Three verses, dated 30 December 1905, by Edward Evan Morgan, Burry Port, sent to Prof. J. Young Evans and family, Trevecka College, as a greeting card.
Printed copy of the poem 'Canterbury Pilgrims' by Sebastian Evans, signed by the author and dated Christmas 1902. It was subsequently published in Canterbury: Mother-city of the Anglo-Saxon Race, ed. by Sebastian Evans and Francis Bennett Goldney (Canterbury, [1904]).
A copy, [19 cent., second ½], in an unknown hand, of 'Pen-y-gwryd', a poem of 14 verses, dated 21 August 1856, written by Charles Kingsley, Tom Taylor and Thomas Hughes. The verses were entered by the three men in the visitors' book of the Pen-y-Gwryd Inn, Caernarvonshire, at the end of their stay in August 1856. The poem was published in Offerings at the foot of Snowdon; or, Breathings of Indolence at Pen-y-gwryd (Woburn, 1864). The text of the present copy includes a few variations from that published version and may have been copied directly from the visitors' book. The manuscript was apparently sent to J. L. Roget, whose name appears on f. 2 verso.
A holograph copy, [c. 1823] (watermark 1821), of the first three verses, and accompanying descriptive passage, of the poem 'The Home of Taliessin' by Alaric A. Watts. The poem was first published in Alaric A. Watts, Poetical Sketches... and Other Poems, 3rd edn with additional poems (London, 1824), pp. 155-157, where it comprised six verses; it was collected in Alaric A. Watts, Lyrics of the Heart: With Other Poems (London, 1851), pp. 275-276, as five verses (the fourth having been omitted). The poem was composed in 1819 (see Watts (1824), p. 157).
Holograph copies, 1952, of poems and other material by Frank Elijah Dudley, California, 1940-1952. Photographs and envelopes are pasted onto the leaves.
A letter, sent to the press, [February 1820], containing a poem, 'The Tribute of Wales' by Owen Jones, relating to the death of George III. The poem was published in its entirety in the Morning Chronicle, 17 February 1820, p. 3, the day after the King’s funeral. A covering letter from the donor, 19 January 1957, is also included (f. i).
Autograph draft of 'Pilgrims', [1896x1901], by Sir Lewis Morris. The poem was published in Harvest-Tide (London, 1901), pp. 138-140, with a number of revisions.
Typescript copies, with the author's signature, [?1949], of two poems by T. H. Jones, 'The Anglo-Welsh' (ff. 1-2) and 'Amends' (f. 3), both addressed to Aneirin Talfan Davies. 'The Anglo-Welsh' was first published in Dock Leaves, 4.11 (Summer 1953), 26, and 'Amends' in The Dublin Magazine, 25.3 (July-September 1950), 4. Also included is a letter from Jones to Davies, 27 March 1957, concerning Jones's book The Enemy in the Heart (London, 1957), in which 'Amends' was first collected (f. i).
Leaves from a school exercise book, [?late 19 cent.], containing exercises and transcripts of miscellaneous prose and poetry. The poetry includes Wordsworth's 'Lucy Gray' (1799) (ff. 5-6), and part of the anonymous poem 'The Lost Child', as published in The Dog of St. Bernard and Other Stories (London, [1875]) (ff. 2, 3).
Typescript copy, [mid 20 cent.], of 'Bro Goth Agan Tassow', a Cornish song composed, [20 cent., first ¼], by Henry Jenner, based on 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau'. A revised version appears in The Cornish Song Book, ed. by Ralph Dunstan (London, 1929). Also included is a letter concerning the song, 16 December 1967, from P. A. S. Pool, secretary of the Cornish Language Board.
Original signed manuscript, [?1917], by John S. Arkwright, of an additional, apparently unpublished, verse to his hymn 'O Valiant Hearts', known for its association with Remembrance Day services. The hymn in it's published form was included in Arkwright’s volume The Supreme Sacrifice (London, 1919).
Miscellaneous papers, [1867]-[1896], 1916, of John Morgan, a Cardiff solicitor. These include three Welsh poems, 'Bywyd Iesu yn fywyd yn fy mywyd i' by 'I.G.D.', [19 cent, second ½], 'Y Bwthyn yn Nghanol y Wlad', [19 cent, second ½], and a press cutting of a poem by Islwyn on the birth of John Morgan's son William Parry [Morgan], [?1875]; and two issues of The Rennbahn Church Times, a Prisoner of War camp magazine, 1916.
Typescript, [?20 cent, first ½], of 'Childhood's Memories' by R[ichard] S[amuel] Hughes, dated 18 March 1889. See Ben Jones, R. S. Hughes and Gutyn Mawrth, Cofion Plentyndod = Childhood's Memories (Bethesda, 1923).
Manuscript, [1822x1849], of the second and third verses (of three) of Charles Swain's 'Tripping Down the Field-Path', published in Charles Swain, English Melodies (London, 1849).
Facsimile copy, [?20 cent, second ¼], of a manuscript of 'Mo Ṫalaṁ Duṫcais', a translation of 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau' into Irish, by Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (Tadg O'Donoghue, Torna), dated 24 July 1929 and presented to William Jones, Cilfynydd.
