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One of two roll books, 1915, of D Company, 20th Battalion and of E Company, 16th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

One of two roll books, 1915, of D Company, 20th Battalion and of E Company, 16th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Memoirs and journal, compiled 1798, of the artist Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, recounting in detail his life in London, France and especially Italy during the second half of the eighteenth century.
The volume briefly recounts Jones's ancestry and early years, becoming more detailed from the 1760s, with the last detailed entry being for December 1783 (f. 218 verso); the bulk of these later entries are extracts from Jones's own journals. The final entry was signed by the artist at Pencerrig, November 1798 (f. 220 verso). The main text, including some later deletions, is written on the versos only; notes and emendations, [1798x1803], have been added by Jones on the rectos and the volume has been signed and dated 1803 by him inside the front cover. Family memoranda, in a different hand, have been added after Jones's death (ff. 225 verso). Friends and acquaintances referred to include the artists William Pars (ff. 15 verso-177 passim), Richard Wilson (ff. 17 verso-20 verso, 35 verso, 56 verso, 85, 90 verso-91, 219 verso), John Hamilton Mortimer (21 verso, 27 verso-48 verso passim, 59 verso, 64 verso, 136 verso, 217 verso), Guiseppe Marchi (ff. 27 verso, 36 verso), Thomas Hardwick (ff. 66 verso-70 verso, 90 verso-100 verso, 115 verso, 130 verso) and Anton Raphael Mengs (ff. 101 verso, 130 verso, 148 verso, 161 verso), the composer Stephen Storace (ff. 117 verso-121, 146 verso), and the art collector Sir William Hamilton (ff. 127 verso-188 verso passim, 215 verso, 219 verso). A sketch of Mount Vesuvius is on f. 118; a plan of his lodgings in Naples is on f. 142. For a complete transcript (with index) see 'Memoirs of Thomas Jones, Penkerrig, Radnorshire', The Walpole Society, 32 (1951), 1-162; this transcript is also available on the Library's website.

Account book of the Morriston War Fund containing analyses of receipts and expenditure for the period January 1917-July 1919 (ff. 25 verso-55).

Subscription account book of the Morriston War Fund, January-December 1918.

Papers, 1915-1917, of the Llanrhystyd Soldiers Fund, set up to provide comforts for men from Llanrhystud, Cardiganshire, serving in the War. They comprise fifty-nine letters and cards, December 1915-July 1917 (mostly in English, with ten in Welsh), from servicemen expressing gratitude for supplies of food, clothing and cigarettes (NLW MS 16201C (i), ff. 1-14, 16-24, 28-47, 49-79); together with five notebooks of minutes and accounts (NLW MS 16201C (ii-vi)), and other administrative papers (NLW MS 16201C (i), ff. 15, 15a, 25-27, 48, 80-90), 1915-1916.

A notebook, [1910], belonging to David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, containing rough notes in pencil for speeches given by him in late November and early December, on the campaign trail for the December 1910 General Election (ff. 1-41, 94 verso).
The volume contains material which can be found in Lloyd George's speeches in Edinburgh, 26 November (ff. 1 verso, 3-4 verso, 6-7, 8 recto-verso), Cardiff, 29 November (ff. 9 verso, 11 verso-13, 14, 15 verso-16), Ipswich, 2 December (ff. 18, 22, 23 verso), Glasgow, 5 December (f. 31 recto-verso), North Wales, 7-9 December (f. 36 recto-verso), and East Ham, 15 December (f. 39, 40 verso). Lloyd George also critiques at length Lord Rosebery's speeches of 30 November and 3 December 1910 (ff. 16 verso-33 passim). The notes relate mainly to the Parliament Bill to reform the House of Lords (passed as the Parliament Act 1911), the issue on which the election was called, but also tariff reform, Home Rule, land tax, etc. The volume is entirely in English except for two sentences in Welsh (ff. 30 verso, 35 verso).

The minute book, 1915, of the East Denbighshire Parliamentary Recruiting Committee.

A collection of letters, circulars and memoranda from government departments and local authorities received during the European war of 1914-1918 by Evan Evans, clerk of the Cardiganshire County Council.

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent. Formerly in envelope postmarked 2 Jan 1917.

Letter from Edward Thomas to Helen Thomas, addressed Lydd, Kent, dated 'Friday'.

Letter from Alfred T. Davies, Board of Education to J. F. Roberts, Vice-Chancellor of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. [Roberts subsequently forwarded the letter to Principal E. H. Griffiths, as present holder of the office of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales]. The letter quotes from a statement which confirms a willingness to accept prisoners' records of study as part of a course of study or examination - the addressee is asked to confirm if their University will subscribe to this statement.

Letter from Principal E. H. Griffiths to Sir L. A. Selby-Bigge of the Board of Education, enclosing applications for exemption from call up in respect of Mr R. H. Greaves, Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator in Metallurgy, and Mr D. W. Stewart, Teacher of Agricultural Chemistry and Dairy Bacteriology. These application forms are not present in the archive. Asks for confirmation that the same process will not need to be followed for Engineering staff, given that the Department of Engineering's workshops are entirely given over to the manufacture of shell gauges.

Letter from Sir L. A. Selby-Bigge of the Board of Education to Principal E. H. Griffiths, referring to the proposed release of H. T. Flint and Frank Dixey from military service. Confirms he has written unofficially to the War Office, but doubts an official request to the Army Council would be successful 'unless the circumstances were quite extraordinary.

Letter from Sir L. A. Selby-Bigge of the Board of Education to Principal E. H. Griffiths, regarding the recruitment of women students to assist with the summer flax harvest. Encloses appeal leaflet from the Women's National Land Service Corps.

Letter of support for the proposal to release H. T. Flint from military service, from Prof. A. L. Selby. Mentions that the Ministry of Munitions may require the Physics Department to examine optical instruments, but that given current staffing, this may be impossible.

One piano score, one piano-vocal score.

Instructions for volunteers regarding arrival at the camps, stamped 'urgent'.

The letter provides a poet's view of the life 'behind the line' and yet heroically does not reveal the actual horrors of the trenches, but focuses on the few small moments of beauty that the poet finds to contemplate and share with the reader.

Circular from Percy E. Watkins of City Hall, Cardiff. Encloses a list of books requested by British Prisoners of War [enclosed].