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The Rules and Regulations of the Savings Bank for the Town of Bala,. and Neighbouring Parishes; established At Bala, November 9th, 1819 . . .', containing the names of the officials of the bank at Bala, its original and amended rules, and its annual statements of accounts from 1821 to 1833.

A blacksmith's account book, 1758-91.

A calendar of Welsh saints and martyrs compiled by Thomas Peter Ellis.

Notebooks of A. Foulkes-Roberts, [c. 1882]-[1941], containing extracts from parish registers, mainly from Denbighshire and Flintshire; transcripts of tombstone inscriptions and church memorials, copies of probate records from the Dioceses of Bangor and St Asaph, and the Principal Probate Registry; and notes and extracts from marriage licence bonds, clergy subscription books and other St Asaph diocesan records. The copies were made by A. Foulkes-Roberts and his brother R.D. Roberts.

Xerox copy of a typescript thesis on 'A History of Commercial Printing and Printers in Montgomeryshire 1789-1960' submitted for the Fellowship of the Library Association, by J. Iorwerth Davies, Haverfordwest.

A typescript M.A. dissertation, 1957, for Liverpool University Department of Celtic by J[ohn] G[lyn] Penrhyn Jones, entitled 'A history of medicine in Wales in the eighteenth century'.
The dissertation includes chapters on social conditions in Wales, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, 'folk' medicine and herbalism, and biographies of prominent medical men. Supplementary material, including extracts from printed and manuscript sources, is to be found in the Appendices (ff. 164-329). Two tables of contents are included (f. iii, 163a).

A register of infant baptisms solemnised by Ministers of a Congregation of Dissenting Protestants in the parish of Llangunnor, Carmarthenshire, 1819-1865.

An extract from the lay subsidy roll for the hundreds of Llanbadarn, Llanilar, and Pennardd, Cardiganshire, 35 Henry VIII, (P.R.O. Exchequer, King's Remembrancer; Box 219, roll 68) covering the parish of Llanrhystyd.

Original text in typescript form, 2000, of the recollections of Dillwyn Miles published as A mingled yarn, (Gwasg Dinefwr, 2000), together with addenda.

A court book of the manor of Nanhwynan, Beddgelert, Caernarvonshire, 1797-1827.

Two copies - one intended for presentation to the House of Lords and the other to the House of Commons of a petition signed by John Jenkins, mayor of Aberystwyth, and many other residents of the town and district, in favour of a proposed railway between Trawscoed, Cardiganshire, and New Radnor, 1898.

A school exercise book in arithmetic subsequently used for agricultural accounts and memoranda, 1858-1892, by James James, Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, Cardiganshire; a register of pupils, 1859-1860; and letters by Thomas James, Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr, 1895-1897, Thomas Hamer, Aberdare, 1895, and Mary Parry, Liverpool.

A typescript copy of 'A short history of the Catholic Church in Wales. Part I. Under the Roman Empire. Part II. 410 to 664 A.D., by T. P. Ellis'.

A typescript dissertation entitled 'A General Survey of the Slate Industry of Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire', by William Morgan Richards, Portmadoc, 1933.

The original manuscript, prepared for the printer, of the Introduction, Subject Index, Index to Abbreviated Titles and Glossary of A Welsh Leech Book ... Edited by Timothy Lewis (Liverpool, 1914).

Order books, 1865-1879; account books (listing revenue and expenditure, rentals and lime sales), 1850-1878; and printed material relating to brewing, 1867-1873.

Deeds, 1521-1690, relating to the estates of the Parry and Vaughan family of Aberdihonw and Trebarried, Brecknockshire.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register of Abererch, Caernarvonshire, 1600-1752.

Papers, 1967-1996, including correspondence, newspaper cuttings, plans and photographs of the memorial site of the Aberfan disaster, 1966. Included are letters from Dewi-Prys Thomas, Head of the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff, and his design.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings and other papers, [1996]-2002, collated by William Wilkins, Director of Operations for the Aberglasney Restoration Trust.