Sir J.E. Lloyd Papers A collection of 742 items ranging in date from 1874 to 1947 and comprising correspondence, notebooks, addresses, reviews and personal memoranda detailing the rich and varied interests of Sir John Edward Lloyd, the doyen of Welsh historians. Notable amongst them is the series of 33 notebooks packed with the results of his scholarly researches into well-nigh every aspect of Welsh history, and including those which he made in writing his monumental work, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. The letters in the collection number some hundreds; the subjects touched upon are multifarious, but in the main all have to do with some aspect of history. Among the writers are Sir Edward Anwyl, Charles Ashton, J. H. Davies, O. M. Edwards, T. E. Ellis, E. Vincent Evans, J. Gwenogfryn Evans, Ellis Jones Griffith, John Morris-Jones, H. Elvet Lewis, Charles Morgan (the novelist), Sir Lewis Morris, J. Arthur Price, Sir John Rhys, Doris Stenton, Sir Lleufer Thomas, T. F. Tout, Griffith John Williams and Sir Ifor Williams. 1845-1947