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ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1979-1980 MORFUDD HUGHES ELLIS 1980001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mrs Morfudd Hughes Ellis, Caernarfon, per Mr Alun Lloyd Roberts, Caernarfon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1979-80 Disgrifiad / Description A small bundle of papers and a few volumes which belonged to the late Mrs. Morfudd Hughes Ellis and her father, R. E. Hughes (NLW Misc Records 521). They include: four essays, 1887-92, submitted for competition at Salem (C.M.) Chapel, Pwllheli; note-book of the `Blue Ribbon Army' of Engedi (C.M.) Chapel, Caernarfon, 1882, and papers read to the literary society at Engedi ; a volume containing an index, A-G, of articles published in Welsh periodicals of the period 1890-1913; the note- book of the hospitality committee of the monthly meeting held at Engedi, 12 December 1913; food ration books from the First World War period ; hymn-tunes composed by R. E. Hughes ; sermon notes ; &c. About eighty miscellaneous volumes and pamphlets (Dept of Printed Books). A collection of 25 prints, mainly portraits of Welsh ministers of the nineteenth century, and four books of views of the Isle of Man, Weston-Super-Mare, Newport (Gwent) and Mid Wales (Dept of Pictures and Maps). LORD MORRIS OF BORTH-Y-GEST 1980002 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, P.C., C.H., Kt., C.B.E., M.C., per Mr D M Morris, Liverpool. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1979-80 Disgrifiad / Description An extensive corpus of the testator's papers and a small group of his parents' papers. Included are the following . A substantial amount of correspondence including holograph letters from H.R.H. Prince Philip, Stanley Baldwin, A. J. Balfour, Lloyd George and Oswald Mosley; autograph/holograph letters from prominent politicians such as Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan, Henry Brooke, R. A. Butler, James Callaghan, Robert Carr, Lord Carrington, Anthony Crosland, Clement Davies, Alec Douglas-Home, Gwilym and Megan Lloyd George, Edward Heath, Geoffrey Howe, Cledwyn Hughes, Roy Jenkins, Jenny Lee, Selwyn Lloyd, lan Macleod, Harold Macmillan, David Maxwell-Fyffe, Walter Monckton, Herbert Morrison, Goronwy Roberts, Kenneth Robinson, Edward Short, John Simon, Jeremy Thorpe, George Thomas, Peter Thomas, and Eirene White; a copy letter from Andrew Bonar Law; and a telegram from Senator Hubert Humphrey. There is also a large number of letters from correspondents prominent in the legal profession such as Lords Denning, Devlin, Dilhorne, Edmund-Davies, Elwyn- Jones, Gardiner, Hailsham, Kilmuir, Parker and Simon, and from leading figures in Welsh academic, literary and eisteddfodic circles. The archive also includes letters from famous personalities such as Lord Montgomery of Alamein, J. B. Priestley, James / Jan Morris, Lord Snowdon, A. J. Sylvester, and Clough Williams-Ellis. Amongst the subjects discussed in the correspondence are the possibility of forming a pressure group to campaign for the allocation of the proposed third television channel for Wales, 1959; a proposed `Parliament for Wales', 1968; the use of Welsh in the law courts; and other contemporary Welsh affairs. A considerable group of family correspondence, 1909-62, the most interesting letters, perhaps, being those written by Lord Morris from the Western Front, 1916-18, and from Harvard, 1920-1, these latter containing references to the American Presidential election between Cox and Harding and to the anti- British O'Callaghan riots in Boston following the death of Terence MacSwiney, the mayor of Cork, after a prolonged hunger strike. Three diaries covering the periods December 1920 - April 1921, 1929-40 (with large gaps), and April 1940 - February 1942. The earliest diary covers part of Lord Morris's stay in Harvard, while the second gives details of the Budget Leak Inquiry., 1936, in which Lord Morris appeared for J. H. Thomas, and records a conversation with Lloyd George during which Lloyd George gave his opinion on Asquith, Hitler, etc., and described his lack of ambition when he entered the House of Commons. In the last diary Lord Morris describes a heavy air raid on London and the effect that the death of Dame Margaret Lloyd George had upon her husband. Legal papers including notes taken and summing-up speeches in murder trials which came before Lord Morris in the late 1940s; a transcript of the summing-up speech of Mr. Justice Hallett in a trial of three men for murder, 1947; printed judgements of Lord Morris and other members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1960-1 ; a draft judgement by Lord Morris in D.P.P. v Boardman, 1974; papers on law reform including a comparative study of the Anglo-American Appellate Procedure, 1962, notes on whether the House of Lords should be strictly bound by its own decisions (stare decisis), 1963-6, and whether dissenting opinions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should be published, etc. ; and papers concerning numerous Bills such as the Sexual Offences Bill, 1975-6, Criminal Law Bill, 1977, Unfair Contract Terms Bill, 1977, and the Theft Act, 1978. Miscellaneous legal items include a draft of the D. J. James Pantyfedwen Trust Deed, 1957, and a petition from Dwyfor District Council relating to Porthmadog Harbour Revision Orders, 1974, and a copy of the said Orders. Papers concerning the University of Wales which Lord Morris served as Honorary Standing Counsel, 1938-45, and as Pro-Chancellor, 1956-74. The majority of these papers comprise minutes, agenda, reports, and correspondence and deal mainly with the expansion of the University, attempts to defederalise it, teaching through the medium of Welsh, and the incorporation of the Welsh College of Advanced Technology, the Welsh School of Medicine, and St. David's College Lampeter, into the University. Papers relating to the Commissary of Cambridge, an office which Lord Morris held from 1968. These papers deal with the problems of student occupations and the disciplining of dons who had incited or supported the students. Papers consisting of minutes, evidence, correspondence, etc., of various committees, commissions, etc., on which Lord Morris sat including Home Office Committees on Defence Regulations, 1940-5 (containing a reference to the case of T. E. Nicholas and his son), and War Damaged Licensed Premises, 1944; the Courts of Inquiry into the Engineering and Shipbuilding Wages Dispute, 1953 - 4; the National Reference Tribunal under the Coal-Mining Industry Conciliation Scheme, 1955-65; the Advisory Committee on the Administration of the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, 1960-70, which considered applications for permission to use animals in experiments ; and the Home Office Departmental Committee on Jury Service, 1963-4. Political papers comprising a small amount of material relating to elections in Ilford in 1923 and 1924 which seat Lord Morris contested unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party, and a small collection of political pamphlets. The correspondence in these papers also shows that his name was canvassed as a possible Liberal candidate in Hackney Central, 1923, co. Montgomery, 1931, co. Cardigan, 1936, Walsall, 1938, and the Henley Division of Stoke on Trent, 1938. Miscellaneous papers including notes taken during an army course on bombing and grenade work, March - April 1916; a `Summary of Intelligence Operations' undertaken by a patrol led by Lord Morris on the night of 10-11 December 1916 ; a memorandum by Edward F. Iwi on the 'Problem of North Wales', i.e. the growth of Plaid Cymru, 1937, and a similar, anonymous, memorandum on Welsh Nationalism, 1939; a Development Plan for co. Caernarfon, 1953; three memoranda by the Civic Trust following the Aberfan disaster, 1966; a copy of reminiscences written by William Williams of Aberafon in 1971 describing his youth in Llanystumdwy and containing references to Lloyd George and the Llanfrothen Burial Case and to Lloyd George's friendship with Rev Tom Nefyn Williams; and a memorandum to the Secretary of State for Wales on television broadcasting in Wales by the Council of the Welsh Language, 1975. Papers relating to Caernarfonshire Quarter Sessions, which Lord Morris served as Deputy Chairman, 1939-43, and Chairman, 1943-69, consisting of correspondence, calendars of prisoners, criminal records, probation reports, etc. (These will not be available for consultation for the time being). A small group of papers belonging to Lord Morris's parents, but mainly to his father, Daniel Morris. The majority of these papers relate to the Welsh Independent cause in Liverpool and they include accounts and balance sheets of Salem and Grove Street Chapels, 1852-1905 ; an artist's impression of the new chapel at Grove Street and a list of subscribers [c. 1866] ; a register of new members of Grove Street Chapel, 1882-1905, with details of the places of origin of new members which should prove a valuable source for any study of the Liverpool Welsh during the last quarter of the nineteenth century ; a history of the Welsh Independent cause in Liverpool ; accounts of the Welsh Independent Chapel at Queen's Road, Manchester, 1900-19; accounts of the Union of Welsh Independent Chapels of Liverpool, Manchester and district, 1895-7; a press letter-book of the Union's treasurer, 1886-90; a small group of correspondence, 1879-1935, including a letter describing life in the Australian Bush, 1879; and lectures given by Daniel Morris on `Emrys', 'Hymnology', and `The London Missionary Society'. GWILYM OWEN, SARON, AMMANFORD 1980003 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Reverend Gwilym Owen, Saron, Ammanford, per Mr W J Parry Ammanford. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1979-80 Disgrifiad / Description An extensive collection of twentieth century literature and theology, amounting to several thousand volumes (Dept of Printed Books). A collection of photographs (Dept of Pictures and Maps) including the following: A portrait of Watcyn Wyn. Portraits of the donor in his degree gown, five portraits as a freemason and one group portrait of Caradog Lodge, Swansea, 1920.