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Holograph and/or typescript copies of addresses by George Arbour Stephens, M.D., Swansea, including 'Was Dozmare Pool a Celtic lake of the Underworld?', published in Folk Lore, March, 1935, 'A Green Cross Service for the Celtic Fringe', delivered at the Celtic Congress, Isle of Man, 4 July, 1935, 'The Topographical Importance of Kidwelly and the Burry Estuary in connection with the Arthurian Romances. Caerwen as the old name for Kidwelly', published in The Carmarthen Journal, 25 November, 1938, and 'Radnorshire as a Centre of Celtic Mythology', delivered to the Radnorshire Antiquarian Society at Llandrindod, 2 December, 1938; together with some miscellaneous papers of G. Arbour Stephens, including army certificates, 1897-1918, notices of the leet court with view of frank-pledge of the borough and manor of Swansea, 1919-31, etc.

Deeds, 1542-1797, relating to properties in Glamorgan, Brecknockshire and Carmarthenshire; memorandum book of ?Samuel Owsley and William Owsley of Brecon, with notes on rents, taxes and local events and history, 1679-1768; fragment of an antiphonal, [15th century]; a copy of The Reports of Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, 1650; and a copy of The Larvae of the British Lepidoptera and their food plants, 1880.

Photocopies from the catalogue of the manuscripts of R. Gwyneddon Davies held at the University of Wales Bangor compiled by his son R[obert] G[wyneddon] D[avies], 1916-1917.

Transcripts, extracts, and notes, [c. 1921], by E. Alfred Jones, M.A., F.S.A., London, relating to the formation and development of Volunteer Companies in Wales during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including Caernarvon and Bangor Volunteer Infantry, Loyal Newborough Volunteer Infantry, Snowdon Rangers Riflemen Volunteer Infantry, Conway Volunteers, Loyal Eifionydd Volunteer Infantry, Royal Welch Volunteers, Swansea Gentlemen Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry, Pembrokeshire Yeomanry Cavalry, etc. (see also NLW MS 11557D).
Among the papers are holograph letters, 1921 and undated, from C. E. Breese, Portmadoc; Hugh Edwardes, 6th baron Kensington; R. L. Harmsworth [1st bart.], London; J. E. Jones, Rhosygwaliau Vicarage, Bala; Ll. Wynne Jones, The Deanery, St. Asaph; Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th baron Kenyon; John T. D. Llewelyn [1st bart., of Penlle'r-gaer]; Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Mostyn, 3rd baron Mostyn; Walter FitzUryan Rhys, 7th baron Dynevor; E. C. Stevens, Wynnstay, Ruabon, for Sir [Herbert Lloyd] Watkin Williams-Wynn, 7th bart.; Bertha Turnorm, for her niece, Joan Emily Mary Campbell, Countess Cawdor; Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th earl of Lisburne; Griffith Williams, the Rectory, Llanrwst; Fred[erick] G. Wynn, Glynllivon, Llanwnda; and T. A. Wynne Edwards, Plas Nantglyn, Denbigh.

An order, signed by Charles Williams Wynn (1775-1850), to pay £13.3.6 to the Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks for supplying water to the Treasury and to other houses and stables belonging thereunto from 10 October 1805 to 5 January 1806.

This collection comprises poetry by Robert Southey and correspondence between him and his friend and patron Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, son of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th bart, of Wynnstay, Denbighshire, also letters to Charles's brother, Sir Henry Watkin Williams Wynn. There are 540 letters from Southey to Charles, 364 from Charles to Southey and 759 from Charles to Henry (see also NLW MSS 2789-2806).

Papers, [18 cent.]-1936, of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, which include pedigrees, [18 cent.], of the Lloyd family of Blaen-y-ddol and Llwyn-y-maen, Oswestry and papers, 1719, relating to the erection of monuments to members of the Wynn family in Ruabon church; correspondence, 1797-1840 and n.d., of the Wynn family, including sixteen letter-books, 1807-1831, kept by Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn; transcripts of correspondence, 1803, between the Chancellor of the Exchequer Henry Addington and George, Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV) and between George and his father, George III; and a typescript copy, 1936, of a memoir of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn compiled by his grandson, Arthur Watkin Williams Wynn.

Abstracts, dated 1 December 1788, of leases in Montgomeryshire relating to the estates of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart (1692-1749).

An account book kept by Richard Wynne, Garthewin, attorney, and secretary on the Brecknock circuit of the Court of Great Sessions, together with a letter from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn dated December 1740.

Letters and papers, including a petition, circa 1722, from Sir John Philipps suggesting the preferment of Owen Philipps to the rectory of Walwins Castle, Pembrokeshire, a petition, 1745, signed by Sir John Philipps, Thomas Carew, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and George Heathcote, to the members of the House of Commons, requesting their attendance at the House on January 16, 1746, and a Return of the number of Men that can be contained, in the Different Towns in the Counties of Carnarvon, Anglesea, Montgomery, Merioneth and Denbigh under the superintendance of Major Genl. Fisher on an emergency. Wrexham June 2nd 1805.

Autograph letters, mainly of North Wales interest, from Robert Cholmondeley (afterwards Earl of Leinster) (1584?-1659), 13 March 1633/4, to Sir Roger Mostyn, kt (1559/60-1642); letters from Joseph Bunbury, Llay, 19 October 1676, to Sir Roger Mostyn, first baronet (1623/4-1690); letters from William Lloyd, bishop of Lichfield, Chester and Coventry (formerly bishop of St Asaph) (1627-1717), 6 May 1693, to Richard Mostyn, Penbedw (?the son of Sir Roger Mostyn, first baronet); letters from Richard Mostyn, Penbedw, 15 December 1693, to Sir John [?Conway]; letters from Thomas Puleston, Nantclwyd, 8 August 1720; letters from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, fourth baronet (1749-1789), Wynnstay, 15 March 1745/6, to Richard Williams, Penbedw; a statement dated 20 May 1678, signed by Owen Thelwall and others, relating to the burial of Dorothy Lloyd, alias Meredith, at Nannerch; financial memoranda, 15 April 1704, relating to Sir John Conway and a certain Mr Mostyn.

The political diaries of Lord Roberts of Conwy from 1970 to 1996 divided into 18 volumes. The diaries cover most of Lord Roberts' time as Member of Parliament for Conwy and his entire career at the Welsh Office and include letters, newpaper cuttings and pictures added by Lord Roberts. Many subject are covered including the establishment of S4C, Welsh language legislation, inward investment, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, Northern Ireland, the bombing of the Conservative Party conference in Brighton by the IRA in 1984, general elections and the European Union.

Miscellaneous manuscripts from the library of Thomas Davies, Aberaeron, including sermons, poetry and accounts.

These manuscripts form part of the Flintshire Historical Collection once in the possession of Henry Taylor (1845-1927), who was Town Clerk of Flint and whose best-known work is Historic Notices ... of the Borough and County-Town of Flint ..., published 1888. The collection comprises material largely of Flint and Flintshire interest and includes historical material, transcripts of documents and extracts from parish registers, minutes of borough meetings, pedigrees relating to notable families of the district, papers relating to parliamentary elections, correspondence, etc.

An extra-illustrated copy, with a few manuscript notes, of Cromwellania. A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged ... (London, 1810).

A letter dated 26 August 1665, signed by King Charles II (1630-1685) and sent, per the Earl of Carlingford [d. 1677], from Salisbury, whither the English Court had removed owing to the plague, to 'Mon Cousin, L'Euesque de Munster', i.e. Christopher Bernard von Ghalen, prince-bishop of Munster, Westphalia, ally of England in the Anglo-Dutch war.

An album of about one hundred and fifty autographs of royalty and of distinguished politicians, public men, and clergy, mainly of the nineteenth century, and mainly collected by Colonel John Lloyd Wynne, Coed Coch, Abergele. Included are a holograph letter, 11 September, 1642, from [Sir] Edw[ard] Nicholas, secretary of state, from Nottingham, to Walter Long, surveyor to the king, at Whitehall (references to the Marquis of Hertford's forces, the movements of the King, the growth of the Army, etc.); an autograph letter, in Latin, 3 December, 1658, from King Charles II from Brussells, to King Frederick of Denmark (the recipient's success against the Dutch); and holograph letters or cut-away autographs of, among others, King George [III or IV], Queen Victoria, Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford, Alexander Chalmers, 1805, Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton, 1813, Edward Pellew, 1st viscount Exmouth, 1818, Charles Grey, 2nd earl Grey, 1833, Joseph Wolff, missionary, 1835, William Lamb, 2nd viscount Melbourne, 1836, Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex, 1837, Daniel O'Connell, 1838, Sir robert Peel, 2nd bart., 1839, Sydney Smith, canon of St. Pauls, 1840, William Howley, archbishop of Canterbury, 1843, Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, cardinal archbishop of Westminster, 1859, Lord John Russell, 1st earl Russell, 1861, Louis Phillippe, duke of Orleans, from Claremont, 1861-3, Edward George Geffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of Derby, 1862, Granville George Levenson-Gower, 2nd earl Granville, 1862, Lord John George Beresford, archbishop of Armagh, 1862, Francis Jeune, bishop of Peterborough, 1865, Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1868, Richard Chenevix Trench, archbishop of Dublin, 1868, Henry John Temple, 3rd viscount Palmerston, John Bird Summer, archbishop of Canterbury, Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Oxford, Richard Whately, archbishop of Dublin, etc.

Deeds, 1243-1801 (mainly 1550-1700) relating to the Bachymbyd and Rug portions of the estate, but mainly the former, rentals, 1669-1933, maps, plans, surveys, etc., mainly 1750 onwards, and letters, 1545 onwards; ministers' accounts and receiver generals' accounts of the Devereux family, lord Ferrers, 1404-1409, 1525-1551, a grant from Owain Glyn Dwr, 1392, legal papers in a cause in Chancery relating to the ownership of the estate, 1674-1677, and Civil War papers, including the papers of William Salesbury, the royalist Governor of Denbigh castle 1643-1646.

Deeds, 1697-1835, relating to properties in Bedwas and Maugham; correspondence, [c. 1825]-1884; financial papers, 1859-1896; pedigree of the Price family, compiled [c. 1865]; printed works written by William Price, [1838]-1871, including Y Maen Chwyf and Gwyllllis Yn Nayd; works concerning Price, [c. 1855]-1965, with press cuttings, [c. 1920]-1953; and miscellaneous ephemera relating to the Price family, 1859-1906.

Miscellaneous deeds relating to Wales, 1600-1653.