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Welsh Unitarians - biographical notes by Rees Jenkin Jones. (Formerly Rees Jenkin Jones MS.) English. American cloth. Donated by Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea.

Welsh Unitarian ministers as schoolmasters by the Reverend David Evans [?and] the Reverend T. R. Morgan. English. Paper. Donated by D. T. Morgan, Barmouth, June 1960.

An elaborately bound volume lettered 'Trade Tokens (XVII century) Wales', containing a copy of George C. Williamson: Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in [Wales] by Corporations, Merchants, Tradesmen, Etc. [1889], together with marginal and interleaved annotations and copious additions in the hand of R. D. Roberts, Bethesda. Bound into the volume are a holograph letter, [19]03, from James W. Lloyd, Kington, to R. D. Roberts, and a note [1914] in the hand of John Ward, F.S.A., National Museum of Wales, both documents relating to a Holyhead token.

A volume of papers from the Mytton library at Halston, consisting of draft dissertations by Dr. Humphrey Foulks of Marchwiel and other papers:- 'a dissertation of the literature of the antient Britains'; 'a dissertation on the places of worship, judicature, and sepulture of the antient Britains'; 'a short dissertation on the state of the lordship of Denbigh'; 'an essay about the setting of land'; a fair copy of a preface to 'The modern Antiquity of Wales'; a draft title-page and preface to a projected edition of Robert Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived, and Sir John Wynn's 'History of his own family'; drafts and transcripts of letters and documents relating to Welsh history; transcripts from 'Mr. Owen Salisbury's painted book'; transcripts of annals of the rebellion in North Wales; pedigrees; lists of the sheriffs of Flint and Denbighshire to 1739, extended by another hand to 1741; transcripts of monumental inscriptions in Bangor [on Dee], Wrexham, Gresford, Marchwiel, and Montgomery; a valor of Bromfield and Yale, 11-12 Henry VIII; and holograph letters by Rees Powell, Llanharan, 1736, Thomas Lewis, St. Asaph, 1736, and E. Lloyd, Ripple, 1737.

Records of the Welsh Town-Planning and Housing Trust Limited, established in 1913, including minute books, deeds, correspondence, financial papers and printed material relating to housing estates in Barry, Burry Port, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Newtown, Rhiwbina, Weston Rhyn and Wrexham, and other associated papers.

Business records of John Edwards and Welsh Teldisc Records Ltd, 1962-1976, including balance sheets, 1963-1974; sales summaries, 1963-1974; invoices and delivery notes, 1963-1972; records of stock movement, 1965-1966; records of copyright enquiries, permissions and royalties, 1963-1974; recording contracts, 1964-1967; recording log book, 1964-1970; lyrics and sleeve notes, with related correspondence, 1963-1968; copy outgoing correspondence, 1965-1967; general incoming correspondence, 1964-1976; and papers of Mrs Olwen Edwards, 1955-1976.

Papers relating to Welsh activities in Liverpool, including a minute book, 1856-1857, and other papers relating to the Liverpool Cambrian Society (founded 1807); notices of a proposed circulating library at Seacombe in connection with the Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools, 1858, of a 'Welsh Bardic Congress' held at Liverpool, 1851, and of the Liverpool committee for promoting the Llangollen eisteddfod, 1858; a list of subscriptions to the 'Llewelyn Monument', 1857; Welsh translations by D. G. Jones, Liverpool of English poetry; press cuttings; etc.

Records accumulated by Dr John Herbert, 1968-1984, comprising Welsh Secondary Schools Association records, minutes and papers, 1968-1984; and Headmasters' Association and Secondary Heads Association minutes, correspondence, discussion papers and related material, 1969-1984.

Welsh School, Ashford, and British Charity School, Board of Governors and trustees minutes, 1718-1848; House Committee minutes, 1830-1905; cash books and financial records, 1792-1905; applicants books, 1826-1844; correspondence and papers, 1760-1904; correspondence and records of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in Wales, 1849-1851; correspondence relating to Llandaff Diocesan Commitee, 1849; and deeds and legal correspondence relating to lands in Ashford, Middlesex, 1845-1893; minute books of the Society of Ancient Britons, 1823-1856, and of the Cymmrodorion, 1828-1849.

A further deposit of papers comprising committee minute books (5), 1905-1987; household wages books (4), 1949-1958; accounts books (3), 1846-1974; receipts and payments books (7), 1813-1963; apprenticeship book, 1852-1853; letters book, 1839-1849; Schoolmistress report book, 1868-1882; attendance and fee register, 1923-1940; confirmation book, 1916-1964; school reports, 1848-1873; house mark book, 1941-1956; House Committees visiting book, 1880-1891; cash books (3), 1932-1956; general fund book, 1949-1958; inventory and valuation book, 1946; school numbers book, 1945-1957; and an investments book, 1940-1949.

Papers, [1939]-2007, pertaining to the school, accumulated by Jacqueline Flindall, a former pupil of the Welsh Girls' School, including letters and items relating to the 150th anniversary celebrations in 2007.

A transcript made for David Pennant, Downing, Flintshire, by John Hicken, in 1809, from the originals now in the Public Record Office, London, of a valuation, taken 47, 48, and 49 Edward III [1373-5] of the possessions of Edward, prince of Wales (the Black Prince), in North Wales, and a translation of the Great Charter of Liberties granted by Prince Edward to the burgesses of Flint, September 20, 34 Edward III [1360].

The file comprises papers, 1935-1976, relating to Mrs Nell Pennell's research into the earliest Welsh Cob stables, including correspondence, notebooks, draft and published articles. Further letters, 1928-1949, relating to the Welsh Pony and Cob Society from Edgar Herbert; Jones, Dinarth Hall, Llandudno; Tom Jones Evans, Craven Arms; Major Careless, Solicitor, Llandrindod Wells; Mrs Pennell; and Miss Brodrick, Coed Coch were received in 2012.

Pamphlets and papers, 1970-1987, accumulated by W. D. Michael relating to Welsh political issues including Wales TUC, John Jenkins, the Miners' strike and the Ffestiniog quarrymen's strike, the Socialist Republican Party of Wales, Welsh Railways, the Development Board for Rural Wales and the Welsh Committee of the Communist Party; together with material on student politics at University College, Swansea, and other colleges, collected whilst the donor was secretary of University College Swansea Socialist Society in the 1970s.

The collection consists of election addresses, leaflets, circulars and other printed matter, 1837-1991, generally acquired before the establishment of the Welsh Political Archive; election addresses, leaflets etc., 1905-2019, collected by the WPA; and printed materials, 1887-2019, concerning the political parties in Wales, various pressure groups and organisations, subject files, and other miscellaneous papers.

One of three volumes containing material used by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931) in the compilation of Welsh Poetry Old and New in English Verse (London, 1912), including drafts and transcripts of poetry and translations by Graves himself and others, proof sheets, etc.

One of three volumes containing material used by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931) in the compilation of Welsh Poetry Old and New in English Verse (London, 1912), including drafts and transcripts of poetry and translations by Graves himself and others, proof sheets, etc.

One of three volumes containing material used by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931) in the compilation of Welsh Poetry Old and New in English Verse (London, 1912), including drafts and transcripts of poetry and translations by Graves himself and others, proof sheets, etc.

General correspondence files, chiefly financial in nature, with various companies, related bodies such as National Association of Agricultural Services, etc., 1955-1979, correspondence with Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1930-1957; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1957-1968; Agricultural Research Council, 1951-1979; National Institute for Agricultural Botany, 1954-1985; WPBS reports, 1919-1980; annual reports, 1944-196; papers of the Directors and heads of sections, 1919-1974; minutes, etc., relating to various seed production committees, 1947-1957; the papers of Gwilym Evans, 1928-1961; the Cahn Hill Improvement Station at Pwllpeiran, Cwmystwyth, 1933-1973; files of experiments, with details of experiments in progress, field record cards, slips and notebooks, agrotype experiment data, including results of research undertaken at Bicton, Cambridge, Newcastle, Hurley and Aberdeen, and at Welsh county trials, [1919]-1969.

Papers, 1992-7, relating to the research and production of Professor Tony Curtis, Welsh Painters Talking (Seren Books, 1997), comprising correspondence, photographs and typescript drafts of interviews between Tony Curtis and the artists included in the volume, namely Iwan Bala, Charles Burton, Felicity Charlton, Arthur Giardelli, John Knapp-Fisher, Shani Rhys James, Sally Moore, Peter Prendergast, Will Roberts, Kevin Sinnott, Kyffin Williams and Ernest Zobole. The tapes are held in the Library's Sound and Moving Image Collection (CM 8093-112)