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The District Medical Officer's relief book for the Newcastle Emlyn Union, with names of patients and of the diseases, ailments, etc. for which they were treated, 1879-1885.

The prescription book of Daniel Lewis, M.D., Plas Llangeitho.

An 18th century manuscript containing medical prescriptions.

A manuscript volume in English and Welsh, 1854-1858, compiled by Griffith Griffiths, shopkeeper, Pen-y-graig, Llangwnnadl, Caernarvonshire, mainly containing medicinal recipes (NLW MS 23711iA).
A medico-botanical map of the world, [c. 1868], and two pamphlets, [1930s], relating to his grandson, the medical herbalist Griffith Griffiths, Bangor, and the family's cure for 'wild warts' ('y ddafad wyllt') are filed separately (NLW MS 23711iiC).

Pocket ledger, probably belonging to John Jones of Ty'n-ddol, Llangernyw, co. Denbigh (see f. 18v), comprising medical and veterinary recipes in Welsh; estimates and costs for repairing and enlarging farm buildings, 1859; a rental of farms in Llangernyw, 1857; a summary of personal income and expenditure, 1840-1883; and measurements of Ty'n-ddol and Bwlch-y-gwynt, Llangernyw.

A collection of medical recipes, astrological notes and diagrams, and a list of christian names. Some of the recipes and notes are in cipher. The monogram 'M.L.' occurs twice in the manuscript.

A transcript by Richard Jones Phillips, Penrallt Kiber, St Dogmaels, co. Pembroke, of William Salmon, Synopsis Medicinae: a Compendium of Physick, Chirurgery and Anatomy (2nd edn, London: Th. Dawks, 1681) pp. 253-69, comprising Book II, chapters 32 'Presages by the Urine' (beginning wanting), 33 'Presages by the Pulses', and 34 'Presages by Affections in Acute Diseases'; with a short English-Welsh vocabulary of medical terms on the back cover.

Medieval medical texts, written in Italy in the fourteenth century: Nicolaus [Salernitanus], Antidotarium (ff. 1-21 verso); [Johannes de Parma], Collectiones omnibus capitulorum libri Mesue (ff. 22-25); Compilatio flebotomie de qualibet vena (ff. 25-26); recipes, 'Cassia fistulatum...' (ff. 26-27); recipes in two later hands of XIV or XV cent. (ff. 27-37).
Folios 1 and 2, 6 and 7, 18 and 19 are palimpsests. The lower script, partly legible under ultra-violet light, is from a book of transacts of a notary, Albericus [?], 'notarius sacri palatii', written not much earlier than the medical texts; there is reference in one document (f. 12) to 'villa de quart' [?Quart, near Aosta].

Microfilm copies (14 reels) of manuscripts from the British Library relating to 'Medieval and Early Modern Women' (Part 1), including the works of Katharine Aston (1619-1658), Katharine Austen (1628-1683), Christine de Pisan (1363/4-c. 1429), Lady Margaret Hoby (1571-1633), Julian of Norwich (c. 1343-c. 1413), Margery Kempe (c. 1373-c. 1439), Marie de France (fl. 1181), and Katharine Parr (1512-1548); together with a published guide (Adam Matthew Publications, 2000)

A volume, 1686-1709, in the hand of Mary Lewis (b. 1670), daughter of Philip Lewis (d. 1684), vicar of Prestigne, co. Radnor, in which she records her meditations and prayers, together with religious verse composed by her (ff. 1-2, 144) and others, including George Herbert (ff. 68 verso, 81, 91 verso, 123 verso, 124, 130 verso, 140 verso, 143 verso, 145 verso) and John Norris (ff. 3 verso, 63); gives a short account of her life and ancestry (ff. 2-3); and makes occasional references to her friends and relations.

Autograph copy, heavily revised, of chapters 3-6 of I'r Gad (Tal-y-bont, 1975), a novel by Marged Dafydd (Meg Elis).

Autograph copy, heavily revised, of chapters 1 and 2 of I'r Gad (Tal-y-bont, 1975), a novel by Marged Dafydd (Meg Elis).

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1945-1966, of Lady Megan Lloyd George (1902-1966), Member of Parliament for Anglesey, 1929-1951, and for Carmarthen, 1957-1966. Most of the letters are from Lady Megan to her secretary Helena Dightam or to the latter's son, Adrian. They are mainly in note form and undated but most appear to have been written during the period 1962-1965. Also included are six letters from Lady Olwen Carey Evans to Helena Dightam, 1965-1966, letters to Lady Megan from James Callaghan (1) 1951, Clement Attlee (2) 1966, and Harold Wilson (2) 1966, and related items, 1966-1970.

Diary for the period 30 September-9 December 1941 of Lady Megan Lloyd George (1902-66), Member of Parliament for Anglesey, 1929-51, and for Carmarthen, 1957-66, containing occasional entries relating to the progress of the Second World War with references to Winston Churchill and other contemporary figures.

Letters, 1961-1989, to Meic Stephens mainly concerning contemporary writing in Wales and Stephens's own literary work. The correspondents include Euros Bowen, Islwyn Ffowc Elis, Gwynfor Evans, Raymond Garlick, Bobi Jones, Emyr Humphreys, Saunders Lewis, Harri Webb and R. S. Thomas.

Correspondence, 1970-1977, accumulated by Meic Stephens in the course of editing Artists in Wales, volumes 1-3 (Llandysul, 1971-1977), from artists in the fields of literature, drama, music and the visual arts; letters, 1977-1978, from poets invited to contribute to Green Horse : an anthology by young poets of Wales edited by him (Swansea, 1978); letters, 1978-1979, relating to The Welsh Language Today (second edition, Llandysul, 1979); and correspondence, 1986-1987, between Meic Stephens and Lady Amy Parry-Williams relating to the former's translations into English of essays by T. H. Parry-Williams, published in The White Stone - six essays by T. H. Parry-Williams (Llandysul, 1987).

An additional consignment of the papers of Meic Stephens. This group remains uncatalogued.

Papers, 1871-[1922x1927], of Richard Elias (Meillionog), comprising mainly autograph and holograph sermons and poetry, and also including material relating to a tribute by the Tabernacle Sunday School, Morriston, to Meillionog on the occasion of his departure for Cape Town in September 1898.