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A volume of thirteen sermons in Welsh, 1831-1833, by the Reverend Timothy Thomas (1811-1887), Baptist minister at Rhuddlan, co. Flint, 1830-1836, together with addresses on baptism and Sunday School. For details of Timothy Thomas's pastorate at Rhuddlan, see Llawlyfr Bedyddwyr Cymru am 1888 (Cwmafon, 1888), pp. 128-9, and T. Frimston, 'Hanes Eglwys Fedyddiedig Rhuddlan', Seren Gomer, sixth series, 8 (1886), pp. 30-41.

Notes of sermons largely by, and in the hand of, John Jones (1807-75), Calvinistic Methodist minister of Blaenannerch, Cardiganshire. MS. 11336 contains a certificate of declarations and subscriptions to oaths made by John Jones (described as of Bryn Hyfrid, parish of Tremain), 16 July, 1863.

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

Sermon notes by J. Gwynoro Davies.

Sermons largely by R[ichard] A[bbott] Jones, Baptist minister successively at Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, and Swansea. The majority of the sermons are dated within the period 1851-1875.

Sermon notes by Titus Lewis and Hugh William Jones ('Yr Utgorn Arian'), Baptist ministers at Carmarthen.

Seven home-made booklets containing sermon notes in the hand of David Rees [Calvinistic Methodist preacher, of Bronnant, co. Cardigan]. Each note-book contains the notes of one sermon; four are dated 1861, 1871, 1873, and 1887, respectively.

A volume containing nine autograph sermons by the Reverend Hugh Davies ('Hywel Ddu o Arfon', d. 1909), curate of Glasinfryn, co. Caernarfon, 1876-83, afterwards serving with the South American Missionary Society at Chubut, Patagonia, with details of the date and place of delivery, 1871-9 and 1906-8, together with an index of texts (f. i verso).

Notebooks containing sermons in Welsh, ca. 1866-1869. There is a draft letter from William Owen (see 561, below) to officers of Llanddona chapel on p. 144 of MS 23144.

Six notebooks containing notes of sermons. Five are in the hand of Timothy Evans (d. 1837), vicar of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, and contain sermons which were preached during the period 1797-1812 at Llanb[adarn Trefeglwys] and Kilk[ennin], Llandewi [Aberarth], Llandinol, Llansantffraed, and Kiliau [Aeron]. The sixth notebook contains a sermon in another hand which was preached at Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin on 8 July, 1787, and which bears the inscription 'By V. Davies'.

A volume of sermons preached during the period 1723-1731 by R. E.? at places in Anglesey and possibly in Caernarvonshire, e.g. Penrh[os], Penm[o]n and Llanfaes. Some of the sermons were preached also during the period 1793-1803.

A volume of sermons lettered 'Pregethau Cymraeg 8'. The sermons were preached at Caerleon, 1765-1773, Malpas, 1761-1771, Llanhennock, 1761-1772, St Woollos, 1761-1773, and Tredynnock, 1772. All except two are in the same hand, probably that of Thomas Evans. The last two sermons are in different hands, one dated 1727, and the other, undated, in a slightly earlier hand.

A manuscript containing notes of sermons preached in Glamorgan.

A manuscript containing sermons preached at Llandrillo, Llanddeiniolen, Llansantffraid, Llanllechid, Clynnog, etc., 1813-1833, possibly by J. Hughes, together with a few hymns, one of them by Evan Jones.

A volume of early nineteenth-century sermons in Welsh by the Reverend James Davies (1767?-1860, DWB), Baptist minister of Ffynnonhenri and Horeb, Rhydargaeau, co. Carmarthen.

A file of press cuttings kept by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including reports of 'eisteddfodau' held at Llanrwst, 1876-1904.

A volume containing press cuttings, 1887-1898, relating mainly to the Tithe War in Wales, including an index at the front of the volume.

Printed material, leaflets, newsletters and circular correspondence relating to trade unions, pressure groups and left-wing organizations, c 1970s-80s, including the Communist Party Welsh Congress, 1972; the Welsh Committee Against Racialism, 1977; Defence of Trade Unions Committee, 1977; the Wales for the Assembly Campaign, 1977-9; Llafur: the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, 1978-9; Gwynedd CND, 1981; the National Left, 1982; and the National Union of Mineworkers, 1984-5; together with a pamphlet by the British and Irish Communist Organization entitled Is Wales a Nation?, 1972; three issues of Mirror on Rural Scotland, 1982-3; an issue of The Communist, undated; and a pamphlet by Plaid Gwerin Cymru entitled Capitalist Socialism, Capitalist Nationalism and Socialist Nationalism, undated.

Atgofion teipysgrif David Morris Lewis yn dwyn y teitl 'From Prison to Prison', yn ymwneud â'i yrfa yng ngharchardai Wakefield, Wandsworth, Amwythig, Abertawe, Dartmoor, Caerloyw, Canolfan Gadw Brynbuga ac Albany, Ynys Wyth, 1937-1971. / Typescript recollections of David Morris Lewis entitled 'From Prison to Prison', relating to his career in the prison service at Wakefield, Wandsworth, Shrewsbury, Swansea, Dartmoor, Gloucester, Usk Detention Centre and Albany, Isle of Wight, 1937-1971.

Papers of Professor J. N. Hutchinson, 1940-1996, comprising reports on the Aberfan tragedy including Geotechnical investigation into the causes and circumstances of the disater of 21st October, 1966 , by the donor and others, together with a very rare copy of Rubbish Tip slide, Cilfynydd Common 5 December 1939 (1940), and an offprint of an article by him and others entitled 'Rapid failures of colliery spoil heaps in the South Wales coalfield', Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 1996.