ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1971-72 J CONWAY DAVIES 1972001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr James Conway Davies, M.A., Litt.D., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description A vast archive comprising papers, slips, volumes of transcripts, drafts, and galley proofs of printed works and articles, accumulated by the testator in the course of his extremely active and strenuous career devoted to historical research. There are copious reports on various manuscript collections written by him while he was consulting archivist to the Monmouthshire County Council and to the National Library of Wales, and as Keeper of Archives to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and notes of lectures on miscellaneous historical subjects and on archives and diplomatic delivered at the Public Record Office and at the University of Durham. Among the important unpublished material may be mentioned a Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Inner Temple, London, which is shortly to be published, galley proofs of Vol. III of the Episcopal Acts relating to the Welsh dioceses to 1272, Professions of Obediences to Canterbury originally prepared for publication by the Camden Society, and a volume of causes from the Coram Rege rolls relating to Wales and the March, 1272-1307, with an introduction. There are several thousands of letters to the testator and of draft letters sent by him, 1909 - 71, though the great bulk of the correspondence dates from the thirties. In addition to family and personal correspondence, they include letters from very many distinguished historians relating to history and archives. Nodiadau Schedule (1992), ii + 50pp. A R LLEWELLIN-TAYLOUR 1972002 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr A R Llewellin-Taylour, M.A., F.R.S.A., F.R.G.S., Kensington. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description Printed diaries with entries by Mr. A. R. Llewellin-Taylour, 1928-67 (NLW MSS 20810-49B), and account books of his expenses, 1894, 1933-9, 1940-5, 1945-51, 1951-6 and 1956-61 (NLW MSS 20850-1A, 20852-6B). SIR JAMES WILLIAMS-DRUMMOND 1972003 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Sir James Williams-Drummond, Bart., Edwinsford, Carms., and Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description Four portraits in oils of members of the Williams family of Edwinsford (Dept of Pictures and Maps): Lady Mary Hamlyn-Williams, d. 1874, daughter of the 1st Earl Fortescue, and widow of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, Bart., of Clovelly Court and Edwinsford, with her younger grandson, Sir Hugh Drummond, Bart., as a child, by Eden Upton Eddis (1812-1901); Sir Nicholas Williams, Bart., Edwinsford, d. 1745, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, by Thomas Hudson (1701-79); Bridget Williams of Edwinsford, d. 1792, eldest daughter of Thomas Williams, aft. Mrs. Banks Hodgkinson, painted in 1755 by Thomas Hudson; and Mrs. Williams (of Edwinsford) painted in the early 18 cent. by an unidentified artist. FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS 1972004 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr William Armor, Hollingbourne, Maidstone. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript copy of a poem `The Rock of Cadir Idris' by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835). The leaf is endorsed: `To my Cousin Miss Ellen Jones, with my kind regards, Talhaiarn, London, March 15, 1849' (NLW MS 20577E). D L BAKER-JONES 1972005 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D L Baker-Jones, J.P., M.A., Felindre, Llandysul. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description A slightly imperfect manuscript entitled `Essayes. Miscelany discourses on various subjects by way of Essayes wherein are Contain'd many vsefull discoueries both delightfull & profitable And many Abstruse points in divinity Explaind . Writt by a louer of true Religion & Sincere Piety . 14th of feb. 1698/9', and comprising a `Table' of contents (1p.), an address `To the Reader' (1p.), and twenty- eight essays (pp. 1-154) of which thirteen are dated within the period 20 September 1697 - 4 January 1698/9 (one essay, attributed to 27 November 1689, has probably been dated in error for 1698) (NLW MS 20676D); an incomplete holograph essay entitled `Traethawd ar Emynau ac Emynwyr Cymreig' (pp. iii, 1-129, 136) by Henry Jones (`Wallensis'; 1859-1949), vicar of Cenarth, 1905-10, and of Llangeler, 1910-20 (for a biography and appreciation, by the donor, see `Wallensis', Y Llan, 11 Awst 1961, p. 7) (NLW MS 20675C); a group of six printed and photocopied Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire sale catalogues, 1962-70, and particulars relating to sales of furniture at Derwydd, Maesycrugiau, Penylan, and Rhydodyn mansions, Carmarthenshire, and at Ffynone and Stackpole, Pembrokeshire, 1962-70 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). LLANALLGO REGISTER OF BANNS & MARRIAGES 1972006 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R Benwell, Coventry. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description A photocopy of an incomplete register of banns and marriages of the parish of Llanallgo, co. Anglesey, 1754-89, with a few entries for Llaneugrad, c. 1776-7. Nodiadau Xerox copy of volume in UCB Library. SALISBURY FAMILY PEDIGREES 1972007 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John L Berbiers, F.R.I.B.A., M.T.P.I., Dip.Arch., Dip.T.P., Cwmbran. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description Through the courtesy of Mr. Berbiers, the Library has been permitted to photocopy two volumes of holograph pedigrees of the family of Salisbury compiled by Mr. Berbiers's grandfather John Clarke Jones (d. 1938) of Ruthin and Colwyn Bay (NLW Microfilms 336). TAPE RECORDING 1972008 Ffynhonnell / Source Lady Cecil-Williams, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description A tape recording in five parts of the Goronwy Owen commemorative ceremony at Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 28 August 1957 (Audio-Visual Dept). DR RICHARD DAVID CHALKE 1972009 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H D Chalke, O.B.E., T.D., M.A., M.R.C.S., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., Porth-cawl. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description Works by the donor and the donor's father, the late Dr Richard David Chalke (NLW MSS 21080E, 21081C), including a Report, 1932, presented to the Medical Committee of the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association, of an Inquiry into the incidence of Tuberculosis in certain areas of North Wales; an address to the Thoracic Society of Wales entitled `A Medical Officer of Health Looks at Tuberculosis', lectures on `Unsolved Problems' and `Education: Ancient and Modern'; miscellaneous certificates of R. D. Chalke; and a collection of offprints and other publications relating to various aspects of public health (Dept of Printed Books). E N CLAY, LIVERPOOL 1972010 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr E N Clay, Liverpool, per Mr A E Johnson, Liverpool, and the City of Liverpool Museums. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty-seven deeds, 1674-1885, relating to properties in the parishes of Llanbadarne vawre and Sputty Ystwyth, and in the town and borough of Aberystwith, co. Cardigan, and in Llanidloes and Newtown, co. Montgomery; and five probate records, among them the probate of the will of Thomas Jenkin of Cwmbyr, parish of Llanilar, co. Cardigan, 1741. Mynegai Llanbadarn Fawr, Ysbytty Ystwyth, Abertstwyth. SIR ALFRED T DAVIES 1972011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A Mervyn Davies, Wilton, Conn., U.S.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1971-72 Disgrifiad / Description Papers from the library of the donor's father, Sir Alfred Thomas Davies (1861-1949), first Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education: Material relating to the British Prisoners of War Book Scheme (Educational), a project which owed its inception to the efforts of Sir Alfred and was designed to provide educational books to students in prisoners' camps during the 1914-18 War to enable them to continue their studies and even to acquire professional and academic qualifications. The material consists of copies of two booklets, Student Captives, I, and Student Captives, II, which Sir Alfred wrote respectively in 1917 and 1918 as a progress report on the working of the scheme; a fully documented typescript account of the whole movement, which Sir Alfred intended for publication under the title of `Light Through Prison Bars', with an introduction by Professor Gilbert Murray, an index, and files of notes and copies used in the compilation of the work; three bound volumes of the printed magazine produced by civilian prisoners at Ruhleben Camp near Berlin, the need to provide for the educational requirements of whom gave the initial impetus to the movement; printed prospectuses of study and other papers of the Ruhleben Camp; press cuttings relating to the Scheme; official publications on the subject of the treatment of prisoners of war in enemy hands; holograph letters of support and appreciation of the Scheme from Lords Lieutenant and other representative figures in English counties and from such distinguished figures as Lord Crewe, Lord Rosebery, Lord Burnham, Lord Cromer (on behalf of Lord Stamfordham), Gilbert Murray, A. Bonar Law, Arthur Henderson (then Secretary of the Labour Party), Sir Arthur Stanley (of the Red Cross Society), Albert Mansbridge (of the Central Library for Students), and others. A file of correspondence, portraits, and papers concerning the publication by Sir Alfred of a book entitled Robert Owen . A Memoir (1948). The correspondents and writers of appreciative comments include Sir Norman Birkett, Gilbert Murray, Professor G. D. H. Cole, Principal J. F. Rees, Thomas Jones, C. H., Ernest Benn, J. W. Robertson Scott, and others. Printed and typescript copies of a booklet entitled `Owned of God: or Moody and Sankey, 1875 and 1883; Some Memoirs and a Tribute', which Sir Alfred proposed to publish, with a Welsh translation in typescript by Rev Dr E. K. Jones, 1945, and with miscellaneous correspondence relating to the intended publication.