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Papers, 1976-2019, accumulated by Ena Niedergang whilst researching for her book Wales-China: 250 years of history published in 2015 and other papers not used for the book, including correspondence relating to missionaries and soldiers who served in China and the many connections between the two countries.
Additional papers relating to The Wales-China Friendship Society, including correspondence relating to branches of the society in Cardiff and Swansea and minutes of meetings, The China ’89 project, visitors to China and from China to Wales and exhibitions.

Notebooks and other papers of Dr Douglas Houston, including drafts of poems, notes, diary entries, correspondence and drafts of articles.

Papers of the Wales for the Assembly campaign, 1975-1979, including minutes, correspondence and papers of the Wales for the Assembly Action Committee and Research Sub-committee, 1976-1977; minutes of the Campaign's committee meetings, 1978-1979; pamphlets and leaflets, 1979; publicity and speeches, 1978-1979; correspondence, 1975-1979; press statements, 1979; and miscellaneous papers, 1978-1979.

Proofs of an article by Eric Rowan on Augustus and Gwen John, based on the script of his BBC Wales television film, The Fire and the Fountain, and published in The Listener, 20 March 1975.

Archive relating to Elfyn Llwyd's activities as MP for Meirionydd Nant Conwy and Dwyfor Meirionydd and as a member of Plaid Cymru. the archive contains material relating to Parliamentary work including committee work and legislative scrutiny, local and national party arrangements, speeches and correspondence.

Some ninety-nine letters and postcards, 1975-2013, from the poet and local historian Ruth Bidgood, Abergwesyn and later Beulah, Powys, addressed to the Rev. James Coutts, and frequently also to his wife Stevie, discussing her poetry, publications and public readings, her daily life and her family, containing frequent references to friends including Anne Cluysenaar, Angela Morton and A. M. (Donald) Allchin (ff. 1-188, 191-214).
Also included are typescript copies of eighteen of Bidgood's poems and sequences of poems, published and unpublished, [c. 1979]-2014, notably 'Hymn to Sant Ffraed' (ff. 215-225), most given by her to Coutts and a few re-typed by him, and cuttings and photocopies of a further fifteen poems from periodicals, 1983-2002 (ff. 25, 37-38, 52-53, 70, 116, 120, 215-265); typescript drafts, cuttings and photocopies of articles, interviews and reviews, [1978]-2006 (ff. 266-299), including two typescript articles by Donald Allchin (ff. 279-293); and a letter from Bidgood's friend Mary [MacGregor], of Myddfai, to James Coutts, 2 June 2009 (ff. 189-190). Many of the letters were written on the backs of sixty-three of Bidgood's own photographs, so as to resemble postcards; besides these a further twenty-nine of her photographs are also included amongst the letters.

Film scripts by Rhydderch Jones, 1974-1987, mainly for television, including 'Mr Lollipop MA', 'Lliwiau' and 'Swallows'. = Sgriptiau ffilm gan Rhydderch Jones, 1974-1987, yn bennaf ar gyfer y teledu, gan gynnwys 'Mr Lollipop MA', 'Lliwiau' a 'Swallows'.

Literary manuscripts, 1974-1993, of Philip Henry Burton, comprising typescript drafts of the unpublished works 'They Called Me Gentleman Johnny', 1974, and 'A Great Reckoning', 1975, and of his Richard and Philip: The Burtons ... (London, 1992), 1986; together with letters and cards, 1990-1993, from Philip Burton to David Arthur Callard.

Scripts, letters and photographs, 1974-1975, relating to the production of 'Augustus and Gwen: The Fire and the Fountain', a television documentary film about Augustus John and Gwen John, written by Eric Rowan and first transmitted, 19 March 1975, on BBC2.
The papers comprise a location list, [1974] (ff. 1-3), dubbing script, 25 February 1975 (ff. 4-31), and post-shoot script, [January 1975] (ff. 32-63); letters to Eric Rowan from Michael Holroyd, 1974 (ff. 64-66), Caspar John, [5] August 1974 (f. 67, postcard), Edwin John, 1974-1975 (ff. 68-70, 73), Poppet Pol, 4 October 1974 (f. 75), Romilly John, 1974-1975 (ff. 76-77 verso), and Mary Taubman, 9 October 1974 (ff. 78-79, incomplete); draft and copy letters of Eric Rowan to Edwin John, [December 1974], 19 February 1975 (ff. 71-72, 74); and five photographs taken during the filming in Provence of Poppet Pol's contribution, [Summer 1974] (ff. 80-84).

Papers of CAT, including: diaries and notebooks; annual reports; minutes of committees, etc.; registers of share certificates and of directors and secretaries; correspondence; maps and plans; photographs and slides; VHS and audio tapes; reports, notes, correspondence, plans, etc., relating to CAT research, designs, projects and consultancy work, including the cliff railway and the WISE building; course details; conference reports; staffing and volunteers; task and resource lists; Welsh Language Policy; published material, including guidebooks, resource and information packs and leaflets, educational guides, publicity material, reference books, newsletters, articles, etc. This published material includes copies of 'Clean Slate,' 'Quarry News' and 'Zero Carbon Britain.'

Papers of former Welsh Labour & Co-operative politician Don Touhig, Baron Touhig, comprising material relating to his political career both before and after his 1995 Islwyn by-election victory, and including campaign publicity; speech notes; parliamentary reports; diaries; and correspondence.

Typescript of 'The Phillipps Manuscript: a chapter in early Welsh migration to the West Indies and the United States'. Trans. from the original in NLW 92B, with introduction and notes, by Dr Clare Taylor.

Ten typescript articles and transcripts, 1973-1984, nearly all written or compiled by Dr Clare Taylor, Aberystwyth.
They comprise: (i) 'America 1851-1852', dated April 1973, a translation by Mari Ellis of the diary of Iorthryn Gwynedd (NLW MS 9521A), with an introduction by Clare Taylor; (ii) 'The Phillipps Manuscript: A Chapter in Early Welsh Migration to the West Indies and to the United States', 1973, a transcript of NLW MS 92B with an introduction by Clare Taylor (the introduction only was published, with the same title, in National Library of Wales Journal, 19.3 (Summer 1976), 243-248); (iii) 'A Description of Trinidad 1881-1882', 1973, a transcript of [?part of] NLW MS 17267D; (iv-vii) 'A Victorian Guide to Wales', 1973 and undated, four volumes containing transcripts from nineteenth-century trade directories of descriptions of individual parishes in Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire; (viii) an article, 1979, entitled 'The Journal of an Absentee Proprietor: Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech', concerning NLW, Slebech Estate Records 4292-4302; (ix) 'Isaac Williams of Cardiganshire – the Christian poet – an introduction to his nature poetry', 1984, an article subsequently published in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1986), 115-126; and (x) 'NLW MS 15505 Picton Papers and Letters', [n.d.], consisting of transcripts (and in some cases translations from the Welsh) of letters of Welsh-American interest in NLW MS 15505E, as well as NLW MS 14111D and elsewhere. Items i-iv and viii-ix are photocopied or cyclostyled, while v-vii and x are carbon copies.

A letter, 1 March 1972, from David Jones, artist and writer, to Alun R. Jones, Professor of English at UCNW, Bangor (f. 1), enclosing a typescript draft of sleeve notes, prepared by the latter, for a gramophone record entitled Poets of Wales: David Jones (Argo, 1972), with copious manuscript notes and corrections by David Jones (ff. 2-9).
David Jones' notes include comments on his poems 'A, a, a, Domine Deus' (ff. 1 verso, 5), 'The Sleeping Lord' (ff. 1 recto-verso) and 'The Tribune's Visitation' (ff. 6-7). Also included is a revised typescript draft of the sleeve notes (ff. 10-17).

Miscellaneous press cuttings, extracts from Hansard, memoranda and duplicate copies of correspondence relating to the legal status of the Welsh language, included among a group of papers on the same topic (now NLW MS 22551E).

Papurau, 1972-1979, Cell Casnewydd o Gymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, yn cynnwys gohebiaeth yn ymwneud â statws yr iaith mewn addysg, busnes a bywyd cyhoeddus yng Ngwent. = Papers, 1972-1979, of Cell Casnewydd, Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, including correspondence relating to the status of the language in education, business and public life in Gwent.

Papers donated by the Aberystwyth, Pontypridd and Cardiff branches of Welsh Women's Aid. They include material relating to the constitution, corporate structure, strategic development and codes of practice of Welsh Women's Aid; records of its Management Committee and of numerous departmental meetings; internal and external correspondence; accounting, fundraising and other administrative papers; material celebrating Welsh Women's Aid's twenty-first, twenty-fifth and fortieth anniversaries; and individual branch archives of Welsh Women's Aid, all of which reference the issues affecting women and their children who access Women's Aid, such as domestic violence, social welfare and law and legislation.

There is considerable overlap of subject-matter within sections of the archive: for example, corporate and work reports, statistics and questionnaires, as well as material relating to violence against women, children/families, housing and benefits appear under multiple sections, while records of individual group meetings such as Employment and Finance or material relating to accounts, conferences, training courses, etc frequently appear under details of Management Committee meetings, Annual Reviews and so forth.

See under Cardiff Women's Aid Archive: Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales for correspondence and other material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's decision to deposit papers with the Women's Archive of Wales.

** NOTE THAT SOME SECTIONS OF THIS ARCHIVE HAVE BEEN EMBARGOED FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME: SEE UNDER INDIVIDUAL HEADINGS ***

Fourteen letters and cards, 1972-1984, from the poet R. S. Thomas to various correspondents, mainly in response to requests that he sign copies of his books.
The recipients include Colin Huggett, 1973-1980 (ff. 7-10), and Satish Kumar, 1984 (f. 11, photocopy).

Papers of artist, lecturer, curator and writer Moira Vincentelli, comprising material relating to the 1985 Women's Art in Wales touring exhibition and to other exhibitions; questionnaires completed and returned by Welsh women artists and craftspeople; material relating to the 1983 Retrospective Exhibition by painter and poet Ray Howard-Jones; general correspondence; and miscellaneous material.

'From Wales to Wisconsin - The Plas yn Blaenau Papers'. Transcript of NLW MS 6478D with introduction and notes, by Dr Clare Taylor.