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A small manuscript volume, containing copious notes relating to the Calvinistic Methodist cause at Aberthin, 1779-1883. There is also mention of Peter Williams, Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator.

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

Papers relating mainly to Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd bart, of Chirk Castle, co. Denbigh, and his daughter, Mary Myddelton, and to the Lloyd family of Plas Power, co. Denbigh (cf. NLW Annual Report 1970-71, pp. 64-7), including correspondence, 1704-1804, mainly on personal and estate matters, and domestic and estate accounts, bills and vouchers, 1709-1736.

Poems and essays, most of them entered for competition at literary meetings in Llanuwchllyn, [c. 1861]-1874; and other miscellaneous items relating to Llanuwchllyn.

Fourteen letters to the Reverend David Jones, Aberystwyth, from Euros Bowen, 1952 and 1962, W. J. Gruffydd, 1952, and Waldo Williams, 1962, his co-adjudicators in the competition for the crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1952, and the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Llanelli, 1962.

A notebook containing summaries by Robert Williams, Pen-y-bryn, Bethesda, co. Caernarfon, of sermons preached at Brynteg, Bethesda, Calvinistic Methodist church from its opening, 28 August 1864, until 27 August 1865, together with a pulpit supply list, 1865-1867 (inverted text ff. 86-8); two scriptural essays, 'Traethawd ar y Pwysigrwydd o Iawn-dreulio Boreu'r Oes' and 'Bywyd Iesu Grist yn Fywyd o Esiampl' (inverted text ff. 83-5 verso and 80-1 verso); and verses, 'Englynion Cyfarchiadol I'r Ieuengctyd' (inverted text ff. 81 verso-2).

Journal of Gertrude J. Stratton describing a tour of Chester and North Wales, August-September 1865, illustrated with contemporary engravings.

Eleven letters, [c. 1830]-1850, from Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Indian official, and five from his wife, Emma, mostly addressed to his manservant, referring to domestic matters, including preparations for travel to India, and arrangements with Sir Herbert's publishers.

Letter-book of Thomas Bowen of Pen-bre, co. Carmarthen, superintendent of the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal and Railway Co., comprising an inventory of the company's records, 1831 (ff. 1-4), copy and draft letters, 1838-1840 (ff. 5-136 verso), a humorous poem on the failures of an anonymous colliery proprietor (ff. 151-5) and an arithmetical problem in Welsh, English and Latin (ff. 155 verso-6).

A volume [watermark 1813] in the hand of Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron') containing 'Peithadur neu Lythyreg Hebrëig', an Hebrew Grammar in Welsh (ff. 41 verso-50 verso, 54 verso-132 verso, text in reverse, written mainly on the versos); a short Hebrew-Welsh vocabulary (f. 9 recto-verso); and miscellaneous extracts from the scriptures in English, many written in shorthand (ff. 1-14).

An essay by Harry Lewis, Eglwyswrw, on the history of the parish of Eglwyswrw, co. Pembroke, and on local customs, the winning entry in a competition at Eglwyswrw eisteddfod, 1913, together with a revised copy, 1940.

The diary, 1756-1760, of John Thomas, Tre-main, co. Cardigan, a teacher at Griffith Jones's Circulating Schools, recording his spiritual pilgrimage and including an account of his conversion experience in 1757 (ff. 33-5) as well as his soul-searching in response to some four hundred and seventy sermons by Daniel Rowland, William Williams, Howel Davies, Peter Williams, John Popkin, Richard Tibbott, William Richard and other Methodist clergy and exhorters. Also included are autobiographical notes (ff. 21 verso-5) and transcripts of letters from the hymnist Morgan Rhys (ff. 41, 87 verso-8 verso). The diary has been transcribed by John Thickens and published in Y Drysorfa, 101-3 (1931-1933) and Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes Eglwys Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Cymru, 56 (1971) and 57 (1972). Three letters, 1909, to the Reverend Gwilym Lewis, rector of Aber, co. Caernarfon, from 1925, found loose inside the volume, have been tipped in (ff. 103-8).

Two autograph sermons by the Venerable Hugh Jones, archdeacon of St Asaph, first preached at Bagillt and Holywell, June-July 1839.

Minute-book, 1861-1891, of Cyfrinfa Llety'r Cymydog, the Lodge of the Order of the Ivorites at Godre'r-graig, Ystalyfera, co. Glamorgan, including also a list of members in debt, 1859-1862 (inverted text ff. 44-7 verso).

Account book, 1851-1886, of Cyfrinfa Llety'r Cymydog, the Lodge of the Order of the Ivorites at Godre'r-graig, Ystalyfera, co. Glamorgan.

An address, illuminated by William Grant Murray, ARCA, presented, 1924, to John Evan Pughe-Jones, Swansea, district auditor for South Wales, upon his retirement and signed by officials of the local authorities in the South Wales Audit District.

Verses and hymns, 1887-1903, by the Reverend James Tegryn Phillips ('Iago Tegryn'), Hebron, co. Pembroke, together with a few biographical details concerning him.

Treasurer's account book of the Pembrokeshire Welsh Congregational Union, 1879-1939.

Over seventy letters and cards, 1917-1986, of miscellaneous provenance from twentieth-century Welsh writers to various recipients; the correspondents include E. Tegla Davies (1) 1956, W. J. Gruffydd (1) 1952, R. T. Jenkins (1), 1946, David James Jones (Gwenallt) (1) 1953, T. Gwynn Jones (9) 1923-1939, J. Saunders Lewis (5) 1931-1976, Caradog Prichard (4) 1962-1972, Kate Roberts (28) 1937-1983, D. J. Williams (6) 1917-1969, and T. H. Parry-Williams (1) 1953.