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Papers of William Humphrey Watkins, 1912-1968, comprising 'English literature of travel from 1350-1750' (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Wales), 1919; album containing cuttings, photographs and illustrations, mainly relating to natural history in Radnorshire, [1912]-1914; copies of W. J. H. Watkins and H. S. L. Watkins, 'How to Look at Geographical Pictures', First Series, 6th edn (1966) and Second Series, 4th-6th edn (1964-1967), with related photographs, notes, correspondence and other papers, [1960s]; notes on education in Llanfihangel Rhydithion, Radnorshire, 1848-1920, by William Watkins, [1930s]; and correspondence, 1958-1963.

Papers of Winifred Coombe Tennant, 1897-1957, relating to her activities with Gorsedd y Beirdd and the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and also including correspondence with artists, patrons and art administrators and related material concerning her patronage of the arts in Wales; together with her diaries, 1897-1955.

A copy of Dr Emyr Wyn Jones's work 'Winifred Coombe Tennant a'r Eisteddfod' to be published in Y Traethodydd, based mainly on the letters of Winifred Coombe Tennant ('Mam o Nedd', 1874-1956) to Beriah Gwynfe Evans (1848-1927) (now NLW MS 23644C).

Copi o waith Dr Emyr Wyn Jones 'Winifred Coombe Tennant a'r Eisteddfod' i'w gyhoeddi yn Y Traethodydd, yn seiliedig yn bennaf ar lythyrau Winifred Coombe Tennant ('Mam o Nedd', 1874-1956) at Beriah Gwynfe Evans (1848-1927) (yn awr NLW MS 23644C).

Deeds, mainly relating to Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire, 1668-1757.

Abstracts prepared for Robert Owen, Croesor, of wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, including those of Richard Whitford, priest, 14 February, 1510/11, and Rees Vaughan ap William of Corsygedol, parish of Llanthoywey, deanery of Arddudwy, 8 August, 1580; similar abstracts of proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber relating to the counties of Caernarvon and Denbigh, temp. Elizabeth-James I; and a list by Robert Owen of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century probate records, in the diocesan registries of Bangor and St. Asaph, of persons in Llandderfel, Corwen, Llandrillo in Edernion, Gwythelwern, Llansanffraid [Glyndyfrdwy], and Llangar, Merioneth.

A typescript copy of the probate of the will of Rees Lewis of the parish of Killycwm, Carmarthenshire, yeoman (father of Morgan Rhys, Llanfynydd, hymnist), 10 September, 1779 (will dated 26 June, 1768); and two typescript copies of the probate of the will of Morgan Rhys of the parish of Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, yeoman, 7 August, 1779 (will dated 2 August, 1779), together with a photograph of a section of the original will comprising testator's signature and seal.

Original musical manuscript, [c. 1930], of a song, 'Willow Pattern Plate', composed by, and in the hand of, Ivor Novello, and apparently unpublished.
The manuscript contains both the apparent vocal line and piano part in ink but no lyrics; there are a few non-autograph pencil annotations.

Willis' Survey of St Asaph ..., by Edward Edwards, with extensive manuscript notes and insets by Canon Henry Parry, vicar of Llanasa (d. 1854). (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 48.) English. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Four volumes of press cuttings and other papers, 1725-1889, one bearing the title 'Records of Events in North Wales and on The Borders'; and the others relating mainly to the Williams-Wynn family of Wynnstay, the Wynne family of Peniarth, and to politics, mainly in Merionethshire, including election addresses and other political ephemera

The archive comprises the records of Messrs J. and A. Davies, Llanidloes, including account books, 1927-1972, a bill book, 1957-1965, and a letter book, 1958-1962; and miscellaneous office records, 1872-1964, of Williams, Gittins and Tomley.

A collection of papers, 1797-1924, relating to Mary Williams of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, the Bettiss family of Caernarfon and the Williams and Churchill families of Caernarfon, brought together by the dealer and collector Edward Hall, Surbiton.
Also included are notes on the contents of the manuscript, compiled at NLW, [?1958] (ff. 1-2), and notes by Edward Hall appended to individual items (27 ff., not foliated).

Miscellaneous papers, 1859-1929, mainly relating to the Williams family of Castell Deudraeth, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire, including David Williams MP and Sir Arthur Osmond Williams MP.

Family papers of the Williams family of Castell Deudraeth, 1859-1929, including a bound volume containing papers, including letters and press cuttings, relating to the general election of 1859 in Merionethshire in which David Williams stood as a Liberal against the sitting Conservative Member W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth; scrapbooks, 1903-1929, containing press cuttings concerning the family, notably Sir Arthur Osmond Williams, and two typescript essays.

A printed copy of Gudmundur Andrésson, Lexicon Islandicum sive Gothicae runae vel linguae septentrionalis dictionarium ... (Copenhagen: Christian Wering for Christian Gerhard, 1683) [BL STC Scandinavian G385]. The volume was presented, [1702x1704], by James Vernon the younger (1677-1756), (British envoy to Denmark from 1702 to 1707), to the linguist William Wotton (see Wotton's inscription on front pastedown). Wotton subsequently annotated the volume with copious notes comparing Icelandic to English and Anglo-Saxon, whilst working on his groundbreaking research on an Indo-European proto-language. That work was poorly published in Latin as 'Dissertatio de confusione linguarum Babylonica', in John Chamberlayne's Oratio dominica (Amsterdam, 1715), without the author's knowledge. An English version was published posthumously as A discourse concerning the confusion of languages at Babel (London, 1730) [ESTC T83574].

Two letters, 1833 and 1835, from William Wordsworth to Robert Jones, Plas-yn-llan, Llangynhafal.

A short sketch by J. Lloyd Edwards, Cheam, of the biography of William Williams, Glanpwllafon near Cardigan, Baptist minister.

'William Williams his Singing Book 1774 ...', being a copy of The Gamut, or Scale of Music, Very necessary to be learnt by Those, who would attain to the delightful Knowledge of Psalmody, to which psalms and anthems have been added in manuscript.

A manuscript music book of popular songs originally belonging to William Williams, cabinet maker, including ballads and operatic pieces such as The Highland Laddie and Robin Hood. The volume then passed on into the possession of Thomas Llewelyn, Newbridge.

Notes on cataloguing and classification, 1925-1928; correspondence, 1928-1942, 1957; copies of articles and offprints, and cuttings of press reviews; and papers of his father-in-law, Hugh Evans, 1952-1955, mainly notes on publishing, periodicals, etc.

Papers, 1835-1934, relating largely to Montgomeryshire which include poor-rate assessments for Penegoes, 1835-1836; account books of Rhydyfelin Friendly Society, Melinbyrhedyn, 1856-1913; a manuscript of Richard Bennett relating to Methodism in Cemmaes; and an autograph album, 1885-1895.