- MT4/6
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- [1870x1945]
A small bundle of miscellaneous loose papers, including grammatical exercises, library slips and music examination questions.
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A small bundle of miscellaneous loose papers, including grammatical exercises, library slips and music examination questions.
Photographs of Joseph Parry (mistakenly identified as Pencerdd Gwalia on the back of the photograph), Edith Wynne and three unidentified individuals; together with the publicity leaflets of Mme. Laura Evans-Williams.
Notices of concerts, 1885 and 1892, in which J. Lloyd Williams was the accompanist, minutes of a meeting of the Garn Juvenile Choir, August 1882, and the programme of a 'Magic Lantern' held at Garn schoolroom, November 1884.
A University College of North Wales Class Register containing the attendance records of members of the College's Royal Choir, July 1911, and Graduation Choir, November 1911. A programme of music for the graduation ceremony, November 1906, in J. Lloyd Williams's hand, is also included.
Personal financial accounts and papers, including some accounts relating to the sales of publications, broadcasting fees and lectures, and a few items, 1929-1932, relating to Bronant, his Bangor home.
Mainly radio scripts of programmes for children ('Awr y Plant'), comprising stories written and read by J. Lloyd Williams.
Lecture and address notes relating to education and teaching, some delivered at school prize-giving ceremonies; religion; and Welsh nationalism and language. One address, delivered at Bangor, April 1935, relates to his life and work.
An apparently fictional account, in journal form, of a voyage to Australia, in J. Lloyd Williams's hand.
Manuscript or typescript copies and press cuttings of short stories and essays, written under various pseudonyms but probably by J. Lloyd Williams himself. The majority were published in the Western Mail and Y Faner. Some items included relate to Welsh music or botany.
Sketches written by J. Lloyd Williams, possibly for literary societies in the Cricieth area; together with a few other items, including some apparently written by his brothers Huw, Richard and William.
Williams, Richard Conway
Typescripts of, and material relating to, a play entitled 'Y Deffro'; an operetta entitled 'Cawl Cymysg'; and the manuscript of the first scene of a play, 'Hwsmon Plas-y-Nant'; all apparently by J. Lloyd Williams. An untitled morality play in his hand is also included, together with a press cutting of his adjudication in a drama competition at Holyhead, 1927.
Lecture notes and one letter, 1940, relating to the history of Llanrwst and Denbighshire, particularly in the context of J. Lloyd Williams's own life. A card advertising his lecture entitled 'Reminiscences of an old Denbighshire Town', for the Denbighshire Society in London, February 1938, is also included.
Typescript drafts, together with related notes, photographs (2) and press cuttings.
Letters, 1937-1945, from publishers, family members and friends, relating to the publication of his memoirs. Copies of a few letters from J. Lloyd Williams, one to Sir Walford Davies, 1940, are also included.
Letters, 1945-1946, from the Librarian, the National Library of Wales, to Dr Idwal Lloyd Williams, relating to the depositing of his father's papers and manuscripts at the Library.
Letters from J. Lloyd Williams
Letters, 1928-1945, from J. Lloyd Williams, many to friends and acquaintances, some of a personal nature and others relating to lecturing and the performing of Welsh music, in particular in relation to the BBC. Letters from 1943 onwards relate mainly to the proof reading and publication of Atgofion Tri Chwarter Canrif, Y Tri Thelynor and the Journal of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, and contain references to his increasing ill-health. Correspondents include J. C. McLean, [?1937] and 1944; R. E. Vaughan Roberts, 1944, and Jennie Alltwen (Mrs Bell), 1934 and 1938.
Letters from J. Lloyd Williams
The file comprises copy letters, October 1883 to December 1884, from J. Lloyd Williams, to various individuals, institutions, &c. A number of letters to family members are also included.