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‘Raphael’s Prophetic Almanac or the Prophetic Messenger and Weather Guide for 1912’ (London : W. Foulsham & Co., 1912)

‘Report on Experiments to Assess the Extent of Honey Bee Poisoning After Spraying Sugar Cane with Malathion’ by J. R. Metcalfe (The Sugar Manufacturers’ Association (of Jamaica) Ltd., Mandeville, [1966]).

A copy of an unpublished MS by R. Jarvis.

Particulars of ‘returns sent up’ [servants’ wages and expenses], and other money paid in the counties, [16]89-[16]96.

Volume entitled ‘Rough leases and agreements’ but which actually contains applications for leases of properties around Aberystwyth, Bow Street, Penrhyn-coch and Ponterwyd, belonging to the Gogerddan estate, 1883-1908.

Copy of the sales and show yard timber account book of the Gogerddan estate, 1909.

Title deeds, letters and legal papers relating to a dispute between Walter Pryse on behalf of George Lewis Langton, and John Philipps of Kilgetty, 1726-1743, concerning the title to the Paddock, the Old Slate House, etc. near the beach at Saundersfoot in the parish of St Issells. The papers include drafts and copies of earlier leases, deeds and disputes, 1622-1683. The letters are addressed to the Lewis family of Hurst and Coedmor, and to Walter Pryse in Holborn, London, mainly from lawyers and agents, 1701-1743; one of them justifies an attempted salvage from a shipwreck at Freshwater East, 1729. There are statements of the claims on both sides, describing the construction of a quay by Walter Pryse, with a pictorial map of the area in dispute [1726]; evidence of boundaries and rights in the lordships of Coydrath and East and West Pembroke, and a copy of the chief rent roll for the latter, 1738

Correspondence (1950-1963) and a typescript copy (1949) of a story for adults about Welsh valley characters broadcast by the BBC Welsh Home Service in June 1950. Reference made in correspondence in file 31.

Small notebook labelled ‘Schedule of Farm Agreements and Leases included in Rent Roll of Gogerddan Estate - where deposited’, apparently mainly at Rhoscellan and Gogerddan, 1884.

‘Security’ (mortgage) for £9412 by Sir Pryse Pryse to Col John Lewes, Henry Charles Fryer and Col. Edward Lewis Peyse, 1876, on lands in Wales not comprised in the family settlement of 1846, endorsed with a release back to Sir Pryse Pryse, 1879, and two further charges for securing additional sums to enable the transfer of mortgages on Cwmsymlog Ganol and Cwmsymlog Issa, 1877-1878.

Correspondence and a typescript copy of a murder mystery play for adults submitted to the BBC.

Typescript copy (1957) of a story that was accepted on 2 Jan 1958 but published under the name of Violet Williams (see ‘Sunny Stories correspondence 14 March 1958, file 99). The story was also published in ‘Sunny Stories’, 7 April 1958 and the ‘Fishguard County Echo’ in October 1958.

A complete edition of La Revue Litterature, Histoire, Arts et Sciences des Deux Mondes, containing an article by Auguste de Radwan entitled ‘Souvenir de Chopin’, 1949.

Papers relating mainly to the election for the Cardigan Boroughs in which Pryse Pryse proposed Herbert Evans of Highmead against John Vaughan of Trawsgoed, 1812. The file contains printed notices of the state of the poll, resolutions of a meeting at Adpar in support of Col. Vaughan, election propaganda and the sheriff’s public proclamation of the election in the shire hall at Cardigan; part of a burgess list from Nancwnlle; letters of support to Mrs Pryse from Mrs Gilbertson of Dolyclettwr, Mrs Bonsall, and others; a letter to Edward Loveden Loveden of Buscot Park from Samuel Sellwood about the Lampeter books and questioning the rights of mayors and freemen; and the state of the poll in the Pembrokeshire election, 1812

Large original parcel containing smaller packets of supplemental accounts, bills and receipts, mainly for building materials and labour at various properties belonging to the Gogerddan estate, including the Gogerddan gardener’s house and sheds, Pempompren Ucha, Clarach Schools, Blaendyffryn, Glan y mor, Cwmbwa house, Brysgaga, Cwmere buildings, Brynllys, Tynyrabbey, Henhafod, Penrhyn-coch farm, Henllys house, Cefncoch implement house and wool loft, Cynnull Mawr, Pwllglas, Tynohir, Glanyravon. Ystradeinion, Bryngwyn Isa, Bryngwyn Canol, Old Cwm (Cwmcynfelyn), Rhydypennau, Gloucester Hall and cow house, Lletty Llwyd, Brwyno, Bryngwyn Mawr, Tynyffynnon kennels, Bronygof and many other named properties, 1869-1881. Other items of interest are bills for the funeral expenses for the late James Lloyd, 1877; an account of the tithe rent charge, 1880; drainage at Tynllwyn, Neuadd March and Henhafod, 1871-1880, and at Lodge Marsh, 1871-1877; surveys and valuations by George Jones and James Green, 1880

‘Tanzania Beeswax’ by G. Ntenga [?1975].

‘The 1990 Beekeepers Calendar from Three Skeps Limited’ (Three Skeps Limited, Stoneleigh, [1989]).