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Typescript draft, [c. 1952], of an unpublished novel, Newbury in Libya, by Islwyn Williams, a native of Porth, Rhondda, author of Dangerous Waters (1952) and Newbury in Orm (1952).

Deeds and documents (1668-1882) relating to properties mainly in in co. Flint (Axton, Bistre, Caergwrle, Coleshill, Cwm, Cwm Uwchglan, Diserth, Estyn or Hope, Hawarden, Holywell, Hope, Hope Owen, Huriathicke, Kilken, Kinnerton, Mould, Newmarket, Northop, St Asaph, Shordley, Skeiviog, and Whitford), but also in cos Denbigh (Denbigh, Henllan, Llanrwst and Lleweny), Chester (Chester and Dodleston), Brecknock (Devynnock), Anglesey (Amlwch, Coedana, Llanerchymedd, Llanbadrug, Llanddyfnan, Llanfechell and Llanfihangel Tre'r Beurdd), Montgomery (Berth Lloyd) and Pembroke (Amroth). The main families were Mostyn of Mostyn Hall and Hope of Broughton and Hope.

Records of the Newport Playgoers' Society relating to the Society’s activities and comprising mainly volumes including programmes, typed notes and press cuttings relating to various meetings (including some minutes), readings, plays, one act plays, productions, lectures and broadcasting plays; various pamphlets relating to visits and special events; together with some statements of accounts and papers relating to the plan to build a new theatre for the Company.

Records relating to Newport West Conservative Association, 1917-1989, comprising minute books, 1917-1982, including those of the Women's Branch, 1926-1982; ward minutes, 1939-1967; account books, 1925-1978; and miscellaneous papers comprising a scrapbook of political leaflets, pamphlets, circulars, cuttings, etc., 1938-1947, electoral registers, 1988-1989, and copies of outgoing letters from the chairman, 1973.

Papers, 1966-2001, relating to the Newport West Labour Party; the Newport County Borough Council Labour Group; the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union (MSF), Newport 9909 Branch; the South East Wales European Constituency Labour Party, and various election campaigns, including correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports and material relating to election campaigns.

An additional file of letters, 1956-1957, and printed leaflets etc., 2005-2006, relating to the Labour Party's activities in Newport West constituency were received. This group remains uncatalogued.

Additional papers of the donor, MP for Newport West and former member of Gwent County Council, mainly relating to local, Parliamentary and European elections, and in particular to the 2001 election. This group remains uncatalogued.

News of the revival in the Khasia Hills by J. Pengwern Jones. (Formerly Thomas Levi MS.) English. Between boards. Donated by the late Professor Emeritus T. A. Levi, Aberystwyth, 1954.

A series of articles relating to the first Welsh settlers in Patagonia, Argentina, which appeared in the newspaper 'El Regional' between 2001 and 2003.

Newspaper cutting relating to the family of Edwin John, who emigrated from Llantrisant, co. Glam., to the Pennsylvania coalfields in 1851 and eventually settled in British Columbia.

A volume of newspaper cuttings from the Standard, for 1881-1882. The volume bears the book-plate of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), of Hengwrt, Dolgellau, Merionethshire, founder of the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection, and one-time President of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. Some, if not all of the articles on a variety of topics were written by her, and published in the Standard between March 1881 and January 1882.

Newspaper cuttings. (Formerly Crosswood MS 313.) English. Unbound.

Family papers and estate records of the Griffin family of Newton House, Dixton, Monmouthshire, comprising deeds and documents, 1635-1869, relating mainly to properties in the parish of Dixton, and correspondence, 1818-1863, mainly relating to a dispute between Mary Griffin of Newton House and the vicar and churchwarden of St Peter church, Dixton, in 1862.

Deeds and documents relating to properties in Monmouthshire, mainly in Skenfrith, including the manor of Blackbrook, 1689-1887.

A steward's account book of Newtown (Montgomeryshire) Wesleyan Circuit for the period 1830-1867. The accounts are almost entirely in the form of statements of receipts and disbursements in respect of successive quarterly meetings. Insets in the volume include a receipt, [18]48, from Thos. Kempster, Welsh Pool, to the Newtown Circuit for the payment of £31.3s. in settlement of a claim; statements of prospective income and present income, 1866; and a holograph letter from Jno. Davies, Newtown, circuit steward, to the Reverend Chas. Prest, Islington, London, and a reply, 1866 (the division of the circuit and the possibility of a grant towards the support of ministers at Newtown and Welshpool).

Correspondence, 1990-1991, of Nia Rhosier including letters relating to PARC (Pembrokeshire Against Radar Campaign).

Literary papers of Niall Griffiths, 1962-2018, comprising material relating to all aspects of his career as a writer, and in particular the conception, research, writing and publication of his books, short stories, poems, articles and media scripts.

The archive contains language which some readers may find offensive. While much of Niall Griffiths's work does not employ such language, its use is integral to his writing style.

Welsh airs collected by Nicholas Bennett and preceded by a manuscript title-page and the lithographed title-page of volume two of Alawon fy Ngwlad. The Lays of my Land, Collected by Nicholas Bennett ... Arranged ... by D. Emlyn Evans (Newtown, 1896), together with two letters from Robert Williams (Eos y Berth).