Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1846-1941 / (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
38 items.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Mary Parry of London married R. Silyn Roberts Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet and social reformer in 1905. They had two sons and a daughter.
She was educated at the University College of Aberystwyth and later appointed Organisational Secretary of the North Wales District of the Workers Educational Association which had been established by her husband in 1925.
R. Silyn Roberts died in 1930 and was survived by his wife.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Items 14877-14903 are stated to have been presented by Mrs Mary Silyn Roberts.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The collection consists mainly of correspondence regarding the death of R. Silyn Roberts and the sale of his books, the Workers Educational Association, Bethel Chapel in Tanygrisiau, Merionethshire, the death of the brother of Mary Silyn Roberts in Australia and other matters. Also, there are letters written by Mary Silyn Roberts and R. Silyn Roberts to Professor F. Rönning, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1904-1922. -- There are lectures and general notebooks which belonged to Mary Silyn Roberts when studying at the University College of Aberystwyth, pre 1905; reports and letters regarding the Women's Land Army in Wales, 1914-1918; a photograph of the grave of R. Silyn Roberts and a ticket of a meeting at Mynydd y Cilgwyn Chapel, 1846.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: digitized. Action identifier: cymruww1. Date: 2013. Authorization: The Welsh experience of World War One, 1914-1918.
Accruals
System of arrangement
The papers were received on three separate occasions and have been incorporated into the General Collection of Bangor Manuscripts. They have been arranged according to record type or subject.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open to all users.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright conditions apply. Reprographics are made at the discretion of the Archivist.
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Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
An item level typescript catalogue is available at the Archives Department of the University of Wales Bangor. Reference numbers : General Collection of Bangor Manuscripts 14877-14903, 17735 - 17738, 24735-24741.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Bangor University
Existence and location of copies
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Dates of creation revision deletion
June 2013.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description entered by Wil Williams for The Welsh experience of World War One, 1914-1918 digitization project from data supplied by Bangor University;