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A transcript, [c. 1878-1879], by the Rev. John Evans (1843-97), Westerly, Rhode Island, of extracts from the Welsh portion of the 'Ilston Book', containing records, 1649-1660, of the Baptist church established in 1649 at Ilston, near Swansea (see The Ilston Book, ed. by B. G. Owens (Aberystwyth, 1996); for a discussion of this transcript see pp. lxxiii-lxxvi). It was made at the request of the Rev. John Jones (1834-87), Felin-foel, Llanelli (see D. Rhys Phillips, 'Cefndir Hanes Eglwys Ilston, 1649-60', Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1928, 1-107 (pp. 54-5)) and was later used by the Rev. Thomas Shankland, Bangor (see f. 1v and Seren Gomer, 21-3 (1900-2)).

A transcript of the notebook of Kurt Ockert (1920-2011), a German Prisoner of War, posted to work in Radnorshire during the Second World War who married a Welsh girl from Presteigne and lived there until his death. It was transcribed by the donor George P. Lancett after Kurt Ockert's death in November 2011.

A photocopy, 2007, of an unpublished typescript work entitled 'The Llanbadrig Churches and the "Chilton" plate' by Cliff Corker, 1986.

Papers and letters relating to Christian missions in Wales, 1942-1950, 1974; papers relating to the mission in Blaendulais, 1952; the 'Yr Ymgyrch Newydd yng Nghymru' newsletter, and letters 1949-1951 and correspondence between Erastus Jones and Griff J. Miles, 1948-1951, 1987-1988.

Miscellaneous data (typewritten) relating to the parish of Llandwrog, co. Caernarvon, including extracts from a lay subsidy roll, 1663, a hearth tax return, 1664, an assessment for church mise, 1743, and a land tax assessment, 1788; incomplete lists of the rectors, 1652-1936, curates, 1633-1896, and churchwardens, 1739-1812; lists of freeholders, jurors, and electors, mid-sixteenth century - 1794; etc. The whole has been bound in the form of a small booklet.

A note written in 1931 by Tom Jones, Coedcae, Trealaw, Glamorgan, on 'The Place-Name Britannia, Porth, Rhondda'.

A copy of the report of a research project conducted and presented by Owen Roberts and directed jointly by Dr Richard Coopey and Professor Aled Jones. The three main objectives of the project were to write a series of narrative histories of dam building and water supply in north east Wales from the 1880s to the present day, to equip future researchers with a guide to archives and collections pertaining to the Welsh water industry, and to establish within the University of Wales an internationally recognised centre for the study of water history.

Research work undertaken by Hugh Jones on the casulaties listed on the memorial tablet at St George's Church, Reynoldston, Gower, who died during the First World War. Included are short biographies of the fallen soldiers.

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.

A film script produced by Douglas Simpson, Colliery Manager, 1951.

A typescript copy, 1940, of 'The Tribal System in Wales Examined' by Timothy Lewis (1877-1958), a version of which was published as 'The Tribal System in Wales' in the Economic History Review, second series, 6 (1954), 297-304, and also 'Seebohm's Tribal System of Wales' in ibid., second series, 9 (1956), 16-33.

A copy of a typescript work compiled by Grace Childs entitled 'Water in the Community. The Wells of Burton Parish, Pembrokeshire', including photographs and a map showing the location of each well.

A volume containing an early manuscript draft, [c. 1932], by Margiad Evans of her second novel, The Wooden Doctor (Oxford, 1933), here entitled 'A Divine Image', and containing material not included in the published text. The volume was originally in the possession of the geologist and palaeontologist Robert Etheridge and contains notes by him, 1854, on lead mining in Cardiganshire (ff. 242 verso-244).

The first of two volumes of copies of inscriptions on tombstones in Newmarket Church, Flintshire, with notes on the history of the parish transcribed from manuscript sources by Thomas Allen Glenn.

The second of two volumes of copies of inscriptions on tombstones in Newmarket Church, Flintshire, with notes on the history of the parish transcribed from manuscript sources by Thomas Allen Glenn.

The second of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

The first of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

Sermons written in 1823 by Thomas Clement, Bryngroesfach, Llanelly.

Miscellaneous family and business papers, including records relating to the County Press, Llandeilo, 1916-1931, records of the Llandeilo Public and Literary Institute, 1916-1944; Brecknockshire diaries, 1777-1887; and deeds and other papers of William Jones relating to properties in Borth, Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire, 1872-1940.

A bibliography compiled by T[homas] Hevin Williams in 1931 for a study of Merioneth place-names.