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D C Harries Collection : Military Portraits

  • D C Harries Military Portraits
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  • [c1890-c1947]

Over nine hundred portraits, mostly studio, predominantly of First World War era British Soldiers. Most are individual portraits, some are in small groups with family or friends, also large group photographs. Many depicting a Territorial Force summer camp may well be from a 1913 camp held between Bridge and Lovelock farms, Ffairfach in the summer of 1913. The vast majority are anonymous but some can be given approximate dates by the presence of overseas service chevrons, good conduct stripes etc. Many of those dated 1914, especially the Pembroke Yeomanry, may well date from the years preceding the outbreak of WW1. Other portraits are of members of associated services and include veterans of earlier conflicts and servicemen & women from World War Two. The latter category including American troops from the 28th Division who were camped in South Wales from October 1943 until July 1944 as well as Free French and Belgian soldiers. Both US Corps of Engineers and infantry corps are represented. The engineers are believed to be men of the 103rd Engineer Battalion who served with the 28th Division. Their headquarters from October 1943 to April 1944 was the Hotel Belgrave, Tenby. There are also a considerable number of US Quartermaster Corps GI's including African-American soldiers.

D C Harries, Rhosmaen Street, Llandilo.

Welsh voices

The file comprises papers, 1966-1967, relating to Welsh voices. An anthology of new poetry from Wales, ed. Bryn Griffiths (London, 1967), mostly correspondence between Glyn Jones and Bryn Griffiths which includes lists of poems for the anthology (one letter also contains observations regarding the Aberfan disaster). Glyn Jones appears to have acted as consultant on behalf of the Welsh Arts Council during the compilation of the anthology.

Griffiths, Bryn

The Arts in Wales,

Mainly manuscript and typescript notes, 1970-1987, prepared by Sir Goronwy Daniel for addresses and speeches on themes relating to the arts in Wales, together with a small quantity of related printed items and press cuttings. The file also contains notes for an address on 'Yr Ieuanc a Disgyblaeth Heddiw' delivered by Sir Goronwy at Cyfundeb Annibynwyr Penfro, 16 July 1980.

Bangor Bishopric foreshore rights,

Letter (17 pp.), 1885, from W. J. Hardy, Chancery Lane, London, outlining the result of searches carried out among records at the Public Record Office (now The National Archives), Lambeth Palace, and the British Museum, concerning the Bishop of Bangor's foreshore rights, including wreck of the sea, within all his manors and lands. Also included are extracts from, and abstracts of, documents, 1284-1715, from the three repositories; together with an abstract of a report entitled 'Bangor Bishoprick Estates. Foreshores and Waste Lands', prepared by H. W. Hewlett in 1866.

Kyffin, a figure in a Welsh landscape,

Corrected final typescript draft, [2000x2008], of Ian Skidmore's biography, 'Kyffin, . . . a unique figure in a Welsh landscape', published as Kyffin, a figure in a Welsh landscape (Bridgend, 2008); with a copy of a letter, 2000, from Ian Skidmore to Kyffin Williams.

Skidmore, Ian.

British Antiquities Revived

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.

Vaughan, Robert, 1592-1667

An estate book

Accounts, and memoranda of agreements for letting properties and tithe in the parishes of Llanfihangel Ystrad, Trefilan, and Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, 1805-1821, by Thomas Davies, vicar of Ystrad and rector of Trefilan.

Davies, Thomas, fl. 1805-1821

Records of the borough of Carmarthen,

A volume entitled on the cover 'The Records of the Corporate Borough of Carmarthen, during the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, Charles II., James II., William & Mary, Anne, George I., and George II. Ad verbum et literam transcripta, ex tabulis publicis ab Alcuino C. Evans'. The volume contains transcripts of records from the original 'Book of Ordinances' preserved in the common coffer of the borough, the records dating from 1590 to 1764. According to the imprint on the title-page the work was compiled at Carmarthen between September 1851 and July 1853.

Alcwyn C. Evans.

Cardiganshire papers,

Miscellaneous papers, 1708-1893, relating to Cardiganshire, including a survey of lands and houses in Aberystwyth by Thomas Evans and John Richard, 1708 (ff. 1-2); particulars of tithe owners in north Cardiganshire, mid eighteenth century (ff. 3-7 verso); and minutes of a meeting of estate owners relating to enclosing the manor of Mefenydd, 1814 (ff. 11-12).

Cookery recipes and maps

Mary Pearson's book of cookery and household recipes, with printed copies of a number of maps of the counties of England and Wales, some of them made by Emanuel Bowen and R.W. Seale, 1755.

Transcripts and extracts

One of forty-one volumes containing transcripts of, and extracts from, parish registers and bishops' transcripts of parish registers principally from Monmouthshire, in the autograph of Bradney, with several insets in the autographs of John Hobson Matthews (Monmouth), Francis Green (St Davids), John Davies (Aberystwyth) and others. This volume contains transcripts and extracts from the parish registers of Panteg, 1598-1785; Llanishen, 1601-1775; Llanllowell, 1664-1762; Llangibby, 1678-1806; Llangoven, 1691-1745; Llanvapley, 1699-1812; Goytrey, 1700-1778; Trostrey, 1723-1811; Pen-y-clawdd, 1728-1806; Bettws Newydd, 1736-1810; and Oldcastle, 1794-1836.

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