; the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods are omitted.

A photostat facsimile of a manuscript of the Gospel according to St Matthew, St Mark and St Luke to Chapter III, 9, written about A.D. 700 in mixed uncial and miniscule characters.
The text is that of the Vulgate version of St Jerome with an admixture of many older readings.

Certified and other copies of, and extracts from, Cardiganshire records in the Public Record Office, London and the District Probate Registry, Carmarthen, etc. made for or by T[homas] Allen Glenn and relating mainly to persons in the parishes of Llanddewibrefi and Nantcwnlle; pedigrees copied or compiled by T[homas] Allen Glenn; and a facsimile copy of a letter of recommendation, dated 9 September 1721, from the ministers and members of the Baptist church at Rhydwilym, Pembrokeshire to Harry Griffith on his departure to Pennsylvania - '... mewn bwriad i ymdaith tros wyneb y dyfroedd (os caniatta Duw) oddiyma tua Phensylvania ...'.

One of five volumes containing 'Cyfansoddiadau Barddonol a Rhyddiaethol E[van] Edwardes, yn y drefn y'u cyfansoddwyd, gan ddechreu tua'r flwyddyn 1876 neu 7, pan yn yr U.C.W. Aberystwyth'. Besides original poems, translations and adjudications, they include notes of addresses given on such subjects as 'Defodau Eglwysig', 'Trichan-mlwyddiant yr Archddiacon Edmwnd Prys', 'Awr gyda Hen Ddiarhebion Cymraeg', 'Mynachaeth, Mynachod, a Mynachdai', 'Hen Arferion a Dywedion Cymru', 'Coelgrefydd a Dewiniaeth', 'Derwyddiaeth a Derwyddon', 'Lloffion o'm Dyddlyfr', etc.

A copy, made about 1842, of a journal, in verse, of a tour or sojourn in South Wales, with a close association with Cilybebyll, together with a collection of poems, including translations from German, by the same anonymous author. The sub-sections of the journal have the following topographical titles: 'Graig Alltwen and the Mumbles', 'Cwm Clic', 'Llanguicke', 'Llyn-y-Fan', 'Coed-y-Brain and Carrig Marie', 'Gelli-Onnen', 'Carrig-Dinas and Cil-Hepste', and 'Plas Cil-y-bebyll'. At the beginning of the volume is a letter in the same hand as the text, signed 'M.E.D.B.' and written from Sevenoaks, 31 August 1838, to James -----, referring to the 'journal' and giving an account of Knole Abbey.

A volume described as Post Office Vol. VIII and containing drafts and fair copies of letters and statements from the General Post Office to the Lords of the Treasury, March and April 1790, concerning the postage of letters and methods of checking them, accounts of twopenny letters from April 1789 to June 1790, dead letters, statements of the conveyance of mails in coaches, correspondence relating to the Leeward Islands Mails, statistics and correspondence relating to the Packet Boats, West India Packet Postage in 1789, and the Dover Packets, and weekly returns of the Packet Boats on the Falmouth Station, March-July 1789; copies of letters from John Drummond to Thomas, 2nd baron Walsingham (1748-1818), in 1789, relating to French schemes in the West Indies and elsewhere, to the manufacture of saltpetre, and to papers belonging to Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) and Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), some of which refer to the alleged discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd (fl. 1170); letters from Joseph Cawthorne to Lord Walsingham referring to the Asiatic monopoly of the East India Company; printed copies of Acts of Parliament, 17-18 cents.

A journal of tours to Tenby, Aberystwyth, etc. from 9 August to 3 September 1831, to the English Lakes from 1 to 29 August 1833, and to Matlock and Bakewell from 24 to 29 August 1835, with notes on a later tour, 1840, and some sketches.

Four holograph and two autograph letters, 1929-1947 and undated, written by Richard [Arthur Warren] Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929), to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leach. The writer refers to a visit to the Adirondacks, a cruise with Harrison (Hal) Smith, the sale of 11,000 copies of his novel, his indebtedness to Henry Leach for the title of A High Wind in Jamaica, the schooling of his children, his removal from Laugharne Castle to Talsarnau, Merioneth, etc.

Account book, 1846-1896, of David Jonathan, farmer and drover, of Ffwrneithin, Dihewid.