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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 minutes of Welsh Kite Trust meetings and related papers, ending with Peter Davis's resignation as a trustee, effective Dec. 2011, and a note on the archive, Sept. 2016.

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.

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.

Papers accumulated by Peter Davis, Kite Recorder for Wales, 1968-1999, secretary of the Red Kite Committee in Wales, 1968-1999, and trustee of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1996-2012, including earlier material from various sources.

Original file of letters to William Condry, mainly with other naturalists and ornithologists, members of the Kite Committee and representatives of other societies. Includes reports of sightings; also the arrival of grey squirrels at Rhandirmwyn, co. Carm., 1949; a printed history and subscription list of the "Farmers' Defence Committee" against the Forestry Commission's proposed compulsory purchase of 20,000 acres in the Upper Tywi valley, 1949-1952; a list of known egg collectors, 1951; and the national campaign to criminalise the gin-trap, 1952.

Original file of abstracts of kite observations from county histories, churchwardens' accounts, natural histories, diaries etc., typescript extracts from publications (many including references Wales/278, Spain/278 etc.), and memoranda and letters.