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.

 

 

Pictures

 

• An oil on canvas portrait of the footballer Ryan Giggs, by Peter Edwards, 2008
  

• A watercolour with pencil and gouache drawing entitled 'Pistyll Rhaeadr, N. Wales' by Paul Sandby

• A self-portrait, charcoal on paper, by Augustus John, 1941
  

• Two framed oil on wood panel paintings by John Rogers entitled 'Funeral at Berea Chapel' north Pembrokeshire and 'Wedding at Seion Chapel, St David's'

• Platinum print, 1882, entitled 'Foxgloves and Ferns' by Henry Peach Robinson - one of a series of studies of figures in the landscape made by H P Robinson in Gwysaney, Flintshire

• A framed oil on canvas painting of Gwilym Prichard by Claudia Williams
• A small mezzotint print of John Worley (1624-1721)
• A framed ink and pastel picture entitled 'Hawthorn Tree' by Claerwen Holland

 

 

Manuscripts

 

• An early 16th century printed copy of Pope Gregory IX's Decretals. Before the end of that century, Welsh verses were added to the volume by a certain Lewis Johnes. Here we see his copy of a love poem by Siôn Tudur (c. 1522-1602)

• A decorated manuscript on vellum, being Thomas of Ringstead's (fl. 1346-66) Expositio in parabolis Salomonis, a Latin translation of his Commentary on Proverbs

• Three manuscripts by William Baxter (1650-1723): notes on the New Testament; an article on Juvenal's 'Satires'; and Moses Williams's (1685-1742) copy for publication of Baxter's commentary on Juvenal, 1732

• A manuscript letter, 19 February 1945, signed 'Dylan Thomas' to his agent Nancy Pearn, agreeing to the broadcast of his poem 'In Memory of Ann Jones' on 26 February
• Four autograph letters by Sir John Thomas Piozzi, adopted son of Gabriel Piozzi and Hester Lynch Piozzi, to the Rev. Thomas Raffles, 1841
• Diary of a soldier [Sergeant Robert Bye] in the Welsh Guards on the Western Front, 1917, and a research booklet by T H Reinallt-James on his courage and devotion to duty

 

 

Printed Publications

 

• Grove, W R (1846). On the correlation of physical forms: being the substance of a course of lectures delivered in the London Institution in the year 1843. [1st edition ] [London]: London Institution.

• Gallaher, D, & Stead, W J (1906). The complete rugby footballer on the New Zealand system. With [plates including portraits, and] ... illustrations.

• Piggott, F N (1907). The Springboks: history of the tour, 1906-7. London: The Cricket Press.
• Evans, G Ewart. Ask the fellows who cut the hay. Ploughmans Parrot Press, 1999 [Special binding]

• Borrow, George. The Turkish jester … translated from the Turkish. Ipswich, 1884

• Norris, Leslie. A harvest of love. Prov, Utah: Tryst Press, 2003

•  Taith arall = An other journey. [Gerallt Gymro] Red Hen Press,  [2007]

•  An answer to such motives as were offer’d by certain military-men to Prince Henry… London, Printed for Henry Mortlock, 1665

 

 

Photographs

 

• A black and white photograph taken by Roger Lougher of the Pontypool bardic stones, one in a series entitled 'Some of all the Stones'

• Ten C-type colour photographs, autographed, of the work of Anthony Stokes, which were exhibited at the Library in 2008 entitled 'The Valleys'

• Three colour photographs, taken in 2008 by Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne, and named 'Forgotten Places'
• Fifty colour photographs in the series 'Holy Wells of Wales: a photographic journey', taken by Phil Cope, together with a printed book containing the images
• A collection of negatives and lantern slides being the work of the late scientist Ben Davies AMIEE, FInstP (1858-1943)

 

 

Archives

 

• A substantial collection of the papers of W R P George (1912-2006), former Archdruid of Wales, including diaries, correspondence, literary works, articles, addresses, press cuttings and other papers

• An additional collection of the papers of Gareth Vaughan Jones (1905-35), including letters, diaries, press cuttings, photographs and slides

• A large collection of materials relating to the Wales Caricature Theatre, including correspondence, programmes for television, posters, advertising material, scripts and films

• A file of correspondence between Winifred Coombe Tennant ('Mam o Nedd'), and a number of Welsh artists, art administrators and patrons, such as John Elwyn, Margaret Davies, Gregynog, Brian Rees, David Bell and Lady Rothenstein

• An additional collection of Dannie Abse's papers, comprising notebooks, drafts of his publications, and correspondence, 2004-7
• An additional collection of materials relating to the Walsh family, Barons Ormathwaite, comprising three large boxes of documents, a framed painting of Jane Walsh, a collection of photographs and two maps
• Poetry and items of prose dating from the First World War period, written by Harold Lloyd-Jones (1898-1918), a promising Law student at UCW Aberystwyth who died in the Influenza Epidemic of 1918, and elder brother of Dr D Martyn Lloyd-Jones
• An additional collection of manuscript and typescript radio and television scripts, c. 1969-2004, by Michael Povey, including 'Yr Hen Blant', 'Gyda Llaw', 'Wedi'r Awdur' and 'Terfy', together with programmes and correpondence

 

 

Electronic Material

 

• A CD containing pdf files of Dafydd Bullock's compositions

• Two CDRoms noting details of burials, 1718-2006, at Eglwys Newydd yr Hafod graveyard

 

 

Maps

 

• A coloured map, mounted: 'Campion's map of collieries, iron, tin, copper, chemical works, railways & stations in South Wales'
• Two copies of maps by John Speed, the one of Monmouthshire and the other of Pembrokeshire, with Latin inscriptions
• A catalogue of coloured maps depicting images in Penmaen-mawr