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Nine holograph letters from [Dr.] Joseph Parry, U[niversity] C[ollege] of Wales [Aberystwyth], to W[illiam] R[oderick] Williams [chemist] of Pentre, Pontypridd [previously of Maes-teg], 1878-1879 (performances of the writer's opera 'Blodwen' at Maes-teg and Bridgend); together with annotations, 1936, by the recipient's son Roderick G. Williams [Bridgend].

A copy of Anthony Berridge (ed.), The Letters of Edward Thomas to Jesse Berridge (London, 1983), formerly in the possession of Wilfrid Berridge. -- Purchased with NLW MS 23695E.

Eight letters, 1860-1865, from Eliza Phillipps Hughes (Eliza Carmarthen) to the Rev. John Oliver, Llanfynydd.

Fifteen holograph letters, [1830x1831]-1888, apparently brought together as a collection of autographs. They include nine in French from Eugène Sue, the novelist, to Camille Pleyel, the piano manufacturer, mostly personal correspondence, [1830x1851] (ff. 9-26), and one from Mélanie, wife of Metternich, the Austrian Chancellor, to an unnamed count, concerning her brother, 1854 (ff. 5-6).
There are also letters in English from Charles Bradlaugh, politician, to Emile Hatzfeld, music publisher, regarding political and religious matters, 1882 (ff. 1-2), Robert Browning to a Mrs Stanley, 1882 (f. 3), W. E. Gladstone to J. M. Davidson, 1888 (f. 4), the Marquess of Salisbury to Edouard Silas, composer, [c. 1860] (watermark 1858) (ff. 7-8), and Alfred Tennyson, to Silas, 1863 (ff. 27-28).

Three holograph letters of F. (Fanny) Humphreys (aft. Davies) [i.e., Frances, wife of Robert Joseph Davies, Cwrt-mawr, Llangeitho, co. Cardigan] from London, Edinburgh, and Cwrtmawr, to Mrs. Lewis [? her aunt Mary Lewis, Carmarthen], [18]61-1871 (personal, news of relatives and friends, the writer's wedding and honeymoon, the purchase of crockery, etc.); a list of persons present at the wedding of Frances Humphreys and R. J. Davies, 1863; a copy of a prescription issued to Frances Davies by Dr. Simpson, Edinburgh, 1863; and a card announcing the birth, 15 April 1871, to Mrs. R. J. Davies of a son [John Humphreys Davies, Principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth].

Letters and papers, 1823-1863, including letters from J. Meredith Jones of Wrexham written from Buenos Aires, Cordova and Tucaman to his mother, brother and sister, letters to him from his brother, Meredith Jones, Wrexham, letters and papers relating to the effects of J. Meredith Jones in South America, etc., and later transcripts of the letters.

Letters, 1828-1857, written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (the Brothers Grimm) mainly concerning literary and academic matters.
They comprise a letter from Jacob to Dr Adolf Hellfrich, 21 September 1857 (item 2), concerning research in Spain, with an excerpt of a report of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1857 (item 3); and a report by Jacob on a French language examination, [1829x1837] (item 5); ten letters from Wilhelm to Georg Heinrich Pertz, 1828-1857 (items 7-16), and a letter from Wilhelm [?to Pertz], 28 August 1842 (item 18), containing references to King Arthur and to the Mabinogion.

Twenty-seven letters, 1845-1847, from the engineer James Watt, jnr, of Aston Hall, Warwickshire, to Robert William Mylne, architect and engineer, relating to the rebuilding for Watt of Doldowlod, parish of Llanyre, Radnorshire, and containing references to the Gloucester and Aberystwyth Railway, the Central Wales Railway and the Welsh Midland Railway (ff. 29-30, 31 verso-32).

Letters of John Gibson, editor of The Cambrian News, Aberystwyth. English. Between boards. Donated by Ida Jones, Rhayader, June 1966, and by Mr P. A. Daniell, London, December 1975.

Four letters, mostly in English, May-October 1831, May 1834, from John Jones (Tegid), Oxford, to Henry Jones, Merthyr Tydfil, mainly concerning Tegid's dispute with William Bruce Knight on the proposed reform of Welsh orthography (see W. B. Knight, Remarks, Historical and Philological, on the Welsh Language (Cardiff, 1830) and John Jones, Reply to the Rev. W. B. Knight's 'Remarks' on Welsh Orthography (Cardiff, 1831)).
Tegid quotes excerpts from letters of support received from Aneurin Owen (f. 1 verso), the Rev. Walter Cecil Davies (f. 2), George Phillips, BA, (f. 2) and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) (f. 5). Also included are holograph poems, in Welsh (ff. 5 verso-6, 7, 10), including 'Merch ieuanc mewn darvodedigaeth', 1833 (f. 7), which was published in the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory, 5 (1833), 56.

Nineteen letters, 1790-1796, written by Lady Anne Erskine, appointed by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, as her successor at Trevecca, to Thomas Haweis, 'Father of the South Seas Mission', and a receipt by Lady Erskine to Dr. Haweis for a loan of £100 with an assignment of her right to the sum of £100 left her by a codicil to the will of her 'very dear friend Jenetta Paine Haweis' in the event of her failure to repay the loan.

Letters of Mary Ann Elias (d. 1857), daughter of John and Harriet Elias, Tre'r-gôf-isaf, Llanbadrig, Anglesey, to her parents and other relatives, together with letters of various other correspondents. English. Between boards. Purchased from the Reverend H. Jones Davies, Llangollen, April 1961.

A holograph letter from Ric[hard] Cobden to [Joseph] Sturge, 1849 (the progress of the peace movement, a tribute to Henry Richard); correspondence, 1872-8, relating to the proposed publication by the Cobden Club of the letters of Richard Cobden, including holograph letters to Henry Richard from Thos. Thomasson; Mrs Catherine Anne Cobden; Thomas B. Potter; [Sir] Louis Mallet; Henry Ashworth; [Sir] Thomas Bazley; [Sir] Edward Baines; C[harles] Cobden; W. Cowper Temple; and others; and copies of correspondence between Mrs. Catherine Anne Cobden, Thos. Thomasson, Henry Richard, and others; and holograph letters to Henry Richard from John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 1878 (the writer's proposed biography of Richard Cobden; A. J. Mundella, 1882; J[ohn] Thomas, Congregational minister, Liverpool, 1887 (Samuel Morley's contribution to Congregational and other causes in Wales, the writer's proposed biography of the Reverend Thomas Rees, Swansea); and others. Bound with the letters is an offprint of an article by the donor, the Reverend H. R. Evans, M.C., M.A., on 'Henry Richard and Cobden's Letters', published in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1958, pp. 54-81.

Four holograph and two autograph letters, 1929-1947 and undated, written by Richard [Arthur Warren] Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929), to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leach. The writer refers to a visit to the Adirondacks, a cruise with Harrison (Hal) Smith, the sale of 11,000 copies of his novel, his indebtedness to Henry Leach for the title of A High Wind in Jamaica, the schooling of his children, his removal from Laugharne Castle to Talsarnau, Merioneth, etc.

Letters from Richard Rigby, politician, some of them addressed to William Rogers, Monmouth.

Letters, 1891-1912, from or on behalf of Sir Alfred Thomas, M.P. (1840-1927), later 1st Baron Pontypridd, to Josiah Towyn Jones (1858-1925).

Letters, 1871, sent by Sir Lewis Morris (1833-1907) to Smith Elder & Co., publishers, London.

Twenty-six autograph letters and cards, 1886-1898, from Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899), M.P. for Merioneth, to Thomas Jones, Brynmelyn, Llandderfel, and three letters, 1904, from David Robert Daniel (1859-1931) to Thomas Jones.

Including letters by Richard Lewis, joiner, when he worked at Trevtham House, and genealogical vouchers.