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Includes letters from J. G. Swift MacNeill, R. A. Stewart Macalister (2), Donald A. Mackenzie, J. P. Mahaffy (2), Constance de Markiewicz, W. R. Morfill (2), Eluned Morgan, Lewis Morris (3), Gilbert Murray, James A. H. Murray (2), A. S. Napier (4), E. W. B. Nicholson, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Goddard H. Orpen, William Osler (2), Henry Owen (2), W. M. Flinders Petrie (3), Charles Plummer (4), Julius Pokorny, and Frederick York Powell (6).

Miscellanea, including a poem entitled 'The Death of King Teudric. A Legend of Tintern', by W. H. Greene; poems by Sir Lewis Morr[i]s [1833-1907] and R[ees] J[enkin] J[ones] [1835-1924]; letters from Jona Barff (Oswestry) to Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain') [1761-1849], Thomas Burgess (bishop of St. Davids) [1756-1837] to Walter Davies and John Jenkins ('Ifor Ceri') [1770-1829], D[aniel] Silvan Evans [1818-1903] to -, John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog') [1832-1887] to -, and Richard Price (Llantrisant) to Christopher Limner Cartwright; etc.

Papers, correspondence and printed items, 1872-1926, relating to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. They include copies of the college's early registers, 1872-1877, copies of the conveyance of the college and its hereditaments, 1875, copies of the deed of settlement of the college, and of the charter of incorporation and statutes, both dated 1892, papers concerning the administration of the college's restoration fund, the revised constitution of the college, and the old students' scholarship fund. Other matters include the charter of the federal University of Wales in 1893, the college's building fund, Alexandra Hall, the finance and general purposes committee, the estate of Sir John Williams, the proposed revision of the college's charter and statutes, and museum grants for Wales. The correspondents include Thomas Charles Edwards (3), 1885-1886, Lewis Morris, 1886, and Stuart Rendel, 1889.

A scribbling tablet in the hand of J. H. Davies containing annotated lists of: (A) letters, 1748-68, of Lewis Morris ('Llywelyn Ddu o Fôn'; 1701-65) in the possession of his great-grandson, Sir Lewis Morris (1833-1907) ('Received the above letters from Sept. 6 1756 inclusive. T. V. Roberts'; 'Received all the above letters from T. V. Roberts on Sept. 30th 1903. J. H. Davies') and (B) letters, 1728-64, of the Morris brothers and of their nephew John Owen and others, in the possession of J. H. Davies ('obtained from D. Silvan Evans Coll[ectio]n and originally from Rev. J. Blackwell thro Mr Kirkham, Llanbrynmair'); and some miscellaneous biographical notes.

Certificates and other documents of, or relating to, John Thomas, 1841-1913, and his wife, Joan Frances Thomas, 1885-1926, including Royal Academy of Music reports of John Thomas, 1841-1845, and certificates of his appointment as Harpist in Ordinary, 1872, and as Musician in Ordinary, 1885, to Queen Victoria; accounts, notes, lists, and other memoranda relating to his concerts, 1852-1905; draft autobiographical notes by John Thomas, [c. 1879]; poems and songs, in English and Welsh, including a 'Bridal Ode on the Marriage of The Prince of Wales to The Princess Alexandra of Denmark, March 10th, 1863', by John Jones (Talhaiarn), and Ode on the marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of York and H.S.H. Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, July 6th, 1893, by Lewis Morris; and other miscellaneous items.

Includes letters from: Lewis Morris (1); [Lord] Mostyn [Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn] (9); [Lord] Mostyn [Edward Llewelyn Roger Lloyd-Mostyn]

Letters addressed to William Hobley and others by Frederick Dally, Wolverhampton, 1900; R. Davies, Treborth, 1889; John R. Davies, Bangor, 1924; J. H. Davies, Aberystwyth, 1912; Ellis Edwards, Bala, 1905-1910, Thomas Charles Edwards, Liverpool, Aberystwyth and Bala, 1872-1894; Roger Edwards, Mold, 1881; Thomas Edward Ellis, 1898; J. R. Furness, Conway, 1893; T. W. Griffith, Llandudno, 1897; John H. Hobley, New York and Chicago, 1886-1899; R. Humphreys, Liverpool; W. H. Hume Humphreys, Australia, 1927; E. Penllyn Jones, Aberystwyth, 1897; Francis H. Jones, London, 1900; T. M. Jones, Prestatyn, 1930; J. T. A. Jones, Bala, 1901; John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), 1910; J. Puleston Jones, 1902-1924; Richard Jones, Llaneurgain, 1905; R[hys] B[evan] Jones, Porth, 1919; [Sir] Henry Lewis, 1904; E. I. Lloyd, Aberystwyth, 1905; John Lloyd, Wallaroo, 1898; Owen Lloyd, Caergwrle, 1898; Hugh Hughes, 1823; T. G. Crippen, London, 1904; A. Hobley, Randolph, 1891; John Davies, London, 1883; R. M. Davies, Bagillt; R. Ellis ('Cynddelw'), 1870; J. Gwenogvryn Evans; John Hughes, Islington, 1887; Selina, Countess of Huntington (autograph signature) to the congregation at Ely Chapel, 19 May 1790; Thomas Hughes, Chester, 1883; David Jenkins, Islington, 1878; Evan Doged Jones; Robert Jones, Llanfair, 1833; James Rhys Kilsby Jones, London, 1864; Howell Elvet Lewis, Hull; Mary Manuel, Llanover, 1878; M. F. Lloyd, Nannerch, 1879; S. A. Maude, Ruthin; R. Morgan, Beaumaris, 1872; Sir Lewis Morris, 1889; John Owen, Southport, 1916-1919; Robert O. Owens, Caernarvon, 1799, (concerning the distribution of Bibles); Alice Gray Jones ('Ceridwen Peris'); Eben Rees, Liverpool, 1883; Morgan John Rhys, Washington, 1795 (a copy of a part of a letter relating to John Evans and his journey up the Missouri); David Roberts, Wrexham, 1872; J. Ll. Roberts, Llanrwst, 1907; John Roberts, Tyddyn Willim, 1859; J. J. Roberts, Portmadoc; Samuel Roberts, 1881; R. R. Richards, Caerwys, 1829, with a copy of 'englynion Llys Ifor Hael' by Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir'); William Roberts, Timmalin, 1799; J. R. Williams, Pwllheli, 1898; W. J. Williams, Salford, 1871; Griffith Williams, Llannor, 1834; William Williams, Llangollen, 1898; Peter Williams, to David Jones, Llangan; L. P. Wynne Yorke, Dyffryn Aled; Thomas Thomas, Pontypridd, 1885; Owen Thomas, Liverpool, Tregeiriog, 1880; John Owen, Bala, 1906; John Owen, West Kirby, 1925; Owen J. Owen, Birkenhead, 1908; John Owens ('Ap Glaslyn'); J. Pritchard, Birmingham, 1908; H. Morgan Pugh, Carmel, 1906; J. E. Quinn, Bangor, 1921; D. Gwynedd Roberts, Conway, 1910; Robert Roberts, Llanbeblig, 1920; John Roberts, Bangor, 1895-1896; Morris Thomas, Bangor, 1910; John Thomas ('Eifionydd'), 1902; John Owen Thomas, Menai Bridge, 1902; R. Thomas, Talsarnau, 1909; [Sir] Ifor Williams, 1908; Isaac Jones Williams, Llandderfel, 1908; Hugh Williams, Bala, 1900; M. Williams, Bala-deulyn; W. Elias Williams, Pen-y-groes, 1922; H. Cernyw Williams, Corwen, 1904; Henry Jones Williams ('Plenydd'), 1910-1921; John Richard Williams ('Tryfanwy'), and others.

Letters, 1893-1926, to J. H. Davies on literary and academic matters. The correspondents include Charles Ashton, 1893, J. Kyrle Fletcher, undated, E. A. Lewis, 1909, Sir John Edward Lloyd, 1897, Lewis Morris, 1906, D. Rhys Phillips (4), 1906-1919, Bernard Quaritch, 1918, Thomas Shankland (2), 1906-1912, Walter Spurrell, 1914, and Mortimer Wheeler, 1926.

Miscellaneous letters, 1849-1894, many of them to William Davies, M.P., among the correspondents being C. F. Egerton Allen, David Davies (Llandinam), Sir Marteine Lloyd (Bronwydd), and Sir Lewis Morris.

Three holograph letters:- from William Herbert, 2nd marquis of Powis, to ----, [174-]; John Parry ('Bardd Alaw') to the editor of The Literary Gazette, [18]22, mentioning that Mrs Hemans has written some fine words for the writer, etc.; and [Sir] Lewis Morris [of Penbryn, Carmarthenshire] to Otto Goldschmidt, [18]98 (comments on music composed by the recipient to verses by the writer).

Fifty-eight letters and cards, 1889-1953, fifty-five of which, 1889-1948, were sent to Sir W. Goscombe John from various correspondents including sculptors, artists, statesmen and politicians, relating mainly to his career as a sculptor and to honours bestowed on him.
The correspondents include H. H. Asquith, 1910 (ff. 4-5), Lilian Baylis, 1929 (ff. 7-8), James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, 1912-1913 (ff. 12-14), George Clausen, 1898-1899 (ff. 15-18), Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, 1912 (ff. 19-20), Sir Cyril Fox, 1940-1948 (ff. 34-35), George Frampton, 1907 (f. 36), David Lloyd George, 1910 (ff. 39-40, 42), Alfred Gilbert, 1899 (ff. 43-44), Edmund Gosse, 1899, 1919 (ff. 45-48), Augustus John, 1928 (f. 49), Edward Burne-Jones, [1889], [?1893] (ff. 53-55), Sir Lewis Morris, 1899 (ff. 58-59), Sir Edward J. Poynter, 1917 (f. 63), Auguste Rodin, [1902] (f. 66), John Singer Sargent, [?1907] (f. 70), John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquis of Bute, 1937 (ff. 75-76), and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1890-1911 (ff. 77-80). Also included is a note in the hand of King George V, 1911 (f. 38), copy letters from Goscombe John to David Lloyd George, 1910 (f. 41), and Queen Mary, 1932 (f. 57), and one letter, 1953, to his daughter, Mrs Muriel Fildes, from D. Dilwyn John of the National Museum of Wales (f. 50).

The third of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Leone Levi, W. F. Maitland, John Matthews (Aberystwyth), Edward Miall, Sir George Osborne Morgan, Samuel Morley, Sir Lewis Morris, William Morris (Kelmscott), A. J. Mundella, Thomas Nicholas, R. Barry O'Brien, Sir Hugh Owen, Frédéric Passy, Auguste Pierantoni, Lyon Playfair, Sir Henry Ponsonby, J. H. Puleston, Alexander Raleigh, Stuart (afterwards baron) Rendel, James H. Rigg, Sir Owen Roberts, Lady Frances Russell, G. W. E. Russell, Pietro Sparturo (Naples), John Poyntz [Spencer], fifth earl Spencer, Herbert Spencer, Edward Lyulph [Stanley], fourth baron Stanley of Alderley and fourth baron Sheffield, W. Co[w]per Temple, J[ohn] Thomas (editor of Y Tyst Cymreig), Jos[eph] Thompson, G. O. Trevelyan, Cypri[e]n Valton (Turin) and J. Carvel Williams.

Letters, 1872-80, to Edward Breese from Robert Jones (Rotherhithe), Thomas W. Hancock, Sir Lewis Morris, J.O. Halliwell [Phillips], Brinley Richards, and Robert Williams (Rhydycroesau).

The correspondents include: Arthur Mee, 1892, Sir Lewis Morris (23), 1901-1907, and Gilbert Murray, 1921.

Twenty-nine letters, April-May 1896, discussing the proposed establishment of a Welsh (or Cymric) Institute as a meeting place for the Welsh in London. The letters are addressed to T. J. Evans as editor of the London Kelt (Celt Llundain), in which some were subsequently published.
The correspondents (listed on f. 59) include A. C. Humphreys-Owen (ff. 26-27), J. E. Morris (ff. 32-33), Sir Lewis Morris (ff. 34-35), Isambard Owen (ff. 36-37), J. Bryn Roberts (ff. 48-49), J. Herbert Roberts (f. 50), Sir John Williams (f. 55), W. Llewelyn Williams (ff. 56-58) and other prominent London Welshmen and Welsh MPs.

The correspondence, 1885-1926, is very varied and reflects closely many facets of Welsh public, cultural and intellectual life during this period. There are a large number of invitations to J. H. Davies to attend various meetings, events and occasions and to deliver public lectures in Wales and beyond. He is often invited to subscribe to books and journals and to contribute to a large number of charities and worthy causes. -- After Davies's appointment as Registrar of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1905, a large number of the letters relate to the college: its development, expansion, departments, academic staff, the convention of public lectures etc. A number of letters also concern the establishment and the early development of the National Library of Wales: its location at Aberystwyth, its building appeal fund, and the grant of a royal charter. -- Many of the letters are from academics, both historians and literary scholars, who write to J. H. Davies concerning their researches and writings. Welsh manuscripts and printed works feature prominently in the letters. There is a particular interest in his work on the Welsh ballads and his researches on Morgan Llwyd and Lewis Morris. -- Some letters concern the Calvinistic Methodist connexion and others the Church in Wales, especially the deliberations of the contentious Welsh Church Commission, set up in 1906, of which J. H. Davies was a member. There are also a few letters devoted to legal matters, particularly the running of the Cwrt Mawr estate. Several also concern local events and developments in the Tregaron-Llangeitho locality. A few of the correspondents are engaged in local history and family history research.

Includes letters from Lewis Morris (3), Eleanor Hull, T. Fisher Unwin, Harry Speight, J. Strachan (2), H. R. Reichel (2), Paul Vinogradoff, R. A. Stewart Macalister (6), Goddard H. Orpen (3), T. Mansel Franklen (10), D. Lloyd George, Rowland Ellis, Robert Cochrane (2), W. Warde Fowler (2, one enclosing a letter from Georg Wissowa), Marcus N. Tod, E. S. Dodgson (16), Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington (Earl Carrington), A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (7), J. Glyn Davies (5), Norman Lockyer (2), J. H. Hessels, Betha Hills-Johnes, J. Jenkins ('Gwili'), James Hastings, Robert Mowat, P. M. C. Kermode (6), Kuno Meyer (2), W. R. Morfill (2), Hugh Williams (2), F. Haverfield (3), Edward Clodd (4), E. Maunde Thompson, E. Sidney Hartland, Patrick Lyons (9), John Beddoe, John Williams, E. Lorimer Thomas, John Garstang, Julio de Urquijo, Otto Franke, Camille Jullian (6), B. Nogara, O. A. Danielsson, E. Vincent Evans, H. Gaidoz, Émile Espérandieu, Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (2), George Eley Halliday, W. H. Preece, Douglas Hyde, T. H. Thomas (14), E. P. Wright (2), Maurice FitzGerald (Duke of Leinster), W. Baldwin Spencer, S. H. Butcher, A. W. Howitt, J. Romilly Allen (4), T. Herbert Warren, Alfred P. Graves (2), E. C. Quiggin, E. Ch. Babut, W. H. Stevenson, D. Brynmor Jones (2), F. Carruthers Gould (2), Paul Meyer, T. C. Evans ('Cadrawd') (2), J. Mortimer Angus, William Osler, W. Llewelyn Williams, W. Temple (2), Francis J. Jayne, John Edward Lloyd, Martin Hume (2), Henry Owen, Frederick York Powell, Evan Jones ('Ieuan Buallt'), and Marcus Hartog.

Includes letters from J. Gwenogvryn Evans, E. Maunde Thompson, A. S. Green, Heinrich Zimmer, E. S. Dodgson (2), James A. H. Murray (3), Henry Bradley, F. Haverfield (2), Theodore Roosevelt, George G. T. Treherne (2), F. C. Conybeare, C. E. Doble, John Herbert James (3), D. B. Monro, George Goschen (Viscount Goschen), D. Brynmor Jones (4), I. Gollancz, E. W. B. Nicholson (5), Wentworth Webster (2), Arthur G. Langdon, Edmund Lechmere, Alfred L. Jones, W. R. Morfill, Edgar Jones, Alfred Anscombe (2), W. P. Ker, D. Lloyd George, Randall Davidson (2), F. C. Burkitt, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Alfred Daniell, William Boyle, Spencer Walpole, John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (2), Edward Owen (2), G. Hartwell Jones, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, T. Marchant Williams, W. H. Preece (3), David James ('Defynog'), Fanny Bulkeley-Owen, Henry Owen, E. Lorimer Thomas, W. Hawker Hughes, Horace Hart, Goddard H. Orpen (2), Daniel Rees, Charles E. Breese (4), A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (4), H. R. Reichel, A. Sidgwick, Edward Anwyl (2), Laurence Gomme, Henri Gaidoz, William B. Halhed, J. B. Bury (2), J. Romilly Allen, and Lewis Morris (2).

Includes letters from D. Rhys Jones, J. Viriamu Jones, Henry Owen, W. A. Craigie (6), John Lloyd Warden Page (3), A. S. Green (enclosing a letter from Lord Dillon), Augusta Herbert, Llewellyn N. V. Lloyd-Mostyn (4), J. Romilly Allen (3), E. W. B. Nicholson (6), Rudolf Thurneysen, A. M. Fairbairn, Alfred G. Edwards (4), John R. Mowbray (9), John Owen (9), Francis J. Jayne (4), William Jones (2), Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (7), Edward B. Tylor, John T. D. Llewelyn, G. O. Morgan (3), A. C. Humphreys-Owen (3), William N. Bruce, W. Tudor Howell, J. Herbert Lewis, William Abraham ('Mabon'), J. Bryn Roberts, D. Brynmor Jones (2), Edward Jenkins, Frederick York Powell, Daniel Rees (2), Betha Hills-Johnes, Watkin Williams ('Watcyn Wyn'), H. W. Williams (5), James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, E. Sidney Hartland (2), Magnus Maclean (2), Malcolm Macfarlane, A. G. Boscawen (2), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Viscount Cranborne), John Hobson Matthews, Owen Owen, J. H. Rose, F. Victor Dickins, Frederick T. Elworthy (2), Charles Roeder (4), Lewis Morris, H. Augusta Mostyn, Edward Laws, S. A. D'Arcy, P. M. C. Kermode, John Griffiths, Ellis Pierce ('Elis o'r Nant'), Eduard Wölfflin, Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (3), R. Williams, John Williams, and C. H. Firth.

Includes letters from J. H. Davies, William Jones, Thomas Gray, Patrick Lyons (4), Lewis Morris (2), Lloyd Tyrell Kenyon, Osborn J. Bergin (3), H. W. Williams, Wilfred Ward (2), Edward Anwyl (2), Paul Meyer (2), D. H. Madden, Richard Ellis, J. B. Bury (2), H. R. Reichel, I. Gollancz, Henry Jones, J. H. Adeane, Robert Cochrane (4), John Healy, Goddard H. Orpen (4), J. Strachan, Michael Beary (3), Ernest Rhys, Edmund Hogan (2), John I. D. Nicholl (2), Henry Bradley, E. B. Poulton, Edward Owen (4), Karl Blind, Henry H. Howorth, F. C. Conybeare, W. Trevor Parkins, T. A. Archer, Richard Henebry, Hugh Williams, John Thomas ('Eifionydd') (3), Charles W. Dilke, R. A. Stewart Macalister, A. W. Moore, W. M. Lindsay, Robinson Ellis (2), Thomas Powel, Gilbert Goudie (2), John Abercromby (2), Thomas J. Westropp (2), D. R. Thomas (5), Alfred Neobard Palmer, A. H. Sayce (2), T. Marchant Williams, T. F. Roberts, Augusta Herbert, Theodor Mommsen, E. S. Dodgson (2), Wentworth Webster, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (2), E. K. Jones (3), Henry Owen, F. T. Barry (3), J. Fisher, Francis Jenkinson (2), W. Boyd Dawkins (2, one enclosing a letter from E. K. Jones), R. H. Charles (2), Arthur G. Langdon, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, D. Brynmor Jones, F. C. Burkitt (2), Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke), and Paul Vinogradoff.