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Holograph manuscripts and (mostly) typescripts, corrected, of some of the published and unpublished literary works, including novels entitled 'Benny Boy', 'Thursday to Saturday', Choral Symphony (London, 1955), 'Requiem for Rags', 'The Champion's Wife, 'The Methuselahs', Come, Night; End, Day, Rhondda Roundabout, 'Shadow Show' and The Man David (London, 1944); comedies, musical plays, and dramatisations of novels, autobiographies, radio scripts, articles and reviews, 1938-1967, including 'The Leek in the Broth'; diaries, 1938-1962; notebooks on William Abraham ('Mabon'); cuttings from Merthyr Express of the 'Saran Stories'; recorded readings from the B.B.C, 1941-1964; and typescript final draft of 'A Burnt Offering' and manuscript notes on Dr William Price.

Papers of John Davies, mainly ecclesiastical material and personal papers, 1846-1881, and papers acquired by him, including personal papers of Rev. D. B. Davies, Edward Morgan, 1868-1898, and Rev. John Morgan, 1894-1918; a notebook describing analysis of the chalybeate water at Aberystwyth, attributed to Richard Williams, an Aberystwyth surgeon, 1817; and a Cefncoedycymer policeman's patrol book, 1869-1870, including the exhumation of a body in connection with the defence of Dr William Price, charged with manslaughter.