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Book of disbursements on the Gogerddan estate, by John Jones in account with Pryse Pryse, esq., covering bills for the election, 1816, building materials, grain, cattle, estate labour, carriage, turnpike charges, saddlery, taxes, church and poor rates, tradesmen, professional and financial services, and the agent’s salary, 1816-1818.

Typescript drafts of poems, with manuscript emendations, marked by Gwyneth Lewis as 'discarded' and not included in the volumes of her published collections, including one or more variants of 'In the Dead of Winter', 'The Bachelors of Balephuil', 'Elegy', 'Maenclochog', 'In the Snow Queen's Palace', 'Spring at the Leper House Allotments', 'First Haunting', 'Dalton's Geranium', 'The Cut of Women's Clothes', 'Leaving America', 'Consider the Crinoid', 'First Aid', 'A Welcome to East Oxford', 'Manhattan Night', 'Death and the Maiden', 'Take Care', 'In the Greenhouse', 'Cwm-hir Abbey', 'Homesick in Summer', 'The Glad-Grower's Daughter', 'The Muse of Morganwg', 'On the Air', 'Open Door', 'A Love Alphabet' and 'In Central Park'.

‘A discourse on the high court of Parliament and the authority of the same extracted out of the common laws of this land and other good authors’, [1600x1648].

Papers concerning the enclosure and drainage of Cors Fochno (Borth Bog), 1743-1829. For general contents see series level description. The file includes a release of the right to Wern Lery common by John Pierce of Lodge Park to Pryse Pryse of New Woodstock, 1799; an agreement for the construction of the Dovey embankment, 1816; and a brief list of occupiers with rights of common. There are letters to Pryse Pryse, James Morice of Moelcerney, William Cobb Gilbertson of Cefn Gwyn and David Joel Jenkins of Lampeter; correspondents include Thomas Lloyd of Peterwell, 1780, Thomas Jones of Machynlleth and Robert Williams of Moel Ynys and Bangor, 1816-1820, William Jones [?of Bangor] at Aberystwyth, 1819-1828, and Richard Griffiths of Gwynfryn, 1824-1825.

Documents mainly concerning the financial and legal affairs of the Gogerddan and Mathafarn estates, 1660-1790. They include a discharge by Edward Perry to Sir Richard Pryse for £75, 1660; a perambulation of the boundaries of the manor of Glyndyfrdwy, 1661; a sequestration order against Lewis Pryse in the suit of Mr Jodrell, plaintiff, 1707; schedules of mortgages and bond debts of John Pryse, Walter Pryse, John Pughe of Mathafarn, and Thomas Pryse, executor of Thomas Pryse, his step-father 1715-1738; a letter (copy) to Sir William Williams about a trespass by Charles and Rodericke Richardes; Lord Harrington’s letter (copy) with Mr Robinson’s translation concerning the war of the Austrian Succession, 1741; a ‘schedule of papers brought from the closet’; a list of charges of John Lloyd and Maria Charlotta his wife, defendants in a suit by John Pughe Pryse, infant, 1757; a declaration of trust by John Pughe Pryse in a mortgage by Thomas Johnes of Abermad, 1761; inventories of goods in rooms at Gogerddan belonging to John Pughe Pryse, 1768; and a receipt to Edward Loveden Loveden for documents relating to his Cardiganshire estate, 1790.

Title deeds labelled ‘Office copies of title deeds relating to Dyffryn farms and referred to in the covenant of Barbara C’ss of Powis dated 6th Septr 1773’. The deeds concern firstly Rhosfawr and Bysnant, and secondly Dyffryn Hall or Dyffryn Farm, the malthouse or barn called Tycoch on the road from Meifod to Newbridge, a small tenement on Allt yr Ancar Hill, and a wood called the Great Park in the parishes of Meifod and Guilsfield, 1765-1808. They include a mortgage by John Jones of Llanfyllin and his trustees, of property belonging to the Rhosfawr estate to Dorothy Rocke, 1765; the covenant by Barbara Countess of Powis to John Rocke of Trefnannau and his son Richard Rocke of Shrewsbury to produce title deeds, 1773; a conveyance by Ann Jodrell of Ankerwyke, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, widow of Gilbert Jodrell of Lincolns Inn, and Gilbert Jodrell’s daughters Sarah and Ann, to John Rocke and Richard Rocke, of the Dyffryn properties, 1773; a mortgage by Richard Rocke, 1787, which was assigned to Ann Acton of of Brockton, Salop, 1797, followed by a further mortgage to her in 1798; a lease to William Payne of Wilcott, Great Ness, 1792, and an assignment of the lease to Samuel Yale, 1800; an agreement between Richard Rocke and Charles Watkin Williams Wynn for the purchase, followed by the deeds of sale of the Rhosfawr and Dyffryn properties, with a schedule of deeds incorporated, and an assignment by the Ann Acton of the term of years in trust, 1803; a mortgage by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn to Richard Rocke, 1803, and a surrender (on dorse) by the latter’s executor, Rev. John Rocke of Shrewsbury, upon repayment of the mortgage, 1808.

Original bundle containing accounts, bills and receipts for expenses mainly at Aberystwyth in connection with the election of Pryse Pryse for the Cardigan Boroughs,in 1841, paid by his agents, William Williams, and Oliver Lloyd, 1840-1843. Includes receipts for measuring voters’ distance by road in 1839, transport of voters by boat, painting a banner and gilding the coat of arms, and the valuation of houses in Aberystwyth for election purposes; notices to the overseers of the poor of claims to be inserted in the list of voters; relevant letters from Edward Williams of Aberystwyth and others; and ‘A Parody on a Certain Address to the Deluded Freeholders of the County of C____’

Original bundle containing mainly accounts and letters relating to elections in Cardiganshire, 1816-1853. The accounts include expenditure on the services of James Hughes of Aberystwyth, 1816, and James Evans, 1841, bills for musicians, mace bearers, flag bearer, chairman, constables, taverns, election dinners, etc. 1837-1852, a bank book of T.O. Morgan, chairman of Pryse Pryse’s election committee, 1849, and the election committee account book, 1852-1853. The letters are to Pryse Pryse and Pryse Loveden, with a copy of an outgoing letter by Jane Pryse. Correspondents of interest include B. Millingchamp of Llangoedmor Place, on a Roman Catholic Relief bill, 1821; Lewis Evans, town clerk of Cardigan, with a copy of a letter by Sir Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, on the desirablitiy of local Acts for the improvement of towns in Wales, 1829; and Henry Lewis Davies, curate of Troed-yr-Aur, requesting a permanent living, 1840. Other correspondents are John Davies of Newport, James Thomas of Newcastle Emlyn, Joseph Rees of the Red Cow, and Thomas Davies of Cardigan, about the claims (sometimes inflated) for election bills, with Mr Atwood’s observations and summary of the bills at Cardigan, Newcastle Emlyn and Aberaeron, 1852-1853,. The file also contains an officiial order for Pryse Pryse to attend the House of Commons, 1819.

Typescript copy of a children’s story written in 1949 and ‘Sunny Stories’ extract (1954) of ‘Esmeralda’ that was also included in ‘Read Aloud Tales’ (1956), which is a collection of stories originally appearing in Sunny Stories published by George Newnes Ltd. Also included is a typescript copy of the Esmeralda story ‘She shall have music’, and correspondence with publishers.

Four early versions, [1632], of parts of the poem.

Draft of a letter dedicating the ‘Expedition to the Isle of Rhe’ to king Charles I, dated Montgomery castle, 10 August 1630.

Signed typescript copy of a story annotated ‘In print’ and ‘Published’. In print was a term used by the ‘Pembrokeshire Women’s Institute Writer’s Magazine’ for inclusion.

Typescript copy of a children’s story endorsed ‘Pub. County Echo Oct 1958’.

Correspondence and a typescript copy of an adult story relating to a late 1940’s coast/fishing boat submitted to various magazines including ‘Wife and home’, 'Woman’s companion' & 'Sunday companion' but not accepted.