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Minute-book of committees convened under the auspices of the Neath Corporation and Chamber of Trade to invite the Gorsedd and the National Eisteddfod Association to hold the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Neath, firstly in 1915 and secondly in 1918.

A minute-book, 1917-1918, of the musical committee of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Neath, 1918.

A minute-book, 1917-1919, of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Neath, 1918, into which has been pasted or inserted many additional papers. These include a list of guarantors (ff. 1-6); a programme of the musical competitions with the value of the prizes and fees paid to adjudicators and accompanists (pp. 32-67); and statements of receipts and expenditure of the eisteddfod and the cymanfa ganu (ff. 99-102).

A minute-book, 1917-1918, of the musical committee of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Neath, 1918.

An account book, 1917-1919, recording expenditure on the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Neath, 1918.

Financial papers, 1918, of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Neath, 1918, comprising balance sheets of the eisteddfod and concerts, the cymanfa ganu, and allocations of surplus money (ff. 1-4); entertainments tax returns (ff. 5-9 verso); accounts of concert tickets sold at booths (ff. 10-13), and of total receipts and expenditure (ff. 14-17).

Correspondence, 1907-1934, of Philip Thomas, mostly addressed to him as General Secretary of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Neath, 1918 (ff. 16-387 passim).
Also included are a list of subjects and donors at the National Eisteddfod, Aberystwyth, 1916 (ff. 5-15); verses in Welsh written to Philip Thomas on his seventy-third birthday, 1930 (ff. 395-396); four letters of protest, 1934, at the invitation by Neath Council to the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society to visit Neath in 1936 (ff. 397-401 verso); and a musical programme for a reception at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Birkenhead, 1917 (f. 249).