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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis Papers (GB 0210 TIELLIS) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.4.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.4.0 Argraffwyd: Hydref 30, 2018 Printed: October 30, 2018 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.;AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/index.php/t-i-ellis-papers-2 https://archives.library.wales/index.php/index.php/t-i-ellis-papers-2 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis Papers Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 4 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 5 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 6 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 7 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 7 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 TIELLIS T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis Papers Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis Papers ID: GB 0210 TIELLIS Virtua system control vtls003844138 number [alternative]: Project identifier ANW [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1681, 1759-2015 (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 2.177 cubic metres (143 boxes) Physical description: Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: Welsh Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note The following sources were used to compile this description: NLW, [sourcesDescription]: Schedule of T. I. Ellis Papers; Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941-1970 (London, 2001); Meic Stephens, 'Mari Ellis: Writer who worked for the New Wales Union and championed women's rights', The Independent, 15 March 2015. Nodyn | Note Title based on contents of fonds. [generalNote]: Nodyn | Note Some papers predate the lifetimes of T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis. [generalNote]: Nodyn | Note Papers of Mari Ellis, formerly K 1-4, have now (2018) been [generalNote]: incorporated into sub-fonds M. Nodyn | Note Previous title 'T. I. Ellis papers'. [generalNote]: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 TIELLIS T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis Papers Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1899-1970), was an academic, teacher and author. He was born in London on 19 December 1899. His father, Thomas Edward Ellis, MP (1859-1899) had died over eight months earlier. His mother, Annie Jane Ellis, née Davies (1873-1942), of Cwrt-mawr, Llangeitho, Cardiganshire, was a descendant of the Davies family of Aberystwyth and Cwrtmawr and the Charles family of Carmarthen. She later married the Rev. Peter Hughes Griffiths (1871-1937). Ellis was educated at Aberystwyth Grammar School, Westminster School, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Jesus College, Oxford. He was a classics master at Cardiff High School for Boys, 1924-1928, a lecturer at University College, Swansea, 1928-1930, headmaster of Rhyl County School, 1930-1940, and a lecturer in classics at Lampeter, 1940-1941, and Aberystwyth, 1941-1946. He was actively involved with the National Library of Wales and the University of Wales and served as Warden of the Guild of Graduates, 1943-1947. He received an honorary doctorate in 1967, and the OBE in 1968. T. I. Ellis was a founder of Undeb Cymru Fydd, an organization dedicated to preserving Welsh language and culture, and served as its secretary, 1941-1967. He broadcast regularly in both English and Welsh, notably on BBC Radio's Round Britain Quiz. Previously a Calvinistic Methodist, he was confirmed at St Asaph in November 1936, and became a lay reader in the Church in Wales in 1937. He became a member of both the Governing Body and the Representative Body of the Church in Wales. Ellis edited three volumes of The Letters of T. C. Edwards (Aberystwyth, 1952-1953) and wrote The Development of Higher Education in Wales (Wrexham, 1935) and biographies of his father T. E. Ellis (2 volumes, Liverpool, 1944, 1948), his uncle J. H. Davies (Liverpool, 1963) and Sir Ellis Jones Ellis- Griffith (Llandybïe, 1969). From 1921 he travelled regularly throughout Wales in support of the Welsh Schoolboys' Camp Movement; these journeys became the genesis of his Crwydro series of books (Llandybïe, 1952-1971). T. I .Ellis married Mary Gwendoline Headley (Mari Ellis) in April 1949 and they had two children, Marged (1950- ) and Rolant (1953- ). He died at his Aberystwyth home on 20 April 1970. Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Mary Gwendoline Headley, writer and historian, was born 21 July 1913, the youngest of four children, in Dylife, Montgomeryshire, where her father, the Rev. R. L. Headley (1863?-1955), was vicar; her mother Margaret was from Glanogwen, Caernarvonshire. She was educated at Ysgol John Bright, Llandudno, and the University College of North Wales, Bangor (BA, 1936, and MA, 1938). She became a librarian, joining the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1944. In 1949 she married T. I. Ellis (1899-1970) and they had two children, Marged (1950- ) and Rolant (1953- ). She worked to support her husband’s work with Undeb Cymru Fydd and elsewhere, and after his death she also edited several of his books for Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 TIELLIS T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis Papers publication. As a devout Anglican she was active in the Church in Wales and organisations such as the Mothers' Union. She died, in Aberystwyth, on 25 January 2015. Mari Ellis was a very active writer and reviewer in Welsh periodicals such as Y Llan (which she briefly edited). She also edited 'Colofn y Merched' in Y Llan and the 'T# Ni' magazine published as part of Y Cymro and was secretary and later editor of Yr Angor, the papur bro for the Aberystwyth area. She edited Y Golau Gwan: Llythyrau Tom Ellis A.S. at Annie Davies (Caernarfon, 1999) and with her daughter co-wrote Eglwysi Cymru (Talybont, 1985). Under the name Mari Headley she published three novels, Awelon Darowen (Llandybïe, 1965), Beth yw'r Haf...? (Llandysul, 1974) and Ystyriwch Lili (Talybont, 1988). She researched extensively into 'Yr Hen Bersoniaid Llengar', the group of Anglican clerics supporting Welsh culture in nineteenth century Wales, and their wider circle, and published numerous academic articles. However books on the subject, and a biography of Gwallter Mechain in particular, remain unpublished. Hanes Gwarchodol | Custodial history Papers deposited by T. I. Ellis, May 1943 (A 15-94), October 1947 (A 1-14), January 1959 (A 95-183), 1960 (D 53-57), 1964 (A 386-398), July 1966 (A 399) and 1967 (most of D 68-77). Scripts for 'Merched yn Bennaf' deposited by Mrs Mary Ellis, October 1975 (Mân Adnau 1247, now MD 12). Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Papers, 1681, 1759-2015, of T. I. Ellis, his wife Mari Ellis and their respective families. The T. I. Ellis papers consist of correspondence, 1904-1970; personal papers, 1894-1970, including his diaries, 1943-1970; papers relating to his education and career, 1900-1947; financial papers, 1926-1967; papers relating to organisations including Aberystwyth Old Students' Association, the BBC, the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, the University of Wales and the Welsh Schoolboys Camp Movement, 1920-1979; papers of committees and commissions with which he was involved, 1932-1968; papers relating to ecclesiastical affairs, the Church in Wales and related bodies, 1909-1991; and correspondence, drafts and notes relating to his publications, 1877-1978. The Mari Ellis papers, 1681, 1759-2015, include correspondence; diaries, 1930-2014; papers relating to her work in journalism and broadcasting, 1948-2004; and research papers, [?early 20 cent.]-[2008x2010]. Also included are papers relating to the Charles family of Carmarthen and the Davies family of Aberystwyth and Cwrtmawr, 1791-1920; and papers and correspondence relating to T. E. Ellis, 1870-1963, Mrs Annie J. Ellis (later Hughes-Griffiths), 1873-1942, the Rev. Peter Hughes-Griffiths, 1871-1940, J. H. Davies, 1883-1929, and the Headley family, [1890x1896]-[2000s]. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 TIELLIS T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis Papers Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition A 400-406: