Here is a selection of the items recently added by purchase or donation to the Library's collections. These items were acquired in order to enrich and enhance the collection in accordance with the Library's collection policy.

 

WARNING: Please note that not all of these items are recorded in the Library's catalogues at present.

Highlights

 

 

 

Pictures

 

• A framed pen and ink drawing (with another drawing on the reverse) by Ceri Richards, entitled ‘Homage to Dylan Thomas’, 1954
• A black and white print of an engraving by T G Wood of ‘Pont y Tŵr’, Bethesda, published by Jno Geo Wood, London, 1813
• A volume, elegantly bound, containing a manuscript copy of the poem ‘Poem in October’ by Dylan Thomas, with watercolour drawings by Nicholas Parry, 2007
• A collection of drawings by Jack Jones (1922-93), being works on papers, on canvas and on board

 

 

Manuscripts

 

• A holograph poem entitled ‘Leisure’ by the poet W H Davies (1871-1940)
• A notebook containing copies of works by ‘Ann of Swansea’ (Mrs Julia Ann Hatton, née Kemble). The manuscript is contemporary with the writer, but not in her hand
• 2 manuscript volumes relating to Dr Richard Pughe (fl. 1780), surgeon and apothecary of Machynlleth, and his nephew, Robert Pughe (d.1837).
• Mona Vetusta – a manuscript volume containing drawings of ancient buildings in Anglesey
• A collection of 50 manuscript and typescript poems by Clifford Dyment (1914-71), a poet brought up in Caerleon
• An account of a tour to Killarney, Ireland, August 1826, by John Parker, being a continuation of a journal kept by the Library in NLW MS 18248A
• A letter and receipt, 17 December 1907, in the hand of Sir John Morris-Jones to one Mr John Hughes
• A poem, dated 6 February 1932, by and in the hand of ‘Crwys’ (William Williams, 1875-1968) entitled ‘Dim Gwaith’. The poem was published in Trydydd Cerddi Crwys (Wrexham, 1935) under the teitl ‘Y Rhondda’.
• 4 letters, 1898-9, from Charles Ashton (1848-99) to Hubert Smith
• A copy of the programme of the Mold National Eisteddfod, 1873, printed on a piece of blue silk. It was at this eisteddfod that a public meeting was held to call for the establishment of a national library for Wales
• A letter, 1909, from George Eyre Evans to Will [?W T Evans] and a postcard, 1908, from him to W T Evans, Llanon
• The genealogy of the Prices, Gogerddan, by Thomas Jones, 1598, on parchment glued on canvas
• A letter, 1903, from Sir John Ballinger, to the Reverend T Llechid Jones, and a letter, 1925, from Ifano Jones to the same recipient, together with a printed leaflet 'Must be in the hands of all future Bibliographers and Historians of the Principality'. The items were found in the publication A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810 by Ifano Jones, 1925

 

 

Printed Publications

 

• Samwell, David. The Negro boy [Broadsheet] (Bristol, n.d.)
• Noble, T. Blackheath: a poem in five cantos, Lumena or the ancient British battle
• (London, 1808)
• Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright. Buildings, plans and designs (New York, 1963)
• Defoe, Daniel. The Storm: or, a collection of the most remarkable casualties and disasters which happen’d in the late dreadful tempest (London, 1704)
• Masefield, John. Reynard the fox (Market Drayton: The Tern Press, 2005)

 

 

Photographs

 

• A miniature album containing salt prints by Mary Dillwyn Llewellyn, c. 1850
• A copy of D Lloyd George addressing the Caernarfon National Eisteddfod, 1935, with E Gwyndaf Evans (1913-86), winner of the chair. The chair that year was carved by Maori craftsmen, New Zealand
• A black and white photograph of Rachel Roberts in one of the stills of the film ‘The Sporting Life’, 1963

 

 

Archives

 

• Additional musical scores by Professor Emeritus Alun Hoddinott.
• Additional papers, c. 1950-80s, of the poet and nationalist Harri Webb (1920-94), including drafts of his poems and articles, correspondence, diaries, photographs, and various other papers
• 3 draft copies of the novel Rhagom by Angharad Tomos, 2004-05
• Files containing correspondence between Dr Meic Stephens and prominent writers, such as Dannie Abse, Gillian Clarke, Per Denez, Gwynfor Evans, Islwyn Ffowc Elis, Emyr Humphreys, Eugene Ionesco, John Gwilym Jones, Saunders Lewis and many others
• A small collection of letters, 1950s-60s, to John Cameron White (1911-68) from his wife, Lady Eirene White (1909-99), Baroness White of Rhymney, and others
• A collection of 26 letters, 1887-1901, to the artist H Clarence Whaite (1828-1912) from Frederick Alfred Slocombe, his brother-in-law, and Shirley Slocombe, his nephew
• Additional papers of the journalist and author, John Tripp (1927-86), comprising correspondence and a collection of prose works, photographs and various other papers
• Papers of Ambrose Williams (1913-2001), Porthmadog and Cardiff, who campaigned for several years from the 1960s onwards to secure Industrial and Technological institutions for Wales
• A diary, in 2 volumes, 1845-48, with accounts of tours, including Powis Castle and Wynnstay, by Lucy Caroline Bridgeman
• Papers of the Welsh Union of Writers, including minutes of meetings, letters, newsletters and other papers. The association was disbanded in 2001, and the Welsh Writers’ Trust was founded in its place

 

 

Electronic Material

 

• Parc Howard : from mansion to museum by William & Benita Rees
• Old Llanelly by John Innes
• The life and time of Rev Ebenezer Morris by Kenneth M Jones
• Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales edited by John Rhys
• The slates of Wales by R J North
• A history of Carmarthenshire by John Edward Lloyd
• The story of Carmarthenshire by David Morgan
• Tours in Wales by Richard Fenton
• A history of Wales : from the earliest time to the Edwardian conquest by John Edward Lloyd
• Melin Mynach : the old monks' mill by William & Benita Rees

 

 

Maps

 

• A large manuscript map, rolled in a wooden box, of the Trevallyn estate, Flintshire, 1834
• A collection of 25 antiquarian maps, including some by Speed, together with 9 prints from The Illustrated London News