Photographs taken of various areas in South Wales by Bournemouth photographer Martin Ridley (1861-1936). Some unidentified. Particularly well represented are Cardiff, Newport, Rhondda Valley, Abertillery, Ebbw Vale and Cowbridge.
A poem in memory of Robert Gwyneddon Davies (Gwyneddon) (1870?-1928) written by H. Isgaer Lewis for Eisteddfod Gwynedd, 1907, together with an essay entitled Natur yn dangos Duw by Elizabeth Jane Williams (Awen Mona).
A transcript of an elegy entitled 'Marwnad ar y Pendefig goreu yn ei ddydd, Sion Lewis o'r Ddinas Gerdin [John Lewis, Dinas Cerdin, parish of Llandysul, co. Cardigan, ob. 1706]', by Gryffyd[d] Rys, 1706.
A manuscript containing a transcript of Cywydd er Coffadwriaeth o Farwolaeth Thomas Lloyd Yswain o Fronwydd Gorphenaf 13, 1807 by Benjamin Evans, Trewen, with an extract from a letter relating to it sent by Dr D. Rhys Jones, Cardiff to J. Bodvan Anwyl (1875-1949), 9 September 1921.
An elegy to W[illiam] Hughes, [Calvinistic Methodist] minister, Llanengan, co. Caernarvon, and 'chwech Penill a'r Enllibwr', both submitted for competition at a literary meeting at Penycaera[u], 1867.
'Galarnad ar farwolaeth W. O. Pughe, Yswn., D.C.L., F.A.S.', being an elegy (206 lines) on the death of W[illiam] O[wen] Pughe [lexicographer, antiquary, and poet] by 'Ywain Cyfeiliog'. The present copy was folded and sent by post to R. Saunderson, junior, Bala, with the ? author's proper name 'Griffith W. Edwards, G. ab Gwilym Padarn, Llanrug near Carnarv[on]' inscribed under seal in the bottom right-hand corner of p. 4. This suggests that the poem was forwarded to be submitted for competition at an eisteddfod, and the note 'Barnwyd y Farwnad hon yn fuddugol yn Eisteddfod y Bala, 1836. . .' inserted subsequently between the title and text appears to confirm the suggestion.
A copy of Marwnad y diweddar Barch. J. Morris, Cwmifor [near Llandilo, Carmarthenshire] ... gan Watcyn Wyn [i.e. Watkin Hezekiah Williams] (1844-1905), printed at Llandilo in 1877 and described by Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas (1863-1940) in a manuscript note added to the volume as probably the earliest work of Watcyn Wyn [which is] printed in book form; with the book is a cutting from Y Darian, 7 October 1926, containing an article by David James (Defynnog) (1865-1928) describing the book.
A manuscript containing a poem entitled Heol Dewi Sant: Deigryn adgof am Stanley Jones by Howell Roberts (Hywel Tudur) (1842?-1922) and an elegiac englyn by Robert Evans (Cybi) (1871-1956).
46 photographs, 22 loose, in a small album. The photographs are individually mounted on pages of different pastel colours. Some photographs are cut into oval shape, others are oblong with trimmed corners. Most are small still life arrangements of flowers. Others show toys, family members, friends and animals. There is no indication on the blank folios or the reverse of the loose photographs that they were ever fixed into the album. Digital version of the album described in greater detail.
Papers of Mary Garbett Edwards, including scrapbooks containing family photographs and letters, [1890]-1973; Montgomeryshire Liberal Party, General Purposes Committee, minute book, 1950-1959; letters, 1929-1983; journals of visits to North America, 1936-1949; notebooks and notes for speeches, [20th century]; radio scripts and related material, 1943-1963; papers relating to Garbett Edwards, including eisteddfod essays and other papers, 1897-[1930s], journal of Canadian visits, 1936-1939, and publications and annual reports of the Mid Wales Industrial Development Association, 1957-1973.
A diary, 1930, kept by Mary Grierson whilst at school in Bangor, North Wales, in which she recounts her exploits in the Snowdon area with three school friends, Brenda Chamberlain, the artist, Jean Jones, daughter of E. H. Jones (Registrar of University College of North Wales, Bangor) and Joy Witton-Davies, daughter of Professor T. Witton-Davies, of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. Encolosed is a poem written to 'Blackie' (Mary Grierson) by Jean Jones, 1927. Mary Grierson later became a botanical artist at Kew Gardens.
'Mary Jones a'r diwygiad yn Egryn', a typescript account by Tom Davies, Dyffryn Ardudwy, of Mrs Mary Jones (1868-1936) and the 1904-5 religious revival in Egryn, co. Mer.
Mary Owen yr Emynyddes gan Mary Owen, Mrs. L. Evans ('Neddferch'), J. Clements, &c. Mewn amlen. Rhoddwyd gan Gomer M. Roberts, Pontrhydyfen, Hydref 1949.
A collection of the papers of the artist and author, Mary Taubman (née Edmond, 1929-), being her research work on Gwen John (1876-1939). The collection includes: Personal papers (Gwen John); John family papers; correspondence directly concerning Gwen John; correspondence directly concerning Augustus John; correspondence directly concerning Mary Taubman; research papers; exhibition papers, articles and reviews and publishing papers,