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The Library was kindly allowed to photocopy the diary of the novelist, poet and artist Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans', 1909-1958) for 1947.

A group of correspondence including letters from Margiad Evans (Peggy Eileen Whistler) to her sister Nancy [Nightingale]; a notebook containing a revised manuscript draft of the second (concluding) part of Margiad Evans's unpublished autobiographical essay 'The Immortal Hospital or Some Recollections of Our Childhood' (folios numbered 46-83; see also NLW MS 23369C and NLW, Margiad Evans Papers, September 1982 Donation 22-23); a script ‘December day’ broadcast by the BBC in 1954; and a guest book for Springherne, near Ross on Wye, 1937-9, run by the Whistler sisters with writings by Nancy Nightingale who wrote under the name Sian Evans.

Twelve letters, 1954-1956, from the novelist, poet and artist, Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), mainly to Alan and Dorothy Hancox, containing personal news and references to her writings (ff. 1-16 verso), together with five letters from her husband, Michael Williams, to the same (ff. 17-26 verso).

Twelve letters and one Christmas card, 1938-1943, from the author and illustrator Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), to the donor's father, Thomas Kennedy Butcher (ff. 2-23), together with one letter to Mr Butcher from Arnold Thorpe, 1964 (f. 33).
Also included are photographs of Margiad Evans, 1938-1940 (ff. 25-32), a photocopy of her inscription in Mr Butcher's copy of her novel, The Wooden Doctor (1933) (f. 24), and a typescript copy of her radio script 'December Day', broadcast on 31 December 1956 (ff. 34-50) (see also NLW MS 23373E).

Literary and personal papers, 1854, [c. 1932]-1960, of the novelist, poet and artist Margiad Evans comprising mainly manuscript and typescript drafts of both published and unpublished works and including a draft of her second novel The Wooden Doctor (Oxford, 1933), also manuscript and typescript drafts in preparation for her first published volume of poetry, Poems from Obscurity (London, 1947), manuscript essays, and typescript radio scripts by or based on Margiad Evans's work; together with journals for 1933-1934 and 1935-1939, which include mainly literary and personal notes; and miscellaneous papers.

A radio script and a cutting of an article ('Margiad Evans') from The Listener, 11 November 1971, both by P. J. Kavanagh; and an off-print of 'Margiad Evans and Tendencies in European Literature' by Professor Idris Parry, reprinted from The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1971, part II.

Papers relating to and created by Margiad Evans (Peggy Eileen Whistler), [1930s]-[1958x1965], comprising material for an unpublished critical biography of Margiad Evans, compiled by W. Arnold Thorpe, [1936x1965], including transcripts by Thorpe of poems, prose and letters by Margiad Evans, scripts of radio broadcasts and extracts of reviews of Margiad Evans's published prose works; correspondence relating to information on Margiad Evans; biographical and related material; Whistler family photographs; notes by W. Arnold Thorpe and source material; together with manuscripts and papers of Margiad Evans, including drafts and copies of poems, some unpublished [c. 1945]-[1958]; unpublished and published prose works, [c. 1930s]-[1958]; notebooks and journals, which include drafts of poems and prose pieces, 1942-[1950s]; correspondence, mainly from Margiad Evans to her husband, 1934-1958; reviews of Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness[1943-1952]; drawings including drawings representing eighteen out of the thirty illustrations for Alfred Williams, Tales from the Panchatantra (Oxford, 1930); and family papers, 1939-[1950s].

Additional papers donated October 2021: see added Series.

Notes and journals, 1819-[1876], of Maria Elizabeth Thomas, including travel journals, historical notes, and extracts and translations from prose and verse.

One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.

One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.

One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.

One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.

One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.

One of six volumes containing accounts of tours, 1824-1844, in Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland and on the continent of Europe written by Marianne Jones (afterwards Jones-Bateman), Pentremawr, Abergele and illustrated with engravings and original sketches.

Photocopies of the pedigree of Marilyn Foreman including references to the Wogan family of Wiston, co. Pembroke, and the Vaughan family of Golden Grove, co. Carmarthen, and to Richard Davies (?1501-81), Bishop of St Davids.

Great Exhibition Almanack .... 1851, used by Thomas Owens, mariner, of Bryngwallter, Penbryn, Cardiganshire, to record entries concerning his voyages; extracts from the log of the SS Great Britain on voyages from Melbourne to Liverpool (inverted text ff. 29 verso-31, 54 verso-6); transcripts of carols and other verse, including 'Hanes ail fordaith y Brig Albion i'r America' (ff. 2-16; see also NLW MSS 9383A, 21965A); and miscellaneous notes and accounts.

A copy of an essay ''Eu Hiaith a Gadwant': The National Union of Welsh Societies, 1913-41' by Marion Löffler, Aberystwyth, submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998.

Deeds and documents, 1740-1856, relating to properties in the parishes of Henllanfallteg, Llanboidy, Llanwinio, and Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, and St. Davids, Pembrokeshire; miscellaneous papers, 1876 - c. 1960, relating to St. Davids; and a pedigree, compiled by Major Francis Jones, of the Devonald and Morse families of Llanfyrnach and the associated family of Skeel of Trewilym, Pembrokeshire, 1886-1905.

Family and personal papers of Marion Warren Williams, 1864-1991, including scrapbooks containing notes, newspaper cuttings and printed ephemera, mainly relating to Guilsfield and Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, 1864-1991; travel notebooks, 1959-1969; family photographs, [c. 1900], and family tree opf Mrion Warren Williams, [20th century]; and watercolour sketches [20th century].

The first tranche of papers of the Rt Hon. Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales, including material relating to the UK withdrawal from the European Union, and documents reflecting Welsh Government relations with the Westminster and devolved governments.
Additional political papers; November 2024.
Further political papers; December 2024.
Additional political papers; June 2025.
Political papers, 2022, including cabinet papers, and material relating to health, the reforming of the Senedd, publications, events and speeches; April 2025.
Additional political papers; June 2025.
Various additional papers, 1990s to 2020s; January 2026.