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Cofnodion cyfarfodydd Pwyllgor Sir Feirionnydd yr Urdd a gynhaliwyd rhwng 1940 a 1944.

Casgliad o Raglenni Yrr Ysgol Gymraeg yn enwi'r llywodraethwyr, athrawon, disgrifio'r ysgol, barn am yr ysgol, ac enwi noddwyr yr ysgol

Eitemau printiedig gan gynnwys Yr Urdd (1943); Cofiant i Owen M. Edwards (1959); Teyrnged i Syr Ifan ap Owen Edwards (1970); Y Llinyn Arian (1941); Catalog llyfrau Gwasg Gomer (1947-8); Bywyd a Gwaith O.M. Edwards (1958).

Copïau o'r cylchgrawn Cefn Gwlad ar gyfer 1942-3 a 1943-4, a gyhoeddwyd gan Gymdeithas Addysg y Gweithwyr Uwchaled a'r Cylch. = Copies of the periodical Cefn Gwlad for the years 1942-3 and 1943-4, published by Uwchaled and District Workers' Educational Association.

Material relating to miscellaneous meetings involving or otherwise relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, comprising: meeting of representatives appointed to consider the formation of a South Wales and Monmouthshire Federation of Beekeepers' Associations, held 10 November 1943; meeting of representatives of Beekeepers' Associations in South Wales and Monmouthshire, held 26 January 1944; Flintshire Beekeepers' Association committee meetings held in Shrewsbury, 11 December 1965 and 23 April 1966; Federation of Irish Beekeepers meeting, held 25 October [?1967]; sub-committee meeting appointed to consider the correspondence between Welsh Beekeepers' Association Honorary Secretary J.H. Ball and the Secretary of the National Diploma in Beekeeping Examinations Board, held 12 September [1970]; General Purposes and Emergency Standing Committee meeting, held at the Royal Welsh Show, 20 July 1977; Stoneleigh Sub-Committee meeting, held 24 February 1979; unspecified meeting, held 13 September [1986]; meeting between Welsh Bee-keeping Associations and the (then) National Assembly for Wales, held 26 November 2003; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) meeting, held 9 December 2005; and annual meeting between Plant Health/DEFRA and beekeeping associations, held December 2006.

Correspondence dating from the establishment of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association in 1943 to 2021, mainly to and from Welsh Beekeepers' Association officials - who include J[ohn] E[mrys] Anwyl (Honorary Secretary), J. H. Ball (Honorary Secretary, later Honorary Editor), John E. Lancaster (Honorary Secretary), Mr D. A. Thomas (Honorary Secretary), Commander Eric George Verge (Honorary Secretary), Wally Shaw, Tom Rowlands (President), Lynfa Davies (Secretary), John Page (Secretary) and Lynda Christie (Chair) (tendering her resignation from her post) - and other members, writing either as individuals or as representatives of their respective county/district beekeepers' associations. Other correspondents include the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (see also under Royal Welsh Agricultural Society correspondence within this archive); the Forestry Commission; the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF); the National Library of Wales; the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD); the Welsh Office; the Council of National Beekeeping Associations (CONBA); the (then) Welsh Assembly Government (one of the correspondents being Elin Jones, who at the time was the Assembly's Minister for Rural Affairs); the Food Standards Agency (Wales) (Asiantaeth Safonau Bwyd (Cymru)); and various Welsh county councils and education authorities/committees. Topics of discussion include Association membership, the appointment of Association officers, bee diseases and the environmental effects of crop spraying and other forms of pollution on the health and wellbeing of bees.
Correspondence relating to the deposit of Welsh Beekeepers Association records at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth includes a letter, 25 July 2014, from then Chief Executive and Librarian Aled Gruffydd Jones informing John Page of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association that WBKA papers held at the Library had been destroyed by fire in April 2013 (see note in main section of archive).
Correspondence with the National Library and undated correspondence kept in marked envelopes in box labelled '1969-2021'.

Together with folder of correspondence, 1969-1972, between the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (kept in separate box from remainder of correspondence material).

Correspondence on topics such as insurance policies and claims, festivals and shows, grant applications, training and assessment and conferences and summer schools may be found under their relevant headings within this archive.

Certificate, first prize for the open orchestral instrument competition, Boys and Girls Clubs Eisteddfod, Neath, 1943.

Letters, cards and notes, 1975-1999 and undated, from Freda Aykroyd to John Pikoulis. The material largely discusses Lewis and Aykroyd's brief but intensely passionate relationship during the years 1943 to 1944, with reference also to Lewis's literary work. Many of the letters are undated, apparently incomplete/fragmentary, or are heavily-annotated drafts included along with fair-copied counterparts; some of the undated correspondence may be of a later provenance than the 1999 cut-off date of the dated letters. One letter, dated 9 January 1981 encloses a poem by Freda Aykroyd titled 'Rosehip'.
See also New Welsh Review Archive at NLW.

Draft and fair-copied letters, 1975, 1977 and undated, to Freda Aykroyd from John Pikoulis. Some items fragmentary/incomplete.

Photocopies of letters, [1943-1944], sent to Freda Aykroyd from Alun Lewis, the orginals housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Some annotations in John Pikoulis's hand. Alun Lewis's letters to Freda Aykroyd were published as A Cypress Walk (Enitharmon Press, 2006).

Letters, 1996-1997, to Freda Aykroyd from literary and talent agency Curtis Brown.

Undated draft letter from Freda Aykroyd to Mike Felton of Poetry Wales Press/Seren Books.

Envelopes marked with name of correspondent and date of correspondence.

Alun Lewis's letters to Freda Aykroyd: Dates noted are those of original letters, not of photocopying.

Press articles relating to the private and professional life of Siân Phillips, most of which also reference her second husband Peter O'Toole, her daughters Kate O'Toole and Pat O'Toole and her third husband Robin Sachs; together with miscellaneous press articles not directly related to Siân Phillips or her family but some of which reference leading figures in the theatrical world, Welsh current affairs or notable Welsh figures. Some items annotated by Siân Phillips.

Minutes and agendas of Welsh Beekeepers' Association Council meetings, 1943-1949, 1950-1961, 1964-1968, 1971, 1973-1982, 1989-2021, together with some related material; details for each year kept in separate marked envelope or folder.
Please note that the minutes of a Special Council Meeting held 9 May 1962, the minutes of the Education, Research and Experiments Standing Committee held 8 June 1962 and the minutes of the Council Meeting held 20 June 1962 run on continuously from the minutes of the Council Meeting held 14 March 1962 and cannot be separated one from the other.
Please note that the minutes of the Council Meetings held 21 November 1962, 3 April 1963 and 19 June 1963 run on continuously from the minutes of the Council Meeting held 26 September 1962 and cannot be separated one from the other.

Llythyrau yn ymwneud â chynllun a chofrestru bathodyn yr Urdd gyda'r Swyddfa Ddylunio (Birmingham).

Correspondence of Gwladys Lewis, comprising:

Photocopies of transcripts (made by Alun John) of letters written, 1944, by Gwladys Lewis to writer and translator Professor Gwyn Jones, which include poetry by Gwladys Lewis (see John Pikoulis: Alun Lewis: A Life (Poetry Wales Press, 1984), pp. 313-14).

Letters, 1975-1978, from Gwladys Lewis to John Pikoulis.

Letter, 1978, to Gwladys Lewis from the Reverend Dewi Evans, Llwynhendy, Llanelli, who was a cousin of Alun Lewis.

Envelopes marked with name of correspondent and date of correspondence.

See also under Gwladys Lewis: Biographical and literary notes for notes by John Pikoulis on letters, 1940-1942, sent to Gwladys Lewis and her husband Thomas J. Lewis from Alun Lewis.
See also under Correspondence of Alun Lewis (photocopies, typescript copies and transcripts) .

Llyfr lloffion Aelwyd Caernarfon rhwng 1944 a 1956 yn cynnwys torriadau papur newydd, tystysgrifau a lluniau o weithgarwch amrywiol yr Aelwyd.

Awards achieved by Siân Phillips (then known by her birth name of Jane Phillips) during her time at Pontardawe Grammar School, largely comprising certificates denoting successes in Urdd Eisteddfod competitions and in school examinations.

Cofrestr Presenoldeb a Thâl y Cynllun Cinio

Papurau gweinyddol amrywiol yn cynnwys nodiadau staff, deunydd yn ymwneud a Jiwbilî hanner canmlwyddiant, llythyrau. Dau lyfr nodiadau R.E. Griffith; casgliad bychan o fathodynnau'r Urdd.

Correspondence of Gweno Lewis with regard to the life and work of Alun Lewis and which involves John Pikoulis's research into the same, comprising:

Photocopied letter, 6 March 1944, to Gweno Lewis from Alun Lewis's commanding officer, (then) Lieutenant-Colonel Robin S. Cresswell, informing Gweno of Lewis's death.

Photocopied undated letters to Gweno Lewis from poet, writer and critic Robert Graves, which largely discuss Graves's proposed foreword to Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, a posthumous anthology of Alun Lewis's poetry published in 1945 (see, for example: https://www.harringtonbooks.co.uk/pages/books/58551/alun-lewis-robert-graves-foreword/ha-ha-among-the-trumpets-poems-in-transit). With annotations in what appears to be John Pikoulis's hand.
Photocopied letters and card, 1944 and undated, from Gweno Lewis to Robert Graves, also largely discussing Graves's foreword to Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets.

Photocopied transcripts by Alun John of letters, 1944, 1946 and undated, from Gweno Lewis to novelist, poet and literary historian Glyn Jones, with annotations in what appears to be John Pikoulis's hand.

Photocopied letter, 1947, from Gweno Lewis to translator, biographer, journalist and dramatist Michael Meyer, with rough note at bottom left in what appears to be John Pikoulis's hand.

Postcard, 1949, and undated letter from Gweno Lewis to Professor Christopher Cheney, one of Alun Lewis' former tutors at the University of Manchester.

Letters and postcards, 1971-1985 and undated, from Gweno Lewis to John Pikoulis.
What appear to be fair copies of letters, 1975, to Gweno Lewis from John Pikoulis.
Rough manuscript notes by Pikoulis on the contents of letters, 1943-1944, sent to Gweno Lewis by Alun Lewis and on the contents of a hitherto unpublished journal kept by Lewis while stationed in Karachi (now Pakistan). The letters from Alun Lewis to Gweno Lewis referenced here differ from the published versions found in Gweno Lewis (ed.): Letters to my Wife (Seren Books, 1989) (for material relating to the publication, see under General research material). Pikoulis was given access to the letters and journal by permission of Gweno Lewis.

See also under Correspondence of Alun Lewis (photocopies, typescript copies and transcripts) .

Envelopes marked with name of correspondent and date (if applicable) of correspondence.