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Notebook of Henry Harris, Ystrad Rhondda, begun in 1921, containing lists of place-names and field names in the Rhondda. Some of the names are taken from a tithe map of 1847 (ff. i, 1-51).
Also included is a typescript list of the same place-names, on loose sheets, the names numbered and in alphabetical order (ff. 52-98); typescript and manuscript notes, [?1938], on the Rhondda in the year 1737, including transcripts of Overseers of the Poor accounts (ff. 103-109); notes, 1938, relating to bird life in the Rhondda (f. 110); and three letters to Harris, October 1921-May 1928, including two from M. H. Jones, Penllwyn (ff. 99-102).

Manuscripts and papers, 1825-1938, of or collected by A. Stanley Davies, consisting mainly of correspondence addressed to Abraham Howell, solicitor, of Welshpool, by members of his family, including his cousin Samuel Roberts (S.R.); together with other correspondence and papers of the Howell family, and letters addressed to Arthur Stanley Davies. The majority of the material is of Montgomeryshire interest.

A typescript copy of Macbeth, trans. T. Gwynn Jones (Llundain, 1942) used by Eic Davies, Gwauncaegurwen, for the play's second performance at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff, 1938, and bearing the signature of the translator and of the writer and actor Emlyn Williams.

Manuscripts, [1905x1908]-[1937x1938], of the Rev. David David Williams, comprising mainly essays on cultural, literary and historical topics submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod; together with a draft summary of a proposed history of Wales, and an album of correspondence and miscellaneous papers.

Papers, [?1918]-[?1939], collected by Sir Alfred T. Davies, concerning the orthopaedic surgeons Hugh Owen Thomas and Sir Robert Jones. They include some seventeen letters to Davies, [1920s]-1933 (ff. 1-43, 100), along with printed items, press cuttings and miscellaneous notes relating mainly to Hugh Owen Thomas, [?1918]-[?1939] (ff. 44-72), and mainly to Sir Robert Jones, 1933-1937 (ff. 73-104).
The correspondents include Sir Robert Jones, [1920s]-1932 (ff. 1-4), C. L. R. Thomas, February-March 1933 (ff. 21-22, 27-42), and May McKisack, 19 July 1933 (f. 43); included among the letters are notes in Welsh, by the Rev. John Owen, on the Anglesey ancestry of Thomas and Jones (ff. 7-11), with an English translation (ff. 24-26), and a typescript draft of C. L. R. Thomas's memoir of his uncle Hugh Owen Thomas (ff. 28-40).

Manuscripts and papers, [1725x1939], from the library of the Rev. H. Jones Davies, although most of the material is not in his hand. The collection includes correspondence of Humphrey Jones Davies and others; material of or relating to Sir Henry Lewis and the Rev. John Phillips, Bangor, and notebooks and sermons of the Rev. Christmas Evans; Welsh poetry transcribed by Isaac Foulkes; deeds, documents and correspondence of mainly Denbighshire and Merioneth interest; and notes, sermons, essays, etc.

Letter, dated 23 August 1939, from Dylan Thomas to Thomas Taig, enclosing a selection of poems intended 'for some kind of dramatic presentation' (f. 1). The writer encloses holograph fair copies of two of his poems: 'Find meat on bones that soon have none ...' (ff. 2-4) and 'Ears in the turrets hear ...' (ff. 5-6). He also encloses his own transcripts of George Woodcock's poem 'Landore' (f. 7), and Alan Pryce-Jones's 'Voyage' (ff. 8-9), together with three published issues of Keidrych Rhys's periodical Wales, 1937-8 (ff. 10-69), one of which bears Dylan's signature, and notes (f. 69 verso).
Thomas Taig was active in the Swansea Little Theatre, and intended to present poems by Welshmen writing in English at a London theatre at the end of September 1939; see further Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters, ed. by Paul Ferris (London, 2000), pp. 438 and 452n.

Journal of a voyage to America by John Rees (1819-1900) of Granant (later of Hendre), St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, 1847; together with miscellaneous papers of his three sons Willie Rees (b. 1893), Joseph Watkin Rees (1894-1976) and Benjamin Rees (b. 1896).

Papers collected by George Eyre Evans, 1565-1939, comprising deeds and documents relating to properties in the parishes of Llangynog, Llansteffan and Llanybri, 1565-[1848], 1938; other Welsh properties, 1565-1909; papers relating to the county of Devon, 1693-1939, including deeds, correspondence and papers relating to the Powell and Evans family; together with miscellaneous papers, 1757-1939, including papers relating to antiquarian matters, correspondence and deeds.

A volume compiled in 1939 by Francis Jones [of the National Library of Wales, later Herald Extraordinary for Wales], containing a pedigree of the family of Jones of Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, from the mid-fifteenth to the twentieth century, with ancillary pedigrees of the associated families of Jones of Greenston, Brawdy, Jones of Southfield, Llysyfran, Roberts of Tregidreg, parish of Mathry, Griffith of Mathry, Morgans, the Flemings, of Roose, Francis of St. Elvis, Jenkins of Mathry, Thomas of Rhydyrharding, parish of Mathry, Williams of Newport, and Harries of Binchurn, all in Pembrokeshire.

An essay entitled 'Bywgraffiad o fywyd y diweddar W[illiam] Williams, Esqr. , Goruchwyliwr Mwngloddiau y Van, Sir Drefaldwyn', written by 'Ap Idloes', and ? submitted for competition at an eisteddfod held at Y Fan, Llanidloes, 1888. Inset, at the end of the volume, is a holograph note, 12 June 1939, by [the Reverend] D. Llewelyn Jones [Wesleyan minister], Llanidloes, the donor of the manuscript, relating to William Williams's grave, with copies of the memorial inscriptions to Williams and members of his family on the gravestone.

Papers of George Eyre Evans, 1669-1939, including personal papers; family papers; notes, transcripts, correspondence and other papers relating to his religious and antiquarian interests and to his publications; copies of printed books and journals with insertions and annotations; and various original manuscripts collected by him.

A typescript copy, 1940, of a work entitled 'The Tribal System in Wales Examined', together with notes on signalling, 1917.

A draft, with numerous emendations, of an essay in Welsh on Welsh folklore.

A volume, 1900-[1940s], detailing the history of the Lloyd family of Cwm Bychan, near Harlech, Merioneth, containing numerous painted coats of arms, illuminated initials and other illustrations. It was begun in 1900 by Llewelyn Lloyd and added to probably by his son Guy Ynyr Llewelyn Lloyd and other descendants.
The main body of the text (pp. 9-67) chronicles the descent of the family from the 10th century figure, Gwaethvoed Vawr (p. 9), via the lords of Nannau, Merioneth (pp. 17-39), to the Llwyds of Cwm Bychan (pp. 41-49), and then to their descendants in Flintshire, including the Rev. John Lloyd of Caerwys (pp. 52-57) and Angharad Llwyd (pp.58-59), Llewelyn Lloyd (pp. 64-65) and Guy Ynyr Llewelyn Lloyd (pp. 66-67). Successive generations, each with painted coats of arms, are recorded on a recto and additional information inserted on the verso opposite. Prefatory material (pp. v-vi, 1-8) includes heraldic devices and quotations. Items pasted into the volume include bookplates, 1747-[late 19 cent] (inside front cover, p. i), photographs of gravestones and memorials, 1899-[?1920s] (pp. 27-28, 53, 64-65), a note concerning John Lloyd, [1793x1798], possibly in the hand of Thomas Pennant (p. 56e), and pedigrees drawn up by Philip H. Lawson of Chester, 1919 (pp. 46a-d, 56a-d). Another pedigree by Lawson, 1919, found loose in the volume, is in an archival envelope. An inscription by the donors, 2006, is on p. iii.

A holograph copy, 1940, of 'Hen Anedd-dai Adfeiliedig Cefnddwysarn a'r Cylch', an account by Richard Owen, Sarnau, Llandderfel, of the ruined houses of Cefn-ddwysarn, Llandderfel, Merionethshire.

This collection is from the library of Robert Davies Roberts and relates principally to family history and to the antiquities of Denbighshire.

Manuscripts of Benjamin Millingchamp, [17 cent.]-1829, including manuscripts of Persian poetry and prose, [17 cent.]-[18 cent.]; translations of Persian works, [?18 cent., last ¼]-[early 19 cent.]; manuscripts in Hindustani and Rekhta, [18 cent., last ¼]; letters and papers, 1778-1829, including Millingchamp's certificate of proficiency in Persian; Indian travel journals, 1781-1782; a diary, 1796; and sermons, [late 18 cent.]-[early 19 cent.]. Also included is the manuscript of Herbert M. Vaughan's biography of Millingchamp, 1940.

Thirty-three autograph and typescript letters, 1935-40, from Dylan Thomas to the novelist, critic and broadcaster Desmond Hawkins, containing personal news and comments on his literary work, including a detailed response (ff. 25-9) to Hawkins's questions about poems included in The Map of Love (London, 1939). Two sketches pasted on to ff. 18 and 19 do not appear to be Thomas's work. The letters were published in Ferris, Paul (ed.): The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas (London, 1985).

This collection includes poetry written while Nicholas was imprisoned in Swansea and Brixton, 1940, together with letters, 1910-1914, to Nicholas, and a translation into English, [c. 1910], of Nicholas's poem Sarah.