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Papers of and collected by Kitty Idwal Jones, 1797-1982, including, research papers of Professor Idwal Jones (1901-1965), relating to Rev. Thomas Jones (1756-1820), comprising printed works, obituaries, transcripts and typescripts of letters, 1797-1820, [1937x1984]; papers and correspondence accumulated by Kitty Idwal Jones relating to the history of Stonehenge, 1909-1959; papers relating to and created by Morfydd Llwyn Owen, [1894x1982], including letters from Morfydd Llwyn Owen; papers relating to voluntary work, 1916-1944; together with some papers relating to her time spent as a missionary in India, 1924-1979 and to a visit to America, 1928-1932; correspondence, 1912-1981; and miscellanea, [1905x1958].

Papers relating to Richard Rees ('Maldwyn', 1851-1927), of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, and Edward Walter Rees, ('Gwallter Dyfi', 1881-1940), of Carmarthen, including correspondence, 1874-1940; printed materials, 1866-1937; papers relating to the National Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd of Bards, 1909-1939; papers relating to the National Petition on the Legal Status of the Welsh Language, 1938-1939; papers relating to Maengwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Machynlleth, 1875-1920; and various papers relating to manifold aspects of Machynlleth life.

Records accumulated by D. Peter Garbett Edwards, 1951-1993, including records relating to the Mid-Wales Industrial Development Association, 1957-1977; records relating to the Mid-Wales Development Corporation, 1973-1977; records relating to the Development Board for Rural Wales, 1978-1987; miscellanea, 1951-1996; and related printed material, 1966-1997.

Papers, 1920-1989, of Dorothy Sylvester, including notebooks and lecture notes, 1920-1972; research papers, including notes, card indexes and press cuttings, relating mainly to her study of the historical geography of England and Wales, with special reference to the Welsh borderland; material relating to published works, 1957-1983; addresses and articles, 1928-1988; literary papers, and correspondence, 1926-1989.

Minutes and administrative papers of the National Executive Committee of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, 1958, 1972-1982; Caernarfonshire branch records, 1943-1983; local groups' correspondence files, 1952-1980; subject files containing correspondence and reports, 1945-1980, including Snowdonia National Park, 1945-1979; industrial development, 1942-1981; roads and transport, 1947-1980; forestry, 1947-1980; caravans and holiday accommodation, 1941-1979; and miscellaneous photographs of architecture, rural landscapes and eyesores, including litter, derelict buildings, and obtrusive signs and aerials.

Notebooks, 1920-1923, copy of thesis entitled 'Daearyddiaeth Hanesyddol ac Economig Cymru'; drafts of published works, including Saints, seaways and settlements in the Celtic lands (1969), Dewi Sant. Nawdd Sant Cymru / Saint David. Patron Saint of Wales (1983) and 'Distribution of the Crown Livings in England and Wales . . . 1539' (?unpublished); lecture notes when he was Gregynog Professor of Geography and Anthropology at UCW, Aberystwyth, 1947-1968; papers relating to United Theological College, 1976-1983; papers relating to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1978-1983; correspondence addressed to him, 1925-1982; maps, diagrams and posters prepared by him [20th century]; and miscellaneous papers, 1924-1981.

Papers, 1839-1971, relating to farming in Cardiganshire, including agricultural notebooks, 1839-1919, accounts for payments to servants, 1879-1894, accounts of live and dead stock, 1879-1887; business letters, 1890-1918, letters to Richard Phillips, 1890-1901; personal letters, 1868-1971; literary material, late 19th cent.-1940; domestic accounts, 1898-1930; diaries, 1898-1954; papers relating to Tabor Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Llangwyryfon, 1860-1926; and to Talybont school, and Llanilar parish council papers, 1892-1899.

Personal and estate records of the associated families of Evans, Hayward, and Phillips of Maenol, near Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and especially of Thomas Hayward, a Llanidloes solicitor, including title deeds and abstracts of title, [mid-18]-[early 20 cent.], relating to properties in Montgomeryshire, and St Davids, Pembrokeshire (being the original estate of the Phillips family), and Radnorshire, including deeds relating to railway development in Llanidloes and Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, 1865-1916; original, copy and draft probate records, 1732-1928, of members of the families of Evans of Llanidloes, Phillips of Llanidloes and St Dogmaels, and Lucas of Llangurig; accounts, correspondence and other documents of Thomas Edmund Marsh of Llanidloes, solicitor, 1831-1837, in connection with his investigations of the title to properties in Llangurig and Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, purchased by Thomas Evans of Maenol; and legal and business letters to Thomas Hayward of Llanidloes, mainly 1877-1879.

The fonds comprises records, 1983-1993, relating to the implementation of the national curriculum in England and Wales pursuant to the provisions of the 1988 Education Reform Act. The records were accumulated by Hywel I. Evans as chair of the Curriculum Council for Wales, and as a member of other committees which were responsible for the implementation of the national curriculum in Wales and England.

Genealogical material compiled for Lord Howard de Walden during the early years of his tenancy of Chirk Castle, comprising transcripts of manuscripts containing Welsh genealogies compiled under the supervision of Arthur Owen Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl'); letters, 1906-1921, mainly addressed to Arthur Owen Vaughan, relating to antiquarian and genealogical matters, academic research, etc.; genealogical notes, pedigrees, transcripts of wills, etc.; and an account book, 1870-1872, of the Chirk Castle Estate.

Minutes, 1893-1986, of the meetings of the council of the Football Association of Wales and its committees as well as other material such as match programmes, together with a folder containing amateur international match records, 1908-1955.

Correspondence and papers relating to Aberdare, including material relating to eisteddfodau, and to religious and political matters; addresses on miscellaneous social and welfare issues in Wales; sermons; ballads and poems; and chronological indexes to eisteddfodau from the earliest times to the twentieth century.

Papers relating to the Madryn estate, Caernarfonshire, mainly comprising accounts, 1834-1904, title deeds, 1806-1890; family correspondence, 1833-1868; and papers of Roger Edwards, Mold (1811-1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author, whose grand-daughter, Eleanor, married George Frederick Cunningham Yale, a descendant of the Jones-Parry family.

Papers of O. Cynric Mytton-Davies, 1924-1992, including prose works, 1931-1990; radio scripts, 1946-1967; a television script for an interview in the 'Art and the artist' series, 1964; poetry, 1924-1984; personal papers, 1950-1992; and letters from Vernon Herford, regionary bishop of Mercia of the Evangelic Catholic Communion, 1936-1940.

Deeds, 1507-[1839], mainly relating to Flintshire, and to a lesser extent to Denbighshire and Anglesey.

Mae'r fonds yn cynnwys cofysgrifau Eglwys Philadelphia, Treforus, yn ymwneud ag ochr weinyddol y capel, materion ariannol a'r Ysgol Sul. Ceir yn eu plith cofrestri bedyddiadau, 1859-1990, cofrestri aelodau Cymdeithas Ddirwestol y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1899-1914, llyfr cyhoeddiadau pregethwyr, 1889-1933, llyfr cofnodion eglwysig, 1899-1950, llyfrau casgliad y Weinidogaeth, 1905-2002, llyfrau cyfrifon, 1917-2003, llyfr yr eisteddleoedd, 1913-1939 a chofrestri'r Ysgol Sul, [1881]-1952, ynghyd â thaflenni ystadegol, 1969-2002, llythyrau'n ymwneud ag ymdrechion i gyllido'r gwaith atgyweirio ar yr adeilad, 1991-1995, adroddiad pensaernïol, 1996, ar gyflwr yr eglwys, a nodiadau ymchwil, [2002], am hanes yr achos.

Cofnodion Neuadd Rhydypennau, 1928-1982, yn cynnwys llyfrau cyfrifon, gan gynnwys rhai'r YMCA, 1928-1968; papurau ariannol ac eraill, 1953-1979; llyfrau cofnodion y pwyllgor, 1932-1980; dyblygion o lythyrau a anfonwyd a llythyrau a dderbyniwyd gan yr ysgrifennydd, 1939-1982. = Records of Neuadd Rhydypennau, 1928-1982, comprising account books, including those of the YMCA, 1928-1968; financial and other papers, 1953-1979; committee minute books, 1932-1980; duplicate outgoing correspondence and letters received by the secretary, 1939-1982.

Cynllaith Owen court leet records, 1736-1835, including court files, 1736-1758, presentments, 1815-1835, and estreats of fines, 1824-1835. There is also a single item from the manor of Nantymeichied, 1750, and four miscellaneous papers, 1816-1831.

A catalogue of the library at Easton Court, co. Hereford, illustrated with skilfully executed pen-and-ink vignettes. The volume may well have been compiled and illustrated by Sir Joseph Russell Bailey (1840-1906), 2nd baronet and 1st baron Glanusk, shortly before the death of his grandfather, Sir Joseph Bailey, the first baronet, in 1858. The frontispiece bears the name J. Bailey, one vignette depicts an event in 1856 (f. 6v) and no books published after 1858 appear to be catalogued.