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Includes many photos of artefacts and buildings from the National Museum of Wales and St Fagans respectively. Artefacts include a Welsh Not, Gefel Gwn, Car Llusg, Corn maidens, Sedan Chair.

Correspondence and papers relating to the administration of the exhibition of paintings of the work of Allan Gwynne-Jones to celebrate his 90th birthday, 1982-1983, for the National Museum of Wales.

The correspondents include: Hubert Hall (11), 1901-1925, E. P. Harries, Pembroke Labour Party, 1918, Wilfred Hemp (7), 1915-1923, Sydney Herbert (2), undated, John M. Howell, Aberaeron (3), 1902-1919, William Evans Hoyle, Director of the National Museum of Wales (2), 1915-1917, Robert A. Hudson, 1899, H. Brython Hughes (2), 1911 and undated, and Rev. John Evan Hughes, Caernarfon (10), 1895-1924.

Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, K-P. The correspondents are as follows: Florian Karsch (1), 1951 (enclosing a photostatic copy of a letter, 1945, to Victor Goldschmidt from John Cowper Powys) (both letters refer to correspondence between John Cowper Powys and Florian Karsch's father Joachim Karsch); the Reverend H. R. King (1 postcard), 1927; George Wilson Knight (1), 1957; Derek Wilton Langridge (1), 1956 (the envelope inscribed by John Cowper Powys (f. 7)); [? C. McStrace] (1), no year noted (photocopy); John Middleton Murry (2), 1946; John Morgan, husband of novelist Elena Puw Morgan (1), 1945; Bernard Price O'Neill (3 letters, 2 greeting notes and 1 postcard), 1937, 1942-1943, 1945, O'Neill's daughter Jill Olson (1), 1947, and his son Brian O'Neill (1), 1947 (the latter two letters referring to the death of Bernard Price O'Neill); Doris Pascal (1), 1918; Iorwerth C. Peate, of the National Museum of Wales (1), 1942 (photocopy) (translated interlineally by John Cowper Powys, or at least in his hand); William Perrott, on behalf of The Society of Dorset Men (1), 1962 (nominating John Cowper Powys for Honorary Life Membership of the Society); Charles Rollo Peters (1), undated; and Jacquetta Priestley (née Hawkes) (2), 1955-1956.

Sixty-two letters, 1882-1935, addressed mainly to Andrew Alexander Pettigrew, Roath, Cardiff, chief officer of Cardiff parks and superintendent of allotments, and to his brother Hugh A. Pettigrew, secretary of St Fagans Cricket Club. Much of the correspondence concerns the design of the gardens surrounding the Welsh National War Memorial, the St Fagans Cricket Club, and matters relating to the National Museum of Wales. The correspondents include the Hon. Other R. Windsor-Clive, viscount Windsor (33) 1898-1908, Sir John Ninian Comper, architect (9) 1927-1932, Sir W. Goscombe John (2) 1924, 1935, Alfred Thomas, 1st baron Pontypridd (7) 1882-1903, and R. E. Mortimer Wheeler (2) 1923.

A file of letters relating to the National Museum of Wales, mainly concerning a bequest in 1986 to the National Museum of Wales of seventeenth century Italian paintings. The file includes a letter, 1985, from Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos.

Most of the letters, 1897-1925, are relatively short notes, arranging meetings, giving items of news and requesting pieces of information for the author's researches. There are many references to Welsh books and manuscripts, and occasional, passing references to contemporary national and political events. There is also some discussion of the development of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the University of Wales, and the establishment and early growth of the National Library of Wales. There are several interesting references to the selection of the venue for the National Library and the eventual choice of Aberystwyth and to the appointment of the Library's officers. Sir John also occasionally refers to the early history of the National Museum, founded at Cardiff in the early twentieth century. During 1908 and 1909 there are letters referring to meetings with D. Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and John Herbert Lewis, relating to attempts to wrest improved funding for the National Library from the Liberal government.