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Arrangements by Mansel Thomas of Welsh folk songs for male voices.

Manuscript scores of arrangements by Mansel Thomas of traditional Welsh folk songs for mixed voices.

Manuscript scores (without words) of arrangements of (mostly Welsh) folk songs for solo voice.

Manuscript piano sketches ('before brass scoring') of 'Mini-variations on a Welsh theme', along with a set of orchestral parts. Based on the Welsh folk tune 'Hob y deri dando': Deheubarth-South Wales Version.

A copy of Edward Jones, Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards ... (London, 1794), with a few annotations by John Dovaston. Among items tipped in are transcripts by Edward Jones of Welsh, English and Irish airs (ff. 1, 73, 106) and a letter from him to Dovaston, 16 January 1817, concerning Welsh folk-tunes and other national airs (ff. 74-75). The letter is in answer to Dovaston's letter of 25 December 1816, which is part of Cardiff MS 4.130.

Two notebooks containing an essay, [20 cent, first ¼], by Philip Thomas on Welsh folk tunes. Included is an account of the custom of hunting the wren (ff. 53-4 verso).
A number of leaves have been inserted at the end of the second volume (ff. 49-58).

Manuscript of 'Alawon Gwerin Cymru, Detholiad yr Ysgol Wyliau Gymraeg' by Philip Thomas, with a preface and introduction by J. Lloyd Williams, Aberystwyth (ff. 7-11). It was published as Alawon Gwerin Cymru. Detholiad yr Ysgol Wyliau Gymraeg gan Philip Thomas (s.l.: Trafodion yr Ysgol Wyliau Gymraeg, rhif III, 1927).

A cyclostyled copy of 'Alawon Gwerin Cymru, Detholiad yr Ysgol Wyliau Gymraeg' by Philip Thomas (NLW MS 13758D). This copy lacks the song 'O do, mi a glywais'.

A notebook into which have been pasted pages of the printed programme of 'Cymanfa Alawon Gwerin', held at Tabor, Maesteg, 9 February 1927, under the auspices of Cymrodorion Maesteg, with additions in the hand of Philip Thomas.

A volume containing hymn-tunes and folk-tunes together with an index to the tunes, written in a mid-nineteenth century hand (ff. 73-209), bound together with a copy of William Owen, Prysgol, Y Perl Cerddorol... (Caernarfon, 1852) (ff. 7-72). A note in pencil on f. 1, probably in the hand of Philip Thomas, suggesting 'Shenkin Dounie, Harpist, Neath' to have been the scribe is probably an error for John Dounie [Downey], harpist, the Mera, Neath (see E. E. Williams, 'The queen of the Mera', Neath Antiquarian Society Transactions (1979), 6-7). Also included is a printed advertisement for John Ambrose Lloyd, Casgliad o Donau... (1843) (f. 210).