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Nine letters, 1955-1969, from Hamish Hamilton (ff. 14-16, 19, 21-22) and Roger Machell (ff. 17-18, 20) of Hamish Hamilton Ltd to the novelist Jack Jones, concerning the publication of his work.
The envelopes are annotated with comments by Jones.

Transcripts, [?1815], in a single hand, of documents relating to a proposed address by the people of Caernarvonshire to the Marquis of Anglesey to congratulate him on his part in the Battle of Waterloo.
Included are an appeal to William Griffith Oakeley, High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, to call a meeting, and his reply, dated 10 July 1815, appointing a County Meeting on the 17 July (f. 139); minutes of a meeting held by the bailiffs, burgesses and other inhabitants of the borough of Caernarfon on 10 July 1815 (ff. 140-141) and a copy of the address voted for at that meeting (ff. 141-142).

A letter, 2 February 1817 (watermark 1801), to [the Rev. George] Robson, prebendary of St Asaph and rector of Erbistock (ff. 135-136), and another to his wife, 1 October 1827 (watermark 1823) (f. 137), from Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, 'The Ladies of Llangollen'. Both letters are in the hand of [?Eleanor Butler]. They are mainly concerned with local affairs, relating in particular to the parish clerk of Llangollen, [Robert Wynne-Eyton], and his wife (ff. 135-136).

A letter, 29 May 1984, from Glyn Jones to Gwyn Jones (f. 131), enclosing a copy of a Russian anthology, Валлийский рассказ (Valliiskii rasskaz) (Moscow, 1983), containing prose works written by them and other Welsh and Anglo-Welsh writers; together with a typescript carbon copy reply from Gwyn Jones, [1984] (f. 132).
Also included are photocopies, [?1984], of part of Valliiskii rasskaz, comprising the title page, copyright page and the first page of text in Cyrillic script, and a list of the authors in Latin script (ff. 133-134).

Two letters, 1983, from the novelist Alexander Cordell, Isle of Man, to Ted Spanswick, [?Pontypridd], outlining his views on socialism and the working class and declining to give his support to a proposed left-wing periodical.

Transcripts of letters and memoranda, both typescript and handwritten, 1936-1937, in support of Saunders Lewis, dismissed from his post as senior lecturer in the Department of Welsh, University College of Swansea, following the Penyberth arson of September 1936.
They include a manuscript draft (ff. 121-123) and partial typescript copy (f. 125), [1937], of a letter sent on behalf of the College's teaching staff to the Executive Council [?of the Association of University Teachers], expressing support for Lewis; a typescript copy of the letter, 20 October 1936, from Principal C. A. Edwards to Lewis, informing him of the decision to suspend him from his duties pending the termination of legal proceedings (f. 120), with a manuscript copy of the same, [1937] (f. 119); a typescript copy of part of a letter, 15 February 1937, to accompany a petition by members of the academic staff calling for his reinstatement (f. 124); and a note by Stephen J. Williams summarising Lewis' literary and political work, published in May 1937 in Universities Review, 9 (1936-37), 169 (f. 126).

Two autograph poems, [1951], by Idris Davies, entitled 'In Glasnevin Cemetery' (ff. 113-116) and 'Mists upon the sea' (f. 117), first published in Dock Leaves, 3.8 (Summer 1952), 28, and ibid. 2.6 (Michaelmas 1951), 36, respectively.
Both appear in The Collected Poems of Idris Davies, ed. by Islwyn Jenkins (Llandysul, 1972), pp. 60-61, 167, and in The Complete Poems of Idris Davies, ed. by Dafydd Johnston (Cardiff, 1994), pp. 161-163.

Five letters, 1878-1895, written in Welsh and English, from members of the Thomas family, emigrants to the United States of America, to relatives in Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire.
One letter was written by Elizabeth and David O. Thomas, Venadocia, Van Wert County, Ohio, 29 April 1878 (ff. 103-104); two letters each were written by Abraham Thomas of Williamsburg, Iowa, 1885, 1894 (ff. 105-108), and his daughter Lizzie [Elizabeth], January 1895 (ff. 109-112). The letters contain family news and include references to agriculture (ff. 105 verso-106 verso) and Christmas celebrations (f. 106 verso) in Iowa.

A letter, [14] August 1960 (received and stamped 15 August 1960), from the poet Dannie Abse to actor and theatre director Bernard Miles enclosing a copy of his book Tenants of the House: Poems 1951-1956 (New York, 1959). The letter is accompanied by a carbon copy of a typescript letter of acknowledgement from Bernard Miles, dated 16 August 1960.

A letter, 22 November 1889, from Walburga, Lady Paget, to Frances Power Cobbe commenting on their anti-vivisection campaigns.
She also refers to her daughter, Lady Windor, later the Countess of Plymouth (f. 1 recto-verso).

A letter, November 1954 (dated 'Calan Gaeaf MCMLIV' [1 November 1954] but completed at a later date), and decorated with a coloured inscription, from the artist and writer David Jones to the dramatist, poet and critic Saunders Lewis.
The letter contains personal news and refers to the Lewis's contribution to a radio broadcast about David Jones transmitted on the Welsh Home Service, 29 October 1954 (see NLW, Alun Oldfield-Davies Papers 27 for a copy of the script).

A letter, 26 April 1958, from E. Tegla Davies to Berwyn Davies, Wrexham, concerning the sender's eyesight.

A letter, 30 January 1940, from Dylan Thomas to E. F. Bozman at J.M. Dent & Sons, his publishers, sending corrected proofs of his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (London, 1940), and discussing the listing of his previous works in the volume.
This letter is published in Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters: New Edition, ed. by Paul Ferris (London, 2000), p. 497.

A letter, dated 20 April 1945, from Leo Amery, MP, to Lady Frances Lloyd George, presenting his condolences on the death of her husband, David Lloyd George.

A letter, [1959], from Bob Owen, Croesor, to the Rev. Herbert Evans, Boughton Heath, Chester, concerning the parishes of the commote of Iâl (Yale), Denbighshire, and whether or not they included Llantysilio.

A letter, 2 May 1961, from Robert Lloyd (Llwyd o'r Bryn) to Cynfab Roberts, relating mainly to the inauguration of a memorial to Robert Roberts (Bob Tai'r Felin) at Cwmtirmynach, Merionethshire.
He refers to a disagreement with R. L. Gapper over the memorial (f. 189 verso). The letter was published, in part, in Diddordebau Llwyd o'r Bryn, ed. by Trebor Lloyd Evans (Swansea, 1966), pp. 224-5 (omitting the reference to Gapper).

A single leaf containing two songs, possibly incomplete, [c. 1830], one in English, 'A little song composed for Miss H. M. Bootes by J. Parry' (f. 179), and the other in French, 'Air François' (f. 179 verso, deleted), written in a hand resembling that of John Parry (Bardd Alaw), but which may be that of his son, John Orlando Parry.

An apparently unpublished poem, entitled 'Pwy?' and dated 17 June 1908, by John T. Jôb, being a leaf from the autograph book of Ellen Anne Roberts (later Mrs Emrys Lewis of Creunant, Glamorgan), then of Carneddi, Bethesda, where Jôb was minister of the local chapel and a close neighbour.

A letter, 16 January [?1964], in Welsh, from John Wyn Owen to Goronwy Prys Owen, relating to the filming of last services at Capel Celyn, Merionethshire, in September 1963, prior to the flooding of the Tryweryn reservoir.

A letter, 5 May 1968, from the artist John Petts to Eric Letts, engineer, thanking him for advice on metal coatings for a sculpture for a church in south Wales.
The sculpture, hitherto unidentified, is described as a 'steel figure' (f. 168), and may be the figure of the Risen Christ at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Gorseinon, Swansea.