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Letters, chiefly of members of the Nicholl family. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 98.) English. Between boards. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

Letters, etc of A. P. Graves. English. Between boards. Donated by Mr E. M. S. Wood & the Misses Wood, Ormskirk, June 1969 & by J. Meredith Tatton, January 1969.

Holograph letters to or from, and other items relating to, [the Reverend] David Charles [David Charles I, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Carmarthen] and members of his family. The correspondence includes letters from David Charles [I] from Aberystwyth, Bala, Bristol, Builth, Carmarthen, Hay, Llanidloes, Llandrindod, and London, to his son David Charles [II], Carmarthen, 1821-1827 and undated (13 as per address or by inference) (personal and family matters, the writer's travels, business affairs, religious reflections), [? George] Hodson, to be laid before the Directors [of the London Missionary Society], 1822 (the Society's rejection of Mr. Morgan's application to be allowed to serve as a missionary, a suggestion that the Society was prejudiced against Calvinistic Methodists, the financial efforts made by the C.M. movement on behalf of the Bible Society, the missionary cause, etc., the movement's independence of any English financial support) (unsigned draft or copy), and [ ], 1815 (enclosing a copy of a letter sent to Mr. Wilks outlining the [Calvinistic] Methodist attitude towards the proposed Auxiliary Missionary Society for South Wales) (unsigned copy); Eliza Charles (also, after her marriage, as Eliza [Davies]) [daughter of David Charles I], from Aberystwyth and Bala, to her brother David Charles [II], Carmarthen, 1822- 1830 and undated (6 as per address or by inference) (personal and family news, her father's preaching activities, religious reflections) (2 incomplete, 3 written on blank pages of the aforementioned letters from D. Charles I to D. Charles II); Mary Foulkes, Machynlleth, to [ ], 1812 (personal); W[illiam] Alers Hankey (treasurer of the London Missionary Society), from Aberystwith, to David Charles [I], Carmarthen, 1822 (assuring recipient that the Society had not rejected Mr. Morgan's application to become a missionary because he was a Calvinistic Methodist, their true reasons for doing so, missionary activity); H[ugh] Hughes, London, to his brother [-in-law] D[avid] Charles [II], 1836 (the publication of a volume of the sermons [of recipient's father]); Hugh Price, Carmarthen and Mumbles, to D[avid] R[oberts] Charles [? son of David Charles II], Liverpool, [18]61 (3) (personal, floods in Carmarthen, the American Civil War, a comment on [the Emperor] Napoleon [III], religious exhortations); [the Reverend] Henry Rees, Liverpool, to ?David Charles [II], 1845-?1847 (2) (personal, difficulties in arranging visits to South Wales, the Missionary Society, the writer's opinion that the [ Calvinistic] Methodists should concentrate their efforts on Wales rather than on the foreign mission field, the need to educate the children and young preachers); and [the Reverend] Ebenezer Richard, from Newport and Tregaron, to [David] Charles [I], 1826 (a message from the [C.M.] Association meeting at Llandeilofawr sympathising with recipient on his illness), David Charles [II], Carmarthen, 1823-1833 (2 + 1 by inference) (preaching engagements, the illness of recipient's father and messages of sympathy in connection therewith from [C.M.] Association meetings at Lampeter in 1828 and Brecon in 1833, the writer's indisposition in 1833), and the Reverend Tho[ma]s Evans and D[avid] Charles [II] jointly, Carmarthen, 1833 (returning hymn books with remarks thereon, the writer's health). The miscellaneous items include a bond entered into by David Charles [I], 1 January 1803, for the payment of a sum of five hundred pounds to Nathaniel Phillips of Haverfordwest, banker (endorsed with two notes whereby Nathaniel Phillips acknowledged receipt of the sum due in two instalments, 1807, 1813); probate, 19 February 1835, of the will of David Charles [I], 13 July 1826; and an imperfect copy of a memorial inscription to Sarah Charles, wife of David Charles [I], ob. 1817, and to Rice Rowland Charles, ob. 1801, aged 2.

Seven holograph letters to John Jones, Gellifaharen, from Thos. Davies, Jes[us] Coll[ege, Oxford], 1817 and undated (4) (the tithes of Llandysil), Titus Evans, Alltyrodin Lodge, 1840 (a parish meeting) (autograph), and Saml. Griffiths, Troed[rhiw]ffenyd [Llandysul], 1841 and undated (2) ( appointments); and miscellaneous documents including an agreement to submit to arbitration a dispute concerning a lease of houses at Pencarnuket [Llandysul], 1819, and an attested extract, 1845, from the parish register of Llanfihangelar-arth recording the marriage of David Jones of the parish of Llangeler and Mary Lloyd, spinster, of the parish of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, 1823.

A holograph letter from John [Warren, bishop of] Bangor, Great Malvern, Worcester, to [ ], 1799 (the petition of the parishioners of Pennal); a holograph letter from John Roberts, Llanbrynmair, to Mrs. [? Anne] Anwyl, Lliggwy [Pennal, co. Merioneth], 1802 (the enclosed confession of faith of William Rees); and typescript notes on 'Letter Post before 1840. What It Cost And How It Was Done' by Evan Anwyl, Ty Mawr Farm, Towyn.

A group of letters largely relating to Harry H. Davis of Pennsylvania, Consul of the United States of America at Cardiff, which include certificates and other material relating to Davis's diplomatic career. There is also some material relating to Ephraim Henry Davies of Barry, including a holograph letter, 1933, from J. Dyfnallt Owen.
Amongst the references made are those to President Ulysses S. Grant; Lady Schreiber (formerly Lady Charlotte Guest); and Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover.

Letters, etcfrom George Bernard Shaw, mostly to his aunt Georgina (Mrs Frederick Shaw) and to Arthur F. Bernard Shaw and Miss Constance Shaw. English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs Gertrude Mary Shaw, Berkhamsted, July 1962.

Lettersfrom the Reverend Peter Williams to his sons Eliezer Williams and Peter Bailey Williams. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 1.) English. Between boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Letts Scribbling Diary, with entries by David Pritchard. English. Boards. Donated by Mr William Morris Jones, Penrhyndeudraeth, per the Reverend R. O. G. Williams, June 1972.

A 12th century transcript of Leveticus & Numeri, glossed.

Reports written by Lewis Davies Jones (Llew Tegid) (1851-1928) of meetings of Cymdeithas Lenyddol Annibynwyr Cymreig Bangor, 1877-1882.