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A volume of press cuttings from Yr Haul, 1872 et seq., being charters and other public records, 1201-1590, with English translations, relating to the borough of Carmarthen, Whitland Abbey, Dinevor market and fair, Talley Abbey, church goods, plate, etc., in co. Carmarthen, colleges and chantries in co. Carmarthen, etc. The contributions were submitted to Yr Haul by John Robert Daniel-Tyssen, F.S.A., Brighton, with copious annotations by Alcwyn C. Evans. The latter has added, in his own hand, marginal and other notes, a list of contents, and an index of persons. Also included in the volume is a cutting, signed by Alcwyn C. Evans, 23 July 1877, of a short biography of Dr. William Parry, of the Army Hospital of Fort Pitt, Chatham, a native of Llethrach, near Carmarthen.

Nine holograph letters, 1855-1860 and undated, from R[ichard] Trygarn Griffith from Whitland Abbey [co. Carmarthen], Carreglwyd [co. Anglesey], and Berkeley Square [London], to 'My dear Conway', undated (the cancellation of a visit to Llanwrtyd, a proposed visit to the Colby family at Fynone, Newcastle Emlyn, a dreadful flood in the vicinity of Whitland Abbey involving loss of life), Miss Howard, [18]55-1860 and undated (5) (proceedings concerning the disposal of or settling of certain estates), Susan [Lloyd, the writer's aunt], 1855 and undated (2) (personal and family news, comments on ministerial changes in the government, the earnestness of [Fox Maule, aft. Maule-Ramsay, 2nd baron] Panmure [of Brechin and Navar, later 11th earl of Dalhousie] and the trustworthiness of the Whigs, news from Balaklava, the conversion of the nephew of Dr. [Henry] Foulkes, Head of Jesus College [Oxford], to ? the Roman Catholic faith, the marriage of Miss [ ] Johnson and Mr. James Vincent in Llanfaethlu church, comments on Llysdulas near Amlwch), and the Misses Lloyd, Soughton House [Northop, the writer's aunts], undated (the writer's marriage).