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ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1975-76 MAURICE TUDOR HUGHES 1976001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mrs Florence Tudor Booth, Bristol, per Messrs Salisbury, Griffiths & White, Bristol. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1975-76 Disgrifiad / Description Two volumes of notes, with cuttings, photographs, letters, etc., compiled by Maurice Tudor Hughes in the 1880s, the first inscribed on the inside cover, `History of the Hughes Family of Denbighshire', and the second on the outside cover, `History of the Hughes Family of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, co. Denbigh' (NLW Rolls 279); a framed copy of `Some of the Principal Quarterings pertaining by right of ancestry to Hughes of Llanarmon D.C.' (NLW Rolls 280) ; and a framed copy of the family arms (NLW Rolls 281). A M E EVANS, ABERAERON 1976002 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs A M E Evans, Aberaeron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1975-76 Disgrifiad / Description Miscellaneous bequest including Stuart Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1899) and David Morgan Jones, Lethe and other poems (Philadelphia, 1882) (Dept of Printed Books). GWENVRON MARY GRIFFITHS 1976003 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss Gwenvron Mary Griffiths, M.D., per Llewelyn Jones & Co., Solicitors, Ilford, Essex. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1975-76 Disgrifiad / Description A framed portrait in oils of Gwenvron Mary Griffiths, M.D. (1894-1974) by Glyn Jones (Dept of Pictures and Maps, PB8224). D C HARRIES & SONS 1976004 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr Hugh Newton Harries, [of Messrs D C Harries & Sons, Photographers], Llandeilo. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1975-76 Disgrifiad / Description Many thousands of glass negatives and hundreds of photographs, mainly portraits, relating to Carmarthenshire, the Llandeilo district in particular, and representing the work of Messrs. D. C. Harries & Sons between about 1890 and 1960 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). GWENAN JONES 1976005 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss Gwenan Jones, M.A., Ph.D., Llandre, per Mr Brynley F Roberts, M.A., Ph.D., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1975-76 Disgrifiad / Description [College] notebooks containing notes relating to and essays on various aspects of early and medieval Welsh and English literature. OLIVE MARY JONES 1976006 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss Olive Mary Jones, Aberaeron, per The Reverend George Howells, Aberaeron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1975-76 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of Rev William Griffiths (1788-1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister in Gower, co. Glamorgan, and of some of his descendants, and their relatives. Some of his papers were bequeathed to the Library in 1974 by the late Miss A. G. Jones, J.P., M.A., the present testator's sister. The papers comprise the following groups. The papers of Rev William Griffiths himself, including details of marches undertaken during his service with the Royal Carmarthen Fusiliers, 1807-12; volume 2 of his journal, 1815-16; his 'text' book', 1817-61 ; accounts relating to chapel building, etc., in Gower, 1839-54, to 'the Welsh Methodists Home Missionary Society' and the Trevecca College Fund Collection, 1839-43; and to visits to England and north Wales, 1841-58; sermon notes, 1817-61 ; a group of catechisms prepared for Sunday schools in Gower, 1831-57; and press cuttings from The Patriot. The correspondence of Rev William Griffiths, including letters from [Lady] Barham 1817-23, [Lord] Barham, afterwards [Earl of] Gainsborough, 1825-61, his future wife A. G. Jones, 1825-6, [the Rev] David Charles, Carmarthen, 1822-3, [the Rev] David Howell, 1840-61, [the Rev] Ed[ward] Morgan, Syston, 1841-2, and Robert Smith, Margam Tin Works, 1835-46; letters relating to the withdrawal of Lord Barham's financial support to William Griffiths's ministry, 1836-8; and letters from him to his son, 1841-61. Papers of William Griffiths, chemist, Aberaeron, only child of Rev Williams Griffiths, including his apprenticeship indenture, 1844; journals, 1847-58; diaries, 1868-78; correspondence, including letters relating to the purchase of the business of chemist and druggist at Aberaeron, 1849-51, and to the education of his son William Gower Griffiths at Holt Academy, Wrexham, 1874-8; and accounts. Copies of family wills, etc., 1872-1931. Papers of Thomas Zaccheus Jones (1853-92), including `Crynodeb o Bregethau y Gymanfa yn Castellnewydd-Emlyn', 1867 ; poetry ; testimonials ; letters from him to his future wife from Judson University, Judsonia, Arkansas, U.S.A., 1879, and after their marriage from Kilkenny, Cardiff, etc., 1887-92; six notebooks, 1888-9, on Roman Law, Jurisprudence, etc.; and two notebooks, 1881-3, of Ellis J. Griffith, Down[ing] College, Cambridge, on Roman Law and Constitutional History of England. Papers of Mrs. T. Z. Jones (? 1860-1932), eldest daughter of William Griffiths of Aberaeron, including letters from her parents, and from her cousin John [M. Howell] when she was a pupil teacher at Ebley Court, near Stroud, 1877-8; an account book of a school kept by her at Aberaeron, 1879-85; and papers relating to her work as matron of Aberystwyth Theological College, as a Justice of the Peace for the county of Cardigan, as a governor of Aberaeron County School, and as a speaker on behalf of the Coalition Liberals. Two autograph books, 1881-1948, of Calvinistic Methodist and missionary interest. Papers of Miss Olive Mary Jones, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Z. Jones, including certificates and testimonials; a syllabus, record and report book of Aberaeron British School, 1905-06; papers of Tabernacl Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Aberaeron (Sunday School register, 1898-1901, minute books of `Cymdeithas Ddiwylliadol', 1905-6, and `Cwrdd y Gwragedd', [1938]-9, notebook relating to `Sasiwn Genhadol Chwiorydd y De', 1961-5, and a typescript history); papers of the Aberaeron Women's Institute (record book, 1925-32, and minute books, 1925-32 and 1957-68); and papers of the Aberaeron centre of the Women's Voluntary Service (minute book, 1941-6, and letters from service personnel, 1939-45). Papers of Miss A. G. Jones, including lecture notes; certificates and testimonials; applications for teaching posts; thesis for the degree of Master of Arts of the University of Wales, 1911; notes on foreign travel, particularly visits to Canada, 1925, and Norway, 1954; files relating to her duties as headmistress of Grove Park Girls' Grammar School, Wrexham, 1925-44; and papers relating to the history of Aberaeron and family history, including correspondence touching the publication of Gower Memories of William Griffiths in 1957. The correspondence of Miss A. G. Jones, 1904-70, including letters from Margaret Lloyd George and Vernon Hartshorn, M.P., 1924; letters of congratulation on her appointment to Wrexham in 1925 ; and letters from S. Morse-Brown, 1941 and 1959, Augustus John, 1944-58, and his widow Dorelia John, 1962, mainly relating to portraits, etc., of Miss Jones. Three probates and a will, 1857-1928, of members of the family of T. Z. Jones; four deeds, 1876-85, relating to The Pontardulais Tin Plate Company and the Pontardulais Permanent Benefit Building Society; and correspondence and accounts, 1889-96, of Josiah Griffiths of Pontardulais, co. Glamorgan, tinplate maker, brother-in-law of T. Z. Jones. Papers of the Monachty estate, including twenty-three deeds, 1654-[c. 1875], relating to properties in the parishes of Llanbadarne Treveglois, Llanddewybrefy, Llandewy Aberarth and Nantgwnlle, co. Cardigan, and to the family of Rogers of Gelly; particulars of building leases at Aberaeron; cash book, 1809-15 ; ledger, 1858-62 ; account book, 1880-4; rentals, 1908 ; printed Acts of Parliament, 1812- 35, relating to roads and enclosures in cos. Cardigan and Carmarthen; medical diplomas, 1839-41, of William Gwynne; and bundles of vouchers, bills of costs, etc., 1824-1916. A miscellaneous collection of portraits, photographs, prints, plans, books of views, postcards, etc. (Dept of Pictures and Maps), including: Two portraits in crayon of Alicia Gower Jones by Augustus John, one signed and dated 1944, the other without signature or date (PB8297-8). Photographic copies of an oil painting of Alicia Gower Jones by Samuel Morse-Brown, presented to the Grove Park Girls' School, Wrexham, in 1959 (PB8300). A printer's block of a portrait of Rev William Griffiths (1788-1861), Burry Green, Gower, (used in Gower Memories of William Griffiths [edited by Alicia Gower Jones] 1957). A lithograph portrait of Rev Samuel Griffiths (1783-1860) of Horeb, Llandysul, Cardiganshire, by Newman &Co., published by John T. Davies, Dderwenlas, Rhydlewis, 1855. An oil painting on canvas (without frame) of a hunting scene depicting female archers with a dog in a wooded landscape. The Leonardo Cartoon: The Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Anne by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1499): two copies of the print published by `The Sunday Times'. A coloured reproduction of the painting `Salem' by S. Cornow Vosper, published circa 1909. Atlas of modern geography . for the use of schools by A. Arrowsmith, 1842. A New Road Map of England and Wales [compiled by] J. Mutch, 1920, distributed by Aeron Garage, Aberaeron. Plans, sections and elevations in pencil, together with six photo-copies of a proposed garage at Sunnyside, Aberaeron, undated. (post 1947). A set of eight plans, sections and elevations [of Holy Trinity Church, Aberaeron] by Edward Haycock, architect, Salop. [1871]. Three