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E. R. Horsfall Turner Manuscripts,
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Chartism,

A calandar of letters and documents relating to Chartist riots in the county of Montgomery in the possession of the Rt. Hon. [George Charles Herbert] 4th earl of Powis, and extracts from an article entitled 'The Montgomeryshire Chartist Riots' by J. E. Samuel, Dowlais, published in Cymru Fu, 31 August, 1889. The calendar was prepared during the time the records were deposited at the National Library of Wales (see 561, below).

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Letters,

Four holograph letters:- to J. Horsfall Turner from Morris Charles Jones, Welshpool, 1885 (exchange of books on Nonconformist subjects from the recipient's library for the Powys-land Museum and Library), and to E. R. Horsfall Turner from Harold P. Cooke, Cambridge, 1908 (the writer's essay in competition for the Charles Oldham Prize at the University of Oxford, the vacant chair of Greek at University College, Cardiff), and W. H. Robinson, Central Welsh Board, Cardiff, 1910 (C. W. B. inspectors' reports on schools); and one holograph postcard to Mrs. [Hilda Gladys] Turner, County School, Llanidloes, from P. Davies, Llanidloes [1922] (a copy of a translation by the recipient's father).

Notes, extracts, etc.,

Notes, extracts, etc., by E. R. Horsfall Turner from various printed sources including [A. H.] Dodd: The Industrial Revolution in North Wales [( Cardiff, 1933)]; [Edward] Hamer [:A Brief Account of the] Chartist Outbreak [at Llanidloes in the year 1839 (Llanidloes, 1867)]; [J. L. and B.] Hammond: The Age of the Chartists, 1832-54 [(London, 1930)]; History of the Chartists and the Bloodless Wars of Montgomeryshire (Welshpool, N.D.); various numbers of the Shrewsbury Chronicle and Salopian journal for the year 1839, etc. The material was probably collected in the course of research work on Chartism in co. Montgomery.

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Poetry,

Miscellaneous poetry, circa 1895-1899, by and in the hand of E. R. Horsfall Turner, together with English translations by him of hymns by Morgan Rhys, Anne Griffiths, Edward Jones, Maes-y-plwm, and Evan Rees ('Dyfed').

E. R. Horsfall Turner.

Vicars of Llanidloes,

A list of vicars of Llanidloes, c. 1550-1867 (with gaps), together with manuscript and typescript notes, and eight letters to E. R. Horsfall Turner, 1935, largely relating to the Reverend Evan Pughe, who was vicar from 1837 to 1850. The correspondents include [Sir] W[illiam] Ll[ewelyn] Davies of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

E. R. Horsfall Turner and others.