Dangos 1512 canlyniad

Weather and natural history observations in and around the garden at home, in a juvenile hand. July 24 is the "first day home".

Journal for the year 1 Jan.-24 Dec. 1934, including leaving Clifton School (July), and starting at Caius College, Cambridge (Oct.), but with many blank days, especially in March and Dec. Includes a list of books read during the year (37). Enclosures include a packing list for Cambridge.

Journal for the year 1 Jan.-30 Dec. 1936, at home and at Caius College, Cambridge, including a list of books read during the year (67).

Volume containing diary entries, copies of letters, extracts, and lists of plays (8) and books (6) read.

Volume containing diary entries, poems, extracts, lists of letters sent and received, and of plays and books (13) read.

Volume containing diary entries, poems and extracts. The diary ends with this entry: "September 4. War started on the 2nd. I had joined the London-Welsh the day before, and from the 4th my journal is to be kept more compactly. Peace shall bring me back to this book, so cumbersome according to kit-bag standards. God speed my return to these pages."

At the rear of the volume, lists of Christmas correspondence, investments, books lent and books read.

Loose pages gathered into a home-made volume.

Loose pages of typescript and manuscript ("this is really far better than type-clacking") diary entries, many formerly gathered into home-made volumes.

Volume containing one line diary notes similar to monthly memoranda of incidents "to be remembered" (D 1/35), or notes out of appointments diaries. Gaps include March 1959-March 1960 and Jan. 1961-Nov. 1963.

Appointments diaries for 1955, 1959-1961 and 1963-1964.

Bundle of appointments diaries for 1981-1990.

Volume marked '1935/1, 2, 3, 1936/1' [i.e, university terms], containing dated transcripts of poems, Jan. 1935-Feb. 1936, and loose-leaf drafts, Jan.-March 1936.

Manuscript and typescript prose, including a draft play, 'The guest of the absolute', [n.d.] (32 pp.), and an essay, 'A choice of books', about the books taken into active service, [n.d.] (4 pp.). Also a reporter's notebook, mainly relating to speeches by US politicians, 1937-1940.

Notes towards Geoffrey Woolley's bibliography of Edward Thomas, including extracts from works (1920-1938) referring to Edward Thomas.

Original file of poems of William Downing Evans ('Leon', 1811-1897), including acrostics, hymns, songs ('The Tories defeat. Tune, Crawshay Bailey's engine'), eisteddfod entries ('A song in honor of George Crofts Williams Esq'r of Glanrhymney Hall' by 'Lucas' for the St Mellons Eisteddfod, 1877; 'The death of Saul (a poem)' by 'Cwynwr'). Most are drafts, but include some fair copies. Many of the poems are on Christian themes. Most of the poems are in English, but a few, including 'Aderyn Mai' and at least three englynion, are in Welsh, including one composed entirely of vowels. Also at least one translation, 'God, in death sufficient'. Many of the poems re-use the backs of envelopes and other papers, including printed letters from W. Downing Evans as [secretary?] of the committee to promote a national testimonial to Rev. William Roberts ('Nevydd') (1866), and clerk of the Newport Union (1879). Also printed copies of poems, 1843-1892, many inscribed W.D.E. or Leon, on printed cards, 'In memoriam' cards, pamphlets, single sheets and newspaper cuttings, including 'Patriotism, an ode', medal poem at the Llandudno Eisteddfod, 1864; topical verses including 'Hymns for the anniversary of the Newport Sunday school union, 1843', 'Cutting the sod; for the formation of the Alexandra Docks, Newport', 1868; 'Epithalamium on the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh with the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna', 1874; 'In the pit (An impromptu memorial of Tynewydd)', 1877; 'A hymn of praise written for the jubilee of the English Baptist Church, Commercial Street, Newport', 1879; 'An anthem for the Queen's jubilee', 1887; and elegies, including on Prince Albert, 1861, Rev. David Dudley Evans, 1873, Crawshay Bailey, esq., 1874, Lord Tredegar, [1875], S. K., 1877, Catharine Mabli Evans (his daughter), 1880, William Evans JP, 1880, Sir Hugh Owen, 1881, James Salter, 1880, John Andrew Williams, 1881, Caradawc y Venni, 1882, Samuel Homfray, esq., 1882, Henry Collier, 1883, Minna Jones of the Mumbles, Swansea, 1883, Edmund B. Edwards, esq., 1884, Ceiriog, [1887], R. F. Woollett, 1887, the emperor of Germany, [1888], James and Mary Baker of Peterstone, co. Mon., 1891, Rev. Jeremiah Davies, 1891, Rev. J. W. Lance, 1892, Rev. John Jones, Congregational minister of Caerleon, [n.d.], Matthew Jones, jun., of Swansea, [n.d.], T. F. Mullock, [n.d.], Brinley Richards, [n.d.], and Edward Thomas, [n.d.]. Also includes a copy (front and back covers and fly-leaf loose) of a printed book 'Catharine Mabli Evans. Born 5th January 1858. Died 6th November 1880. Memorial chords, by her father, W. Downing Evans, (Leon.)' ([s.l.] : printed for private circulation only, c.1880), containing twenty-five poems, dated 6-30 Nov. 1880. Also a typescript transcript of 'Some poems by Leon (mainly 1880's)'. Also 'Cywydd marwnad yr urddasol bendefig Robert Davies, o Lannerch, yswain, yn sir Flint' by Evan Evans (pp. 23-24), and 'Awdl foliant Risiart ap Sion' by Sion Tudur, 1580 (pp. 23-26), both extracted from [18 cent.?] volumes; and a pamphlet of the 'Speech of Mr. Sheriff Lawrence, M.P., at the state banquet in the town Hall, Manchester' during the state visit of the lord mayor and sheriffs of London to Manchester, 2-10 Aug. 1901.

Copies of 'The Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, Limited : Oakdale Collery, 1st March 1930', and 'The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association : Report on the exhibition of colliery horses, The Royal Agricultural Show, Cardiff, 1938'.

A list of Army postings, 1939-1943, lists of books read, Sept. 1942-Dec. 1944, a list of books from Percy Muir, including from Edward Thomas's library, Oct. 1943, lists of the works of Arthur Machen and T. E. Lawrence, and other notes.

Original bundle of letters to and from W. H. Davies, 23 July 1908-12 Oct. 1928, including from Arthur C. Fifield of London, publisher, July 1908-March 1909; letter from R. Hamilton Edwards re. the sale of the serial rights of 'The autobiography of a super-tramp' to the 'Penny Pictorial', July 1909, forwarded by Davies to [C. F.] Cazenove, his agent, Aug. 1909; from Alston Rivers of London, publishers of 'The soul's destroyer', Aug. 1910-Dec. 1915; and a letter to Coulson Kernahan with a signed print of Davies, Oct. 1928. Also signed, corrected typescript copies of four poems, probably for publication in the Mercury: 'The two stars', 'The doll', 'Timepieces' and 'Secrets', undated.