ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1967-68 DAVID WILLIAM BATEMAN 1968001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr D W Bateman, Cardigan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1967-68 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of David William Bateman (1898-1967) comprising poetry, prose, and music. There are thirteen files of poetry, 1947-65, some typescript and some holograph; one file contains a letter, 16 July 1951, from K. M. Baxter, author of the play ‘Gerald of Wales’. There is also a number of loose sheets containing typescript poems, a few grouped together as if in preparation for publication under the titles ‘Ten Poems’, ‘Seventeen Poems’, and ‘Under Moon and Stars’; a typescript copy of The Chosen One (Fortune Press, 1952), with reviews and letters; and press cuttings of poems which appeared in the Western Mail, The Tribune, and The Spectator, 1962-6. The holograph prose material includes five chapters of ‘The Flower and the Grass, a satire’; essays on ‘Benevenuto Cellini and his autobiography’ and ‘The Age of Saints in Wales’, and notes of an address on ‘Some Legends and Traditions of Teifyside’, 1948. There is a typescript copy of ‘Vignettes and Silhouettes: a miscellany’ which appears to be prepared for publication, and also typescript essays on ‘The Interpretation of History’ and ‘A Glory that was Spain’. The music is all holograph and consists of songs composed to words by the composer and others,-- some of these were broadcast in recitals in 1937-8, a few descants, and hymn-tunes. There are also two volumes, 1950-62, containing press cuttings of book reviews by David Bateman, published in the column ‘For your Bookshelf’ in the Western Mail, with letters from Fred Blight, C. M. D. Cole, Sir William Y. Darling, Beryl M. Davies, John Eilian, Rev William Evans (‘Wil Ifan’), A. G. Prys Jones, Gwen Jones, Charles McKew Parr, and David Rosser; a signed copy of Through the Rainbow (Carmarthen, 1932); and two copies of The Chosen One (Fortune Press, 1952). P SCOTT ARCHER 1968002 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs P Scott Archer, Tywyn, Merioneth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1967-68 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of printed books including (Dept of Printed Books) A treatise on the law of the farm including the agricultural customs of England and Wales by H. Hall Dixon (London, 1858); Edward Dobson’s The rudiments of masonry and stonecutting . (London, 1873); Poems by C. G. Lethbridge (London, 1849); Annerch y Cymry by Ellis Pugh; and Robert Roberts’s Daearyddiaeth (Caerlleon, 1816). CHARLES OMAN 1968003 Ffynhonnell / Source The Bank of England, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1967-68 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of Charles Oman’s A Catalogue of plate belonging to the Bank of England (London, 1967), privately printed at the Bank of England Printing Works (Dept of Printed Books). SIR IDRIS BELL 1968004 Ffynhonnell / Source The Executors of the late Sir (Harold) Idris Bell, C.B., O.B.E., Ll.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1967-68 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts and typescripts from the library of the late Sir Idris Bell. The collection includes the following holograph items by H. I. Bell,--papers on ‘Saunders Lewis’ and on ‘Vergil’s Greatest Disciple: Dante’, an article on ‘A Family Dispute concerning Hypothecation’, notes of lectures on ‘Dafydd ap Gwilym’, ‘A talk on Poetry’, and ‘The Classical Epic in Puritan Hands’; harp-stanzas and other poems translated from Welsh; a book containing accounts of the Egyptian Mission, 1921; pages 1-92 of vol. 1 of A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the Collection of Wilfred Merton, F.S.A. (London, 1948); and two notebooks entitled ‘Multum in Parvo’, being quotations from poets and prose-writers. Typescripts by H. I. Bell include his ‘Memoirs’; a paper on ‘Roman Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian’; a report on ‘Papyri purchased in 1924 from Naham & others’; and a bibliography of the writings of Robin Flower. Other manuscripts include ‘Sonnets and other verses, original and translated, by C. C. Bell (1900- 1917)’ in the autograph of H. I. Bell, and a typescript copy of Nubian Madonna and other poems by David Bell (Aberystwyth, 1959). There are a number of letters addressed to Sir Idris Bell, c. 1936-63, the correspondents including R. I. Aaron, V. Bartoletti, Nora Chadwick, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Hubert Davies, R. A. Downie, T. Edmunds, A. W. Wade Evans, Ifor L. Evans, H. W. Fairman, Dr. Max Forster, W. H. Gardner, Raymond A. Garlick, J. Gwyn Griffiths, Paul Grosjean, Dr. R. H. Haverkorn, F. E. Hutchinson, R. T. Jenkins, Gwyn Jones, E. Kaeber, Paul Lehmann, Saunders Lewis, Tecwyn Lloyd, Roger S. Loomis, T. J. Morgan, Arthur Nock, Thomas Parry, Iorwerth C. Peate, J. Pokorny, Caradog Prichard, R. Remondon, Keidrych Rhys, Colin Roberts, Victor Scholderer, W. W. Skeat, F. Tucker, Ifor Williams, W. S. Gwynn Williams, and Franz Zimmerman. MR & MRS VENALD W BOVARD 1968005 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs Venald W Bovard, Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1967-68 Disgrifiad / Description Several issues of Y Drych published in 1885-6 and 1891, The Scranton Republic, 1903 and 1905-6, and the Election Officers Manual . of Pennsylvania, edited by George E. Fowkes and J. Oscar Enrisch (Dept of Printed Books). G C B POULTER 1968006 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Peter Burrows, Horsell Rise, near Woking, per Mr G C B Poulter, F.S.A.Scot., Camberley. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1967-68 Disgrifiad / Description Ten deeds, 1706-1830, relating to properties in the parishes of Dolgelley, Gwyddelwern, Llanegryn, Llanenddwyn and Llangelynin, co. Merioneth; and the certificate of the marriage of Humphrey Owen and Rachel Goodwine, both Quakers, at Esgir-goch, parish of Tref-Eglwys, co. Montgomery, 1744. Nodiadau Schedule Available. R R CAREY-EVANS 1968007 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R R Carey-Evans, D.F.C., M.A., Pentrefelin, Cricieth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1967-68 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of personalia and other material relating to various members of the Lloyd George family, and particularly to the Right Honourable David Lloyd George, O.M., 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, Dame Margaret Lloyd George, and Lady Megan Lloyd George, and including souvenir albums, portraits, cartoons, and a number of trowels, keys, and medals, etc., presented to them on the occasion of the opening of public buildings and on other public occasions. A selection of books presented to the donor’s grandfather, the late Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (Dept of Printed Books), including a ‘Pictorial Souvenir on the opening of the Port of London Authority’s New Building, Tower Hill, 17 October 1922’, and an ‘Address of Welcome . tendered by the citizens of New York on the occasion of his visit to the United States . November second, 1923’. Fourteen illuminated addresses in the form of albums presented to David Lloyd George,--from the Liberals of the borough of Caernarfon in gratitude for his efforts on behalf of Freedom and Religious Equality during the session of Parliament when the Education Bill was before the House of Commons, 22 January 1903, from the Welsh Residents of Bradford and district on the occasion of his visit to Bradford, 2 March 1904, from Welshmen resident on the Buller Country in the Dominion of New Zealand, when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer [1908-15], from the Bristol Radical Operatives’ Association, members of which met him at Criccieth, 2 June 1914, from the citizens of Colwyn Bay on the occasion of his visit to inspect the Battalions of the Welsh Army Corps stationed at Colwyn Bay, 2 March 1915, from the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the borough of Caernarvon on the occasion of his first visit as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 February 1917, from the Welsh people of Manchester and District on the occasion of his visit to the City when he received the honorary freedom of the City of Salford and the Borough of Salford, September 1918, from the Manchester Syrian Association on behalf of the members of the Arabic-speaking peoples residing in Great Britain on the occasion of his visit to the City, Septemher 1918, from the Urban District Council of Bridgend thanking him for his efforts in protecting the freedom of Britain and the whole civilised world, August 1918, from the Reform Club, Holyhead, on the occasion of his visit to the Club, June 1919, from the Caernarvonshire County Council, 27 September 1919 (with etchings of the castles of Caernarvon, Conway, and Criccieth), from the Welsh people of Sheffield and neighbourhood on the occasion of his visit to the City, 16 October 1919, from the inhabitants of Holyhead on the occasion of his visit to open the ‘Lady Thomas Convalescent Home for Soldiers and Sailors’, 1919, and from the Council of the County Borough of Barnsley on the occasion of his receiving the Honorary Freedom of the County Borough of Barnsley, 27 August 1921; an illuminated album containing a list of names of David Lloyd George’s fellow-students and contemporaries in the parish of Llanystumdwy; a 5% National War Bond, Third Series No. 821020, bound in leather; an illuminated address presented to David Lloyd George by the members of the Kirkcaldy District of Burghs Liberal and Radical Association on his visit to Kirkcaldy, 30 November 1912; an address from the Arbroath Liberal Association, 30 November l912; an illuminated address presented to David Lloyd George on the occasion of his visit to the Arfon Liberal Society, 31 July 1913; an address of congratulation on David Lloyd George’s appointment as Prime Minister, from the Committee of the London Welsh Celebration of St.