Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [c. 1858]-1900, 1936 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder, 1 box (7 cm.)The Valentine cards are particularly fragile.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The most revealing portrait of David William Jones appears to be Glyn Jones's description of his grandfather in The dragon has two tongues. He spent his entire life in Merthyr, and worked as an insurance agent for the Scottish Legal Insurance Company. Despite the poor working and living conditions in the industrial towns of South Wales during the nineteenth century, the chapels, eisteddfodau and various cultural societies flourished, and 'Llwch Haiarn' was one of a number of poets and musicians to emerge in this region. Glyn Jones describes him as 'a sort of intellectual ... a great talker and debater, theologian, politician, philosopher, singer and musician, an indefatigable competitor and frequent winner at eisteddfodau'. He died in 1900 aged 68 years.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The file comprises papers, [c. 1858]-1900 and 1936, pertaining to David William Jones ('Llwch Haiarn'), paternal grandfather of Glyn Jones. These include poetry in his hand, 1863x1897, which appear to have been composed by him and a number of which were entries for local eisteddfodau; a notebook dated 1862; two Valentine cards; a framed memorial card, 1900, which contains englynion by other poets as tributes to 'Llwch Haiarn'; and a newspaper cutting, 1936, which contains a reference to him.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
The contents of the file are predominantly Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Text
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Preferred citation: B2/1