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A volume containing two dance tunes ('Tom Jones' and 'The Alcove') in a late eighteenth century hand. Written on the fly-leaf, in a late seventeenth century hand, is a stanza ('O greatness couldst thou not thy self contayne ...').

Tune book of David Thomas, Bremenda, Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, containing anthems, hymn-tunes, and carols by David Thomas and others.

A volume of psalm- and hymn-tunes by 'Zabulonun' [i.e. Thomas Edwards, 'Caerfallwch'], John Francis, Pwllheli and others.

A volume entitled 'The Nightingale Anthems, Choruses and Tune Book', containing compositions by G. F. Handel (including one sung to words by Hugh Jones ('Erfyl')); W. A. Mozart; J. Ambrose Lloyd; John Ellis, Llanrwst (arrangements by William Owen, Prysgol, and 'O[wain] Alaw'); Giacomo Carissimi; Owen Davies ('Eos Llechryd'); John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), including compositions to words by John Jones, ('Talhaiarn'), Edward Roberts ('Iorwerth Glan Aled'), John Jones ('Ioan Tegid'), and Hugh Jones ('Erfyl'), and a winning composition at the Tremadoc Eisteddfod, 1851; E[dward] Stephen ('Tanymarian'); Franz Joseph Haydn; John Mills ('Ieuan Glan Alarch'); John Roberts ('Ieuan Gwyllt'); Brinley Richards (to words by 'Talhaiarn'); and others. On the fly-leaf is a printed leaflet of hymns, etc. to be sung at the re-opening of Clynnog Church, 2 June, 1856, and a manuscript round for three voices by Dr. Philip Hayes. The volume is indexed.

A volume of vocal and instrumental music composed by, and partly in the hand of, Norman Grosvenor, Moor Park, etc. The compositions belong to the period 1871-1875 and include a composition inspired by William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience', rondos, quartets, minuets, a rondo to words by A. C. Swinburne, 'Daffodils' to words by William Wordsworth, nocturnes, a dirge to words by P. B. Shelley, carols, works influenced by Chopin, part songs, a composition to words by Alfred Lord Tennyson, etc.

Cyclostyled copies of hymn-tunes and other sacred music by Thomas John Hoskins ('The Blacksmith Organ Builder'), Pentre, Glamorgan.

Two holograph songs ('Mwy o flodau', 1930, and 'Gyda'r bore bach', 1934), by Mansel Thomas.

Hymn- and psalm-tunes, anthems, responses, etc., collected, and some of them composed by, Richard Ellis, parish clerk, Dolgelley, editor of Casgliad o Salmau, Hymnau, ac Anthemau Dewisedig... (Dolgelleu, 1810).

A photostat facsimile of the old Welsh music transcribed by Robert ap Huw of Bodwigan, Anglesey, from the original by William Penllyn and contained in British Museum Add. MS. 14905.

Two notebooks relating to choirs in Llandybïe, Carmarthenshire, conducted by D. J. Griffiths, father of the donor, including lists of members of the tonic sol-fa class, 1902, and the children's choir, 1903; reports on the performances of the various choirs, 1903-1917; minutes of meetings and accounts of the United Choir, 1906-1907; together with programmes of local eisteddfodau, 1917, in which the choir took part.

Three scores by Hubert Davies: 'Alone', words by Walter de la Mare, 'Bird song', 1934, for piano and violin and 'Rest', translated from the Welsh of W. J. Gruffydd, 1930.

A musical score, 'Castell Dolbadarn' by John Metcalf, a work inspired by Turner's painting. Presented as part of the celebrations of opening Drwm, the new cultural centre at the National Library of Wales, June 2004.

A photocopy of an autobiographical account by Howell William Richards (1865-1963) relating to his life as a farmer in Breconshire, written, 1943-1947.

My Welsh Folk by A. M. Gwladys Cox (typescript). English. Boards. Donated by Mrs Gwladys Cox, Hampstead, May 1955.

Heraldic pedigree roll, [c. 1628], of the Myddelton family of Plas Cadwgan, parish of Esclusham Below, Denbighshire (see W. D. Pink, Notes on the Middleton Family, of Denbighshire & London ([s.l.], 1891), pp. 10-11, and A. N. Palmer, History of the Thirteen Country Townships of the Old Parish of Wrexham (Wrexham, 1903), pp. 12-14).
The pedigree represents the descent of the family from Cunedda Wledig and Bleddyn ap Cynfyn to the children of Captain Roger Myddelton (d. 1642), three of whose sons are described as 'now livinge 1628', and contains some sixty painted coats of arms. It was probably compiled by Jacob Chaloner; further entries, including one dated 1654, were added, mid-seventeenth century, in a current hand to complete damaged portions of text. A shield or achievement at the bottom of the roll is now missing, with only the top part of the crest remaining.

Mydroilyn Reading Room minutes and accounts. See also NLW MS 21109B. English. Boards. Donated by Mr J. J. Davies, Mydroilyn, October 1973.

Mydroilyn Reading Room minutes and accounts. See also NLW MS 21110B. English. Boards. Donated by Mr J. J. Davies, Mydroilyn, October 1973.

Papers of Myfanwy Bridges, including pocket diaries, 1923-1982; journals, 1934-1945; holiday journals, 1965-1985; unpublished prose and verse writings, [1960s]-1983; notes and drafts, 1951-1983; and personal and family papers, [1920s]-1987.