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Jacob Morgan v. the Reverend Iltyd Nicholl at Monmouth Assizes. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 92.) English. Vellum. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

Jacob Morgan v. the Reverend Iltyd Nicholl at Monmouth Assizes; with a pedigree of Morgan of Mamhilad. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 93.) English. Vellum. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

Pedigree and achievement of James ap Rhydderch of Laugharne, traced from Urien Rheged, with twenty-eight other coats of arms all emblazoned and painted, 'set forth by me Thomas Jones of Tregaron and finished at Fountayne Gate ... 1583'. Cites authorities, including the roll of 'Morgan Abbott' [?Morgan ap Rhys, abbot of Strata Florida in the 1440s] and the book of 'Hoell Moythee'.

Letters, newspaper cuttings, notes, pamphlets and periodicals, typescripts, reports, volumes of parliamentary debates, and other papers of James Griffiths relating to the following: the coal industry and the South Wales Miners' Federation, 1912-1967; the Labour Party, 1919-1975; the Central Labour College, 1919-1922; National Insurance, 1931-1954; the Colonies, 1939-1972; his work as Secretary of State for Wales, 1964-1966; papers relating to Welsh affairs including devolution, the Welsh Reconstruction Advisory Council, education and local government reorganization, 1935-1975; constituency affairs, 1937-1969; overseas visits, 1936-1968; the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1968-1970; papers relating to his autobiography Pages from Memory, including letters from Gwilym Prys Davies and others, 1961-1969, notebooks, [1960s], typescripts, [1964]-1969, and cuttings of reviews, 1969; unpublished reminiscences, 1955-1974; notes and typescripts for lectures and speeches, 1940-1971; typescripts of broadcasts by Griffiths, 1937-1967; typescripts of articles and reviews, 1940-1974; newspaper cuttings, 1919-2000; and other miscellaneous personal matter, [1930s]-2000; and papers relating to Mrs Silyn Roberts, 1897-1954.

Papers of the novelist and playwright James Hanley, [1954]-2011, including an annotated script of 'The Queen of Ireland' (only copy), recorded for BBC Third Programme, 1960, signed by him and including a letter from him, 1981, and 'Levine', adapted for television by Catherine Dolan; transcripts of three interviews with James Hanley (one conducted by his son Liam Hanley); a list of his publications; photocopies of book reviews and locations of his manuscripts in other libraries; letters received by Liam Hanley relating to his father's works in particular the controversial novel Boy (London, 1990) and a note by him on his 'Portrait of his father' painted in 1983. -- Additional papers include a programme of his first play Say nothing, 1962, and reviews; letters sent to his friend Philip Barclay and obituaries of James Hanley

(i) Corrected page proofs of James Hanley's collection of stories, What Farrar Saw (London, 1984); (ii) An inscribed copy of Hanley's novel The Ocean (1941), presented to his patron Dr George H Patterson of Los Angeles.

Personal and family papers, 1885-1909, of James Lane Bowen, Llanelli, co. Carmarthen, Post Office receiver, beer retailer and journalist, including reviews of his booklet, The Rise Progress and Future of the Tin-Plate Trade in South Wales (Llanelli, 1893); a plan, 1888, of a shop and house constructed in Lakefield Road, Llanelli; together with related builder's receipts and miscellaneous financial papers, 1885-1909; beer retailer's licences, 1888-1908; an account of festivities at Lakefield Road to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Penny Post, 1890; and miscellaneous documents relating to the family property in Llanelli.

Deeds, 1810-1892, collected by James R. John, relating to properties in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.

Papers, including theses and newspaper cuttings, relating to James Travis Jenkins, the first Welshman to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Science with honors from the University of Wales. He also achieved a Bachelor of Science with first class honors in Zoology from the University of London, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Kiel in Germany.

A typewritten copy of the report of James Weeks Szlumper, Esq., C.E. [afterwards Sir James], on the state of the encroachments and obstructions which existed in the river Teifi at Cilgerran, August 1873.

Forty-seven letters, 1830-1846, from James Watt [1769-1848] of Birmingham and Doldowlod House, Radnorshire to William Mylne [1734-1790] and Robert Mylne [1733-1811], London. They relate to the making of machinery, to alternations made by Watt at Doldowlod House, and to the activities of surveyors employed by a company desirous of constructing a railway through part of Watt's property.

Notes, drafts of published and unpublished works, letters, talks, reviews, booklets, leaflets, periodicals, press cuttings and other material relating to Jan Morris's writing career and the places she visited in the course of her research, together with personal letters and records.

Papers accumulated as a Member of the Senedd over a period of 27 years, including constituency papers; publications and press pre-1999; and material relating to the voluntary sector.

A commonplace book of Jane Jenkins, Llandilo, 1810-1853, containing miscellaneous poems, including some of local interest by Julia of Swansea, Miss Beale, and T. Lotherington.

Papers, [1824]-1886, of Jane Williams (Ysgafell), including poetry, correspondence, items of prose and other miscellaneous papers.
The papers include poems by Jane Williams, some holograph, dated 1842-1867 (ff. 1-31), apparently unpublished apart from 'The Leek' (f. 6; Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1.3 (1846), 356-357), 'A Celtic Tradition from Cornwall of a Funeral among the "Small People"' (ff. 14-19; Jane Williams, Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales, & Legends... (London, 1862), pp. 37-40) and 'Lines to the Welsh Harp' (f. 21; Jane Williams, Literary Remains of the Rev. Thomas Price Carnhuanawc, 2 vols (Llandovery, 1854-5), II (1855), 412-413); correspondence, [1824]-1886, including letters (and a copy letter) to Jane Williams, [1824]-1883 (ff. 34-38, 42-43), letters from Jane Williams, 1843-1884 (ff. 39-41, 44), and letters to her niece (and executrix) Eleanor Marsh Williams, 1884-1886, mainly relating to her estate (ff. 44-48); family memoranda, genealogical, heraldic and other notes, in several hands, concerning the Williams and related families (ff. 49-92, 108-109), including designs of coats of arms for the Marsh family and for Wales, [1840s] (ff. 69-70), and a pedigree by Jane Williams, 1826 (f. 92); transcripts, 1826-1870, of various items of poetry and prose relating to Jane Williams's ancestor, the Rev. Henry Williams, and to his home at Ysgafell, Montgomeryshire, in the hands of Jane Williams, her father David Williams, brother Henry David Williams and cousin Mary Ann Hunter Williams (ff. 93-107), and a few miscellaneous prose items (ff. 110-113).

Papers of the Jazz Heritage Wales archive, comprising material relating to what was initially known as the Women's Jazz Archive, later Women in Jazz, and finally Jazz Heritage Wales, which reflect the archive's founding and development, its aims and objectives and its wide-ranging involvement in the field of contemporary and historical jazz music. Together with material relating to the archive's founder Jen Wilson, reflecting her interest, involvement and personal achievements in the fields of music, media, education and history, particularly women's social history. The archive also includes material relating to organisations and projects in which Jen Wilson participated but for which she was not solely responsible.

Two English versions, by 'W. Ap Madoc' and J. Daniel Evans ('Ap Daniel') respectively, of a Welsh poem on St. David's Day written by W. Cynwal Jones; a letter, February 22, 1889, from 'Ap Daniel' to his cousin; and a letter, March 6, 1915, from Josiah Jones, Machynlleth, to his nephew Dr. A. T. Evans, Llandyssul, giving biographical details about 'Ap Daniel'.

A late fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of Les Stratagèmes, the French version of the Latin Stratagemata of Julius Sextus Frontinus, translated, [1439x1460], for Charles VII, king of France, by Jean de Rovroy (fl. 1388-1460), dean of the faculty of theology at the University of Paris, who has added extracts, in French, from the Epitoma Rei Militaris of Vegetius (see R. Bossuat, 'Jean de Rovroy, traducteur des Stratagèmes de Frontin', Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 22 (1960), 273-86, 469-89). Written by one scribe, 'H. G.', in France (f. 70 verso). Decorated initials with burnished gold for all books and chapters; other initials and paragraph marks in alternate red and blue. Four polychrome miniatures, one representing the translator presenting his book to Charles VII, probably the work of Robinet Testard (fl. 1484-1523), miniaturist to count Charles d'Angoulême (1459 or 1460-1496), later to his wife, Louise de Savoie (1476-1531); retouched in XIX cent.

Papers of Jean Earle (1909-2001), poet, of Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, comprising letters, 1977-2001, draft copies of her poems and short stories.