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The original manuscript score of a cantata - 'Gwarchaead Harlech' - by Joseph David Jones, Ruthin (1827-70).

The autograph album of Mary Hughes (née Jones), containing entries by William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), John Roberts ('J.R.'), Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'); Samuel Roberts ('S.R.'); and others.

Ledger, 1812-1828 (watermark 1810), of Thomas Rees of New Inn, Llanfihangel-ar-arth, Carmarthenshire, a general merchant operating in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, written mainly in the hand of his clerk, John Griffiths.
The ledger relates primarily to his Carmarthenshire customers and includes records of payments for butter and for the transportation of goods (particularly butter) between New Inn and Tregaron, Lampeter and Carmarthen. There are entries of old debts dating from 1798 (pp. 1-2) and particulars of rents and Talley grange custom paid by tenants and debts collected on behalf of creditors. Items found loose in the volume, including invoices and a note relating to the export of butter, have been placed in an archival envelope (42 ff.).

An extract from the lay subsidy roll for the hundreds of Llanbadarn, Llanilar, and Pennardd, Cardiganshire, 35 Henry VIII, (P.R.O. Exchequer, King's Remembrancer; Box 219, roll 68) covering the parish of Llanrhystyd.

A photostat facsimile of a section plan of the Seven Sisters Pit made in 1880 by Thomas Lloyd.

A holograph copy of the anthem 'O tyn y gorchudd yn y mynydd hyn' by Olive Valerie Williams.

A volume of sermons lettered 'Pregethau Cymraeg 8'. The sermons were preached at Caerleon, 1765-1773, Malpas, 1761-1771, Llanhennock, 1761-1772, St Woollos, 1761-1773, and Tredynnock, 1772. All except two are in the same hand, probably that of Thomas Evans. The last two sermons are in different hands, one dated 1727, and the other, undated, in a slightly earlier hand.

A bound volume containing holograph notes and pencil and pen-and-ink sketches [by the Reverend Elias Owen, vicar of Efenechdyd, 1881-1892, and of Llanyblodwel, 1892-1899, being material subsequently incorporated in his published work Old Stone Crosses of the Vale of Clwyd and Neighbouring Parishes, together with some Account of the Ancient Manners and Customs and Legendary Lore connected with the Parishes (London [1886])].

A note-book possibly in the hand of the Reverend John Evans, Baptist minister, best known as John Evans, Abercannaid, Merthyr. The contents consist entirely of sermon notes, 1827-1829 and undated. Inset are loose items, including a note addressed by D. Rhys Stephen, from Abertawy, to the Reverend John Evans, [18]31 (accompanying a copy of a three-stanza hymn by John Morris, headed 'Hymn dduwiol a gyfansoddwyd i'r Parch. Mr. Davies, Alltwen'), and further sermon notes, [18]44 and [18]67, bearing the initials 'J.E.'., or the signature 'John Evans'.

Miscellaneous printed, typescript, and manuscript material, August - September 1939, relating to plans for the reception of evacuees from Liverpool at Aberystwyth.

Results sheets of [Calvinistic Methodist] Sunday School examinations at Rhosgadfan, co. Caernarvon, 1896, 1901.

Brief notes on 'Hanes Arweinwyr ein Cyfundeb 1735', 'Ffordd y cynhyddodd y Methodistiaid', 'Beth yw ein Cynydd', etc.

Research papers of the botanist Richard Henry Roberts, [1953]-[2002], a county recorder for the Botanical Society of the British Isles. The papers including field notes on plants in Anglesey, together with a copy of The flowering plant and ferns of Anglesey (Cardiff, 1982) by him and heavily annotated, and offprints of articles relating to his research.

Notes by J. Lias Davies on words and phrases current in Denbighshire.

Three musical compositions by W. Hubert Davies: - a variation on the Bells of Aberdovey, 1927; 'In Normandy', 1930; and Passacaglia for full orchestra, 1931.

Photocopies of an article by W. N. Davis, Dinuba, California, relating to Stephen S. Jones and family who emigrated in 1878 from Cardiganshire to Jackson County, Ohio, together with copies of letters from America and from relations in Wales and poetry entered in a literary meeting in Oak Hill, 1893, together with a copy of an undated photoghraph of Stephen and Anna (Morgan) Jones taken in Jackson.

An autograph letter, 3 September [16]08, from Fr[ancis Godwin, bishop of] Llandaff, from Mathern, to [Richard Bancroft], archbishop of Cant[erbury], on behalf of the clergy of Glamorganshire. The writer informs the archbishop that the clergy of the said shire, having been summoned 'to shewe their armour before the Lieutennantes of the cou[ntie] . . ., and their men to be mustred', were very perplexed, not 'knowing how to satisfy this comaund, for that they neuer were yett rated at any armour, but only once, viz., some 13 yeares since'. If they were rated as highly on the present as on the previous occasion, owing to their poverty, they would not be able to meet the demands made upon them without suffering great hardship. They begged, therefore, to be allowed to petition the Privy Council for a reduction in the demands to be made on this occasion

The original manuscript of Richard Bennett: Methodistiaeth Trefaldwyn Uchaf . . . (Y Bala, 1929).

A typescript, prepared for the press, of Iorwerth C. Peate's essay 'The Welsh House: a study in folk culture', published in Y Cymmrodor, 47 (1940).
The volume includes the title page, dedication and preface (ff. i-v), contents (f. vi), a list of illustrations (ff. vii-xxi; the illustrations are not included), the main text (ff. 1-254) and bibliography (ff. 255-275). There are some manuscript annotations and corrections, with a number of significant additions (ff. 11, 67, 154 verso, 163 verso, 179 and 249 verso). The printed version includes a few additional changes and an index. A revised edition was published in 1944.