- G1/15
- File
- 1980-1986
Part of Robin Reeves Papers
Part of Robin Reeves Papers
Part of Robin Reeves Papers
Original letters, documents, &c.,
Miscellaneous letters and documents, including transcripts, including a letter, 24 August 1622, from Lewis Davids to the petty constables of Swansea relating to the upkeep of Cardiff Bridge; a letter, 24 May 1624, from Owen Wynn to his father, Sir John Wynn, knight and baronet, of Gwydir; a quittance for chief rents, 1640; a copy of a survey of Iscoed, 1650; a letter, 1690, from Richard Lougher to Thomas Rees; a list of Glamorganshire gentlemen to the west of the Ogmore river; a survey of the number and value of acres, houses and lands in Gower; papers relating to Swansea and to the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) and their stewards; a pedigree of the St John family of Bletso, Bedfordshire; a work entitled Modern division of Glamorgan in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg').
Miscellaneous papers relating to Swansea
A folder of miscellaneous material relating to various events in the Swansea area, from Welsh education and music festivals to National Eisteddfodau and Royal visits, 1904-1998.
Microform Academic Publishers: Swansea Trades Council & Labour Party Records on microfilm
Microfilm copies of Swansea Trades Council & Labour Party records, 1902-1984, deposited at the West Glamorgan Archive Service. The records include minute books, annual reports, account books and ledgers, together with membership and attendance registers
Microform Academic Publishers
Material relating to the estates of Edward Herbert
Part of Sir Lewis Morris Manuscripts,
A rent-roll and details of disbursements in respect of the estates in Swansey, Dynas Powis, Landough, Cogan, Roath and Cardiff of Edward Herbert of White Friars, Cardiff; copies of surveys and leases of the manor of Dynas Powis; etc.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, [c. 1944]-1967, of light verse, acrostics and poems for children by Vernon Watkins, composed 1925-1967 (ff. 1-85), together with drafts for published articles, lectures and radio talks, 1948-[1964] (f. 86-138).
Most of the verse (ff. 1, 3-28, 35-56, 58-68, 71-82) was published in Vernon Watkins, LMNTRE Poems (Swansea, 1999). The prose includes drafts of an article and radio script variously called 'The Place and the Poem', [?1949] (ff. 86-99), 'The Place and the Poem. Swansea' (ff. 100-101) and 'Swansea Poems', 1948 (ff. 102-107), a version of which was published as 'Swansea', Texas Quarterly, 4.4 (Winter 1961), 59-64; 'Poetry of the Second Phase', 1962 (ff. 111-114), partly published as 'The Second Phase in Poetry', Unicorn, 10 (Spring 1963), 9-10; and radio scripts, 'The Need of the Artist', 1962 (ff. 108-110), published in The Listener, 8 November 1962, pp. 756-757, and 'Problems of Communication', 1963 (ff. 115-122), published as 'The Joy of Creation', Listener, 30 April 1964, pp. 720-721.