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Proflenni gali, [1931x1933], o gyfieithiad o Lyfr y Datguddiad gan ac yn llaw yr Athro Gwilym Arthur Edwards, rhoddwr y llawysgrif = Autograph galley proofs, [1931x1933], of a translation of the Book of Revelation by Dr Gwilym Arthur Edwards, donor of the manuscript.
Ceir nodiadau ar themäu diwinyddol a beiblaidd, yn Saesneg ac mewn sawl llaw wahanol, ar verso pob dalen (ff. 27verso-29 verso, testun â'i wyneb i waered); ymddengys fel pe bai'r deunydd hyn yn amherthnasol i'r prif gynnwys oherwydd fod daleniad y testun verso allan o ddilyniant ac ar chwâl = There are notes on theological and biblical themes, in English and in several different hands, on the verso of each folio (ff. 27verso-29 verso inverted text); this material is apparently unrelated to the main contents as the foliation of the verso text is out of sequence and haphazard.

Llawysgrif ddrafft, 1954, o Ragair a Diweddglo 'Yr Argyfwng' gan W. Ambrose Bebb yn ei law ei hun; un llythyr, 1954, a phedwar cerdyn post, 1954, oddi wrth Bebb at Alan Talfan Davies, rhoddwr y llawysgrif, yn ymwneud â chwblhau a chyhoeddi 'Yr Argyfwng'; torion o'r Herald Cymraeg, 1953, sef pigion o Golofn y Llenor a ysgrifennwyd gan Bebb, gan gynnwys rhai o'r wyth o ysgrifau a gyhoeddwyd yn yr Herald dan y teitl 'Yr Argyfwng' yn ystod gwanwyn 1953; sylwadau, 1954, ar 'Yr Argyfwng', fel y'i cyhoeddwyd yn wreiddiol ar ffurf erthyglau yn yr Herald Cymraeg, gan y Parchedig J. P. Davies, Porthmadog, yr Athro Oliver Stephens, John Charles Jones, Esgob Bangor, y Parchedig E. Tegla Davies, a'r Parchedig Lewis Valentine. Cyhoeddwyd 'Yr Argyfwng' ar ffurf llyfr flwyddyn wedi marw Bebb, ym 1956 = Autograph draft manuscript, 1954, of the Foreword and Conclusion to 'Yr Argyfwng' by W. Ambrose Bebb; one letter, 1954, and four postcards, 1954, from Bebb to Alan Talfan Davies, the donor of the manuscript, relating to the completion and publication of 'Yr Argyfwng'; press cuttings from the Herald Cymraeg, 1953, which consist of some of Bebb's weekly columns and including some of the series of eight pieces of writing which were published in the Herald under the title 'Yr Argyfwng' during the spring of 1953; comments and observations, 1954, on 'Yr Argyfwng', in its original form of printed articles in the Herald Cymraeg, by the Reverend J. P. Davies, Porthmadog, Professor Oliver Stephens, John Charles Jones, Bishop of Bangor, the Reverend E. Tegla Davies, and the Reverend Lewis Valentine. 'Yr Argyfwng' was published in book form posthumously in 1956.

Autograph specifications, dated February 1923, or work required in the restoration of the Priory House, Penmon, Anglesey by Geoffrey G[osset] Holme, architect, of Penmon. The manuscript contains architectural sketches (ff. 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 20, 30) and provisional sums (estimated amounts) relating to the restoration work. (f. 31).

The revised and heavily corrected final three pages, 1931, in John Cowper Powys's hand, of his novel A Glastonbury Romance (London, 1932) (ff. 1-3); Powys apparently rewrote the ending at the instigation of Phyllis Playter, who suggested the changes subsequently made to the original text.
Also included is correspondence, 1955-1957, of a Mr Baston, then owner of the novel's manuscript, comprising letters from Powys, 27 July 1955 (f. 4), and the US publishing house Simon & Schuster, 2 September 1955 (f. 6), with a carbon copy letter from Baston to Simon & Schuster, 15 August 1955 (f. 5), concerning Baston’s efforts to find the manuscript's missing chapters, and a letter from the bookseller George Sims, 28 January 1957, offering the present three folios to Baston (f. 7).

Account book, 1876-1929, of the Treasurer of Montgomeryshire Presbytery in respect of the Ministers' Fund of the North Wales Association of the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion.

'Maxims on the political, social, and domestic economy of the English country gentleman in his public and individual capacity', written in 1823 by Thomas Netherton Parker, Sweeney [Hall, near Oswestry]'.

Accounts of Dr Williams's Trust, 1778-1808, with particulars of payments to ministers, apprentices, and exhibitioners in North Wales, and to students at Northampton, with miscellaneous receipts, 1808-1821, and a statement of accounts of the estate of Edward Parry, vicar of Baschild (d. 1798), with Abraham Rees of Hackney, executor, and residuary legatee.

5 photographic portraits / group portraits connected with Blaenau Ffestiniog. Some are annotated on the reverse.

Six miscellaneous photos including a child playing on a beach, family portrait, a view of Cricieth Castle, two anonymous portraits and a studio portrait of Rev Owen Evans DD, Congregationalist minister, Liverpool.

Two accounts of a tour through North Wales, beginning at Erthig, 12 August 1775, and proceeding by way of Llangollen, Corwen, Bala, Dolgelley, Barmouth, Harlech, Penmorfa, Llanllyfni, and Caernarvon, to Bangor; with a brief account of a journey to Brussells.

A dictionary of Welsh biography compiled by Henry Blackwell (1851-1928), New York.

Register of the company of corvisers of Oswestry, 1587-1750.

Two volumes, written at the end of the nineteenth century, by Thomas Morgan Joseph-Watkin, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms, serving as an index to the Gilfach Pedigree Books (now NLW MS 23967i-iiE).
The first volume (23968iE) contains letters A-Pe of an index to family names, continued with letters Ph-Y in the second volume (23968iiE, pp. 181-315), which also contains an index to place-names (pp. 2-172). A pedigree chart by Joseph-Watkin, compiled [1894x1913] (NLW Rolls 62), shows that he was himself related to the Gilfach family.

Photostat facsimiles of Rural Deans' Visitation Queries and Answers for the diocese of St. Davids, 1717-1829. The original records are in the Palace at Abergwili.

A list of persons balloted, and substitutes, sworn and enrolled to serve as private militia men for the hundred of Llangyfelach, Glamorgan, 1760-1770; with a copy of a letter by L. Griffiths, 4 September 1817, on the deplorable situation of the Glamorgan farmers.

A manuscript music book belonging to Owen Jones (Owen y Cantwr), Penycae, Wrexham.

A collection of 'cywyddau' attributed to Dafydd ap Gwilym (17), Dafydd Nanmor (2), Hugh Morys, Madog Benfras, Iolo Goch, and Rhys Cain; 'cerddi' by Ellis Roberts Cowper, and Lewis Morris ('Llywelyn Ddu') ('Llythur Cymun Morgan Goch y Melinydd', with an addition by William Jones, and 'Cerdd Marwnad Llewelyn bach o Gaer ludd'); 'englynion' by Merddyn Emrys and Huw Huws; and an English 'charol to be sung on Christmas morning' by Hugh Hughes, 'late of Foel near Llanerchymedd'.

Minutes, 1894-1899, of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Celtic Society.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register of Llandough, Glamorganshire, 1583-1812.

A list, [September] 1795, by the artist John Malchair of Oxford, of drawings made by him on a tour of north Wales, 22 July-21 August 1785, written on returning to Oxford.
The drawings are described in chronological order, with some additional details and comments on the surroundings, people and weather. The itinerary includes Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire (f. 1), Dinas Mawddwy (f. 2 recto-verso), Barmouth (f. 3) and Harlech (f. 3 recto-verso), Merionethshire, and Beddgelert, Caernarvonshire (f. 3 verso). For a transcript of the list see Colin Harrison, John Malchair of Oxford: Artist and Musician (Oxford, 1998), pp. 150-152.