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Draft of a speech by Paul Silk at Aberystwyth University on the constitutional history of Wales, devolution, relations between the constituent countries of the United Kingdom and the work of the Independent Commission on Devolution in Wales.

Minutes of the twenty-third meeting of the Commission held on 25/26 July 2013.

A papers with the file name "Stephen_Laws__annex.pdf" explaining considerations of relations between legal jurisdictions in the UK.

Mae’r ffeil yn cynnwys un bocs mynegai gwyrdd (ff. 1-320) a ddefnyddiwyd gan Phyllis Kinney o bosibl ar gyfer ei chyhoeddiad Welsh Traditional Music (2011) yn trafod arferion Mari Lwyd, Hela'r Dryw, a chalennig. Mae’r penawdau wedi eu trefnu yn ôl gwlad (Irish, Manx, Shetland, Orkneys, Scotland, England, Wales) ac yn cynnwys y penawdau Cyfri’r geifr, Gŵyl Fair, Hela’r Dryw / Hunting the Wren, Shrove Tuesday, Tri thrawiad, Un o fy mrodyr i, Calennig, Mari Lwyd, a Compass of 3/4/5/6/7.

Twenty-three letters, 1940-1971, from David Jones, artist and writer, to his friend T. F. (Tom) Burns, nineteen of which date from the period 1940-1944 and form a valuable source for the life and work of the writer during the war years. The principal subjects discussed in the others are the history of Wales, the early history of the compass, Malory's Morte Arthur and the writer's experiences in the First World War. Twelve of these letters were printed, wholly or in part, by René Hague in Dai Greatcoat: A self-portrait of David Jones in his Letters (London, 1980).

Notes on Gareth Jones's travels in Germany. Describes some of the individuals whom he met there including an interview with Albion Ross, a New York Times correspondent newly arrived in Berlin. It also includes an interview with Reinhard Haferkorn, identified in Jones's later newspaper article as "a German professor who had great experience of foreign travel". Even though the inside front cover is dated June 1, 1934, the material included in this diary notebook corresponds with Western Mail articles written in the first week of June 1933 so parts of the notebook may have been written at different times.

Pocket notebook containing rough notes by Gareth Vaughan Jones of his visit to the U. S. S. R. with Jack Heinz in 1931. See alos file B1/6 (Diary - Europe and Russia, 1931).

Thirty-six volumes of the diaries of John Cowper Powys, being an unbroken series dating from 1930 to 1961. Powys began keeping a diary in June 1929 on his departure from New York on a visit to England (see NLW MS 22807A).
The first two volumes have been edited for publication (see The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1930, ed. by Frederick Davies (London, 1987) and The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1931 (London, 1990)) and the period June 1934 to June 1935 has been published in The Dorset Year, ed. by Morine Krissdóttir and Roger Peers (Kilmersdon: The Powys Press, 1998). A selection of the first eleven years has been published in Petrushka and the Dancer: The diaries of John Cowper Powys 1929-1939, ed. by Morine Krissdóttir (Manchester, New York and Paris, 1995).

First World War diary of the poet and essayist Edward Thomas, 1 January-8 April 1917, containing descriptions of army life in England and France, observations on the natural world, and brief accounts of letters sent and received. It also contains the only known draft of Thomas's last poem, 'The sorrow of true love' (f. 29), dated 13 January 1917. The covers and leaves of the diary are heavily creased, suggesting that it may have been in Thomas's pocket when he was killed by a shell on the first day of the Battle of Arras on 9 April 1917. For an edited version of the diary's text, see The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978), pp. 460-481. Three items found loose inside the diary's covers, including a draft of Thomas's poem, 'The Lane' [1916], have been filed as NLW MS 24030iiA.

Notebook, 1916, containing autograph drafts and revisions of twenty-seven untitled poems (ff. 7v-41), all published in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978), where the manuscript is designated M2 (p. xxiii) and assumed to have been 'used as a working notebook in camp - and in the train. Like M1 [NLW MS 22920A], it gives an admirable example of Thomas's working method as a poet and, according to his letters to Frost, it contains many of the poems he adjudged to be his best'. Also included are the final words of the essay, 'The Pilgrim' (f. 1) (see note below), an apparently unpublished prose dialogue between P., T. and Jehovah (ff. 1 verso-7) and trigonometrical sketches (ff. 29 verso-30 verso).

The diary, 1916-1917, of Edmund Davies, Dyffryn Ardudwy, Merionethshire, containing an account of his service with the 17th Royal Welch Fusiliers during the First World War.
The diary, which begins in April 1916, records postings in France including action in the trenches and ends in February 1917 when the diarist was injured at the Ypres Salient in Belgium. Papers connected with the diary have been filed separately (NLW MS 23060C).

A scrapbook of press cuttings relating to the Prince of Wales's hospital for limbless sailors and soldiers at Cardiff, 1916-1919.

Some sixty-five letters, 1916-1917, from Edward Thomas to his wife, Helen Thomas, giving accounts of his training as an army officer, his departure to France, and experiences at the front until his death.

Typescript drafts, [1915x1917], of twenty-three poems by Edward Thomas with collation of texts by R. George Thomas (ff. i-vi). They include two copies of ['Words'], one marked 'unamended' (ff. 34-7), and of 'Lob', one marked 'unrevised' (ff. 38-45), and a copy of 'The Combe' (f. 2) signed 'Edward Eastaway'. The typescripts are working copies used by the poet for revision when selecting poems for inclusion in Poems published in 1917 under the pseudonym 'Edward Eastaway'. Nine of the poems were included in that volume.

Diary, 1915-1916, of Ethel Dora Heins (1886-1933) of Brecon, recording her service as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in Alexandria.
A photograph of Heins is on f. 26.

The War diary, 1 December 1915-30 January 1918, of the 15th Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Exercise book once belonging to Edward Thomas, containing autograph drafts, 1914, of two of his earliest poems 'The Mountain Chapel' and 'Birds' Nests', together with a draft, [1915], of 'House and Man'.
'The Mountain Chapel' material, dated 17 December 1914 (f. 2), seems to consist of an initial draft (ff. 1 verso-2, 3, 4), a second draft (ff. 5-6) with further revisions to the opening section only (f. 4 verso), and a final draft (ff. 2 verso, 3 verso) which closely corresponds to the published versions; it was first published in his Last Poems (London, 1918), pp. 62-63. The 'Birds' Nests' material, dated 18 December 1914 (on ff. 7, 8), consists of an early draft (f. 6 verso), a second draft (f. 7) and a final draft (f. 8); the latter is very close to the poem as first published in his Poems (London, 1917), p. 54, with only three substantive variants (lines 3, 7 and 15). The single, revised, draft of 'House and Man' (f. 7 verso) closely corresponds to the other known autograph copy in London, British Library Add. MS 44990, and the version printed in Last Poems (London, 1918), p. 90, except for the omission here of the last line-and-a-half ('…veering about, / A magpie like a weathercock in doubt'). 'House and Man' was first published, with a few variants, in Root and Branch, 1.4 (1915), 59, making it (jointly with 'Intervals') his first poem to see print. In The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978) 'The Mountain Chapel' is poem No. 10 (pp. 44-47), 'Birds' Nests' is No. 9 (pp. 42-43) and 'House and Man' is No. 33 (pp. 104-105); the dating of the first two in the present manuscript suggests the conjectured chronological arrangement of that volume (and also Edward Thomas, The Annotated Collected Poems, ed. by Edna Longley (Tarset, 2008)), is incorrect.

Notebook, 1914-1915, containing autograph drafts and revisions of some twenty-five untitled poems by Edward Thomas (ff. 1v-27), all published in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. by R. George Thomas (Oxford, 1978), where the manuscript is designated M1 (p. xxii).

Minute-book, 1914-1918, of the London Welsh Battalion Committee, including related correspondence.

Eleven letters, October 1914, from Edward Thomas to his wife, Helen Thomas, in the form of a journal of his bicycle tour in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Glamorgan and Breconshire, together with an account of his visit to Robert Frost at Dymock, Gloucestershire.