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A printed circular, 1930, relating to the Sir John Morris-Jones Memorial Fund, with typescript statements, balance sheets, and lists of subscribers, 1934-6.

A minute book, 1900-1908, of the Dinorwic Calvinistic Methodist District Meeting, Caernarvonshire.

An anthology compiled by Basil Roberts-Jones ('Rhys ap Iorwerth'), Cardiff.

A brief account of the origin of the Christ Church English Baptist Church at Gadlys, Aberdare, written by W. Bugent.

The original manuscript of a hymn-tune ('Peri') written by Afan Thomas and awarded the prize at a Briton Ferry eisteddfod, 25 January 1908; with a press cutting of the adjudication by W. J. Evans, Aberdare.

A copy of A Vision of Saints by Sir Lewis Morris, London, 1890, with two autograph letters, by the author, to [Sir] E. Vincent Evans, December 1890.

Papers, 1970-2001, relating to the Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff, established in 1971, including the proposal for an arts centre in Cardiff, original plans for the 'Chapter workshops & centre for the arts', programmes, press cuttings, advertising material relating to events held such as films and art exhibitions and to celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2001. The artist Christine Kinsey, the donor, was one of three directors who founded Chapter.

Account book, containing lists of subscriptions, balance sheets, press cuttings, and other records of the Solva 'Roads of Remembrance', 1919-56.

Fifteen holograph letters, [1830x1831]-1888, apparently brought together as a collection of autographs. They include nine in French from Eugène Sue, the novelist, to Camille Pleyel, the piano manufacturer, mostly personal correspondence, [1830x1851] (ff. 9-26), and one from Mélanie, wife of Metternich, the Austrian Chancellor, to an unnamed count, concerning her brother, 1854 (ff. 5-6).
There are also letters in English from Charles Bradlaugh, politician, to Emile Hatzfeld, music publisher, regarding political and religious matters, 1882 (ff. 1-2), Robert Browning to a Mrs Stanley, 1882 (f. 3), W. E. Gladstone to J. M. Davidson, 1888 (f. 4), the Marquess of Salisbury to Edouard Silas, composer, [c. 1860] (watermark 1858) (ff. 7-8), and Alfred Tennyson, to Silas, 1863 (ff. 27-28).

Diaries, 1855-1861, of William Tyndal Griffith, a medical student. The period includes his stay at the Bloomsbury Dispensary and the Royal London Opthalmic Hospital.

A survey undertaken by Randall Evans Enoch and members of the Treftadaeth Llandre Heritage Trust, 2006. = Arolwg a wnaed gan Randall Evans Enoch ac aelodau o Treftadaeth Llandre Heritage yn 2006 o arysgrifau ym mynwent newydd Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn.

Sixty-seven letters, 1912-1939, nearly all in German, mostly from Berta von Schiltberg, Munich, to the sisters Lilian and Violet Reeks at Appleton Manor, Berkshire, and Oxford, and later to Violet at Bristol and Monmouth. Schiltberg ran a pension (boarding house) for young ladies in Munich and the correspondence follows the two girls' stay with her.
The letters reflect Schiltberg's active and happy life before 1914 with many references to Munich high society and the music scene. There are numerous references to acquaintances such as the pianist Anna Hirzel-Langenhan (items 3-66 passim) and the composer and conductor Ludwig Berberich (items 8, 38, 43, 45-66 passim). Schiltberg writes on the social and economic misery in Germany during the First World War, the financial crisis of the 1920s and 1930s and her own increasing poverty. The post-war political upheavals and the disappointments and confusion of the time are also described (item 53). A frequent social guest at this time was a Herr Drexler (items 43-53 passim), possibly to be identified as Anton Drexler, founder of the German Workers' Party (DAP). Among Schiltberg's tenants from 1918 to 1923 was Leutnant Rudolf Hess, the future Nazi Party deputy leader, who is mentioned in two letters, dated 16 May 1919 (item 54) and 29 December 1935 (item 63); his future wife also lived at the pension. Six group and individual photographs, 1915-1919, mostly identifiable, are also included (items 38, 41, 44, 54).

An album presented by the master and pupils of Gwynfryn School to Watkin Hezekiah Williams ('Watcyn Wyn') on his fiftieth birthday, 7 March 1894, with signatures of the subscribers and later autographs, an address presented at the school reunion, 2 April 1901, and press cuttings of biographical matter and obituary notices of 'Watcyn Wyn', 1905.

A list of houses and farms contained in the book of valuation of the Gwydir estate with the totals of the value of each farm, 1806.

A photostat facsimile of the register of marriages for the parish of Aberavon, 1755-1812.

A photostat facsimile of the register of burials for the parish of Aberavon, 1787-1812.

Miscellaneous bibliographical and other notes including an incomplete transcript of The Bleeding of Iphigena ... Louvain, 1674; an epigram 'on the marriage of the two sisters the Baroness Howe to Mr. Phipps and the Marchioness of Sligo to Sir William Scott'; a note by Edward Jones ('Bardd y Brenin') on an air entitled 'O Rourk's Feast'; and a drawing of the arms of Ireland by 'R.D.H.I.'.

A volume of poems, 1890-1901, by three 'Rhymers'. It contains poems by A. E. Lomax, L. I. E. P[ughe] and C. E. L[omax], many of them having a Montgomeryshire setting, poems by G. R. G. P[ughe] and Jane Gould Pughe; and a copy of The Church in Wales: A versified review of her reverses by G. R. G. Pughe, vicar of Mellor, Lancashire, 1894.

A letter, 14 March 1796, from John Ingleby with a list, annotated by Thomas Pennant, of illustrations intended for Tours in Wales.

A copy of Pryse's Handbook to the Radnorshire & Breconshire Mineral Springs: With Various Descriptive Journeys and Excursions Therefrom to Numerous Places of Interest in Central Wales (Llanidloes, 1872), with identifications and additions, transcribed from A Journey to Llandrindod Wells, 2nd edn (1746), in the autograph of Sir Joseph Bradney.