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Journal, 1830 (watermark [18]28), of a tour primarily of Pembrokeshire, the Lake District and Edinburgh by an un-named Cornishman, in the company of his niece Anne Kendall of Lostwithiel.
The volume begins with a retrospective recounting of the journey from Lostwithiel, Cornwall, to Bath, Somerset, 5-29 [recte 10] April 1830 (ff. 1-4 verso). The journal proper begins in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 7 July (f. 11) and continues with excursions and tours to Pembroke, Haverfordwest, Solva, St Davids and elsewhere within the county, 7-26 July (ff. 11-62 verso), followed by the journey through parts of mid and north Wales and north west England, 27 July-5 August (ff. 63-65 verso), the Lake District, 5-8 August (ff. 65 verso-70), and the Southern Uplands of Scotland, 9-12 August (ff. 71-76), ending in Edinburgh and its environs, 12-30 August (ff. 76-91 verso). The journal includes descriptions of the Stackpole, Orielton, Slebech and Picton Castle estates (ff. 14-15 verso, 19-20, 22-23, 25 recto-verso, 26-27 verso), St Mary's Church, Haverfordwest (ff. 29 verso-33), and the Bishop's Palace and Cathedral at St Davids (ff. 42 verso-50) and an eyewitness account of the launch of the frigate HMS Seahorse at Pembroke on 21 July (ff. 57 verso-58 verso). The writer is presumably one of Anne Kendall's four uncles then living, namely the Rev. Francis John Hext (1779-1842), Captain William Hext (1780-1866), James Cotes Kendall (1770-1836) or the Rev. Nicholas Kendall (1781-1844).

Papers of journalist Patrick Hannan including correspondence, research notes, interviews for articles and scripts television and radio programes along with copies of articles. It contains interviews with leading political figures including Peter Hain, Rhodri Morgan, Alun Michael, Dafydd Wigley and Ieuan Wyn Jones as well as correspondence with the composer Daniel Jones.

The collection consists of personal, literary, and editorial correspondence, including correspondence from various poets and literary figures from Wales and other countries, and related papers, 1970-2017; literary contracts, agreements, and statements, 1971-2016; typescripts for published works, 1986-[c.1998]; papers relating to poetry readings, conferences, and events, 1995-2007; press cuttings and reviews, 1974-[c.2012]; papers relating to various music and poetry groups, 1999-2015; and diary notes, 1978-1985.

One hundred and thirty-two letters and cards, 1959-1967, from Helen Thomas to Terence Cooper, London, containing mainly personal news and comments on Edward Thomas; also included are two letters, 1962-1965, from Myfanwy Thomas, daughter of Helen and Edward Thomas (ff. 45, 144).

Correspondence and other papers, 1805-[?late 20 cent.], relating to the soprano Adelina Patti and to her friend Edward Hall, Box Office Manager at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.
The papers comprise: (i) Some eight letters (one an envelope only), 1893-1898, from Adelina Patti, at Craig-y-Nos Castle, Nice and Paris, to Edward Hall, London (ff. 3-5, 9-25), together with one letter to Hall from [?Pittman], Ystalyfera, 10 August 1883 (ff. 1-2), and a letter from Patti, in Indianapolis, 1 January 1894, to [?W. E.] Gladstone (ff. 6-8); (ii) typescript transcripts of the Adelina Patti letters, [?late 20 cent.] (11 ff.); (iii) some twenty-seven newspaper cuttings, December 1893-February 1894, relating to Patti's tour of America, apparently sent to Edward Hall from Toronto, possibly by Patti herself; (iv) photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to Patti, 1889-1984; (v) an insert book for the EMI long play record 'Adelina Patti' (RLS 711), 1973; (vi) copies of five newspapers, 1805-1809, containing news relating to the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, together with a few other printed items, 1875, 1925, concerning the Theatre and Edward Hall; and (vii) largely unrelated items, comprising photographs of Nellie Melba, [?1911], Queen Elizabeth [the Queen Mother], [?1940s], and a 'Souvenir Programme of the Visit of… the Duke and Duchess of York to Cardiff... and Blaina', [1932].

Papers, 1946-2017, of Captain Ted Lees, relating to Island Farm Prisoner of War Camp, Bridgend. Captain Lees was the camp's Intelligence Officer and interpreter during the period 1946-1948, when it held some of the most senior German officers, including Feldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt.
The papers include a nominal roll of senior prisoners compiled by Lees (ff. i-ii, I-XVI); some eighteen letters to Lees, from von Rundstedt and others, 1946-1948, 1957 (ff. 1-21); a typescript statement by von Rundstedt concerning the Blomberg-Fritsch affair of 1938 (ff. 22-25); a typescript memorandum, dated 9 July 1947, from a prisoner to a 'Herr Bieri' [?Frederick Bieri of the IRCC], concerning the Geneva Convention (ff. 30-36); Lees's manuscript recollections of von Rundstedt, 1953 (ff. 54-57); and a copy of a War Office urgent memorandum (U.M./4202(P.W.1m)), dated 8 September 1947, enclosing a categorised nominal roll of senior German officers detained in the UK (ff. 38-53). The letters to Captain Lees, mostly in German, are from Generalmajor [Walter] Leuze, 10 May 1946 (f. 1), [Generalmajor Hans] Erdmann, 3 December 1946 (f. 2), von Rundstedt, 25 December 1946 (f. 3), [Generalmajor Burkhart] Muller-Hildebrand, 2 February 1947 (ff. 4-5), [Konteradmiral] Hans Voss, 13 August 1947 (f. 6), General der Flieger Hans-Georg von Seidel, 14 August 1947 (f. 8), General der Artillerie Anton[-Reichard Hermann Friedrich Maria] Fr[ei]h[er]r v[on] Bechtolsheim, 19 August 1947 (f. 9), Dr Rudolf Aettig, 9 December 1947 (f. 11), [General] Gunther Blumentritt, 26 February 1948 (f. 13), and [General Edwin Graf von] Rothkirch [und Trach], 1 May 1948 (f. 14). Also included are a letter to Lees's wife from von Rundstedt, 10 February 1948 (f. 12), a Christmas card from Voss, made in camp, [1946x1948] (f. 17), a note from Voss certifying the handing over of medals to Captain Lees, [1946x1948] (f. 18), and correspondence, 1957, between Lees, Wilhelm Bauer de Betaz and a Manchester bank, concerning the whereabouts of Bauer de Betaz's medals (ff. 19-21). Items subsequently added to the papers include typescript translations of two of the letters into English (ff. 7, 15), photocopies of parts of the Blomberg-Fritsch and Geneva Convention typescripts (ff. 26-29, 37, kept for conservation purposes) and printouts of web pages relating to Lees and von Rundstedt, 2010, 2017 (ff. 62-64).

British Red Cross Society's Note Book and Diary for 1916, of Corporal Howard Ll[oyd] Roberts of Borth, Cardiganshire, serving on the Western Front in France and Belgium with the 129th Field Ambulance of the RAMC, attached to 15th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, part of the 38th (Welsh) Division, containing diary entries for 16 January and 2 February-31 December 1916 (pp. 74, 78-174). The frequent references to water tanks and carts indicate Cpl Roberts was part of the 129th Ambulance's Sanitary Section.
The Division began the year in the Neuve-Chapelle sector, between Merville and Bethune (pp. 78-116), then in June was ordered to the Somme, taking part in the Battle of Mametz Wood during the 1st Battle of the Somme in July (pp. 121-124). On 31 July (p. 130) Roberts's battalion arrived at Poperinghe, Belgium, and spent the rest of the year in the vicinity of Ypres (pp. 130-174). Roberts was on leave in Birmingham and Borth, 3-10 April (pp. 96-98), and was hospitalised at St Omer with German measles, 4-15 May (pp. 104-108). As an artist Roberts contributed sketches to the New Year Souvenir of the Welsh Division for 1917 (see pp. 160-165). A sketch map of the British lines at Windy Corner, [Neuve-Chapelle sector], is on p. 65; a very small pencil sketch is on p. 124.

Papers of Leighton Andrews, including material relating to his time in the National Assembly; material relating to his early career, including at the BBC; correspondence with various public figures, including Lord Scarman; and material relating to the 1997 Yes for Wales campaign.

Thirty-six typescript and manuscript letters, 1977-1994, from Thomas Dilworth, University of Windsor, Ontario, to Huw Ceiriog Jones, Bow Street and the National Library of Wales, concerning their research into the poet and artist David Jones as well as relating personal news.
Also included are a printout of an email exchange between Jones and Dilworth, September 2021, and explanatory notes (in Welsh) by the donor, 2024.

Papers of Sir David Rowe-Beddoe, later Baron Rowe-Beddoe of Kilgetty, businessman and life peer who was a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 2006 until his death in 2023. His numerous public roles included being chairman of the Welsh Development Agency from 1993 to 2001, appointed chairman of the Wales Millennium Centre in 2001 and made a Life President in 2010, chairman of the Representative Body of The Church in Wales from 2002 to 2012, appointed president of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2004 having previously been a governor and chairman of the board (1993-2004).

The Welsh Quoits Archive, comprising material relating to British quoiting, the majority of the material relating to quoiting in Wales, including: match programmes, posters and flyers, match listings and statistics; rules and regulations of quoiting; press cuttings relating to quoiting matches, quoiting clubs and club members; newsletters; correspondence between quoiting clubs, between individual club members and between clubs and members of the public; items relating to notable quoiting club occasions such as centenaries and anniversaries; and miscellaneous material relating to quoiting, including information relating to the history of the game. The bulk of the material relates to quoiting in Wales, mainly involving international matches (the majority of which were against Scotland) played on Welsh soil. One particularly notable item is a copy of a printed booklet titled The History of Quoits in Wales by Albert Baker (published by J. R. Davies in 1949), which is enclosed with a letter, 14 December 2000, to Linda Evans, Joint Secretary of the Welsh Quoiting Board, from Darryl Baker, grandson of the author (see under heading Quoiting: Wales: Correspondence: Letters to Linda Evans).

A bound typescript, 2025, of the donor's study 'Bryngwyn and Old Hope Pen: A Story of Wales and Jamaica'.

Solander box in which the volume of Welsh Tract land indentures, now NLW MS 24209E, was housed when transferred to the National Library of Wales, retained as evidence of provenance and of the manuscript's previous condition.
Also retained with the box is a fragment of the old binding, together with copies of auction and bookseller's catalogue descriptions relating to the manuscript.

Agenda and minutes, 1948-56, of the Liberal Party of Wales Council meetings. Contents include handwritten and typed notes and minutes, some newspaper cuttings, and Liberal Party of Wales pamphlets and leaflets. The donors' father, the late Elfyn Lloyd-Morris, was a member of the party and was writing a book about its history.

Collection of scripts formerly held as stock at the Drama Association of Wales as donations/loans from theatre companies across Wales. The collection also includes some letters from donors, play flyers, stage directions and notes from numerous playwrights/directors.

Records, 1922-2010, of the North Wales Branch of the Workers' Educational Association and its successor bodies, together with material, 1835-1922, relating to the origins of the organisation and its work.

Reports, 1874-1926, drawn up by William Galloway and others (including his son, Christian) relating to the mining of coal and other minerals in Wales and elsewhere around the world, examining matters including mining engineering, geology, the economics of working minerals (sinking shafts, mineral extraction, mineral quality, labour, maintenance, transport and selling prices) and the history of mineral working; the reports comprise examinations of mines, mineral fields, mineral seams and other geological strata, as well as statistics, maps, plans, diagrams, photographs, sketches, correspondence, inventories, itineraries and notes; the archive also includes related material, 1957.

Cyfieithiadau i’r Gymraeg, 1958-1988, gan Trefor Williams (bu f. 1988), ysgolfeistr ym Mhorthmadog a Llandudno, o nifer o ddramâu Saesneg. Fe’i cyflwynwyd tros nifer o flynyddoedd mewn cystadlaethau cyfieithu yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol o dan amrywiaeth o ffugenwau megis 'Tudur', 'Madog', a mwy. Ymhlith y casgliad mae copïau Saesneg o ddramâu ochr yn ochr â’u cyfieithiadau Cymraeg, e.e. 'Educating Rita' (Willy Russell 1947-) a 'Death of a Salesman' (Arthur Miller 1915-2005).
Yn wreiddiol o Drefor, sir Gaernarfon, bu Trefor Williams, ynghyd â J.T. Jones, yn gyfrifol am sefydlu Clwb y Garreg Wen, Porthmadog.

Cyfres o lythyrau a chardiau cyfarch oddi wrth J. T. Jones, wedi eu cyfeirio at Trefor Williams a’i deulu, ac at Owen Parry, ynghyd â deunydd coffadwriaethol am J. T. Jones a gasglwyd gan deulu’r rhoddwr; Chwefror 2025.

Archive of the Cambrian Coast Line Action Group comprising papers created and collected during the campaign to prevent the closure of the Cambrian Coast railway line between machynlleth and Pwllheli and to improve services an the line along with the archive of the Welsh Railways Action Group, formed in 1971 to co-ordinate between various railway campaigns in wales and to campaign for improvements to the Welsh railway network as a whole and papers and publications relating to local rail campaign groups in west Wales, along the Heart of Wales line and in the Wrexham area.

Chapel records of Argyle and Rhyddings Church, Rhyddings Terrace, Brynmill, Swansea.