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Notes by Evan Owen on the New Testament foundation of the Baptist movement.

The file consists of a manuscript summary of Woodlands published in 1974, plans for the book, appendices, glossary and typed synopsis, with a copy covering letter from Condry to the publisher, 1969, together with notes, 1968-1971, correspondence, 1972-1973, 1985, newsletters, printed pamphlets, magazine and press cuttings, 1947-1976, 1981, concerning the history, nature, ecology and conservation of woodlands, including the impact of modern forestry practices.

Correspondence and papers relating to Lloyd George's proposals on the coal industry, 1935. Correspondents include Sir Richard Redmayne and J. E. Emlyn-Jones.

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.

Includes the Report of the Tonnage Priority Committee, 1917; correspondence relating to 'Chinese coolies'; letters from the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Ltd.; and the minutes, 26 April 1917, of the War Cabinet on Merchant Shipbuilding.

Chief officer's log books (no's 4-10) of the steamship and hospital ship 'Liberty', lent to the government by Lord Tredegar.

One of two volumes containing lists compiled from the Book of Heirs from the time of Edward IV to that of Charles I, together with a note on ecclesiastical sokes.

Letter book, 1846-1850, of H[er] M[ajesty's] S[team] S[loop] 'Geyser' containing copies of letters, Nov. 1846-May 1850 (ff. 1 verso-131), and memoranda, June-Dec. 1847 (ff. 179-180), sent by her commander, F[rancis] T[homas] Brown, mainly to his superiors.
The 'Geyser' was employed in famine relief in Western Ireland, Jan.-Apr. 1847 (ff. 6-34), and at the port of Setubal and elsewhere in Portugal during the Patuleia Revolt, June-July 1847 (ff. 43-52). She was subsequently stationed in the Cape Colony (South Africa) and Mauritius, Nov. 1847-May 1850 (ff. 63-131), and was sent on diplomatic missions, meeting with local chiefs and rulers in Madagascar and the Comoros Islands (ff. 81-102). The letters range from brief memoranda to lengthy reports and letters of proceedings; they include references to routine ship business and disciplinary matters, intelligence reports and accounts of diplomacy and treaty negotiations. Two additional copy letters have been pasted into the volume (ff. 119a, 122a).

Letters and pamphlets concerned with advertising on commercial television.

Ichthyographical notes and lists of British animals and birds by Thomas and David Pennant and 'An Account of such Fish as are either Natives or that frequent The River Wye Herefordshire' by 'Doctr. Roberts'.

A file of papers, certificates, and cards, relating to food rationing, 1917-1920, kept by William Henry Davies, The Stores, Rhuddlan.

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.

A file of notes by G. G. T. Treherne on the elements 'Eglwys' and 'Llan' and 'Kil', 'Kirby', and 'Church' in place-names.

Typescript copy, [?1952], of a memorandum, [?1786], by Dr Richard Price on his proposed scheme to re-establish a sinking fund to reduce the National Debt.
Tables referred to in the memorandum are lacking. A covering letter from the donor, 1952, is included (f. i).

Entries for 1-9 January 1896 are also included.

Letters, copies of replies, and brochures of garden ornaments, windows and litter pickers, with photographs relating to various projects, 1960-1977.

Two tracts - (a) a description of England, in fifteen chapters, compiled in 1445, beginning 'tractatus iste compendiose extractus de diversorum historiographorum diversis ... describit Angliam ... '; (b) a genealogical chronicle in the same hand projected from Adam to Brutus and from Brutus to Henry VI, but in execution brought only to Edward I, with a continuation in a sixteenth century hand to Henry VIII (1518). The pattern of this genealogical chronicle is that of the Promptuarium Bibliae attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. The text begins 'Adam in agro damasceno ...' (cf. Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg (Cardiff, 1940), p. xiii) and has lines added for the Saxons, kings of Britain, princes of Wales, the different divisions of Saxon England, kings of England, princes of Demetia, princes of Venedotia, &c.

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.