A copy of 'Speech of the Earl of Powis [i.e. Edward, second earl] in the House of Lords on Tuesday, May 23, 1843, on moving the second reading of a bill for preventing the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor . . .' (London, 1843), with letters and printed papers relating to the threatened union of the sees, the object of which was to transfer the income of the see that would be suppressed to a see of Manchester. Among the papers are letters from the earl of Powis, George William, fourth baron Lyttelton, and Charles Scott Luxmoore, dean of St. Asaph.
Vestry book for the parish of Llanfair-juxta-Harlech, Merioneth, 1787-1853, containing lists of names of paupers who received charity money from 1802 to 1853, and of persons who paid the poor rate in 1787; and minutes of vestry meetings from 18 November 1803 to 29 May 1851.
A musical score, 'Castell Dolbadarn' by John Metcalf, a work inspired by Turner's painting. Presented as part of the celebrations of opening Drwm, the new cultural centre at the National Library of Wales, June 2004.
An essay in Welsh by the Reverend Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid, 1828-1898) [DWB] on Hanes Bywgraphyddol a Beirniadol o Gerddorion Cymreig; hyd Ganol y Ganrif Bresenol, entered for competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, London, 1887, and partly published in Yr Haul, 1888-1890, 1894-1895. Papers, 1894-1917, found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (MS 22549iiE).
Score-book, 1904-1906, of Ceredigion (Aberystwyth) Cricket Club. Correspondence and other papers, 1937-48, relating mainly to subscriptions to, and fixtures of, the club after it was re-formed, found loose inside the volume, have been filed separately (MS 22677iiD).
Pocket-book of Police Constable John Williams, stationed at Garndolbenmaen, containing a record of sheep earmarks in the parishes of Clynnog, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, co. Caernarfon.
A notebook containing almost six hundred sheep earmarks from farms in counties Merioneth and Montgomery, with a list of localities and parishes (f. 1).
A typescript draft, with manuscript revision and additions, of an unpublished volume on Bilingualism in Education in Wales, compiled by Dan Lynn James, former Language Organiser for Ceredigion, mainly between 1973 and 1977, together with an introductory chapter by Jac L. Williams and comments on the work by R. M. (Bobi) Jones. With NLW MS 22805D.
Microfilm copies of the Presteigne, parish registers, comprising baptisms, 1561-1912, marriages, 1561-1922 (Banns 1754-1948) and burials, 1561-1904. Baptism, marriage and burial entries, 1671-1866 (with gaps), are also included for the parish of Ross.
General accounts, 1728-1783, kept by Hugh Lloyd, vicar of Mold. There are records of malt and hops used for brewing, of prices realised for livestock and cops, births, marriages, deaths, and wills, of expenses incurred in the building of a schoolhouse at Mold, and of a payment to Morris Dancers in 1737.
A typescript copy of Alun Trevor's reminiscences of his childhood in north east Wales during the 1920s, and his life and career afterwards, entitled The songbird is singing (published by Parthian Books, 2009).
An imperfect copy of John Parry: A Brief Account of the British or Cambrian Music; 1742, with manuscript titles, and with transcripts supplied by D. Emlyn Evans.
Manuscript notebook, [?1818], containing copies of prose and poetry by Ann of Swansea (Ann Julia Hatton) connected with her novel Chronicles of an Illustrious House (London, 1816) which caused controversy for satirising Swansea polite society as the fictional 'Gooselake'. Included are extracts from the novel, specifically sections relating to Gooselake, beginning at vol. 2, p. 74 (ff. 1-18 verso), dated 5 July 1818 (f. 18 verso); two poems responding to the furore surrounding the novel, the first addressed 'To the Great Dons of Swansea' (ff. 19-20), the second beginning 'Arms, Arms I sing! and many battles dire' (ff. 20 verso-26); 'Elegy on the Death of Mr Bamboo', dated January 1817 (ff. 26 verso-28 verso), and a single verse beginning 'Now lost in dust is Cambria's boast', dated 1816 (f. 29). A leaf identifying some characters from the novel with their real-life counterparts has been tipped in on f. i; this suggests that the unknown compiler of the volume had a close connection with Swansea.
A typescript dissertation entitled 'A General Survey of the Slate Industry of Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire', by William Morgan Richards, Portmadoc, 1933.
An autograph album, 1861-1907, containing entries by Henry Rees, John Ogwen Jones, Thomas Raffles, J. R. Kilsby Jones, John Jones, Abercin, D[avid] Saunders, Lewis Edwards, John Owen ('Owain Alaw'),Thomas Nicholas, William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), John Roberts, Cherrapoongee, Thomas Levi, and others.
