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Ten typescript articles and transcripts, 1973-1984, nearly all written or compiled by Dr Clare Taylor, Aberystwyth.
They comprise: (i) 'America 1851-1852', dated April 1973, a translation by Mari Ellis of the diary of Iorthryn Gwynedd (NLW MS 9521A), with an introduction by Clare Taylor; (ii) 'The Phillipps Manuscript: A Chapter in Early Welsh Migration to the West Indies and to the United States', 1973, a transcript of NLW MS 92B with an introduction by Clare Taylor (the introduction only was published, with the same title, in National Library of Wales Journal, 19.3 (Summer 1976), 243-248); (iii) 'A Description of Trinidad 1881-1882', 1973, a transcript of [?part of] NLW MS 17267D; (iv-vii) 'A Victorian Guide to Wales', 1973 and undated, four volumes containing transcripts from nineteenth-century trade directories of descriptions of individual parishes in Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire; (viii) an article, 1979, entitled 'The Journal of an Absentee Proprietor: Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech', concerning NLW, Slebech Estate Records 4292-4302; (ix) 'Isaac Williams of Cardiganshire – the Christian poet – an introduction to his nature poetry', 1984, an article subsequently published in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1986), 115-126; and (x) 'NLW MS 15505 Picton Papers and Letters', [n.d.], consisting of transcripts (and in some cases translations from the Welsh) of letters of Welsh-American interest in NLW MS 15505E, as well as NLW MS 14111D and elsewhere. Items i-iv and viii-ix are photocopied or cyclostyled, while v-vii and x are carbon copies.

Some eight hundred and fifty letters, 1948-1969, from Mari Ellis to her husband T. I. Ellis, along with a few sent by their children Marged and Rolant.

Two notebooks, [?1950s], containing transcripts by T. I. Ellis of letters in the Tonn Manuscripts at Cardiff City Library.
The second volume also contains transcripts by Mari Ellis from manuscripts at the National Library of Wales.

Some one hundred and forty-three letters, 1953-1970 (mostly 1958-1959, 1968-1969), to Margaret Headley from Mari Ellis, including a few, in Welsh, from her children.

A series of six manuscript lectures, [?late 1960s], by T. I. Ellis on aspects of the recent history of the Anglican Church in Wales (96 pp.). Also included is a translation into Welsh, [1973], of the fifth lecture, by his widow Mari Ellis, for publication (see T. I. Ellis, 'Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru rhwng y ddau Ryfel Byd', Diwinyddiaeth, 24 (1973), 29-38), as well as some related correspondence, 1972-1973.