Kate Davies MSS,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MSS 23114-23117.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004627198
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1946-1979 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Welsh English Welsh, English.
  • Physical Description
    • Extent: 366 ff. in total (see also individual files) ; Dimensions: 255 x 200 mm. and less. Extent: 5 vols. See individual files.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Notebooks, 1946-1979, of Kate Davies, writer, of Pren-gwyn, Llandysul. The contents of the notebooks include reviews of her published books, lecture notes, poetry, notes on local and family history, poetry by her father Daniel Thomas, etc.

Administrative / Biographical History

Writer and poet Kate Davies was born in Berthlwyd Lodge, Pren-gwyn, Llandysul. She delighted in literature, story-telling and local history and competed in local eisteddfodau. She published a volume of her own poetry, Cerddi Kate Davies (Llandysul, 1946), a memoir entitled Hafau fy Mhlentyndod ym Mhentref Pren-gwyn (Llandysul, 1970), and Canrif o Addysg Gynradd yn Hanes Ysgol Tre-groes, 1878-1978 (Llandysul, 1978). Her father Daniel Thomas, also a poet, was brother to schoolmaster, writer and poet Thomas Jacob Thomas ('Sarnicol').

Arrangement

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 23114-23117ii.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Mr Wyn Davies, son of Kate Davies; Aberaeron; Donation; 1993

Note

Writer and poet Kate Davies was born in Berthlwyd Lodge, Pren-gwyn, Llandysul. She delighted in literature, story-telling and local history and competed in local eisteddfodau. She published a volume of her own poetry, Cerddi Kate Davies (Llandysul, 1946), a memoir entitled Hafau fy Mhlentyndod ym Mhentref Pren-gwyn (Llandysul, 1970), and Canrif o Addysg Gynradd yn Hanes Ysgol Tre-groes, 1878-1978 (Llandysul, 1978). Her father Daniel Thomas, also a poet, was brother to schoolmaster, writer and poet Thomas Jacob Thomas ('Sarnicol').

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MSS 23114-23117.

Archivist's Note

February 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003); Amgueddfa Cymru WWW site; Cronfa Capeli WWW site;

Conditions Governing Use

Usual copyright laws apply.

Related Material

For other Kate Davies manuscripts, see NLW Minor Deposits 1039B, 1042B.

Additional Information

Published

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