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- 1902-1929. (Creation)
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Holograph letters to William Porter including:- (a) Eleven letters, 1907-1909, from [the Reverend] E[dward] O[wen] Davies, y Bala, Principal Ellis Edwards, The Theological College, Bala, J. C. Evans, The Grammar School, Bala, [the Reverend] J. T. Alun Jones, registrar, The Theological College, Bala, [Professor] A[rchibald] R[obert] S[tirling] Kennedy, Edinburgh and Ford, Dalkeith (3), James Kennedy, Edinburgh, the Reverend John Owen, secretary, The Theological College, Bala, from Liverpool, [Professor] John Owen Thomas [of the Theological College, Bala] from Liverpool, and Evan Williams, Flint, all relating mainly to the recipient's appointment as lecturer in, and subsequently professor of, Hebrew at the Theological College, Bala. (b) Twenty-eight letters from [Professor] F[rancis] C[rawford] Burkitt, Cambridge, [19]06-1907 (4) (recipient's [doctorate] dissertation (see NLW MS 12920E above), the possibility of publishing the work, the degree of D.D. conferred on the writer, a comment on Robert H[atch] Kennett: In Our Tongues . . . (London, 1907)), [Professor] Marcus Dods, Edinburgh, 1902 and undated (2) (advice with regard to preaching), [Professor] E[rnest] Norman Jones [of the Theological College, Aberystwyth] from Three Cocks, Breconshire, and Swansea, [19]26 (8) (personal, college business, grants to students, the death of J[ohn] H[umphreys] Davies [principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth], speculation as to whether [Dr.] Tom Jones [Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, 1916-1930] would succeed him), [Professor] T[homas] Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth, [19]29 (personal, thanks for a copy of Scotsman, the writer's proposed book on Welsh folk-lore), [the Very Reverend] J[oseph] Armitage Robinson, The Deanery, Westminster, 1906 (publication of recipient's [doctorate] thesis), [Professor] W[illiam] B[arron] Stevenson, The University, Glasgow, and The British Museum, 1907-1918 (3) (comments on the town of Bala, suggestions as to the syllabus recipient could follow on taking up his appointment [as the writer's successor at the Theological College, Bala], suggestions as to the classifying and cataloguing of the books in Bala College library, possible means of extending library accommodation at Bala College), and [the Reverend] J[ohn] O[wen] Thomas [previously professor at the Theological College, Aberystwyth] from Barry, Bala, and Abergele, 1926-1928 (9) (personal, recipient's move to the chair of New Testament studies [at the Theological College, Aberystwyth], references to ministerial and academic colleagues).
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Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
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English.
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Formerly known as William Porter 11.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12930C.
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- University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Subject)
- Coleg y Bala. (Subject)
- Coleg y Bala -- Library. (Subject)
- Theological College (Aberystwyth, Wales) (Subject)
- Porter, William, 1876-1937 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Kennett, R. H. (Robert Hatch), 1864-1932 (Subject)
- Jones, Thomas, 1870-1955 (Subject)
- Davies, J. H. (John Humphreys), 1871-1926 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Davies, E. O. (Edward Owen), 1864-1936 (Subject)
- Edwards, Ellis, 1844-1915 (Subject)
- Evans, J. C., Bala (Subject)
- Jones, J. T. Alun (John Thomas Alun) (Subject)
- Kennedy, Archibald Robert Stirling, 1859-1938 (Subject)
- Kennedy, James, d. 1925. (Subject)
- Owen, John, Rev., secretary, Bala Theological College (Subject)
- Thomas, John Owen, Professor (Subject)
- Williams, Evan, Flint (Subject)
- Burkitt, F. Crawford, (Francis Crawford), 1864-1935. (Subject)
- Dods, Marcus, 1834-1909. (Subject)
- Stevenson, William Barron, 1869-1954. (Subject)
- Jones, Ernest Norman (Subject)
- Jones, T. Gwynn (Thomas Gwynn), 1871-1949 (Subject)
- Robinson, J. Armitage (Joseph Armitage), 1858-1933 (Subject)