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Diary for the period 30 September-9 December 1941 of Lady Megan Lloyd George (1902-66), Member of Parliament for Anglesey, 1929-51, and for Carmarthen, 1957-66, containing occasional entries relating to the progress of the Second World War with references to Winston Churchill and other contemporary figures.

A scrapbook of press cuttings, 1859-1904, mostly of illustrations and Welsh poetry, compiled by T. Glwysfryn Hughes, Liverpool, including some of his own poems, together with related correspondence, 1858-1941.

Papers of and relating to Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, 1599-1941, comprising general correspondence of Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, 1893-1919 and 1922-1940; general correspondence of Lady Thomas, 1895-1941; American letters from descendants of relatives who emigrated, 1873-1931; letters of Welsh interest mainly concerning localities and place-names, 1892-1919; letters relating to T.E. Ellis, 1898-1935; personal letters and cards from Daniel Lleufer Thomas to his wife, 1902; political letters, 1906-1933; papers relating to Daniel Lleufer Thomas's legal career and interests, 1891-1938; subject files relating to his public offices, including his appointment to the Welsh Land Commission, 1887-1941, societies and institutions to which he belonged, 1886-1940, Llandovery School, 1880-1935, the translator and poet Richard Morris Lewis, 1866-1933, general literary and historical interests, 1889-1940, and miscellaneous subjects, 1915-1933; and personal papers which include deeds of Brynmaen, once the family home, 1599-1885, and diaries of Daniel Lleufer Thomas and Lady Thomas, 1892-1899.

Papers, 1844-1941, of the Williams family of Acre House, Acrefair, mainly comprising letters, including family correspondence and letters received from relatives in Glamorgan, from the Pugh family, and from relatives in the USA, [late 19th cent.]-[early 20th cent.]; letters to the Rev. Ebenezer John Williams, mostly relating to his duties as minister and the chapel and water works in Llanwddyn, 1882-1889; and letters to John Williams, [late 19th cent.], mostly relating to the iron industry. The archive also includes diaries of John Williams, 1844-1897; notebooks, accounts and other documents, 1856-1893, relating to the ironworks in Ruabon and South Wales; diaries and notebooks of the Rev. Ebenezer John Williams, 1869-1935 (including chapel committee notes, accounts, Sunday School registers, and sermon notes); diaries and notebooks of Rev. John Pugh, 1849-1890, (including one containing his autobiography); papers relating to Liberal Party election campaigns in Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, [late 19th cent.]; deeds, 1842-1921, mostly relating to property in Dowlais; papers relating to schools, [late 19th cent.]-[early 20th cent.], including school notebooks, prospectuses of schools including Holt Academy, and papers relating to the founding of British schools in the Cefn Mawr district and elsewhere.

How a Folk Tale is Told (broadcast) by Robin Flower. (Typescript.) English. In boards. Copied from the script lent by the author.

Account books, 1796-1942, containing details of receipts and payment in respect of Ellen Glynne's charity, including details of rents received from trust property in the parishes of Llandwrog and Llanllyfni, co. Caernarfon, and in the parish of Llangoed, co. Anglesey.

The collection includes deeds and documents, 1626-1871, relating to members of Griffith Evans's family; family personalia, [c. 1830]-1887; portraits and photographs, 1852-1931; professional diplomas awarded to Griffith Evans, 1855-1870; papers deriving from his career, 1872-1917; papers relating to the discovery of Trypanosoma Evansi in Surra, 1880-1935; general tributes paid to Griffith Evans, 1931-1935; tributes paid to him on the occasion of his hundredth birthday and papers relating to the birthday celebrations, 1935; miscellaneous papers found in his wallet after his death; extracts from diaries and notes made with a view to the preparation of an autobiography, 1869-1942; extracts from letters and books made by Dr Erie Evans; academic notes and transcriptions of documents made by Griffith Evans; offprints, monographs and other printed materials, 1822-1931; religious questionnaires, 1926, on personal attitudes towards religion and religious experiences; general correspondence, 1857-1935, addressed to Griffith Evans; press cuttings; miscellaneous photographs and prints; and extracts from Griffith Evans's journal of his visit to North America from Canada, 1864.

Four items, 1922, relating to Richard Hughes' play, 'The Sisters' Tragedy', comprising a letter, 24 June [1922], from Hughes to the critic and playwright Padraic Colum concerning the production of the play (f. 2), enclosing a copy of the first edition, signed and corrected by Hughes (ff. 3-20), and a printed sheet of reviews (f. 21); and a cutting from The Weekly Westminster Gazette, 10 June 1922, p. 15, containing a review of the play (f. 1).
Also included is a programme, December 1943, for a production at the Belasco Theatre, New York City, of 'The Innocent Voyage', the stage adaptation of Hughes' novel A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929) (ff. 22-31).

Five letters, 1942-1943, from the artist and writer David Jones to the art historian and critic Robin Ironside, relating to the preparation of Ironside's illustrated booklet David Jones (Harmondsworth, 1949).
Jones discusses painting from nature and the selection of paintings for the volume. A sketch of a balcony view is on f. 4.

The fonds comprises estate records, family papers and public administration papers of the Griffith family of Garn and the families to whom they were related by marriage, such as Hughes of Weeg and Cae'r berllan, Wynne of Voelas and Wynne of Garthmeilio, Cwm Mein and Plasnewydd. It includes title deeds, 1572-1903, for lands mainly in Denbigh, Henllan, Llanefydd and Llanrwst, Denbighshire, Caerhun, Caernarfonshire and Rhuddlan, Flintshire, and for properties elsewhere in Denbighshire, Merioneth, Flintshire and Anglesey; rentals, 1658-1784, other papers concerning estate administration, 1708-1912, maps and plans, 1776-1866, domestic management papers, 1725-1885, family settlements and probate records, 1606-1863, pedigrees and genealogical notes, [pre-1614]-[c.1934], schooling and career details, 1746-1920, literary papers, [1660]-1925, letters of the Griffith family, 1724-1943, and others, 1680-1882, diaries and memoranda, 1701-1853, records of court cases and other disputes, 1672-1928, family and non-family trusts, 1712-1879, financial papers such as mortgages and accounts, 1680-1906, Denbighshire militia records, 1801-1876, papers relating to local government and politics, [post-1719]-1926, and a small number of ecclesiastical records, 1727-1912.

A sample copy, [1929], of part of a projected printed book by Ezra Pound, to be called 'The Complete Works of Guido Cavalcanti', containing also four autograph poems and a prose fragment by Dylan Thomas, [1936]-[early 1940s], and two typescript poems by Vernon Watkins, [c. 1939]. Pound's book was intended for publication in 1929 but was abandoned, with only the first 56 pages printed, when the Aquila Press went bankrupt. The present volume appears to be a sample copy, of which two similar ones are recorded (see Donald Gallup, Ezra Pound: A Bibliography (Charlottesville, 1983), p. 153), consisting of the first two gatherings only (ff. 2-9) and filled out with blank leaves (ff. 10-74). The original Aquila Press fragments were later incorporated into the composite work Guido Cavalcanti Rime, ed. by Ezra Pound (Genoa, [1932]).
The Dylan Thomas poems are 'Then was my neophyte', [1936] (f. 11) (published in Twenty-five Poems (London, 1936), pp. 40-41), 'We lying by seasand', [1937x1939] (f. 74 verso) (first published in Poetry (Chicago), 49.4 (January 1937), 183, and collected in The Map of Love (London, 1939), p. 8), 'Paper and sticks', [early 1940s] (tipped in on f. 12) (first published in Seven, 6 (Autumn 1939), 6, and collected in Deaths and Entrances (London, 1946), p. 23), and 'Once below a time', [early 1940s] (tipped in on ff. 13-14) (first published in Life and Letters Today, 24.31 (March 1940), 274-275; see Collected Poems 1934-1952 (London, [1952]), pp. 132-133); the prose fragment (tipped in on f. 15) is the end of 'One Warm Saturday', [1938], the last story in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (London, 1940), pp. 253-254. The two Vernon Watkins poems, 'The windows', 1939, and 'A bronze head', [c. 1939], are apparently unpublished (tipped in on ff. 16-17). A dried leaf found loose within the volume has been placed in an archival sleeve.

Manuscripts collected by, and papers of, the Rev. T. Llechid Jones, including personal correspondence, 1883-1943; miscellaneous correspondence, 1826-1907; diaries, 1888-1935; addresses, 1911-1937; miscellaneous notes, 1888-1941; antiquarian notes, 1700-1943, mainly relating to parishes in North Wales; press cuttings, 1890-1934; pedigrees, genealogical material and correspondence of H. R. Hughes, 1867-1920; deeds and documents relating to Llysfaen, Caernarfonshire, and elswhere, 1597-1880; and printed books, with manuscript notes, 1678-1937.

A notebook containing poetry by John Watkins (Ioan Gwent, c. 1831-1889/1890), Rhymni, including 'Pryddest ar y gwlith', which won the chair at the Tregaron and Tredegar eisteddfodau in 1876, together with related press cuttings and correspondence, 1858-1859, and biographical notes by Isaac Herriman, June 1944. This volume may have been intended for publication as the second part of John Watkins's Tlysau Awen (Rhymni, 1880).

A Book of Private Prayer used as a scrapbook, 1927-1944, by the Rev. B. G. Rees, Curate of Defynock (1934-36), Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), and Rector of Llansannor (1944-48); the volume consists mostly of press cuttings and letters relating to his ordination and career and his column in the Bridgend Advertiser, with some syllabuses for his lecture courses at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre with the WEA and YMCA (45 ff.). Also included are proofs, [?1938], of W. H. Auden's twenty-seven sonnet sequence 'In Time of War', for publication in W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Journey to a War (London, 1939), pp. 259-285; the proofs contain a very few manuscript emendations by the author and suggested titles for some of the sonnets and were given to Rees by Auden (see Auden's letter, NLW MS 24059E, f. 2) (6 ff.).

Papurau Anthropos, 1869-1944, yn cynnwys gohebiaeth, 1869-1944, a llythyrau o gydymdeimlad at ei weddw, 1944; papurau personol eraill, 1878-1944, yn cynnwys dyddiaduron, llyfrau nodiadau ar bynciau llenyddol a diwinyddol; torion o'r wasg, 1880-1937; papurau llenyddol yn cynnwys cerddi gan Anthropos, 1876-1939, anerchiadau, erthyglau, traethodau a chyfansoddiadau rhyddiaith eraill, 1898-1922; barddoniaeth a rhyddiaith gan awduron eraill (rhai llawysgrifau gwreiddiol), yn enwedig Llew Llwyfo, 1877-1939. = Papers of Anthropos, 1869-1944, including correspondence, 1869-1944, and letters of condolence to his widow, 1944; other personal papers, 1878-1944, including diaries, notebooks on literary and theological matters; newspaper cuttings, 1880-1937; literary papers including poems by Anthropos, 1876-1939, addresses, articles, essays and other prose compositions, 1898-1922; poetry and prose by other writers (some original manuscripts), in particular Llew Llwyfo, 1877-1939.

A Second World War prison camp Red Cross procurement diary, May 1942 - October 1944, listing the prisoners' names, ranks, numbers, regiments, next of kin and camps, including Stalag VIIIB, Stalag XXA, Stalag XXID, Stalag XVlllA, and recording items of clothing sent by the families of prisoners, all of whom appear to be from the Aberdare area, and organised by the Welsh Red Cross.

Llawysgrif, wedi ei baratoi ar gyfer y wasg, o fywgraffiad T. I. Ellis o'i dad, Thomas Edward Ellis, Cofiant: Cyfrol I (1859-1886) (Lerpwl, 1944). = Manuscript, prepared for the press, of T. I. Ellis's biography of his father, Thomas Edward Ellis, Cofiant: Cyfrol I (1859-1886) (Liverpool, 1944).
Ysgrifennwyd y llawysgrif yn bennaf ar ddalennau rhydd o lyfrau ateb arholiadau. Mae cywiriadau, arnodiadau a throednodiadau wedi eu hychwanegu mewn pensil; mae nifer o frawddegau a rhai paragraffau wedi eu dileu, yn arbennig ar ff. 2, 19, 213 a 223, ac mae newidiadau ac ychwanegiadau sylweddol wedi eu darparu ar ddalennau ychwanegol. Mae'r newidiadau yma wedi eu hymgorffori yn y fersiwn cyhoeddedig. = The manuscript is written mostly on loose leaves from exam answer books. Corrections, annotations and footnotes have been added in pencil; several sentences and some whole paragraphs have been deleted, in particular on ff. 2, 19, 213 and 223, with major alterations and additions supplied on additional leaves. These alterations are incorporated in the published version.

Deeds and documents, 1727-1945, of clients of Bythway and Son, relating mainly to properties in the counties of Monmouthshire, 1727-1940, and Glamorgan, 1823-1937; material relating to properties in Merionethshire, 1876, and Cardiganshire, 1847-1876; deeds relating to properties in Cumberland, 1850, Gloucestershire, 1840, and Lancashire, 1880-1945; and miscellaneous papers, 1831-1918.

Papers, 1935-1945, of the Rev. B. George Rees, Curate of Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), Rector of Llansannor (1944-48), and a WEA lecturer on literature at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre and elsewhere. The papers include letters, 1939-1940, from a number of authors and poets, responding to requests by Rees for their thoughts on lecture subjects such as 'Life and Literature'.
The respondents include W. H. Auden, [1939] (ff. 2-3), Winston Churchill, 17 January 1939 (f. 8), C. Day Lewis, [?1939]-1940 (ff. 10-12), Aldous Huxley, 27 March 1940 (f. 16), Glyn Jones, April 1939-February 1940 (ff. 19-27), Herbert E. Palmer, February-March 1940 (ff. 35-44), John Cowper Powys, February-March 1940 (ff. 45-47), J. B. Priestley, 10 January 1939 (f. 48), Dylan Thomas, September 1939-February 1940 (ff. 56-60), and Emlyn Williams, 8 February 1940 (f. 63); a few respondents, such as Glyn Jones (f. 25) and Dylan Thomas (ff. 59-60), supplied Rees with brief essays. Also included are notes, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to Rees's lectures (ff. 66-91); and papers, 1935-1945, relating to his Church career, including letters and telegrams concerning his Institution at Llansannor, August-September 1944 (ff. 92-100), sermon notes (ff. 102-109), and parish magazines and pages from annual reports relating to Laleston, 1935-1944 (ff. 110-120).

Papurau, 1905-1945, yng Nghymraeg a Saesneg, fu'n eiddo i'r Athro John Edward Daniel, yn ymwneud â'i weithgareddau gwleidyddol gyda Plaid Cymru. = Papers, 1905-1945, in Welsh and English, of Professor John Edward Daniel, relating mostly to his political activities with Plaid Cymru.
Maent yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth Compton Mackenzie, 8 Hydref 1939 (f. 1), Gwynfor Evans, 25 Tachwedd 1945 (f. 14), a William George, 20 Mehefin 1945 (f. 5), ynghyd â nodiadau gan George ar gyfer araith yn cefnogi Daniel fel ymgeisydd dros Blaid Cymru ym Mwrdeisdrefi Caernarfon yn etholiad 1945 (ff. 6-13). Hefyd yn y casgliad ceir papur enwebu Saunders Lewis yn is-etholiad Prifysgol Cymru, 1943 (f. 4); teipysgrif 'Memorandwm i Bwyllgor Heddwch y Blaid Genedlaethol' gan D. Gwenallt Jones, [c. 1939] (ff. 15-32, diwedd ar goll); a dau eitem o ohebiaeth deuluol, 1905 a [d.d.] (ff. 33-34). = They include letters from Compton Mackenzie, 8 October 1939 (f. 1), Gwynfor Evans, 25 November 1945 (f. 14), and William George, 20 June 1945 (f. 5), together with autograph notes for a speech by the latter in support of Daniel's candidacy for Plaid Cymru in Carnarvon Boroughs in the 1945 General Election (ff. 6-13). Also in the collection are nomination paper of Saunders Lewis in the University of Wales by-election, 1943 (f. 4); a typescript 'Memorandwm i Bwyllgor Heddwch y Blaid Genedlaethol' by D. Gwenallt Jones, [c. 1939] (ff. 15-32, end lacking); and two items of family correspondence, 1905 and [n.d.] (ff. 33-34).