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Manuscript volumes once in the possession of Richard Hall Williams, including a book of hymns in Welsh with the autograph of a Richard Williams and William Williams; a volume containing newspapers cuttings ('Byegones') from the Oswestry Advertizer, 1871-1873, and a ledger, [1869]-[1892], relating to businesses in the Newtown area.

A poem (202 lines), with annotations, entitled 'The Celtae'; and a list of contents of, and some transcripts from, a manuscript in the library of Chetham College, Manchester, entitled 'Short pedigree [sic] of Divers Noblemen, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen & Gentlewomen of Pembrokeshire, containing all or most of the Eight Ancestors from whom they are Descended together with the arms of most of them - London - Printed by John Winter for the author, a.d. 1671'.

An account book of Tŷ Mawr Calvinistic Methodist Church, near Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey, 1846-8, containing audited particulars of monthly and other collections and of payments to preachers and other disbursements. At the end are notes of a sermon preached at Tŷ Mawr, etc.

A volume of extracts, 1757-1847, from the minute books of the Anglesey Hunt. At the end of the volume is a list of the names of the comptrollers and the lady patronesses, and in most instances particulars of expenses, for each year from 1798 to 1829.

Two volumes of notes on 'Ecclesiastical History' by, and in the hand of, the Reverend Professor John Evans (1858-1963), Memorial College, Brecon.

Holograph and/or typescript copies of addresses by George Arbour Stephens, M.D., Swansea, including 'Was Dozmare Pool a Celtic lake of the Underworld?', published in Folk Lore, March, 1935, 'A Green Cross Service for the Celtic Fringe', delivered at the Celtic Congress, Isle of Man, 4 July, 1935, 'The Topographical Importance of Kidwelly and the Burry Estuary in connection with the Arthurian Romances. Caerwen as the old name for Kidwelly', published in The Carmarthen Journal, 25 November, 1938, and 'Radnorshire as a Centre of Celtic Mythology', delivered to the Radnorshire Antiquarian Society at Llandrindod, 2 December, 1938; together with some miscellaneous papers of G. Arbour Stephens, including army certificates, 1897-1918, notices of the leet court with view of frank-pledge of the borough and manor of Swansea, 1919-31, etc.

A pocket book of Robert Daniel of Llandderfel, father of D. R. Daniel, containing farming accounts, 1844-5, largely connected with the purchase and sale of stock and the sale of wool.

A holograph letter, 10 April ----, from Felicia [Dorothea] Hemans from Wavertree, to Samuel Parkes (returning the recipient's 'nice quiet Tragedies', the writer's holiday at Seacombe); and poetry by Mrs. Hemans, including manuscript copies of 'The Child's first Grief' and 'The Better Land' and printed copies of 'Child of Earth' and 'To the Cliffs of Dover'.

A holograph letter, 1866, from Sam[uel] Ferguson, poet and antiquary, from Dublin, to M. le Capitaine Biol?, referring to prospectuses and subscription papers in connection with the recipient's studies, the Fenian revolt in Ireland (with a quotation relating to Fenian cooking-places from John O'Mahony's translation, 1857, of Geoffrey Keating: Foras Feasa ar Eirinn), and the writer's survey of Tre Caerau [Tre'rceiri] in Caernarvonshire. Endorsed is a full-page sketch or 'Rough Survey of the British Fortress called Tre Caerau' by the writer.

A pedigree of the family of Hanmer of Hanmer, Flintshire ('Stemmata et Propagines antiquae familiae Hanmer de Hanmer transcript. ex libris Oweni Salusbury de Rûg. ar.') in the hand of Robert Vaughan (1592?-1666) of Hengwrt, Merioneth, with additions to the year 1684; a nineteenth century table showing the relationship between the families of Hanmer and Bunbury of Bunbury Stanny, Cheshire; another early nineteenth century table of the descendants of Gamaliel Lloyd of Mattersea Abbey, Nottinghamshire; and A list of the Nobility and Gentry, at Preston Guild, 1802.

Rhestr-lyfr; yn cynwys cyfarwyddiadau i flaenoriaid, colofnau iddynt gadw eu cyfrifon wythnosol, &c., y'nghyd a rheolau cymdeithas y Methodistiaid Wesleyaidd (Bangor, 1885), with entries of class contributions received by William Evans at St. Paul's Wesleyan Methodist Church, Aberystwyth, 1892-1899.

A volume of Jno. Lloyd, Mid[dle] Temple, 6 January, 1767, entitled 'Of the proceedings at Law in the Court of Great Sessions held for the Countys of Flint Denbigh and Montgomery in Wales as they are stated in the Books which relate immediately to this Court. Copied from a Book of Jno. Madocks Esqr. all of his own hand writing taken by him in the year 1749 when he went ye Welsh Circuit'. At the end of the volume are some legal precedents and a list of contents.

Commercial Memorandum-Book, with an Almanac for 1854 ..., with notes on Greek grammar in the hand of Thomas Charles Edwards, first principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

A typescript copy of the probate of the will of Rees Lewis of the parish of Killycwm, Carmarthenshire, yeoman (father of Morgan Rhys, Llanfynydd, hymnist), 10 September, 1779 (will dated 26 June, 1768); and two typescript copies of the probate of the will of Morgan Rhys of the parish of Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, yeoman, 7 August, 1779 (will dated 2 August, 1779), together with a photograph of a section of the original will comprising testator's signature and seal.

A manuscript souvenir (with illustrations and press cuttings) of the silver jubilee of the accession of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935, as celebrated in Barbados, British West Indies. The volume is in the hand of Evan Taylor, Bridgetown, Barbados.

An essay by Richard Hughes, Tai Newyddion, Rhostryfan, Caernarvonshire, on 'Nodweddion unrhyw ddeg o gymeriadau hynotaf yr ardal yn ystod yr haner canrif diweddaf', which was awarded the prize at the Rhostryfan and Rhosgadfan Literary and Musical Festival, Christmas, 1903. The writer has added a note to the reader ('Gair at y Darllenydd'), 1 January, 1904.

A contributions book of the W. T. R. Powell (Ysbyty Ystwyth) Lodge in the Aberystwyth District Branch of the St. David's Unity of the Order of True Ivorites, 1918-1944.

A holograph manuscript of part (signature B) of an unpublished Welsh translation of the text of 'Cydymholiad' or a catechism, together with directions to the printer, dated 19 June, 1806, by W. Owen [-Pughe]. The text covers four large folio leaves, and is divided into thirty pages 'marked page for page as it is in the English edition'. Signature A, to be sent to the printer thereafter, contained the title, preface, and table of contents. The directions to the printer contains also rules 'for dividing words at the end of lines'.

Notes on, and extracts from, early nineteenth century farm account books of Hafod-y-porth, Beddgelert, compiled by John Thomas, Brynbela, Caeathraw, c. 1912.

A notebook in the hand of 'R. Lloyd, Bala College, 1873' (aft. of Llangristiolus), containing extracts from Hans Lassen Martenson: Christian Dogmatics (1865, etc.), and a synopsis in English of Griffith Williams (Talsarnau): Yr Hynod William Ellis, Maentwrog [1875]. Blank leaves at the end of the volume have been used to record a sale of household effects.