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Three letters and a card, 1941-1958, from Augustus John to his son-in-law, Villiers Bergne, together with five letters and cards, 1968-1969, to Bergne from Michael Holroyd concerning the latter's biography of Augustus John.

Seventeen letters and one note, 1926-1952, from Augustus John, ten of them to Sean O'Casey (ff. 2-13) and the remainder to the journalist George Bilainkin. Those to Sean O'Casey contain mainly personal news, but refer also to O'Casey's work and to John's designs for the set of 'The Silver Tassie', staged in 1929 (ff. 4 verso, 6, 7). Extracts from them were published in Eileen O'Casey, Sean (London, 1971). The letters to Bilainkin (ff. 14-20) refer mainly to the latter's articles on John.

Papers, [1880s]-1980, of or relating to the artist Augustus John comprising letters from Augustus John to miscellaneous recipients, including over eight hundred and forty letters to his second wife Dorelia McNeill; letters to Augustus John from family, friends and miscellaneous individuals; letters from Ida John (née Nettleship), first wife of Augustus John, mainly to relatives and friends; letters to Dorelia McNeill from miscellaneous correspondents; and other correspondence of the John and Nettleship families; sketchbooks, 1908-[mid 1920s], of Augustus John; drafts of autobiographical writings by Augustus John which would later be published as Chiaroscuro (London, 1952) and the posthumous Finishing Touches (London, 1964); miscellaneous family papers of the John and Nettleship families; catalogues of Augustus John's papers; and a volume of poems, [c. 1909], of Arthur Symons, composed during his period of madness and transcribed by his amanuensis Agnes Tobin.

Correspondence, 1952-1953, of A. W. F. Burton, New South Wales, mostly with Major R. Money Barnes, Wiltshire, author of Uniforms and History of the Scottish Regiments: Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, 1625 to the Present Day (London, 1956). The correspondence relates to research conducted by Burton for that book, on Barnes's behalf, with regard to Australian Scottish Regiments (see Appendix III, pp. 332-335).
Also included are apparently unrelated items, 1910, concerning aviation in Britain (ff. 18-22).

Author's correspondencerelating to Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by Richard Edward Dennett. English. Between boards. Donated by Ethel Hartland, Gloucester, 1953-1954.

Author's MS of The Way Lies West by Ll. Wyn Griffith. Volume I. English. Cloth. Donated by Ll. Wyn Griffith, Berkhamsted, April 1959.

Author's MS of The Way Lies West by Ll. Wyn Griffith. Volume II. English. Cloth. Donated by Ll. Wyn Griffith, Berkhamsted, April 1959.

Author's MS of The Way Lies West by Ll. Wyn Griffith. Volume III. English. Cloth. Donated by Ll. Wyn Griffith, Berkhamsted, April 1959.

A typed transcript, 1948, of the memoirs and journal of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, recounting his life in London, France and especially Italy during the second half of the eighteenth century. It was copied from another typescript (then owned by C. L. Evan-Thomas) of the original manuscript (now NLW MS 23812D).
The volume broadly covers the period from the 1760s to December 1783, with a final entry by Jones at Pencerrig, November 1798 (ff. 303-304). The main text is typed on the rectos only, with Jones' original notes reproduced on the facing versos. Facsimile copies of a sketch of Mt Vesuvius and a plan of Jones’ lodgings in Naples in 1780, apparently redrafted by the creator of the initial typescript, have been inserted after ff. 168 and 201.

Autobiography and poetry of Mary Owen (née Thomas). English, Welsh. Between boards. Donated by Mr Thomas E. Owen, Aberystwyth, July 1947 & April 1960.

Autobiography and reminiscences of the Reverend Evan Jones Roberts. English. Between boards. Donated by the Reverend Evan Jones Roberts, Australia, April 1973.

A photocopy of the autobiography, in Welsh, of Trevor Axworthy's great grandfather, John Coslett Thomas (1863-1936), who was born in Tredegar, emigrated with his family to Chubut, Patagonia, in 1875, and to Bangor, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1905, and settled, about 1920, in Los Angeles; together with a pedigree of the Canadian branch of the family, from the eighteenth century to the present day.

A collection of seven holograph chapters by Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), written 1941-1942, and published, with a further six chapters, as 'Autobiography' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1943). One chapter, 'Before the Snow' is dated 'March 1942' and described as an 'original first draft' (f. 93). The chapters are accompanied by two letters, September 1956, from Whistler to Alan and Dorothy Hancox.
The chapters include Winter Journal (ff. 6-55), Before the Snow (ff. 56-93), The Field (ff. 94-101), Looking at a Star (ff. 102-107), The Autobiography of an Afternoon (ff. 108-131), Morning (ff. 132-140), and Conclusion, Under the Oak Tree (ff. 141-160).

Final draft of the autobiography of Edmund Stonelake (1873-1960), Aberdâr, secretary of the Aberdare Trades and Labour Council, 1902-29, secretary of the Divisional Labour Party until his retirement in 1945, and a close political associate of J. Keir Hardie. Completed in 1951, it was later published by Mid-Glamorgan County Council (see Mor-O'Brien (ed.): The Autobiography of Edmund Stonelake (Bridgend, 1981)).

An autograph album, 1879-1918, thought to belong to 'Ap Ieuan', possibly Samuel Evans, a member of Tabernacl Welsh Congregational church, Shrewsbury, containing entries in Welsh, English, Chinese and other eastern and African languages, mainly by Congregationalist ministers and missionaries, including Ben Davies, Pant-teg, T. Eynon Davies, David Picton Jones, J. R. Kilsby Jones and H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed'); together with pasted-in photographs. Papers found loose inside have been tipped in at the end of the volume (ff. 27-32).

An autograph album belonging to the Parry family of Glan Paith, Cardiganshire, containing sketches and quotations. The autographs include those of Rowland Hill, aged 86, 2 November 1830, W[illiam] Howels, Long Acre, 1831, Hannah More, 1831, Robert Philip, London, 1831, John Elias, 1831, Henry Rogers, 1831, Alf. Bishop, Bristol, 1832, J[ohn] Leifchild, 1832, Joshua Russell and John Poole, 1837. The sketches include a pencil drawing of Tintern Abbey by M. H. Evans.