Records relating mainly to the industrial concerns of the Crawshay family of Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, [1706]-1878, including leters and letter books of William Crawshay I and II and Robert Crawshay, 1806-1877; cash books, ledgers and bankers drafts, 1834-1888; deeds, [1706]-1885; wills, deeds and miscellaneous material, 1801-1838; balance sheets for ironworks, 1810-1867; will, valuation and probate for William Crawshay II, 1865-1869; shares and bills of exchange, 1870-1878; and Hilston Park estate papers, 1838-1862 and Caversham Park estate papers, 1826-1864. The archive represents the working papers of a major ironworking dynasty.
A typescript dissertation on 'The History of Traeth Mawr and the Industrial Results of the Formation of the Embankment', by William Morgan Richards, Portmadoc, 1925.
Deeds and documents, mainly relating to premises in the parish of Llangelynnin, Merionethshire, and to properties in the town of Barmouth, Merionethshire, 1731-1893.
Deeds, 1632-1798, relating to properties in the townships of Dyffrydan and Dolgledr, Dolgellau, and the Cefn yr Owen estate in the parish of Dolgellau, Merionethshire.
Deeds and documents, 1511-1905, relating to premises mainly in Merionethshire, including Dolgellau, Llanfachreth, Brithdir, Llangelynnin and Llanelltyd.
Title deeds and family papers of the Owen family of Garthangharad, Dolgellau, Merioneth, 1539-1909, papers and correspondence of the legal practice of Edward Owen, 1799-1852, and deeds and estate correspondence of the Hengwrt, Rhug and Nannau estates, mainly 1824-1858.
Anthems and hymn-tunes by John Ambrose Lloyd, D[aniel] T[homas] Williams ('Tydfylyn'), Richard Mills, John Owen ('Owain Alaw') and others, copied by John Evans, Skewen, 1867.
Papers, 1894-1917, found loose inside an essay by the Reverend Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid, 1828-1898) [DWB] on Hanes Bywgraphyddol a Beirniadol o Gerddorion Cymreig; hyd Ganol y Ganrif Bresenol (see NLW MS 22549iD).
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).
Deeds acquired by E. Williams of Hove, relating to premises in Brecknockshire, 1564-1823; Cardiganshire, 1663-1778; Carmarthenshire, 1437-1790; Caernarfonshire, 1437-1822; Denbighshire, 1507-1743; Flintshire, 1469-1761; Glamorgan, 1612-1775; Merionethshire, 1616-1762; Monmouthshire, 1491-1795; Montgomeryshire, 1636-1773; Pembrokeshire, 1645-1797; and Radnorshire and Herefordshire, 1543-1786.
A tune book, [c. 1835], containing unattributed hymn-tunes and anthems. The register of a singing school held at Brynhenllan, north Pembrokeshire, 1835 (ff. 48-50), and notes on the rudiments of music (ff. 1-2), are also included in the volume.
A collection comprising correspondence, poetry, notes, extracts and miscellanea (mainly relating to religious matters), an account book from Haverfordwest, sermons by several individuals, a journal of Timothy Davies, Caeronnen, and hymns by Reuben Davies ('Prydydd y Coed').
A volume containing transcripts, 1778-1781, by Thomas Evans, Cydweli, of pastoral poems (bugeilgerddi) by Edward Richard, Ystradmeurig, dated 1764-1776, together with a few other eighteenth-century poems in Welsh and some medical and veterinary recipes.
Evans, Thomas, of Cydweli, fl. second half 18 cent.
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.