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The Winning of the Kingdom of Glamorgan from the Welsh, 1088, being the traditional account of Robert Fitzhamon and the twelve Norman knights who are said to have accompanied him, with an account of St. Donats Castle and the Stradling family, illustrated by numerous water-colour drawings and sketches.

A bound volume containing the original typescript of an apparently unpublished play, The Winding Stair, by Gwen Pierce of Caerwys, and Professor Eliza Marian Butler of Cambridge, based on the latter's biography of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and performed by the Caerwys Amateur Dramatic Society at Caerwys and Chester, 1944 (see E. M. Butler, Paper Boats (London, 1959)). A contemporary cast-list, with notes on the back by Gwen Pierce for another play, and biographical notes on the actors, c. 1990, by Tom Lloyd-Roberts, have been tipped in at the beginnning of the volume.

A copy of a report prepared by William Stepp and Estelle Cremers, 2004, on the house which is situated in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and placed by the Pennsylvania Historical & Musueum Commission on The National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It was built for Welsh Quaker immigrants in 1720.

The original manuscript of an operetta for ladies' voices entitled 'The Wild Rose', composed by W. Rhys-Herbert, 1915, with words by Edith M. Burrows.

A copy of an early poem by Waldo Williams (1904-1971), c. 1914, entitled 'The wild rose', transcribed from memory by Idwal Lloyd.

Draft of a short adventure novel in three chapters entitled 'The White Violet', written c. 1885 by Alan James Gulston (1813-1886) of Derwydd and Dirleton, co. Carmarthen, brother of Josepha Heath Gulston ('Talbot Gwyn', 1811-1859) the novelist. The novel is set in South Africa during the Cape Frontier (or Kaffir) Wars of 1779-1879, and the draft contains numerous corrections to the text. A reference on the first folio to the author's novel Warren Knowles, published in London in 1885, suggests an approximate date for this composition.

A dissertation by Elsie M. Price, entitled 'The Welsh Woollen Industry', submitted in 1969 as part of a course at C F Mott Teacher's Training College (Liverpool) during the 1960s. The work is typed and bound, and includes photographs together with samples of wool and weave for blankets and clothing.

A notebook written by John Jones, Cefnfaes, Rhayader, containing copies of documents relating to various charities - extracts from the will of John Davies, Clerkenwell, 1662, the Rhayader and Disserth Inclosure Award, 1829, the Disserth Inclosure Award, 1815, and the wills of the Reverend Charles Price, 1719, the Reverend Henry Williams, 1813, and David Morgan of Coedglasson, Nantmel, 1720, all relating to charity schools and lectures at Rhayader; a direction by the Charity Commission in the matter of the collegiate school at Llandovery called Thomas Phillips's Foundation, 1860; a scheme for the Foundation drawn up by the Reverend Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc'), with observations by John Jones, Cefnfaes, and Dr Alfred Ollivant, 1847; and a short biographical sketch of Thomas Phillips.

Minute book, 1849-1857, of the trustees of the Welsh Institution, Llandovery.

An exhibition catalogue, 2011, compiled from research undertaken by the donor to celebrate over three hundred years of contributions by the Welsh in Pennsylvania and their lasting legacy.

Three numbers of the magazine Seren y Dwyrain (Eastern Star, March-May 1944) edited by T. Elwyn Griffiths, and published in Cairo, and a newspaper cutting from the Daily Post, 2003, about him. The papers also include a copy of Parade (Christmas number, 1943), printed programmes of concerts and recitals held at All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo, 1943-1944, together with duplicate and printed copies of music [performed by the Services' Choral Society].

Documents relating to the Welsh Hospital established in South Africa during the South African War, comprising lists of subscriptions, A Short Account of the Origin and Work of the Welsh Hospital ... to October, 1900, and a statement of accounts, 1900-1906.

The Welsh Group of the Forum Club 1926-1949 (typescript). English. In boards. Donated by Miss Alice Williams, C.B.E., October 1950.

A copy of Gwyneth Morris's MA thesis 'The Welsh Girls' Grammar School 1945-1965 with special reference to case studies of Brecon and Carmarthen' (Oxford Polytechnic, September, 1992)

Typescript, [1900x1903], of 'The Welsh Coast', an account by the Rev. John Morgan, rector of Llanilid and Llanharan, Glamorgan, of his childhood in Newport, Pembrokeshire, in the eighteen-thirties and -forties.
The volume contains reminiscences of incidents involving his friends, a sea voyage from Newport to Milford Haven (ff. 39-47), a shipwreck (ff. 107-111) and various stories and incidents relating to ghosts. There are also fictionalised depictions of the early history of the locality (ff. 81-98). There are a few manuscript annotations and corrections by the author in the text and on f. 111 verso. A covering letter, 1942, from the donor is included (f. i).