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Part of Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith Papers
A copy of a privately printed work entitled Hiraeth, being a collection of poems written by Wyn Griffith in France, 1916-1917; together with letters received from family and friends on reading the poems.
A typewritten copy of the poem 'Glamorgan terriers' by Private William Owen ('Ryrdinfab') of the 5th Welsh Regiment, Haverfordwest, and great-grandfather of the donor, written during the First World War.
Owen, William
An exercise book containing poems apparently written by a soldier from Anglesey [J. Thomas, Llangwyllog] during the Great War 1914-1918. Among the titles are 'Deigryn ar fedd cyfaill a laddwyd ar y Somme yn 1916', 'Fechgyn Hen Eglwys a gwympodd yn y Drin', 'Memorial Hall Bodwrog', 'General Owen Thomas A. S. Môn', and 'Arwyr Rhosgolyn'.
Thomas, J., Llangwyllog
Harold Lloyd-Jones compositions,
A notebook and loose papers comprising poetry and items of prose dating from the First World War period, written by Second Lieut. Harold Lloyd-Jones (1897-1917) of Llangeitho, a promising law student at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He died in the Influenza Epidemic of 1917 and was the elder brother of Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981). Also included is a newspaper cutting of a tribute poem 'Harold' in Welsh by D. Lloyd-Jenkins.
Lloyd-Jones, Harold.
A copy of Goliath and David by Robert Graves (London 1916), ‘privately printed for a select circle of friends’, including an incomplete letter from the author to his friend Frank [Francis] Jones-Bateman, 27 March 1917, in reply to his criticism of the poems in Goliath and David. The letter was written from Erinfa, Harlech. Frank Jones-Bateman, a fellow officer of Graves in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was killed during the attack on Engelfontaine on 4th November, 1918, aged 22.
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985