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An autobiographical work entitled 'Quick March', written [in 1931] by Helen Thomas, and bearing corrections and paragraph marks, evidently in preparation for publication. The work appeared untitled as the seventeenth and final chapter of her second memoir, World Without End (London: Heinemann, 1931), pp. 181-194. This manuscript was claimed by the seller to have been owned by Vita Sackville-West, who reviewed World Without End (see Helen Thomas, Time & Again: Memoirs and Letters, ed. by Myfanwy Thomas (Manchester, 1978), p. 130).

Eight letters, 1860-1865, from Eliza Phillipps Hughes (Eliza Carmarthen) to the Rev. John Oliver, Llanfynydd.

Draft poems by John Oliver, press cuttings of reviews of his Cerddi Cystudd, obituary notices, and elegies, 1866; and a printed report, 1876, on the Athenaeum Middle Class School, Brecon, by William Oliver.

Poems, essays and other prose items written by Eliza Carmarthen (1825-1872), i.e. Eliza Phillipps Williams, Carmarthen, who married (1) the Rev. John Saunders Hughes and (2) the Rev. Thomas Johns.
The volume contains short essays and thoughts on Scriptural and other subjects, two short stories entitled 'I wish to be happy' and 'The Dying Student' and a large number of hymns and poems, mostly in English. Also included are two poems in English by Eliza's father John Williams, with a Welsh translation of one of them, and silhouettes by the late Miss Aldrit, Highbury Hall, Weston-super-Mare, and Mrs Johns.

Political papers of Baroness Eluned Morgan relating to her work as a Labour member of the House of Lords and a Labour member of the National Assembly for Wales, subsequently the Welsh Parliament.

The Winning of the Kingdom of Glamorgan from the Welsh, 1088, being the traditional account of Robert Fitzhamon and the twelve Norman knights who are said to have accompanied him, with an account of St. Donats Castle and the Stradling family, illustrated by numerous water-colour drawings and sketches.

Seven letters, 1955-1956, from Augustus John to Mrs Edith Saunders of the Hotel Santa Clara, Torremolinos, Spain, where the artist stayed from December 1954 to March 1955 (ff. 1-7 verso), together with one letter, 1955, from Dorelia McNeill to the same (f. 8); the letters contain mainly personal news and references to John painting a portrait of Mrs Saunders.

Papers, 1954-1975, of the Rev. R. M. Verity, Vicar of St Mary the Virgin in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, relating mainly to the funeral of Augustus John in November 1961 and the unveiling of the memorial to him in Fordingbridge in 1967.
The papers include letters to Verity from the John family, comprising eight letters and a postcard from Dorelia John, 1955-1969, four letters from Admiral Sir Caspar John, 1961-1967, one letter from Romilly John, 1969, and three Christmas cards and a telegram from Augustus and Dorelia, 1956-1958. Also included are Augustus John's burial certificate, Verity's notes for the memorial service [?and funeral] and printed material including catalogues, 1954, 1975, newspaper cuttings, 1954-1970, invitations, printed orders of service and a copy of the volume The Drawings of Augustus John, introd. by Stephen Longstreet (Alhambra, Calif., 1967).

Literary papers of Professor Gwyn Williams including typescript texts of This Way to Lethe with notes and correspondence, [c. 1962]; notes for The Avocet, [c. 1970]; material relating to his poetry collections including manuscript and typescript drafts, [1970]-[1980]; typescript and manuscript texts for Troelus a Chresyd, 1954-[1976]; papers relating to Person and Persona, [c. 1981], An Introduction to Welsh Literature, [c. 1978], and ABC of (D.) G. W., [c. 1981]; material relating to translations of Welsh poetry, [1950]-[1976]; material relating to The Land Remembers book and series, [c. 1977]; radio scripts, 1954; texts, drafts, notes, correspondence, maps and photographs relating to his travel writing, [1963]-[1975]; and correspondence with publishers and the BBC, 1951-1978.

Additional literary papers including manuscript works and notes, typescript poems, plays, articles and reviews were received in July 2018; a list and bibliography compiled by the family are inserted in the first box.

A typescript copy of a script by Gwyn Alf Williams which was sent to the donor when they were both making a programme on Goya for Channel 4 UK. [His Goya and the impossible revolution was published in 1976 and an Italian translation was later published].

Papurau, 1973-1990, yn ymwneud â sefydlu gweithgor o dan gadeiryddiaeth yr Athro Dafydd Jenkins, Aberystwyth, i lunio a phwyso am Ddeddf Iaith Gymraeg newydd yn ystod y 1980au. Yr oedd y rhoddwr J. Cyril Hughes a Dr Meredydd Evans yn gweithio fel ysgrifenyddion ar y cyd. Mae'r papurau'n cynnwys cofnodion cyfarfodydd, gohebiaeth a phapurau eraill yn ymwneud â'r gweithgor. = Papers, 1973-1990, relating to establishing a working party chaired by Professor Dafydd Jenkins, Aberystwyth, to press for a new Welsh Language Act in the 1980s. The donor J. Cyril Hughes and Dr Meredydd Evans were joint secretaries. The papers include minutes of meetings, correspondence and other papers relating to the working party.

Mae’r archif yn cynnwys papurau ymchwil cerddorol, yn bennaf yn ymwneud â chanu gwerin; sgriptiau radio a theledu; cyfieithiadau a chyfansoddiadau cerddorol (trosglwyddwyd tapiau gweledol a sain i AGSSC); llythyrau at Meredydd Evans a Phyllis Kinney, a chopïau o lythyrau oddi wrthynt, 1956-2015; a phapurau’n ymwneud â diddordebau Meredydd Evans ym meysydd athroniaeth a llenyddiaeth Gymraeg, ynghyd â dogfennau’n ymwneud â’i ran mewn ymgyrchoedd tros yr iaith Gymraeg, yn arbennig felly ym maes darlledu.

Papurau Rachel Mary Davies, 1923-1992, yn cynnwys papurau'n ymwneud â Phlaid Cymru,1938-1985; deunydd printiedig a llyfrau, 1923-1992, gan gynnwys cyhoeddiadau Plaid Cymru, 1950-1966; a gohebiaeth â Waldo Williams,1958-1967, yn cynnwys englynion anghyhoeddedig. = Papers of Rachel Mary Davies, 1923-1992, including papers relating to Plaid Cymru, 1938-1985; printed matter and books, 1923-1992, including Plaid Cymru publications, 1950-1966; and correspondence with Waldo Williams, 1958-1967, including unpublished englynion.

Saith llythyr a dau gerdyn, 1943-1968, oddi wrth Waldo Williams at Anna Wyn Jones (née Richards), Mynachlog Nedd, ei gyd-athro yn Ysgol Botwnnog, 1942-1944 (ff. 1-38). = Seven letters and two cards, 1943-1968, in Welsh, from Waldo Williams to Anna Wyn Jones (née Richards), Neath Abbey, his colleague at Botwnnog School, 1942-1944 (ff. 1-38).
Cyhoeddwyd dau o'r llythyrau (ff. 11-16, 20-24) yn Waldo Williams: Rhyddiaith, gol. gan Damian Walford Davies (Caerdydd, 2001), tt. 101-104. Cynhwysir hefyd lythyr, 29 Mehefin 1972, oddi wrth James Nicholas at Anna Wyn Jones (ff. 39-41); nodiadau ganddi, [1971]-[1980au], rhai ohonynt ar gyfer ei herthygl 'Waldo', yn Waldo: Cyfrol Deyrnged i Waldo Williams, gol. gan James Nicholas (Llandysul, 1977), tt. 37-49 (ff. 42-64); ac effemera yn ymwneud â Waldo Williams, 1978-1998 (ff. 65-74). Ceir cerddi gan Williams ar ff. 1, 6-7, 29 verso, 42-44. = Two of the letters (ff. 11-16, 20-24) are published in Waldo Williams: Rhyddiaith, ed. by Damian Walford Davies (Cardiff, 2001), pp. 101-104. Also included is a letter, 29 June 1972, from James Nicholas to Anna Wyn Jones (ff. 39-41); notes compiled by her, [1971]-[1980s], some in preparation for her article 'Waldo', in Waldo: Cyfrol Deyrnged i Waldo Williams, ed. by James Nicholas (Llandysul, 1977), pp. 37-49 (ff. 42-64); and ephemera relating to Waldo Williams, 1978-1998 (ff. 65-74). Poems by Williams are on ff. 1, 6-7, 29 verso, 42-44.

Letters, 1944-1967 and undated, to Dr William Thomas, Trefloyne, Tenby from D. J. Williams, Waldo Williams, and Sybil Thorndike.

Twelve holograph poems by Waldo Williams, [1956] (ff. 1-10), written down from memory with the encouragement of Prof. J. Gwyn Griffiths and Dr Kate Bosse-Griffiths at their flat in 1 Eaton Crescent, Swansea; with the exception of 'Arfau' (ff. 6 verso-7), all the poems appeared in the volume Dail Pren (Llandysul, 1956). Also included are page proofs of the first typesetting of Dail Pren prepared by Gwasg Gomer in June 1956 (ff. 11-103), arranged by the poet with the help of Prof. Griffiths and Dr Bosse-Griffiths and including a few manuscript emendations in the hand of Prof. Griffiths.
The first typesetting differs significantly from the first published version of November 1956, with the poet having omitted twenty of the sixty-three poems and added twenty-three new poems.

A volume of holograph Welsh poetry by Waldo Williams (1904-71), entitled 'Odlau Idwaldo, sef Ambell Donc gan Waldo Williams [ac Ambell Dinc gan Idwal Jones]' (words in square brackets deleted by the scribe).