File NLW MS 12572D. - Letters to Arthur Stanley Davies,

Forty-five holograph and autograph letters, 1931-1938 and undated, addressed to A[rthur] Stanley Davies at Welshpool, at Llanidloes, and [in Nigeria]. The writers include Richard S. Biddle, Columbus, Ohio [U.S.A.], 1937 (2) (a genealogical query concerning the writer's ancestors who were from the parish of Carno, co. Montgomery), M. E. Bull, the Cathedral Library, Hereford, 1934 (books from Cwm [Jesuit 'college'] in Hereford Cathedral Library), Frank G[eorge] G[riffith] Carr, House of Lords Library, 1936 (a reply to a query by recipient concerning enclosure acts, noting four such acts relating to cos. Merioneth and Montgomery, 1761-1816, and giving an estimate of the cost of providing copies), [Messrs.] Churchill, Clapham, and Co., London, 1938 (?the binding of Collections . . . relating to Montgomeryshire), L. E. Dales, Plas Hafod, Llansantffraid, [co.] Mont[ gomery], [19]36 (the location of the 'Howells family Bible'), Ellis W[ illiam] Davies [Member of Parliament for South Caernarvonshire, 1906-1918, and for Denbigh, 1923-1929], Caernarvon, 1937 (?problems relating to publishing, mention of the Cymmrodorion, the National Eisteddfod Society, and the Gregynog Press), J. Breese Davies, Dinas Mawddwy, 1933 (the Talglannau palstaves [see John Ward: 'The Bronze Age in Montgomeryshire', Collections... relating to Montgomeryshire..., Vol. XLIII, pp. 110- 65]), [The Reverend] Lewis Davies (acting rector of Llandysilio), Llandysilio, Oswestry, 1937 (a promise to check the parish registers), Llywarch P[eredur] C[aenog] Dodd, the County School, Portmadoc, 1938 (back numbers of Min y Traeth [the school magazine]), T[homas] P[eter] Ellis [Dolgellau], [1935] (a reply to recipient's query concerning a [Catholic] priest named [Philip] Parry [referred to in Calendar of State Papers Domestic, July 1 to September 30, 1683, pp. 12-13]), [The Reverend] Llewelyn Grey, The Vicarage, Llandinam, [19]37 (a promise to examine the churchwardens' accounts for items of interest), W[illiam] A[rthur] Griffiths, Malta Dockyard [Malta], 1937 (the writer's transcripts of the earlier Guilsfield and first extant Llandrinio [parish] registers, suggestions that the Montgomeryshire marriage licences at St. Asaph and the Montgomeryshire Quarter Session Books should be indexed, queries re Window Tax lists), C. F. C. Hawkes (Honorary Secretary), Royal Archaeological Institute, St. James's [London], 1934 (an offer of twenty- four volumes of back numbers of the Archaeological Journal at special rates if the Powysland Museum were enrolled as a subscribing member of the Institute), Hillside Mining Company, London, 1938 (a refusal to grant permission to visit the gold mine at Bontddu [co. Merioneth]), James Hornell, St. Leonards on Sea, 1935-1937 (3) (the writer's researches in Wales and Ireland on coracles and curraghs, and papers read or published thereon, a request for information about canoe making in Nigeria [where recipient was at the time], other subjects of research), [The Reverend] Alfred Ivett, Aberhafesp Rectory, Newtown, 1937 (the bells of the parish church), J[ohn] Charles Jones, The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, London, 1936 (forwarding a parcel of books from a friend of the Powysland Museum), Katie Griffith Jones, Llansantffraid, [19]38 (acknowledging condolences, her husband's papers and Welsh books), [Robert William Jones] 'Erfyl Fychan', Llanerfyl, Welshpool, [19]36 (a reply to a query concerning harp makers and harpists mentioning Thomas Peters of Llangynog (fl. circa 1820), harp maker, Griffith James of Dolgelley (fl. circa 1820), harp maker, Ellis Roberts ('Eos Meirion'), harpist, a note by Carnhuanawc [Thomas Price] on 'Y Delyn Fach', the making of harps by Sackville Gwynne of Glanbran Park, near Llandovery, and their presentation to wandering harpists, the presentation of a harp to John Roberts ('Telynor Cymru') by Lady Llanover), T. Griffiths Jones, Llansantffraid, [co.] Mont[gomery], [19]36 (a [family] bible with entries re the Howell family), Nest Lloyd, Cynghordy, Llandovery, 1934 (3) (the writer's interest in objects, buildings, etc., with Stuart and Jacobite associations), J. B. Oldham, Shrewsbury, 1937 (forwarding four deeds relating to Montgomeryshire), Bryan H. St. J. O'Neil, H. M. Office of Works, Westminster, 1931-1938 (5) (replies to queries concerning a wig curler, clay pipes, and the handle of a jug or pitcher, local bridges, Newtown churchyard, the demolition of Wrexham old town hall), Maureen O'Reilly, University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, 1934-1937 (3) (a proposed exchange of a stone axe found near Montford Bridge, Shropshire, for a Cambridgeshire stone axe, a cast of the former), N. Bennett Owen, Llanidloes, [19]37 (a photograph of John Roberts [? 'Telynor Cymru'] in the possession of Nicholas Bennett [of Glanyrafon, co. Montgomery, 1823-1899 ], ? Roberts's harp, the disposal of Bennett's library), Arthur Ll. Phillips, The Robert Owen Museum, Newtown, 1936 (newspaper cuttings exhibited in the museum), Ivor Powell, London, 1935 (2) (a query about the writer's grandmother), [Walter FitzUryan Rhys, 7th baron] Dynevor [London], 1934 (his inability to present to the Powysland Museum a copy of his book [Trees at Dynevor Castle. A summary list with notes, Carmarthen, 1934]), D. C. Roberts, Welshpool County School, [19]37 (the writer's interest in a survey of Oswestry, 1577-1602), Mary E. Savage, Penstrowed, Caersws, 1937 (acknowledging condolences), F. R. Thomas, Llanfair, Welshpool, undated ( the location of a notebook in which Samuel Roberts, clockmaker, of Pant Tanhouse [Llanfair Caereinion], made a list of the clocks he made [1755-1774 ]) (for a photostat copy of the notebook see NLW MS 4519A), and Ivor Thomas, Adelphi [London], 1937 (2) (enquiring whether the Abraham Howell papers in recipient's possession contained material relating to David Davies [of Llandinam], whose biography the writer was compiling [Top Sawyer. A Biography of David Davies of Llandinam, London, 1938]).