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Seven letters and a postcard, 1953, from David Jones, artist and writer, to Elwyn Evans, principally concerning the arrangements for broadcasting 'Wales and the Crown', a radio talk by David Jones (see David Jones, Epoch and Artist, ed. Harman Grisewood (London, 1959), pp. 39-48); with some related papers, 1953-1962.

Copy-book of John David Griffith Howel of Abergwili, co. Carmarthen, 1741-1778, containing calligraphic exercises in the principal contemporary scripts, together with multiplication tables, rough calculations and a few jottings. Some of the exercises have been adapted from the books of English writing-masters: ff. 2 verso, 3 verso from John Davies of Hereford's The Writing Schoolemaster (London, 1636), f. 36 verso from Edward Cocker, The Clerk's Tutor for Writing (London, 1667), and f. 53 verso from ibid., The Pen's Transcendency (London, 1660).

Cuttings of the account contained in NLW MS 21902A as it appeared, with variations and additions, in Y Genedl Gymreig, January-February 1914; letters and cards, 1915-1925, from Robert John Griffith in New South Wales; and a broadsheet with verses by John Ellis Jones ('Elidirfab') in memory of John Griffith, Fron, Nant Peris, 1903.

Minute-book, 1887-1888, of 'Cymdeithas Ddadleuol y Gwyr Ieungc' [sic] at Latrobe Street Welsh church, Melbourne.

Specifications and bill of costs drawn up by Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, for the renovation of his brother's house, The Glen, Conwy, Caernarfonshire (ff. 1-12), with related correspondence, including two letters from Clough Williams-Ellis (ff. 19, 24), and bills from local contractors, 1914.

Autograph drafts or texts of prose pieces, 1945-1970s, of miscellaneous provenance, by twentieth-century writers, mostly published. They include short stories: 'Tedi' by Harri Pritchard Jones, 'Cyfri Bysedd' by Marged Pritchard, and 'Yr Wylan Deg' by Kate Roberts; and two addresses, 'Y Broses Greadigol' and 'Saunders Lewis' by John Gwilym Jones, both published in 'Y Traethodydd'.

Correspondence and papers, 1959-1981, relating to the career of Dafydd Elystan Elystan-Morgan, baron Elystan-Morgan of Aberteifi, Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire, 1966-1974, collected by Howard C. Jones, journalist and Labour Party activist. Most of the letters are from Lord Elystan-Morgan to the donor and relate to his political activities in London and to constituency affairs. There are also letters and copies of letters from, among others, Alice Bacon (1) 1970, Neil G. Carmichael (3) 1968-1969, Will Edwards (1) [c. 1966], Lord Gardner (1) 1968, Roy Hattersley (2) 1969-1970, Cledwyn Hughes (3) 1969, Sir Elwyn Jones (1) 1970, John Morris (1) 1968, D. Ben Rees (3) 1965, Merlyn Rees (1) 1968, Goronwy Roberts (1) 1966, John Stonehouse (2) 1967-1969, Dick Taverne (1) 1969, George Thomas (1) 1970, Shirley Williams (1) 1968 and Lord Winterbottom (2) 1969-1970, as well as miscellaneous papers, mostly on matters relating to the Labour Party in Cardiganshire, and a large number of press cuttings.

Twenty-seven letters, 1845-1847, from the engineer James Watt, jnr, of Aston Hall, Warwickshire, to Robert William Mylne, architect and engineer, relating to the rebuilding for Watt of Doldowlod, parish of Llanyre, Radnorshire, and containing references to the Gloucester and Aberystwyth Railway, the Central Wales Railway and the Welsh Midland Railway (ff. 29-30, 31 verso-32).

Photocopies of a small number of 17th - 18th century manuscripts relating to Glascwm parish and the Kington area of Radnorshire, including affidavits relating to burials in woollen, accounts of overseers of the poor, printed items and poetry.

The visitors' book of Gwydir Castle, Llanrwst, Denbighshire, April 1889 - May 1894.

Some fifty letters, 1933-1948, from Ifan ab Owen Edwards and R. E. Griffith to the architect D. T. Jones, Aberystwyth, relating to work carried out by the latter for Cwmni Urdd Gobaith Cymru (The Welsh League of Youth, Inc.), including letters concerning the Welsh school at Lluest, Aberystwyth.

A copy of Margaret F. Harris's (née Davies) PhD thesis, 'Little England beyond Wales as a regional unit' (Birbeck College, 1949).

Notes, 1776, by the Reverend Joseph Robertson, literary critic, on the tours of Scotland undertaken by Thomas Pennant in 1769 and 1772, seemingly made from Pennant's 'A tour in Scotland' (Warrington, Chester, London, 1774-1776), with a section from 'The Critical Review', June 1776, containing Robertson's review of Pt II of the work inserted between ff. 8 and 9.

Papurau, 1986-1989, a grynhowyd gan Arwyn Thomas fel Is-Gadeirydd Is-Bwyllgor Llenyddiaeth Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Casnewydd 1988, gan gynnwys gohebiaeth; cofnodion cyfarfodydd yr Is-Bwyllgor; dadansoddiad o gystadleuaeth 'y nofel', 1951-1984, a'r cefndir i benderfyniad y Pwyllgor Llên ynglŷn â'r Nofel a Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen, a llythyr oddi wrth Islwyn Ffowc Elis yn ymateb i hwn; rhaglen y Babell Lên; ynghyd â thorion o'r wasg.

Typescript copy of a diary kept by L. E. Latchford, 20 January 1940-23 February 1941, when he was employed at HM Customs and Excise, Swansea, as well as being an air-raid warden. It provides a day-by-day record of civilian life and reactions during the period of the 'phoney war', Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain and contains particularly vivid accounts of the bombing of Swansea. Also included are three letters from publishers and a reader's report, 1979-1980, concerning an attempt to publish the work (ff. i-iv). Extracts from the diary were serialized in the 'South Wales Evening Post', 2-17 September 1980.

An Oxford DPhil thesis by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, 1978, entitled 'A Study of Y Seint Greal in relation to a Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus', studying the provenance of the Middle Welsh prose romance and its relation to its Old French sources.

Some thirty letters, 1925-1940, from the Dutch scholar Theodor Max Chotzen to Dr E. D. Jones. Written mainly in Welsh, they contain personal news, details of the writer's publications, references to contemporary Welsh scholars, and observations on political events in Wales. Also included is a letter, 1946, from his widow containing information concerning her husband's imprisonment by the Germans and subsequent death on 27 February 1945.

Manuscript and typescript notes of lectures, addresses and articles, [c. 1940]-1960, by David James Jones ('Gwenallt') relating to his upbringing and the background to his poetry, Christianity and society, Communism, the decline of religion, the poet and Christianity, hymnology and hymnists, and aspects of poetry and literary appreciation.

A register of Salem Baptist church, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, containing a brief history of the cause, details of membership, births, baptisms and deaths, and other memoranda pertaining to the church, 1797-1847. A note by Thomas Edwards ('Iorwerth Goch'), Lletty Ifor, Mountain Ash on f. 74 records that the volume was used by him while compiling 'Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Salem, Glanyfferi, o'r dechreuad hyd 1890' (Aberdar, 1891). Also included are memoranda by Thomas Edwards including an account, 1897, of the descendants of William and Phebe Jenkin, Cwmslac, St Ishmael, Carmarthen, in the hand of his son Llewelyn Morgan Edwards (ff. 34-71).

Thirteen letters, mainly from Dr Henry Grey Macnab (1761-1823; DNB) addressed to Frederick Boothe, Spring Gardens, London, concerning his life in France (ff. 3-20v), but also including three letters, 1817-1819, to Macnab from the Under-secretary of State to the Interior Department, Paris; Edward, duke of Kent, Brussels; and Count Laffon de Ladebat in French, referring to Macnab's The views of Mr Owen of Lanark impartially examined ... (London, 1819) which he translated into French and published in 1821.