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The log-book of the barque Lunaria sailing from Antwerp to Montevideo, Buenos Aires and London, 1860-1861.

Minute book, 1846-1847, of the Committee of Visitors appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions for Glamorgan (under 8 & 9 Vict., c. 126, as amended by 9 & 10 Vict., c. 84) to erect and build a Lunatic Asylum for the county alone or to treat with any other county or counties for its erection. The volume also contains the following transcripts:- orders for the appointment of the committee at the Epiphany Sessions of 1846 and 1847; a letter, 14 October, 1847, from R. W. Lutwidge, secretary to the Commissioners in Lunacy, to Sir Denis Le Marchant, Home Office, and a letter, 16 October, 1847, from the latter to [Thomas Dalton], Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan; and representations [1847] by the committee to Sir George Grey, Home Secretary.

The archive comprises election ephemera, including election addresses, posters, drafts of election material, mostly for Plaid Cymru candidates for UK Parliament and local elections, along with some ephemera related to anti-nuclear weapons and anti-nuclear power campaigns and Plaid Cymru publications.

Papers of Lyn Howell, 1943-1982, including articles, addresses, notes and broadcast scripts, 1975-1982; letters to Lyn Howell, 1960-1981; and three volumes of press cuttings, one relating to his period as regional officer in the welfare department of the Colonial Office, 1943-1949, the second, 1957-1958, relating to Huw T. Edwards, chairman of the Wales Tourist Board; and the third relating to the Wales Tourist Board, 1967-1969.

Almost three hundred letters, 1931-1974, from Llewelyn Wyn Griffith (1890-1977), novelist, poet and translator, to Arthur Behrend (1895-1974), shipbroker and novelist, together with photocopies of two pages from an unpublished memoir written by Arthur Behrend, in which he describes how he came to meet Lyn Wyn Griffith in the early spring of 1931, and tells of their subsequent close friendship.

182 deeds and documents, 1678-1913, including deeds relating to properties in Llanbadrig, Llanbedrgoch, Llanfachreth, Llanfechell, Llangaffo and Pentraeth, Anglesey, Llandysilio and Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flint, Flintshire, and Llandwrog, Caernarvonshire; papers and correspondence of the Rev. John Elias, Llanfechell, of his brother, the Rev. David Elias, Pentraeth, and of his son, John Elias, Tre'rgof Isaf, Cemaes; and letters and accounts of William Evans, Tyfry, Pentraeth, who married a grand-daughter of the Rev. John Elias.

A collection comprising an account of a tour in Germany, 1869, and Spain, 1914; an account of the attempted French invasion of 1797, with drawings relating to the invasion; a farce entitled 'Thought Reading'; and an illustrated story entitled 'Perspective'.

A collection of hymn-tunes and a few other compositions of Morris Eddie Evans (1890-1984), maintained by the composer from 1906 to 1972 or later. Most of the tunes constitute a series numbered by the composer 1-148 (127 and 128 missing). The other works are four rhapsodies (pp. 34-42, 44-7, 52-4), 'Barcerolle' (pp. 65-9) and 'Largo' (pp. 144-9), all for organ, and a few songs. Most of the tunes are given words (mostly Welsh), some are dated, some have details of entry in 'eisteddfodau'. The tune 'Pantyfedwen' is on p. 124. There has been much pasting in of revised and additional tunes and words, some from printed 'Detholiadau'.

Typescript draft, [1970s], of an unpublished novel, 'Man of Albion', by Margaret Joan Baylis (afterwards Mills), based on the life of her ancestor, Thomas Makeig (1721-66) of Penlan-fawr, parish of Llandygwydd, co. Cardigan (on whom see Ceredigion, 5 (1964), pp. 54-75).

A collection, mainly of essays, 1883-1905, written for the National Eisteddfod of Wales by Moses Owen Jones.

Papers relating to Mabel Pakenham-Walsh, 1937-1998, including family correspondence, 1937-1987; general correspondence, [c. 1962]-1998, from other artists and friends including Martin Leman, Maeve Peake, Lord Snowdon, Jean Coggan, wife of Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Tom Stoppard, the author Andrew Roberts and Malcolm Yorke; papers relating to exhibitions and sales, 1959-1992; correspondence with the Crafts Advisory Committee, 1972-1979, Design Council, 1973-1976, Crafts Council, 1973-1990, and Contemporary Applied Arts, 1974-1991; papers concerning her employment at Pinewood and Shepperton Film Studios, 1960-1961, and other miscellaneous items; a photograph of a speech day at St Hildas School, Hickleton Hall, with Lord and Lady Halifax as guests, 1949; notes on family history; and papers relating to Mabel Pakenham-Walsh's involvement in campaigns against traffic and supermarket developments.

A copy of Dr Prydwyn O. Piper's PhD thesis 'Mabinogi Iessu Grist': An Edition and Study of the Middle Welsh Translations of the Apocryphal Latin Pseudo-Matthaei Evangelium (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001).

Machine room record of printing at Messrs Hughes & Son. See also NLW MS 15517C. English. Leather. Donated by Eric L. Thomas, Oswestry, November 1953.

Machine room record of printing at Messrs Hughes & Son. See also NLW MS 15518C. English. 1/2 leather. Donated by Eric L. Thomas, Oswestry, November 1953.

Minute-book, 1864-1947, of the Machynlleth Gas Company Limited including directors' reports, annual revenue accounts, and notices of meetings.

One of four in a series of assessments for a lighting rate in the parish of Machynlleth, 1878-1884, 1886-1887, 1889, 1891-1892, 1894.

One of four in a series of assessments for a lighting rate in the parish of Machynlleth, 1878-1884, 1886-1887, 1889, 1891-1892, 1894.

One of four in a series of assessments for a lighting rate in the parish of Machynlleth, 1878-1884, 1886-1887, 1889, 1891-1892, 1894.

The overseers' account book of receipts and payments for the parish of Machynlleth, 1868-1884.