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A volume containing accounts, 1693-1721, of Thomas Walker and Elizabeth his wife of Newton, parish of St David Without, Brecon, with her sister Katherine Games, relating mainly to receipts of rent, legal charges, payments of debts, etc. (ff. 1-22); charge to the jury of the court leet of Crickhowell, co. Brecon, 1689, with drafts (inverted text ff. 52 verso-66 verso); and brief details concerning a suit, 1694, between Thomas Walker and Daniel Williams, Penpont (inverted text f. 35).

Family correspondence including letters from David Charles, Carmarthen, to Sarah Phillipps, Haverfordwest, 1791, and to his daughters, 1813-28; David Charles, junior, Carmarthen to his father, 1826, and to Elizabeth Davies, 1822; David Davies, Carnachenwen, 1829-30, to Robert Davies, Aberystwyth; Sarah Charles, Bala, 1826, to her cousin Mary Charles; and David Charles Davies to his parents at Aberystwyth, 1839; and miscellaneous papers including an obituary notice of David Davies, Carnachenwen, banker; and drafts of a monumental inscription for David Charles (d. 1834).

Letters by Margaret Wozencraft, 1855 and undated; letters by David Charles Davies, Newtown and London, 1851-1871, to his mother and other members of the family; Elizabeth Davies, Pibwr Wen, and Aberystwyth, to her daughter Elizabeth, 1860; and Henry Richard, 1876; and miscellaneous papers, including a list of books bought by David Charles Davies; a note (1841) by John Breese of the baptism of Sarah, daughter of David Charles, Carmarthen, 1792; a programme of the C. M. Quarterly Association at Aberystwyth, 1849; An Answer to Prayer - verses by J. J., Kettering; verses written to the Skinner Street Sunday School teachers; medical prescriptions for Mrs. Robert Davies and Miss Davies, Albion House, Aberystwyth; and sermon notes.

Papers, 1965-1971, mainly relating to financial assistance for Charles and Mary, children of Fred Green, Trefelin, Patagonia, who came to Tregaron Secondary School to complete their education in a Welsh environment; including letters from Gareth Alban Davies, Fred Green, R. E. Griffith, John Henry Jones, Lord Elystan Morgan and R. Bryn Williams. -- For the reminiscences of Mary Green, see Glyn Ifans (editor), A Hundred Years of Secondary Education in Tregaron (Tregaron Secondary School Centenary Committee, 1997), pp. 209-11.

Papers, [?1878]-[1899], of Charles Ashton, including transcripts of poetry by Robert Jones (Tudur Aled) and of deeds, grants and other legal documents; essays on Welsh topics; and notes on Isaled, Denbighshire.

Eleven letters, 1894-1898, from Charles Ashton to David Roberts, printer, of London and Manchester, mostly relating to the compilation of his proposed bibliography of nineteenth century Welsh books (ff. 1-15, 25 verso). Also included are lists, 1894-1895, of Welsh books and books relating to Wales supplied by David Roberts for the bibliography, the first instalment of which was published as Llyfryddiaeth Gymreig o 1801 i 1810 (Oswestry, 1908).

Letters, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous papers relating to the organist Charles H. Clements.

Three holograph love letters, 1780, from Sally [Sarah] Jones, Bala, to her future husband the Reverend [Thomas] Charles [later of Bala] at Queen Camel, near Sherborne, co. Dorset, and at Milbourne Port, co. Somerset; and five holograph letters from Diana Noel, Lady Barham, Fairy Hill [Gower], to the Reverend D[avid] Charles, Carmarthen, 1816-1820 (the opening of one of the writer's chapels, the writer's health, condolence with the recipient, invitations to Fairy Hill and to the quarterly meeting at Penclawdd, personal).

Papers, [1840x1927], from the library of Charles Davies, Baptist minister at Cardiff, comprising diaries, 1869-1925, and correspondence, 1895-1913, of Charles Davies; sermons preached at Tabernacle Welsh Baptist church, Cardiff by the Reverend David Jones, c. 1842-1850, and by Charles Davies, [1901x1927]; and registers, etc. relating to the Tabernacle Welsh Baptist church, Cardiff, 1904-1905.

Papers of Charles Davies, including scrapbooks, 1880s, personal and family papers, 1880s-1950s, academic notes, [c.1918]-1953], correspondence, 1918-1953, personal journals, [?1920s]-1940s, literary papers, [c.1920]-1953, printed material, [1920s]-[1940s], testimonials, 1920-1947, financial papers, 1924-1953, and papers of Dr Constance Bullock-Davies, including school and college notes, [1910s]-[1920s], manuscript drafts of short stories, poems and essays, [1920s]-[1930s], testimonials, 1921-1936, correspondence, 1925-1967, and household accounts, 1931-1934.

Charles Heath's Excursions in Herefordshire and Monmouthshire. Vol. I. With autograph letters of Charles Heath. English. Purchased from Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Caerleon, February 1943.

Charles Heath's Excursions in Herefordshire and Monmouthshire. Vol. II. With MS notes and illustrations. English. Purchased from Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Caerleon, February 1943.

The ledger, journal and waste book for part of the year 1794 of Charles Ireland, Cardiff, trader in wines, tobacco, pepper, cloths, etc., together with his household expenses and also notes on materia medica, etc.

A small collection of papers relating to Charles James Hanmer comprising a copy, c. 1876, of his Pamphlet descriptive of a work now preparing for the press criticising the works of the pretended Lord Hanmer; a printed letter, 1876, from C. J. Hanmer to the Right Hon. Viscount Hanmer, relating to his family claims, with copies of other letters, 1874 and 1883; the election address, 1868, of C. J. Hanmer, a candidate in the Flintshire Boroughs Constituency, endorsed with a pedigree of the Hanmer family of Brogyntyn (Porkington); together with painted coats of arms of members of the Hanmer family.

Charles Norris (1779 - 1858) - notes, cuttings, etc relating to the artist by Arthur Leonard Leach, together with a letter of Norris. (Formerly G. V. Roberts MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Patrick Roberts, Pencader, June 1965.

A 19th century manuscript containing a catalogue, compiled by Charles Scott Luxmoore (1794?-1854), of the library at the Bishop's Palace, St Asaph, together with a list of boys at Eton College, 3 April 1762.

Deeds and other records, 1538-1826, relating to properties mainly in Merionethshire, particularly lands formerly belonging to the dissolved monastery of Cymer [p. Llanelltyd] near Dolgellau, and the rectory of Llanegryn, Merionethshire.

A copy of Charles W. MacQuarrie's study 'Insular Celtic Tattooing: History, Myth and Metaphor', submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998.

Papers, [18 cent.]-1936, of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, which include pedigrees, [18 cent.], of the Lloyd family of Blaen-y-ddol and Llwyn-y-maen, Oswestry and papers, 1719, relating to the erection of monuments to members of the Wynn family in Ruabon church; correspondence, 1797-1840 and n.d., of the Wynn family, including sixteen letter-books, 1807-1831, kept by Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn; transcripts of correspondence, 1803, between the Chancellor of the Exchequer Henry Addington and George, Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV) and between George and his father, George III; and a typescript copy, 1936, of a memoir of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn compiled by his grandson, Arthur Watkin Williams Wynn.