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Adjudications by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ['Gwilym Cowlyd'] and papers relating to 'Arwest Geirionydd' and 'eisteddfodau' held at Llanrwst, 1878-1904.

Account book, 1846-1896, of David Jonathan, farmer and drover, of Ffwrneithin, Dihewid.

A photocopy of an autobiographical account by Howell William Richards (1865-1963) relating to his life as a farmer in Breconshire, written, 1943-1947.

A memorandum book of the Reverend William Lloyd, Caernarvon, son of Robert Lloyd of Nefyn, and one of the three clergymen in North Wales who did not sever their connection with the Calvinistic Methodists after the first ordination in 1811. The volume contains statements of the writer's expenses at Jesus College, Oxford, 1798-1800; memoranda of the payment by Mr. Grindley of the writer's salary, 1802-1808 (£15 15s., being quarter's salary, 1802; £15 2s., being balance for serving Rhoscolyn, 1808); particulars of agricultural and household disbursements, 1811-1812; theological and sermon notes; a list of sermons preached at seventeen specified places in Anglesey, 7-23 December, 1827; and medical recipes.

A book of agricultural and household accounts, 1805-19, with accounts of tolls collected in the Mostyn district, 1814-21.

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

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).

A copy of a typescript work entitled 'Agricultural History of Shropshire' by W. J. Slack (d. 1954), brought together in the form of a volume by Frances M. Wright in 1995.

Dyddlyfrau, Chwefror 1857-Gorffennaf 1858 (NLW MS 24055B, tt. 1-272) ac Awst 1858-Gorffennaf 1860 (NLW MS 24056B), y cenhadwr Methodist dinesig David Williams, yn cofnodi ei ymweliadau â Chymry yn Llundain ar ran y Genhadaeth Gymreig yn Llundain. Arwyddir y dyddlyfrau yn rheolaidd gan arolygydd Williams, y Parch. Owen Thomas, Jewin Crescent. = Journals, February 1857-July 1858 (NLW MS 24055B, pp. 1-272) and August 1858-July 1860 (NLW MS 24056B), of the Methodist city missionary David Williams, recording his visits to Welsh people in London on behalf of y Genhadaeth Gymreig yn Llundain (the Welsh Mission in London). The journals are periodically signed by Williams's superintendent, the Rev. Owen Thomas, Jewin Crescent.
Wedi'u cynnwys gyda'r cyfrolau mae ffotograff o David Williams, [?1880au], a ffotograff modern o ddarlun wedi'i fframio ohono, y ddau yn perthyn i gyfnod ei weinidogaeth yng Nhapel Peniel, Tremadog (1865-1891). Cyhoeddwyd pedwar llythyr ar ddeg oddi wrth David Williams, ynglŷn â’r genhadaeth yn Llundain, yn Y Drysorfa, cyfres newydd, 11-14 (1857-1860). = Also included are a photograph of David Williams, [?1880s], and a modern photograph of a framed portrait of him, both relating to his time as minister of Peniel Chapel, Tremadog (1865-1891). Fourteen letters from David Williams, concerning the London mission, were published in Y Drysorfa, n.s., 11-14 (1857-1860).

A postcard in the hand of the novelist E[velyn] Waugh, 1958, sent to a Miss Kirby and other papers relating to his family including a newspaper cutting relating to his son Auberon's accident in 1958, and references from Auberon Waugh, Will this do? : the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography (London, 1991).

Some one hundred and seventy-five original poems by Ruth Bidgood, 1966-2011, mostly typescript, some are emended and a few are in manuscript (ff. 208, 212, 214, 216-217, 219).
The majority of the poems have appeared in various periodicals, as recorded by the author on the individual folios. A few only have subsequently been published in collections, including 'Cwm Pennant' (ff. 132-133) and 'Encounters with Angels' (ff. 195-201) in Symbols of Plenty (Norwich, 2006), 'Complaints' (ff. 66-71, 187-189) and 'Bringing Home the Bride' (ff. 169-170) in Hearing Voices (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 2008), and a revised version of 'Reading a Landscape' (ff. 177-181) in Time Being (Bridgend, 2009). 'The Zombie-makers' (f. 38) and 'Brianne 1970' (f. 42) were first published in Matthew Jarvis, Ruth Bidgood (Cardiff, 2012), pp. 133-134. There are multiple copies or drafts of some poems, including 'Complaints' (ff. 66-71, 187-189), 'Summerers' (ff. 129, 152), 'Apparition' (ff. 171, 208), 'Reading a Landscape' (ff. 177-181), 'Windblow' (ff. 182, 218-219), 'Elan in Autumn' (ff. 193, 213-217) and 'Looms' (ff. 194, 210). A list of contents (for ff. 1-194) in the hand of the author is ff. i-ii; the order has subsequently been revised by her. Since the author usually disposed of typescripts once the poems had been collected, this volume includes rare examples of her work.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register, 1734-1812, of Disserth, Radnorshire, recording baptisms, marriages, and burials.

Correspondence, 1901-1908, relating to the establishment of Independent Labour Party (ILP) branches in and around Swansea. Included are letters from Charles Duncan of the Workers' Union, John Penny, J. Bruce Glasier and Philip Snowden of the Independent Labour Party, and include references to Keir Hardie and J. Littlejohns. The majority of the letters are to Matt Giles, who became the first full time organiser for the ILP in Wales.

A volume of pedigrees of South Wales families, with notes on their arms [in the hand of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary]. The volume is described on the title-page as 'The British Geneologist, or A Collection of the Pedigrees and Arms of the families inhabiting the Counties called Monmouthshire, Glamorganshire, Caermarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire. To which is added Fragmenta Geneologica. The whole compiled From the best authorities, and assistance of the best Heralds, by Edward Llwyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, 1693. Copied from the original, and augmented from later manuscripts and information, by Sam[ue]l Rush Meyrick, A.B., of Queen's College, Oxford, 1807'. The contents include pp. [i-x], preface (blank); 1-24, 'Book I. Of the gentry of Monmouth'; 25-36, 'Book II. Of the Gentry of Glamorganshire'; 37-40 (blank); 41-171, 'Book 3d. Gentry of Caermarthen'; 172 (blank); 161a- 172a (duplication of pagination), 173-264 (some 8 pp. blank), 'Book IIII. Of the Gentry of Pembrokeshire'; 235b-264b (duplication of pagination), 265-313 (266 omitted), 'Book V. Of the gentry of Cardiganshire'; 314-5 (blank); 316-54 (330 twice), 'Fragmenta Geneologica'; [355-63], Index of 'Houses'. Inset is a letter from Joseph Morris, from Shrewsbury, to Sir S. R. Meyrick, 1834 (returning recipient's manuscript, offering help).

A two-volume collection of pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families, compiled during the 1830s (23967iE watermark 1828; 23967iiE watermark 1831), with some later additions, by David Jones Lewis, Gilfach, Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire.
A duplicate set of these volumes, also written by David Jones Lewis, are the 8 volumes of Gilfach MSS in the College of Arms, London (see Francis Jones, A Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts in the College of Arms (London, 1988), pp. 69-71), which are dated by colophon to 1830. This duplication is mentioned in a note, dated 8 July 1895, in 23967iE, p. 1, by Lewis's grandson, David Jones Lewis of Llwyncelyn, Llanwrda, who has also overwritten parts of the earlier text, as well as adding pedigrees relating to the Lewis family, [1895] (pp. 1438-50), and a copy of 'an account of the Lewis family in the handwriting of my late grandfather', 1896 (pp. 1494-6). There are minor additions relating to the Lewis family, to at least 1978, in several different hands (pp. 1438-41, 1448-50). A copy of an unpublished account, [1990s], of the Lewis family of Gilfach and Llwyncelyn, including references to the Pedigree Books, is now NLW ex 2511. An index to these two volumes is now NLW MS 23968i-iiE.

Journal of a tour from Brecon to Carmarthen, undertaken in August 1844, by an unidentified traveller, possibly from London, including references to Hay-on-Wye (ff. 3 verso-4).

Eight notebooks containing journals, 1841-1843, kept by (Lady) Marianne Lewis, of tours on the Continent and in South Wales, in the company of her husband (Sir) Thomas Frankland Lewis of Harpton Court.
The journals contain accounts of their tour of France and Germany, 28 April-7 June 1841 (16582iC, ff. 1-20); Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 9 June-29 August 1841 (16582iiC, ff. 21-73); Italy (mainly Rome and Naples), 30 August 1841-[19] January 1842 (16582iiiC, ff. 74-128), 20 January-10 March 1842 (16582ivC, ff. 129-148), 11 March-10 April 1842 (16582vC, ff. 149-163), and, 12 April-27 May 1842 (16582viC, ff. 171-194 verso); and Germany and Belgium, 31 May-10 July 1842 (16582viiC, ff. 195-220); followed by a tour of South Wales, 16 October-30 December 1843, where she accompanied her husband and other members of the Commission of Inquiry into the Rebecca Riots (16582viiiC, ff. 242-259 verso).

A copy, made about 1842, of a journal, in verse, of a tour or sojourn in South Wales, with a close association with Cilybebyll, together with a collection of poems, including translations from German, by the same anonymous author. The sub-sections of the journal have the following topographical titles: 'Graig Alltwen and the Mumbles', 'Cwm Clic', 'Llanguicke', 'Llyn-y-Fan', 'Coed-y-Brain and Carrig Marie', 'Gelli-Onnen', 'Carrig-Dinas and Cil-Hepste', and 'Plas Cil-y-bebyll'. At the beginning of the volume is a letter in the same hand as the text, signed 'M.E.D.B.' and written from Sevenoaks, 31 August 1838, to James -----, referring to the 'journal' and giving an account of Knole Abbey.