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Oskosh Welsh Centennial, 1947 (typescriptby Howell D. Davies). English. Green cloth, Donated by Howell D. Davies, Oak Park, Illinois, February 1954.

A volume containing humorous prose (ff. 4-16 verso) and poetry (ff. 19-33), [1867], by a young woman identifying herself as 'Angelina Workington' (f. 9), for her uncle, 'Slatey Hughes Esquire', as a memento of their visit to Llandudno and the surrounding area in July 1867.
The volume consists of a fanciful prologue (ff. 4-6), followed by equally fanciful accounts of excursions to the Great Orme (ff. 9-10 verso, 12-13 verso) and Capel Curig (ff. 14 recto-verso, 16 recto-verso), and poems entitled 'Ffos Noddyn' (ff. 19-20), 'A Growl from Gelert's Ghost' (ff. 22-25), 'The Streamlet's Song' (ff. 27-29) and 'Excelsior' (ff. 31-33). The manuscript is written mainly in black ink, with some words in red, blue, green and gold paint. In addition there is an illuminated title page (f. 2) and dedication (f. 3), with further illuminations or decorative initials on ff. 4, 8, 9, 16, 19, 22, 31; together with five pen drawings (ff. 7, 11, 15, 17, 22) and a photograph of the Great Orme, Llandudno (pasted in on f. 8). The name 'Angelina Workington' is presumed to be a pseudonym, possibly for Isabella Slater to whom the volume was gifted in 1862 (see f. 1).

Photocopies of an article by W. N. Davis, Dinuba, California, relating to Stephen S. Jones and family who emigrated in 1878 from Cardiganshire to Jackson County, Ohio, together with copies of letters from America and from relations in Wales and poetry entered in a literary meeting in Oak Hill, 1893, together with a copy of an undated photoghraph of Stephen and Anna (Morgan) Jones taken in Jackson.

A telegram from the P[ress] A[ssociation] to the Cambrian News, Aberystwyth, [ ] September [19]39, quoting unconfirmed Associated Press reports of fighting at Danzig and the bombing of Polish towns, a Reuter statement relating to a broadcast by Hitler and the proclamation by Danzig of itself as a part of Germany, and unconfirmed reports from Paris of the beginning of the German offensive.

For xerox copies of original material donated at the same time, see NLW Facs 396-404.

An overseers' book of receipts and payments for the parish of St Nicholas, Haverfordwest Union, 1848-1868. The name of Gwynne Vaughan Bowen, overseer, occurs in 1849, 1868, etc.

A copy of L. J. Roberts: Owen Glyndwr: Darlith (Gwrecsam, c. 1904), with manuscript notes by Lewis Davies Jones (Llew Tegid) (1851-1928).

Letters and papers, 1927-1938, accumulated by Sir Alfred T. Davies, relating to the Owen Glyndwr Memorial Institute, Glyndyfrdwy, Merionethshire, and Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire.
The file includes ten letters, 1932-1934, from Walter L. Irvine, landscape architect, to Sir Alfred T. Davies, President of the Memorial Committee, concerning proposed gardens for the Institute (ff. 7-25); papers relating to the commemorative stone, 1931, the opening of the memorial hall, 1932 (ff. 26-32), and the foundation and administration of the Institute (ff. 33-40). In addition, the file contains two letters, 1927-1928, addressed to Sir Alfred T. Davies from J. Elias Jones, regarding the preservation and future of Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire (ff. 42-5).

A volume of sermons by and in the autograph of Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) (1806-1889).

The Homes of Wales, a translation, 1926, by Arthur Simon Thomas (Anellydd) (1865-1935), rector of Trefilan, Cardiganshire, of Owen Morgan Edwards: Cartrefi Cymru ... (Wrexham, 1896).

The coat of arms, coloured, of the Owen family of Orielton, Pembrokeshire.

Yr Ymwelydd Blyneddol; neu Almanac a Dydd-lyfr, am y flwyddyn 1838, Mold, with diary entries by Owen Owens, Rhes-y-cae.

Llungopïau o bedwar llythyr, 1915, oddi wrth aelodau o'r teulu Owen a ymfudodd o Batagonia i Moora, Gorllewin Awstralia, at eu perthynas Maggie Owen yn Abergele. = Photocopies of four letters in Welsh, 1915, from members of the Owen family who emigrated to Moora, Western Australia, from Patagonia, to their relative Maggie Owen in Abergele.

A volume, 1830-1847 (watermark 1830), containing fair copies of verse composed between 1829 and 1847 by H. W. Mortimer of Islington, later of St Mary Church, Devon, and of Fersfield, Norfolk, a Unitarian and follower of the social reformer, Robert Owen. Much of the work, 1830-1832, is in praise of Owen and his communitarian ideals, but it also includes satires on some sections of the English clergy, as well as verse dedicated to family and friends.
Subjects of some of the verses include Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, 1829 (pp. 1-3), William Johnson Fox, Unitarian preacher and writer, 1829 (pp. 21-25), the Rev. Thomas Belsham, Unitarian minister, 1829 (pp. 21-25), John Howard, the philanthropist, 1830 (pp. 35-37), the London Female Penitentiary, 1830 (p. 44), Mary Leman Grimstone, novelist, 1832 (pp. 137-139), Marianne Prowse, poet, 1834 (pp. 225-227), the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, priest and theological writer, 1835 (p. 231), and the Rev. Richard Cobbold, Wortham, novelist, 1845 (p. 263).

A scrapbook compiled by Oxfam Cymru relating to its charity work.

Five scrapbooks of press cuttings collated by the photographer P. B. Abery of photographs taken by him, 1930-1945, for national daily newspapers.

An account book, 1843-1854, of Soar's Tent (No.957), Merioneth District, Independent Order of Rechabites, established at Dinas Mawddwy on 31 March 1843. Also included in the volume are an obituary of John D. Jones of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York, an emigrant from Mallwyd, and draft essays on 'Dyledswydd Gwraig ar yr Aelwyd', etc.

Llythyr, heb ddyddiad, oddi wrth 'Dalethin' (?y Parchedig Tom Jones, Llanrwst) at olygydd Y Rhedegydd yn ymwneud â phabyddiaeth yn Llanrwst, sir Ddinbych; ynghyd â ffotograff o'r Parch Tom Jones. / An undated letter in Welsh addressed to the editor of Y Rhedegydd from 'Dalethin' (?the Reverend Tom Jones, Llanrwst) relating to Catholicism in Llanrwst, co. Denbigh; together with a photograph of the Rev. Tom Jones.