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Papers from the library of O. J. Hughes, estate agent, Nantlle, including versions of a report, 1888, on the Llwyngwern Slate and Slab Quarry, Corris, Merioneth, together with monthly particulars of production, profit or loss, etc., 1886-8; a report on Daren y Gessel Slate and Slab Quarry, Pennal, Merioneth, signed by O. J. Hughes; and an incomplete essay (19 pp.) entitled 'Traethawd ar lechfaeni Nant Nantllef', 1868.

Holograph music compositions, 1918-19 and undated, by George Stephen Evans, Aberystwyth and Llanilar, including a short anthem or introit, 'O Love the Lord', to words from Psalm 31; two version of a song, 'Solitude', to words by Henry Kirke White ('To my friend W. D. Owen'); a song, 'Doreen', to words by Marina Benbow; and a 'five fold Amen' for five voices.

A volume of extracts (partly with carbon copies) from printed sources, compiled by W. P. Elwy Jones of Cwmpadarn Council School and of Aberystwyth, towards a history of the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire. The volume also contains lists of dialect words.

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.

Mansfield's Commercial Diary, 1853, with manuscript entries and memoranda, 1853-5, of a Monmouthshire? brewer, largely relating to the recovery of debts.

A blacksmith's account book kept by David Benjamin, Nantygleisiaid, Capel Seion, Cardiganshire, 1835-72.

A ledger of Edward Roberts, grocer, Mount Street, Bala, for the period 1863-72.

A school exercise book of a pupil at [Gwernafield School, Flintshire], 1870-1.

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 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.

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.

Two charms against witchcraft from the Towyn area of Merioneth, and photostat facsimiles of two similar charms discovered in the neighbourhood of Llanidloes?, Montgomeryshire.

A volume, dated 1888, from the library of James Morris, blacksmith and magician, of Cwmbelan, Montgomeryshire, containing transcripts from ['Raphael' (pseud.):] The Art of Talismanic Magic: being selections from the Works of Rabbi Solomon, C. Agrippa, F. Barrett, etc. ... 1879 (London, 1880).

A minute book of the Six-weekly Meetings of the Arfon District of Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools, Caernarvonshire, 1845-52, mainly in the hand of Richard Owen Williams, Bangor, and subsequently of Thomas Lewis (1821-97), Bangor, Member of Parliament for Anglesey.

Six notebooks containing notes of sermons. Five are in the hand of Timothy Evans (d. 1837), vicar of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, and contain sermons which were preached during the period 1797-1812 at Llanb[adarn Trefeglwys] and Kilk[ennin], Llandewi [Aberarth], Llandinol, Llansantffraed, and Kiliau [Aeron]. The sixth notebook contains a sermon in another hand which was preached at Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin on 8 July, 1787, and which bears the inscription 'By V. Davies'.

An account book of a farmer of [the parish of Guilsfield], Montgomeryshire, containing particulars of daily receipts and disbursements for the period 1796-1804. There are references to the sale of livestock, crops, and farm produce, to the receipt of rent and of interest on loans, and to payments in respect of food and clothing, wages, turnpike tolls and other travelling expenses, taxes, coal, lime, stones, slates, tithes, chief rent, etc. At the beginning and the end of the volume are memoranda, 1790-1798, relating to agreements for the delivery of barley and peas, the shoeing of horses, etc.

An assessment for the relief of the poor of the parish of Llandilofawr, Carmarthenshire, 4 April, 1854.

A terrier of all buildings, glebe lands, tithes, and other profits and rights appertaining to the parish of Llanbeblig in the county of Carnarvon and diocese of Bangor, 18[35].

An account book of Daniel R. Jones, carpenter and joiner, of Tyddyn y Bwlch, Penrhyn[deudraeth], Merioneth, 1866-1880.