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Middle East and eastern Mediterranean,

Printed War Office maps of Egypt, Palestine and Syria, particularly Sinai, Gaza, Yahia and Jerusalem, with annotations, and hand-drawn maps of positions near Gaza, notably on the Mansura Ridge. Also included is a hand-drawn military map of the base at Salloom Bay, Libya (on the dorse of a printed map of the campaign in the Italian Alps), and printed maps of the Balkan peninsula and Palestine, taken from newspaper and journal publications.

Y Daith i Wlad Canaan

Papers relating to Mari Ellis's pilgrimage to the Holy Land (mainly Israel but also Jordan and Syria) in August-September 1962 as part of a group including the Bishop of Bangor, comprising (i) her passport and other travel documents, insurance papers, correspondence, itineraries and other papers relating to the organisation of the trip, 1960-1962; (ii) correspondence of Mari Ellis with her husband, children and mother during the trip, 1962; (iii) postcards and (iv) other printed matter collected on the trip; and (v) drafts and notes for various articles and other writings relating to the pilgrimage, [1962].