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A collection of essays, in typescript, by Thomas Peter Ellis: - 'Welsh Memories'; 'Our Raison d'Etre'; 'Welsh Caricature'; 'Our Island Home'; 'Welsh Gardening'; 'The Cistercians in Wales'; 'Y Marian'; 'A XVth century Prayer'; 'Urien Rheged and his son Owain'; 'In the heart of Powysland'; 'St. David's Pilgrimage'; 'Bells'; 'Welsh Fairies'; 'What's in a Name?'; 'The Dream of Maxen Wledig'; 'Quo Vadis?'; 'Owain Glyndwr and the Church'.

A copy of Rhiannon A. J. Packer's PhD thesis 'Welsh Medium Education in South-East Wales 1949-1962: A Critical Analysis of Development' (University of Glamorgan, 1998)

The minute book, 1903-1906, of the Welsh Library Appeal Committee of the Council of the University of Wales, i.e. the committee charged with the task of securing financial and other support for the foundation of a national library for Wales at Aberystwyth.

Papers, July-October 1980, relating to Plaid Cymru's campaign for a Welsh language television channel, and Lord Cledwyn's amendment to the Broadcasting Bill, including letters sent to Arwyn Thomas from members of the House of Lords.

Miscellaneous press cuttings, extracts from Hansard, memoranda and duplicate copies of correspondence relating to the legal status of the Welsh language, included among a group of papers on the same topic (now NLW MS 22551E).

Papers, 1970-1988, relating to the legal status of the Welsh language, accumulated by Tom Ellis while he was Labour MP for Wrexham, mainly comprising correspondence between himself and Raymond Garlick, 1971-1979, 1988 (ff. 1-171 verso). They relate mainly to court cases concerned with the language campaign in the 1970s and contain references to the operation of the Welsh Language Act 1967 and to the activities of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg and other groups. Press cuttings and other related papers forming part of this group are NLW ex 1045.

Legal files relating to the court cases of members of the Welsh Language Society, [1968]-[1971]. = Ffeiliau cyfreithiol yn ymwneud ag achosion llys aelodau Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, [1968]-[1971].

Correspondence and other papers, 1954-1956, of the Rev. H. Rhys Hughes, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, relating to attempts to establish a Welsh language school at Haverfordwest.
The papers include copy and draft letters from Hughes to D. T. Jones, Director of Education for Pembrokeshire County Council, June 1954-October 1956 (ff. 1, 11, 21-22, 28-29), and letters from Jones to Hughes, July 1954-October 1956 (ff. 5, 8, 12, 16, 23, 25); a typed copy of a petition (f. 3); press cuttings (ff. 4, 6, 17-18, 20, 24, 27, 30-31); a letter, 28 October 1954, from T. Raymond Edwards of Undeb Rhieni Ysgolion Cymraeg to Hughes (ff. 9-10); and copies of various circulars (ff. 7, 13-15, 19, 26).

Copies of evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire at Aberaeron on 27 April, 1894, by Jas. C. Jones, Llanarth, Anne James, Chapel Street, Llanarth, Watkin Davies, Goytre, Llanarth, David Lloyd, master mariner, Rose Green, Llanarth, Dd. Evans, Pantteg, Llanllwchaiarn (English copy), and Daniel Jenkins, Llwynderw; together with a holograph letter from T. E. Morris, Charing Cross, S. W., to Morgan Evans [J. P., Oakford, Llanarth], 11 April, 1894, requesting a full statement of the evidence to be laid before the Commission at Tregaron.

A draft of an essay on the Welsh Jacobites written by Herbert M. Vaughan for the national eisteddfod held in London, 1909.

A manuscript notebook which belonged to D. Thomas Davies containing notes of lectures, 1899-1900, delivered by Professor Edward Edwards at University College of Wales Aberystwyth, session 1899-1900, on the history of Wales down to 1600.

A file of material, 1991-2004, relating to the Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative, a project launched in 1990 under the auspices of the Institute of Welsh Affairs to make Welsh children more aware of their heritage. Its aim is to encourage young people in schools in Wales to take a greater interest in their heritage and the contribution made to it by their families and communities, by holding an annual competition for heritage projects in schools in Wales.

Notes, letters, illustrations, press cuttings, broadsides, circulars, etc., relating to Welsh harps, harposts, and Welsh and Irish music, collected by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).

A volume containing offprints and articles relating to Welsh Gypsy folk-tales, mainly from the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, collected and edited by John Sampson.

A group of about one hundred and eighty business letters, 1880-91 (with some of the period 1897-1908), largely written by George W. Farren, general manager, Welsh Granite Company Limited, Yr Eifl Quarry, Trevor, Caernarvonshire, to his foreman, Thomas Hughes, Cae-glas, Llanaelhaearn. Some letters refer also to emigration and to the Welsh Granite Company's School.

'A synoptical tabular key to the vowel inflections and the consonant mutations in words in the Welsh Language' presented to the Earl of Ashburnham by Thos. W. Hancock, 1899.

A collection of twenty-eight folk-songs, mostly with words, noted by Mrs [later Lady] Ruth Herbert Lewis, collected in Flintshire and Denbighshire in 1910-1911. Thirteen of the songs are published in her Folk-songs collected in Flintshire and the Vale of Clwyd (Wrexham, 1914) or Journal of the Welsh Folk-song Society, 1 (1909-12) and 2 (1914-25).

A photostat facsimile of a Llanover manuscript containing Welsh folk tunes.