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Family papers, 1898-1989, mainly relating to Rhyda Williams, mother of Julian Williams.

A selection of family papers including (i) letters and papers relating to the death of Dr Mary Williams, and the administration of her estate, 1977-1979; (ii) letters from Dr Mary Williams, Swansea and Hampstead, addressed to Rhyda and Julian Williams, 1935-1937, 1940-1943, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1968, 1972-1974, together with one letter addressed to Basil Williams, 1968, from Jennie Ruggles-Gates (Dr Mary’s sister); (iii) letters addressed to Rhyda Williams, 1914, 1932, 1978-1979, including one letter from Walford Davies, 1932 and three letters from Grace Williams, Barry, 1968 and 1976, together with one possible early, but undated, photograph of Grace Williams; (iv) letters and papers relating to radio broadcasts by Rhyda Williams, 1934-1935, 1937-1938, 1944, including handwritten and typewritten scripts on ‘Schubert’ (Awr y Plant, 29 Gorffennaf 1937) and ‘[Edward] Macdowell’ (Awr y Plant, 2 Medi 1937), and a handwritten script ‘Rhyfeddodau glan y môr’ by Basil Williams, 11 Awst 1937, together with some testimonials and personalia relating to Rhyda Williams, 1921 and 1942; (v) letters, papers and personalia, 1960, 1967-1968, 1978, 1983, 1989, relating to the career of Julian Williams, including two postcards from actress Caroline Berry, 1989.

Papers of Julian Williams, former set designer in the Design Department of BBC Wales, including scripts of plays broadcast during the 1960s, among them works by Saunders Lewis and Gwenlyn Parry. The collection includes papers, photographs, and a few books relating to the donor’s family, including his parents Thomas Basil and Rhyda Ann Williams, his great-aunt Professor Mary Williams, and her husband G. Arbour Stephens of Swansea.

Papers relating to the life and work of Dr Mary Williams of Swansea and Hampstead, including badges and awards (full and dress versions of her Officier d’Academie and Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur medals); photographs, including three of J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Pwllheli, c. 1910, one of George Arbour Stephens, 1914, and two signed photographs of actress and singer Josie Fearon, 1940; correspondence 1968, 1974-1977, including a letter from Horace Shipp addressed to Jennie Ruggles-Gates, sister of Mary Williams, 1950; chapel certificates for Mary and Jennie Williams, 1898-1899; press cuttings, 1972 and 1977; an undated handwritten essay entitled ‘The Manners and Morals of the Mabinogion’; diaries 1925, 1927, 1931, 1973 and 1976; and her last will and testament, 1974.

Original musical compositions by G. Arbour Stephens of Swansea, arranged in staff and sol-fa notation, mostly of songs. The papers include undated letters from Eiluned Lewis, Penrhyndeudraeth, John Manifold, London, and Violet Jacobs, Angus, and letters from Ivy Eastwick, Oxford, 1945, E.O. Lorimer, Welwyn Garden City, 1945 and Nesta Gilles, New Quay, 1945, mostly relating to the copyright of lyrics.

Original musical compositions by G. Arbour Stephens of Swansea, arranged in staff and sol-fa notation, mostly of songs and hymn-tunes. The papers include letters from Walford Davies, Maidenhead, 1939, and D.E. Parry Williams, Bangor, 1944, and postcards from Dr Mary Williams, 1933 and Wil Ifan, Bridgend, 1940.

Production notes and filming schedules for various television programmes, including Ail Gynnig (1970), Yr Arth (1986), A Woman of Property, Caroline Sally Jones (1989) and Mr Lollipop M.A., Rhydderch Jones (undated).

Production notes and filming schedules for various television programmes, including Cap Wil Tomos (1965), Mis y Gwenoliaid, Rhydderch Jones (1983), Hannibal a’r Hebog (1987).

Production notes, designs, and studio floor plans for various television productions.

Typescript radio and television scripts, in various conditions (some incomplete), and some annotated with illustrations by JW. Also included are production notes and studio floor plans for various programmes. Photographs of BBC sets during the same period have been transferred to the Library’s photographic collection.

A substantial series of letters between Rhyda Williams and G. Arbour Stephens, mostly relating to the latter’s compositions, and including both sides of the correspondence. In 4 folders.

Scripts and production notes for Davy Jones, a serial by T.C. Thomas.

Scripts and production notes for The True Story of Frankenstein (Everyman), October-November 1985.

Various scripts written by Julian Williams: The Raising of Walters (1970, four copies), The Break (1977, two copies), and the possibly autobiographical The Last Hill Before Home (undated). The box also contains two copies of a summary of ‘Y Gwyliwr’, also by Julian Williams.

Scripts for English-language serials: Hook-up (1959-1960), Second Stages in Welsh (1959-60), Wales Through the Ages (1959-1960), The Front Line (1984), Why Don’t You? (1982 and 1984), Orville and Cuddles (1990).

Scripts for English-language single programmes: The Will and the Testament, Ronald Simmonds (1959), The Treforgan Flitch, E. Eynon Evans (1959), The Fellow from Off, J. Mansel Thomas (1959), Janet Ifans’ Donkey, Geraint Goodwin (1959), The Men Who Watched the Aeroplanes Go By, Edward Nevin (1959), The Dowlais Story, Gwyn A. Williams (1959), John Jones or The Average Welshman, Tom Richards (1959), Christmas Near a Green Mountain, Cledwyn Hughes (1959), Master Mariner, A. Edward Richards (1960), All Roads Blocked, B.L. Coombes (1960), Billy the Bird and Hidden Treasures, Frank Prosser (1960), Sweet Song of the Morning, Michael Davies (1964), With a Gladsome Mind (1964).

Scripts for English-language single programmes: Death Happens to Other People, Jeremy Brooks (1965), La Belle Helene, Jacques Offenbach (1965), Off to Philadelphia in the Morning, Jack Jones (undated), Where the Buffalo Roam, Dennis Potter (undated), The Opening, Bernard Evans (undated), The Doll Carpenter, Gwenlyn Parry (undated).

Scripts for Welsh-language serials: Bwa’r Tadau, Kate Bosse Griffiths (1959), Plant Beca, Gwynne D. Evans (1964), Os Gwelwch yn Dda (1964), Y ‘Sgyrsion Ysgafn (1965), Chwalfa, T. Rowland Hughes (1965-1966), ‘Stalwm (1966), Byd a Betws (1967).

Scripts for Welsh-language serials: Y Gwyliwr, Gwenlyn Parry (1969-1970), Disc a Dawn (1971), Tony ac Aloma (1971), Ryan a Ronnie (1973), Enoc Huws (1974), Margaret Williams (1983), Pedwar ar Bedwar (1986).

Scripts for Welsh-language single programmes: Yr Agoriad, Efnysyen (Cystadleuaeth Ddrama BBC Cymru, 1968), Branwen, Saunders Lewis (1970), Y Codiad Cyflog, Dino Buzzati (1986), Yr Arth gan Chekhov, cyf. T. Hudson Williams (1986), Saer Doliau, Gwenlyn Parry (1987, two copies), Siwan, Saunders Lewis (undated).