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Letter, signed by Charles I at Oxford, 11 March 1643, requesting the Commissioners of Array and the Sheriff of Denbighshire to treat with Crown tenants and fee farmers in the county for the payment of four years' rent in advance.

Letter to F. J. Mostyn, Archbishop of Cardiff, from Sir Courtney Charles Evan Morgan, 3rd Viscount Tredegar, with a copy of Exposition of the Malta Question...English. Between boards. Purchased from Mrs Kyrle Fletcher, London, August 1972.

A letter, June 1822, to George IV (1762-1830) from 'one of the Bridge-Street Gang'.

A typed letter, 18 March 1980, addressed to Michael Bennett from Tony Hyne in which he discusses David Jones's Word & Image exhibition, together with a photocopy of David Jones's chronology from the exhibition catalogue, heavily marked by him.

A photcopy of a letter, [?1871], addressed to 'Joe' who had emigrated to New Zealand, sent from Praze St Erth, [Cornwall], with details of Cornish mining history, together with a transcript.

A letter, March 1967, to the Rev. E. Morgan, Rhosgerdd, St Andrews Place, Llandudno, from one E. Roberts, 6 Richard John Road, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.

Printouts of images scanned from a letter, dated 1562, from the Gentlemen of Glamorgan to Sir Henry Sidney, Lord President of the Marches of Wales, sent by e-mail by the donor,

A letter (posted at Penarth 27 February [18]91) written by [David Jones], a member of the crew of the ship Madras, from on board the said ship, to his sister Miss M. E. Jones of Aberaeron, prior to setting sail for Amboyna in China. The ship with its crew, which included some fourteen men and boys from Aberaeron and district, was lost without trace [see Carmarthen Journal, 25 March 1892, and L.H. Lewis; Penodau yn Hanes Aberaeron, 1970, tt. 159-160, 162-163]. Also notes listing the names of the numbers of the crew who came from Aberaeron and district and giving some particulars concerning the vessel and two other vessels called the Caledonia and Ianthe.

A letter, April 1992, to Margaret Thomas from the Rt. Hon. John Smith, MP, in response to a message of good wishes for the forthcoming Labour Party leadership contest, together with the Order of Service for John Smith's Memorial Service held at Westminster Abbey, July 1994.

Letter-book of Sir Andrew King, London, merchant, containing copies of his outgoing correspondence written, 1663-5, just before his departure for and during his residence in Madrid where he was in the service of Sir Richard Fanshawe, the British Ambassador to Spain (ff. 2-26 verso, 105 verso-28 verso inverted text), and, 1667-78, after his return to Great Britain and his residence in London (ff. 49-103 verso inverted text). The letters written from Madrid are mostly to British merchants in London, Spain and elsewhere, and relate mainly to his commercial ventures, especially to his designs to import grain and olive oil into Spain to alleviate the shortages of those commodities there; many of the letters are to Sir Joseph Williamson, Whitehall, informing him of the economic, political and social conditions in Spain, and of the movements of the Dutch fleet, intelligence about which King obtained from British merchants and consuls resident in Spanish ports. A letter to Daniel Wycherley, whose son, the dramatist William Wycherley was also one of Fanshawe's gentlemen in Spain, assures him that his son is not proposing to convert to Roman Catholicism (f. 125). The letters from London comprise correspondence written, 1667-72 (together with a copy of one letter written in 1662), mostly to British colonists in the West Indies, especially to Sir James Modyford in Jamaica, and merchants in England, including Giles Vanbrugh, Chester, sugar-merchant, father of the architect and dramatist Sir John Vanbrugh, mainly relating to the engaging of servants for service in Jamaica; and, 1672-8, mostly to agents of the Royal African Company in Barbados, Guinea and Jamaica, concerning the supplying of negro slaves to the West Indies.

Autograph letters from J. Williams, Town Hall [? ---], 5 September 1830, to a Mr Jones of Scholarcae, Llanberis, and from Richard Jones, Congregational minister, Milnthorpe, Westmoreland, 27 October 1836, to his father, John Pritchard, Singrig, Dolwyddelan, near Llanrwst.

A holograph letter from Henry M[orton] Stanley to [John] Griffith ('Y Gohebydd'), 1872, and a holograph letter from the latter to [Thomas] Gee, Denbigh, 1872 (Stanley's reluctance to allow the Welsh press to refer to his Welsh descent); and a holograph letter from Thomas Gee to Robert Griffith, bookseller, Caernarvon, 1840 (the loan of a hymnbook to the Reverend John Jones, Tal-sarn).