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The file comprises papers relating to Exploring Wales, published in 1970, including notes, sketch maps, annotated typescripts and synopses of some chapters, printed articles, a copy of a letter from Condry to the publisher, 1965, and manuscript notes on the topography of Wales, places of historical interest and archaeology. The chapter on Breconshire is missing.

The file comprises manuscript notes, typed and printed surveys, newsletters and articles, magazine and newspaper cuttings, maps, and a substantial number of letters, relating to the topography, geology, habitats, ecology, environmental issues such as the effects of afforestation, specific plants, birds and animals of Wales, 1956-1995, used by Condry in writing The Natural History of Wales, published in 1981. A small bundle of the letters refer specifically to Spiraea, 1979. The file includes two letters and a postcard from Peter Benoit, 1977-1983, on various plants, habitats and the death of Mary Richards, and four letters from Arthur Chater, 1979-1983, on botanical subjects, with enclosed lists of plants and underlying geological features for parts of Ceredigion.

The file comprises manuscript notes and the partial, annotated typescript of an unpublished book written in diary form, giving an account of spring and summer in and around the Dyfi estuary, Merioneth, and including descriptions of the weather, scenery, wildlife, plants, gardening and visits to places of interest.

The file comprises annotated galley proofs of The Vertebrate Animals of Cardiganshire which was published in Cardiganshire County History, Vol. 1 in 1994, with covering letters from the publisher, 1992-1993, typescript and manuscript of the text with related letters, author's memos and notes, 1984-1992; an original cardboard folder, annotated with the author's research plan on the cover and containing notes and printed articles about birds of prey, mammals, reptiles, insects, ecology and the history of game management, 1969-1984; correspondence, mainly concerning game management and the production of the book, including drafts and copies of letters by Condry (7), 1985-1991, letters from Arthur Chater (4), 1984-1985, Lord Lisburne (8), 1950-1954, Morrey Salmon (2), 1984, with enclosures, Prof. E. G. Bowen (3), 1983, and Prof. I. G. Jones (3), 1983-1984, both of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and David Austin of the University of Wales, Lampeter (1, 1984)

The file comprises a small notebook listing the contents of Mary Richards' library, in the handwriting of Penny Condry, with additions by William Condry (1977), a spiral-bound notebook containing genealogy of the Richards family, biographical details of Mary Richards, her botanical education and life in Africa, and Condry's plan for the book which was published posthumously in 1998, and a notepad with deleted entries for events in Mary Richards'life, under chapter headings 1-14.

The file consists of a letter from the editor, Jon Gower, 1997, inviting Condry to contribute to an anthology of diaries covering all the months of the year, with a handwritten word count, typed draft of February's entry, list of topics and index cards.

The file includes a handwritten list of appropriate vocabulary, notes on the Roman road's appearance, route, landmarks, archaeology and local history studies, letters from J. M. Lewis, 1960, and C. E. Vaughan Owen, 1960, printed leaflets about Wroxeter and a copy of an article by Condry, published 1961.

The file comprises handwritten and typed notes, sketch maps, printed pamphlets, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper and magazine articles, covering various topics of Welsh history, ancient monuments, local historical attractions, legends, traditions, crafts, industry, transport, archaeology, architecture, ancient herbals, ornithology, botany, geology, the Welsh landscape, destruction of scenic areas and the need for their conservation. Correspondents include Arthur Chater, Iorwerth Peate, 1967, about a prehistoric ox horn, and H. R. H. Vaughan, 1969, reporting action by CPRW for the removal of an unsightly footbridge at Llandovery.

This file contains some entries in a different hand, presumably by Penny Condry.

The file contains some entries in a different hand, presumably by Penny Condry.

There are no entries from July to August 1956 when Condry was in Switzerland.

A photograph of Evan Price Evans is pasted under the entry for 13 May.

The file includes references to places in Shropshire connected with A. E. Housman, sketch map, bibliography and brief biography of the poet, plants of Cader Idris, course of an old road from Strata Florida, describing architecture, wildlife and scenery en route, list of photographs wanted in connection with saltmarsh habitat, notes on the history and wildlife of Welsh hill forts, history and decline of the old, traditional life in Swaffham, Norfolk, sightings from a birdwatching hide, other, brief bird and plant notes, and suggestions for a brochure for the Bardsey Island bird observatory.

The file contains descriptions of the plant and bird life of Tregaron Bog (Cors Caron), especially pipits and curlews, topography of the bog and River Teifi, and observations, made from a hide, on a nest of young sparrowhawks.