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Papers of Denis Balsom, 1979-2004, comprising opinion polls and surveys relating to Welsh politics, culture and society. The collection includes pre-election opinion polls, 1979-2004, concerning voting intentions across Wales and public opinion of devolution; constituency polls, 1987-2003, carried out to assess voting intentions on a regional level; surveys on the Welsh language and culture, 1979-1995; surveys relating to social issues in Wales, 1989-1995; and television image surveys, 1979-1996.

Photocopies of papers, 1925-1951, of Denis Martin (1919-1998), relating to the Communist Party, including press cuttings concerning George Edward Maslin [d. 1951] of Tylorstown, a founder member of the Communist Party in Rhondda and a Communist District Councillor; election addresses of George Edward Maslin and Elizabeth Jessie Collingbourne for the Rhondda District Council elections, 1946; and the election address of Arthur Horner (1894-1968) for the Rhondda East By-election, 1933.

Papers, 1956-1994, relating to Dennis Hoare (1922-1995) and his involvement with Welsh Rugby as referee and secretary of the North Wales Society of Rugby Union Refererees.

A volume lettered on the upper cover 'The Honourable The Irish Society. Report of the Deputation to Ireland in the year 1844'. The contents consist of a manuscript copy of the report presented to the 'Honourable Society of the Governor and Assistants, London, of the New Plantation in Ulster', by the deputation delegated in June 1844, to visit the said plantation. The object of the deputation was to inquire into, and report upon, 'the state of the property, the condition of the Tenantry, and the particulars of the several Schools, and other Charities and Institutions, supported in whole, or in part, by Grants [from the Society]. The visitation was carried out, August - September 1844, and the report signed, 27 January 1845, by John Humphrey (Ald[erma]n, Governor), Wm. Jones (Deputy Governor), Wm. Lawrence, W. Hughes Hughes (Ald[erma]n), William Collingwood, and Thos. Henry Hall. According to an inscription on the title-page, this particular transcript was presented by the Society to the aforesaid Wm. Jones, by whom the actual report had been prepared.

A typescript pedigree relating to the Deputy family, dating from the seventeenth century to the present day, compiled in 1999 by Michael E. Deputy; together with a photocopy of an article 'Castles of Wales' taken from Deseret News, 24 August 1986.

Working drafts, 1984, of Marwnad fy Mam, an elegy by Derec Llwyd Morgan on the death of his mother, published in his volume of poetry, Cefn y Byd (Llandysul, 1987).

Letters, 1976-1977, between Derek Baskerville and his employers, The Central Statistical Office, London, regarding his application for financial assistance towards the cost of educating his children at the Welsh School, London.

The fonds consists of the research papers of Derrick Pritchard Webley, mainly relating to his work on the artist Penry Williams. The papers include correspondence, notes and typescript transcripts of letters relating to Williams, his works, his contemporaries and his cultural background, together with catalogues of works by Williams and other artists, and typescript drafts of chapters of Webley's posthumous work Cast to the winds: the life and work of Penry Williams (1802-1885) (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1997). Also included are papers relating to Derrick Webley's archaeological interests, in particular the palaeolithic geography of the Epirus region of Greece.

The archive comprises almost entirely of title deeds, 1621-1927, of the Derry Ormond estate, co. Carm., mainly dating from its acquisition in 1783 by the Jones family, later Inglis-Jones.

A typescript copy of D. A. Derwas-Read's family history entitled 'A short history of the Derwas Family, Former Princes and Lords of Wales' (subsequently replaced in September 2001 with an updated version entitled 'Derwas - Out of Oak. A Family History Covering 2000 Years and Still Continuing').

Title deeds, 1525-1907, of the Derwydd estate, mainly in Carmarthenshire, and of the families of Vaughan of Golden Grove and Llanelli, Bevan of Laugharne (including Madam Bridget Bevan, 1698-1779), Stepney of Llanelli, and Stepney-Gulston of Derwydd. There are no personal or family papers in the archive.

A copy compiled by the donor of the genealogy of David and Mary Davies and their descendants, 2007. The couple emigrated from Cardiganshire to Jackson County, Ohio, in 1837.

A copy of the donor's research on the family of Rowland Rowlands. He married Elizabeth Samuel in the parish of Llanfihangel Ystrad, Ceredigion, in 1830, and later emigrated to Ohio in the USA. Also included are printouts from America Online, 2006, with a biographical note on J. W. Rowlands, 'one of Lima’s leading citizens'.

A typescript genealogical account of the Bowen family of Llwyngwair, Pembrokeshire, 1858-2006, by the donor Joy Neal.

Description of Dolgellau, Tywyn and district by Oliver Rees, Dolgellau; spiritual diary by an anonymous writer; and a draft of the history of the Dolgellau area. Between boards.

A transcript, 1853, in the hand of Matilda Pasley, of a version of George Owen of Henllys's 'Description of Milford Haven', dated 17 December 1595 (ff. 2-26), together with a note by the transcriber (f. 1).
The manuscript mostly agrees with the texts of Cardiff 2.46 and BL Add. 22623, as published in George Owen, The Description of Penbrokshire, ed. by Henry Owen, Cymmrodorion Record Series, 4 vols (London, 1892-1936), pp. 529-562; where Henry Owen lists minor variations between those two manuscripts the present transcript does not consistently correspond with one or the other. The wording of the title page (f. 2) is significantly different (see Henry Owen (ed.), p. 533), while the section beginning 'For the more ease…' which concludes the other manuscripts is here interpolated on ff. 17-18. A memorandum concerning Owen's methodology for drawing his map of Milford Haven does not appear to be recorded elsewhere (f. 22). The present manuscript is itself copied from an intermediate transcript made at Worsley [New] Hall, Lancashire, on 22 October 1852, by Mary L[ouisa Egerton, Viscountess] Brackley, from the original 1595 manuscript belonging to her father-in-law [Francis Egerton, 1st] Earl of Ellesmere (probably the manuscript now Huntington Library MS EL 1145 (34/B/32)) (see f. 1). In 1853 Matilda Pasley's husband, Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart, was in command of Pembroke Dockyard and the Pasleys became acquainted with Lady Brackley during visits to Stackpole Court, the seat of her father, the 1st Earl Cawdor (see Lawrence Phillips, 'Captain Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, Bt., R.N., and Pembroke Dockyard, 1849-1854', Mariner's Mirror, 71.2 (1985), 159-165 (pp. 160-161)).

General correspondence, 1950-74, to Desmond Donnelly and carbon copies of letters from him, including letters form Dean Acheson, Sir Anthony Eden and Sir Roy Welensky and other prominent British and international political figures; papers relating to various topics including Pembrokeshire politics and general elections, 1916-1968, Donnelly's foreign travels and international affairs, 1949-1972, his publications, 1958-1966, the United Democratic Party, 1969-1970; a scrapbook relating to the British Empire Cricket Team, diary extracts, papers and other personal material, 1941-1974; copies and drafts of articles and speeches by Donnelly, 1949-1973; and a large group of press cuttings, 1921, 1946-1978. There is also a scrapbook belonging to John Wynford Philipps, 1897-1908.