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Watkins, Percy E. (Percy Emerson), Sir, 1871-1946
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Miscellaneous letters,

A letter, 1857, from Evan Evans, Pant, Southbend, Minesota [sic], written in Welsh to an unnamed friend (the beginning of the Welsh settlement at Southbend, reference to various persons in, and from, Cardiganshire) (a transcript of this letter has been made), and letters to Principal J. H. Davies from W. J. Hemp, Ancient Monuments Board for Wales, 1926 (1) (notice of a meeting, with enclosure), Herbert Johnes Lloyd, Croydon Rectory, Royston, 1923-4 (2) (mention of an evening at Cwm and of various books) and Percy E. Watkins and Jenkin James, W.E.A.: Welsh District, Cardiff, 1924 (1) (the addressee's subscription to the W.E.A.).

W. J. Gruffydd

Gohebiaeth, 1928-1952, rhwng Iorwerth Peate a W. J. Gruffydd. Yn eu plith ceir llythyrau gan Jim Griffiths, William George, a H. J. Fleure; llawysgrif o ddarllediad W. J. Gruffydd, 'Yeoman's English' (1935); torion yn ymwneud ag erthygl W. J. Gruffydd 'The case against a National Council of Education for Wales', 1935; a llythyrau yn trafod achos Iorwerth Peate yn wrthwynebydd cydwybodol. -- Yn ogystal, mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys papurau, 1942-1943 a 1945, yn ymwneud ag ymgyrch etholiadol W. J. Gruffydd ar gyfer sedd Prifysgol Cymru yn y senedd, gan gynnwys llythyrau gan E. G. Bowen; David Davies (2); D. J. Llewelfryn Davies (4); E. Tegla Davies; Clement Davies; Leonard Twiston-Davies; D. Owen Evans; D. Tecwyn Evans (2); David Lloyd George (telegram); William Thomas Havard; Ernest Hughes; R. T. Jenkins (2); W. Goscombe John; E. K. Jones (4); Tom Jones (2); Thomas Artemus Jones; John Edward Lloyd; J. Dyfnallt Owen; Thomas Parry; Percy E. Watkins; J. Lloyd Williams; a Stephen J. Williams. Ceir hefyd ddatganiadau wedi'u harwyddo yn cefnogi ymgeisyddiaeth W. J. Gruffydd; anerchiadau etholiadol; a deunydd amrywiol, yn cynnwys cofnodion cyfarfodydd Pwyllgor Lleol Caerdydd i gefnogi W. J. Gruffydd, a thaflenni printiedig.

Gruffydd, W. J. (William John), 1881-1954

General letters to O. M. Edwards

The file includes letters from Edward Anwyl, Bishop A. G. Edwards, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog') (3), Timothy Lewis, Henry G. Maurice, W. J. Parry, J. F. Rees, and Percy E. Watkins.

Anwyl, E. (Edward), 1866-1914

Letters: Vaughan- Zimmern,

The correspondents include: Herbert M. Vaughan (10), 1914-1925, T. J. Waddingham, Plas Hafod (2), 1922, Morgan Watkin (10), 1915-1925, Percy E. Watkins, 1916, Charles Webster (9), 1922-1926, Dame Olive Wheeler (2), 1925 and undated, and Professor A. E. Zimmern (7), 1919-1920 and undated.

Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp), 1870-1948

Letters: Cambridge-Cunliffe,

The correspondents include: Carneddog (4), 1904-1921, Edgar L. Chappell (Welsh Housing and Development Association) (3), 1916-1917, Gwilym Cowlyd (5), 1898-1899, and Percy E. Watkins, Central Welsh Board, 1903.

Carneddog, 1861-1947

Sir Ben Bowen Thomas Papers,

  • GB 0210 BENMAS
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1977 /

Papers of Sir Ben Bowen Thomas (1899-1977), educationalist and public servant, comprising autobiographical material on his career, interests and family, 1954-1972; biographical articles and an interview, 1964-1966; letters to his wife and daughter with references to his work with UNESCO and Welsh educational matters, 1947-1960; letters from Dr Thomas Jones and Sir Percy E. Watkins relating to educational issues and Coleg Harlech, 1926-1955; correspondence concerning BBT's work with UNESCO, 1954-1962; miscellaneous correspondence, 1948-1976; addresses and speech notes, 1949-1977; pamphlets, offprints and articles, 1941-1973; research notes on regions and towns of Wales during the 18th and 19th centuries; circulars, articles, reports, etc. relating to education and educational bodies in Wales, 1942-1975, to UNESCO, 1946-1958, and to public and cultural bodies such as the Welsh Language Council, ITA and the Rural Development Board, 1965-1973; McNair Report on the Training of Teachers, 1942-3; memorials, tributes and obituaries of other educationalists; and miscellaneous press cuttings and notes. The archive also includes a collection of sermon notes and exercise books of his grandfather, the Rev. Benjamin Thomas, (1838-1913), a Baptist minister in Ystrad Rhondda, Glamorgan.

Thomas, Ben Bowen, 1899-1977

School broadcasts in Wales,

  • NLW MS 11110E
  • File
  • 1931-1933.

Material relating to the introduction of school broadcasts in Wales, and in particular to the case for establishing a Welsh Sub-Committee of the Central Council for School Broadcasting. The papers include autograph letters, 1931-3, to W. Lloyd Pierce, Llanfair Caereinion (for the National Union of Teachers), from the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Central Council for School Broadcasting, and Wm. George, Criccieth; undated memoranda by W. Lloyd Pierce and Sir Percy Watkins; minutes of the Central Council for School Broadcasting and of the Welsh Sub-Committee, 1932-3; etc.

Letters to the Reverend D. E. Jenkins,

Thirty-four letters, etc., from [the Reverend] J[ames] Spinther James [Baptist minister and historian], Llandudno, 1906 (3) (information concerning [the Reverend] David Jones [Baptist minister], ob. 1792, his wife Hannah, and his connection with [the Reverend] P[eter] W[illiams, Methodist cleric, ob. 1796] and the publication of the 'Beibl bach' [a Welsh edition of the 'Little Bible' of John Canne] in 1790, biographical notes on Lewis Richards of Llanbadarnfawr [co. ], who emigrated to America, and became co-founder and pastor of a Baptist church in Baltimore, 1785), [the Reverend] J[ohn] D[aniel] James, Cadoxton Vicarage, Neath, 1906 (a record of the burial at Cadoxton in 1820 of the Rev[erend] W[illia]m Williams, vicar of the parish, 1814-1820), R[obert] T[homas] Jenkins [head of the Department (aft. professor) of Welsh History], University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1936 (information required by the writer concerning the connection between [the Reverend] Peter Williams [Methodist cleric, ob. 1796] and Pibwr [Lwyd, co. Carmarthen], and concerning a supposed biography of [the Reverend] William Williams [ob. 1820, curate of St. Gennys, Cornwall, in the late 18th century], the writer's work on the Moravians in North Wales [The Moravian Brethren in North Wales, being vol. XLV of Y Cymmrodor, 1938]), Catherine Jones, Aberdovey, [19]03 (2) (information concerning the descendants of Jane Thomas of Lower Court Farm [parish of Llanfihangel Abercywyn, co. Carmarthen], sister of the Reverend Thomas Charles), Charles W. F. Jones [London] and Ipswich, 1907 (2) ( information concerning the Rev[erend] Hezekiah Jones [ob. 1833], the writer's grandfather), [the Reverend] D[avid] Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], Rhuddlan, 1911 (financial matters relating to the writer's church at Rhuddlan), E. Clwyd Jones, Rhyl, [19]26 (matters relating to recipient's superannuation benefit), [the Reverend] Edward Jones, Llangynhafal Rectory, 1906 (the date of burial of the Rev[erend] David Hughes (ob. 1817), one time rector of Llangynhafal), Eirene [Lloyd Jones, later White], St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Thanet, [19]25 (the writer's illness, books read during her illness, her opinion that 'Winston [Churchill] can write magnificently', the illness of [her brother] Elphin, the start made by her father [Dr. Thomas Jones, C. H. See below] on 'his history of Wales during the war', an invitation to her father to write 4000 words on Ll[oyd] G[eorge] in the Encyclopaedia Britannica), Eirene T[heodora] Jones [mother of the previous correspondent], St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Westminster, and Gregynog (Newtown), [19]33 (3) (the illness of the writer's husband [Dr. Thomas Jones, C.H. See below] and his stay at Ruthin Castle, their daughter Eirene's travels in the United States of America and Canada, their son Tristan's activities at Balliol [College], Oxford, a meeting of the trustees of the Elphin Memorial Scholarship, a visit by Thomas Jones to Bargoed to see the newly formed occupational centre for the unemployed, the Pilgrim Trust and its connection with the Nat[iona]l Council of Social Service, the undertaking by [Sir] Percy Watkins [Secretary, Welsh Department of the National Council of Social Service, 1933-1938] of visits to the unemployment areas previously undertaken by Thomas Jones, the appointment of new controllers of the Gregynog Press, plans for temporary expansion at Coleg Harlech to accommodate 30 to 40 additional students from amongst the unemployed to be trained as leaders of occupational centres), [the Reverend] J[ohn] Jones, Llandegla Rectory, Mold, 1905 (2) (a note on [the Reverend] Simon Lloyd, curate of Llandegla, 1783-1788), John Jones, Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth, 1930 (the illness of the writer's niece), the Rev[erend] J[ohn] D[avid] Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], Gellifor, Ruthin, 1913 (2) (plans ? in connection with church buildings), Kitty Idwal Jones, Swansea, undated (personal, the disappearance of the literary MSS. of [the Reverend] Thomas Jones [1756- 1820, Calvinistic Methodist minister]), [the Reverend] M[organ] H[ugh] Jones, Trevecca College, Talgarth, 1907 (enclosing a copy of a letter from [the Reverend] Peter Williams [Methodist cleric], from Caerfyrddyn, to Messures Roberts, Moses, & Co., Trevecca, 1789, relating to the proofs, etc. [of the edition of the Bible which the writer was preparing in conjunction with the Reverend David Jones. See letter from the Reverend James Spinther James above]) (the original Peter Williams letter is now Trevecka Letter 2760 amongst the C.M. archives in the National Library of Wales), the Rev[erend] Richard E. Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], from Porthcawl, [19]25 (attempts to build up a Sunday School library in the writer's church at Clydach, near Swansea, the possibility of help from the Rebecca Hussey charity, congratulations to recipient on his great biography [of the Reverend Thomas Charles]), T. Griffith Jones, Llansantffraid, [co.] Mont[gomery], 1916 (a query the writer had received concerning the diary of Richard Tibbott [1719-1798, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and Congregational minister], which he had sold to recipient), Tom Jones [Dr. Thomas Jones, C.H., Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, 1916- 1930, Secretary of the Pilgrim Trust, 1930-1945], London, 1924-1932 (4) (personal, family news, an offer to recipient of a grant from the Civil List, the distinction [degree of D.Litt.] which the University of Liverpool was about to confer upon recipient in 1932), Tom and Eirene T. Jones [Dr. Thomas Jones, as in the four preceding letters, and his wife], [London] and Sandwich, 1928-1929 (2) (personal), and W[illiam] Garmon Jones, [associate professor of History and] librarian, The University of Liverpool, 1932 (3) (recipient's application to be admitted to the degree of DLitt. of the University).

Educational papers: letters, 1907-1918

The file contains letters to J. E. Powell from E. Anwyl, O. M. Edwards, Evan William Evan, David Lloyd George, Henry Lewis, John Herbert Lewis, Sir Harry Reichel, Sir John Herbert Roberts and Percy E. Watkins.

Anwyl, E. (Edward), 1866-1914