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Photocopies of notes by John Sam Efans recalling his experiences during the Second World War with the Royal Army Service Corps.

Atgofion Nansi Owen yn Gymraeg am ei chartref Wernolau', y Groeslon, sir Gaernarfon; ynghyd â chân yn dwyn y teitlCladdu'r Mochyn Du' / Reminiscences in Welsh by Nansi Owen relating to her home Wernolau', y Groeslon, co. Caernarfon, together with the words of a song entitledCladdu'r Mochyn Du'.

Atgofion Robert Jones, Cae du ('Yr Hen Gae') (bu f. 1915) a anfonwyd at Mr J. Lloyd Humphreys gan sawl person. Rhwng byrddau. Prynwyd oddi wrth Mr G. W. Humphreys, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Ebrill 1964.

Atgofion y Parchedig J. Robert Evans, Birmingham: anerchiad a draddodwyd yn Hockley Hall. Rhwng byrddau. Prynwyd oddi wrth H. Jones Davies, Llangollen, Rhagfyr 1961 & Mawrth 1962.

The memoirs of William Andreas Jones (1907-91), Llanrug, co. Caernarfon, written in Welsh, 1980s, and including an account of his early years in London, his involvement with the Bootle branch of the League of Nations Union, and his work as a member of staff of the Ministry of Agriculture in counties Caernarfon, Glamorgan and Monmouth.

A volume of reminiscences, with contributions from the members of Form II who entered Llandysul Grammar School in 1948, collated and edited by David Ioan Gwilym Jones, a former pupil of the class.

A holograph essay entitled 'Traethawd Beirniadol ar Athroniaeth William James' by 'Diwyd o Geredigion' [the Reverend William Benjamin, Garth, Llangollen]. The essay was awarded the prize at the National Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth, 1916.

A diary for the year 1808 kept by a North Cardiganshire attorney.

Account book, 1875-1883, of James Jones, Goitre issa, parish of Pen-boyr, co. Carmarthen, auctioneer and farmer, and, from 1878, of his widow Elizabeth Jones. Comprises accounts relating to various sales and to tithe rentcharges paid in the parishes of Cilrhedyn and Pen-boyr.

Deeds collect by J. Augusta Berry, mainly relating to properties in Glamorgan, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, 1753-1865.

A manuscript containing an essay on the history of Ruthin by Augustus (pseudonym).

Photocopies of three letters, 1942-4, from Augustus John (1878-1961) to Robert Sielle (1895-1983), exhibition agent and frame maker, and five letters, 1942-4, from him to Augustus John, relating to his portrait of Vivien Leigh which was subsequently borrowed by the National Portrait Gallery in 1972

Ms Booth allowed the Library to make copies from microfiches held at the Tate Gallery of papers of Augustus John, originally part of his personal archive (TAM 21G/43-44/67). They comprise apparently unpublished notes of songs in Romani collected by the artist, c 1910, together with related vocabularies in his hand and further notes by the diplomat and scholar Bernard Gilliat-Smith, incomplete proofs of an article by Eric Otto Winstedt published in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 3 (1910), 242-53, and a fragment of a typescript article, [?1940s], by Augustus John on the persecution of Gypsies.

Papers, 1954-1975, of the Rev. R. M. Verity, Vicar of St Mary the Virgin in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, relating mainly to the funeral of Augustus John in November 1961 and the unveiling of the memorial to him in Fordingbridge in 1967.
The papers include letters to Verity from the John family, comprising eight letters and a postcard from Dorelia John, 1955-1969, four letters from Admiral Sir Caspar John, 1961-1967, one letter from Romilly John, 1969, and three Christmas cards and a telegram from Augustus and Dorelia, 1956-1958. Also included are Augustus John's burial certificate, Verity's notes for the memorial service [?and funeral] and printed material including catalogues, 1954, 1975, newspaper cuttings, 1954-1970, invitations, printed orders of service and a copy of the volume The Drawings of Augustus John, introd. by Stephen Longstreet (Alhambra, Calif., 1967).

Typescript drafts and proofs of Augustus John's first volume of memoirs, Chiaroscuro: Fragments of Autobiography (London: Jonathan Cape, 1952), [1950]-1951; working manuscripts, typescripts and editorial correspondence relating to the follow-up volume, published posthumously under the title Finishing Touches (London: Jonathan Cape, 1964), [1950x1952]-[early 1960s]; and other miscellaneous autobiographical fragments, [c. 1950], [?1959].

Seven letters, 1955-1956, from Augustus John to Mrs Edith Saunders of the Hotel Santa Clara, Torremolinos, Spain, where the artist stayed from December 1954 to March 1955 (ff. 1-7 verso), together with one letter, 1955, from Dorelia McNeill to the same (f. 8); the letters contain mainly personal news and references to John painting a portrait of Mrs Saunders.

Ten letters, February 1960-April 1961, from the painter Augustus John, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, to the art collector [Emerich (Emo)] Telt[s]ch, mostly concerning John's work (ff. 1-3, 5-10, 13); together with one letter from Dorelia John to Teltsch, 19 August 1960 (f. 4), and one from the painter Jo[sette] Jones to Teltsch, [February 1961] (ff. 11-12).
The letters contain references to work on John's triptych 'Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer with Sainte Sara, l'Egyptienne' (ff. 3, 5-9, 13); Teltsch offered him up to £8000 for the work (see NLW MS 22786D, f. 68, and Michael Holroyd, Augustus John: The New Biography (London, 1996), p. 597). There are two letters, from John (f. 10) and Josette Jones (ff. 11-12), concerning John's apology for an ill-advised letter (not present) to Teltsch, criticizing drawings by Teltsch's God-child (unidentified).