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A bound typescript copy of Philip Roberts's work 'The Roberts Family of Ruthin. The Scrapbook of a Denbighshire Family'.

Family trees and genealogical notes and extracts relating to the Richards family of Cardiff and the Edwards family of Llandaff House (ff. 1-14 verso); historical notes relating to Wales and the Marches (ff. 15-26 verso); a licence, dated 1 December 1823 and signed by George IV and [Sir] Charles George Young, granting Thomas William Richards the right to adopt the surname of Edwards and to bear the arms of that family (f. 27); notes relating to the murder of William Powell of Glanareth, Carmarthenshire in 1770 (ff. 28-30); letters to Thomas William Edwards from Francis E. Stacey, 1848, ?vicar of Cardiff, and from Thomas [?John] Powell, rector of Llanhamlach, 1857, both relating to genealogical matters (ff. 31-34); and an extract from the pedigree of George Rice Rice-Trevor, 4th baron Dynevor (f. 35).

Research work undertaken by Hugh Jones on the casulaties listed on the memorial tablet at St George's Church, Reynoldston, Gower, who died during the First World War. Included are short biographies of the fallen soldiers.

The Reverend D. O. Jones and the Manchester circuit, &c., by Thomas Thomas and others. English, Welsh. In an envelope. Purchased from Mrs T. Thomas, Aberystwyth, June 1940.

An incomplete copy, with manuscript notes, of John Napier : A Plaine Discouery of the whole Revelation of Saint John ... (Edinburgh, 1593).

A photocopy of an MA thesis presented at Liverpool University, 1964.

The Registrar's Diary and Handbook for 1875, with daily entries by Morgan Lake, Llandybïe. English. Donated by the Reverend Gomer M. Roberts, M.A., Llandybïe, October 1978.

Two folders containing papers, 1983-2003, relating to The Red Hen Press, including ephemera and letters from Shirley Jones to the donor.

Records, 1860-1990, of the Governing Body of the Church in Wales, relating to the administrative and decision making processes of the Body.

Records, 1916-1973, of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales, relating to the administrative and decision-making processes of the Bench.

The Rebecca Riots i.e. Rebecca and her daughters (without introduction) by H. Tobit Evans. See also NLW MSS 20941D, 20942-20943E. English. Boards. Purchased from Mrs G. Hale, Penbryn, Llandysul, October 1968.

Minute-book of the Radnorshire Society, a small group of Radnorshire gentlemen living in London, from its inception in 1789 to its demise in 1812, reflecting the Society's main preoccupation, that of fostering agricultural improvements in Radnorshire by offering premiums, especially for the cultivation of turnips (see R. C. B. Oliver, The London Radnorshire Society, 1789-1812, and its Chief Officers, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 59 (1989), 79-89). The Society should not be confused with the Radnorshire Agricultural Society which was not established until 1809 (see W. H. House, Radnorshire Agricultural Societies, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 15 (1945), 28-32). The minute-book also contains the rules of the Society (ff. 2v-3v) and included is a resolution, 1791 (ff. 16, 17) to subscribe to a Welsh-English dictionary, probably that of John Walters published in London in 1794.

Drafts of letters, 1790-1797, from George, the first Marquess Townshend, to Lord Herbert (afterwards eleventh earl of Pembroke) mainly relating to the Queen's Dragoon Guards.

Genealogical notes and tables, partly in the hand of Margaret Davies of Coedcaedu, including an attested copy of a pedigree showing that Thomas Bonsall, Glanrheidol, Cardiganshire, a claimant for one of the exhibitions, was a kinsman of the founder of the Meyrick exhibition at Jesus College, Oxford, and showing the connection of the Bonsall and Meyrick families with that of Edmund Prys, archdeacon of Merioneth.

A copy of Jane L. McCormick's MA thesis 'The Prose of Vernon Watkins' (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 1969)

A manuscript presented by His Majesty the late King George VI as a memento of the Royal Visit of 15 July 1937. It is entitled 'The Princes of Wales of the Blood Royal of England With Their Armorial Ensigns deduced from MCCLXXXIV to His Royal Highness George-Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland MDCCCXI'. The volume is the work of Sir George Nayler, York Herald and Genealogist of the Bath, who subsequently became Clarenceux king-of-arms and Garter king-of-arms. It is very finely executed on vellum, and consists of brief biographical sketches of sixteen Princes of Wales, beginning with Edward of Caernarvon (afterwards Edward II) and ending with George-Augustus Frederick (afterwards George IV). On the leaf following each sketch is the coat of arms, emblazoned in tinctures, of the Prince of Wales to whom the preceding text relates. On the leaves immediately following the coat of arms of Edward, the Black Prince, are illuminated drawings of his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral and of the Prince of Wales's crest, - three ostrich feathers with the motto 'Ich Dien'. Edward, the son of Henry VIII, who afterwards became Edward VI, has been omitted from the series, and a sheet of paper of later date than the manuscript, on which biographical data relating to him have been written, is loose in the volume. It is decorated on the upper cover with a shield inlaid in black on which are superimposed the Prince of Wales's feathers inlaid on white and outlined and feathered in gold, and which is surrounded by a design, in blind and gold, copied from that on the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral. The same design, without the shield and feathers, is repeated on the lower cover. On the spine, in gold, are one-line panels and the following lettering - 'The Princes of Wales. Nayler . . . 1811', while the inside borders are also of one-line gilt panels. His Majesty the King has autographed the volume on the first fly-leaf - 'George R. I. July 15th. 1937'.

An early 19th century manuscript entitled The Priestess of Diana or Heroick Friendship An historical tragedy compiled principally from Euripides.

'History and Pedigree of the Prendergast family from their first settlement in Ireland collected and presented to Lord Baron Kiltarton ... 1811'.