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The first of three volumes (see also NLW MSS 23702-3D) of typescript and manuscript accounts by women from Wales of their experiences in the Second World War, selections from which were published in Parachutes and Petticoats: Welsh Women Writing on the Second World War, ed. by Leigh Verrill-Rhys and Deirdre Beddoe (Dinas Powys, 1992). The material was submitted in response to an appeal in 1991 by the publishers, Honno. A copy of the complete archive has been donated to the Imperial War Museum, London.

School attendance officer's report book, 1877-1894, for Llanddeiniol National School, co. Cardigan. Later used to record rules in English orthography (ff. 47v-50) and proverbs in English and Welsh (ff. 56-9).

Two autograph albums, 1918-1925, which belonged to Miss Jennie Powel Parry, the donor's aunt, from her time at Pen-y-groes County School, and later at Bangor Normal College. Included with the largest album is an unpublished poem by Sir Thomas Parry, 1921, and a letter of condolence on the death of her mother in 1961.

An anthology of Welsh verse ('cerddi', 'dyriau', 'carolau', 'cywyddau', and 'englynion') and some prose, begun by William Elias in 1752, and including several selections from the works of Owen Gruffydd of Llanystumdwy and Goronwy Owen. Other poets represented are 'Aneuryn Gwawdrydd' ('englynion y misoedd'), Dafydd ap Gwilym, 'Dic y Dawns', William Elias, Wm. Gough, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Huw Llyn, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Morgan ap Hugh Lewis, Edward Morus, Hugh Morus, Lewis Morris, Richard Parry, William Phylip, Robert Prichard o Bentraeth, Edmund Prys, Morus Roberts, Thomas Prys, Tudur Aled, Wiliam Llyn, and William Wynn. Miscellaneous items include 'Anherchion Gwyr Cybi', 'englynion brud', 'Breuddwyd Goronwy Ddu o Fon', 'Gorchestion Dafydd Nanmor', 'cywydd hanes Criccieth a suddodd Tawchfor', a valuation of land including Plas y Glyn, and recipes.

A transcript by Thomas Charles Townsend, Prestatyn, Flintshire, dated 1 August 1943, of the Order in Council of 1860 creating the ecclesiastical parish of Prestatyn (formally 'The District of Prestatyn', p. 3) from parts of the parishes of Meliden and Llanasa.
Included as part of the text are schedules describing the boundaries of the new district (pp. 6-8) and listing landowners and occupiers, with details of rent charges due, within the townships of Prestatyn and Meliden (pp. 8-11).

Notebook of Henry Harris, Ystrad Rhondda, begun in 1921, containing lists of place-names and field names in the Rhondda. Some of the names are taken from a tithe map of 1847 (ff. i, 1-51).
Also included is a typescript list of the same place-names, on loose sheets, the names numbered and in alphabetical order (ff. 52-98); typescript and manuscript notes, [?1938], on the Rhondda in the year 1737, including transcripts of Overseers of the Poor accounts (ff. 103-109); notes, 1938, relating to bird life in the Rhondda (f. 110); and three letters to Harris, October 1921-May 1928, including two from M. H. Jones, Penllwyn (ff. 99-102).

A typescript M.A. dissertation, 1957, for Liverpool University Department of Celtic by J[ohn] G[lyn] Penrhyn Jones, entitled 'A history of medicine in Wales in the eighteenth century'.
The dissertation includes chapters on social conditions in Wales, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, 'folk' medicine and herbalism, and biographies of prominent medical men. Supplementary material, including extracts from printed and manuscript sources, is to be found in the Appendices (ff. 164-329). Two tables of contents are included (f. iii, 163a).

A copy of 'Speech of the Earl of Powis [i.e. Edward, second earl] in the House of Lords on Tuesday, May 23, 1843, on moving the second reading of a bill for preventing the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor . . .' (London, 1843), with letters and printed papers relating to the threatened union of the sees, the object of which was to transfer the income of the see that would be suppressed to a see of Manchester. Among the papers are letters from the earl of Powis, George William, fourth baron Lyttelton, and Charles Scott Luxmoore, dean of St. Asaph.

Vestry book for the parish of Llanfair-juxta-Harlech, Merioneth, 1787-1853, containing lists of names of paupers who received charity money from 1802 to 1853, and of persons who paid the poor rate in 1787; and minutes of vestry meetings from 18 November 1803 to 29 May 1851.

A musical score, 'Castell Dolbadarn' by John Metcalf, a work inspired by Turner's painting. Presented as part of the celebrations of opening Drwm, the new cultural centre at the National Library of Wales, June 2004.

An essay in Welsh by the Reverend Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid, 1828-1898) [DWB] on Hanes Bywgraphyddol a Beirniadol o Gerddorion Cymreig; hyd Ganol y Ganrif Bresenol, entered for competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, London, 1887, and partly published in Yr Haul, 1888-1890, 1894-1895. Papers, 1894-1917, found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (MS 22549iiE).

Score-book, 1904-1906, of Ceredigion (Aberystwyth) Cricket Club. Correspondence and other papers, 1937-48, relating mainly to subscriptions to, and fixtures of, the club after it was re-formed, found loose inside the volume, have been filed separately (MS 22677iiD).

Pocket-book of Police Constable John Williams, stationed at Garndolbenmaen, containing a record of sheep earmarks in the parishes of Clynnog, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, co. Caernarfon.

A notebook containing almost six hundred sheep earmarks from farms in counties Merioneth and Montgomery, with a list of localities and parishes (f. 1).

A typescript draft, with manuscript revision and additions, of an unpublished volume on Bilingualism in Education in Wales, compiled by Dan Lynn James, former Language Organiser for Ceredigion, mainly between 1973 and 1977, together with an introductory chapter by Jac L. Williams and comments on the work by R. M. (Bobi) Jones. With NLW MS 22805D.

Microfilm copies of the Presteigne, parish registers, comprising baptisms, 1561-1912, marriages, 1561-1922 (Banns 1754-1948) and burials, 1561-1904. Baptism, marriage and burial entries, 1671-1866 (with gaps), are also included for the parish of Ross.

General accounts, 1728-1783, kept by Hugh Lloyd, vicar of Mold. There are records of malt and hops used for brewing, of prices realised for livestock and cops, births, marriages, deaths, and wills, of expenses incurred in the building of a schoolhouse at Mold, and of a payment to Morris Dancers in 1737.

A typescript copy of Alun Trevor's reminiscences of his childhood in north east Wales during the 1920s, and his life and career afterwards, entitled The songbird is singing (published by Parthian Books, 2009).

A file of papers, certificates, and cards, relating to food rationing, 1917-1920, kept by William Henry Davies, The Stores, Rhuddlan.