Welsh Journals

THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF ARCHIVES (N. R. A.) SELECT DIGEST OF MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS TO REPOSITORIES 1996 RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES The Historical Manuscripts Commission seeks each year to collect information relating to manuscript accessions from over 250 repositories and record offices throughout the British Isles. This information is then published on the internet via the Commission's website (http:www.hmc.gov.uk) and in a series of thematic digests which appear in a wide range of journals and newsheets. It is also added to the indexes to the National Register of Archives (NRA), which are available for public consultation in the Commission's search room at Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1HP, and via the Commission's website. The Commission will also answer limited and specific postal and e-mail enquiries. Readers of Welsh History Review should be aware that the manuscript collections noted in the following digest represent a very small part of the collected information available in the NRA. National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records Herbert family, Earls of Powis (addnl): corresp, deeds and documents 1580-1868 Lloyd George family (addnl): papers incl letters to David Lloyd George and papers of Gwilym Lloyd George (NLWMSS unnumbered) Robert Jones Derfel (1824-1905), writer and radical: corresp and papers (NLWMSS 23440-62) Dr Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1899-1970), educationist: corresp and papers Augustus Edwin John (1878-1961), painter and etcher, and Gwen John (1876-1939), painter (addnl): papers (NLW MSS 23508-10) Glyn Jones (1905-95), poet, short-story writer and novelist (addnl): corresp, literary, family and personal papers (NLWMSS unnumbered)