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Mair Richards Music Book

A volume of traditional Welsh airs, [c. 1830]x[1853], which came into the possession of Mary Richards, Darowen, c. 1853. Two Breton airs, with verses, are also included (ff. 65v and 66r).

Richards, Mary, 1787-1877

Mary Richards Commonplace Book

The commonplace book of Mary Richards, Darowen, [c. 1875], containing numerous stanzas and a few poems. A list of tunes which were apparently in her possession is also included. The volume agrees with the description given to MS 241 in the Handlist of Cwrtmawr MSS. The volume of Welsh airs referred to in that Handlist, along with No. 241, is possibly now AH1/28.

Richards, Mary, 1787-1877

Richards family letters

Nineteen letters, 1812-1863, addressed to various members of the Richards family, mainly from relatives, comprising letters to Thomas and Jane Richards from their daughters Jane, 27 May 1812, 17 September 1812 (ff. 1-4), and [?Mary], 1 April 1817, August 1826 (ff. 13-14, 20-21); letters to Mary Richards from her brother Lewis Richards, Berriew, 18 December 1819 (ff. 18-19), and niece Elen Richards, Llangynyw, 1 December 1835 (ff. 24-25); letters to Jane Richards from her friend Margaret Gwynn, Gwastadgoed, [?18] March [?1815]-26 June 1816 (ff. 7-12), and niece Elen Richards, [early 1830s] (ff. 22-23) and (from Hackney) 13 September-9 October 1862 (ff. 28-44); a letter to E[lizabeth] Richards, Shrewsbury, from her brother Tho[ma]s Richards, Berriew, 8 June 1818 (ff. 15-16); letters to John and Lewis [Richards] from [?Mary Richards], Darowen, 1 April [?1814] (ff. 5-6), and to Richard Richards from T. Price, Darowen School, June 1819 (f. 17); and two letters to E[len] Richards from friends and acquaintances, 9 April 1852, 19 August 1863 (ff. 26-27, 45). Also included is a tune 'Difirwch Arglwyddes Owen' (ff. 46-47).

Richards, Mary, 1787-1877

Sarah Matthews letters to Mary Richards

Eleven letters, [?1842]-[?1853], from Sarah Matthews of Rudgwick, Sussex [?and formerly of Dolgellau], to her friend Mary Richards (ff. 3-8, 11-29), together with one letter, 10 November 1846, to Mary from Sarah's sister Martha [Redaway] (ff. 9-10), and one letter from Sarah Matthews to Jane Richards, [1820x1837] (ff. 1-2).
Sarah addresses Mary as 'My dear Daughter' and 'Pall Bach Anwyl'.

Matthews, S. M. R. (Sarah Martha Redaway), 1789-1875