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A photocopy of 'What's in a name?', autobiography of boxer Beaumont Valentine Griffiths, known as Beau, born in 1931 in Gilfach Goch in the Rhondda Valley.

Papers, 1891-1938, relating to the work and administration of the Western Sea Fisheries and the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries, comprising files of correspondence relating to individual fisheries, 1896-1914; reports of Fishery Officers, annual reports and printed material, 1892-1938; correspondence relating to Committee personnel, 1892-1923; bye-laws and certificates, 1892-1899; Committee papers, 1891-1913; financial papers, 1893-1923; papers of James Travis Jenkins on Fishery Schools, the Sardine Case of 1912, and a bibliography of whaling [20th century].

Records accumulated by Dr John Herbert, 1968-1984, comprising Welsh Secondary Schools Association records, minutes and papers, 1968-1984; and Headmasters' Association and Secondary Heads Association minutes, correspondence, discussion papers and related material, 1969-1984.

Press-cuttings relating to Welsh Hospital Board, 1951-1974.

A volume containing offprints and articles relating to Welsh Gypsy folk-tales, mainly from the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, collected and edited by John Sampson.

A copy of a lecture given at the National Library of Wales, 31 January 2008, by Richard Livsey, Lord Livsey of Talgarth.

A collection of seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century manuscripts containing sermons and correspondence of Welsh clergymen, who include Lewis Evans of Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn and Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, David Price of Merthyr Cynog and Robert Pughe of Dolgellau.

Records of the Welsh Association of Community and Town Councils, 1976-1999, comprising correspondence, 1976-1999, minutes of national and local committees, 1976-1992, administrative and financial records, 1963-1986, papers relating to annual conferences, 1977-1993, material relating to 'Bro', 1981-1986, and papers and publications relating to issues concerning local government, 1948-1995.

Thesis: 'Welsh Agriculture 1815-1914' (University of London Ph.D.) by David Wesley Howell (typescript).

Papers, 1952-1953, of the director Gilbert Gunn relating to the production of the classic Welsh comedy-drama film 'Valley of song' (frequently referred to in these papers as 'Choir practice', the play which it is based on).

A typescript undated copy containing the words for eight songs including 'The wild wild railroad man or the ballad of Richard Hilton, 'Pen Cob races' and 'Blaenau town ride', [1930]-[1960].

Artist's illustration and key, in colour, of the Davies Two Cycle Pivotal Engine Design.

Correspondence and papers, 1970, relating to a symposium of trade unions in Wales, assembled together by the donor Dr H. G. Alun Hughes.

A copy of Barrie Williams's PhD thesis 'The Welsh Clergy 1558-1642' (Open University, 1998)

Records of the Teliesyn film and television production company, comprising administration and production files.

Photocopies of papers assembled by Neil Evans whilst researching the Senghennydd mining disaster, 1913, including transcripts of letters from Will Fisher, one of the rescue team, to his cousin; a diary ('the little black book') of the rescue work which inspired Luther Thomas to write his novel The Deep of the Earth (London,1956); together with book reviews and letters, 1966, from the author; and a photocopy of Rev Emlyn Stephens, History of Ebenezer English Baptist Church Senghenydd 1896-1946.

A small collection of programmes and tickets for Wales rugby matches against England, Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand, 1924-1955.

Typescript draft by Ernest Lewis Thomas ('Richard Vaughan', 1904-1983) of his first novel, Moulded in Earth (London, 1951), with corrections by the author, being the final draft submitted to the publishers, incorporating a number of changes to the earlier manuscript draft (now NLW MS 14799C).

Papers of Rev. Daniel Rowland Thomas, pacifist and scholar, including order of services for his induction as minister at Aberdare, 1939 and Merthyr Tydfil, 1945; radio scripts of services conducted by him which were transmitted by the BBC; a programme for his lecture tour in the United States as a visiting lecturer in Biblical Studies in 1967; his poem written for CND Cymru, 1999; press cuttings of articles by him and a leaflet for a Peace festival held in Ammanford in 1990, when he was one of the guest speakers. = Papurau'r Parch. Dr Daniel Rowland Thomas, heddychwr ac ysgolhaig, gan gynnwys taflenni trefn gwasanaeth ei odeinio'n weinidog yn Aberdâr, 1939 ac yn Merthyr Tudful yn 1945; sgriptau o wasanaethau yn ei ofal a ddarlledwyd gan y BBC; rhaglen ei daith ddarlithio i'r Unol Daleithiau fel darlithydd gwadd ar astudiaethau Beiblaidd yn 1967; cerdd a luniodd i CND Cymru, 1999; torion o'r wasg yn cynnwys erthyglau ganddo a thaflen Gŵyl heddwch, Rhydaman, 1990, pan oedd yn un o'r siaradwyr gwadd.

Two reports written by the donor, 1995 and 1996, for the Welsh Library Association, relating to the 'proposed provision of public library services in the new unitary authorities for Wales', together with an appendix to the second report.