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Family papers and estate records, 1534-1872, mainly of the Edwards family of Cerrigllwydion, Denbighshire, and Dolserau, Merioneth, with a smaller amount of material of the Richards family of Caerynuwch, including family and estate letters, 1776-1859, deeds relating to the estate in Merioneth, Denbighshire and Flintshire, 1534-1859, and miscellaneous papers (mainly financial), [late 17 cent.]-1872.

Papers of Lady Charlotte Guest (née Bertie), 1827-1851, [?1873], comprising manuscripts of parts of her English translation of the Mabinogion and their accompanying notes, 1838-[1843]; other manuscripts directly related to her work on the Mabinogion, [?late 1830s]-1851; early notes compiled by Charlotte Bertie (later Guest), on a variety of subjects, 1827-[1830s]; and other miscellaneous items including a deed box.

The papers consist of the personal papers and letters of, and acquired by, Evan Richards of Nanthenfoel, 1823-1872; family correspondence, 1826-1891; unproved Cardiganshire wills, 1805-1847; and miscellaneous documents of Cardiganshire interest, 1787-1853.

The original manuscript of the ode Caradog yn Rhufain which won for Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) (1823-1905) the chair at the Mold National Eisteddfod, 1873.

Great Exhibition Almanack .... 1851, used by Thomas Owens, mariner, of Bryngwallter, Penbryn, Cardiganshire, to record entries concerning his voyages; extracts from the log of the SS Great Britain on voyages from Melbourne to Liverpool (inverted text ff. 29 verso-31, 54 verso-6); transcripts of carols and other verse, including 'Hanes ail fordaith y Brig Albion i'r America' (ff. 2-16; see also NLW MSS 9383A, 21965A); and miscellaneous notes and accounts.

Volume recording monthly contributions, 1863-1871, to the Llandyssul Benefit Society (ff. 1-38 verso).

Llyfr nodiadau ('Count book') Thomas Jenkins, 1865-[1871], yn cynnwys ryseitiau meddygol, ynghyd â chopi o'r gyfrol Elfenau Meddyginiaeth sef cyfarwyddiadau at drin clefydau a damweiniau i aros cyfarwyddyd meddyg gan Alfred Smee a Robert Druitt. (Dinbych,1852). Yn tarddu'n wreiddiol o gasgliad personol tad y rhoddwr, sef Dewi Morgan Lewis, meddyg a Seiciatrydd Ymgynghorol.

Notebook ('Count book') of Thomas Jenkins, 1865-[1871], including medicinal recipes, together with a copy of Elfenau Meddyginiaeth [Elements of medicine] by Alfred Smee and Robert Druitt. (Denbigh,1852). These items are from the personal collection of the donor’s father Dewi Morgan Lewis, doctor and Consultant Psychiatrist.

Poems, essays and other prose items written by Eliza Carmarthen (1825-1872), i.e. Eliza Phillipps Williams, Carmarthen, who married (1) the Rev. John Saunders Hughes and (2) the Rev. Thomas Johns.
The volume contains short essays and thoughts on Scriptural and other subjects, two short stories entitled 'I wish to be happy' and 'The Dying Student' and a large number of hymns and poems, mostly in English. Also included are two poems in English by Eliza's father John Williams, with a Welsh translation of one of them, and silhouettes by the late Miss Aldrit, Highbury Hall, Weston-super-Mare, and Mrs Johns.

Record book of the Llandyssul Benefit Society, 1855-1871, recording admissions of new members, 1853-1871 (ff. ii verso, 1-14, 79-80), fines and forfeitures, 1855-1862 (ff. 14 verso-19, 76-78), monthly contributions, 1855-1863 (ff. 19 verso-64), funerals paid for, 1858 (ff. 69 verso-75), members receiving sick relief, 1855-1864 (ff. 89 verso-94 verso), and members paying for a copy of the Society's rules, 1855-1856 (ff. 96 verso-98 verso).

A scrapbook containing autographs, franks and prints compiled, [1831]-[c. 1867], probably by Sarah Dorothy Grey of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees (later Sarah Dorothy Robinson of Silksworth Hall, County Durham, and Quedgeley, Gloucestershire).
Nearly all the autographs are in the form of 'free fronts', mostly dated 1806-1839, being franked address panels signed by Members of Parliament (or Lords) to allow them free postage (ff. 2-110 passim; a number of these are addressed to members of the Grey family of Norton). The prints include engravings depicting Royalty (ff. 1 verso, 4, 16, 34), topographical and architectural views (ff. 4 verso-111 passim) and female fashions of 1830 (ff. 10 recto-verso, 28 recto-verso). Also included are cuttings of a few ballads (ff. 12, 18, 22 verso, 72) and two 'skit notes' (f. 18). Items found loose inside the volume (19 ff.) have been placed in an archival envelope; these include eleven free fronts, 1828-1837, and three invitations (in French) to the Robinson family to attend events at the French Court in Paris, 1867.

Two volumes, 1823-[?1860s], from the collection of Dr John Cule, mostly containing medicinal recipes and medical notes.

Manuscripts, estate records and family papers of the Edwards and Morrall families of Cilhendre and Plas Yolyn in Dudleston, Shropshire, including the manuscripts and papers of Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659); Colonel John Jones 'the regicide' of Maesgarnedd (?1597-1660); correspondence of the Edwards and Morrall families; papers of the Jones family of Cilhendre, descendants of Colonel John Jones; a small group of papers relating to the Hanmer family (including documents relating to the part played by William Hanmer of Fennes in the Civil War and a travel journal of Thomas Hanmer, 1728); and deeds, 1282-1869 relating to properties mainly in Denbighshire, Flint, Merionethshire and Shropshire, but also in London, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.

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.

Journal of two tours in North Wales by Charles Edward Rawlins (1811-1884) of Liverpool, merchant and political writer, in June 1866 and September 1868, accompanied on the first by Isaac Bancroft Cooke and Samuel Bulley, both cotton brokers of Liverpool, and on the second by his wife and children, including his son, Herbert, whose later signature appears on f. i. Two maps showing the itineraries are included, and the second tour (ff. 27-110 verso) is illustrated with engravings, [1850s]-[1860s].

Autograph album, 1866-1868, belonging to the journalist John Griffith (Gohebydd), compiled during visits to Reconstruction Era America to report for Baner ac Amserau Cymru. The album contains eighty-four signatures and inscriptions, mainly by Senators and other senior politicians and social reformers (ff. 3-49).
The signatories include the future Presidents James A. Garfield (f. 32) and U[lysses] S. Grant (f. 37), future Vice-Presidents Tho[mas] A. Hendricks (f. 7) and Schuyler Colfax (f. 26), Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (f. 36), presidents pro-tem of the Senate L[a] F[ayette] S. Foster (f. 19) and B[enjamin] F. Wade (f. 22), the abolitionists and social reformers Frederick Douglass (f. 38), Wendell Phillips (f. 45) and Anna E. Dickinson (f. 46), the actor James E. Murdoch (f. 41) and the writer R[alph] Waldo Emerson (f. 43). A few autographs are of Welshmen (ff. 44, 49).

A manuscript volume containing mineral reports, copies of letters, plans and diagrams relating mainly to coal mining in Glamorgan, compiled 1849-1868 (watermark 1841), by Lewis A[mbrose] Williams, mineral and land surveyor and mine manager, of Bridgend and Cardiff (see Martin Laverty, 'Native Talent: A Williams Family of Early Victorian Swansea' in Swansea History Journal, 23 (2015-16), pp. 111-127).
The contents include mineral reports relating to various properties (ff. 3-75 passim, 102 verso-133 passim, 187-198); copy letters, 1849-1868, relating to Williams's work both as surveyor and mine manager (ff. 4-139 passim, 204); various diagrams, including mineral sections, some in colour (ff. 1-2, 152 verso, 153 verso, 155 verso-156, 157 verso, 160, 171 verso, 172 verso, 173 verso-174 verso, 177 verso, 178 verso, 197 verso, 199, 201 recto-verso), plans (ff. 40, 82, 83, 200, 202), and technical drawings and cross-sections (ff. 11, 19, 20, 79 verso, 83 verso, 88 verso-89, 134, 149 verso, 150 verso, 151 verso-152, 154 verso, 156 verso, 158 verso-166 verso (versos only), 169 verso-170 verso, 176 verso, 203, 215). Items found loose in the volume (ff. 183-220) have been placed in an archival envelope.

Llyfr nodiadau, 1819-1868, yn cynnwys cerddi holograff gan W. J. Roberts (Gwilym Cowlyd), 1858-1868. = Notebook, 1819-1868, containing holograph poems by W. J. Roberts (Gwilym Cowlyd), 1858-1868.
Mae'r cerddi yn cynnwys fersiwn ddrafft a chynllun o'r bryddest 'Dr William Morgan' (ff. 2-15) a fu'n fuddugol yn Eisteddfod Betws y Coed, Nadolig 1859, a 'Gogangerdd i Ddirmygwyr Cyfarfodydd Llenyddol', 1868 (ff. 17, 19), y ddwy wedi eu cyhoeddi yn Y Murmuron (Llanrwst, 1868), ynghyd â nifer o englynion a phenillion eraill (f. 17 verso-18 verso, 19 recto-verso, 21 verso). Mae yna hefyd nodiadau amrywiol ar William Morgan, Robert Ferrar a'r Diwygiad Protestannaidd (ff. 19 verso-21). Mae yna ychydig gyfrifon amrywiol, 1819, mewn llaw arall (f. 1 a thu mewn i'r cloriau). = The poems include a draft version and a plan of a pryddest to Dr William Morgan (ff. 2-15) which won a prize at Betws y Coed Eisteddfod, Christmas 1859, and a satire, 'Gogangerdd i Ddirmygwyr Cyfarfodydd Llenyddol', 1868 (ff. 17, 19), both published in Y Murmuron (Llanrwst, 1868), along with englynion and other verses (some illegible) (f. 17 verso-18 verso, 19 recto-verso, 21 verso). There are also miscellaneous notes on William Morgan, Robert Ferrar and the Protestant Reformation (ff. 19 verso-21). A few miscellaneous accounts, 1819, are in a different hand (f. 1 and inside the covers).

Llyfr nodiadau, [?1827]-1868 (dyfrnod 1824), yn llaw'r Parch. Hugh Pugh, gweinidog capel Annibynnol Cyssegr, Mostyn, sir y Fflint, o 1837 i 1868. = Notebook, 1827-1843 (watermark 1824), of the Rev. Hugh Pugh, minister of Cyssegr Congregational chapel, Mostyn, Flintshire, from 1837 to 1868.
Cynhwysa'r gyfrol restr o briodasau yng nghapel y Cyssegr, 1837-1842 (f. 2 verso); rhestr o bregethau a draddodwyd gan Pugh ym Mostyn a'r cyffiniau, 1837-1841 (ff. 3-14); copi o gyffes ffydd Pugh, a adroddwyd yn ei gyfarfod ordeinio yn Llandrillo, Meirionnydd, 3 Gorffennaf 1827 (cyhoeddwyd yn W. Rees a T. Roberts, Cofiant am y Diweddar Barch. Hugh Pugh, Mostyn (Lerpwl, 1870), tt. 20-22) (ff. 46-57 verso, testun â'i wyneb i waered); a rhestr o'r rhai a dderbyniwyd i gymundeb ym Mostyn, 1837-1843 (ff. 41 verso-45 verso, testun â'i wyneb i waered). Mae saith eitem rydd, 1863-1868, yn cynnwys llythyrau ac effemera a ailddefnyddiwyd gan Pugh i ysgrifennu nodiadau pregethau, wedi eu tipio i mewn ar ddail gwag (ff. 35-40 verso, testun â'i wyneb i waered). = The volume includes a list of marriages at Cyssegr chapel, 1837-1842 (f. 2 verso); a list of sermons preached by Pugh in Mostyn and the surrounding area, 1837-1841 (ff. 3-14); a copy of Pugh's confession of faith, delivered at his ordination in Llandrillo, Merioneth, 3 July 1827 (published in W. Rees & T. Roberts, Cofiant am y Diweddar Barch. Hugh Pugh, Mostyn (Liverpool, 1870), pp. 20-22) (ff. 46-57 verso, inverted text); and a list of those received into communion at Mostyn, 1837-1843 (ff. 41 verso-45 verso, inverted text). Seven loose items, 1863-1868, include letters and ephemera reused by Pugh to write sermon notes, have been tipped in on blank leaves (ff. 35-40 verso, inverted text).

A volume containing humorous prose (ff. 4-16 verso) and poetry (ff. 19-33), [1867], by a young woman identifying herself as 'Angelina Workington' (f. 9), for her uncle, 'Slatey Hughes Esquire', as a memento of their visit to Llandudno and the surrounding area in July 1867.
The volume consists of a fanciful prologue (ff. 4-6), followed by equally fanciful accounts of excursions to the Great Orme (ff. 9-10 verso, 12-13 verso) and Capel Curig (ff. 14 recto-verso, 16 recto-verso), and poems entitled 'Ffos Noddyn' (ff. 19-20), 'A Growl from Gelert's Ghost' (ff. 22-25), 'The Streamlet's Song' (ff. 27-29) and 'Excelsior' (ff. 31-33). The manuscript is written mainly in black ink, with some words in red, blue, green and gold paint. In addition there is an illuminated title page (f. 2) and dedication (f. 3), with further illuminations or decorative initials on ff. 4, 8, 9, 16, 19, 22, 31; together with five pen drawings (ff. 7, 11, 15, 17, 22) and a photograph of the Great Orme, Llandudno (pasted in on f. 8). The name 'Angelina Workington' is presumed to be a pseudonym; the writer may actually be the Isabella Slater to whom the volume was gifted in 1862 (see f. 1).