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An album containing book-plates and book labels, 18th-20th centuries, mainly of members of various prominent Welsh and English families, including those of George Rice, 2nd baron Dynevor, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd marquis of Bute, Herbert Vaughan, Llangoedmore, Sir Thomas Bonsall, Fronfraith, and Sir John Williams, Plas Llanstephan.

Letters addressed mainly to John Davies. The correspondents include Joseph K. Aston, Bounty Office, 1897; T[homas] W[illiam] Barker, Carmarthen, 1911; David D[aniel] Evans, Llandysul, 1911; T[homas] A[llen] Glenn, Prestatyn; Annie James, Rhiwgoy, near Rhoshill (concerning William Mathias, with two of his ballads entitled Can Newydd yn gosod allan Dwyll, Hoceth, ac Annghariad and Profiad Ffarmwr ar ol Gadael Ffarmwriaeth); G. Griffiths, Chepstow; A. G. C. Rice, Swansea, 1926; Mrs J. Morris, Aberystwyth, 1915; Lucy E[llen] Lloyd Theakston, Llanrhôs, 1918; Herbert M[illingchamp] Vaughan [1920]; Richard Williams, Newtown, 1898; and G[eorge] E[dgar] P[ropert] Williams, Haverfordwest, 1923.

One hundred and fifty-nine autograph letters and postcards, and a few Christmas cards, 1904, addressed principally to George Eyre Evans and primarily of Unitarian and genealogical interest.
Among the correspondents are Frances Power Cobbe; Richard Ellis, Oxford; Walter Jenkin Evans; Henry Harold Hughes, Bangor; William James, Llandysul; Morgan Hugh Jones, Carmarthen; Rees Jenkin Jones, Aberdare; William Tudor Jones, Swansea; Lewes Thomas Loveden Pryse, Gogerddan; Edith Spurrell; Daniel Lleufer Thomas; and Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan. Also included are notes by Walter Jenkin Evans on Bridgend and Bettws Unitarian (previously Congregational) churches; a printed poem in English by Evan Ceredig Jones, 1904; and an index to the entire volume prepared by George Eyre Evans in January 1905.

Miscellaneous transcripts, abstracts, and extracts relating to Montgomeryshire, including transcripts or abstracts of entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1661-1761, of marriages, 1813-1837, and of baptisms, 1813-1897, from the registers of the parish of Llanmerewig; abstracts of deeds, 1576-1809, relating to property in Montgomeryshire [extracted from The National Library of Wales Calendar of Deeds and Documents, Vol. 1, The Coleman Deeds (Aberystwyth, 1921)], with additional genealogical notes relating to the parties or witnesses; a transcript of an indenture of mortgage, 20 July 1743, relating to property in the township of Llanryney, parish of Llangerick (also mentioned in this document are property in Ludlow, co. Salop, and a forge or iron mill called Strangworth forge or mill in the parishes of Pembridge and Staunton upon Arrow, co. Hereford); a copy of a letter from Herbert M[illingchamp] Vaughan, to Mr. [John Bancroft] Willans, 1921 (tracing the writer's descent from Richard Herbert of Dolforgan, parish of Kerry, late seventeenth century, enclosing a copy of a document relating to Dorothy, viscountess Lisburne (see next item)); a transcript of a document headed 'Household Accounts of a Welsh Peeress in the XVIIIth century', being an account of the personal and household expenditure in 1744, of Dorothy [dowager] viscountess Lisburne, widow of John Vaughan, 2nd viscount Lisburne, and daughter of Captain Richard Hill of Hemblas [sic], Llanwnog, Montgomeryshire; copious extracts from the English Encyclopaedia (1859); and shorter extracts from Spons Dictionary of Engineering [ed. Oliver Byrne (London, 1869-1874)], fournal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Walter [Hume] Long (viscount Long): Memories . . . [(London, 1923)], and the report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 1834. Included also in the volume are extracts from George Gilbert Ramsay: The Annals of Tacitus ... [An English translation ... (1904)], and Burke's Extinct Peerage (1831).

A notebook containing extracts transcribed by J. H. Davies (a) 'from a Translation of Rent Roll for the Manors &c of the monastery of Strata Florida' [see Cwrtmawr MS 873D] and (b) from a copy of the defendant's answer, 14 May 1743, in a lawsuit between Dorothy, Lady Lisburne, and Wilmot (Vaughan), Viscount Lisburne, containing lists of rents and tenants' names. The original of (b) is inserted loose in the notebook (pp. 1-2 wanting) and there is also a letter to J. H. Davies from Herbert M. Vaughan, Llangoedmore, Cardigan, who was the owner, it seems, of the document. Also within the notebook are observations by S. M. P[owell] headed 'Pant. Tregaron' and beginning 'Some things struck Mr Lloyd and myself in reading your notes.'.

A bound extract (pp. 194-213) [? from Cofnodion a Chyfansoddiadau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1909 (Llundain)] containing the adjudication by J. Arthur Price on an essay competition on the subject of 'The Welsh Jacobites' and the winning essay by Herbert M[illingchamp] Vaughan [of Llangoedmor], together with one page of additional 'Notes' in the hand of the author. Inset is a letter from Herbert M. Vaughan, Llangoedmore to [J. H.] Davies [1914] (covering the presentation of the volume, references to other books in the writer's possession and to the recipient's treasures, an invitation to the recipient to the writer's home). According to an inscription by the author in a similar copy of the work in the National Library of Wales 'Only six copies of this essay ... were printed in this form'.

Includes letters from: Herbert M. Vaughan (7); Christopher Williams (3)

Gohebiaeth, 1939-1942, yn ymwneud ag achos Iorwerth Peate yn wrthwynebydd cydwybodol, yn cynnwys llythyrau gan Idris Bell (8); E. N. Bennett (2); Henry Bird; E. G. Bowen; Aneirin Talfan Davies (7); Clement Davies (llythyr at Robert Evans, Llanbrynmair); George M. Ll. Davies (9); Ithel Davies; Leonard Twiston Davies (17); Pennar Davies; Walter Dowding (3); Ifan ab Owen Edwards; T. I. Ellis (7); D. Owen Evans (9); Gwynfor Evans (2); Robert Evans, Llanbrynmair (5, ynghyd â dau lythyr ato gan Clement Davies); H. J. Fleure (10); R. L. Gapper; David Lloyd George; William George (3); Charles Green (3); Ll. Wyn Griffith (7); J. Gwyn Griffiths; Jim Griffiths (6); W. J. Gruffydd; W. F. Grimes (3); I. D. Hooson; D. R. Hughes (3); J. G. Moelwyn Hughes (4); Ronw Moelwyn Hughes (8, yn eu plith mae dau lythyr at 'Mr Jones'); Harold A. Hyde (3); Norah Isaac; R. T. Jenkins (3); William John (3); E. K. Jones (5, ynghyd â thorion o'r wasg yn trafod yr achos); E. P. Jones (19, yn eu plith mae llythyrau gan Jim Griffiths a John Harries (Irlwyn)); Frank Price Jones (4); Gwilym R. Jones; T. Gwynn Jones (3); David Lewis (8); Elena Puw Morgan; Herbert Morgan (2); John Morgan (2); Frank Murphy (2); J. Middleton Murry (2); T. E. Nicholas (10); R. G. Owen (4); R. Williams Parry; Tom Parry (8); T. K. Penniman (28); D. O. Roberts (4); Evan Roberts (10); Hywel D. Roberts; R. U. Sayce (2); Alf Sommerfelt (2); Ben Bowen Thomas (5); Herbert M. Vaughan (2); D. J. Williams (4); Ifor Williams (3); J. L. C. Cecil-Williams (9); a Morris T. Williams. -- Yn ogystal, mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys papurau amrywiol yn ymwneud â'r achos yn cynnwys llythyrau gan Cyril Fox (20); cefnogaeth i achos Iorwerth Peate gan amryw unigolion a sefydliadau, yn eu plith tystlythyrau gan Leonard Twiston-Davies, W. J. Gruffydd a George M. Ll. Davies; datganiadau gan Iorwerth Peate; a deunydd printiedig.