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H. Morrey Salmon, 'A history of the kite Milnus milnus (L.) in Wales', 1971, in four parts: (I), Narrative and 1977 addenda; (II) Tabulated ecological area records by decades, 1891-1970, with maps; (III) Ecological area records; and (IV) Appendices: (i) Membership of the 'Kite Group', 1958-1970, and dates of meetings, (ii) Map locations of places named, (iii) Select bibliography, and (iv) Reports of the Kite Committee, 1949-1957, and of the 'Kite Group', 1958-1970. The 1977 addenda was compiled by the author from the abstracts of kite records made by Peter Davis (A 7, below) from the papers of Dorothy Raikes (d. 1976), transferred by her trustees to the Nature Conservancy Council.
Copy no. 2 (Dup.).

Original file of abstracts of kite observations, 1929-1949, from the papers of Dorothy Taunton Raikes of Bwlch, co. Brec., made after her death by Peter Davis, 1976 (Nature Conservancy Council copy). Also correspondence between Morrey Salmon and Peter Davis, 1976-1977, mainly relating to Salmon's 1977 addenda to his 1971 'A history of the kite' (A 6 above).

Welsh kite, peregrine, raven, buzzard and merlin records extracted from the diaries of C. H. Wells, a suspected egg-collector, 1910-1911 and 1925-1955, made available by courtesy of Eric Bartlett, the Brecon bird recorder, 1979, with covering correspondence, 1978-1979.

Original file of e-mails, extracts, letters, lists, memoranda, drafts and photocopies of articles etc., including the death of Colonel H. Morrey Salmon, 1985; an English translation of the section on red kites from W. Miall Jones's unpublished manuscript 'Adar gogledd Ceredigion', c.1944; list of letters re. kites in the Condry correspondence file, 1948-1963, and the 'dead' RSPB kite file, 1958-1968 (now C 1-3 below); a draft of Peter Davis's obituary for R. S. Thomas (1913-2000); an obituary to Frances Evans, who started a kite feeding station at Tyndomen, Tregaron (Cambrian News, 19 March 2009); and extracts from papers at NLW and the Carm. CRO.

Original file of Peter Davis's copies of Kite Committee papers, including minutes of the West Wales Field Society, 1950; annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1970; notes on, minutes of and reports to Kite Committee meetings, 1959-1966. Several of the papers, containing locations of nests then in use, are marked confidential.

Original file of William Condry's copies of Kite Committee papers, including reports and minutes of the West Wales Field Society, 1949-1950; annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1955; notes on, minutes of and reports to Kite Committee meetings, 1958-1971 and 1974; a draft report on the desertion of two kite nests after filming operations by the RSPB film unit, 1970. Several of the papers, containing locations of nests then in use, are marked confidential.

Original file of agendas, minutes and other papers of the pre-1971 and post-1971 Kite Committees. The pre-1971 papers are very incomplete.

Original file of correspondence, mainly between the Nature Conservancy, the Forestry Commission and the RSPB, relating to the kites breeding in the Ystwyth Forest at Hafod, co. Card., including maps of nest sites, 1947-1972, the policy of "playing down" the Hafod kite population (see also E 8), forestry operations, Kite Committee voluntary wardens, the Caravan Club site at Hafod Old Mansion, 1972-1974, and the sale of the Hafod Arms Hotel, with the sporting rights over the old Hafod estate, 1980.

Original file comprising a copy of the 'The kite in Wales, 1970', the final issue of the annual report produced by Col Morrey Salmon for the old kite group, with an epilogue by Capt. Vaughan, and annual breeding season reports produced by Peter Davis, 1971-1989, including several typescripts, notes and revisions. The annual report to the Kite Committee comprised two sections: a single page confidential 'The kite (M.milvus) in Wales, <year>', which could be used publically once the breeding season was over, and a strictly confidential nest-by-nest 'Red kite breeding report for <year>'.

Original file of newsletters for distribution 'to landowners and others involved in kite protection', no's 1-7 (1978-1984), 1985-1986 and 1990 (including 1987-89), produced by Roger Lovegrove.

Original file of Kite Committee and related papers, including a copy of I. Newton, 'Reintroduction and its relation to the management of raptor populations', read to a conference in the USA, Nov. 1985.

Original file of yearly breeding season reports, 1990-1999, many with the confidential section 2 containing the locations and success of each known breeding pair. Peter Davis compiled the report to the Kite Committe at the end of the breeding season, although there is frequently a revised report for the record in the light of further information. Also notes, drafts and circulation lists. Also site lists for 2000 and 2003, and Peter Davis's Welsh Kite Watchers Group nest record sheets for nests in the Nebo - Ffos-y-ffin - Felinfach area, co. Card., 2004.

Original file of letters, memoranda, papers and publications relating to the Welsh Office / Development Board for Rural Wales / RSPB / Welsh Tourist Board initiative to develop the Spotting the Red Kite (the Red Kite Trail) project, the name being changed c.Feb. 1994 to Red Kite Country. A letter in the general correspondence file for 1990-2011 (E 32 below) mentions that the initiative expired in 1997.

Original bundle of correspondence labelled "Kite watchers, 1965 & 1966", relating to the voluntary kite watching operation, Easter 1965 and 1966.

Original file of Welsh Kite Trust/Welsh Kite Watchers' Committee annual meeting agendas, minutes and related papers. Includes a copy of the Wales Raptor Study Group report, 2004; and heads of agreement (unsigned) between the Golden Eagle Trust of Ireland and the Welsh Kite Trust for the supply of 265 young Welsh red kites over five years for release in Co. Down and Co. Wicklow, 2007.

Original file of relating to the formation of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1995-1996, and administration, including correspondence, drafts of documents, minutes of trustees' meetings, annual reports, Charity Commission publications, copies of 'Boda wennol: the newsletter of the Welsh Kite Trust'. Includes a letter to R.S. Thomas asking him to be a patron of the new trust, and his reply declining the offer, Jan. 1997.

Original file of copies of "Boda wennol : cylchlythyr Ymddiriedolaeth Barcudiaid Cymru=the newsletter of the Welsh Kite Trust", no's 1-28 (Spring 1997-Autumn 2013).

Original file of relating the Welsh Kite Trust, including correspondence, minutes of trustees' meetings, annual reports, papers relating to a proposal to reintroduce red kites to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, 2006, drafts of Cross & Davis, 'The red kites of Wales', responses to a proposed publication 'Cri'r barcud coch' by four junior schools in the Builth area, 2003, and to a proposed Camddwr wind turbine development, 2004.