ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1976-77

M ASHTON, ABERHOSAN 1977001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss M Ashton, Aberhosan, per Mrs Myfi Williams, Machynlleth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Class registers (recording attendances, absences and payments) of Aberhosan British School, May 1884 - April 1885 and May 1886 - April 1887 (infants), and May 1886 - April 1887 (boys); miscellaneous vouchers relating to Aberhosan School, 1899-1901 ; a series of diaries, 1842, 1846-7, 1850-3, 1855-7, 1871-3, 1875-6, 1887, ? of the testator's grandfather, and 1915-17, ? of the testator's father; and an account book, 1840s - 50s, ? of the testator's grandfather.

K H INGLEDEW 1977002 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr K H Ingledew, Cardiff, per Mrs Pauline Buckley, Cardiff Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Ten volumes of newspaper cuttings, 1929-59, relating to hockey , mainly relating to South Wales clubs; a volume containing a record (names of players, results, etc. of games played by the Glamorgan County Club, 1931-8; and a copy of 'The Register of Persons Entitled to Vote at any Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for the County of Glamorgan, 1845-6'.

H FRANCIS JONES (`TEGID') 1977003 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss Gwerfyl Wynne Jones, Old Colwyn, per Mr W T Owen, Old Colwyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Supplementary papers, letters, etc., of Mr. H. Francis Jones (`Tegid', 1874-1949) father of the late Miss Gwerfyl Wynne Jones [see Annual Report, 1949-50, p. 41]. The collection consists mainly of letters relating to his public life, including his work as a lecturer in Welsh History under the Workers' Educational Association, as Treasurer of Plaid Cymru, as Vice- Chairman of the 1947 National Eisteddfod at Colwyn Bay, as organiser of the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Colwyn Bay in 1934, and as the author of a feature entitled `Welsh Causerie' in the North Wales Weekly News. The correspondents include Aneirin ap Talfan, Alun Talfan Davies, Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (12 letters), Sir Owen M. Edwards, T. Charles Edwards, T. I. Ellis (6 letters), David Lloyd George (2 letters, dated 1896 and 1902), Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, M.P., W. J. Gruffydd, G. H. Havard, Dafydd Rolant Hughes, R. T. Jenkins, Cynan [Rev Albert Evans-Jones], D. Gwenallt Jones, Rev G. Hartwell Jones, Gwilym R. Jones, J. E. Jones, J. H. Morris-Jones, M.P., Sir John Morris Jones, Emrys ap Iwan [Robert Ambrose Jones], Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, William Jones, M.P., Sir J. Herbert Lewis, M.P., Kuno Meyer, Bob Owen, Croesor, Sir T. H. Parry-Williams, Iorwerth C. Peate, J. Bryn Roberts, M.P., Robert Silyn Roberts and Mary Silyn Roberts, T. Osborne Roberts, Sir Ben Bowen Thomas (6 letters), Rev Lewis Valentine, Alun Llywelyn Williams, D. J. Williams, Llanbedr, and J. Ellis Williams.

The collection also contains correspondence, 1899-1900, between H. Francis Jones and Miss Ann Ellen Williams, his future wife ; letters inviting him to address societies and institutions; drafts of articles, essays and lecture notes mainly relating to Welsh history and literature ; press-cuttings, including his `Welsh Causerie' articles, and articles by Bob Owen, Croesor, entitled `Lloffion Bob Owen'; photographs of H. Francis Jones; and programmes, 1928-32, giving details of a Welsh history class at Colwyn Bay called the `Aelwyd' (a name subsequently adopted by Urdd Gobaith Cymru).

EVAN J THOMAS, FERNDLE 1977004 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr E J Thomas, Ferndale, per Mr and Mrs I G Davies, Ferndale. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Diaries and papers of E. J. Thomas, Ferndale, schoolteacher and local historian, including diaries for the years 1900-4, 1906-15, 1936-43, 1945-69 and 1972; minute book of the Church of St. Dunstan, Ferndale, 1916-27; a botany exercise book of E. J. Thomas; miscellaneous printed items including books and music scores; testimonials to E. J. Thomas; press cuttings; a few deeds and documents; and a few letters.

BODFAN ANWYL 1977005 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss E C Anwyl, Gainsborough, and Mr J Emrys Anwyl, Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Sermons of Rev John Bodvan Anwyl (`Bodfan'; 1875-1949), congregational minister, author, and lexicographer 1895-1901. Some are in shorthand. Photographs including Sir Edward Anwyl (1866- 1914), Rev J. Bodfan Anwyl and others together with groups associated with the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and other educational and cultural institutions between c. 1890 and c. 1910. Three `Pitman' certificates awarded to Huw W. and John Anwyl, 1892-1894. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

M R APTED 1977006 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr M R Apted, M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Nine files containing transcripts of documents consulted by and notes compiled by the donor whilst engaged on research relating to Tredegar House, Newport, also an offprint of an article by the donor on `Social Conditions at Tredegar House, Newport, in the 17th and 18th centuries' (NLW Misc Records 344).Reprinted from The Monmouthshire Antiquary, vol. III, part II.

EVAN JONES, TYN-Y-PANT 1977007 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss M E Blythe, Llanwrtyd. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Some 300 titles of monographs and serial parts being the residue of the library of the late Evan Jones, of Tyn-y-pant, which included religious, literary, biographical, antiquarian and musical works both in English and Welsh published mainly in the nineteenth century (Dept of Printed Books).

D BOVEY 1977008 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend D Bovey, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Wages account book, 1875-7, of labourers on an unspecified estate (NLW Misc Volumes 97). The place-names Newtown and Trefeglwys occur, and the farms, etc., named are identifiable as properties lying to the east and north-east of Llanidloes, co. Montgomery (Powys).

DAVID REES, LLANELLI 1977009 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Euros Bowen, M.A., B.D., Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two volumes containing sermon notes by Rev David Rees, Llanelli (1801-69; Congregational minister and editor) (NLW MSS 14571-2A). The first volume contains notes of English sermons, 1831-2, and the second notes of Welsh sermons, 1853-4. The second volume also contains some ten pages of financial accounts relating to `Pool Colliery' (? Pwll, Llanelli), January - October 1843.

BWLCHGWYN ROADSTONE & BWLCHGWYN SILICA CO 1977010 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Branson, Branley & Co., Sheffield. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description 335 items, 1830-1960, including documents, correspondence, wills and maps relating to the Bwlchgwyn Silica Company, the Bwlchgwyn Roadstone Company, and land in the parishes of Wrexham, Brymbo, Bwlch-gwyn and Minera, all in co. Denbigh, Hope, Llanfynydd and Treuddyn, in co. Flint, and Bunbury, Tattenhall and Tarporley in Cheshire.

MARGARET H COLLINS 1977011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Margaret H Collins, Bryn Mawr, U.S.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of the donor's work The Collins Family. Volume 1. The Collins Family in Great Britain, privately printed, Athens Reproduction, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 1977 (NLW Misc Volumes 234). A final concord, 1588, relating to lands in St. Ismelles, Kidwelly, Halkinchurch, and Llandevailogg, co. Carmarthen, a general release 1664, from Catherin William of the parish of St. Ismaels, co. Carmarthen, to John Collins of Kidwelly, co. Carmarthen, clerk; and a memorandum, post 1735, relating to a release, 1678, from John Collins to his son Charles of Sythyn Tyrymorva in the parish of St. Ismaels, co. Carmarthen, and relating to a deed of feoffment, 1681, from Walter Thomas and others to Katherine Morgan, widow, of a house in Castle Bayly Street [ ? Kidwelly] (NLW Deeds 969-78). Also xerox copies of seven documents, 1566-1678, relating to property within the town of Kidwelly and within the parishes of Kidwelly and St. Ismaells, co. Carmarthen (NLW Deeds 969-78). Mynegai St Ishmael, Halkenchurch, Llandyfaelog,

BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1977012 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Cronin & Son, London, per the British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Certificate of British registry, 1895, of the sailing ship `Valkyrie', of Glasgow, owned by Windham Thomas Wyndham Quin, Earl of Dunraven, Glamorgan. Nodiadau Box 88.

CYRIL P CULE 1977013 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Cyril P Cule, Pontarddulais. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of an essay by the donor on 'The Spanish Civil War. A Personal Viewpoint' (NLW Misc Records 389).

CYMMRODORION 1977014 Ffynhonnell / Source The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, per Mr J Haulfryn Williams, Honorary Secretary, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description The original tape recording of the ceremony of presenting the Society's medals to Sir Ben Bowen Thomas and Dr. Thomas Parry at the National Library of Wales, 27 March 1976 (Audio Visual Dept. RM 19).

RATE BOOK FOR THE PARISH OF CRAI 1977015 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr David Davies, Cray, Brecon, per Mr Robin Gwyndaf, M.A., St. Fagans. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Rate book for the parish of Cray, co. Brecon (Powys), November 1883 - November 1884 (NLW Misc Volumes 98). Mynegai Crai

CANON DAVID DAVIES, ABERYSTWYTH 1977016 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Canon David Davies, B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Additional papers from the donor's library, including a late nineteenth century instructions book of Daniel Jenkins of Felin Cwm [parish of Llanrhystud, co. Cardigan] ; sermon notes, particularly a notebook and notes, 1821-71, of Hugh W[illiam] Jones, Baptist minister, Carmarthen; files of parochial accounts, 1930-43, and relating to the Francis, Maud Watkins and other charities, 1916-17 and 1931-41, in the parish of Llanegwad, co. Carmarthen, of which the donor was vicar from, 1931- 43; a file, 1934-6, relating to the donor's work as Honorary Diocesan Inspector of Schools for seven schools in that locality; a file, 1944-54; relating to Aberaeron Non-Provided School; and the following manuscript volumes relating to the Rural Deanery of Glyn Aeron, the donor being rural dean, 1951-8; minutes of the Sunday School Union of the northern part, 1911-30, chapter meetings minute book, 1904-42, and two rural dean's notebooks, 1933-58.

DOROTHY DAVIES 1977017 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Dorothy Davies, per Mr D H Trevena, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.Inst.P., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Nineteen deeds, 1789-1871, relating to properties in the parishes of Kerry, Llandinam, Llanwnog, and Newtown, co. Montgomery.

A framed lithograph portrait by Maclure & Macdonald of David Davies (1818-90) of Llandinam, with facsimile of his autograph (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

Plan of portions of the Plas Dinam and Berth-Ddu Estates, Montgomeryshire, Scale : 900 ft. to 1 inch published by H. Lidington & Co., London, 1931 (Based on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map and issued as Map I in a sale catalogue of the estates) (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

JOHN THOMAS (`PENCERDD GWALIA') 1977018 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Lloyd Davies, Gilwern. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Musical compositions of John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) for the harp, including some eight harp solos, twenty-seven harp duets, transcriptions of Schubert songs arranged for harp, and for harp and piano, as well as a number of national songs with harp accompaniment (Dept of Printed Books).

M E DAVIES, DREFACH, LLANELLI 1977019 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs M E Davies, Drefach, Llanelli. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Account book of Old Bethel Congregational chapel, Cwmaman, co. Carmarthen, containing accounts dated 1832, 1836, 1838 and 1849, account books of Rees Evans, carpenter, of Glanaman, co. Carmarthen, 1871-2, and John Lewelyn, Llanygwyddfau, Llandybie, 1828, and miscellaneous papers, 1825-78, including receipts for rent paid by Rees Llewellyn for the tenements of Abernant, Llwynyrhaf and Blaencagle, p. Llandybïe, co. Carmarthen, a notice of objection to the retention of Rees Llewelyn 's name on the list of voters for co. Carmarthen, 1832, a letter concerning the new market house at Cwmaman, 1843, and a letter in Welsh from A. Davies, Cwmaman, to `Anwyl Gyfaill', 1878 (NLW Misc Records 356). Probate of the will of Rees Llewelyn of Nantycreigle, p. Llandybïe, co. Carmarthen, 1875, lease for three lives to Rees Llewellyn of Blaencagle, p. Llandybïe, 1832, mortgage of land in p. Betws, co. Carmarthen, 1874, and a memorandum of agreement between Rees Llewelyn and his son John, 1869 (NLW Misc Records 391). Mynegai Llanygwyddau

A H DIVERRES 1977020 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor A H Diverres, M.A., L.ês L., D.U.P., Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A select collection of books including a number of European imprints such as Secondat (Charles Louis de) Baron de Montesquieu: Lettres Persanes, nouvelle edition augmentêe de douze lettres qui ne se trouvent point dans les prêcêdentes, et d'une table des matiêres. Amsterdam et Leipsick, 1765 , and Oeuvres de Monsieur de Montesquieu. Nouvelle êdition, augmentêe . . . avec des remarques d'un anonyme [E. Luzac] Qui n'ont point encore êtê publiêes. Amsterdam et Leipzig (Dept of Printed Books).

EIFION WYN 1977021 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W J Edwards, Cerrigydrudion, per Mr Robin Gwyndaf, M.A., St. Fagans. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A letter, 29 November 1904, from [Eliseus Williams] `Eifion Wyn', from Porthmadog, to William Charles [Edwards, Pentredraw, Pentrellyncymer, co. Denbigh, father of the donor] , with explanatory notes by Mr. Gwyndaf (NLW MS 21482D).

JOHN ELWYN 1977022 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Elwyn, A.R.C.A., Winchester. $$Blwyddyn Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description `White Walls' : a painting from an exhibition of landscapes held by the donor in the Library's Central Hall, September - October, 1976 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

RHIWIARTH & LLANGYNOG SLATE QUARRIES 1977023 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss A M Evans, Llwynbronnydd, Welshpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two note-books, the first containing accounts relating to Rhiwarth and Llangynog Slate Quarries, co. Montgomery, 1837-42, notes on agriculture, animal husbandry, etc., notes on the corn laws from c. 1688, brief notes on the history of agriculture in various periods, and ? household accounts, 1881-3 ; and the second, miscellaneous accounts, 1842-53, many of which appear to relate to the provision and carriage of slates, flags, etc., and brief notes relating to Llangynog Slate Quarry (NLW Misc Volumes 236-7).

ALFRED THOMAS (FRED) EVANS 1977024 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Alfred Thomas (Fred) Evans, B.A., M.P., Ystradmynach, Hengoed. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of Fred Evans's statement, April 1977, to the Caerphilly Constituency Labour Party Committee meeting at Ystradmynach, announcing his intention not to seek the Labour Party nomination for the Caerphilly constituency at the next General Election, and a photocopy of a letter, 28 April 1977, from Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, M.P., the Prime Minister, at 10 Downing Street to Mr. Evans thanking him for informing him of his intention and expressing his appreciation of his services to the party and the cause of democratic socialism (NLW Misc Records 397-8).

BOOTLE AND DISTRICT WELSH SOCIETY 1977025 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Alun H Evans, Liverpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minutes of the Bootle and District Welsh Society, 1918-29, with printed items (programmes, etc.), 1919-30 (NLW MS 21568C).

JOHN EVANS, MEMORIAL COLLEGE, BRECON 1977026 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr David Godfrey Evans, Llwyndafydd, Llandysul. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of Rev Professor John Evans (1858-1963), Memorial College, Brecon, consisting mainly of English sermons. Of particular interest are notes concerning the eviction of his parents from their farm for voting against their landlord's wish in the Cardiganshire parliamentary election of 1868, and notes for an address on `Cardiganshire: Features of its life go years ago' delivered in 1956 to the Brecknock Society.

DENYS EVANS 1977027 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Denys Evans, Aberystwyth, per Mr Richard Phillips, D.Sc., Llangwyryfon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two leases, 1829, by Augustus Brackenbury (`Y Sais Bach') of parcels of land in the parishes of Llanrhystud and Llangwyryfon, co. Cardigan, and a settlement, 1882, prior to the intended marriage of David Jones of Bryncroyau, township of Blaenpennal and parish of Llanddewibrefi, and Eleanor Jones of Tanycastell in the parish of Llangwyryfon, both of co. Cardigan (NLW Deeds 980-2).

GWILYM EVANS 1977028 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Gwilym Evans, O.B.E., M.Sc., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description 1. Papers of Mrs. H. Elinor Evans, B.A. (1901-75), wife of the donor. Included are a minute and account book, 1954-70, of `Mudiad Chwiorydd Annibynwyr Gogledd Ceredigion a Bro Dyfi' (`North Cardiganshire and Dovey Valley Congregational Women's Movement'); files of papers relating to the foundation and activities of `Cyd-bwyllgor Undeb Cymru Fydd a'r Eglwysi' (`Joint Committee of the New Wales Union and the Churches') set up during the Second World War primarily to safeguard the interests of Welsh girls conscripted to work in munitions factories, etc., the formation, 1950, and activities of the Aberystwyth Women's Branch of Plaid Cymru, the Temperance Movement, and the visit to Aberystwyth in 1968 of Dennis Brutus, Director of the World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners ; a file of papers relating to a memorandum on aspects of education in Wales prepared by Mrs. Evans at the request of `Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru' (`National Union of Teachers of Wales'), 1943 ; files of correspondence addressed to Mrs. Evans including letters from Rev H. Elfed Lewis, Rev J. Dyfnallt Owen, Brinley Richards, Rev J. Oliver Stephens, and Professor W. D. Davies; and files of a more personal nature including papers relating to Mrs. Evans's youth, her academic career, her post as lecturer in Barry Training College, a diary for 1955; etc. 2. Supplementary papers of the family of William Williams (`Gwilym Cyfeiliog'; 1801-76) of Bontdolgadfan, Llanbryn-mair, co. Montgomery, including copious notes relating to the pedigree of the Williams family and to the related families of Hall and Howell of Aberystwyth and Aberdovey respectively, with a complete pedigree chart; papers of, and relating to, Rev John Williams, B.A., of Islwyn, Wrexham, son of William Williams (`Gwilym Cyfeiliog'), and his family; papers of, and relating to, Dr. William Emyr Williams, C.B.E., B.L., D.L., son of the said Rev John Williams; letters written by and to members of the family, 1873-1974; and obituary notices of, and in memoriam tributes to, members of the family, 1876-1976.

IDWAL C EVANS 1977029 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Idwal C Evans, Cardiff, per Mrs Valmai Owen, Tregaron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A statuette of Henry Richard (1812-88) entered for competition in connection with his memorial at Tregaron and presented to E. Caronian Evans, secretary of the local committee (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

JAMES EVANS, CNWCYBARCUD 1977030 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr James Evans, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of the Evans family of Cnwcybarcud, parish of Llanrhystud Mefenydd, co. Cardigan, consisting of:-twenty-seven deeds, 1596-1920, relating to properties in the parishes of Llanddinol, Llandewy Aberarth, Llanilar, Llanristid, Llanvihangell generglin (hamlet or parcel of Kaylan and maismor) and Llanygrwthon co. Cardigan. One deed relates to the sale of land by Augustus Brackenbury (`Y Sais Bach'), 1828, and another to the sale of a rent charge in the manor of Mevenneth, 1864. Eight testamentary records, 1741-1918, including the probate, 1741, of the will of Stephen Parry, late of Rhodemaed, esq., together with related and miscellaneous accounts, 1830-1938. Mynegai Llanddeiniol, Llanddewi Aberarth, Llanrhystud, Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn, and Llangwyryfon.

BRECONSHIRE TURNPIKE TRUST 1977031 Ffynhonnell / Source Foreign and Commonwealth Office, per Miss Patricia M Barnes, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description An assignment, 1800, of a deed poll being a mortgage from the trustees of a portion of the tolls from turnpike roads in co. Brecon, and a mortgage, 1833, by the trustees of the Breconshire Turnpike Trust of a portion of the tolls (NLW Deeds 967-8).

AUGUSTUS JOHN ETC 1977032 Ffynhonnell / Source The Friends of the National Library of Wales. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description 1. Twenty-eight holograph letters from Augustus John to the following addressees: `Laura' (Dame Laura Knight, 2 letters, 1938, concerning John's resignation from the Royal Academy), `Kassie' (3 letters, 1939, 1940 and May 11), Miss Stevenson (Frances Stevenson, later Countess Lloyd George of Dwyfor, 7 letters, 1919, Feb. 13 and n.d. [probably mostly, if not all, 1919], several of these letters contain interesting details concerning John's commission to paint the Paris Peace Conference in 1919) `Haddon' (2 letters, 1927 and 12 July [ ? 1927], concerning Jack Knewstub), [Chaloner] Dowdall (1 letter, 1914), Miss Lion (1 letter, 1935, John's inability to contribute a work to the exhibition of disabled ex-servicemen's industries), Mr. Sadler (2 letters, 1913 and 1918), Mr. Russell (2 letters, 1947 and 1953, book reviewing), `Castle' and Mrs. Castle (1 letter, `Sunday' [c. Oct. 1915]), Mrs. Madden (2 letters, 1934 and June 23, this second letter has mounted on its dorse a press cutting containing a reproduction of a sketch of John by Ivan Opffer), Mr. Unwin (1 letter, 1941, the publication of `The book' [John's autobiography]), Miss Phelps (1 letter, n.d.), `Dear Sir' (2 letters, Nov. 7 and 1954) and Warner E. Colville (signed and dated card, 1939) (NLW MS 21570E).

2. Holograph manuscript and typescript of an article by John entitled `Ecole de Paris' ; holograph description by John, with diagrams, of what appears to be a sea creature; press cuttings and other items concerning the exhibition `Augustus John in Liverpool', held at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, in 1954; proofs and typescripts of articles by John entitled `Elephants with Beards' (concerning Wyndham Lewis), `Dylan Thomas & Company', and `Roy Campbell under the Caryatids ; together with various miscellaneous items.

3. A manuscript volume of thirty folios containing Welsh strict-metre poetry, mainly `cywyddau', bound in a half morrocco case-binding in 1912 by J. B. Sconce of Chester, and bearing the words `TALACRE MSS.' in gold lettering on the front cover. The manuscript is written in a clear Secretary hand, not dissimilar to the first hand found in Wynnstay MS. 10, and probably dates from the middle of the seventeenth century. According to the original foliation, four folios are missing at the beginning of the manuscript and part of the manuscript is missing at the end ; folios are also missing between the present ff. 9 and 10, and ff. 21 and 22. The paper has been repaired extensively with translucent paper. The volume contains poetry attributed to the following poets: Tho[mas] Prys, Y Meister Sion Tudur, Sr. Gruffydd Owen, y Bedo Brwynllys, Bedo Aryrddrem, Huw Arwystl, Rys Cain, Morys Dwyfech, Sion Phylip, Sr Dafydd Owain, Sr Phylip Emlyn, Ifan Dyfi, Dafydd ap Gwilim, Wm llyn, Sion Cain, y Meistr Hughe Machno, Einion ab Gwalchmai, Sion Mowddwy, Tudur Aled, Dafydd ap Edmwnt, Dafydd Nanmor, Gwillim tew brydydd, Lewis Môn, William Cynwal, Mr Roberts or tu hwnt ir môr, and Simwnt vychan, and f. 30 contains notes from a bardic grammar concerning two types of englyn. Within the manuscript there are annotations in an eighteenth century hand which give the floruit dates of some of the poets, e.g. f. 3 `1500 medd Thomas Richards . These are taken from the list found at the end of Thomas Richards of Coychurch's dictionary, Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus. . . (Bristol, 1753). The manuscript's connection with the Mostyn family of Talacre is illustrated by the inclusion of an `awdl' to Pyrs Mostyn on f. 27v. and by a note found loose at the end of the volume stating that the manuscript was bound in 1912 by Lady Mostyn, wife of the ninth baronet. The volume is now designated N.L.W. MS. 21582E.

The following printed works were also acquired: BALE, John, The Pageant of Popes, contayninge the lyues of all the Bishops of Rome. (London, 1574). GILDAS. [De excidio Britanniae.] Gildae, cui cognomentum est sapientis, de excidio & conquestu Britanniae &c. (Londini, 1568) (Dept of Printed Books). Also a framed portrait in oils of Robert Morgan (1608-73), Bishop of Bangor, by Jan Looten, d. 1686 and `The Ruins of Haverfordwest Castle' - watercolour drawing by J. `Warwick' Smith, 1787 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

ROBERT GITTINS, DOLANOG 1977033 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Ynyr M Gittins, St. Martin's, Chirk, per Mr Glyn Tegai Hughes, M.A., Ph.D., Plas Gregynog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Material relating to the history of the Dolanog district of Montgomeryshire, and to the donor's father, Robert Gittins, late of Y Faeldref, Dolanog, containing : a copy of the baptismal register of Salem (C.M.) Chapel, Dolanog, 1826-37, with additions for 1856-7; an essay entitled `Yn mhob gwlad y Megir glew - Enwogion Plwyf Llanfihangel' ; notes entitled `Methodistiaeth yn Nolanog' ; copy entries of two weddings, dated 1792 and 1827, from the parish registers of Llangadfan; minutes of some Methodist monthly meetings in Lower Montgomery; an essay on the famous people of Llanfyllin ; an essay entitled `Canolbarth Maldwyn, 60 mlynedd yn ôl, Cynt a Chwedi' ; account book of [ ? Salem Chapel, Dolanog] between 1830 and 1868; account book of pew rents in [Salem] Chapel, Dolanog, 1886-1912; accounts, etc., relating to the building of the Ann Griffiths Memorial Chapel at Dolanog; two photographs, one of Hen Argae, Dolanog, the other of Dolanog Sunday School, October 1894; and a collection of diaries, textbooks and notebooks reflecting Mr. Gittins's interest in shorthand.

CROP ACCOUNTS 1977034 Ffynhonnell / Source The Government Archivist, Spanish Town, Jamaica, per Miss Clare Taylor, M.A., Ph.D., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A microfilm of crop accounts kept for absentee owners of the Pennant Estates and for the estates of Nathaniel Philips of Slebech, in Jamaica, 18th-19th cent. (NLW Microfilms 386)

W J GRIFFITHS, PORT TALBOT 1977035 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend W J Griffiths, Port Talbot. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A file containing copies of the minutes of various local committees of the National Eisteddfod held at Llanelli, 1962, a file of correspondence and papers, 1963-4, relating to the National Eisteddfod held at Aberafan, 1966 (NLW Misc Records 364-5); journal of Rev D. B. Griffiths, New Tredegar, giving an account of his visit to his father Rev Jeremiah Griffiths, in Ashland, Pennsylvania, in June 1884 (NLW MS 21599A) ; and some 200 letters, 1942-75 and undated, addressed to the donor (NLW Misc Records 345, 348, NLW Misc Volumes 103).

WILLIAM RHYS JONES (`GWENITH GWYN') 1977036 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Robin Gwyndaf, M.A., St. Fagans. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript catalogue of the manuscripts and papers of Rev William Rhys Jones (`Gwenith Gwyn'; 1863-1938), Baptist minister, in the possession of his two daughters Miss Hawys Nesta Rhys Jones and Mrs. Marsia Gwynedd Simpson, Llansanffraid Glynceiriog (NLW Misc Volumes 100). The material was catalogued by the donor. Subsequent to the donation of this catalogue the collection in question was deposited in the Library by the owners (see below).

DR D J HARRIS, CWM DU 1977037 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr D J Harris, Purley, Surrey. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Sixty-four deeds and documents (1609/10-1924) relating to property in the parishes of Llanfihangel Cwm Du, Cathedin, Talgarth, Llangynidr and Trallong, co. Brecon. Also, a typescript copy of catalogues of related deeds.

GWILYM REES HUGHES 1977038 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Gwilym Rees Hughes, M.A., Ph.D., Cardiff Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Letters, 1970-6, from a number of contemporary Welsh writers to the donor relating mainly to his editorial work in connection with Barn, Poetry Wales, Storiau 74, etc.

Not to be made available for a period of fifty years.

DAFYDD IFANS 1977039 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Dafydd Ifans, M.A., D.A.A., The National Library of Wales. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Photocopies of twenty-five letters, 1924-37, from Rev W. Nantlais Williams, Ammanford, to Eluned Morgan, Patagonia (NLW Facsimiles 211). The original letters are kept in the Museo Historico Regional, Gaiman, Chubut, Argentina.

E JOAN JAMES 1977040 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs E Joan James, Narberth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Some 500 titles relating mainly to legal studies (Dept of Printed Books) including various Reports and Statutes, works on jurisprudence by several authors, and a large number of miscellaneous works of general interest; as well as some early maps, O.S. sheets, prints and a number of atlases (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

IEUAN A JENKINS 1977041 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Ieuan A Jenkins, Liverpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Printed diaries for 1975 and 1976 containing entries by the donor relating to religious services held in Balliol Road, Edge Lane, Earlsfield Road (Liverpool), Woodlands (Birkenhead), and Liscard Road (Wallasey), Baptist chapels (NLW Misc Volumes 114, 134).

C J L JONES, TREGARON 1977042 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs C J L Jones, Tregaron, per Mrs Valmai Owen, Tregaron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A timetable of the Manchester and Milford Railway between Aberystwyth and Pencader for July, August and September 1895 (Dept of Printed Books). A poster of the first monthly market held at Tregaron with stanzas by [John Lewis] `Ioan Mynyw' published by William Thomas (`Gwilym Mai'), Carmarthen, c. 1870 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

ANN GRIFFITHS, DOLWAR FACH 1977043 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs David Jones and Mr William Jones, Dolwar Fach, Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing a list of the names of those who visited Dolwar Fach on the occasion of the pilgrimage to celebrate the bi-centenary of the birth of Ann Griffiths (1776-1805), 3 July 1976 (NLW Misc Volumes 115).

WILLIAM JONES (`ENTYR MON') 1977044 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Dewi Jones, Benllech. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A tune book written c. 1859 by William Jones, y Pant, Llanbedr-gôch, Môn (`Entyr Môn') containing hymn tunes and anthems (Gwledd Balsassar and Yr Adgyfodiad Diweddaf) by him, together with anthems and tunes by Thomas Jones, Griffith Rowlands, J. A. Lloyd, John Mills, John Edwards, R. H. Pritchard, Ioan ab Iubal, David Hughes, Llanddeusant, and others (NLW MS 21576A). Also, two printed ballads by William Jones (NLW MS 21576A).

JOHN OWEN JONES (`OWEN BRYNGWYN') 1977045 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Dorothy M Jones, C.B.E., J.P., B.A., Ashtead, Surrey. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of the donor's husband John Owen Jones, B.Sc. ('Owen Bryngwyn'; 1884-1972) relating particularly to his career as a professional musician. The collection consists of biographical material, photographs, press cuttings, lecture recital notes, concert and miscellaneous programmes, and correspondence. About fifty letters of appreciation include one from Dame Nellie Melba. Correspondence with [Sir] T[homas] H. Parry-Williams, 1929-34, touching the translation of Schubert's songs into Welsh, and with Taldir Jaffrennou, 1936-7, touching the initiation of Owen Bryngwyn into the Breton gorsedd, may also be mentioned. Some of the photographs, programmes, etc., relate to the activities of the donor (Miss Dorothy M. Elliott) as National Woman Officer of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, and chairman of the National Institute of Houseworkers Limited.

FRANCIS JONES 1977046 Ffynhonnell / Source Major Francis Jones, C.V.O., T.D., D.L., M.A., F.S.A., Carmarthen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Commission, 15 March 1916, to Owen Griffith Anthony as Second Lieutenant in the Territorial Force (Lincolnshire Yeomanry) (NLW Misc Records 388).

ABSTRACT OF THE TITLE OF HERBERT VAUGHAN, BRYNOG 1977047 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Ifor Jones, Cross Inn, Llan-non. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description An abstract of the title of Herbert Vaughan of Brynog, co. Cardigan, esq., to property in the parishes of Llandysul and Llannarth, co. Cardigan, ? c. 1875 (NLW Deeds 979).

MEMORANDUM BY SAMUEL WILLIAMS 1977048 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Ernest Jones, B.A., Llechryd. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A late eighteenth century copy of a memorandum, [ ? December, 1710,] by Rev Samuel Williams touching his presentation to the rectory of Llangunllo, co. Cardigan.

`YNYSHIR & WATTSTOWN FREE CHURCH COUNCIL' 1977049 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J S Jones, Killay and Mrs R Gwilliam, Porthmadog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description 'Ynyshir & Wattstown Free Church Council Minute Book 5th January 1912 / Llyfr Cofnodion, Cyngor Eglwysi Rhyddion Ynyshir ac Aberllechau', with entries for 1912-13 (NLW MS 21569C). The volume also contains a few verses as well as loose items comprising newspaper cuttings, local Eisteddfod programmes, a booklet of verses, etc.

SIR JOHN HERBERT LEWIS 1977050 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs K Idwal Jones, B.A., Caerwys. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Thirty letters, 1888-97, from Thomas Gee, and one letter, 1891, from Howel Gee, his son, to Sir John Herbert Lewis, (1858-1933), the donor's father. The letters contain references to the Anti-Tithe League, the North Wales [Liberal] Federation, the Welsh Land League, and the Cymru Fydd League. Nodiadau Schedule rhif 1964149 (1991), i + 185pp.

LAURA JONES 1977051 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Laura Jones, Penrhyn Bay, Llandudno. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A letter, February 1914, in the form of a poem, from Griffith Hugh Jones (`Gutyn Arfon'; 1849-1919) to E. and W. Jones, Penygroes, Rhiw, Blaenau Ffestiniog (NLW MS 21482D); and a hymn tune composed by E. Festin Jones, the donor's uncle (words by J. W. Jones) (NLW MS 12396E).

PRESTATYN AND DISTRICT MINISTERS FRATERNAL 1977052 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend R R Jones, B.A., Rhuddlan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minute book, 1946-55, of the Prestatyn and District Ministers Fraternal (NLW MS 21571B).

MESSRS LANGTON AND PASSMORE 1977053 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Langton and Passmore, London, per the British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Marriage settlement (post-nuptial), 1626, relating to the marriage of Morgan Edwards of Pentirch, co. Montgomery, gent., and Ales, daughter of Cadwaledr ap Owen of the same place, referring to property in the township of Pentirch , and note of probate of the will of Robert Edwards of the parish of Llangollen, co. Denbigh, 26 October 1730 (NLW Deeds 965-6).

BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1977054 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Lee and Pembertons, London, per the British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Ninety-four deeds and documents, 1771-1918, mostly relating to lands belonging to the Glanusk Estate in the parishes of Llanddewi'r Cwm, Maesmynys, Llanganten, Allt-mawr, Llanfihangel Cwm Du, Talgarth, Llanllywenfel, Llangamarch, Llanafan Fawr, Gwenddwr and Llanfair-ym-Muallt in county Brecon, and in Aberedw in county Radnor. Some documents relate to the sale of land to the Birmingham Water Authority for the Elan valley water scheme. There are also four sale catalogues (1906-18) of portions of the Glanusk Estate, which include the names of buyers and prices realized for the lots. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

ROYAL COMPOSITION PAPERS 1977055 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr C G Lewin, Hook, Basingstoke. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A bound volume of copies of petitions, particulars, etc., 1647-51, from the Royalist Composition Papers relating to the Kemeys family of cos. Glamorgan and Monmouth, together with two letters to the late Anthony W. Lowther, F.S.A., the previous owner of the manuscript (NLW Misc Volumes 99).

H MOSTYN LEWIS 1977056 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H Mostyn Lewis, B.Sc., Ph.D., Gresford, Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Negatives and transparencies made by the donor for his work Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850, published 1970 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). They are labelled giving references to plate, page and line numbers in the volume.

H J LLOYD-JOHNES 1977057 Ffynhonnell / Source Major H J Lloyd Johnes, O.B.E., T.D., LL.D., F.S.A., Coates, Nr. Cirencester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Correspondence, reports, and printed literature relating to European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975, the donor having been a member of the executive committee of the United Kingdom Council set up in connection therewith; agenda and papers relating to meetings of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales held under the donor's chairmanship, 1976; papers relating to meetings of the Council of the National Museum of Wales, 1976 ; and over 500 letters addressed to the donor and his wife, a few dated 1957-62, but the majority dating from 1970-5. The personal correspondence is not to be made available for a period of fifty years.

LLANDYBIE COLLIERY SICKNESS FUND 1977058 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R W MacDonald, M.A., The National Library of Wales. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Account book of the Llandybïe Colliery Sickness Fund, 1920-2 (NLW Misc Volumes 102).

EVAN MADOC-JONES 1977059 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Enid Madoc Jones, M.A., Old Colwyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty-eight letters, 1889-1946 and undated, addressed to the donor's father Evan Madoc-Jones, M.A., including letters from G. B. Benfield, Swansea, F. Caldcleugh, Knutsford, E. Edmunds, Llanfair Caereinion, James D. Evans, Pwllheli, William Glynne, Middlesbro, Maurice Griffiths, Llanidloes, Edgar [? Jones], Barry, H. Parry Jones, Llanrwst, J. T. Alun Jones, Bala, Maurice Jones, Lampeter, G. W. Matthews, Ludlow, Eluned E. Owen, Abergwili, John Owen [as dean] from St. Asaph and [as bishop of St. Davids] from Abergwili, J. C. Pearson, London, F. D. Pierce, Lampeter, Helen Rowlands, Assam, W. J. Thomas, London, Percy J. Watkins, Cardiff, W. P. Wheldon, Bangor, and T. J. Williams, Rock Ferry. Testimonials in favour of E. Madoc-Jones by Edward Edwards, Aberystwyth, and Lewis J. Roberts, Aberystwyth, 1894. Printed copy of the minutes of the annual meeting of the Welsh County Schools Association, 1903, and other miscellaneous items.

JACK MEADOWS 1977060 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Jack Meadows, Youngstown, Ohio, per Mr Geraint Talfan Davies, Cardiff Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two volumes relating to Welsh emigrants in Ohio, U.S.A., as follows (NLW MSS 21577-8E): 1. A minute book of the Welsh Pioneers Society of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties, Ohio, 1895- 1905. The volume contains minutes (in Welsh) of the meetings of the society and press cuttings giving descriptions of annual reunions. There is also a list of the society's members. 2. `A Register of Welsh Pioneers of the Mahoning Valley and their descendants', 1898-1922. This register was made available at the annual reunion of the society, for Welsh emigrants to enter their names and addresses. There are also entries under columns marked: `Age; Emigrated to U.S. [i.e. date of emigration]; Home in Wales; Occupation; Remarks.'

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND 1977061 Ffynhonnell / Source The National Library of Ireland, Dublin. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A microfilm of National Library of Ireland MS No. 21286 (Nassau Senior Papers) (NLW Microfilms 389).

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WALES 1977062 Ffynhonnell / Source The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff: Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Lists of Welsh place-names in the counties of Anglesey, Brecon, Caernarvon, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Denbigh, Flint, Glamorgan, Merioneth, Monmouth, Montgomery, Pembroke, and Radnor, compiled from 1 inch Ordnance Survey Maps by G. Ellis, Department of Botany, The National Museum (Open Shelves).

R C B OLIVER 1977063 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R C B Oliver, M.A., Llandrindod Wells. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Particulars including a map and coloured photographs of Glanmiheli and Drefor farms, Kerry, Newtown, Montgomeryshire for sale by auction 30 July, 1974 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Sale catalogues with accompanying maps of properties in Radnorshire, Herefordshire and Shropshire comprising The Middleton Evans Estates, Llandrindod Wells, 1907 (Dept of Pictures and Maps); Farms in the parishes of Knighton, Whitton, Pilleth, and Willey, 1914 (Dept of Pictures and Maps); The Llanvair-Waterdine Estate, 1919 (Dept of Pictures and Maps); Old Hall Estate, 1922 (Dept of Pictures and Maps); Treburvaugh, 1927 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

PETERBOROUGH MUSEUM SOCIETY 1977064 Ffynhonnell / Source Peterborough Museum Society, Peterborough. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two bidding letters :-Richard Lechbrook and Elizabeth Jones of Genforth (sic) in the parish of Llanvihangel-vach [Llanfihangel Cilfargen], Carmarthenshire, dated January 15, 1796, William and Sarah Jones of Maes-y-llan, near Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, dated February 10, 1796 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

ARTHUR PUGH 1977065 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Arthur Pugh, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Four letters to the donor and / or his family from Dr. Thomas Richards, Bangor (1952), Waldo [Williams], Clynderwen (1952), Dewi Morgan, Llandre, Bow Street (1956), and Sam Jones, BBC, Bangor (1956) (NLW MS 21482D).

TYNYFFORDD 1977066 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mrs Elizabeth Pugh, Aberystwyth, per Dr R Arthur Hughes, Liverpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Supplementary papers, etc., of Thomas (T.R.) Morgan, Tynyffordd, Ponterwyd, Ceredigion, the donor's father (see Annual Report 1963-64; p. 37). Included are a certificate issued to T. R. Morgan on passing examinations at The Willow Street Academy, Oswestry, 1872 (where he subsequently served as assistant master); journals for 1874-6, 1876-7, 1878-83, and 1884-90, and a further journal for part of 1875 also used as a class marks register for the Academy at Oswestry; photographs of Academy groups, 1873 and 1880; printed prospectuses of the Academy; twenty letters to or from T. R. Morgan, 1874-1911, including five from Rev Joseph Hillier, formerly principal of Willow Street Academy and subsequently a minister at Beaumaris ; a notebook containing census statistics for Ponterwyd, 1891- 1931 ; an account book containing ? T. R. Morgan's accounts as clerk of the Cwmrheidol and Llanfihangel Upper School Board, 1889-96; and agreements relating to the sale of stock, etc., at Erwbarfe Farm near Devil's Bridge in the township of Llanbadarn y Creuddyn, Ceredigion, 1867-8, the sale of stock, etc., at Tynyffordd Farm in the same township 1869, the sale of land near Ponterwyd, 1888, and the tenancy of a messuage called Demel in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, 1895. Also included are a number of printed works including J. R. Beard, The Household Biblical Cyclopaedia, vol. II, 1864; Edward Davies, Geirlyfr yr Ysgol Sul, 1867; Thomas Charles, Hyfforddwr yn Egwyddorion y Grefydd Gristnogol, 1871 ; Samuel Green, A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1871; Rheolau yr Urdd Annibyn[n]ol o Odyddion, Cymdeithas Gyfeillgar Undeb Manceinion, 1882; Pregethau gan y Diweddar Barch. David Charles o Gaerfyrddin; Owen Hughes, Pregethau a Gweithiau Eraill, 1896; and W. J. Williams, Esboniad ar Epistol Iago, 1899.

RADNORSHIRE SOCIETY 1977067 Ffynhonnell / Source The Radnorshire Society, per Mr C W Newman, B.A., F.L.A., Llandrindod Wells. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Through the courtesy of the Radnorshire Society the Library has been enabled to make a photocopy of a manuscript volume described on its `title-page' as `Llyfr Coch containing a collection of arms selected from various authentic sources and arranged alphabetically by W. H. Griffiths, Presteigne, 1836' (NLW Fcasimiles 207). The original manuscript is in the possession of the Society.

LADY RENNELL 1977068 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Honourable Lady Rennell, Presteigne. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Six signed lithographs by the donor of (Dept of Pictures and Maps):- Station aboriginees and the Manager's son, Kimberley, Western Australia (no. 10 of an edition of 10 copies). The Waterfall - Claerwen, in reverse - (no. 16 of an edition of 70 copies). Carmelites in Choir (no. 3 of an edition of 30 copies). The boy Jesus and the Shepherd (no. 12 of an edition of 70 copies). Carmelite Nun at prayer Mother Michael (no. 2 of an edition of 40 copies). Nativity (no. 2 of an edition of 100 copies).

GWYNFRYN RICHARDS 1977069 Ffynhonnell / Source The Very Reverend Gwynfryn Richards, M.A., B.Sc., Llandegfan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Personal papers of the donor, some of which are not to be made available to readers until the year 2000. The items to which access is restricted relate mainly to the donor's career and include correspondence and papers in connection with his appointment as vicar of Conway, 1949, rector of Llandudno, 1956, archdeacon of Bangor, 1957, and dean of the cathedral church at Bangor, 1962; letters to, and copies of letters from, the donor while he held the above appointments and also while he was rector of Llanllyfni, 1938-49, and rural dean of Arllechwedd, 1953-7; correspondence and cuttings relating to Ffurfiau Ordeinio Holl Eglwysi Cymru o 1559 (Caerfyrddin, 1943); and cuttings of miscellaneous articles. Items on which there are no restrictions include a volume containing preparatory notes for meetings of the Parochial Church Councils at Conway, Gyffin and Llandudno, 1954-9 ; a volume containing a series of addresses delivered at a retreat for clergy of the diocese of St. Davids, 1948; and subsequently used as the basis for a series of articles published in Y Llan, April- May 1975; an address on `Cathedrals : A Challenge' delivered in 1966 ; notes and extracts taken by the donor from the log books of Llanllyfni British School, 1863-1945, Nantlle Board School, 1874-1947; Nebo Board School, 1873-1925, Penygroes Board School, 1873-1927, and Talysarn British School, 1863-1904; material relating to David W. Bateman (1898-1967) of Cardigan, the poet, including letters, 1937-54 and n.d., from him to the donor, Christmas greeting cards from him to the donor with a poem by him printed on each one, and a signed copy of Through the Rainbow (Carmarthen, 1932) with one holograph and two printed poems and a photograph of the author pasted in ; copies of a Dutch prayer book, Manna Voor de Jeugd, and a Book of Common Prayer in French (Londres, 1886) ; and miscellaneous printed items.

ANNETTA E ROBERTS 1977070 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Annetta E Roberts, Betws Gwerful Goch, per Mr Robin Gwyndaf, M.A., St. Fagans. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minute book, 1927-40, of the Uwchaled Nursing Association , annual report and statement of accounts of the said Association, 1941 (printed), agreement, 1933, between the Cerrigydrudion District Nursing Association and Nurse Alice Jones, and, 1940, between Uwchaled and Cerrigydrudion District Nursing Association and Nurse Nesta Jones, and a list of rateable values of property in the Uwchaled area (NLW MS 21567C).

D J ROBERTS 1977071 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend D J Roberts, B.A., B.D., Cardigan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing pedigrees of families (Morris, Jenkins, Griffiths, etc.) in the Cardigan area, and notes on Nonconformity in the district, including particulars of burials at Glynarthen chapel cemetry, 1886-1908 (NLW Misc Volumes 239).

WREXHAM MINISTERS FRATERNAL 1977072 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E Haddon Roberts, O.B.E., M.A., M.Sc., Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minute book, 1923-9, of the Wrexham Ministers Fraternal (NLW MS 14110A).

GOMER M ROBERTS 1977073 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Gomer M Roberts, M.A., Llandybïe. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph letter, 1896, from Robert Isaac Jones ('Alltud Eifion'), from the Madoc Printing Office, Tremadoc, to Rev Elias Owen, Vicarage, Llanblodwell, referring to some of the press's publications (NLW MS 21555C); a lease, 1804, of a cottage and land in the parish of Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, an agreement, 1864, relating to the sale of a house and shop in Ystradgynlais (NLW Deeds 962-3); instructions regarding the building of Godrerhos chapel (? Creunant, Vale of Neath), undated (NLW Misc Recs 334); a letter from [ Rev Principal] Vernon [Lewis) from Machynlleth to [Rev] Giraldus [Morris], 1961, enclosing a printed copy of Lewis's translation into Welsh of two English hymns, and a letter from [Rev] Giraldus [Morris] from Cwmbran to [Rev Dafydd Wyn William], 1975, sending the above letter and the translation to Mr. Wiliam (NLW MS 21482D).

MUDIAD YSGOLION MEITHRIN 1977074 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Hywel D Roberts, Cardiff Copies of the English and Welsh versions of the Annual Reports of the National Association of Welsh Medium Nursery Schools, 1974-5 and 1975-6.

HOWARD LLOYD ROBERTS (`AP RHOBERT') 1977075 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Mary Lloyd Roberts, Dolybont, Borth, Dyfed. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A self-portrait painted c. 1930 of Howard Lloyd Roberts (`Ap Rhobert'; 1879-1935), the donor's father (Dept of Pictures and Maps PB8618).

J B SIDEBOTHAM 1977076 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J B Sidebotham, C.M.G., M.A., Cwmystwyth, Dyfed. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A book of prayers, petitions, invocations of the Archangel, etc., written in the maghribi script and including some decorated pages (NLW MS 21584C). It consists of loose leaves, held in a cover of dark, blind-tooled goatskin. The whole is enclosed in a pouch of decorated suede. Dating probably from the nineteenth century, it is perhaps associated with Hausa country, or elsewhere in North West Africa. Two letters, dated 28 August and 30 August 1820, respectively, the correspondence of William Ross and Thomas Jifkins relating to the proposed sale of a coffee plantation [ ? in British Guyana] (NLW MS 21557D). Appended is an inventory, 27 July 1818, of the plantation, giving an account of buildings, boats, stock, stores and slaves. The slaves, classified under the headings men, women, boys, and girls are described by name, number, and trade or work.

K N SWASH 1977077 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr K N Swash, Newport, Salop. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Material relating to the National Pageant of Wales, held at Cardiff, 26 July to 7 August 1909, including a volume of press cuttings relating to the pageant; a notebook containing minutes of a public meeting held at the City Hall, Cardiff, 14 January 1909 (also containing minutes of various committees, 18 January to 12 February 1909, lists of guarantors and subscribers); a notebook containing minutes of committees, 28 June to 2 August 1909; and a Book of the Words of the pageant (printed, two copies).

CLARE TAYLOR 1977078 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Clare Taylor, M.A., Ph.D., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description An attested photographic copy of the registered copy of the will of John Williams of the parish of Saint Catherine, co. Middlesex, in the island of Jamaica, brother of Edward Williams (`Iolo Morganwg'), dated 12 February 1801 and of a codicil to the said will dated 18 November 1801 (NLW Facsimiles 206). The copy was provided by the Island Record Office, Spanish Town, Jamaica.

GWENDOLYN M THEOBALD 1977079 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Gwendolyn M Theobald, Cricieth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A notebook (37 pp. with brown paper covers) containing the military reminiscences of a British army officer whose career covered a period of approximately 192 years subsequent to his first commission in January 1792 (NLW MS 21574C). Apart from service in Britain the officer had also served in Europe, the West Indies, and South America. A portrait sketch in pencil and crayon of John Priestley, second son of Samuel Priestley of Trefan, LIanystumdwy, and an ancestor of the donor(Dept of Pictures and Maps PB8561).

SIR BEN BOWEN THOMAS 1977080 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Ben Bowen Thomas, M.A., LL.D., Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript copies of (1) twenty verses by J. Glyn Davies entitled `Cwyn Men am ei Llyfr (neu Delynegion Bâs a Dwfn)', and (2) sixteen verses by C. Bryner-Jones entitled `Rhai o Bobol Dolgella' (NLW Misc Records 351).

ELIZABETH THOMAS 1977081 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, B.A., Penally, Tenby. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two hundred titles of works on education, science, philosophy, the classics, Welsh folk-lore, Welsh poetry and literature, which were published mainly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (Dept of Printed Books). A bureau used by the donor's late husband, Dr. William Thomas (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

E M AND F THOMAS 1977082 Ffynhonnell / Source The Misses E M and F Thomas, Tre r-ddôl, per Mrs Gwen Davies, Tre r-ddôl, Dyfed. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Through the courtesy of the Misses Thomas and the good offices of Mrs. Davies the Library has been enabled to make photocopies of a journal recording visits made by [Miss] M. A. Lazenby to her uncle John Lazenby in Brecon, September 1853, September 1878, October 1879, and July 1880 (NLW Facsimiles 213), and also of eleven letters, 1837-51 and n.d., of the Lazenby family, eight of the letters being to or from the aforesaid John Lazenby and his wife Anne (NLW Facsimiles 214). John Lazenby had been appointed gaoler and keeper of the House of Correction at Brecon in June 1837 and his wife had been appointed matron. They held these posts for a period of over forty years (see Breconshire Quarter Sessions Order Books).

A WORTHINGTON 1977083 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss G O Thomas, Upton-by-Chester, Chester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Four framed landscape paintings by A. Worthington including one of Llanbadarn Fawr Church and the Black Lion Inn, near Aberystwyth (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

MARION SCOTT THOMAS 1977084 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Marion Scott Thomas, St. Davids. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A pedigree chart showing the descendants of Siams Dafydd (1758-1844 of Ty Mawr, Pentregalar, Pembrokeshire, for whom see J. Lloyd James, Oracl ei ardal: Hanes Siams Paz, Pentregalar (Merthyr Tydfil, 1901), also a notebook of Rev Thomas Thomas (1850-1908), one of the descendants of the said Siams Dafi (NLW Misc Records 338-9).

ORTHIN THOMAS 1977085 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Orthin Thomas, Trethomas, Gwent. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A diary, October 1899 to October 1900, of a soldier, Private William Mallett of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards (NLW MS 21572A). The writer describes their embarkation from Gibraltar (26 October), the voyage to Cape Town (disembarked 15 November), the march to the front, first contact with the Boers (23 November), subsequent fighting (Belmont, Graspan, Modder River, Magersfontein, Driefontein, etc.), the entry into Johannesberg (31 May 1900), the surrender of Pretoria (5 June 1900), etc. A notebook containing, in alphabetical order, lists of British firms and their products probably compiled as a trade directory (NLW Misc Volumes 101). The inside cover bears the name T. H. Worthington, Pembroke House, Barmouth, August 29th 1899.

VIOLET THOMAS 1977086 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Violet Thomas, St. Florence, Tenby. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Approximately a hundred titles, being particularly strong in Welsh drama and literature of the early twentieth century (Dept of Printed Books).

HYMN TUNES 1977087 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W D Thomas, Alvaston, Derby. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing a number of hymn-tunes in old notation. The fly-leaf bears the inscription `Wm. Thomas, Capel Isaac, Oct. 20, 1854' (NLW Misc Volumes 96).

BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1977088 Ffynhonnell / Source Vestry House Museum, London, per the British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A map of Wales (n.d., probably late nineteenth century) showing principal roads, towns, and villages, engraved by S. Hall and published by Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, London.

HUW WALTERS 1977089 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Huw Walters, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description An essay on `Hen Gymeriadau Dyffryn Aman' submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Rhydaman, 1922, by `Glyn Amanw' [John Jenkyn Morgan] (NLW MS 21575E); and holograph essays on William Jones, Cwmllynfell (`Gwilym Wyn' ; 1852-1914), and Richard Williams, Brynaman (`Gwydderig' ; 1842-1917), by `Llwch Ewin' [John Jenkyn Morgan] (NLW MS 21579E). Through the courtesy of the donor the Library has also been enabled to make photocopies of miscellaneous material relating to the Brynaman district including three letters, 1872-86, from Griffith Williams from America to his family in Brynaman (NLW Facsimiles 208).

JOHN GWILI JENKINS 1977090 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr I Morgan Watkin, M.Sc., Ph.D., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Additional papers from the library of the late Emeritus Professor Morgan Watkin (d. 1970, the donor's father, consisting of letters from Professor John Gwili Jenkins (`Gwili'; 1872-1936), and a few addressed to him. Three framed portraits: tinted photographs of John Jenkins and of Elizabeth (Betsi) Jenkins (nêe Davies) the parents of John Gwili Jenkins, and a portrait published by the South Wales Publishing Co., Ystrad, of William Thomas, (`Islwyn'; 1832-78) (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

WELSH ARTS COUNCIL 1977091 Ffynhonnell / Source The Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff: Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A large number of photographs (and negatives) used as exhibits, in the `Welsh Dylan' Exhibition (arranged by the Welsh Arts Council in 1973 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the poet's death) (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

MESSRS G M WHILEY LTD 1977092 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs G M Whiley, Ltd., South Ruislip, per the British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A deed, 1734, relating to property in the parish of Kemes, co. Montgomery. Mynegai Cemaes Nodiadau Transferred to Powys RO August 1984.

DYLAN THOMAS 1977093 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Emlyn Williams, C.B.E., M.A., LL.D., London, per Mr Paul Ferris, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Six pages containing a holograph draft of a section of Dylan Thomas's story first published under the title `A Story' in The Listener in 1953, and perhaps better known under its subsequent title `The Outing'; and a page of random jottings almost certainly for the unfinished `Elegy' (1953) (NLW MS 21573E). Also a note by Mr. Ferris relating to the background to the composition and reading of A Story.

HUW WILLIAMS 1977094 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Huw Williams, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Three letters, 1967-70, from Meirion Williams (1901-76), the composer, to the donor, together with the order of the funeral service of Meirion Williams in Llanenddwyn, Gwynedd, on 12 October 1976 (NLW MS 21482D), and a leaflet of a memorial service held for him in St. Benet Church, London, on 27 October 1976 (Dept of Printed Books). Manuscript copies of two songs, namely `Fy Anwyl Walia Wen', a tenor solo with words by [Thomas David Thomas], `Glan Padarn', and music by D. Parry; and `Who made all', a solo for soprano or tenor, the words by Nansi Richards and the music by J[ohn Herbert] Foulds (NLW MS 21602E). A copy of the `Dyddiadur Methodistaidd' for 1846, the property of William Jones, `Entyr Môn' (?1820-1910), of which some pages are missing (NLW Misc Volumes 227). Contains written notes, some dated 1901-03, and music, in several hands.

J E CAERWYN WILLIAMS 1977095 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor J E Caerwyn Williams, M.A., B.D., D.Litt.Celt., F.S.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript and manuscript copies of articles, poems, reviews, etc., which appeared in various numbers of Y Traethodydd, 1971-6, Ysgrifau Beirniadol IX, 1976, and Studia Celtica, vol. 5, 1970, under the donor's editorship; a few letters from contributors to the donor; a copy of a memorandum on `The Publishing of Books in Wales Today' submitted to the Literature Committee of the Welsh Arts Council, 1970; a draft of a memorandum on `The First Seven Years. A Review of the Literature Committee's Work, 1968-75' submitted to the Welsh Arts Council ; and a copy of a bilingual memorandum on the establishing of a Welsh college within the University of Wales, 1974.

JAC L WILLIAMS 1977096 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Professor Jac L Williams, B.A., B.Sc., Ph.D., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A summary of two lectures delivered by Professor Williams at an International Conference on Bilingual Education in Malta, April 1976, papers relating to the Celtic Languages Conference held at Rath Cairn, county Meath, Ireland, 19-22 August 1976, and a copy of a paper prepared by Professor Williams for an International Conference on Education held in Yugoslavia, September 1976 (NLW Misc Records 337).

KYFFIN WILLIAMS 1977097 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Kyffin Williams, R.A., M.A., Llanfairpwll, Gwynedd. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A scrapbook containing a collection of covers franked by various members of parliament, etc., mainly 1827-39 (NLW Misc Volumes 235).

MARY WILLIAMS 1977098 Ffynhonnell / Source Emeritus Professor Mary Williams, M.A., D.U.P., Officier D Acadêmie, Chevalier de la Lêgion d'Honneur, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Over a thousand titles of works of wide-ranging interest including English, French, Italian, and Welsh language and literature, works on education, religion, mythology, anthropology, topography, travel, and history, especially Welsh history - general and local (Dept of Printed Books).

TOM WILLIAMS 1977099 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Tom Williams, B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty-one letters, 1973-6 and undated, from D. Carelio Morgan, Comins Coch, Aberystwyth, to the donor, and typescript notes by Morgan on `Dirgelion Diwygiad, 1904-5' (NLW Misc Records 346).

CARMINA MAIORA OF CLAUDIUS CLAUDIANUS 1977100 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description An early-thirteenth century manuscript of the Carmina maiora of Claudius Claudianus, who lived in Rome c. 395-404 A.D., written in Italy, imperfect by the loss of a quire at the beginning and four leaves elsewhere (one after f. 45, one after f. 68 and two after f. 72) (NLW MS 21589C). The text is consistently very close to Birt's MS. B (see his edition in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auct. Ant., X) and as in that MS. the order is Birt's Series VI and the poem De Salvatore follows at the end of the Carmina maiora. Spaces for initials are blank; the manuscript is not rubricated. There are interesting contemporary scholia on the first half of the text. The manuscript is of 74 ff., measures 230 x 120 mm, and is bound in russia, gilt, probably late 18th cent.. It was formerly Phillipps MS. 9155 and is now NLW MS 21589C. Claudian's poetry provides valuable evidence for events of the last years of the Roman occupation of Britain.

SEXTUS JULIUS FRONTINUS 1977101 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript of the Stratagemata, a treatise on military strategy, of Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 30-104 A.D.), an author of particular interest to Wales in that he was Governor of Britain and that he subdued the Silures and constructed roads in the country, written c. 1450-60, at Florence (NLW MS 21588C). The manuscript contains 60 leaves with two blank leaves missing at the end, consisting generally of gatherings of ten (the second, however, is of four and the last of eight), with catchwords. The leaves have contemporary foliation LXX-CXXIX, indicating that the manuscript was previously bound with another work, probably the military treatise of Flavius Vegetius Renatus. The text is written in black ink in a fine humanist script with 26 lines to the page and with wide margins in which notes are written in the same hand. It begins with a large gold initial with white vine decoration on a background of dotted blue, red and green, extending the length of two margins, and ending in gold circles with decorative penwork. The initial letters of the first chapters of each book are also illuminated in gold, the first on a ground of blue, green and red, and the others on grounds of blue and red. Other initial letters are often written in blue, and headings are in red. The volume is bound in nineteenth century red velvet. The manuscript is included in a catalogue of 1835 of Messrs. Payne and Foss, and was later Phillipps MS 8533.

GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR 1977102 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript of the works of Gaius Julius Caesar comprising the De Bello Gallico, together with the eighth book by Aulus Hirtius preceded by Hirtius's letter to Balbus, and the De Bello Civili, together with the Bellum Alexandrium, Bellum Africum and Bellum Hispaniense, all three here attributed to Hirtius (NLW MS 21587D). All the versions in this manuscript are said to be corrected by Julius Celsus Constantinus. The volume contains 212 leaves, with two original flyleaves, in gatherings generally of ten, though the last is of twelve, with catchwords. The text, written in Florence c. 1450- 1460, is in a fine humanist hand, with 32 lines to the page and wide margins. Marginal notes are written in the first part of the manuscript in several contemporary humanist hands. Headings, omitted after f. 1 until f. 126, are written in red, and the first words of the De Bello Gallico and of the third book of the De Bello Civili, are both written in alternate red and black capitals. The first work, the De Bello Gallico, opens with a six-line gold initial supporting a border, which extends in two margins, of white vine decoration shaded in yellow on a background of dotted red, blue and green, terminating in gold circles. In the border at the foot of the page a gold vase in the centre supports a space left blank for a coat of arms. There are fourteen other illuminated initials in yellow, one (on f. 22v) having been re-touched in gold. The volume retains its Florentine fifteenth century binding of dark brown goatskin over wooden boards, pannelled in blind with fillets and borders of small knotwork tools, crosses and rosettes, and with lozenge panels in the centre of each cover. The spine is cross-hatched, and the stubs of clasps remain on the covers. On the final flyleaf an erased note of purchase in Rome ends `pro pretio lx libris'. On the first flyleaf the name `Guido Lolgius' has been erased. Guido Lolli or Loglio of Reggio was secretary to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The manuscript, now NLW MS 21587 D, was sold in the Hoepli sale at Milan on 24 November 1930, and was acquired in 1952 by Thomas Ewart Marston, whose bookplate it contains, from Lathrop Harper.

CICERO 1977103 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A small fifteenth century manuscript containing four works of Cicero: the De Amicitia, De Senectute, Paradoxa Stoicorum and Somnium Scipionis (NLW MS 21586A). The manuscript contains 128 leaves and two flyleaves (in the manuscript foliation `84' is repeated). Gatherings are of ten except for the twelfth, which is of eight, with catchwords. The fine humanist hand is that of a scribe known to have worked for Lorenzo de Medici around 1470. There are 19 lines to each page, and wide margins. The text itself is written in dark brown ink, with headings, Greek words, and most marginal notes in pale red ink. Sections are introduced with alternate red and black capitals. The title of the first work, the De Amicitia, is in three lines of gold capitals, and the text itself opens with a four-line gold initial with white vine decoration on a background of dotted pink, blue and green within rules of gold entirely surrounding the text. The borders contain various pictures including, in the right-hand column, a portrait of Cicero in a gold medallion. The titles of the other three works are written in pale red capitals and the text of each opens with a three-line gold initial surrounded by white vine decoration, extending above and below the letter on backgrounds of dotted pink, blue and green terminating in gold circles with penwork decoration. The illumination is probably the work of Antonio di Niccolô di Lorenzo (1445-1527) of Florence. The volume is bound in morocco gilt with a floral border, probably Austrian, early nineteenth century. The spine bears the title in gold lettering and floral tools in compartments. The partly erased coat of arms of f. 1 was probably that of the original owner. Latin epitaphs, dated 1579-81, of Johannes Grodecky and Stanislaus Thurzo, two bishops of Olmutz (Olomouc in Czechoslovakia), and of several members of the Dambrow family apparently connected with the cathedral of Olmutz, appear on the flyleaves. Notes in German on these people, dated 1819, have been added on the verso of the first flyleaf by W. J. Wippel, and the stamp of Dr. Leopold Heinemann of Berlin appears at the beginning and end of the volume. The manuscript is now N.L.W. MS. 21586A. De Senectute was partly translated into Welsh by the Welsh humanist, Gruffydd Robert. Mynegai Defynnog, Llanafan, Llanfihangel, Llanwrtud, Llysdinam, Trallong, Itton, Aberedw, Colfa, Diserth and Tregoed, Llanbadarn y Garreg, Llanelwedd. Llansanffriad-yn-Elfael, Llanfachreth

HENRY BRISTOW 1977104 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Twelve documents, 1671-86, including title-deeds relating to the mills of Cray, Devynock, Glintawy, Istrodveltey, Llywell, Pwll Coch, and Senny within the lordship of Brecon, property in the parishes of Builth, Devynnocke, Llanavan, Llandilo, Llanvyhangell, Llanwrted, Llysdynam, and Trallonge, co. Brecon, the manors of Magor and St. Brides in the parishes of Magor and St. Brides respectively, co. Monmouth, property in the parishes of Ithon and Penhow, co. Monmouth, and property in the parishes of Aberedow, Colva, Disserth, Llanbadern y Carrege, Llanelweth, Llansanfred in Elvel and Llanvareth, co. Radnor. Sir Rowland Gwynne (1660-1726) of Llanelwedd, co. Radnor, appears as party to several of these deeds.

`SUBSCRIBERS TO THE ROADS AND OTHER FREEHOLDERS ' 1977105 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minutes of a meeting held in the town of Brecon, 19 April 1759, `of the Subscribers to the Roads and other Freeholders of the said County [of Brecon]'. Bears fourteen signatures.

HENRY BRISTOW 1977106 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Agreement entered into by the inhabitants of the hamlet of Maeskarr in the parish of Defynnog, co. Brecon, 23 May 1670, concerning the appointment of petty constables and overseers of the poor annually within the said hamlet.

GAMES'S HOSPITAL, BRECON 1977107 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing acknowledgements, 1744-67, by the twelve `sisters or ancient women' of Games's Hospital, Brecon (founded by Madam Elizabeth Walker and Madam Katherine Games, both of Newton) (NLW MS 13216A), of the receipt of gowns, vestments, and quarterly sums of money provided under the terms of the hospital charity; acknowledgements, 1743-62, by four poor widows or elderly maidens who were inhabitants of the town of Brecon and the parish of St. David, of the receipt of two flaxen shifts each provided annually under the terms of a charity set up by Mrs. Elizabeth Walker of Newton ; acknowledgements, 1744-62, of the receipt of twenty shillings per month provided by the Newton family for purchasing bread for the poor, the said bread to be distributed at the Collegiate Church, Brecon; acknowledgements, 1744-62, by the preachers of the said sermon, of the receipt of a payment of twenty shillings in respect of a charity sermon preached annually in August in the Collegiate Church, Brecon, the said charity having been established by Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Games of the Newton family ; and records of incidental payments, 1744-67, for mending tiles at the alms houses at Llanfaes, pointing and whitewashing the alms houses [? at Llanfaes], miscellaneous work at Games's Hospital, making gowns and petticoats for the alms-women, etc.

HENRY BRISTOW 1977108 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two note-books containing miscellaneous financial entries, memoranda, etc., 1750s-60s, probably of Breconshire provenance.

SIMON HUGHES 1977109 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty-seven documents, 1862-5, being leases, agreements, assignments, licences, letters, and one share certificate, relating to gold and copper ore in or under land in the parishes of Llanelltud and Llanfachreth, co. Merioneth, and to the Pen yr Orsedd slate quarry in the parish of Llandwrog, co. Caernarvon. There are also references to the Caedryn Slate Quarry Co. Ltd., and the North Wales Gold Washing Company Ltd.

SIR LEWIS MORRIS 1977110 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A letter from Lewis Morris (later Sir Lewis Morris, 1833-1907) at the Reform Club, dated June 10th [18]84, to Mr. Martin (NLW MS 21555C). The writer mentions his early legal career, part of which appears to have been spent with the recipient. He continues by briefly reviewing his work on behalf of education in Wales, by mentioning the prospect of his being appointed Charity Commissioner for Wales and by referring to his `effusions in verse'. He describes his `Epic of Hades' as a `happy thought' and expresses a hope that no one will suffer in faith or in morals by anything he has written.

EDWARD HALL 1977111 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Nineteen holograph letters, 1879-84, from Josiah Pitman (1816-86, pianist, composer, and accompanyist to Adelina Patti) all but one from Craig y nos Castle, co. Brecon, to Edward Hall at the Box Office, Covent Garden Theatre, and eight holograph letters, 1895-6, from Mabel Woodford probably Adelina Patti's companion, from London, Liverpool, Craig y nos Castle, Brighton, and Vienna, also to Edward Hall. The letters refer mainly to the career of Adelina Patti (concerts, journeys, etc.) (NLW MS 21583C).

CHARLES ASHTON 1977112 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A letter, 1899, from T. Williams, from the offices of the Oswestry . . . Advertizer, to Charles Ashton (1848-99; bibliographer and literary historian) (NLW MS 21555C).

AUGUSTUS JOHN ETC 1977113 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Fifty-two letters, six postcards, and a short note, all holograph, 1938-61 and undated, from Augustus John from Fryern Court (Fordingbridge), Mousehole (Penzance), Grasse (France), and London, to John Davenport, four letters and a note, all holograph, 1965 and undated, from [Admiral Sir] Caspar [John) son of Augustus John, to John [Davenport] , three letters and a note, all holograph, n.d., from Gwyneth Johnstone to John [Davenport] , two holograph letters, 1958, from Bobbi [? Robert Speaight] to John [Davenport] , a holograph copy (10 pp.) of an article on Augustus John by John Davenport (see The Twentieth Century, 1952, vol. CLII, pp. 85-7), the typescript (6 pp.) of another article on Augustus John by Davenport, with manuscript emendations by the subject (see Illustrated, 8 March 1952), and a copy of the script of a B.B.C. interview with Lord David Cecil about Augustus John, 1963 (NLW MS 21585E).

AUGUSTUS JOHN ETC 1977114 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description One hundred and thirty-eight letters to Michel Salaman, friend of Augustus John and his contemporary at the Slade, and his wife (NLW MSS 14928-9D, 14930-1C). Included are letters from Augustus John (71, sixteen with pen-and-ink sketches), Albert Rutherston (31, five with pen-and-ink sketches), Ambrose McEvoy (5), William Orpen (5, four with pen-and-ink sketches), Gwen John (5), Henry Tonks (8), John Fothergill (6), etc. Also fifteen letters from Ethel and Ursula Nettleship, sisters-in-law of Augustus John, to Dorothy Samuel, sister of Michel Salaman, and two from Gwen John to Michael Salaman, son of Michel Salaman.

DYLAN THOMAS 1977115 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A file of letters and papers concerning a projected book by Dylan Thomas about the streets of London (NLW MS 21600E). The intended contents of this book are summarised in a three page typescript : A Book of Streets. Words and pictures about streets . . . Not the great thoroughfares, . . . but the side streets,...' The letters and papers divide themselves into two groups of which the first contains a file of letters, originals and copies,concerning the progress of work on the book (approx. 23 items). There are six letters from Dylan Thomas in this group, five holograph and one autograph, bearing dates between September 20th 1944 and February 6th 1945. The earlier of these six letters concern the initial arrangements for the book, but the later ones consist largely of excuses and apologies by Thomas for his failure to produce a manuscript, or even to reply to letters from the publishers. The second group of letters and papers concerns the efforts made by the publishers to retrieve their advance of £50, on Thomas's failure to produce a manuscript. These letters and papers (approx. 28 items) centre on the writ for the recovery of this sum issued against Thomas by John Westhouse (Publishers), Ltd., on May 24th 1946.

RAYMOND GARLICK 1977116 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Diaries of Raymond Garlick for 1956-7. (Not to be consulted without Mr. Garlick's consent for the next twenty years).

NEW BRIGHTON EISTEDDFODAU 1977117 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing printed programmes of eisteddfodau held at New Brighton, 1901-6, with manuscript lists of competitors, winners, etc. (NLW MS 14573C)

HYMN TUNE BOOKS COMPILED BY OWEN WILLIAMS 1977118 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two hymn-tune books compiled by Owen Williams, Isa Gors, Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey, one, dated 1838, of 41ff., the other of 55ff. (NLW MSS 21594-5A)

HYMN TUNE BOOK COMPILED BY EBENEZER JONES 1977119 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Hymn-tune book, calligraphically written, compiled by Ebenezer Jones of Cynwyd, Meirionydd, mid 19th cent., 60ff. (NLW MS 21596A)

`HANES EMYNWYR CYMRU' 1977120 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description An almost complete transcript, probably made in 1915, of Hanes Emynwyr Cymru [W. Alfonso Griffiths, Caernarfon, 1891] (NLW MS 21598A).

ESSAYS BY JOHN LLOYD, TOWYN 1977121 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two essays in Welsh, apparently by John Lloyd of Towyn, a lawyer and musician, Noson gyda cyfansoddwyr tonau and John Ambrose Lloyd, the latter apparently written in 1915 (NLW MS 21597C).

NOEL H WYNNE 1977122 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript notes by Noel H. Wynne on the Wynne family of Caerwys and Pennsylvania (and elsewhere in the U.S.A.), Quakers, compiled in 1971 (NLW Misc Records 396).

NOTES ON `SALMAU'R MYNYDD' 1977123 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Notes in Welsh on the background to the publication of Salmau'r Mynydd (Gellionnen, 1951), a collection of Unitarian hymns and tunes [intended for the personal information of Huw Williams, Bangor, and not to be made available until 1990] (NLW Ex 1201).

I JONES, TREHERBERT 1977124 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description One letter from I. Jones, music publisher, Treherbert, 1914 (NLW MS 19979A).

SCORES OF ORCHESTRAL WORKS 1977125 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Bound volumes containing transcripts of the full scores of orchestral works by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and Verdi (NLW Misc Volumes 106-13), including Haydn's Imperial Mass (Latin words with Welsh translation by the Reverend Principal J. Vernon Lewis), Mozart's Grand Mass in C. Minor (Latin words with Welsh translation by j. Vernon Lewis), Verdi's Requiem Mass (Latin words with Welsh translation by J. Vernon Lewis). Also a transcript of the score of Harry Evans's `Dafydd ap Gwilym', a romantic cantata (libretto by Dr. David Adams in Welsh and English).

BOOKS OF HEARINGS IN THE COUNCIL IN THE MARCHES OF WALES 1977126 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Positive microfilm copies of the Books of Hearings in the Council in the Marches of Wales, 1631-42, in the possession of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, U.S.A. (NLW Microfilms 390-2)

EDWARD LHUYD 1977127 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A microfilm of Trinity College (Dublin) MS. No. 1392 (papers of Edward Lhuyd) (NLW Microfilms 387).

WATERCOLOUR AND OTHER DRAWINGS 1977128 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Topographical acquisitions (Dept of Pictures and Maps) included watercolour and other drawings of: Near Towyn, Merioneth, by William Burgess, 1783 ; Between Dolgellau and Barmouth, by Edmund Becker (fl. 1793-1810); `The usual spot near Llanrwst Bridge. . . where the washerwomen carry out their work', by Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817); West view of Chepstow Bridge 1813, and Caernarvon Castle 1816, both by Charles Randle ; the Gateway to Lamphey Palace, and a North-West view of the Gateway at St. David's, both by John Chessell Buckler, 1815 ; a view of Tenby, by N[icholas] Pocock (1740-1821); Llanbadarn Fawr, by Thomas Fisher (1782-1836); Rhaeadr Ddu waterfall, 1826, and Twrch Bridge, Llanuwchllyn [18]43, both by Henry Blunt; Chepstow, by Cornelius Pearson, 1844; Llanelltud Village and Bridge, near Dolgellau, by David Cox, senr. (1783- 1859) and David Cox, junr. (1809-85); Gateway, Pembroke Castle, by Cornelius Varley (1781-1873); Gloddaeth, Caernarvonshire, by G[eorge] Hayes, 1871 ; and `Sketches in Llansannan' - a volume containing pencil drawings by Mrs. E. M. Wood, 1901.

ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS 1977129 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A coloured etching of Chester Cathedral, by J. Buckler, 1811, a large line engraving entitled `Woburn Sheepshearing' by George Garrard, 1811, soft ground etchings of Caernarvon, Conway, Harlech, and Raglan Castles by John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), and an etching of the Estuary near Harlech, by Oliver Hall (1869-1957) (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

HOWARD LLOYD ROBERTS (`AP RHOBERT') 1977130 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty-four caricature drawings dated 1910 and 1926 by Howard Lloyd Roberts (`Ap Rhobert';1879- 1935) of well known personalities connected with the College and with public life in Aberstwyth and North Cardiganshire (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

JOHN ELWYN 1977131 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Blue Barns - an oil painting by John Elwyn (Dept of Pictures and Maps PB8721).

FIELD PLANS AND SCHEDULES 1977132 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A volume containing field plans and schedules of `Graigwhith Demesne and farms' 1807, and `Pant y Goitre Demesne . . .' 1837, both in the county of Monmouth (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

MAPS AND ATLASES 1977133 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Printed maps including a map of Anglesey and Caernarvon by Michael Drayton, 1622, Cary and Arrowsmith's Map of the Road from London to Holyhead, 1793 , two county maps of Herefordshire, one by Isaac Taylor 1754, the other by Henry Price 1817, and a General (Wall) Map of Ireland to accompany the Report of the Railway Commissioners 1836, (geology revised to 1855) (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas, 1793, A General Map of the Empire of Germany, Holland . by Captain Chauchard, . . 1800, and A Descriptive Atlas of astronomy and of physical and political geography, by Thomas Milner, 1850 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

BANKNOTES 1977134 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Four banknotes - Milford & Pembrokeshire Bank, 1809, Swansea Old Bank, c. 1820, Newport Old Bank, 1845, and Pembrokeshire Bank, c. 1850 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

`GWENALLT' & R WILLIAMS PARRY ETC 1977135 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Photograph of `Welsh Choristers' in a street parade in [London] c. 1900 , an album containing pictorial postcards - mostly Welsh views, a film-strip with accompanying notes on `Gwenallt' , and a photographic portrait of R. Williams Parry (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

ABERYSTWYTH TOWN COUNCIL 1977136 Ffynhonnell / Source Aberystwyth Town Council. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Miscellaneous material, printed and typescript, including copies of acts or bills, correspondence, reports, etc., relating to Aberystwyth Borough and Rural District Councils Water Supplies, 1920s-50s.

BENCH OF BISHOPS 1977137 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Right Reverend Father D D Bartlett, M.A., D.D., Rhuddlan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Twelve files containing the depositor's copies of the agenda and minutes of meetings of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales, 1950-70. Notes have been added by Bishop Bartlett in the margins, etc.

WELSH CHURCH COMMISSION 1977138 Ffynhonnell / Source Church Commissioners, London Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Plans and specifications relating to property in the parishes of Llannerch-y-medd, co. Anglesey, Llanefydd, co. Denbigh, Swansea (St. Thomas), co. Glamorgan, and Abertillery, co. Monmouth (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

FUTURE OF BROADCASTING 1977139 Ffynhonnell / Source Committee on the Future of Broadcasting, London, per Mr J M Lyon, Assistant Secretary. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description 744 files containing copies of evidence submitted to the above committee under the chairmanship of Lord Annan, O.B.E.

W V S CORBETT 1977140 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr. W. V. S. Corbett, Felindre, Nr. Knighton. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Eighteen documents, 1720-1857, being mainly title-deeds to Gorther Farm and Mill with associated property in the parishes of Beguildy and Betws, cos. Radnor and Salop respectively; also referring to property in the parish of Kerry, co. Montgomery, and St. Harmon, co. Radnor.

J L CORBETT-WINDER 1977141 Ffynhonnell / Source Colonel J L Corbett-Winder, O.B.E., M.C., Vaynor Park, Berriew. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of deeds and documents, 1817-79, relating to the families of Lyon, Corbett, and Corbett-Winder of Vaynor Park, Berriew, co. Montgomery.

CYMDEITHAS CERDD DANT CYMRU 1977142 Ffynhonnell / Source Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant Cymru, per Mrs Edith Jones, Tal-y-bont, Dyfed. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minute book of Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant Cymru, 1964-75 (NLW Minor Deposits 1265B).

CYMDEITHAS CYMRY ARIANNIN 1977143 Ffynhonnell / Source Cymdeithas Cymry Ariannin ym Mhrydain, per Mrs Valmai Jones (Chairman) and Mrs Arianina Roberts (Secretary), Caergwrle, Nr. Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Seventeen files of papers and correspondence of `Cymdeithas Cymry Ariannin ym Mhrydain' consisting of general correspondence, 1965-75 ; correspondence relating to a scholarship at Coleg Harlech for students from the Welsh Settlement in Patagonia, 1957-76; correspondence relating to the Centenary Fund of the Settlement, 1965-6, the search for a minister for the settlement, 1957-9; and 1967-70, visits by Kyffin Williams and Dr. Ceinwen Thomas to the Settlement, 1968 and 1971, and visits by three inhabitants of the Settlement to Wales, 1973 and 1975 ; cuttings from newspapers in Wales and the Settlement; and literary compositions of Mrs. Elisa Dimol de Davies, Trelew, which won prizes at the Settlement's Eisteddfodau in 1973 and 1975.

BETTY DAVIES, LAMPETER 1977144 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Betty Davies, Lampeter. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Log books (2) of Lampeter National School, subsequently known as St. Peter's Board School (1876), St. Peter's Boys' School (1880) and Bryn Road School (c. 1913), covering 1863-1914 (NLW Minor Deposits 1290-2A). A manuscript volume in the hand of one Georges Langermann, being the first volume of a journal relating his experiences as one of a group of spiritualists practicing in Brussels, and tracing, in particular, his development as a healing medium. Written in French, it covers the period 1867-72. From internal evidence it would appear that Langermann's mother was Welsh. Having lived on the continent since the age of twelve, he returned to Wales in 1867 and again in 1871, staying at Bwlchbychan [ ? approx. 3 miles W.S.W. of Llanybydder, Dyfed] and at the home of an uncle at Llwynybrain, Dyfed.

ALFRED DE SAUTY 1977145 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr N Naunton Davies, East Malling, Maidstone. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of the engraved work of Alfred De Sauty (Dept of Pictures and Maps) comprising three framed items - Newlyn, Cornwall: wood engraving signed and dated [19]41 ; Chicago by Moonlight - Ward Memorial: aquatint engraving and etching, signed ; The Serpentine : aquatint engraving, signed ; together with a folder containing the following signed etchings and aquatint engravings : Some Chelsea Roofs ; A Zante Church (exhibited Royal Academy, 1913); On the Zennor Road- St. Michael's Mount; From Church Tower - Bungay ; Dawn - Cornwall ; St. Mary's - Penzance ; Spiderwort ; The Lights of London ; Toll bridge, Shoreham; Shoreham Harbour; Norfolk Bridge - Shoreham; Minnisota Barn; Duneland; Early Winter - Palm Park ; After the Storm ; Tupper Lake - N.Y. ; The Last Sack ; Haunt of the Muskie - Fishtrap Lake - N. Wisconsin; The Growth of the Stadium Chicago; Jackson Park II; Jackson Park III; U of Chicago - The Bridges; U of Chicago - The Chapel; Light & Shade (Michigan Avenue, Chicago) ; Chicago Roofs ; Steel and Lace ; Floreat Chicago ; Chicago 1933 .

Two volumes published by the Lakeside Press, Chicago and signed by Alfred de Sauty, viz. : A Rod for the back of the binder: some considerations of Bookbinding with reference to the ideals of the Lakeside Press (Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1929) (Dept of Printed Books). Extra binding at the Lakeside Press, Chicago. (Chicago : R. R. Donnelly and Sons, 1925) (Dept of Printed Books).

ASSOCIATION OF CHIEF EDUCATION OFFICERS (WALES) 1977146 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Wynford Davies, M.A., Haverfordwest. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Twenty-five files containing minutes of meetings, correspondence, and other papers of the Association of Chief Education Officers (Wales), 1949-74.

BENNET EVANS 1977147 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Anne E Bennet Evans, Llangurig. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of eighteen deeds and documents, 1774-1900, of which thirteen, covering the period 1843 to 1875, relate to property of the Brock family in the parishes of St. Peter, Abergwilly, Llangunnor, Llandefeylog, Llangain, Llanstephan, Llangunnock, St. Clears' Mydrim, Kilrhedin, Llanfihangel ar arth, Llanllwni, Llanybyther and Llanfihangel Rhosycorn, co. Carmarthen, and in the county borough of Carmarthen. The earliest document, 1774, is the will of Dorothy Hood of St. Dunstons parish, co. Middlesex, widow. The remainder of the collection consists of an apprenticeship indenture, 1808, whereby Daniel Thomas of Llanfihangel Yeroth, co. Carmarthen, is apprenticed to Thomas Rees of New Inn, co. Carmarthen, mercer and linendraper; a marriage settlement of Maria Brown, late of Carmarthen, afterwards of Wiltshire, and Edward Edwards of Chelsea, gentleman, 1846 ; and the wills of Charles Cook Wells of Tenby, co. Pembroke, 1875, George Thomas of Carmarthen, solicitor, 1891, and Anne Rowlands of King Street, Carmarthen, widow, 1900. Mynegai Llandyfaelog, Cilrhedyn, Llanfihangel Iorath.

HYMN-TUNE BOOK 1977148 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Dorothy M Evans, New Quay. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript hymn-tune book (166 ff.) bound in full leather with a metal clasp and an inverted triangular insert of leather on the front cover bearing the legend `Frances Evans Penrhiw Pistill 1840' in gold lettering, bordered by gilt tooling (NLW Minor Deposits 1294A). The manuscript contains an index of the hymn-tunes at the beginning of the volume as well as notes on points of musical theory. A note at the end of the manuscript, dated 10 April 1856, states that the manuscript was the property of Mr. Francis Evans, Penrhiw Pistill, New Quay.

MATHEMATICAL EXERCISE BOOKS 1977149 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J C Evans, Abernodwydd, Llangadfan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Four mathematical exercise books belonging to members of the Howells family of Haulfron, Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire (NLW Minor Deposits 1283-6A), namely those of: (a) Evan Howells at Newtown, 1826, containing also various accounts, draft appointment of Evan Williams of Tygwyn and Richard Baines of Tymawr, Llangadfan, as Overseers of the Poor in the said parish, dated 26 March 1842 and a transcript of a ballad by Ellis Roberts [`Elis y Cowper'] with the date 1754, beginning Cud neswch waith fawr a bychan . . (b) Eliz[abe]th Howells of Haulfron, Llangadfan, 1846 ; (c) Frances A[nn] Howells, 1857, containing also verses beginning, `Paham me dei mor hir yn dod. .' ; and (d) S[usanna] Howell[s] of Haulfron Llangadfan, 1865.

J WYNN EVANS 1977150 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Wynn Evans, B.A., B.D., Llanfallteg, Whitland. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two volumes relating to the activities of the Newcastle Emlyn branch of the S.P.C.K., viz. (1) a volume containing minutes, 1866-1901 (with a gap 1892-1900), and annual accounts, 1866-1912, and (2) a volume recording sums received for the branch and the parent society, 1887-1911, and payments made to the parent society, 1887-9 (St David's Parochial Records 15-16).

OLWEN CARADOC EVANS 1977151 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Olwen Caradoc Evans, Conwy. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript minutes, 1972-4, of Nant Conway Rural District Council and of the committees of the said Council; correspondence, originals and copies, relating to and agenda and minutes of meetings of, a steering committee of The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art set up to `produce a Concept for the promotion of the visual arts in Wales', the plan to include the establishing of centres in Cardiff, mid- Wales, and Plas Mawr, Conway, 1966-7; correspondence, copies of correspondence, reports etc., relating to a proposed Centre of Technology for Wales, 1973; and miscellaneous correspondence, etc., 1968-74.

H J FLEURE 1977152 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Fleure, Great Bookham, Surrey, per Mrs J B Alton, M.A., Oxford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of Herbert John Fleure (1877-1969), D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Anthropology and Geography, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1917-30, and Professor of Geography, Victoria University, Manchester, 1930-44; including autobiographical data, reminiscences, correspondence, notes and working papers, copies of addresses, slides, maps, etc. Included is a brief manuscript and typescript account of life in the Channel Islands under German occupation during World War II (6 pp.). Also letters of condolence to Mrs. Fleure on the death of her husband, and a cash book, 1869-1914, which, for the period 1869-89, was kept by Professor Fleure's father, John Fleure, and relates to his transactions as accountant to the States, Guernsey.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY 1977153 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend David E Francis, Llandeilo. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minute book of the Llandeilo Auxiliary Branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1907-69 (NLW Minor Deposits 1266A).

W J GRIFFITHS, PORT TALBOT 1977154 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend W J Griffiths, Port Talbot. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minute Book of the Welsh Society of The Memorial College, Brecon, 1949-51 ,a volume containing typescript minutes of the Aberafan National Eisteddfod Publicity Committee, 1966 (for the period October 1964 - October 1965), and a copy of Pregethau neu Homiliau a osodwyd allan trwy awdurdod i'w darllen mewn eglwysydd yn amser y Frenhines Elizabeth . . ., 1817 ed. (NLW Minor Deposits 1267-9A)

CILGWYN 1977155 Ffynhonnell / Source Captain A H Hastie, Bury St. Edmunds. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Diaries, 1902-28, 1930- 42, 1944-55, and 1960-68 (63 volumes) of Captain Gerard Hall Lloyd Fitzwilliams, F.R.C.S., M.D., Ch.B., of Cilgwyn, Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiganshire, and later of London (1882-1968); six photographic albums of the said Captain Gerard Fitzwilliams and one of his brother Major Cuthbert Collingwood Lloyd Fitzwilliams (1875-1954), two passports issued to Captain Fitzwilliams, and miscellaneous photographs (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Nodiadau Group III.

C A H HODGE 1977156 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr C A H Hodge, Cambridge. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Mortgage, 1593, of property in the parishes of Cardigan and Llangoedmore, co. Cardigan (NLW Deeds 964). Mynegai Llangoedmor

ODDFELLOWS 1977157 Ffynhonnell / Source The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Manchester Unity Friendly Society, Manchester, per the late Mr R J Ellis, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of the following mid-Wales lodges of the Independent Order of Oddfellows: Loyal Bera Castle, Loyal Druid, Loyal Sir John Edwards, Loyal Gogerddan, Loyal Idris, Loyal Earl of Lisburne, Loyal Llynlleoedd, Loyal Mawddach, Loyal Mawddwy, Loyal Padarn and Loyal Temple of Love. Included are resolution books, 1849-69, minute books, 1918-71, degree book, 1866-1938, fine book, 1842-77, night books, 1905-71, contribution books, 1928-68, sickness registers, 1899-1969, receipt and payment books, 1842-1922, ledgers, 1922-71, analysis books, 1928-71, and annual returns, 1896-1968. The collection also contains printed material, and records of the Gwalia district, including a minute book of the management committee, 1940-8.

EDDIE JONES, BOW STREET 1977158 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Eddie Jones, Bow Street, Dyfed. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Additional records of the Rhydypennau C.P. school, comprising log books, 1901-70 (2 vols.); an admission, progress, and withdrawal register, 1876-1920; and files of miscellaneous memoranda, including notices of inspection, inspectors' annual reports, and pupil teachers' indentures, 1877-1937. Nodiadau Transferred to Ceredigion RO, Aberystwyth 26/4/1989.

EDWARD THOMAS JOHN 1977159 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J G Ivor Jones, Bangor. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Papers of, or relating to, Edward Thomas John (1857-1931 ; industrialist and politician), including fifty-two letters, 1888-1926, addressed to him (mainly personal and business); manuscript notes, typescript and printed copies of speeches, press releases, articles and publications by him; posters and programmes, 1881 -1927; newspaper cuttings, 1910-24; and memoranda and publications relating to his interests in the iron industry, agriculture, housing, pacifism, and Celtic affairs.

ABERYSTWYTH AND DISTRICT OLD PEOPLE'S HOUSING SOCIETY 1977160 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Morgan Jones, C.B., C.B.E., M.A., LL.D., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Material relating to Deva, the sea-front residence for elderly people, run by Aberystwyth and District Old People's Housing Society Limited, 1940s-70s.

NODDFA BAPTIST CHAPEL, CORRIS 1977161 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Roger Jones, Tal-y-bont, Dyfed. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Records of Noddfa Baptist Chapel, Corris, co. Merioneth, now closed, including account books and financial reports, 1896-1902, 1938-61 and 1967-70, the first volume also containing an account of the origin of the Baptist cause in Corris; a copy of an address on 'Dathlu Hanner Canmlwyddiant yr Achos yn Noddfa, Corris' ; and other miscellaneous items.

SALLY ROBERTS JONES 1977162 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Sally Roberts Jones, Port Talbot. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Copies of a first draft, and a fair copy of, a novel bearing the title `Pendarvis' , notes for, and draft and final copies of, book reviews written mainly for The Anglo-Welsh Review, drafts and final copies of articles for various periodicals or journals such as Planet, Port Talbot Historical Society Transactions, etc., all by the depositor and all holograph (NLW Minor Deposits 1271-4B).

LLANBADARN FAWR COMMUNITY COUNCIL 1977163 Ffynhonnell / Source Llanbadarn Fawr Community Council, per Mrs P V Parry, Clerk to the Council. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Minute book of the Llanbadarn Fawr Parish Council, 1953-60; minutes of the Council, 1960-9; receipts and payments book of the Council, 1959-71 ; one parcel of deeds, 1899-1963, relating to the Llanbadarn Fawr recreation ground near the railway crossing ; and a copy of the bilingual Statement of Evidence submitted by the Llanbadarn Fawr Community Council to the Local Boundary Commission for Wales, March 1976.

LLANFYLLIN TOWN COUNCIL 1977164 Ffynhonnell / Source Llanfyllin Town Council, per Mrs June Williams, Town Clerk. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description An English translation, on paper in a seventeenth century hand, of letters patent 29 March 5 Elizabeth I (1563), being an inspeximus of a charter of confirmation granted to the burgesses of Llanfyllin by Henry Gray, Earl of Tankerfield and Lord of Powys dated 1 February 26 Henry VI (1448), of the charter of Edward Charleton, Lord of Powys, granted 20 July 3 Henry V (1415), confirming the grant by Llywelyn son of Gruffydd son of Gwenwynwyn.

H J LLOYD-JOHNES 1977165 Ffynhonnell / Source Major H J Lloyd Johnes, O.B.E., T.D., LL.D., F.S.A., Coates, Nr. Cirencester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A volume describing a tour of North and South Wales undertaken in 1784 by George Cumberland [author of An Attempt to describe Hafod . . ., London, 1796], and his companion, Charles Long [Baron Farnborough, 1761-1838]. In addition to Cumberland's descriptions, the volume contains thirty five topographical drawings in pencil (1 with slight watercolour), one topographical drawing in watercolour, and two etchings (topographical). These include drawings of Chepstow Castle, Tintern Abbey, Raglan Castle, Llangollen, Valle Crucis Abbey, Conway Castle and lead mines near Hafod in Cardiganshire. The volume also contains a loose drawing (pen and ink) of Lady Sarah Wynne [d. 1671, wife of Sir Richard Wynn of Gwydir, and daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton of Chirk Castle] from a brass monument in Llanrwst Church.

ANGLO-WELSH REVIEW 1977166 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Roland Mathias, M.A., B.Litt., Brecon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A further deposit of material relating to The Anglo-Welsh Review, including proofs of nos. 53 (Winter 1974) and 56 (Spring 1976), a file of correspondence concerning contributions and subscriptions, 1963, 1968-75, lists of subscribers, together with a few typescripts, photographs, printed plates and other miscellaneous items. To be regarded as a temporary deposit for a period of five years and not to be made available for consultation without the consent of the editor at the time. Thereafter to be converted into a permanent deposit. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

WESLEYAN METHODISTS 1977167 Ffynhonnell / Source The Welsh Methodist (Wesleyan) Church. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Substantial additions were made to the archives of the Welsh Methodist (Wesleyan) Church largely per Mr. Elfyn Jenkins, B.A., Bow Street, Dyfed. Included were the following: Records of the Hanley, co. Stafford, circuit, including a register of baptisms, 1893-1924, a circuit stewards' account book, 1907-26, and accommodation returns, 1873-81 ; deeds relating to the site of the chapel at Hanley, a trustees' account book, 1911-26, a minute book, 1915-27, and letters concerning the sale of the chapel, 1926-7; records of the Stockton-on-Tees, co. Durham, circuit including a register of baptisms, 1872-1903; miscellaneous papers relating to the chapel at Stockton- on-Tees, 1877-1927; a lease of premises for the Welsh (Wesleyan) Methodist Society at Coundon, 1884; letters, addressed to Rev John Felix, concerning St. David's chapel, Hardman Street, Manchester, 1914-15; papers relating to the building of chapels at Caerwys, 1890-2, and Talwrn, Coed-poeth, 1900; an account book of the Welsh (Wesleyan) Methodism Centenary Celebration at Ruthin, 1900 ; miscellaneous papers relating to the North Wales Chapel Fund, 1889-1927 ; a cyclostyled typewritten copy of the Welsh (Wesleyan) Methodist memorandum for the commission on The Welsh Language [1925]; printed statistics of the (Wesleyan) Methodists in Wales, prepared 1906-7, for the Welsh Church Commission; two files of correspondence relating to matters concerning the Local Preachers in the three Welsh Districts of the Connexion, 1956-72; three Class Books of the Eglwys-bach chapel, 1897-9; a history of Bethel chapel, Holyhead, by Rev H. Meirion Davies [1908]; a history of Tabor chapel, Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, by Rev G. Lloyd Brookes, 1949 ; a typescript list of the ministers stationed in the Tre-garth circuit, 1857-1975 ; records of the North Wales District comprising an account book of chapel-trust schedules, 1856-9, trust property schedules, 1860-93, lists of leases, etc., pertaining to the chapels, 1891-2, trust property returns of investments and endowments, 1943-55; minute books of the Synod, 1883-93, minute books of the First North Wales District Synod, 1934-44; minute books of the Second North Wales District Synod, 1903-11, and 1930-40, an account book of the Home Mission Fund, 1875-86, and a note-book containing the names of class-leaders, 1903; circuit stewards' account books of the Bangor circuit, 1843-64; and of the Ruthin and Corwen, later Corwen, circuit, 1856-68; a minute book of the Quarterly Meetings of the Leeds and district Welsh Mission, 1906-23; minutes, correspondence, and notes relating to the Book-room, 1920-39; two notebooks of Robert Jones, Abercegir, a local preacher, one giving the dates, places, preachers, and the texts of sermons which he had heard, 1820-55, and the other the dates, places, and texts of sermons which he himself had delivered, 1835-62, also his copies, with entries, of Y Dyddiadur Wesleyaidd, 1840-59; a collection of sermons, some endorsed with the name of Rev Richard Bonner (1787-1867) (see Y Parchedig Hugh Jones, D.D. : Hanes Wesleyaeth Gymreig, tt. 955-6; notebooks of Rev Henry Hughes pertaining to the various circuits where he had ministered ; an account book relating to the building of the new chapel at Nebo in the Llanrwst circuit, 1889; a few letters including one from Rev David Rogers, 1821, Adam Clarke, 1830, and Rev David Evans (2nd), 1838; material relating to the memorandum prepared by the Welsh (Wesleyan) Methodists for the Commission on the Welsh Language, 1925; printed material including agenda of the Welsh (Wesleyan) Methodist Assembly, 1899-1917; and records of the 1st North Wales District, comprising minute books of the Synod, 1899-1914; 1935-74; an account book of the Home Mission Grants Fund, 1929-50, an account book of the Home Mission Loan Fund, 1933-50, an account book of the Home Mission Annual Collection, 1963-7, and a membership account book, 1966-70.

D J MICHAEL 1977168 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss G Michael, Tenby. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Papers, etc., from the library of Rev D. J. Michael, Baptist minister, including ? holograph notes relating to Rhydwilym and Ffynnon Baptist Churches, co. Pembroke ; notes on 'Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Crymmych a'r gymdogaeth [sir Benfro]' ; and copies of nos. 1-6 (June - November 1904) of Y Piwritan Newydd. Cyhoeddiad Misol at Wasanaeth y Bedyddwyr yn Siroedd De-Orllewinol Cymru, The South Pembrokeshire Baptist Herald vol. VII, no. 4, April 1906, W. G[wilamus] Williams, Hanes Eglwys Blaenconin, sir Benfro (Caerfyrddin, 1898), W. Gwilamus Williams, Llyfr Coffa David Evans, Blaenconnin, 1905, and D. O. Griffiths, Meillion a Mel Gwyllt o Faes Gwilamus [W. Gwilamus Williams, 1867-1920] gyda Threm arno yntau.

PLAID CYMRU 1977169 Ffynhonnell / Source Plaid Cymru, Cardiff Office. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Records from the Cardiff Office of Plaid Cymru including a substantial amount of correspondence, copy correspondence and papers arranged according to subject, e.g. Elections, Annual Rallies, Summer Schools, `Brwydr Penychain' (the campaign against the establishment of Butlin's Holiday Camp, Pwllheli, 1946), etc. ; a bundle of correspondence for December 1969 and monthly bundles of correspondence, January 1971-November 1975; files of material relating to specific topics such as `Clwb Cinio Difiau', 1937-8, Conscription, 1939, T.V.A., Tryweryn, and the Union of Welsh Publishers and Booksellers; minute books relating to committees of the following areas or branches - Anglesey, 1931, Caernarfon 1932-6, West Denbigh, 1932-8, Merioneth, 1934-43; 1952-4, Oxford, 1935-40, Four Crosses, 1936, Penisarwaun, 1937-41, East Glamorgan, 1942, 1948-53; and Montgomery, 1951-7; account books and other financial records including seventeen volumes for the period 1926-47 ; six boxes of press cuttings ; and a very large collection of membership card counterfoils, 1956-74. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

DEWI WATKIN POWELL 1977170 Ffynhonnell / Source Judge Dewi Watkin Powell, Cardiff Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description 1. Papers, some dated 1966-8, concerning the memorandum of the Wales and Chester Circuit to the Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions (the Beeching Commission). 2. Papers concerning the application to have Lampeter, co. Cardigan, acknowledged as one of the Crown Court centres in Wales, 1971. 3. Papers concerning the memorandum of the Wales and Chester Circuit on the Law Society's application for rights of audience for solicitors in the Crown Courts, 1971. These papers concern the opposition to the application for rights of audience for solicitors in the Crown Courts, and contain details of the number of cases in which individual counsel were engaged within the circuit during the period 1969-71. 4. A copy of Saunders Lewis's book Braslun o Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg: I (Cardiff 1932) presented by the author to Alun Pugh in gratitude for his work for Plaid Cymru together with a fragment of cloth mounted on paper with a note in Saunders Lewis's hand, `Darn o Union Jack Caernarfon, Dygwyl Dewi 1932, ydyw'r book-mark'. These items may not be seen without the written consent of the depositor and, in the case of items 1-3, his daughter Miss Nia Watkin Powell.

LLANIDLOES FARMERS LTD 1977171 Ffynhonnell / Source Powys County Council, per Mr G Llewellyn, F.L.A., County Librarian. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Transferred to Powys RO (Llandrindod) 2005 Disgrifiad / Description 1. Records of Llanidloes Farmers Ltd., Agricultural Merchants, Smithfield Street, Llanidloes, including share accounts purchase ledgers, 1965-9; sales ledgers, 1966-70; share account ledger control card, 1964-71 ; minute book of the Farmers Cooperative Society, 1904-64; minute books of Llanidloes Farmers Ltd., 1964-71 ; shares ledgers (2 vols.), 1965-71 ; purchases ledger, 1969-71 ; etc.

2. Ledger, 1847-54; of the County Court of Brecknockshire held at Hay; admissions book, 1885-93, of the Brecknock County Court held at Hay; draft minute book, 1872-91, of Hay Union Assessment Committee; parochial ledger, 1892-6, of Hay Union; a volume for the period 1882-98 containing a register of members, registers of transfers, and annual lists and summaries in respect of Hay Waterworks Co., Ltd. ; minute book, 1852-92, of Painscastle District Highway Board; general ledger, 1889-94, of Painscastle Highway Board, and, 1894-1902, of Painscastle Rural District Council; letter book, 1884-9, of Talgarth District Highway Board; minute book, 1855-74, of Talgarth District Highway Board; yearly summary book (parochial), 1883-8, of Talgarth District Highway Board; rental, 1862-80, of Viscount Hereford as lord of the manor of Llanigon, including accounts of sums due from tenants of the lordship of Killonow to him as lord of Llanigon; rentals (two volumes), 1869- 92, of the Tregoyd Estate ; and a court leet book of the manors of Upper Tregoyd and Lower Tregoyd with entries for 1846, 1847, 1848, 1852, 1857, 1863, 1869 and 1877. 3. Copies of the tithe apportionment schedules, 1840s, of the following parishes in cos. Brecon and Radnor - Bronllys, Glasbury, Hay, Llanbedr Painscastle, Llandefalle, Llanddewi Fach, Llanstephan, and Talgarth (borough of Talgarth, Trevecca, Pwllywrach, and Forest).

CARDIFF CYMMRODORION SOCIETY 1977172 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Gwyn E Pritchard, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Account book of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion Society, 1924-65 (NLW Minor Deposits 1270B).

STAMP COLLECTING WEEKLY 1977173 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Gwyn Roberts, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of fourteen volumes (vol. 113, 1969 - vol. 127, 1976-7) of the Stamp Collecting Weekly (Dept of Printed Books).

ERNEST L M PRICHARD 1977174 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr M Roberts, Horsham, Sussex. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Three manuscript volumes containing the autobiography of the musician and composer Ernest L. M. Prichard, M.A., D.Mus., who was born in Denbigh, 1887, and died at Bodfari, 1945 (NLW Minor Deposits 1276-8A). The first volume also contains notes on the works of Charles Stanford and a list of E. L. M. Pritchard's manuscript and published compositions. Also a copy of an article by the depositor on `Two Choral Works by Ernest L. M. Prichard' published in Music in Education, July - August 1946.

ROYAL COMMISSION ON STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN PUBLIC LIFE 1977175 Ffynhonnell / Source Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, London, per Mr K W McKenzie. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Copies of written evidence submitted to the Commission.

W RHYS JONES (`GWENITH GWYN') 1977176 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Marcia Simpson and Miss Hawys Rhys Jones, Glyn Ceiriog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of the manuscripts and papers of the depositors' father late Rev Dr. W. Rhys Jones (`Gwenith Gwyn'; 1868-1937) . These are mainly in the hand of Rev Dr. Jones himself and contain material in English and Welsh. Included are the following groups: Notes on Welsh local history, place-names, folk culture, and antiquities, including considerable material, in the form of notes, essays, addresses, transcripts, and press cuttings, on Dyffryn Ceiriog, treating of its personalities and traditions as well as its historical, literary, and industrial associations. Also included is a `Reference Book of Rateable Property in the parish of Glyn Traian', for the year 1859. Material of a religious nature consisting largely of sermons and sermon notes ; essays and addresses on the Christian Church and on various aspects of its ministry ; papers dealing with the Baptist denomination in Wales; notes on Biblical texts; notes, in memoria addresses, and biographical material on various religious personalities, mainly Welsh ; and a dictionary of Biblical terms used in Nonconformist chapels in Wales. Literary compositions comprising poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, in both draft and final form; and lectures, notes, and essays on literary, historical, political, and sociological topics. Brief notes on anthropology, ethnology, and geology, including an English-Welsh dictionary of geological terms ; and considerable material on the Welsh quarrying industry. Material on the grammar and political status of the Welsh language; and notes on various foreign languages and dialects, including Biblical tongues. Biographical material relating to the Reverend W. Rhys Jones and his wife Mrs. Ethel Jones; bills and receipts; diaries for 1923, 1936, and 1937; correspondence received, 1885-1937; a catalogue of books in his library; press cuttings, 1922-8; and scrap-books. Material, printed or otherwise, written by persons other than Rev Dr. Rhys Jones, including an elegy and hymns by Rev Thomas Davies of Argoed, and children's plays, lectures, and hymns by Rev W. Tibbot (`Ap Tobit'). For a catalogue of Rev W. Rhys Jones's manuscripts, etc., see NLW Misc Vol No 100.

JOHN THOMAS, PENTREFOELAS (`EOS GWYNEDD') 1977177 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Canon David Thomas, Riverhead, Nr. Sevenoaks. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript of late eighteenth century Welsh poetry, being the work of John Thomas, Pentrefoelas (`Eos Gwynedd'; 1742-1818), and in his hand (NLW Minor Deposits 1295A). The manuscript contains poems mainly of a religious nature, including hymns and poems written in the carol metres. There are also `englynion' as well as a strict-metre elegy to Watkyn Wynne of Foelas. A number of the items were published in the volume Eos Gwynedd sef casgliad o Ganiadau ar destynau Crefyddol, Moesol, a Difyrol gan y diweddar Mr. John Thomas, Pentre'r Foelas, edited by G. Caledfryn (Llanrwst, [1845]).

MEGAN THOMAS 1977178 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Megan Thomas, Cellan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two manuscript volumes relating to the parish of Cellan, co. Cardigan, one containing vestry minutes, 1884-94, and parish meeting minutes, 1894-1973, and the other containing parish council minutes, 1894-1972 (NLW Minor Deposits 1288-9B); and a poor rate book for the parish of Llanfairclydogau in the Lampeter Union, November 1915 (NLW Minor Deposits 1287A).

PLANET 1977179 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Ned Thomas, M.A., Llangeitho. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Typescripts and a few manuscripts, being printer's copy for Planet, nos. 28-36 (August 1975 to February / March 1977). There is also a file of correspondence, mainly concerning editorial matters, 1970-7.

UNDEB Y CYMRY AR WASGAR 1977180 Ffynhonnell / Source Undeb y Cymry ar Wasgar, per Mr T Elwyn Griffiths, B.A., A.L.A., Caernarfon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Six volumes containing carbon copies of letters from T. Elwyn Griffiths as secretary of `Undeb y Cymry ar Wasgar', 1967-73. Many of the letters relate to the periodical Enfys.

`OWEN RHOSCOMYL' 1977181 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Olwen Vaughan, A.R.I.B.A., Morchard Bishop. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscript and typescript notes `On the early life of the children, Rhys Idris, Olwen (the depositor), Nest, and Emrys Llewellyn, of Arthur Owen Vaughan and his wife Catherine Lois (nêe Geere)' ; and manuscript notes on early trackways and natural features in South-East Glamorgan with accompanying illustrative maps.

MESSRS WATERHOUSE & CO 1977182 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Waterhouse & Co., London, per the British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description One hundred and eight deeds, maps, [1769]-1893, relating to property in the parishes of Abbeycwmhir, Disserth, Llananno, Llanbadarn Vynydd, Llanbister, Llandewy ystradenny, Nantmel, and Saint Harmon, co. Radnor. Included is a deed of conveyance of the Abbeycwmhir estate, 15 June 1838, for a consideration of £33;000. Mynegai Llanbadarn Fynydd, Llanddewi Ystradenny. Nodiadau Transferred to Powys RO, August 1984.

AURIOL WATKIN 1977183 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Auriol Watkin, J.P., B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A framed photograph of Thomas Powel (1845-1922) first Professor of Celtic Studies at the University College of Wales, Cardiff (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

MESSRS WHATLEY, WESTON AND FOX 1977184 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Whatley, Weston and Fox, Worcester, per the County Archivist, Worcester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Two deeds, 1823 and 1855, being a lease and an assignment of a wool carding factory built on a parcel of Penygylan Farm, parish of Darowen, co. Montgomery, together with the sale of machinery, viz. two carding machines, one willow and two slubbing jacks (NLW Minor Deposits 1275A).

JOHN ELLIS WILLIAMS 1977185 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J Ellis Williams, Y Gaerwen, Môn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Typescript, with manuscript additions, of a work by the late John Ellis Williams, M.B.E., M.A., bearing the title `Byd y Ddrama'.

SIR DAVID HUGHES PARRY 1977186 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend J Tudno Williams, M.A., Ph.D., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Additional papers of the late Sir David Hughes Parry [see Annual Report, 1974-5, pp. 75-6], comprising files of correspondence and documents relating to the Law Reform Committee and the National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1937-41 ; lectures and notes on legal and constitutional matters including Welsh law ; copies of miscellaneous periodicals ; correspondence (mainly from `The Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem') and miscellanea relating to his visit to Israel in May 1956; ten letters addressed to him, 1919-39, by, inter alios, W. H. Beveridge, London, E. Vincent Evans, London, J. Victor Evans, Dulwich Village, and A. D. McNair, Liverpool and a copy (marked on inside cover `Author's copy') of his work, The Law of Succession Testate and Intestate . . . (London, 1937), with manuscript notes written in the margins and inserted.

MESSRS WITHAM WELD & CO 1977187 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Witham Weld & Co., London, per the British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description A title deed, 1714, relating to property in the parish of Llanvihangell Kevenllyce, Radnorshire. Mynegai Llanfihangel Cefnllys. Nodiadau Transferred to Powys RO, August 1984.

G J YORKE 1977188 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr G J Yorke, Forthampton, per Mr Brian Smith, M.A., F.S.A., County Archivist, Gloucester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Fourteen deeds and documents, 1778-1802, relating to the rectory, glebe, and tithes of Carew, co. Pembroke (NLW Minor Deposits 1293A).

THE RECORDS OF THE CHURCH IN WALES 1977241 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1976-77 Disgrifiad / Description Parish registers and other parochial records were received from the following parishes. DIOCESE OF BANGOR Amlwch, Beaumaris, Carno, Conway, Cricieth, Dolbenmaen, Gyffin, Llanaelhaearn, Llanbeulan, Llanddwywe, Llandegai, Llandegfan, Llandinam, Llaneilian, Llanenddwyn, Llanfaelog, Llanfaes, Llanfair-is-gaer, Llanllechid, Llanwenllwyfo, Llanwnnog, Penmorfa, Rhosneigr, Talyllyn, Treflys, and Ynyscynhaearn.

DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF Llansannor, Llantrisant, Penllyn, and Ystradowen.

DIOCESE OF MONMOUTH Betws Newydd, Christchurch, Cwmcarfan, Kemeys Commander, Llanelen, Llanfoist, Trellech, and Trostre.

DIOCESE OF ST. ASAPH Aberhafesp, Kerry, Llanllwchaearn Llanmerewig, Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain, Llanwddyn, Mochdre, Nannerch, Newtown, and Welshpool.

DIOCESE OF ST. DAVIDS Dale, Elerch, Llanbedr-pont-Steffan, Llanfihangel-y-creuddyn, Penrhyncoch, and Tregaron.

DIOCESE OF SWANSEA AND BRECON Capel Taf Fechan, Capel-y-ffin, Hay, Llanafan Fechan, Llanddeti, Llanddewi Abergwesyn, Llandeilo Talybont, Llanfeugan, Llanfihangel Abergwesyn, Llangamarch, Llanigon, Llanlleonfel, Llansanffraid, Oystermouth, and Pennard.