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Transcripts of 'The State Dunces. Inscribed to Mr. Pope' and 'Manners: a Satire' by Paul Whitehead.

Two notebooks containing annotations on the Lord's Prayer; moral verses; a list of cattle at Rhûg, 1661; apothegms; Latin-English phraseology; Latin verses; an inventory of linen; etc.

A late fourteenth-, or early fifteenth-century manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, lacking VIII(G)554-1481 (i.e., the Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale); X(I)1180-end lost).
Doyle and Parkes’s ‘Scribe B’, the scribe of the Hengwrt Chaucer, has long been identified as having also been responsible for writing other manuscripts, including the Ellesmere Chaucer (Huntington Library MS 26 C 9). He was identified in 2006 by Linne Mooney as Adam Pinkhurst, a London-based scrivener associated with Chaucer.

Correspondence, papers and notes, 1916-1917, concerning the convention of appeal tribunals within Cardiganshire under the Military Act 1916.

A volume containing Welsh strict-metre poetry in the hand of Wmffre Dafis, vicar of Darowen, written in 1599 for his nephew, Theodore Price, sub-dean of Westminster Abbey.
The same scribe also wrote Bodewryd MS 1, BL Addl MS 14933, Llanstephan MSS 35, 118, and NLW MS 3056D (Mostyn MS 160). Jesus College MS 101 (see Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, 2 vols (London, 1898-1910), II, pp. 68-86) appears to be a straight transcript from this manuscript. A series of englynion in Welsh and Latin have been added in an early-seventeenth century hand on f. v.

A volume of melodies, [c. 1815], being the original of 'Melus Geingciau [sic] Deheubarth Cymru or The Melodies of South Wales' (f. 1), containing some fifty-six tunes collected by Ifor Ceri [?and others], some with words.
The volume consists of twenty-seven tunes, numbered 1-27, in the hand of Ifor Ceri, thirteen with Welsh lyrics appended (ff. 2 verso-27 verso); a further twenty-nine unnumbered tunes (including duplicates of a few already in the volume) in the hand of Ifor Ceri (ff. 18, 19-20, 21, 22 verso-23, 25, 26, 27, 28-33 verso); and thirteen tunes inserted in spaces by a different hand (ff. 2, 3 verso-5, 8-10, 11 verso-12, 13, 15-17, 24).

Notebook recording details of daily events in Europe and Russia.

Contains brief notes of appointments and engagements and other points to jog the memory. For part of the year Gareth Jones was in the United States, later at London.

French notes made by Gareth Jones while a sudent at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. They comprise vocabulary lists, French sentences, phrases and French proverbs.

Diary of a trip to Cologne to gather information about the Schleicher government on behalf of Ivy Lee, later drafted into a report titled "Impressions of Germany, 1932."

Contains notes on the Irish situation.

Contains notes on Gareth Jones's travels through central Europe including Yugoslavia, Italy, the Vatican, Germany and Austria.

Many of the letters are written from Trinity College, Cambridge, a few from The Times office at London, and some from 25 Old Queen Street, Westminster when Gareth Vaughan Jones was in the employ of David Lloyd George. There are also a few letters written from continental and Russian cities like Berlin, Moscow and Warsaw where he describes his surroundings and events. They describe his academic activities - essays, examinations etc. - and leisure pursuits. He also refers to his work as a tutor and his students there. He writes in great detail about the people whom he meets and gives his impressions of them. There are many references to international affairs and events on the Continent, and some discussion of events at Barry and family news. Later he describes his duties for Lloyd George and the politicians he meets while in his employ.

Especially his resignation on grounds of ill-health in April 1918.

The file comprises miscellaneous letters written during the later stages of the First World War, many written from those on active service in France recounting their experiences.