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A holograph copy of the poem 'Leisure' by W. H. Davies, signed and dated 8 May 1914.
The poem was first published in William H. Davies, Songs of Joy and Others (London, 1911) and thereafter appeared in various collections and anthologies, including William H. Davies, Collected Poems (London, 1916), The Essential W. H. Davies (London, 1951) and The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies (London, 1963). This fair copy was possibly written whilst the poet was in Gloucestershire visiting friends among the Dymock poets (see Selected letters of Robert Frost, ed. by Lawrance Thompson (London, 1965), pp. 122-124).

Papers of, or relating to, poet and writer William Henry Davies, comprising autograph fair copies, [c. 1916], of fifteen poems by Davies, some of then apparently unpublished, submitted to James Guthrie for publication by the Pear Tree Press under the title Quiet Streams, together with a letter, 1916, from Davies to Guthrie; and a manuscript bibliography of published works by Davies, [c. 1958]-[c. 1979], compiled by Lloyd Tyrrell-Kenyon, 5th baron Kenyon of Gredington.

Records of the Welsh Army Corps, 1914-1916, including correspondence and accounts, 1914-1916; applications for commission, 1914-1916; and records relating to administration of the units of the Welsh Army Corps, 1914-1916; minutes of the National Executive Committee, 1914-1921; records relating to Ministry of Labour, 1915-1925; and personal papers of Owen W. Owen, 1895-1928.

Two copies of a diary kept by Major, later Colonel, Roundell Tristram Toke of the 1st Battalion the Welsh Regiment.

Blue notebook, entitled 'Diary kept during war, 1915. 1916', containing a narrative account of the Battalion's departure from Agra, India, and redeployment in France as part of the 84th Brigade of the 28th Division, 15 Nov. 1914-11 Jan. 1915. Daily entries for most days, 12 Jan.-31 Dec. 1915, including longer entries on 18-22 Feb. (Château Rosenthal, later 'Bedford House'), 8 May (the first day of the Battle of Frezenberg) and 24-25 May (Battle of Bellewaarde). (1 volume; 102 pp. of text).

Black notebook, entitled 'Diary of the war, 1st Welsh Regiment, January to August 1915, by Major R. T. Toke, A Company', containing a narrative account for 15 Nov.-18 Jan., and daily entries for most days, 19 Jan.-23 Aug. 1915, when Toke was appointed to command the 6th Service Battalion the Bedfordshire Regiment. The black notebook appears to be an edited version of the blue notebook, frequently with fuller daily entries. The text is on one side of each opening, with the facing page containing occasional notes, maps and plans. Also an original signal during the Battle of Bellewaarde that "The attack will be renewed at 12.30am without fail and pushed right through with the bayonet till our old line of trenches is regained", 25 May. (1 volume; 1 cm. of text).

Loose enclosures, including trench maps (Wulverghem, Feb.-March 1915, and Kemmel-Wytschaete, 4 July 1915), lists of officers wounded and killed, newspaper cuttings, and letters from Cyril Lomax ('Sandy') relating to his intended regimental history, 1922. (1 envelope; 1 cm.).

Typescript, [1915x1917], of 'The Fallacies of Economic Militarism' by William Archer, a critique of Roland G. Usher, Pan-Americanism: A Forecast of the Inevitable Clash between the United States and Europe's Victor (New York, 1915).
A leaf entitled 'Suggestions for Preface' is loose in the volume (f. ii). There are a few minor pencil and ink corrections and deletions; a new typed section has been pasted in on f. 6. The essay evidently relates to Archer's work with the War Propaganda Bureau but is apparently unpublished.

177 letters, 1915-1918, from Sapper Robert Glynn Griffiths (1898-1991), Royal Engineers, mainly to his parents in Deganwy whilst receiving military training in Bletchley and Birmingham, and in the battlefields of France. Also included is a volume compiled by his son D Geraint Griffith, the donor, entitled: ‘Letters of the First World War from Sapper Robert Glynn Griffiths’, 2009-2015, together with a Welsh version.

Papurau ychwanegol, [1915]-[1993], y cerddor William Llewelyn Edwards, yn cynnwys drafft o’i gyfrol gyntaf o emyn-donau Clychau’r maes (Llandysul, 1976) gyda’r hen nodiant yn ei law; llyfrau lloffion yn cofnodi ei lwyddiannau cerddorol a darlledu eu emyn-donau ar ‘Caniadaeth y Cysegr’; llythyrau yn ei longyfarch ar ennill y wobr gyntaf am gyfansoddi emyn-dôn yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Abertawe 1982; a nodiadau cefndirol ar ei emyn-donau. Ceir traethawd ‘Golwg ar fywyd a gwaith William Llewelyn Edwards, Bron Rhiwel, Llandre, Bow Street, cyfansoddwr emyn donau’ gan Anwen Ebenezer, a chyfrol ’Iesu bia’r gân’ yn cynnwys emyn-donau J. T. Rees a fu’n dysgu cerddoriaeth i William Llewelyn Edwards.

An archive relating to the life history of the Welsh boy soprano, Tom Howell (born 1911), including a letter from the BBC dated 1925 offering an engagement to broadcast, press cuttings relating to his singing awards, prize certificates, and ribbons, letters, a music sheet book for pianoforte, R.A.F. ID service tags and Service Book from his WWII military service as 1127491 Cpl. RAF in the Japanese campaign, a June 26th, 1943 copy of Ceylon Review regarding the Allies' victory over Japan in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), a group photograph of NTTC (Non-Technical Training Centre) R.A.F. India Equipment Accounts 1944 including Tom Howell, and a pocket watch inset with his photo portrait as a youth.

British Red Cross Society's Note Book and Diary for 1916, of Corporal Howard Ll[oyd] Roberts of Borth, Cardiganshire, serving on the Western Front in France and Belgium with the 129th Field Ambulance of the RAMC, attached to 15th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, part of the 38th (Welsh) Division, containing diary entries for 16 January and 2 February-31 December 1916 (pp. 74, 78-174). The frequent references to water tanks and carts indicate Cpl Roberts was part of the 129th Ambulance's Sanitary Section.
The Division began the year in the Neuve-Chapelle sector, between Merville and Bethune (pp. 78-116), then in June was ordered to the Somme, taking part in the Battle of Mametz Wood during the 1st Battle of the Somme in July (pp. 121-124). On 31 July (p. 130) Roberts's battalion arrived at Poperinghe, Belgium, and spent the rest of the year in the vicinity of Ypres (pp. 130-174). Roberts was on leave in Birmingham and Borth, 3-10 April (pp. 96-98), and was hospitalised at St Omer with German measles, 4-15 May (pp. 104-108). As an artist Roberts contributed sketches to the New Year Souvenir of the Welsh Division for 1917 (see pp. 160-165). A sketch map of the British lines at Windy Corner, [Neuve-Chapelle sector], is on p. 65; a very small pencil sketch is on p. 124.

Journal of an unidentified writer from Edmonton, North London, recording several cycling tours in south-east England and north Wales, 1916-1918 (ff. 1-27), in particular a tour, entitled 'A Sentimental Journey... to Wales... 1918. The Diary of the Pilgrim of Love', 6-20 July 1918 (ff. 10-27), in which he retraced the route of a tour the previous year (see also ff. 3 verso-4 verso), in the unrealised hope of seeing again his first love Hilda. The journals were written retrospectively based on contemporaneous notes.
Commencing from London and travelling via Shrewsbury (ff. 12 verso-13), the Welsh itinerary included Pentrefoelas, Denbighshire (f. 14 recto-verso), Harlech (ff. 15 verso-19), Betws-y-Coed (f. 21 recto-verso), Conwy (f. 22), Caernarfon (ff. 22 verso-23), Betws-y-Coed again (f. 24 recto-verso), Rhyl (f. 25 recto-verso) and Chester (ff. 25 verso-26). Also included in the volume are accounts of earlier excursions, including tours of East Anglia, 1917 (f. 2 recto-verso, beginning lacking), and Hampshire, Sussex and Surrey, Easter 1918 (ff. 6-7), and journeys to Reading, Berkshire, [11]-[12] May 1918 (ff. 7 verso-8 verso), and Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, [18-20 May] 1918 (f. 9 recto-verso). A few sketches and fragments of prose are to be found at the end of the volume (ff. 108 verso (inverted text), 109 verso). The volume also contains transcripts of poetry, some by the author (ff. 4 verso-5, 10, 13, 17-18, 109 verso). The text is supplemented by fifty-two of the author's own photographs (ff. 3, 7-27 passim), cuttings of twenty-four Frank Patterson illustrations for the magazine Cycling (ff. 1 verso-7 passim, 10 verso-11 verso, 20-25 verso passim) and other cuttings. The writer was born in 1898 (f. 7 verso) and was of conscription age but had received temporary exemption from enlistment (see f. 3).

Elegiac verses on the death in France in 1916 of Lieutenant David Owain Evans, Blaenau Ffestiniog, written by Humphrey Jones (Bryfdir) and Ellis Humphrey Evans (Hedd Wyn) for a literary meeting at Seion chapel, Blaenau Ffestiniog, April 24, 1916.

A notebook containing a medical list for the South Camp at Frongoch internment camp, Merioneth, 17 July-18 August and 22 October 1916, compiled by Tomás O Donncadha (Tomás O Donohoe).
The lists, compiled daily, 17-23 July, 25 July, 29 July-2 August (ff. 4-10, rectos only, 11-13, 14) and 3-18 August (ff. 3 verso-7 verso, versos only, 8 verso-10 verso, 13 verso, 14 verso-20), are variously headed 'Hospital List', 'Medicine' or 'Medical List' and include the names of patients and their prisoner numbers. Three further lists, 22 October 1916 and [n.d.], are included on loose sheets (ff. 21-23). The volume also includes lists of Irish words and phrases (ff. 1 verso-2 verso, 18 verso-19). The volume is written mostly in pencil. Frongoch housed over 1800 Irish republicans between June and December 1916; the South Camp was located in an old whisky distillery, the nearby North Camp consisted of wooden huts. O Donohoe writes 'Farewell' on f. 19 verso and the end of the volume coincides closely with the release of the majority of the prisoners in mid-August.

A typescript copy, 1940, of a work entitled 'The Tribal System in Wales Examined', together with notes on signalling, 1917.

Bound volume containing printed reports of the Cardiganshire War Savings Committee, 1917-1918, and a letter from the donor, dated 6 September 1920, addressed to the Librarian, Sir John Ballinger.

Over seventy letters and cards, 1917-1986, of miscellaneous provenance from twentieth-century Welsh writers to various recipients; the correspondents include E. Tegla Davies (1) 1956, W. J. Gruffydd (1) 1952, R. T. Jenkins (1), 1946, David James Jones (Gwenallt) (1) 1953, T. Gwynn Jones (9) 1923-1939, J. Saunders Lewis (5) 1931-1976, Caradog Prichard (4) 1962-1972, Kate Roberts (28) 1937-1983, D. J. Williams (6) 1917-1969, and T. H. Parry-Williams (1) 1953.

Music manuscripts and papers of the composer and teacher, Gilmor Griffiths.

Sgriptiau dramâu Gwynne D. Evans, 1946-[1979], gan gynnwys rhai a ddanfonwyd i gystadleuthau yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, ac a ddarlledwyd ar y radio ac ar y teledu; sgriptiau 'Pobol y Cwm'; ynghyd â phapurau’n ymwneud â’i waith fel cynhychydd Under Milk Wood a Dan y Wenallt.