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Holograph letters (24) from Augustus John, 1932-1953 and n.d. to Miss B. Parry and Dr. Parry.

Nineteen letters, 1879-1884, from Josiah Pitman and eight holograph letters from Mabel Woodford, 1895-1896, to Edward Hall at Covent Garden.

Minute book, 1918-1929, of Cymdeithas Gymraeg Bootle a’r Cylch.

The second and third of three volumes (see also NLW MS 23701E) of typescript and manuscript accounts by women from Wales of their experiences in the Second World War, selections from which were published in Parachutes and Petticoats: Welsh Women Writing on the Second World War, ed. by Leigh Verrill-Rhys and Deirdre Beddoe (Dinas Powys, 1992). The material was submitted in response to an appeal in 1991 by the publishers, Honno. NLW MS 23073D comprises contributions not represented in the published volume; the reminiscences of Hilda H. Price (ff. 232-241) were published in Llafur, 6 (1992), 110-113. A copy of the complete archive has been donated to the Imperial War Museum, London.

Nine notebooks containing journals, 1845-1863, kept by Lady Marianne Lewis, of tours on the Continent and in Scotland, the earlier ones in the company of her husband Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis of Harpton Court.
The journals contain accounts of tours in Belgium, Germany, Bohemia, Austria and France, 5 September-14 November 1845 (16583iC, ff. 1-48); Paris, 15 November-17 December 1845 (16583iiC, ff. 49-62); Scotland, 27 August-14 October 1848 (16583iiiC, ff. 79-108); Germany, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France, 8 June-31 July 1851 (16583ivC, ff. 111-135); Bohemia, Austria, Slovenia, Northern Italy, the South of France and Paris, 24 June-5 November 1855 (16583vC, ff. 136-177); Rome and Florence, 9 October 1856-11 January 1857 (16583viC, ff. 184-224); Rome and Naples, 26 November 1857-8 May 1858 (16583viiC, ff. 227-258); Switzerland, 30 July-27 September 1859, and Germany, 22 July-15 September 1860 (16583viiiC, ff. 273-293 verso); Austria and Switzerland, 22 August-3 October 1861, and Switzerland and Northern Italy, 23 July-4 November 1863 (16583ixC, ff. 295-316).

Diaries, 1967-2010, of Iona Trefor Jones (1925-2011), relating mainly to her work with flowers, together with her reminiscences: ‘Cofio’ (in Welsh), and a scrapbook chronicling her contribution to flower festivals held in Chester Cathedral, Bangor Cathedral, Holyhead Parish Church and others.

A bookplate from a book presented by the National Library of Wales to the Education Department (Celtic Section) at Ruhleben Camp, Germany, 1915, for the use of Welsh civilian prisoners interned there.

Biographical data relating to Hugh Owen, father of the donor. Included are his curriculum vitae, and photocopies of press cuttings of reports on his funeral, tributes and a book review of his last book Hanes plwyf Niwbwrch (1952). = Manylion bywgraffyddol am Hugh Owen, tad y rhoddwr. Ceir llungopïau o dorion o'r wasg yn cynnwys adroddiadau am ei angladd, teyngedau iddo ac adolygiad o'i lyfr olaf Hanes plwyf Niwbwrch (1952).

Typescript transcript by Robert Humphries of the diary of William Herbert, a Welsh emigrant to Ohio, which he kept while on a visit to the Rhondda Valleys and the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, 1886-8. The original Welsh transcription is side by side with the English translation by Robert Humphries. William Herbert was born in Colwinston, Glamorgan, and began working as a coal miner as a young boy. The foreword and genealogical notes are by Catherine Reuther, Spring Green, Wisconsin, great-great granddaughter of the diarist, 2014.

Letters from the novelist Marion Eames to Gwenfron Hughes, [1942]-[1943. The two were lifelong friends and both attended Dr Williams School, Dolgellau. Marion Eames refers to herself as 'Mal' in the letters. Gwenfron Hughes was a teacher at Coventry at the time she received the letters . Also enclosed is a typescript poem entitled 'To Gwenfron' by [?Marion Eames].

A secular tune book, undated, but watermarked 1828, and probably compiled during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The tunes are largely unaccompanied by words, and some are marches, dance tunes and hornpipes, suggestive of instrumental use. Bass parts to some songs are included (e.g. pp. 136-140). Many of the tunes (which are indexed on pp. i-v) are of non-Welsh origin, such as Auld Lang Syne (pp. 1, 57, 78-79), The Hungarian March (p. 23), Duke of York's Cotillion (p. 24), Heart of Oak (p. 33), The Cuckoo (p. 35), Rule Britannia (pp. 36-37, 94), Downfall of Paris (p. 82) and The Huntsman Chorus (p. 90). The large number of Welsh tunes included suggest a Welsh origin, although non-traditional in background; where recorded, words are in English. Glan medd-dod mwyn is ascribed on p. 142 to 'J. Thomas [?Pentuwylo]'.
The Welsh tunes include Beaumaris Quick Step (p. 4), A Trip to Conway (p. 16), Llyweni Forest (pp. 17, 74), Nos Calan (p. 18), Morfa Rhyddlan (p. 18-19), Mentra Gwen (p. 19), Megan a Gollodd ei Gardas (pp. 20, 315), Meillionen or Sir Watkin's Delight (p. 21), Hufen y cwrw melyn (pp. 22, 26), Conceit Dafydd ap Gwilym (p. 28), Conceit William ap Owen Pencraig (Inco) (p. 29), Serch Hudol A Welsh Air (p. 31), The Men of Harlech's March (p. 65), Glan meddwdod mwyn (p. 67), The Break of Day (p. 68), Farewell Harp or Nos galan (pp. 69, 87), Gogerddan (p. 70), Penllyn Volunteers (p. 71), Ryfelgyrch gwyr Harlech (p. 72), Barmouth March (pp. 82-83), Llwyn onn (p. 84), The Rising of the Lark (pp. 97, 113), David y Gareg wen (p. 101), Merionethshire March (p. 108), Delight of the Men of Dyfi or Difyrwch gwyr Dyfi (p. 109), Black Sir Harry or Harri Ddy (p. 109), Cader Idris (p. 116), Pant corlan yr wyn (p. 123), Ffarwel Trwy'r Pwll by John Parry (p. 127), Pen Rhaw (p. 129), Noble Race was Shenkin (p. 144), Hunting the Hare (p. 145), Wrexham Hornpipe (p. 157), Dŵr Glân (p. 159), Mwynen Hafodelwy (p. 164), and Cader Idris alias Jeny Jones Llangollen (p. 166).

Bound report by H. F. H. Dolling, engineer to the Welsh Hospital Board, November 1970, relating to the adaptation of St Mary’s Hospital, Penarth, as a smallpox unit, including his drawings. It was the last smallpox hospital to be built in the UK before its eradication in 1977. Also included is a memorandum prepared from memory in 2009 by Professor Gareth Crompton, Chief Medical Officer for Wales, 1978-1989, and then Professor of Public Health at the University of Wales College of Medicine, which deals with the smallpox outbreak in Church Village and Bridgend in 1962.

An album, [19 cent., second ¼], probably compiled by a member of the Clay family of Liverpool and St Asaph, which includes some thirty-one items, (1545/6)-[1716], relating to John Jones, son of Col. John Jones, the regicide, and his family (ff. 1-14, 16-19).
Among these items are some fourteen letters addressed to John Jones, Junior, 1663-1714 (ff. 1-3 verso, 4 verso, 5-6, 16, 17), and two to his wife (f. 3); three letters to Thomas Jennings, Dudleston, 1633-1634 (ff. 7 verso-8); a copy of The Post Man, And the Historical Account, &c., 230 (27-29 October 1696) (f. 9); a poem on the Battle of Oudenaarde, 1708 (ff. 10-11); a handbill for a performance of Henry IV, [Part I], [1716] (f. 13); a final concord levied on properties in Salisbury, (1545/6) (f. 18); and a letter from Robert [?Nedham] to Roger Puleston of Emral, [?1582] (f. 19). The album also includes papers of the Clay family, 1739, 1743, 1806-[?1843], being mostly letters addressed to Henry Clay (onetime Mayor of Liverpool) from correspondents including aristocrats connected with Liverpool (ff. 66 verso-73 verso passim, inverted text); various pencil or pen and ink sketches and watercolour paintings, [19 cent, first ½], at least some of which are by Henry's daughter B[arbara] F[rances] C[lay] (ff. 57 verso, 60 verso, 61 verso, 62 verso, 76 verso-81 verso (versos only), 84 verso, 85 verso, 86 verso); newspaper cuttings, [1831]-[1841] (ff. 26 verso-35); and miscellaneous engravings, 1809-[?1840s] (ff. 14 verso, 36-37, 39-43, 88 verso-90 verso). Items found loose within the volume have been tipped in, either in situ or on blank leaves (some 22 ff.).

Legal files relating to the court cases of members of the Welsh Language Society, [1968]-[1971]. = Ffeiliau cyfreithiol yn ymwneud ag achosion llys aelodau Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, [1968]-[1971].