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A copy of John Montgomery Traherne: Historical Notices of Sir Matthew Cradock, Knt. of Swansea, in the Reigns of Henry VII and VIII ... (Llandovery, 1840), interleaved, with manuscript additions and corrections by the author, facsimiles of autographs, original sketches, press cuttings, etc.

A copy of John Montgomery Traherne: Historical Notices of Sir Matthew Cradock ..., 1840, interleaved, with a few corrections and additions by the author.

Miscellanea relating mainly to the Traherne family and including a pedigree showing the descent of John Montgomery Traherne from Einion ap Collwyn, extracts from the Trueman manuscript, legal and other documents, etc.

Posters, broadsides, circular letters, press cuttings, squibs and poems dealing with various Glamorgan parliamentary elections, 1767-1832.

A miscellany, 1818-1860, much of it in the form of printed broadsheets, circulars, etc. It includes material relating to the Cambrian Society, 1818; the Gwent and Dyfed Royal Eisteddfod and Musical Festival, Cardiff, 1834; Beddgelert National Schools, 1858; the Welsh Charity School, Ashford, Middlesex, 1859; the Swansea Grammar School, 1848; the South Wales Training College [for Teachers], Carmarthen; the Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, 1838; a printed letter on Roman remains by George Grant Francis, Swansea, 1840; a list of some persons who subscribed in 1818 towards building a school-room at Llandaff; a catalogue of Welsh manuscripts in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps transcribed by Lady Charlotte Guest; etc.

An inventory, taken 10 November 1632, of all the household effects at Penshurst and an inventory of statues and pictures delivered by Philip Sidney, Lord Lisle (afterwards 3rd Earl of Leicester) from his home in Sheen, Staffordshire, 8 September 1660.

Letters, 1853-[c. 1860], mainly to John Montgomery Traherne, from Lady Bute, J. H. Todd (Dublin), John Keble, W. H. Beaver (Cowbridge), Philip H. Howard, J. Dillwyn Llewelyn (Penllergaer), Francis Glennon (London), Connop Thirlwall (bishop of St. Davids), H. Albertson (London), H. Wellesley (Oxford), R. L. Cotten (Oxford), John Hussey (Blandford), J. M. Dyke, Madam Bunsen, J. R. Gower, Frederick, fourth baron Spencer, J. R. Planché (College of Arms), William Golding (Biddenham), Daniel Rock, Alwyne Compton, W. H. Turner (Trent), Thomas F. Luttrell, E. Jeffris Esdaile, Robert H. Inglis, W. D. Conybeare (dean of Llandaff), Henry M. Hawkins (London), J. Graham Vivian (Swansea), Joseph Joseph (Brecon), Thomas Hughes (Chester), Octavius Morgan, Thomas Jones (Chetham Library, Manchester), James Stuart (London), R. C. Nicholl Carne (Nash Manor), Lewis Thomas (Llandough), N. E. Vaughan, Sir George Gilbert Scott (architect), C. R. M. Talbot (Margam), W. Richardson (St. Davids), W. Salmon (Penllyne Court), H. Howard (Donington Rectory), J. Ponsonby Lucas (Rhosilly Rectory), George Rice, fourth baron Dynevor, Matthew Moggridge, H. Longueville Jones, J. Wilson, John C. Nicholl (Merthyr Mawr), John Phillips (York), Edward Hawkins (British Museum), Illtyd Nicholl (Usk), Edward Charlton (Newcastle), William Floyd (London), James Raine (Durham), W. H. Llewelyn (Tranmere), Henry Burgess (Newport Pagnell), R. F. Lascelles Jenner (Wenvoe), (Sir) Stephen R. Glynne (Hawarden Castle), Edwin Guest (Cambridge), W. Basil Jones (bishop of St. Davids), E. L. Barnwell (Ruthin), etc.

Letters, 1859-1896, to Mrs. J. M. Traherne (née Charlotte Louisa Talbot, of Margam) from George T. Clark and Sir Thomas Phillipps, Middle Hill; to Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen from J. D. Davies, Llanmadoc, and Charles Ll. Talbot, Lacock Abbey; etc.

Pedigrees of some Glamorgan families, being 'Extracts from the Golden Grove MS. made by Mr. Davies of Cringell with additions by Theophilus Jones' [and John Montgomery Traherne].

A volume of 'Glamorganshire Collections' compiled in or circa 1839 and containing pedigrees of the families of Turberville of Ewenny, etc., Gamage of Coyty, Sidney of Coyty, Streatfield of Lanharry, Bawdrippe of Penmark and Splott, Paine (afterwards Gibbon) of St. Fagans, Vann of Marcross, Edwin of Lanmihangel, Kemeys and Kemeys Tynte of Cefn Mabley, Lewis of Ruperra, Herbert of Cogan Pill, etc., Gwyn of Lansannor, Ragland of Carn lloyd, Thomas of Tregrose, Jones of Fonmon Castle, Thomas of Wenvoe Castle, Nerber of Castleton, Vele of St. Fagans, Thomas of Brigam, Le Sore of St. Fagans and Peterston super Ely, Seys of Boverton, Fleming of Monkton, Fleming of Flemingston, Button of Duffryn, Gibbon of Trecastle in Llanharry, Wilkins of Lanblethian, Prichard of Collena, Bennet of Penrice, etc., Aubrey of Lantrithyd, Nicholl of Lantwit Major and Lanmace, Jenkins of Hensol, Butler of Dunraven, Vaughan of Dunraven, Traherne of Castella, Mathews of Llandaff, and others.

An early nineteenth century volume of airs, dances, etc., said on a label on the protective paper cover to have been 'copied by Mr. Gwynn of Llanbrain' [i.e., Glanbrân in co. Brecknock]. The titles include 'Lovly Nancy', 'Lady Northe's Minuet', 'Lady Fearans Minuet', 'Farwel to Mancher ', 'Air By Captain Heaky', 'Gavot in the 10t Sonato of Correlli-Ruabon', 'Barbarianas Minuet-Ruabon', 'Parris Minuet', 'Minuet In Samson-Ruabon', 'Gin thou wert Mine ain thing', 'Minuet By Mr. [John] Parry [of Ruabon]', 'Count Sax's Minuet by Mr Parry', 'Of a Noble Race Was Shenkin. With Mr. Parrys Vars.', 'Shenkin', 'God Save the King With Vars', 'Handel's Water Musick', 'Minuet in Ariadne', 'The Lass of Paties Mill. Vars. by Mr. Parry ', 'Gavot Alegro' by John Stanley, 'Burton's Chese', 'The Lass that was Laden With Care . . .', 'Gavot Alegro' by John Stanly, 'Rhyddlan Marsh, by Mr. Parry, Ruabon', 'Gavot in Otho', 'Thro the Wood Laddie', 'Highland Laddie' by Mr. Pary, 'Horse to New-Market', 'The Lien Solo of Correli', 'Meillionen or Sir Watkins Delight' by John Parry, 'Disobri', 'Roslin Castel', 'Minuet in Rodelinda' (1770), 'Pitts Hornpipe', and 'An Air by Mr. Deebourgh'.

A composite volume of manuscript and printed music. The manuscript portion, compiled during the first half of the nineteenth century, comprises dances, airs, etc., of which the titles are 'Ruth' by Miss Davies ('E. L. C. Aug. 1840'), 'Canzonetta Veneziana' by Gio. Batta. Perucchini, 'Death Song of the Cherokee Indian', 'Hopswaltze' by [ ] Meyer, 'Lady Bruce' by [ ] Weippert, 'Waltz', 'Christmas Carol' ('Russian Air'), 'Geschwind Walzer', 'Walzer', 'Cottillon', 'Mary Anne's Waltz', 'Modinha', 'When thro' Life . . .' by R. Broadley, 'When forc'd to part . . .' [by R. Broadley], 'Air for the Harp' by James Meyer, senior, 'Serch Hudol', 'Venetian Rondo', ‘'Welsh [air]', 'Lesson' by [ ] Meyer, 'Breuddwyd y Frenhines', 'Brave Jonathan his bow ne'er drew' ('Oratorio of Saul' by Handel), 'Waltz' by [Ludwig van] Beethoven, 'Mazurka', 'Paul Garat', 'Waltz' by [Wolfgang Amadeus] Mozart, 'Wálecná, Pjsen pro Ceskau obranu', 'Pedal March' ('in imitation of a band marching thro' a town'), 'Imogen', 'Waltz', 'Slingsby' s Allemande', 'Lady Sutherland's reel' ('M[ary] T[hereza] T[albot]'), 'The Perthshire Hunt', 'The College Hornpipe', 'Garthland's Strathspey', 'The Tank', 'Mrs. McLeod of Raza', 'Awake my soul . . .', 'The Cosack', 'The Villagers', 'Danse A la Cosaque', 'Miss Flora Steibelt', 'The retreat', 'General Graham's Victory', 'Over the sunny hills I stray . . .', 'La Terza ', 'Bradalbaine's farewell to Ireland', 'The Broom of ?Cowden Brown', 'Prussian Waltz', 'An Irish Air', 'My Grandmothers hop', 'Diniweudruydd Colomen', 'A Welsh Air' ('Planxty Jane'), 'Lesson' (3), 'African Song', 'Waltz', 'Ecossaizer Waltz', 'The Rose of Aberdeen', 'Chartreuse', 'The Glen of Gorbaul', 'The Pampluna Waltz', 'Austrian Military Waltz', 'Albanian Waltz', 'Montpellier Waltz', 'Alpine Waltz', 'Slow March', 'Quick March', 'Louise', 'Elisabeth', 'March. Musquetier Regiment' by [ ] von ?Koslov, 'The Stormont Lads', 'Kin[?g] Caldrums reel', 'Prince of Saxe Coburg's March' (1814), 'Waltz', 'La Perle' by Princess Charlotte [Augusta ] (2); 'Le Sentiment' by P[rinces]s Charlotte], 'Mother Shipton', 'Moll in the Wad', 'Sweedish Waltz', 'L'Anacreon', 'Pipe de Tabac', 'Minuet in Don Giovanni', 'Albanian Waltz','Mazurka' (2), 'Ffoliad Llantrissant', 'Modinha ' ('Portuguese'),'Mazurka', ('Jane's) Mazurka', 'Rondo', 'Thro' the wood Laddie', 'Prince of Waterloo', 'Carron Side', 'Minuet to the Overture to Sampson' by [George Frederic] Handel, 'Sound an Alarm' by Handel, 'Bonnie wee thing', 'St. Patrick's day in the morning with Vars.', 'Rheinweinlied ', 'Kathleen O'More' ('Irish Air'), 'Waltz', 'in Ballet of Figaro', 'Waltz 4th' by [ ] Manson, 'Rushing' ('Irish Boat Song'), 'Cornish Waltz' ('Copied C. M.'), 'Cornet Waltz', 'Leipsic Waltz', 'Waltz', 'Lough Sheeling ' ('Copied'. 'Irish'), 'Tune. Within this Village lives a maid' ('Copied'. 'Irish'), 'Rant des Vaches', etc. The printed collections are Anton Diabelli: 'Euterpe eine Reihe moderner and vorzüglich beliebter Tonstücke . . . (Wien, n.d.), Albert [Gottlieb] Methfessel: Sechs Lieder . . . ( Leipzig, n.d.), and [Carl Friedrich] Zelter: Lieder, Balladen and Romanzen . . . 2 Hefte (Berlin, n.d.). Bound into the volume at the beginning is an incomplete list of the manuscript music.

The improved manuscript music book containing an early nineteenth century selection of instrumental pieces. The titles include 'Dulce domum', 'Thema Russe' by [ ] Naderman, 'La cloche bleue' by M[arie Martin Marcel] de Marin, 'Introduction a March', 'Fête des Villagiers', 'Sil est vrai que d'être deux', 'Ah Perdona', 'Cader Idris', 'Codiad yr Haul', 'Glan meddwdod mwyn' ('Introduction') by C. Davies, 'Merch Megan', 'Mwynen Gwynedd', 'Orddigan Hun Gwenllian', 'Yr Hen Rogero Bengoch', 'Agoriad Cywair', 'Y Gwr a'i Farch' ('an old Welsh jig'), 'Y Bardd yn ei Awen', 'Cymro o ble?', 'Pant corlan yr wyn, neu Davydd o'r Garreg las', 'March Allegro', 'Caingc Llewelyn', 'Llwyn on', 'Mwynen Machno', 'Yr Helyg Gân', and 'Meillionen or Sir Watkins Delight'.

An early nineteenth century composite music book containing airs, songs, dances, psalm-tunes, and hymn-tunes, etc. The titles include 'La Marseillaise', 'Old Folks at Home', [ ] by [Wolfgang Amadeus] Mozart ('for Miss Lesle with L[ad]y M. Coles regards'), 'The striking of the clock. Old Curiosity Shop', 'Work away while you're able', 'Elogio del Pianto', 'Leise Leise' by [Carl Maria von] Weber, 'Einsam bin ich nicht alleine' by Weber, 'Durch die Wälder durch die Auen' by Weber, 'Gute Nacht', 'Cashmerian Air', 'L'Espagnole', two hymns by Michael Haydn, 'Geoffry Rudel ', 'Forget me not' by R. Broadley ('The words written by a Lady on hearing the 'flower forget me not' grew on the plains of Waterloo'), 'The Village Bells' (words and music by R. Broadley), 'Here's the harp . . .' by R. Broadley, 'The happy morn is come' by [ ] Overton, 'Psalm LXXXVI' by L. Helwig, 'Andemken' by F. J. Avendt, 'Andantino' by [ ] Osthoff, 'meine lieder meine sänge . . .' by Weber, 'Vergiss mein nicht' by [Johan Nepomuka] Hummel, 'Volkslied' by Weber, 'Mailied' by Weber, 'Le doux mal' by [Etienne Nicolas] Méhul, 'Kleine blumen, kleine blätter. . .' by [ ] Blum, 'Trio', 'Cauld Kale in Aberdeen', 'Far awa my Malcolm strays', 'Scotch Air', 'Lied aus Gabriele' by Osthoff, 'Zigeunner-liedchen', 'Speed the Plough', 'Drunk at night & dry in the morning' by [?Niel] Gow, 'Queen of Prussia's Waltz', 'Waltz', 'Valse', 'Romance' by [ ] Alvars, 'Auld Robin Gray', 'Le Petit Chaperon Rouge', [ ] by Mozart, 'The Sea' ('Mainzer's Choruss No. 17), 'I dreamt of Straying'), 'Collect for the First Sunday in Advent' by [?Samuel] Chapple, 'Chant' by [ ] Robinson, 'Te Deum Laudamus' by W[illiam] Jackson, 'Jubilate Deo' by Jackson, 'Cantate Domini', 'Nunc Dimittis' by [?Charles] King, 'Anthem Psalm 26th 1-6' by Chapple, 'Anthem from the 52d Chapter of Isaiah' by [ ] Burgess, 'Chant' by Rd. Langdon (1760), [ ] by [George Frederic] Handel, 'Anthem from 2d Chapter of St. Luke & 9th I[s]aiah' by Burgess, 'Anthem from the 40th Psalm' by Chapple, 'Psalm 24th Verses 7 and 10' by [ ] Spencer, 'Confession', 'Imperial Chant-1544', 'Canterbury Tune, A.D. 1544', 'From Tallis' Service', 'Walsal or St. Faith' by Henry Purcell ('Harmony Music' by J. Williams), 'Y Ffynnon Rhinweddol', 'Psalm 84 . . .', 'Psalm 30 . . .', 'Psalm 163 . . .', 'Hymn', 'Psalm 43 . . .', 'Psalm 23d . . .', 'Psalm 50th', 'Psalm the 11th', 'Waltz' by Mozart, 'God Save the Emperor' ('Russian'), 'Hymn for the Emperor Nicholas' ('Russian'; 'Sung by his Army'), 'Christmas Hymn[s]', 'Tôn Alarch. The Swan's Note' ('From [Edward] Jones' Bardic Museum'), 'The Caerphilly March', 'Lady Coventry's Minuet', 'Miss Dawson's Hornpipe', 'Come haste to the Wedding', 'Miss Brown's Minuet', 'Slingsby's Allemand', 'Lady Harrington's Minuet', 'Mrs. Baker's Hornpipe', 'Count Sax's Minuet', 'March in Judas Maccabeus', 'New York Minuet', 'The Merionethshire March', 'The Retreat to the Same March', 'Boat Song' by L[ad]y [ ] Lake, 'A la Grecque Dance' ('Russian'), 'Psalm 16 verse 5th', 'Venetian Air', 'Giga' by [Arcangelo] Corelli, 'Hop Waltz du Tyrol', 'The Devil among the Tailors', 'Lord Nelsons Waltz', 'Hungarian Waltz', 'Waltz', 'The Prussian Hussars Waltz', 'Danish Air', 'Wetzstein Waltz', 'March of the 78th Regt.', 'The London March', 'A March', 'A French country dance', 'Snuff Box Tune', 'A Solemn Dirge', 'Lady Heron's song from Marmion' by [ ] Attwood, 'Alice Gray', 'Smile again my bonnie Lassie', 'Sail on Sail on' by Mr. Broadley, 'Hardy Flowers' by the Reverend A. Reeves, 'Let all bow at the name of the Lamb' ('Ymgrymed pawb i lawr . . .'), 'True Godliness' ('Duwioldeb yn ei grim . . .'), '1st Psalm' ('Gwna fi fel pren planedig . . .' ) ('Gonqwest'), '8th Psalm' ('Lingham'), 'I think when I read' by Revd. A. Reeve[s], '1st Psalm' ('Arabia'), 'Christmas Hymn' ('or 95 Psalm'), 'Hymn' ('Guide me oh thou Great Jehovah ..', 'Gwawria gwawria hyfryd fore ..'), '13th Psalm', '32d Psalm' ('not in prayer book version'), '106th Psalm', 'Hymn for Good Friday', 'Old Hundredth Psalm', 'Hundred & forty ninth Psalm', 'Brwydr y croes' ('Deued yr indiad, deued barbariad . . .'), 'Psalm 28th. Oh Lord my rock', 'Tangnefedd', 'Psalm 149th' ('Callestr'), 'Udgorn Sion', 'Suffolk', 'Russia', '92d Psalm' ('Lydia'), 'Jechadwriaeth', 'Cymdeithas', 'Trallwn', 'Mwyneidd-dra', 'Coedycymmer', 'Gabriel New', 'Jubilee', 'York', 'Wuddgrug', 'Triumph', 'Shrouston', 'Canaan', 'Worksop', 'The two last verses of the 39th . . .', etc. A printed leaflet (4 pp.) bound into the volume contains psalm-tunes and hymn-tunes by J. Righton and J. H. Righton.

A volume of T. Mansel Franklen containing diary entries, 1 January-23 February, 1864, scriptural discourses and notes entitled 'A man of sorrows ', 'Job', 'Westcotts Gospel of the Resurrection', etc., notes of sermons, prayers, and draft translations of portions of the New Testament. Among the insets are notes on hymn-tunes, and a biography and appreciation of Robert Schumann, musician, written at Dresden, November, 1857.

'Collectanea' relating to some South Wales families, mainly in the hand of William Davies, Cringell.

Two albums of franks of letters, cut-away signatures, and some holograph letters of Charles Howard, 11th duke of Norfolk, William Pitt Amherst, 2nd baron Amherst, Richard Buller, 1st viscount Caher, John Sydney, 6th earl of Leicester, Anthony Trollope, Warren Bulkeley, Beaumaris, Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways, 3rd earl of Ilchester, Henry George Bathurst, 4th earl of Bathurst, John Rolle, 2nd baron Rolle of Stevenstone, James Harris, 1st earl of Malmesbury, Edward Smith Stanley, 13th earl of Derby, George Capel, 5th earl of Essex, Richard Griffin Neville, 3rd baron Braybrooke, Henry Lascelles, 2nd earl of Harewood, Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, 3rd duke of Leinster, George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence, 1st earl of Munster, John Charles Villiers, 3rd earl of Clarendon, John Stuart, 1st marquess of Bute, George Kenyon, 2nd baron Kenyon, Henry Charles Somerset, 6th duke of Beaufort, John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd marquess of Bute, George Spencer, 4th duke of Marlborough, Ulick John de Burgh, 1st marquess of Clanricarde, Henry Somerset, 7th duke of Beaufort, 1840 (thanks for a sketch by Mrs. Traherne), Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st viscount Canterbury, Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd earl of Bessborough, Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd earl of Radnor, Sylvester Douglas, baron Glenbervie, Thomas Villiers, 2nd earl of Clarendon, George Child-Villiers, 5th earl of Jersey, Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 2nd earl of Dunraven, Henry Fleming Lea Devereux, 14th viscount Hereford, Henry George Herbert, 2nd earl of Carnarvon, Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st baron Sudeley, William Eden, 1st baron Auckland, John Howe, 4th baron Chedworth, Charles Augustus Ellis, 4th baron Howard de Walden, Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 15th duke of Buccleuch, 1838 (the writer's compliance with a request in favour of E. Thomas, a reference to the recipient Captain Bassett Saunderson as the writer's athletics instructor), Thomas Moreton FitzHardinge Berkeley, 6th earl of Berkeley, [17]96 (information concerning the Hon. Henry Berkeley), [Thomas] Amyot (in the third person), undated (the presentation of an engraved portrait of Sir Lewis Dyve to the Society of Antiquaries), Sir Richard Kaye [dean of Lincoln Cathedral] (in the third person) c. 1801 ('Master Llewelin's reading'), T[homas] Rackett, antiquary, Taylor Combe, numismatist, Henry Drummond [politician], John Caley, antiquary, J. H. Todd, Trin[ity] College], Dublin, 1842 (the recipient's subscription to the Irish Archaeological Society, and the latter's publications), John Gough Nichols, St. Cloud, near Paris, 1843 (the identity of 'H.N.C.' who contributed to The [Gentleman's] Magazine, letters in the Magazine relating to Col. Ph[ ilip] Jones, the recipient's visit to Yorkshire, the writer's journey to St. Cloud), G. F. Beltz, Heralds College, London, 1834 (a sketch of the arms of the Princess Victoria, news of Mr. Rackett, declining an invitation to Wales), Edward Hawkins, provost of Oriel College, Oxford, Sam[uel] R. Meyrick, [Sir] R[ichard] C[olt] H[ogre], undated (the death of Sir Thomas Lawrence), Philip Bliss, antiquary, G. T. Clarke, antiquary, Sir C[harles] G[eorge] Young, Garter King of Arms, Edwd. Hawkins, Brit[ish] Mus[eum], 1842 (the value of an angel of Queen Elizabeth, the arrival of sculptured marbles from Lyria, personal), Nich[olas] Carlisle, antiquary, And[rew] Coltee Ducarel, Keeper of Lambeth Library, Edward S. Byam, Cheltenham, 1833 (a subscription to the eisteddfod to be held in Cardiff in 1834), James Raine, Crook Hall, Durham, 1843 (a valuable gift to the Durham Architectural Society), [the Hon.] A[lgernon] Herbert, Ickleton, Saffron Walden, undated (a pamphlet on the history of the writer's family, comments on the use of the word 'celain'), W. H. Smyth, undated (support for 'our Institution'), H. Cassini, Paris, 1827 (acknowledging the Diploma of the Linnean Society of London) (French), William R. Hamilton, Observatory [Dublin], 1837 (arrangements for the observation of the moon), Philip P. King, New Bond Street [London], 1831 (the audit of the accounts of the Linnean Society), Henry R. Palmer, civil engineer, Thos. Telford, engineer, T[homas] Drummond, Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, Charles Waterton, Walton Hall [Yorkshire], 1843 (thanks for a sketch of Walton Hall, instructions for the erection of a tower for starlings), James Sowerby, naturalist, Tho. Pennant, Downing, 1782 (the purchase of twelve numbers of the recipient's Dictionary).

R. Brown, Dean St[reet], [London], [18]32-1851 (an appointment, [Edward] Foster's action, the portrait of Bicheno by Eddis, news of excellent friend [Lewis Weston] Dillwyn), Charles L[ucien] Bonaparte, on board the Delaware, near Gibraltar, 1828 (thanks for the Diploma of the Linnean Society, an offer to the Society of a work by the writer on European birds, the appearance of swallows at sea), Jno. Hawkesworth, author, Shute Barrington, bishop of Durham, George Isaac Huntingford, bishop of Hereford, J. H. Addington, Under-Secretary of State, Thomas Clarkson, philanthropist, S[tephen] Lushington, M.P., judge of the High Court of Admiralty, J[ames] E[ndell] Tyler, divine, Thomas Cadell [the elder], publisher, P[hilip] S[tanhope] Dodd, divine, E[lijah] Waring, [Joseph] Goodall, provost of Eton (in the third person), 1832 (thanks for a gift of an engraved portrait of Sir Lewis Dyve, Wm. L[isle] Bowles, divine, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of Shaftesbury [1856] (the writer's willingness to become a subscriber to 'Liber Landavensis'), Charles Dickens, Thomas Moore, Sloperton [Cottage, near Chippenham], 1834 (an invitation to [the Cardiff eisteddfod]), H. T. Colebrooke, Argyle Street [ London], undated (a request for a vote at the Athenaeum for the writer's son), W[illiam] Harness, Heathcote Street [London], 1843 (an invitation to dinner), Joseph Romilly, divine, W[illiam] Sewell, College of St. Columba [Rathfarnham, near Dublin], undated (a contribution to the College), J[ohn] Keble, from Oriel [College, Oxford], 1835 (enclosing a paper by [E. B.] Pusey), and from Hursley, Winchester, 1841 (a request for a vote for Mr. Williams of Trin[ity] Coll[ege], Oxford, as Professor of Poetry), E. B., Pusey, Christ Church, Oxford, undated (the recipient's papers, a proposed memorial of [John Keble] the author of the 'Christian Year'), S[amuel] Rogers, undated (the death of [the writer's nephew George Rogers]), [Sir] John Bowring, linguist, writer, and traveller, George James Welbore Agar- Ellis, 1st baron Dover, B[enjamin] H[eath] Malkin, miscellaneous writer, Colonel James Capper, Cardiff, B[enjamin] Travers [surgeon], Sir B[enjamin] C[ollins] Brodie [the elder], surgeon, [Sir John Sinclair, President of the Board of Agriculture] [1834] (currency system) (fragment), C[onnop Thirwall], bishop of St. Davids, Abergwili, 1840 (projected changes in Welsh orthography, with a reference to the writer's speech at the Cymreigyddion meeting at Abergavenny), D[avid] Garrick, Hampton, undated (the best information concerning 'you know who', a proposed visit to Hampton and Farnborough), Sydney Smith, 1798-1840 (excursions to the Highlands and to Wales), Wm. John Bankes, Kingston Hall, 1835 (lithographed prints of 'my Obelisk'), C[harles] J[ames] Mathews, actor and dramatist, J. Ebenezer Bicheno, Spring Gardens, 1817 (the immoral tendency of the great principle of the Poor Laws), J. C. Curwen, Vere Street, 1817 (Mr. Bicheno's inquiry into the operation of the Poor Laws), Capel Lofft [the elder], Froston [near Bury St. Edmunds], 1800 (the fate of their petition to the King), Walter Levett, Bray Vicarage, near Maidenhead, 1840 ( monuments to the Gordon family in the church at Bray), W. S. Goddard, undated (a card for Mr. Anderdon, the writer's tour through Wales), C[harles] Wellbeloved, York, 1843 (a copy of a will for the recipient, the recipient's visit to Yorkshire), Samuel Parr, 1814 ([Charles] Girdlestone's admission to Wadham [College, Oxford], etc.), A. Menzies, Ladbroke Terrace, [18]32 (an invitation to dinner), Dr. [John] Lindley, Gardener's Chronicle, Covent Garden (in the third person), undated (thanks for a note) (imperfect), [Sir] J[ames] E[dward] Smith, Norwich, 1827 (appointments to the [Linnean Society]), Dr. ?J. Fischer, St. Petersburgh, 1841 (a new catalogue of seeds), T[homas] Robt. Malthus, E[ast] I[ndia] [i.e., Haileybury] Coll[ege], 1817 (the recipient's pamphlet), P. B. Duncan [New College, Oxford], 1841 (the residence of the recipient's father [Llewellyn Turner] at New College), [Sir] H[enry] Ellis [Principal Librarian, British Museum], M[ichael] Faraday, natural philosopher, [Sir] W[illiam] R[obert] Grove, scientist, Chas. Hatchett, Belle Vue House, Chelsea, 1841 (information about bromide of iodine, the death of Mr. Rackett), H. F[ox] Talbot, Lacock, 1840 (the removal of pauper lunatics from Devizes, Welsh etymology, encloses photographs), [Sir] H[umphrey] Davy, undated (an invitation to a party, the election of the recipient as Fellow of the Royal Society).

Wm. Buckland, geologist, R[obert] Bakewell, geologist, Henry Warburton, M.P., J[ohn] Kidd, Oxford, 1842 (the recovery of [William] Buckland), Wm. H. Fitton, 53 Upper Harley Street [London], undated (an invitation to meet [Christian Leopold] von Buch, the veteran geologist), J. W. G. Gutch, Plymouth, 1840 (a portrait of a Welsh pony, the ensigns of nations, etc.), Henry S. Boaze, secretary, Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance, 1835 (an official resolution of thanks for two specimens of hatchettine from Merthyr Tydvill), Cha. Throckmorton, Coughton Court, 1840 (the publication of the ancient register of the cathedral of Llandaff, welcomes information concerning Cowbridge), Wm. Twopeny, Temple, 1843 ('slight memorials' to [John Gage] Rokewode, collections found by the writer), D[aniel] Murray [archbishop of Dublin], 1836 (an appointment), I[sambard] K[ingdom] Brunel, 1845 (South Wales Railway's powers of deviation), E[dward] H[odges] Baily, sculptor, J[ohn] Evan Thomas, sculptor, J[oseph] Nollekens, sculptor, G[eorge] P[erfect] Harding, Lambeth, [18]41 (an appointment to look over the writer's drawings), E[dwin Henry] Landseer, undated (an invitation), William Wilkins, Weymouth Street [London], 1818 (the completion of the cenotaph), C[harles] R[obert] Leslie, painter, 1845 (an appointment to view a picture), J[ohn] P[hilip] Davis, painter, John Conroy, Kensington Palace, 1834 (the Duchess of Kent's view on the use of arms), A[lan] Stevenson, engineer , [Sir] E[dward] M[ichael] Pakenham, major-general, [Sir] Edwd. Paget, general, [Sir] Frederick Adam, general, Fred[erick] Maitland, general, E. G. Lambert Perrott, The Mount, near Woolwich, Kent, 1844 (portraits of Sir John Perrott), King George III, King George IV, ?Frederick Augustus, duke of York and Albany, Ernest Augustus, duke of Cumberland, Adelaide, Queen of William IV, Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex, William Frederick, 2nd duke of Gloucester, Adolphus Frederick, duke of Cambridge, Maria Louisa Victoria, duchess of Kent, undated (an invitation to dinner and the opera), Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, 1824 (personal), Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, 1816 (a request for the writer's autograph), Sir Edward Pellew, 1st viscount Exmouth, 1826 (personal, naval appointments, navigating 'the Catholic Ocean'), A[ugustus] Keppel, 1st viscount Keppel, Adam Duncan, admiral, Tho. Foley, admiral, [Sir] R[ichard] Bickerton, admiral, [Sir] J[ohn] P[oo] Beresford, admiral, Baron [ ] Bülow [Prussian minister to Great Britain] undated (an engagement) (French), Baron [ ] Brunnoir, 1845 (the return of Admiral Putiatine to Russia), John Manners, marquess of Granby, John Pitt, 2nd earl of Chatham, [Charles- Frangois] Dumouriez, general, Fitzroy [James Henry] Somerset, 1st baron Raglan, undated (an appointment), Sir Thomas Picton, C[hristbpher] Hely- Hutchinson, Charles Lennox, 4th duke of Richmond, [Sir] R[obert] Brownrigg, general, Henry John George Herbert, 3rd earl of Carnarvon, George William Frederick Villiers, 4th earl of Clarendon, [Sir Richard] Hussey Vivian, 1st baron Vivian, [18]38-[1842] (the inclusion of Mr. Llewellyn [Traherne] on the list, the announcement of an income tax of £2/18/4 in the £), [ ] Vivian, Singleton [Swansea], undated (an enclosure 'interesting in marking the time', personal), C[harles Manners Sutton], archbishop of Canterbury, J[ames] H[enry Monk], bishop of Gloucester, R[ichard Bagot], bishop of Oxford, C[hristopher Bethell], bishop of Gloucester, W[illiam Warburton], bishop of Gloucester, John [Ewer], bishop of Llandaff, R[ichard Watson], bishop of Llandaff, A[shurst] T[urner] Gilbert, bishop of Chichester, [ Richard Beadon] bishop of Bath and Wells, 1812 (the ordination of candidates for holy orders, personal) (incomplete), W[illiam] Otter, bishop of Chichester, W[illiam Howley], archbishop of Canterbury, 1845 (an invitation to dinner), B[eilby Porteus], bishop of London, E[dward Venables Vernon Harcourt], archbishop of York, T[homas Burgess], bishop of Salisbury, G[eorge Pretyman], bishop of Lincoln, [Walker King, bishop of Rochester], J[ohn Fisher], bishop of Salisbury, G[eorge Pelham], bishop of Bristol, Geo[rge] H[enry Law], bishop of Bath and Wells, Edward [Grey], bishop of Hereford, C[harles] J[ames Blomfield], bishop of London, H[erbert Marsh], bishop of Peterborough, W[illiam van Mildert], bishop of Llandaff, C[harles Richard Summer], bishop of Llandaff, E[dward Copleston], bishop of Llandaff, J[ohn] B[arks Jenkinson], bishop of St. Davids.

D[aniel Wilson], bishop of Calcutta, J[ohn Luxmoore], bishop of Hereford, [Robert] J[ames Carr], bishop of Worcester, H[ugh Percy], bishop of Carlisle, J[ohn Graham], bishop of Chester, R[ichar]d [Whately], archbishop of Dublin, ?[18]35 (Irish poor laws), Edmond Thomas [M.P., Wenvoe Castle], 1759 (a commission ordered by the bishop of Llandaff), Thos. Wyndham [Dunraven Castle], [Sir] Benj[amin] Hall, 1st baron Llanover , [Sir] Chris[tophe]r Cole [Penrice Castle], John Edwards [Rheola], C. R. M. Talbot [Penrice Castle], Wyndham Lewis, Pantgwynlas, Wm. Gore Langton, W. Crawshay, Jr. [Cyfarthfa], Dudley [Long] North, politician, W[illiam] H[ enry] Lyttelton, 3rd baron Lyttelton, Pascoe Grenfell, politician, [Sir] Evan Nepean, 1st bart., ?Horatio Walpole, 1st baron Walpole of Wolterton, [Sir] W[atkin] Lewes [lord mayor of London], F[rancis] Homer, politician, H[enry] Bankes, politician, Nicholas] A[ylward] Vigors, zoologist, C[harles] W[atkin] Williams Wynn, Stratford Canning, 1st viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Joseph Hume [radical politician], R[obert] A[glionby] Slaney, reformer, J[ames] S[ilk] Buckingham, author and traveller, [Sir] E[dward] Knatchbull, 9th bart., G[eorge] Rice Trevor, 4th baron Dynevor, Lord G[ ranville] C[harles] H[enry] Somerset, J[ohn] Jones [M.P., of Ystrad Lodge, co. Carmarthen, R[alph] Bernal, politician, E[dward] J[ohn] Stanley, 2nd baron Stanley of Alderley, 1839 (requesting the recipient's presence in the House of Commons), H[enry] Hobhouse, archivist, Rich. Hart Davis, Bristol, W[illiam] Pitt, 1st earl of Chatham, Henry Phipps, 1st earl Mulgrave, Charles Middleton, 1st baron Barham, Henry Addington, viscount Sidmouth, John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st marquess of Camden, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of Portland, N[icholas] Vansittart, 1st baron Bexley, Robert Stewart, viscount Castlereagh, Henry Goulburn, statesman, R[obert Saunders] Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville, Geo. Canning, statesman, John William Ward, 1st earl of Dudley, W[illiam] Huskisson, statesman, Charles Grey, 2nd viscount Grey and viscount Howick, William Lamb, 2nd viscount Melbourne, H[enry] P[eter] Brougham, baron Brougham and Vaux, John George Lambton, 1st earl of Durham, Henry John Temple, 3rd viscount Palmerston, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd baron Holland, Henry Petty- Fitzmaurice, 3rd marquess of Lansdowne [1834] (thanks for a volume of tracts on constitutional subjects), Sir G[eorge] Grey, 2nd baronet, T[ homas] Spring-Rice, 1st baron Monteagle, George Eden, 1st earl of Auckland, C[harles Edward] Poulett Thomson, baron Sydenham, C[harles] Yorke, lord chancellor, W[illiam] C[onyngham] Plunket, 1st baron Plunket, Sir James St. Clair Erskine, 2nd earl Rosslyn, Wm. Scott, baron Stowell, undated (the recipient's proposition ?to the Faculty of Advocates at Doctors' Commons), Thomas Denman, 1st baron Denman, H[enry Peter] B[rougham], lord chancellor, undated (a Great Seal's gift), [Francis] Bacon, lord chancellor, [Sir] J[ ohn] Leach, master of the rolls, [Sir] William] Grant, master of the rolls, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st baron Kenyon, undated (a legal question touching bodily impotence), Charles Stuart Aubrey, 3rd baron Tenterden, [Sir George] Pollock, 1st bart., Henry Bickersteth, baron Langdale, [Sir] S[amuel] Romilly, law reformer, [Sir] J[ohn] B[ernard] Bosanquet, judge, Charles Abbot, 1st baron Colchester, [Sir] G[eorge] Nares, judge, [George Hardinge, author] (in the form of poetry to Charles Manning, sculptor of the model for the monument of Capt. George N. Hardinge in St. Paul's Cathedral), James Scarlett, 1st baron Abinger, [Sir] J[ohn] Nicholl, judge, E[dward] B[urtenshaw] Sugden, baron St. Leonards, 1844 (appointments to the [Court of] Delegates), W. Nicholl, J[oseph] Phillimore [M.P.], [Sir] J[ohn] Jervis, lord chief justice of common pleas, [Sir] W[illiam] W[ebb] Follett, attorney general, 1842 (requesting a vote for the writer's brother at the Athenaeum Club), [Sir] Geo. Gilbert Scott, architect, 1857 (an appointment ), A[bel] Moysey [judge of the Brecknock circuit], Gryff. Price, Cardiff, W. Reader, Inner Temple, John Williams, Serjeants Inn, Thos. Caldecott ('Brecon Circuit'), Maurice O'Connell, undated (encloses a draft report), W. Hicks Beach, Lady [ ] Coffin Greenly, Ritley Court (in the third person ), 1833 (a subscription to the Cardiff eisteddfod), [Lady] C[harlotte] E[ lizabeth] Guest, L[ydia Rogers] W[hite], undated (an appointment).

Catherine Stephens, countess of Essex, Mary Fox, Kensington, 1840 (a publication by the writer for the benefit of infant schools and schools of industry in the writer's neighbourhood) (with an undated letter attached from M[ary] R[ussell] Mitford [novelist], with references to a continental tour, health, and friends), Magdalene Banks, Burhill, 1840 (a subscription due from the writer's husband), Lady Charlotte [Susan Maria] Bury, novelist (in the third person), undated (requesting a subscription towards a publication by the writer) (incomplete), Mary Howitt, author, Elizabeth Fry (in the third person), 1822 (the approaching anniversary meeting of the Prison-Discipline Society), Maria Edgeworth, novelist, Edgeworths Town, 1824 (the promise of a horse, an accident involving Judge Fletcher and the high sheriff, personal), L[ouisa] S[tuart] C[ostello], artist and author, undated (observations on Whigs and Tories, the writer's party, a proposed continental tour, personal), [Agnes Strickland, historian], undated ( personal, the character of Sir Lewis Dives) (incomplete), C. M. Yonge, Otterbourne, 1873 (an enclosure relating to [John] Keble), Edward Williams ['Iolo Morganwg'], Flimston, 1824 (relations with the 'doubly cursed rascal' William Rees of Court Coleman, Miss Wood's benefaction to the writer) (with a receipt for the twentieth annual benefaction, 1826, 'who now in the 81st year of his age has been for about three years confined to his house an absolute cripple . . .'), Henry Walters ('eccentric'), Cowbridge, Taliesin Williams ['Taliesin ab Iolo'], T[homas] Price ('Carnhuanawc'), Sophia Lee, novelist and dramatist [1803] (acknowledging a banker's bill for £78/3/2, personal), Edward Davies [author of Celtic Researches, 1804], Bishopston, near Swansea, 1824 (a benefaction for the widow of 'our late Minister'), W. J. Rees, Cascob Rectory, Presteign, Will[iam] Morgan, actuary, etc. The letters and franks are directed mainly to John Montgomery Traherne, Coedriglan, and other recipients include [William] Bruce Knight, Margam, Frederick Augustus, duke of York and Albany, T. [ recte Richard] Berens, All Souls College, Oxford, Lady Mary Talbot, Penrice Castle, etc., Chas. Barnard, St. Johns College, Cambridge, Henry Drake, London, Sir Christopher Cole, Mrs. Williams, Stone Street, Llandovery, R. Lascelles, Wenvoe Castle, Cardiff, Mrs. Morse, St. Hilary, Cowbridge, E. B. Pusey, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford, Miss Simkins, Cowbridge, Llewellyn Traherne, St. Hilary, Cowbridge, Lady Elizabeth Fielding, Penrice Castle, etc., Thomas Hulse, All Souls Coll[ege], Oxford, Mr. Salmon, surgeon, Cowbridge, Captain Bassett Saunderson, Lichfield, J. E. Bicheno, Rev. [William] Selwyn, Dr. [P.] Cadogan, Hanover Square [London], W. Strangways, [Sir] John Nicholl, Llewellyn Turner, Major Taynton, 64th Regiment, Lieut.-Col. Herbert Taylor ('Confidential Secretary to his Majesty'), Queen's Lodge, Windsor Castle, Lady Louisa Grey, Dunham Massey, Knutsford, Lady George Murray, Burnham Parsonage, Maidenhead, Mrs. Rd. Foley, Tythegston, Cardiff, W. Bennett, Dunraven Castle, John Wallington, Bridgenorth, Henry Banks, M.P., J. H. Vivian, Singleton, Swansea, John Charles Villiers, 3rd earl of Clarendon, Miss Rogers, Rectory, Weston- super-Mare, Major Croker, Cheltenham, Miss Louisa Traherne, St. Hilary, Geo. Jenner, Doctors' Commons, Rev. Wm. Michell at Duffryn, Cardiff, Rev. Dr. [James] Burton, canon of Christ Church, Oxford, Miss Nicholl, Merthyr Mawr, Rev. T. Selwyn, Melbury, Sherborne, Rev. John Walters, Landough, Rev. M. Davis, Abbotsbury, Lady Anne Lowther, Greetham, Miss M. D. Hill, Wenvoe Castle, Rev. Thomas Oliver Rogers, Weston-super-Mare, Rev. Rees Howel, [ curate of] Cowbridge, Fra[ncis] Staynton, Cowbridge, Miss Georgiana Raymond Barker, at Christ Church College, Oxford, Messrs. Haynes, Dillwyn & Co., Swansea, [Sir] Chas. Lyell, 1st bart., geologist, Hugh] Falconer, palaeontologist and botanist, Rich. Lougher, etc. There are also a few facsimiles of autographs of [Sir] George] Harbertt, Swansea, [Colonel] Phi[ lip] Jones, R[ice] Munxell [Mansell, of Margam], Mathyas Cradok, Ann Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, Evan Seys [of Boverton], Ph. Melanchthon. NLW MS 11981E also contains a diploma of honorary membership of Société Franose de Statistique Universelle awarded to John Montgomery Traherne, 1838, and a letter announcing the election of J. M. Traherne to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, 1844.

Copies of The Order of the Court of Chancery for regulating the Free Grammar School, Swansea ... (Swansea, 1850) and of George Grant Francis: The Free Grammar School, Swansea, with Brief Memoirs of its Founder and Masters ... (Swansea, 1849), interleaved, with manuscript notes.

Letters, 1836-1856, to John Montgomery Traherne from John Webb (Cardiff and Tretire), C. G. Young (College of Arms), R. Reece (Cardiff), Catherine Jones (Bath), W. J. Rees (Cascob), Samuel Fenton (Fishguard), Edward V. Ulverson (Cowbridge), D. Jones Lewis (Gilfach) John Jones ('Tegid'), Charlotte E. Guest, J. Johnson (Cowbridge), Joseph Hunter (London), George Grant Francis (Swansea), L. W. Dillwyn (Swansea), C. K. Kemeys Tynte ( Halswell), J. Davies (Reynoldston), Viscount Adare, H. T. Talbot, Richard Watson (bishop of Llandaff), Daniel Rock (London), Evan Evans (Caerphilly), William Rees (Llandovery), W. Powell (Abergavenny), Richard Whately (Dublin), E. W. Richards (St. Andrews Rectory, Dinas Powis), George Lisle (St. Fagans), Charles Hamilton Smith (Plymouth), James H. Todd (Dublin), J. E. Richard (Pyle), W. H. Swytley (Cardiff), W. H. Smyth, John W. Nicholl, Henry, seventh duke of Beaufort, J. Forshals (British Museum), D. Griffiths (Llanilid), C. E. Long (London), Evan Morgan (Llantwit Major), T. G. Ragland (Cambridge), Philip Tollemache (Bramham Biggin), V. G. Huber, Robert Oliver Jones (Fonmon Castle), W. C. Trevelyan (Nettlecombe, Taunton ), H. Douglas (Durham), E. Davis Protheroe, W. D. Conybeare (dean of Llandaff), D. Jeffreys (Neath), Edward Price (Gelligaer), J. M. Derick ( London), Frank Howard (London), William Bromet, C. H. Hartshorne, Alfred Ollivant (bishop of Llandaff), William Floyd (Cardiff and London), E. Melville (St. Davids), C. R. M. Talbot (Margam), Robert Valentine Leach (Briton Ferry), Lady Bute (Mountstuart), E. H. Tracy (British Embassy, Vienna), etc.; to Chancellor [W. Bruce] Knight from David Jeffreys; and to John Johnes, Dolau Cothi, from D. Jones Lewis, Gilfach.