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Includes a transcript and photostat of Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn; two copies of Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn: et al; glossary; proofs of parts of the transcript; notes; together with letters, 1912-1949, from the University of Wales, University College of Wales Aberystwyth, The Press Board of the University of Wales, and The National Library of Wales relating to the publishing of Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn.

Works by John Jenkins, including a draft of his B.Litt. dissertation and poems.

Included are copies of his articles and his dissertation for the degree of MSc (1946), PhD (1951), and MD (1955).

Original folder containing notes and papers of lectures given on various topics, including on Celtic languages; the republican movement in South Africa; France and Wales; French influences on South Africa; French literature and language; some historical facts; bilingualism in South Africa; and of Welsh interest.

A folder containing letters and telegrams relating to the application and appointment of Morgan Watkin as Professor of French Language and Literature at University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff in 1920, together with a copy of his application and testimonial and agreements. Also included are some letters relating to his career at the University, 1929-1931.

An original bundle of transcript copies with notes by Morgan Watkin of various manuscripts of Welsh interest (mainly Peniarth and Cwrtmawr manuscripts).

Morgan Watkin's copy of 'The French linguistic influence in Mediaeval Wales' by Morgan Watkin, with marginal notes in his hand.

Draft typescript copies of The Chronology of The Annales Cambriae and the Liber Landavensis according to their Old French Graphical phenomena, by Emeritus Professor Morgan Watkin.

Testimonials and applications of Morgan Watkin for posts and scholarships, 1896-1897 and 1902-1927.

An envelope of miscellaneous papers (ephemeral in nature) relating to Morgan Watkin's time at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and Faculté des Lettres Université de Paris.

Letters, memoranda and telegrams from Chalmers, Guthrie & Co. Ltd. relating to the post that Morgan Watkin took at South African School of Mines and Technology, in Johannesburg. Also, papers relating to the travel arrangements to and from South Africa.

Includes a scrapbook attributed to Auriol Griffiths (Watkin following her marriage to Iestyn in 1951). Included are three letters from R. Williams Parry pasted in the volume.

Research and personal papers of Professor Morgan Watkin (1878-1970), scholar and university professor of French at Cardiff and Swansea. The archive also includes a small group of papers of his son, Dr Iestyn Morgan Watkin, once Chief Medical Officer for Cardiganshire and papers of the Jenkins' family (family of his wife).

Printed material and press cuttings relating mainly to Gwili Jenkins and family.

Press cuttings relating to the life, work and interests of Morgan Watkin.

Photostat copy of Peniarth MS 7, folios 28-34 and Peniarth MS 10, folios 17v-33 with marginal notes by MW. Also, a photostat copy of MS Digby 223, folios 77-78v and 171-172v; MS Rawl. D. 899, folios 147v-149 and 204v-206; PRO E 164/1 (extracts) which is the Exchequer King’s Remembrances Miscellaneous Books 1174; and Windsor Library P.23623 (fragments of the life of St. Melor) with a letter enclosed from the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum, together with some associated material.

Manuscript draft of Morgan Watkin’s University of Zurich PhD theses on French gesture songs preserved in Welsh-language manuscripts (under Louis Gauchat and E. Bovet), comprising part of the preface and the first part (ff. 3-88) and the second part (ff. 89-186). Also included is an earlier manuscript draft of the theses.

Includes birth and death certificates, passports and visiting cards.