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Papers, 1991-1996, relating to the Wales branch of WHAM! (Women, Heritage and Museums), as part of Archif Menywod Cymru / The Women's Archive of Wales, including Deirde Beddoe's paper 'Parchutes and petticoats : Welsh women at war' given at the WHAM conference in 1993.

Papers, 1891-1938, relating to the work and administration of the Western Sea Fisheries and the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries, comprising files of correspondence relating to individual fisheries, 1896-1914; reports of Fishery Officers, annual reports and printed material, 1892-1938; correspondence relating to Committee personnel, 1892-1923; bye-laws and certificates, 1892-1899; Committee papers, 1891-1913; financial papers, 1893-1923; papers of James Travis Jenkins on Fishery Schools, the Sardine Case of 1912, and a bibliography of whaling [20th century].

Records of Western Mail & Echo Ltd and related companies, 1869-1980, including advertisement and circulation revenue, 1869-1899; deeds of partnership of Owen and Carr, 1878; records of Daniel Owen & Co. Ltd, 1884-1895; Western Mail Ltd ledgers, registers, cash books and registers of member shares, 1896-1936; David Duncan & Sons Ltd, private ledgers, cash books and journals, 1906-1930, and liquidator's record book, 1929-1930; papers relating to the amalgamation of Western Mail Ltd with David Duncan & Sons, 1928-1931; miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1893-1950; papers relating to the Weterns Mail Mumbles Lifeboat disaster fund and the Six Bells disaster fund, 1948-1964; and managing director's monthly reports, 1966-1978.

A typescript account of the induction service of G. Henton Davies as minister of the West End Baptist Church, King Street, Hammersmith, 1935.

A manuscript entitled Some account of the Success of the [Wesleyan] Missions in North Wales, from the Conference 1800, to the Conference 1803 by Owen Davies (1752-1830), who was appointed with John Hughes (1776-1843) in 1800 to introduce Wesleyan Methodism into North Wales.

Records, 1965-1992, of the Home Mission Division for the Cymru Methodist Church.

Additional records, 1916-99, deposited by the Ceredigion Circuit of the Methodist Church (Cymru District) including circuit plans, notices of services and activities, Sunday School account books and vestry cash book.

Deeds, sale catalogues and maps, relating mainly to Wernllwyd, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, 1747-1923; probate records, 1800-1897; family and estate letters, 1859-1952; memoranda books and diaries, 1823-1921, papers relating to the Shire Horse Society, 1880-1923, and children's chap-books, [19th cent.].

A photostat facsimile of the parish register of Wenvoe, Glamorgan, 1585-1739.

Papers relating to the Wenniar estate and other properties in Llansantffraid Glynceiriog, Denbighshire, 1557-1825.

A volume entitled 'A New Description of North Bradford [co. Salop]. Part I. Containing the Allotments of Wem and Shawbury'. The work relates almost entirely to Wem, and discusses the parish, allotment, and manor; the name, situation, and antiquity of the town; the barons of Wem; the customs of the manor; the borough, bailiffs, and burgesses; the rectory; etc.

Six General Post Office files containing correspondence, reports, tenders, etc., relating to the carriage of mail between Welshpool and Llangadfan, co. Montgomery, 1911-1921.

Records of Welshpool Civic Society, 1971-1980, comprising minute books, 1971-1980; membership book; attendance book, 1977-1980; and correspondence, 1975-1978.

The file comprises a newspaper cutting of a letter to The Irish Times, together with the original letter signed by thirteen Welshmen, who went to Dublin to represent the thousands who would have attended the international rugby match, had it not been cancelled by the Welsh Rugby Union. The decision, they argued, did not represent the feelings of the Welsh people.

Eight holograph and autograph letters, July-September, 1914, to J. T. Hughes, auctioneer, Caernarvon, relating to the disposal by the Urban District Council of Llandudno of the Welsh Writing Slate Mills in Llanddeiniolen, Caernarvonshire. The writers include The British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Co., Limited, Flint, The Lotus Shoe Makers Limited, Stafford, and the Board of Trade, London. Accompanying one of the letters are printed particulars of the Welsh Writing Slate Mills (Glandinorwic, Caerffynon & Ddeiniolen Mills) and an inventory of machinery, tools, etc., remaining to be sold, 1907.

Appeal containing approximately 6,500 petitions of signatures received by the women of Wales during the 1923 Wales Peace Petition, organised by the Welsh League of Nations Union in April-May 1923.

Transcripts, extracts, and notes, [c. 1921], by E. Alfred Jones, M.A., F.S.A., London, relating to the formation and development of Volunteer Companies in Wales during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including Caernarvon and Bangor Volunteer Infantry, Loyal Newborough Volunteer Infantry, Snowdon Rangers Riflemen Volunteer Infantry, Conway Volunteers, Loyal Eifionydd Volunteer Infantry, Royal Welch Volunteers, Swansea Gentlemen Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry, Pembrokeshire Yeomanry Cavalry, etc. (see also NLW MS 11558C).

Transcripts, extracts, and notes, [c. 1921], by E. Alfred Jones, M.A., F.S.A., London, relating to the formation and development of Volunteer Companies in Wales during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including Caernarvon and Bangor Volunteer Infantry, Loyal Newborough Volunteer Infantry, Snowdon Rangers Riflemen Volunteer Infantry, Conway Volunteers, Loyal Eifionydd Volunteer Infantry, Royal Welch Volunteers, Swansea Gentlemen Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry, Pembrokeshire Yeomanry Cavalry, etc. (see also NLW MS 11557D).
Among the papers are holograph letters, 1921 and undated, from C. E. Breese, Portmadoc; Hugh Edwardes, 6th baron Kensington; R. L. Harmsworth [1st bart.], London; J. E. Jones, Rhosygwaliau Vicarage, Bala; Ll. Wynne Jones, The Deanery, St. Asaph; Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th baron Kenyon; John T. D. Llewelyn [1st bart., of Penlle'r-gaer]; Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Mostyn, 3rd baron Mostyn; Walter FitzUryan Rhys, 7th baron Dynevor; E. C. Stevens, Wynnstay, Ruabon, for Sir [Herbert Lloyd] Watkin Williams-Wynn, 7th bart.; Bertha Turnorm, for her niece, Joan Emily Mary Campbell, Countess Cawdor; Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th earl of Lisburne; Griffith Williams, the Rectory, Llanrwst; Fred[erick] G. Wynn, Glynllivon, Llanwnda; and T. A. Wynne Edwards, Plas Nantglyn, Denbigh.

Minute-book, 1929-1962, of the Welsh University Union, originally kept in English but written in Welsh from 1950 onwards, containing accounts of annual meetings held during National Eisteddfod week (NLW MS 22858iB).
Items found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (NLW MS 22858iiE). These comprise thirteen letters, 1960-[1963], mostly to Lily Richards, secretary of the Union for South Wales, concerning arrangements for the annual meeting which was to be held at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Dyffryn Maelor, 1961, at Rhosllannerchrugog, including one letter each from Sir David Hughes Parry, Sir Thomas Parry, Frank Price Jones and Professor Huw Morris-Jones; a paper, 1961, entitled 'Four Universities for Wales', advocating the break-up of the federal University of Wales; together with newspaper cuttings, 1928-1948, relating to meetings of the Union.