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Documents, plans and correspondence, 1897-1935, relating to the Victoria Wells and other properties in Llanwrtyd, co. Brecon.

Farming account book originally belonging to David Evans of Ayngstree, Clifton-on-Teme, Worcestershire, who seems to have moved there from the Llandysul area of Cardiganshire. The volume comprises accounts, 1897-1915, of sales of farming produce and of wages and allowances to servants and labourers (ff. 1-31, 148 verso-67 verso, 173 verso-7); a few veterinary, household and culinary recipes (ff. 2, 16, 30 recto-verso, 31 verso-2); and family and other memoranda. There are also farming accounts and memoranda, 1943-1968, probably from the Llandysul area (ff. 33 verso-41 verso, 144-6 verso, 172-4).

Autograph copy, with revision, of the radio play 'Yr Oedfa' by John Gwilym Jones, first broadcast on BBC Welsh radio, 2 March 1968, and later published in Pedair Drama (Dinbych, 1971).

Over one hundred and twenty letters, 1801-1848, mainly addressed to Edward Copleston, provost of Oriel College, Oxford, and bishop of Llandaf. The correspondents include such public figures as Henry Brougham (5) 1827-1839, Lord Grenville (6) 1809-1827, Robert Peel (6) 1824-1841, and William Wilberforce (3) 1827-1828. An index of correspondents is contained on f. i.

A poor-rate assessment book for the parish of Llanbadarn Fynydd, co. Radnor, 1845-1847.

Journal of Charles H. New, Norwich, describing a tour of North Wales, August-September 1871, illustrated with contemporary engravings, photographs, one original pencil sketch (f. 40 verso), pressed plants and route map.

A minute-book, 1869-1878, of the Montgomeryshire and Salop Presbytery (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church), with statistics for the years 1870-1871, 1873-1876.

Some sixty letters, 1886-1913, to Alfred Thomas, 1st baron Pontypridd, relating mainly to national and local politics and to secondary and university education in Wales. The correspondents include Sir Edward Anwyl (1) 1905, Henry Austin Bruce, Lord Aberdare (1) 1886, Sir D. Brynmor Jones (2) 1900, J. Viriamu Jones (3) 1900, Sir Isambard Owen (1) 1893, Robert Threshie Reid, Lord Loreburn (4) 1908-1911, Lord Rendel (2) 1899, 1902, and Charles Vaughan, dean of Llandaf (6) 1888-1897.

A commonplace book of John Jones, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire containing aphorisms and transcripts of poetry by John Davies ('Ossian Gwent').

An autograph album belonging to Lizzie Rowlands (née Jones), Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, containing entries, 1860-1911, by R. J. Derfel, Thomas E. Ellis, William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') and others including a number of prominent Calvinistic Methodist ministers; together with pasted-in photographs of some of the above and family memoranda. The album was originally owned by Lizzie Jones's father Evan Jones, London House, Bala (f. iv) and includes notes taken by him from sermons heard at Calvinistic Methodist Association and other meetings, 1847-1849 (ff. 1-6 verso). Items found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (NLW MS 22010iiE): a letter from Lizzie Rowlands, 1885, and from Thomas Charles Edwards, Bala, 1896, relating to Lizzie Rowlands's association with Mary Jones, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, and an address by Mrs Rowlands, 1904, containing an account of the walk to Bala to purchase a Bible as recounted by Mary Jones herself.

Typescript draft, 1942, with autograph revision and annotations, of four chapters of 'The Insolence of Man', an unpublished work on evolution by Terence Hanbury White, together with a covering letter, 1952 (f. 1) from the author to Angus Bellairs, a former pupil, and the latter's comments (ff. 55-6).

Autograph reproduction of Missa Cambrensis for soli, chorus and orchestra by Dr Gomer Llywelyn Jones ('Llywelyn Gomer'), formerly Associate Professor of Music, Michigan State University, and Director of the University's Symphony Orchestra. 'Begun in Cardiff, Wales, 1946-1947 Completed in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1953-1954' (f. iv).

Correspondence and other papers, 1965, concerning the production of a limited edition of The Fatigue by David Jones to mark the author's seventieth birthday, together with galley and page proofs, heavily corrected by the author, and a few related papers, 1975. The correspondence includes ten letters from David Jones to the printers, Will and Sebastian Carter, Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge (NLW MS 21925E, ff. 25-7, 29-34, 43).

A volume containing the petition of William Hurst, formerly of Gabalfa and Dinas Powys, to the Court of Exchequer concerning his claims in Dinas Powys, Rumney, Llandough, Highlight, Cibwr, St Andrews Major, Merthyr Dyfan, Cogan, Roath, St Brides-super-Ely, Llanedern, Llandaf, Ystradyfodwg, Peterston-super-Ely and Cardiff. Also included are: a sale bill, 1825, from the Roath estate; a promissory note, 1821, from Harford's ironworks, Machen; the probate record, 1845, of Noah Morgan, Cymer; and an election address, 1851, from General Sir George Tyler to the voters of Glamorgan, with manuscript notes on the contents by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.

An address, 1911, containing a list of subscribers to a presentation by the people of Aber-carn and district, co. Monmouth, to the Hon. Fflorens Mary Ursula Herbert ('Seren Gwent') on her marriage to Walter Francis Roch, MP.

A notebook containing poetry by John Watkins (Ioan Gwent, c. 1831-1889/1890), Rhymni, including 'Pryddest ar y gwlith', which won the chair at the Tregaron and Tredegar eisteddfodau in 1876, together with related press cuttings and correspondence, 1858-1859, and biographical notes by Isaac Herriman, June 1944. This volume may have been intended for publication as the second part of John Watkins's Tlysau Awen (Rhymni, 1880).

A catalogue, 1781, compiled by the Rev. John Jones, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, of Welsh manuscripts in the library of Sir John Sebright (1725-1794), Beechwood, Hertfordshire, which formerly belonged to his grandfather, Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, bart (1692-1736).

An account by E. T. John ('Ieuan Dyfed'), Merthyr Tudful, of the history of Seion Baptist church, Merthyr, Glamorganshire, 1788-1888.

Seven letters and a postcard, 1953, from David Jones, artist and writer, to Elwyn Evans, principally concerning the arrangements for broadcasting 'Wales and the Crown', a radio talk by David Jones (see David Jones, Epoch and Artist, ed. Harman Grisewood (London, 1959), pp. 39-48); with some related papers, 1953-1962.

Copy-book of John David Griffith Howel of Abergwili, co. Carmarthen, 1741-1778, containing calligraphic exercises in the principal contemporary scripts, together with multiplication tables, rough calculations and a few jottings. Some of the exercises have been adapted from the books of English writing-masters: ff. 2 verso, 3 verso from John Davies of Hereford's The Writing Schoolemaster (London, 1636), f. 36 verso from Edward Cocker, The Clerk's Tutor for Writing (London, 1667), and f. 53 verso from ibid., The Pen's Transcendency (London, 1660).