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Correspondence dating from the establishment of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association in 1943 to 2021, mainly to and from Welsh Beekeepers' Association officials - who include J[ohn] E[mrys] Anwyl (Honorary Secretary), J. H. Ball (Honorary Secretary, later Honorary Editor), John E. Lancaster (Honorary Secretary), Mr D. A. Thomas (Honorary Secretary), Commander Eric George Verge (Honorary Secretary), Wally Shaw, Tom Rowlands (President), Lynfa Davies (Secretary), John Page (Secretary) and Lynda Christie (Chair) (tendering her resignation from her post) - and other members, writing either as individuals or as representatives of their respective county/district beekeepers' associations. Other correspondents include the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (see also under Royal Welsh Agricultural Society correspondence within this archive); the Forestry Commission; the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF); the National Library of Wales; the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD); the Welsh Office; the Council of National Beekeeping Associations (CONBA); the (then) Welsh Assembly Government (one of the correspondents being Elin Jones, who at the time was the Assembly's Minister for Rural Affairs); the Food Standards Agency (Wales) (Asiantaeth Safonau Bwyd (Cymru)); and various Welsh county councils and education authorities/committees. Topics of discussion include Association membership, the appointment of Association officers, bee diseases and the environmental effects of crop spraying and other forms of pollution on the health and wellbeing of bees.
Correspondence relating to the deposit of Welsh Beekeepers Association records at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth includes a letter, 25 July 2014, from then Chief Executive and Librarian Aled Gruffydd Jones informing John Page of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association that WBKA papers held at the Library had been destroyed by fire in April 2013 (see note in main section of archive).
Correspondence with the National Library and undated correspondence kept in marked envelopes in box labelled '1969-2021'.

Together with folder of correspondence, 1969-1972, between the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (kept in separate box from remainder of correspondence material).

Correspondence on topics such as insurance policies and claims, festivals and shows, grant applications, training and assessment and conferences and summer schools may be found under their relevant headings within this archive.

Mae amryw o'r gohebwyr yn llongyfarch Gwynfor Evans ar ail-gipio etholaeth Sir Gaerfyrddin yn etholiad seneddol Hydref 1974./Many of the correspondents write to congratulate Gwynfor Evans on re-capturing Carmarthenshire in the general election of October 1974. Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: D. J. Bowen, Wyn Calvin; Syr/Sir Goronwy Daniel; Athro/Professor Alun Davies, Abertawe/Swansea; Dewi Eirug Davies; Per Denez; Nicholas Edwards; Mari Ellis; Meg Ellis; D. Simon Evans; Raymond Garlick; W. R. P. George; R. E. Griffith; J. Gwyn Griffiths (2); R. Geraint Gruffydd; Dr Goronwy Alun Hughes; Norah Isaac; Mari James; David Jenkins; Derec Llwyd Morgan; Deulwyn Morgan; John Morris AS/MP; Jack Oliver, Emrys Bennett Owen; Dewi Watkin Powell; Alwyn D. Rees; Brinley Richards, Eigra Lewis Roberts; Elan Closs Stephens; Jeremy Thorpe; Gwyn Williams, Trefenter.

Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: Cassie Davies; Ithel Davies; T. I. Ellis; Roy Hattersley; Dr David Jenkins; E. D. Jones; Dr Gareth Morgan Jones; Derec Llwyd Morgan; John Morris; B. G. Owens (2); Iorwerth C. Peate; George Thomas; Ned Thomas; Eirene White; Gordon Wilson.

Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: D. J. Bowen (2); Syr/Sir Goronwy Daniel (2); Alun Talfan Davies (2); Dr Noëlle Davies; Mari Ellis; Syr/Sir Charles Evans; Raymond Garlick; R. E. Griffith; Peter Hughes Griffiths (6); Mathonwy Hughes; David Jenkins (3); Francis Jones, Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen; Athro/Professor Gwyn Jones; R. Brinley Jones; Robyn Lewis (2); D. Tecwyn Lloyd; Thomas Parry; Chris Smith AS/MP; Athro/Professor Brinley Thomas; George Thomas.

Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: Clive Betts; Alun Talfan Davies; Gwilym Prys Davies; Dr Noelle Davies (2); Thomas Charles Edwards; Mari Ellis; R. E. Griffith; Peter Hughes Griffiths (3); Tweli Griffiths; Robat Gruffudd; David Jenkins; Saunders Lewis; Athro/Professor T. J. Morgan; Thomas Parry; Delwyn Phillips (2); Alwyn D. Rees; Ted Rowlands AS/MP; Elan Closs Stephens (3); Ben Bowen Thomas (2); Dafydd Elis Thomas; Dafydd Wigley (3); Jac L. Williams.

Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: D. J. Bowen; Owen Edwards; Peter Hughes Griffiths; Roscoe Howells; Dr David Jenkins; Dr Gareth Morgan Jones (2); Harri Pritchard Jones; Robyn Lewis; Roland Mathias (2); Athro/Professor Glanville Price; Ted Short; Ted Spanswick (2).

Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: Cassie Davies; Gwilym Prys Davies; Ifor Davies AS/MP; Michael Foot; Dafydd Jenkins; Dr Gareth Morgan Jones; Harri Pritchard Jones; Selwyn Lloyd; Alan Butt Philip (3); Alwyn D. Rees (2); John Stonehouse (2).

Letters to Phyllis Playter from Father J. Hamilton C. Johnson (1), 1929; Marianne Moore (1), 1929; Edgar Lee Masters (6), 1930-1932 (typescript copies); Helen Dreiser (1), 1933; Bernard O'Neill (2), 1945; Alan Denson (1), 1955; George F. Sims (1), 1956; John Redwood Anderson (7 letters and 1 postcard), 1959, 1961-1963, his wife Gwyneth Anderson (3), 1963 and undated, and from both John Redwood and Gwyneth Anderson (1), [1963] (references to the death of John Cowper Powys); Mary Truesdale (1),1960; Dorothy May Meech (1), 1960; Kenneth Hopkins (1), 1961; Ichiro Hara (6), 1962, 1964, 1974, 1979; Minoru Akiyama (1), 1962; George Steiner (1), 1962; Brocard Sewell (1), 1963, and Moray McLaren (1), 1963, regarding a proposed radio broadcast of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys's poem 'Ode to the West Wind'; Angus Wilson (1 telegram), 1963 (expressing sympathy on the death of John Cowper Powys); Harold A. Van Kirk (1), 1963; G. Wilson Knight (1), 1964; Harold P. Collins (5),1965-1966; Gerald Pollinger (1), 1975 (with typescript copy of a letter from Phyllis Playter to Gerald Pollinger dated 23 October 1975) (beginning of draft letter to G[erald Pollinger] in Francis Llewellyn Powys's hand on f. 100 verso); and David Jenkins of the National Library of Wales (1), 1979; together with undated letters from Josiah Titzell (1), Gladys Ficke (1), and Fred [ ? ] of Birkenhead. Some of the letters are inscribed with notes by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

The file comprises letters, 1976-1982, addressed to Eirene White, on a wide range of subjects, interspersed in a few cases with drafts or copies of replies from her. The file includes letters from Jennie Eirian Davies, 1979, Sir Julian Hodge, 1980, Dr David Jenkins, Librarian of the National Library of Wales (2), 1977-1978, Ian Grist MP, 1980, George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy, 1980, and Sir Cennydd Traherne, 1980.

The file includes letters from Philip Noel-Baker, 1980, Robert Blake (2), 1980, Fenner Brockway, ?1980, James Callaghan, 1979, Jennie Eirian Davies, 1980, Michael Foot, ?1980, David Jenkins (2), 1978, T. W. Jones, 1978, John W. Morris (Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest), 1978, Dr David Owen, 1979 and Elwyn Roberts, 1980.

Includes letters from Gwynfor Evans, Roy Hattersley (3), David Jenkins, National Library of Wales, and D. Elystan Morgan.

Includes letters from Ivor Roberts-Jones, Tim Jeal, David Jenkins, Will Roberts, W. J. Granville Beynon, Miriam Hughes (2), Douglas Bassett (4), John Ormond, Henry Paget (Marquess of Anglesey), Priscilla Anderson, Paul Manousso, Jack Raymond Jones, Moelwyn Merchant (2), Idris Foster, Delyth Jones, Arthur Giardelli (3), Eiluned Rees, Hugh Casson, and R. Vivian Pitchforth.

Includes letters from Henry Paget (Marquess of Anglesey, 3), John Ormond (4), R. Vivian Pitchforth (3), Laurence Whistler (2), David Jenkins (2), Karl Theodore Parker, John Betjeman, Tim Jeal, Evan Charlton, R. Charles Evans, Bruce Campbell, Eiluned Rees, Bernard Dunstan, and Diana Armfield.

Includes letters from Henry Paget (Marquess of Anglesey, 3), R. Gerallt Jones, Roger de Grey, Ioan Bowen Rees, Moelwyn Merchant (2), Tegid Wyn Jones, Ruth Lambert, Victoria Crowe, Adrian Sorrell, David Griffiths (2), Keith Bowen, Wyn Roberts (3), John Barnie, Jack Raymond Jones, Carel Weight, Alistair Crawford, Eiluned Rees, Bernard Dunstan (2), Elisabeth Beazley (2), David Jenkins, Miriam Hughes, Luned Roberts de González, Piers Rodgers (2), and Patrick Hannan (2).

Includes letters from Elias Owens, Peter Greenham, Laurence Whistler (2), Eirene White, Alastair Panton, Graham Sutherland, Gwilym O. Williams, Henry Paget (Marquess of Anglesey, 2), Fred Uhlman, Lloyd Kenyon (5), Richard Eurich (3), James Fitton, David Jenkins (2), and Ivor Roberts-Jones.

Includes letters from Jack Raymond Jones (2), Gwilym O. Williams, Meic Stephens, Ralph Edwards (4), Franta Belsky, Priscilla Anderson (2), Clough Williams-Ellis, Joan Connell, Ieuan Rees, David Jenkins, Bernard Dunstan, and Diana Armfield.

The file comprises correspondence and papers, 1962-1987, concerning the cataloguing and the use of the extensive Thomas Jones Papers in the custody of the National Library of Wales. Among the projects covered by the correspondence are the publication of the successive volumes of Keith Middlemas (ed.), Thomas Jones Whitehall Diary, 3 vols. (London, 1969-1971), the use of the papers concerning Gregynog, the publication of E. L. Ellis, The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1872-1972 (Cardiff, 1972), the preparation of the biography of Thomas Jones by Dr Ellis, and the donation of the Jones Papers to the National Library in 1984 by Lady White and Mr Tristan Jones. The correspondents include Dr John Davies, 1972, Dr E. L. Ellis (8), 1972-1987, Michael Foot, 1971, John Grigg, 1969, Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd (2), 1983, Dr David Jenkins, 1970, and Tristan Jones (3), 1969-1970.

Llythyrau a phapurau amrywiol, 1970, ar achlysur cyflwyno gradd Doethur mewn Llen, er Anrhydedd, i Iorwerth Peate gan Brifysgol Cymru. Ceir llythyrau gan F. Llewellyn-Jones; J. Gareth Thomas (2); E. G. Bowen; Alun R. Edwards; Sandy Fenton; A. Norman Jeffares; David Jenkins; Frank Price Jones; Hywel D. Lewis; T. A. Owen; Griffith Quick; a Glanmor Williams; ynghyd â chyflwyniad yr Athro T. J. Morgan iddo.

Llythyrau, 1916-1969. Ymhlith y gohebwyr mae Glyn Ifans (7), Norah Isaac (5), Dafydd Iwan (1), H. T. Jacob (5), Carwyn [James] (1), T. J. Jenkin (7), Dafydd Jenkins (21), Dr David Jenkins (4), J. Gwili Jenkins (2), R. T. Jenkins (2), J. T. Job (3) a Noel John (16).

Llythyrau a chardiau cydymdeimlad, 1980-1981, yn dilyn marwolaeth Dafydd Peate. Yn eu plith mae rhai gan Douglas Bassett; Gerard Casey; Alun Talfan Davies; J. Eirian Davies; Jennie Eirian Davies; Gwilym Prys Davies; Gwyn Erfyl; George Ewart Evans; R. Alun Evans; David Jenkins; E. D. Jones; Gwyn O. Jones; Harri Pritchard Jones; J. Gwilym Jones; R. Brinley Jones; Ceri Lewis; D. Tecwyn Lloyd; W. Rhys Nicholas; Dyfnallt Morgan; Trefor M. Owen; Thomas Parry; Ernest Roberts; Kate Roberts; Selyf Roberts; Wyn Thomas; Gwilym R. Tilsley; John Roberts Williams; a Stephen J. Williams. Yn ogystal, mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys copi o'r deyrnged, 1980, a draddodwyd yn yr angladd.