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Press cuttings of articles, poetry and miscellaneous notes by 'Rhuddenfab', including notes on 'eisteddfodau'; a series of seventy articles entitled 'Deugain Mlynedd yn Ôl' by 'Rhen O', i.e. 'Rhuddenfab'; and autograph letters to 'Rhuddenfab' from Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn'), Sir George Osborne Morgan, John Davies ('Taliesin Hiraethog'), William Jones ('Ehedydd Iâl'), J. Ceulanydd Williams ('Ceulanydd'), Richard Davies ('Mynyddog') and John Thomas ('Eifionydd'); etc.

Thirteen exercise books, those numbered I-XII containing miscellaneous poetic and prose compositions (many in draft form), by, and in the hand of, Isaac Jones, Diserth, co. Flint [father of Thomas Gwynn Jones, professor of Welsh literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth]. The items include 'pryddestau' entitled 'Abel' (a draft and a more finished version, composed for competition at an eisteddfod at Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1891), 'Cartref', 'Y Nefoedd', and 'Naaman y Syriad' (draft) (composed for competition at eisteddfodau or literary festivals at Abergele, 1885, 1889, and 1890, respectively), and 'Y Croeshoeliad'; a draft of a romance in serial form called 'Teulu'r Groesffordd' (seven chapters completed, chapter 8 incomplete); a short story called 'Hywel Tudur yr Hendre'; a draft of the beginning of a novel to be called 'Teulu'r Hafod'; draft or final versions of short dissertations or essays on such topics as 'Geirwiredd' (for competition at an eisteddfod at Llanrwst, 1891), 'Cadwraeth y Sabbath yn ei berthynas a llwyddiant tymhorol' (incomplete), 'Y Ddeddf air Efengyl', 'Y Tair Gardd' (1922), 'Peryglon y Swydd i Ysbryd y Blaenor' (headed by a pencilled note, in another hand, reading 'Papyr a ddarllenwyd yn Nghymdeithasfa Caerlleon, gan Isaac Jones, Dyserth'), and 'Gwyrthiau'; an incomplete copy of a letter referring to tithe legislation, addressed to the editor of Y Faner; and other incomplete fragments. The note-book numbered XIII contains a copy of the poem by T. Gwynn Jones entitled 'Dyddiau y Parch. Richard Owen' [see Dyddiau y Parch. Richard Owen, gyda Chynyrchion Buddugol Ereill, gan Gwynvre ap Iwan a Gwilym Meredydd (Wyddgrug, 1891)]. This is probably the actual holograph copy of the poem, which, under the pseudonym 'Deigryn Hiraeth', T. Gwynn Jones submitted for competition at a literary festival held at Abergele, Christmas 1888. Included with the note-books are a holograph note from Mrs. S[arah] E[lin] Jones, sister of T. Gwynn Jones, undated, a holograph letter from Owen Jones, husband of the said Mrs. S. E. Jones, Diserth, [19]53, and a letter from the said Owen and S. E. Jones, Dyserth, [19]53, [all three to D. Gwenallt Jones, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth], and all relating to the note-books, which were being forwarded to the recipient. Included also are typescript notes compiled by, and bearing the initials of, A[rthur] ap G[wynn] [son of T. Gwynn Jones], listing, and commenting on, the contents of each individual note-book.

The file comprises correspondence, 1926, mainly relating to radio programmes in Welsh and the need for a Welsh national broadcasting station.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register of Bedwas, Monmouthshire, 1653-1739.

Copi teipysgrif o waith y Parch. Ieuan S. Jones yn ymdrin â hanes beirdd Cwm-du ger Castellnewydd Emlyn. / A typescript copy of the Rev. Ieuan S. Jones's work (in Welsh) relating to the history of the poets of Cwm-du, Newcastle Emlyn.

Sermons written by Benjamin Jones (1756-1823), Congregational minister, Pwllheli, and preached at various places in Caernarvonshire, Anglesey, etc.; poems, including 'Can Sion Llywelin ar y chwain y Gwybed ar Clêr', 'Can ar yr Athrawon sy'n mynd allan ir Byd', and 'Annerch caredigol im Brodyr sydd yn mynd dan enw Methodist'; 'Catalogue of Books at Abergavenny and Elsewhere'; etc.

Rate book, [1827x1829], for the parish of Berriew, Montgomeryshire, listing owners and occupiers and description of property by township.

Minutes, 15 July-15 December, 1873, of a committee to consider the establishment of a British School at Bethesda, Caernarvonshire. The secretaries of the committee were John Jones, bookseller, and W. J. Parry, and the present volume is in the latter's hand.

A typescript draft, with manuscript revision and additions, of an unpublished volume on Bilingualism in Education in Wales, compield by Dan Lynn James, former Language Organiser for Ceredigion, mainly between 1973 and 1977, together with an introductory chapter by Jac L. Williams and comments on the work by R. M. (Bobi) Jones. With NLW MS 22804D.

A typescript draft, with manuscript revision and additions, of an unpublished volume on Bilingualism in Education in Wales, compiled by Dan Lynn James, former Language Organiser for Ceredigion, mainly between 1973 and 1977, together with an introductory chapter by Jac L. Williams and comments on the work by R. M. (Bobi) Jones. With NLW MS 22805D.

A copy of The Longfellow Birthday Book which belonged to M. A. Parry, Deganwy, Llandudno, and which contains autographs and a few watercolour sketches.

A blacksmith's account book kept by David Benjamin, Nantygleisiaid, Capel Seion, Cardiganshire, 1835-72.

A volume containing culinary and medicinal recipes collected by Mrs John Llewellin, [1850x1870], in which sources are named, dates sometimes given, and comments included on the quality of the resulting fare or remedy.

Account book, 1822-1827, of John Lewis, Tanlan-isaf, later of Greenhill, Llandybïe, co. Carmarthen, bootmaker, with indexes of customers' names.

Papers, including correspondence, agenda and minutes, 1965-1970, of the Bowling Association of Wales, together with papers from 1962 concerning the secession of the six county associations (Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Mid Wales (Brecon and Radnor), Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire and Pembrokeshire) from the Welsh Bowling Association (co. Glamorgan) in 1965

Papers found loose inside NLW MS 13854iE, including draft notes by Walter Jones Williams for an article on 'Brecknockshire traditions, &c.', published in Archaeologia Cambrensis (1858), 156-161.

A draft tract entitled 'Proofes drawne from authorities and other reasons why Cadelh prince of Southwales was the eldest sonne of Roderic the greate (kinge of Wales) and that he and his issue after him had a superioritie over the rest of Wales and his two bretheren and the descendantes from them' by, and in the autograph of, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. The substance of this tract was subsequently incorporated in Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived (Oxford, 1662). The volume contains both the arguments and answers set forth by Vaughan and therefore differs considerably from Peniarth MS 277 which contains only the arguments.
Pasted inside the front cover is a short description of the volume in the form of a cutting from Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge’s Sale Catalogue of the Mostyn Library (1919), p. 22.

An incomplete transcript of 'Chronica Principum Walliae' or 'Brut y Tywysogion', probably based on the text in 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' and bearing a close resemblance to the text found in Peniarth MS. 212, and a transcript of another chronicle from Cadwalydr Vendigeid to A.D. 1565.

Survey of the manor or lordship of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, co. Glamorgan, containing answers to articles of enquiry presented to twenty-one named jurors, followed by sections containing details of properties, tenants, rents and services.

A rental of crown quit rents within the borough of Caernarvon, 1847-1856.