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Letters and papers of D. R. Daniel

  • NLW MS 11069E.
  • File
  • [1888x1913].

Sixty-five holograph and autograph letters and postcards, and telegrams, 1888-1913 and undated, addressed to David Robert Daniel (1859-1931) of Fourcrosses, Chwilog, Caernarvonshire. The writers include a circular, 1904, issued by the North Wales Quarries Ltd; P[eredur] Ll. Daniel, London, his son, undated; [Robert Evans] ('Cybi'), Llangybi, undated; [E.] Vincent Evans, London, 1913?; [Henry] Harold Hughes, Bangor, 1903-06; and The North Wales Quarrymen's Union, Caernarvon, undated. Also included in the group are three holograph letters, 1888-1905, from D. R. Daniel to his wife Sara and to his mother Jane; a holograph letter, undated, from Sara [Daniel] to her mother at Llandderfel; a grand jury summons for the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Caernarvonshire, addressed to D. R. Daniel,1905; vouchers, certificates of bank credits, etc. of D. R. Daniel, 1904-13; and other holograph letters which include one to [H. J. Williams] ('Plenydd'), 1890; and a letter, 1898, containing accounts of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union; also verses in Welsh entitled 'The Memorable Temperance Supper Dec. 23rd. 1882'.
References include those to Peredur Daniel, son of D. R. Daniel; memorials and a Testimonial Fund to Thomas Edward Ellis; the illness of Daniel's father-in-law; and the Penrhyn Quarry dispute.

Daniel, David R. (David Robert), 1859-1931

Gwaith W. J. Parry,

  • NLW MSS 10602-10610A
  • File
  • [1901x1910] /

Essays and addresses by William John Parry, Bethesda:- 'Gwroldeb'; 'Cyfarchiad i Ieuengctid'; 'Egwyddorion Cynnulleidfaoliaeth'; 'Egwyddorion Llwyddiant Llafur'; 'Y Cload allan yn y Penrhyn, 1901'; 'Mr. Young a Lord Penrhyn'; 'Robert Parry, Bethesda'; 'Arddel Crist neu Aelodaeth Eglwysig'; 'Perthynas y Cristion a'r Eglwys weledig ar y ddaear'; 'Yr Adfywiad Cymdeithasol, - Ei Beryglon'; and sermons.

Parry, W. J. (William John), 1842-1927

Dyddiadur,

  • NLW MS 23086A
  • File
  • 1891 /

Dyddiadur y Methodistiaid Wesleyaidd ... 1891, containing entries, in Welsh, by Owen Thomas, ?Tre-garth, parish of Llandygái, co. Caernarfon, mainly comprising reflections on his spiritual condition, and including (p. 36) a reference to his fellow-workers ('fy nghyd-weithwyr') at the Penrhyn slate quarry.

Thomas, Owen, Tregarth, blacksmith