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A diary and a letter book,

The journal of Mrs Elizabeth Baker, Dolgelley, 1778-1786. Part I in ten volumes.

The letter book of Mrs Elizabeth Baker, relating to mining ventures in Merioneth, 1770-1775. With printed appeals for contributions towards her relief, 1787-1788, and lists of donors.

Elizabeth Baker.

A Cornish Dictionary,

A Cornish dictionary in the hand of Edward Lhuyd containing Cornish-English vocabulary and phrases, with some translations into Latin.
This is evidently the work referred to by Edward Lhuyd on p. 253 of the Archæologica Britannica: 'Looking over these Sheets of the Cornish Grammar; I find 1st. that I must recal the promise made of a Cornish-English Vocabulary. I have one by me, written about six years since, and have lately improv'd it with what Additions I could; But there being no room for it in this Volume ... it must be deferred to the next.'

Edward Lhuyd.

A compendium of texts,

A compendium, [late 15th cent. x early 16th cent.], of works on astrology, medicine, sayings, Brut y Saeson, a short chronicle, Lives of Saints David and Gwenffrewi, Bonedd y Saint and other texts. The manuscript was previously ascribed to Gutun Owain (see Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Aberystwyth, 2000), p. 190).

A Castle of Cloud

A prose piece with the title 'A Castle of Cloud', autograph, 1912, which appeared in a shorter version as 'Cloud Castle' in Edward Thomas's posthumously published collection Cloud Castle and Other Papers' (London, 1922) (ff. 1-6); typescript of the same by Mrs Beryl Thomas (ff. 7-14).

Edward Thomas and Beryl Thomas.

41st Welsh Regiment

Copy of a framed photograph of a formal group portrait. "41st Welsh Regiment" has been written in ink on the negative. This regiment ceased to exist after 1881 when it amalgamated with the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of foot.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

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