Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1969-70 J R MORRIS, CAERNARFON 1970001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr J R Morris, Bethel, Caernarvon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of letters, papers, manuscripts, and press cuttings from the library of J. R. Morris, bookseller and writer, of Caernarvon. The collection consists largely of volumes of press cuttings, photographs, and greetings cards, which are partly indexed. The majority of the press cuttings comprise poetry and poetry columns, although a fairly substantial number relate to eminent Welshmen and to the contemporary Welsh language crisis. The manuscripts comprise poetry and other literary writings by J. R. Morris, including a novel 'Allwedd Serch' and reminiscences published under the title of Atgofion Llyfrwerthwr; a collection of 'englynion', very many by John Owen Williams ('Pedrog'); a dictionary of Welsh bird names; a dictionary of Welsh monosyllabic words; lists of Welsh place names; minutes of the Committee of Eisteddfod y Ddraig Goch, Liverpool, 1920-6; and the original manuscript of 'Hynafiaethau a Chofianau Plwyf Beddgelert' by William Jones ('Bleddyn') which shared the prize with Owen Wynne Jones ('Glasynys') at an eisteddfod at Beddgelert in 1860. The letters are few and written largely after 1960. The principal correspondent is H. Parry Jones, Llanrwst. The collection also includes photographs of family groups, of eminent Welshmen, and of members of the Welsh community in Ashton in Makerfield; and ballads and other printed matter. DOROTHY L SMITH 1970002 Ffynhonnell / Source An Anonymous Donor Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph letter, 1955, of Dorothy L. Smith (Welsh made easy and other works by the writer's husband the late A. S. D. Smith, 'Caradar') (NLW MS 19980D). ROBERT PARRY (`ROBIN DDU ERYRI') 1970003 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr O Ashley, Llanfair Caereinion, per Mr Lynn Davies, B.A., Welsh Folk Museum, St. Fagans Castle. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description Two 'englynion' in Welsh, 'To Mrs. Ann Hughes - Red Lion, Dinas Mawddu [sic]', 6 August 1835, by, and probably in the autograph of, Robert Parry ('Robyn Ddu [Eryri]') (NLW MS 16799D). COURT POWIS FORESTERS 1970004 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J P T Bebb, B.A., Welshpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description Records of Court Powis, Ancient Order of Foresters, No. 1505, meeting at Welshpool, established in 1842 and wound up in 1968, including three minute books, 1883-1900 and 1949-68; three contributions registers, 1842-56 and 1887-1901; three initiation books, 1853-1900; two account books, 1867-81; three cash books, 1934-54; five bank books, 1933-68; annual statements and returns, 1910- 12 and 1916-54; report of W. J. Maddox, delegate to the High Court meeting, 1911; sick pay book, 1959-67; bonds, etc., 1875-1931; correspondence, 1881-1957; rules, etc., 1853-1939; certificates of membership; and a member's clearance form. A pencil drawing of Berriew village, by D.E.E. (Dept of Pictures and Maps) `A VARSITY LAD AND A LASS' BY `GWALIOR GWYNN' 1970005 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Richard Booth, Hay. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description A manuscript of a modern (20 cent.) novel entitled 'A Varsity Lad and a Lass' by an unidentified author writing under the nom-de-plume of 'Gwalior Gwynn' (NLW MS 20623D). E G BOWEN 1970006 Ffynhonnell / Source Emeritus Professor E G Bowen, M.A., F.S.A., Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description An account book, 1791-1821, relating particularly to the fees of pupils at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, under the mastership of Rev Thomas Price, 1800-14 (NLW MS 20113E); two account books, 1821-37 and 1861-7, of Thomas Thomas of Llanarthney, co. Carmarthen, tailor, together with two letters, 1847-8, from his son Thomas Thomas of Portsmouth, Ohio (NLW MSS 20111-12D); two day books, 1847-55 (NLW MSS 20114-15B), and two bill books, 1856-70 (NLW MSS 20116-17D), of a [Llandeilo] joiner ; appointment, 1767, of Elizabeth Williams to keep the office of excise at Carmarthen; a volume containing copies of correspondence, [1818-21], relating to the family of Llanio, co. Cardigan, and pedigrees of families in that county, in the hand of J. J. Lloyd Williams, M.A. (NLW MS 20118C); and a volume of medical recipes (NLW MS 20110C). NEFYDD HUGHES CADFAN 1970007 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Nefydd Hughes Cadfan, M.A., St. Asaph. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description Correspondence of the Welsh Abroad Joint Committee, representing the Presbyterian Church of Wales and the Congregational Union, 1927-67, relating to negotiations for sending Ministers to the Welsh Settlement in Patagonia and to the Welsh Church in Toronto (NLW MS 20619E); a copy of Historia de las Capillas en el Valle del Chubut: Hanes yr Eglwysi Cymreig yn y Wladfa, published in 1965 on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of the Welsh Colony in Patagonia; and annual reports of the Dewi Sant Welsh United Church, Toronto, 1967-8, and the Calvinistic Methodist Churches of Hebron, Hirnant, 1959, 1963-5, Bethel, Llanwddyn and Penuel, Llangynog, 1961-5, Salem, Dyffryn Clwyd, 1961, 1964-7, and Prion, Denbighshire, 1963, 1967-8. GIRTON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 1970008 Ffynhonnell / Source The Council of Girton College, Cambridge. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description Through the courtesy of the Council, the Library has been permitted to take facsimiles of Parts 1, 3-7 (Part 2 is wanting) of the 'Davies Family Chronicle' compiled by Sarah Emily Davies (1830-1921), founder of Girton College, who was the daughter of John Davies (1795-1861), philosopher, a native of Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire, rector of St. Pancras, Chichester, and of Gateshead, Durham, master of King James's Hospital, Durham, and honorary canon of Durham Cathedral (NLW Facsimiles 85). CHARLES C CHARMAN $$T 1970009 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Charles C Charman, Gwasg Gee, Denbigh. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description Correspondence, 1964-9, between the donor, as Chairman of the Publishers' Section of The Union of Welsh Publishers and Booksellers, and the Welsh Office, Welsh Members of Parliament, the Welsh Books Council, the University of Wales Press Board, and various Welsh publishers regarding Government grants for the publication of Welsh books for adults, and copies of a Memorandum submitted by the Union to the Minister of State for Welsh Affairs in 1964 (NLW MS 20610E). MYNDE 1970010 Ffynhonnell / Source Brigadier A F L Clive, D.S.O., M.C., Perrystone, Ross, per the Hereford County Record Office. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description A small supplementary group of Clive of the Mynde Parke estate records, including a Symons [Symonds] family pedigree, c.1824; six rent books, 1863-79, 1890-1906; a day book of receipts and payments, 1887-8; two account books of expenditure on repairs, 1892-1904; an account book of timber sales, 1842-57; and an inventory of effects at Mynde Park [20 cent.]. H M COLVIN 1970011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H M Colvin, C.B.E., M.A., F.B.A., Oxford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description A vellum sheet (approximately 290 mm x 95 mm) containing, on the recto and partly on the verso, an account of payments to workmen employed in building one of the castles of Edward I (NLW MS 20643D). On the basis of the distribution of identifiable personal names recorded in the account, Mr. A. J. Taylor, Chief Inspector of Monuments, Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, has tentatively attributed the document to Beaumaris Castle and has suggested a date c.1308-9. The sheet has subsequently been used as a paste-down in a bound volume and is consequently mutilated, probably only slightly, on all but one of the edges. CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY FOR WALES 1970012 Ffynhonnell / Source The Contemporary Art Society for Wales, per the Secretary. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description The Library has benefited once again from the generosity of the Society in distributing its purchases made during 1964, 1965, and 1966, and has received the following pictures by contemporary artists: 'Etching '64' by Merlyn Evans; An untitled gouache drawing by Ivor Davies; A study for the drawing 'Moon flowering' by Victor Newsome (Dept of Pictures and Maps). E K JONES 1970013 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Bessie Vaughan Davies, Wrexham Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description A supplementary group of holograph manuscripts of the donor's father, Rev E. K. Jones (1863-1950), D.D., Baptist minister, of Cefn-mawr, etc. They include (a) 'Brasolwg dros Gamre F'oes', an autobiography (71 pp.), and (b) four notebooks of Welsh Baptist biographies entitled 'Bedyddwyr Cymru: Y Tadau cyn 1850'. The latter were commissioned by the Baptist Union of Wales on the occasion of the Welsh Baptist Tercentenary in 1949. ELUNED DAVIES, LAMPETER 1970014 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Eluned Davies, Lampeter. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1969-70 Disgrifiad / Description A bidding account book of Mary Davies (nee Herbert) [Talgarreg], the donor's grandmother, 1854 (NLW MS 20734B); return and claim forms of the Talgarreg Board School, 1877-1914 (NLW MS 20743E); a minute book of the Talgarreg evening school, held by Rees Davies, the donor's father, 1895-1905 (NLW MS 20740C); an account book of Pisgah Congregational Church by Rees Davies, 1907-16; letters to Rees Davies, secretary, relating to Pisgah Congregational Church centenary celebrations, 1921 (NLW MS 20736C); rural lore in the parish of Llandysiliogogo including a list of field names collected by the teachers and children of Talgarreg school at the request of David Thomas, H.M.