- NLW MS 2544-2546B.
- Ffeil
- [18 cent., second ½ ] /
Notes by Thomas Pennant on British zoology and ornithology, accounts and lists of subscribers to his British Zoology, and details of zoological specimens received by him.
Thomas Pennant.
2 canlyniad gyda gwrthrychau digidol Dangos canlyniadau gyda gwrthrychau digidol
Notes by Thomas Pennant on British zoology and ornithology, accounts and lists of subscribers to his British Zoology, and details of zoological specimens received by him.
Thomas Pennant.
Yacht's log-book: incomplete draft
An incomplete draft of a log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923 - 15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Aber-soch, shipping engineer. Found loose inside NLW MS 22633iA.
Boumphrey, Joseph, Liverpool and Abersoch, 1881-1951 Yacht logbook (1923-1927), NLW MS 22633iiA
Log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923 - 15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Aber-soch, shipping engineer, describing races, regattas and sailings on Merseyside, the North Wales coast, in particular the Llŷn peninsula, Menai Straits and Anglesey, and the Isle of Man (see Beti Isabel Hughes, The Log-books of the yacht Ayesha and the S. C. Y. C. at Abersoch, Cymru a'r Môr, 16 (1994), 116-23). A reference to the formation of the South Caernarfonshire Yacht Club is found on f. 5. An incomplete draft of the same, 21 May - 3 September 1927, found loose inside the volume, has been filed separately (MS 22633iiA).
Boumphrey, Joseph, Liverpool and Abersoch, 1881-1951 Yacht logbook (1923-1927), NLW MS 22633iA
Y 'Trioedd' a 'Bonedd y Saint'
Transcripts of 'Trioedd Ynys Prydain' and 'Bonedd y Saint neu Achau Saint Ynys Prydain'.
The file consists of printed items - leaflets, policy statements, reports, issues of journals - on the general theme of women's rights and women's issues.
Miscellaneous notes and papers collected by Walter Davies and relating mainly to British topography, history, archaeology, agriculture, etc.
Tides in the Bristol and St George's Channels
A facsimile copy, presented to Sir William Thomas Lewis (afterwards 1st Baron Merthyr), of a study by W. Nelson Greenwood, Lancaster, illustrated with statistical tables and diagrams, entitled The influence of atmospheric pressure on the free flow of the Tidal Wave in the Bristol and St George's Channels, 1890.
A scrap-book containing material collected by Eleanor Lloyd, part author of a Book of Sundials, towards a book on Stone Crosses, including notes, sketches, photographs, and printed matter.
Lloyd, Eleanor.
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams poetry,
Transcripts, [early 19th cent.] (watermark 1803), in an unknown hand, of odes, ballads, dialogues and satirical letters of English political interest, composed by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in the period 1732-1745.
With the exception of 'To Kitty Walker' (f. 62), all the works appear, with mostly minor variations, in The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams..., 3 vols (London, 1822). The contents list (f. i recto-verso) includes titles of additional poems, after f. 119, which were subsequently cut from the volume.
Hanbury Williams, Charles, Sir, 1708-1759.
A scrapbook containing autographs, franks and prints compiled, [1831]-[c. 1867], probably by Sarah Dorothy Grey of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees (later Sarah Dorothy Robinson of Silksworth Hall, County Durham, and Quedgeley, Gloucestershire).
Nearly all the autographs are in the form of 'free fronts', mostly dated 1806-1839, being franked address panels signed by Members of Parliament (or Lords) to allow them free postage (ff. 2-110 passim; a number of these are addressed to members of the Grey family of Norton). The prints include engravings depicting Royalty (ff. 1 verso, 4, 16, 34), topographical and architectural views (ff. 4 verso-111 passim) and female fashions of 1830 (ff. 10 recto-verso, 28 recto-verso). Also included are cuttings of a few ballads (ff. 12, 18, 22 verso, 72) and two 'skit notes' (f. 18). Items found loose inside the volume (19 ff.) have been placed in an archival envelope; these include eleven free fronts, 1828-1837, and three invitations (in French) to the Robinson family to attend events at the French Court in Paris, 1867.
Robinson, Sarah Dorothy, 1813 or 1814-1902
A manuscript containing recipes for dyeing wool and cotton; household and medical recipes; miscellaneous accounts, 1852-1867; a copy of Reynolds' Original Birmingham Almanack ... 1850.
Papers by John Ballinger:- 'Public Libraries in 1882'; 'Hopes and fears for libraries in Great Britain'; 'Notes on a library catalogue'; and 'Books for very young children'.
John Ballinger.
Press cuttings of letters and articles contributed to North Wales newspapers by John Wynne, schoolmaster, of Caernarvon, author of Sir a Thre' Caernarfon, fel yr oedd ac fel y maent yn 1860; and a copy of a letter addressed by him to Lord Derby expressing satisfaction at the appointment of a bishop of Bangor, 1861. The press cuttings have been pasted in a book containing an incomplete essay on the early history of Britain and a list of Caernarvon residents.
Rhan oHenry Owen Manuscripts
Transcripts of documents relating to the offices and duties of the Auditor of Wales, the Master of the Mint, and the Chamberlain of the Royal household, mainly in the reign of Queen Anne, with a list of titles, offices, and revenues granted to their eldest sons by the several kings of England from Henry III to Henry VII.
Nuclear Power Stations outside Wales,
Rhan oG. T. Clark Manuscripts,
Notes, mainly by G. T. Clark, on camps, castles, etc., in Britain.
A collection of miscellaneous music made by Annie Almeria McL. Cookes, 1841.
A collection of miscellaneous music for the piano.