ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1957-58 ERNEST JOHN BEDDOES 1958001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr Ernest John Beddoes, Presteigne. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A small but interesting collection of books (Dept of Printed Books), prints, and maps (Dept of Pictures and Maps), including Gerarde's Herball (1595), Fenton's Historical tour through Pembrokeshire (1811), two portfolios containing the works of William Hogarth from the original plates restored by James Heath, and twelve maps of the counties of Wales by Christopher Saxton. WINIFRED COOMBE TENNANT 1958002 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mrs Winifred Coombe Tennant ('Mam o Nedd'), London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of the late donor's papers entitled 'Gorsedd Papers'. A fuller report will appear in the next Annual Report. Nodiadau Schedule Available. A R BEDDOWS 1958003 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A R Beddows, M.Sc., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description Log books, 1940-5, of Air Raid Warden Post No. 7, Llanbadarn Fawr, with subsidiary papers (NLW MSS 16679-81B). Minutes, 1944-8, of the Llanbadarn Fawr and Capel Dewi Welcome Home Fund (NLW MS 16682B), with correspondence (NLW MS 16683E). SIR H IDRIS BELL 1958004 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Harold Idris Bell, C.B., O.B.E., D.Litt., F.B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description Several further valuable donations of foreign periodicals which, for many years, Sir Idris has regularly presented to the Library, a particularly welcome gesture in view of the limited funds available for the purchase of foreign publications (Dept of Printed Books). GEOFFREY BRIGHT 1958005 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Geoffrey Bright, Drumore, Nr. Leominster. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description Eight volumes of eighteenth and early nineteenth century music, mainly minuets and country dances, performed at Court, Bath (Dept of Printed Books). A playbill printed on silk and advertising performances at the theatre at Brecon in 1850 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). SIR JOHN CECIL- WILLIAMS 1958006 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir John Cecil-Williams, M.A., LL.D., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A collection of photographs, programmes, etc., of the Goronwy Owen memorial celebrations at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, and of the National Gymanfa Ganu of the United States and Canada at Washington, 1957 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). G T CLARK 1958007 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Wyndham D Clark, D.L., M.A., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description Three files of typescript copies, with some originals, of letters written by G.T. Clark in Egypt and India, 1843-5, journals and papers, 1801-2, of Lieut. Henry Lewis of the soth Regiment stationed in Egypt; and pedigrees of the families of Stewart and Lewis of the Van. A useful collection of historical pamphlets and printed books, including copies of The Land of Morgan (1880) (Dept of Printed Books) and Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae (1886) (NLW MS 16356C). THEOLOGICAL BOOKS 1958008 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A A Davies, Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description Over twenty volumes of well-known works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which fill a few obvious gaps in the Library's theological section (Dept of Printed Books). D R THOMAS 1958009 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend Canon Ellis Davies, M.A., F.S.A., Caerwys. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A notebook on the Caernarvon, 1894, meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Association compiled by Archdeacon D. R. Thomas (SA/DR/10A). [To be added to the D. R. Thomas Collection in the Church in Wales (St. Asaph) deposit.] Nodiadau Schedule Available. NEW QUAY `DREADNOUGHT' 1958010 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Frank Davies, Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A group of notebooks and papers most of them relating to the brigantine Dreadnought (94 feet and 146 tons) built at New Quay, Cardiganshire, in 1866. It includes fourteen bills of sale of shares in the Dreadnought to Captain David Davies of New Quay, 1871-88; ninety bundles of vouchers and miscellaneous papers relating to the voyages of the vessel, 1866-86, from various British ports to Gibraltar, Palermo, Antwerp, Smyrna, Rotterdam, Taranto, Cadiz, Naples, Lisbon, and other continental ports and to St. John's and Harbour Grace in Newfoundland with cargoes of coal, iron, oil, salt, etc.; an account book of payments to her crew, 1866-9; and a declaration by her captain and members of her crew before a notary public at St. John's, Newfoundland, describing how she grounded and became a total wreck off the Newfoundland coast in 1888. Also included in the collection are bills of sale of shares in the vessels Mary Jane (1858 and 1863), Agnes Cairn (1881), Sea Foam (1892), and Argo (1862); five share certificates in the New Quay Harbour Company (1837); a balance sheet relating to the building of the New Quay Patent Slip (1863-7); one bundle of vouchers relating to the barque Dilpussund (1892-3); one bundle of vouchers relating to the Spark (1891); an account book of payments to the crew of the Maria (1858-65); a cargo book of [?] the Maria (1861-3); an account book of stores bought for [?] the Maria and of wear and tear to [?] the same vessel (1861-5); and an account book in respect of the building of a new vessel at Traethgwyn, New Quay (1864-7). JOHN JONES, TALYSARN 1958011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H Glyn Davies, Llanfairfechan. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A selection of books from the library of the late Rev John Jones, Talysarn, including some early runs of Welsh periodicals and a number of standard works of Welsh literary interest (Dept of Printed Books). THE LAMPETER RECORDER ETC 1958012 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J A Davies, Aberaeron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A few miscellaneous books, and the only known copy of The Lampeter Recorder (Vol. I, No. 6), 10 September 1870, notice of which first appeared in The Welsh Gazette and whose Editor deserves the Library's particular thanks for her co-operation (Dept of Printed Books). GREGYNOG 1958013 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Margaret S Davies, LL.D., Gregynog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description An enclosure award, 1815, for the parish of Tregynon, Montgomeryshire; tithe rentals, 1871-7, for the parishes of Tregynon, Bettws, Aberhafesp, and Berriew; and miscellaneous documents, 1783-1811, relating to Berriew, Llanllwchaiarn, Tregynon, and Penstrowed and to the sale of a portion of Lord Joicey' s estate. A number of seventeenth-century maps of North Wales counties by John Speed, Peter Keer and Johannes Blaeu (Dept of Pictures and Maps). MARIAN DAVIES 1958014 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Marian Davies, Pontrhydygroes. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description Deeds and documents, 1763-1905, relating to Ffosybailey in Troedyraur and Galltycnawde in Llangunllo, Cardiganshire (NLW Deeds 703). MARY LUCAS DEAKIN 1958015 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Percy Davies, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description An album belonging to Mary Lucas Deakin, nineteenth century (NLW Amryw Loose Volumes 2). LLIDIARDAU FAMILY PEDIGREE 1958016 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Wyn Davies, Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description Pedigree of the Llidiardau family (NLW MS 16627D). EDWARD PERKINS 1958017 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr G A Dickman, A L.A.. Haverfordwest. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript copy of a lecture by Edward Perkins, 1908, entitled 'Hanes bywyd yn Ardal Tyddewi tua 1850' (NLW Misc Volumes 380). SUNDAY CIRCUITS OF WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODIST MINISTERS 1958018 Ffynhonnell / Source The Reverend H R Evans, M.C., M.A., Broadhempston. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A photographic copy of the Sunday circuits of Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ministers in Cardiganshire, 1816 (NLW MS 17415D); Galar-gan er coffadwriaeth am . Ebenezer Richard, 1837 (NLW MS 20395C); a letter from John Thomas, Liverpool, to Henry Richard, 1887 (NLW MS 20395C); a copy of a letter from Henry Richard to W. E. Gladstone concerning nominees for the bishopric of Llandaff, 1883 (NLW MS 20395C); ordination card of Henry Richard, 1835 (NLW MS 20395C); and a Welsh bidding letter, 1862 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). LODGE OF TRUE IVORITES, YSBYTY YSTWYTH 1958019 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Matthew Evans, Ysbyty Ystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description A contributions book, 1918-44, of the W. T. R. Powell Lodge of True Ivorites, Ysbyty Ystwyth (NLW MS 10957D). EDWARD FFOULKES, LLANBERIS 1958020 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Annie Ffoulkes, Caernarvon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1957-58 Disgrifiad / Description Holograph manuscripts of the donor's father,