Transcripts of correspondence, 1656-1661, between John Lewis, Glascrug, Aberystwyth and Richard Baxter, also of letters from John Ellis, Dolgellau to John Lewis and from Sam. Jones, Coedrawen, Glamorgan to Richard Baxter; together with a few extracts from state papers.
Papers by John Ballinger:- 'Public Libraries in 1882'; 'Hopes and fears for libraries in Great Britain'; 'Notes on a library catalogue'; and 'Books for very young children'.
Copies sent by E. M. L. Mostyn, M.P. for Flintshire, 1832, to Edward Lloyd, Cefn, St Asaph, of A List of the Majority for, and the Minority against, the Passing of the Reform Bill ... and of Protest against the Second Reading of the Reform Bill (England) over the name of the Duke of Wellington and others, dated 16 April 1832, and endorsed with a note by Mostyn relating to the formation of a new ministry.
Mostyn, Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn, Baron, 1795-1884
A 'List of Monasteries, &c., in Great Britain to which is added a List of Monastic Cartularies with an Index, 1835'. The monasteries, churches, and castles are arranged alphabetically under counties, and particulars are given of the dates of foundation, of the situation of the monastic houses, and of the orders to which they belonged. The List of Monastic Cartularies was drawn up by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt., and is printed in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. I, 1834. The volume also includes a 'List of monastic churches still made use of for Divine Service' taken from The Gentleman's Magazine, 1814.
An incomplete copy of Nicholas Culpeper: The English Physician Enlarged ... (edition unknown), with additional manuscript notes on herbs by William Bona, Llanpumpsaint, who has also indicated every herb known to him and grown in his garden. Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) (1764-1833) has entered what appears to be a list of money gifts at a so-called bidding in Carmarthenshire, possibly on the occasion of his own marriage.
A manuscript containing recipes for dyeing wool and cotton; household and medical recipes; miscellaneous accounts, 1852-1867; a copy of Reynolds' Original Birmingham Almanack ... 1850.
An incomplete draft of a log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923 - 15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Aber-soch, shipping engineer. Found loose inside NLW MS 22633iA.
Boumphrey, Joseph, Liverpool and Abersoch, 1881-1951 Yacht logbook (1923-1927), NLW MS 22633iiA
Transcripts of documents relating to the offices and duties of the Auditor of Wales, the Master of the Mint, and the Chamberlain of the Royal household, mainly in the reign of Queen Anne, with a list of titles, offices, and revenues granted to their eldest sons by the several kings of England from Henry III to Henry VII.
A volume containing photocopies of a collation of miscellaneous 11-plus examination papers, taken in Wales and England 1921-1949, accumulated by the Rev. J. Aelwyn Roberts, Bangor.
Transcripts, [early 19th cent.] (watermark 1803), in an unknown hand, of odes, ballads, dialogues and satirical letters of English political interest, composed by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in the period 1732-1745. With the exception of 'To Kitty Walker' (f. 62), all the works appear, with mostly minor variations, in The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams..., 3 vols (London, 1822). The contents list (f. i recto-verso) includes titles of additional poems, after f. 119, which were subsequently cut from the volume.
One of two volumes containing a copy of John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland ... (London, 1631), interleaved, with manuscript additions.
Two typescript papers by the donor John Dorian Evans entitled 'The coal mining industry and government policy' (December 2006) and 'Cwmgwili colliery, 1960-1992' (December, 2009).
The file consists of printed items - leaflets, policy statements, reports, issues of journals - on the general theme of women's rights and women's issues.
'Memorandum on the Remains from the Cave at the Great Ormes Head' by Professor W. Boyd Dawkins; extracts from the parish register of Newmarket, 1698-1718, Newmarket tombstone inscriptions, and extracts from St. Asaph probate records, in the hand of T. Allen Glenn; notes by Edward Owen on 'Abbrevatio Rotulorum Originalium'; and a variety of extracts by Thomas Edwards from printed sources (relating to Offa's Dyke, the geography of North Wales in the Neolithic Age, Norman Britain), and from 'Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd'.