National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts

Diary

D 1/22.
Ffeil = File
1941, Jan. 6-Feb. 25.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose pages gathered into a home-made volume.

Diary

D 1/24.
Ffeil = File
1941, May 10-26.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose pages of typescript diary, letters received and carbon copies of letters sent, gathered into a home-made volume.

Diary

D 1/25.
Ffeil = File
1941, May 18-July 31.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose pages of typescript diary entries gathered into a home-made volume. Much of this appears to be carbon copies of material in D 18.

Diary

D 1/35.
Ffeil = File
1948, Feb. 8-1968.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose leaves of an occasional manuscript diary, including Unni Nayer, Ian Morrison, Christopher Buckley and a South Korean colonel killed by a land mine in Korea, 13 Aug. 1950. Also several letters received, programmes and other papers, including a copy of the 'North Atlantic Treaty proposed for signature during first week in April, 1949'. The daily diary ends on 24 April 1951, besides a four-page out-burst, 18 Sept. 1951, and a two-page diary on 4 Jan. 1958. The diary is continued as monthly memoranda of incidents "to be remembered" for most months, April 1951-July 1955 (gaps include Oct. 1952-April 1953 inclusive), and a similar memorandum for the year 1968 (8 pp.).

Diary

D 1/38.
Ffeil = File
1950, March-May.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose leaves enclosing letters received, carbon copies of letters sent, newspaper cuttings and ephemera, extracted from a folder (discarded). Woolley was based in Washington DC, but due to return to Britain on the 'Britannic' (May/June).

Diary

D 1/28.
Ffeil = File
1942, Aug. 22-1943, Oct. 31.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose leaves of manuscript and typescript diary entries.

Diary

D 1/30.
Ffeil = File
1944, May 9-1945, Feb. 10.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose leaves of a manuscript diary extracted from a ring binder (discarded), with the 75th Anti-Tank Regiment RA, part of 11th Armoured Division, 6 June-17 Sept. 1944, including notes on landing in Normandy (18 June), crossing the Belgian frontier (3 Sept.), and the start of Operation Garden (17 Sept.). Also the loose leaves of a narrative diary, 9 May-11 June, 15-16 Sept., 9 Oct.-20 Nov. 1944, 20 Jan.-10 Feb. 1945, found loose in the same ring binder.

Diary

D 1/31.
Ffeil = File
1945, Sept. 18-Nov. 20.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Volume containing a narrative diary, 18 Sept.-20 Nov. 1945. Also contains further loose diary entries, 6 May-15 July 1945, covering the German surrender, probably comprising the pages torn out of the front of the volume.

Diary

D 1/32.
Ffeil = File
1946, Jan. 1-1947, March 9.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose leaves of a mainly manuscript diary, with a gap, 13 April-23 Oct. 1946 inclusive.

Diary

D 1/1.
Ffeil = File
[c.1930?], July 24-Aug. 11.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Weather and natural history observations in and around the garden at home, in a juvenile hand. July 24 is the "first day home".

Diary

D 1/21.
Ffeil = File
1940, Nov. 18-Dec. 27.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose pages gathered into a home-made volume.

Diary

D 1/26.
Ffeil = File
1941, May 25-1942, April 6.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Loose pages of typescript and manuscript ("this is really far better than type-clacking") diary entries, many formerly gathered into home-made volumes.

Diary

D 1/39.
Ffeil = File
1958, Jan.-1964, May.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Volume containing one line diary notes similar to monthly memoranda of incidents "to be remembered" (D 1/35), or notes out of appointments diaries. Gaps include March 1959-March 1960 and Jan. 1961-Nov. 1963.

Coal mining publications

P 4.
Ffeil = File
1930-1938.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Copies of 'The Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, Limited : Oakdale Collery, 1st March 1930', and 'The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association : Report on the exhibition of colliery horses, The Royal Agricultural Show, Cardiff, 1938'.

Booksellers' letters and invoices

C 11.
Ffeil = File
1939-1947.

Part of Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Original bundle of letters and invoices from booksellers, including John & Edward Bumpus, Robert Chris, Foyle's Welsh Company Ltd and the Times Book Club, all of London, and James G. Commin of Exeter, Frank Drayton of Bournemouth, and Elkin Mathews of Bishop Stortford. The Robert Chris letters mix personal news and business.

Appointments diaries