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Nomination papers, publicity material, correspondence and statements of election expenses relating to the bitter by-election for the University constituency between Alun Talfan Davies, Evan Davies, Neville Lawrence, W. J. Gruffydd, and Saunders Lewis in January 1943 caused by the appointment of the sitting member, Ernest Evans, as a county court judge.

Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys gohebiaeth yn adlewyrchu ochr weinyddol y gwaith o gyhoeddi'r cyfrolau, 1989-1992.

The correspondents include: Charles Geake (2), 1902 and undated, David Lloyd George (6), 1895-1909, Richard Lloyd George ('Dick'), 1908, William George (2), 1904-1911, Thomas Allen Glenn (10), 1913-1916, Alfred P. Graves (2), 1911-1912, Mortimer Green (11), 1892-1905, Elphin (R. A. Griffith), (4), 1902-1909, and W. J. Gruffydd (5), 1907-1925.

Papurau amrywiol, [1932]-1992, gan gynnwys rhestr o 'Eitemau golygyddol W J. [Gruffydd]' yn Y Llenor, 1927-1942; llyfr nodiadau yn dwyn y teitl 'Moustachiographology' sef ei astudiaeth ddoniol o fwstashis, 1932; copi o'i lythyr, [1942] a anfonwyd at Gwilym Lloyd George, Gweinidog tanwydd a phwêr ar y pryd; memorandwm, 1946, yn ymwneud â'r bwriad o sefydlu Coleg Gwerin i Gymru, ynghyd â nodyn esboniadol gan D. Tecwyn Lloyd, 1963; a phapurau, 1946, yn ymwneud â'i gynllun arfaethedig i gasglu cyfansoddiadau eisteddfodau bach a'u storio yng Ngholeg Harlech.

Llythyrau, 1936-1937, a dderbyniodd cyn ac yn ystod cyfnod D. J. Williams yng ngharchar Wormwood Scrubs, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth J. E. Daniel (1), Cassie [Davies] (5), George M. Ll. Davies (4), [William Evans], 'Wil Ifan' (5) a W. J. Gruffydd (1).

Deunydd amrywiol, 1921-1923, yn cynnwys gohebiaeth yn bennaf, yn ymwneud â chyhoeddi cylchgrawn Cymraeg newydd, yn dwyn y teitl Y Llenor, i lenwi'r bwlch a adawyd gan dranc Y Beirniad. Ymhlith y gohebwyr mae W. J. Gruffydd, Henry Lewis ac Ifor Williams.

A letter, 1937, from Daniel Evans to W. Gilbert Williams, together with an explanatory note, [?1956].

Proof sheets of Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg. Spurrell's Welsh-English Dictionary, edited by J. Bodvan Anwyl (Carmarthen, 1914), with corrections by Edward Anwyl, J. Bodvan Anwyl, W. J. Gruffydd, Timothy Lewis, Thomas Powel, E. Lorimer Thomas, and Ifor Williams.

27 o lythyrau yn ymwneud â rhifyn coffa T. Gwynn Jones o'r Llenor, yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth T. H. Parry Williams, E. Morgan Humphreys, Dewi Morgan, David James Jones (Gwenallt), Richard Aaron, J. M. Edwards, J. Lloyd-Jones, John Tudor Jones (John Eilian), Sir Thomas Parry, W. J. Gruffydd, D. Rees Griffiths (Amanwy), E. Tegla Davies, Gwilym R. Jones, Dafydd Jenkins, Geraint Bowen, Idris Bell, 1949.

Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys llyfr lloffion 'Rhif 2, 1922-23' sydd yn cynnwys toriadau papur newydd 1922-1927. Mae'n cynnwys llythyrau a chardiau oddi wrth E. Tegla Davies, 1922, Owen Edwards, 1918, Ifan ab Owen Edwards, 1922, Ifor Williams, Ernest Evans, 1916, W. J. Gruffydd, R. D. Rowland (Anthropos), 1919, T. Gwynn Jones, 1922, D. Tecwyn Evans, 1918, ac Arthur Henderson, [c. 1922]

'Welsh Lyrics', being the original manuscript of a review by Robert Arthur Griffith ('Elphin'), published in The Arvonian, April, 1901, of R. Silyn Roberts and W. J. Gruffydd: Telynegion (Bangor, 1900). The greater part of the review is written on the dorse of leaflets entitled 'Cyngrair Cymru Fydd. Sut i ffurfio cangenau'.

Fourteen letters to the Reverend David Jones, Aberystwyth, from Euros Bowen, 1952 and 1962, W. J. Gruffydd, 1952, and Waldo Williams, 1962, his co-adjudicators in the competition for the crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1952, and the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Llanelli, 1962.

Carbon copies of letters sent to Frances in response to the proposal that a Lloyd George Memorial College might be established in North Wales, together with an original letter from Violet Carruthers (Markham). The file includes letters from Lord Altrincham, Clement Attlee, Lady Astor, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Stafford Cripps, E. Clement Davies, Margaret Greenwood, Professor W. J. Gruffydd, Herbert Morrison, Harold Nicholson, Sir Herbert Samuel and George Tomlinson. All the writers express their reluctance and hesitation to associate themselves with the proposal. Some of the letter writers expand on their reasons for declining to support the suggestion and reflect on Lloyd George's life, career and contribution.

'Arwrgerdd Owen Glyndwr', by D. Lewis ('Ap Ceredigion'); 'Pryddest: Esgyniad y Cymro', by Humphrey Jones ('Bryfdir'), 1896; 'Nos Galangauaf' - a translation from Burns - by Henry Rowlands ('Henri Myllin'); and a translation, 1897, by W. J. Gruffydd of part of 'Myfanwy Fychan' by John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog').

The file includes letters from H. H. Asquith, John Ballinger, Alfred T. Davies, W. J. Gruffydd, I. D. Hooson, John M. Howell, Aberaeron, G. Hartwell Jones (3), Henry Haydn Jones, Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon'), and A. Osmond Williams.

Papurau, 1911-1944, 1970 a 1975, yn ymwneud â'r gyfrol The Welsh House: A Study in Folk Culture (Lerpwl, 1944), yn cynnwys llythyrau gan D. Lleufer Thomas, J. L. C. Cecil-Williams (4); J. Lloyd-Jones (2); Evan D. Jones (2); Henry Lewis (2); D. J. Williams; Ifor Williams (3); Ifan ab Owen Edwards; Estyn Evans; W. J. Gruffydd; H. Harold Hughes; A. L. Leach; E. A. Lewis; Llew Morgan (2); J. F. Rees; E. G. Bowen; Sigurd Erixon; A. W. Wade-Evans; H. J. Fleure; a J. B. Willans; copïau o daflen yn hysbysebu'r llyfr; copi printiedig o erthygl gan Iorwerth Peate, 'Folk studies in Wales'; torion o'r wasg, sef adolygiadau o'r Welsh House yn bennaf; ynghyd â nifer o ffotograffau a brasluniau o adeiladau.

Two letters, 1969-1970, in Welsh, from Saunders Lewis to Geraint Eckley, concerning the latter's research on W. J. Gruffydd.
The letters contain comments on W. J. Gruffydd's literary and academic work (f. 155) and directions to Lewis' house in Penarth (f. 156).

Llythyrau, [1925]-1969, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth Raymond Garlick (1), Gwilym Lloyd George (1), Megan Lloyd George (1), William George (4), D. R. Grenfell (3), Moses Griffith (3), Stephen Griffith (1), D. R. Griffiths ('Amanwy') (1), James Griffiths (4), J. Gwyn Griffiths (52), Kate B[osse] Griffiths (1), W. J. Gruffydd (9), Eirwen Gwynn (1) a Harri Gwynn (1).

A collection of over 200 books and pamphlets from the library of the donor's husband, the late Rev J. Seymour Rees, Seven Sisters, most of these being typescript volumes (NLW MSS 18628-707). The collection consists of some original work by J. Seymour Rees and his father, John Rees, such as poetry, short stories, essays, biographies, and guide books, much of which was submitted for competition at various national and local eisteddfodau, and volumes of collected material on various topics, including essays, articles and other material on such eminent Welshmen as W. Llewelyn Williams, Daniel Silvan Evans, Sir John Morris Jones, and Rev William Edwards, Groeswen, and on Welsh hymnology, and collections of poetry by D. Emrys James ('Dewi Emrys'), I. D. Hooson, R. Williams Parry, and T. J. Thomas ('Sarnicol'), of prose by 'Sarnicol', W. Llewelyn Williams, O. M. Edwards, and W. J. Gruffydd, and of hymns by H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed'), J. D. Vernon Lewis, J. R. Davies, Pentyrch, and others, and selections of prose and verse compiled for competition at various national eisteddfodau. In addition to the collection of Elfed's Welsh and English hymns, there are twelve volumes containing some of his prose and verse and material on his life and work. There are also indexes to Y Beirniad, Y Geninen, and Y Geiriadur Bywgraphyddol; typescript copies and cuttings, from periodicals and newspapers, of articles and essays by various persons, and by 'Sarnicol' and J. Seymour Rees in particular; typescript transcripts of several printed books, in particular of collections of hymns published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings relating to D. Lloyd George, Dylan Thomas, 'Dewi Emrys', W. Llewelyn Williams, Sir John Morris Jones, 'Elfed', Rev John Evans, Brecon, Rev Jubilee Young, and others. The collection also contains letters to J. Seymour Rees and Mrs. Seymour Rees and a small group of other correspondence. The largest donation of printed books received during the current year was that which the Library was invited to select from the very extensive library of Rev J. Seymour Rees (Dept of Printed Books). It numbered several hundreds of volumes primarily of literary, historical, and theological interest, all in very good condition, and many having been bound by Mr. Rees himself. Additional material from the library of the donor's husband, the late Rev J. Seymour Rees, Seven Sisters. It includes typescript collections of 'Cyfansoddiadau sydd yn fy modloni i' and 'A short anthology of the world's greatest Christian prayers' (NLW MS 19384B); three scrapbooks of typescripts and newspaper cuttings (NLW MSS 19385A, 19386B, 19387C); a typescript copy of 'Casgliad o gyfarwyddiadau i wneuthur hen fwydydd nodweddiadol Gymraeg' by Miss Mati Thomas ('Mati'r Ddôl'), Nanternis, New Quay (awarded the prize at the Treorchy National Eisteddfod, 1928) (NLW MS 19383B); Evan Thomas: Galareb S. Griffiths o Horeb (Castellnewydd-Emlyn, 1960), and J. Lloyd Williams: Byd Natur (Caerdydd, 1924) (Dept of Printed Books). A holograph letter of David Jones (1856-1937), Aberdare, afterwards Independent minister at New Quay, co. Cardigan, and at Scranton, Pa., U.S.A. (NLW MS 18866E, No 246C); and a printed postcard to the donor from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, [March 1965], acknowledging a message of sympathy and good wishes (NLW MS 16726A).

Ymhlith y gohebwyr amlycaf mae Syr Idris Foster (3), Francis Gourvil, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog') (2), R. Geraint Gruffydd (3), W. J. Gruffydd (2) a D. B. Hague (4).