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Biographical material relating to the career of Samuel Evans [1859-1935], Johannesburg, chairman and managing director of the Crown Gold Mining Company, South Africa, etc. The notes, compiled by William Robert Hall [1849-1937], Aberystwyth, include details supplied by Samuel Evans and are accompanied by printed matter, including a copy of Forty years of Rand Mining by Samuel Evans, reprinted from The South African Mining and Engineering Year Book, 1932.

A scrap-book of press cuttings of Cardiganshire interest. The titles include 'Y Parch. Phiup [sic] Pugh a'i Amserau' (attributed in the hand of J. H. Davies to D. Worthington, with the comment that 'This article is wrong in nearly every detail'), 'Some Old Records of Cardiganshire', 'Cymru Fu' ('Grand Jurors for 1732', 'An old Revenue Conflict in Cardiganshire', 'Old Welsh Ballads', 'Extracts from Gaol Files', 'The First Press in Wales', and 'The Manor of Perfedd...'), 'Glimpses of Aberystwyth in Shakespeare's Time' by E. A. L. [i.e. Professor E. A. Lewis, University of Wales, Aberystwyth], 'Fifty Years of the 'Cambrian News', Welsh Journalist's Reminiscenses' by W. R. H. [i.e. William Robert Hall, Aberystwyth], 'The House of Peterwell', etc.

Letters addressed to G. G. T. Treherne mainly on antiquarian subjects. The correspondents include F. C. Eden, Salisbury, 1917; P. Gardner, Oxford, 1916; Francis Green, St David's, 1917-1921; W. R. Hall, Aberystwyth, 1917; C. H. Hawkins, Bury St Edmunds, 1915; E. Ernest Hughes, Swansea, 1922; John Humphreys, Bromsgrove, 1916; Alfred James, Whitland, 1916-1917; D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh, 1916; J. B. Jeremy, London, 1917; Philip M. Johnston, London, 1905; Alice Jones, Oxford, 1918; David Jones, Eglwys Gymyn, 1916; M. H. Jones, Carmarthen and Ton Pentre, 1904-1916; T. Edwin Jones, Holyhead, 1916; A. L. Leach, Woolwich, 1919; J. Vacy Lyle, ('M.R.') London, 1901-1913; Donald Macbeth, London, 1917; Edmund McClure, Malvern Link, 1920; Gwenllian E. F. Morgan, Brecon, 1916; Charles F. Newcombe, Victoria, 1915; W. E. Nicholson, Lewes, 1918; Edward Owen, London, 1916-1922; Lewis Roderick, Nevern, 1916; T. C. Cantrill, London, 1916-1922; F. W. Child, London, 1905; T. Guy Clarke, Llandaff, 1914-1922; W. Clark, Wenvoe, 1916-1920; F. S. Colman, Bromsgrove, 1916; O. M. Dalton, London, 1916; J. Davies, Tremoilet, 1916; J. Davies, Chwilog, 1916; M. Davies, Nant-y-glo, 1918; F. Duine, Rennes; H. J. Dyer, Isfield, 1916; Herbert Eccles, Laugharne, 1921; F. C. Eden, London, 1914; D. C. Evans, St Clears, 1919-1921; E. James Evans, Colwyn Bay, 1916; J. T. Evans, Kifig, 1920; George Eyre Evans, Aberystwyth and Carmarthen, 1909-1922; E. Vincent Evans, London, 1918; and John Fisher, St Asaph, 1920.

An essay on 'Romantic Incidents and Remarkable Characters of Old Aberystwyth' by Evan Lewis, edited for publication by W. R. Hall.