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Minutes, 15 July-15 December, 1873, of a committee to consider the establishment of a British School at Bethesda, Caernarvonshire. The secretaries of the committee were John Jones, bookseller, and W. J. Parry, and the present volume is in the latter's hand.

Essays and addresses by William John Parry, Bethesda:- 'Gwroldeb'; 'Cyfarchiad i Ieuengctid'; 'Egwyddorion Cynnulleidfaoliaeth'; 'Egwyddorion Llwyddiant Llafur'; 'Y Cload allan yn y Penrhyn, 1901'; 'Mr. Young a Lord Penrhyn'; 'Robert Parry, Bethesda'; 'Arddel Crist neu Aelodaeth Eglwysig'; 'Perthynas y Cristion a'r Eglwys weledig ar y ddaear'; 'Yr Adfywiad Cymdeithasol, - Ei Beryglon'; and sermons.

A collection which comprises mainly of papers relating to North Wales quarries, including union rules, minutes, bank pass books, correspondence, circulars, deeds, etc.; also included are papers of the musician Richard Samuel Hughes, a manuscript possibly in the hand of Samuel Angier (1639-1713), addresses and lectures, sermons, a bibliography, journals, an autobiography, correspondence, poetry and miscellaneous notes, transcripts and extracts by W. J. Parry, together with poetry by other authors and correspondence, and notes relating to W. J. Parry's work on Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn').

A typescript copy (8 pp.) of 'The Public Record of Alderman W. J. Parry, C.B.E. [of Bethesda, Caernarvonshire]', signed by Wm. Jno. Parry, 25 February, 1925; and 'Hanes fy Mywyd a'm Gwaith' by W. J. Parry, the introduction ('rhagdraeth') and chapters I-XXXII (pp. 1-149) being in the form of an offprint from Y Cronicl (Conwy), 1908-10, with copious revisions in the hand of the author, and chapters XXXIII-XL (65 pp.) being the transcript copy published in Cymru, 1923. Chapters I-XXXII were also published, with omissions and revisions, in Cymru, 1912-13, and an additional chapter appeared in Cymru, 1924.

A collection of papers by William John Parry, C.B.E., Bethesda:- 'The public record of Alderman W. J. Parry'; 'Adgofion Taith i Dde America'; 'Hanes Symudiadau Llenyddol Bethesda a'r Cylch'; 'Tanymarian'; 'Scheme of Leasehold Enfranchisement taking the Cefnfaes Estate as a basis, 1924'; and a copy of a letter to Isaac Edwards, Merthyr, 1926.