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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.

Draft typescript (Transcript from the Shorthand Notes of Messrs J Moore & Son ...) of the minutes of proceedings of the Royal Commission on the Welsh Church, days 1-4, 19-20, 26-27 October 1906, varying somewhat from the published Minutes of Evidence of the Commission. The evidence relates to the parishes of Abergwili, Carmarthen, Llanelli, Llan-gain and Llanpumsaint, co. Carmarthen.

Letters and accounts, 1821-1823, of Walter Churchey of Brecon, solicitor, relating to the Penoyre estate, co. Brecon, and forwarded by him to the owner, the Reverend Thomas Watkins (1761-1829), whilst the latter was on the Continent, together with two letters from Samuel Church of Brecon, solicitor (ff. 7r-v, 28v). The letters and accounts give detailed information concerning estate matters such as rents and rent arrears, the leasing of farms, tithes and repairs, and contain numerous references to local affairs and events. Notes on the volume, compiled by its previous owner Nigel Temple, have been tipped in at the front (ff. ii-xii).

Very extensive contemporary manuscript additions to John Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae (London, 1716) bringing the ecclesiastical fasti to 1743 and those of Oxford and Cambridge to 1755 and 1754 respectively, ?in the hand of the Joseph Smith whose autograph appears on p. 1 (possibly Joseph Smith, provost of Queen's College, Oxford). The additions, some of which are included in later editions, appear to be taken from manuscript and printed sources and personal communications received by the writer. Bound into the volume are two printed items: A Catalogue of the Principal Members of the Conventual and Cathedral Church of Ely ... from ... AD 673 to the present Year 1756 (Cambridge, 1756) (ff. 7-10) and A List of the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales, since the Restoration 1660 to the year 1753 (ff. 11-12).

Rental, 1822, of the estate of Lewis Price Jones, Glanyrannell, co. Carmarthen, comprising properties in the parishes of Cynwyl Gaeo, Llandeilo, Llansadwrn, Llansawel, Llanwrda, Llan-crwys and Talley, co. Carmarthen, and Llanddewibrefi, co. Cardigan; with miscellaneous memoranda, 1822-1823.

Black and white photographs of some one hundred and fifty items from the collection, including those sold at Sotheby's in 1960.

The second of two notebooks (see also NLW MS 22319B) containing a list and index compiled, 1952, by T. W. Hughes, agent to the Gregynog estate, of pictures and sculpture collected by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.
Typescript lists and rough notes found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (NLW MS 22321C).

The first of two notebooks (see also NLW MS 22320B) containing a list and index compiled, 1952, by T. W. Hughes, agent to the Gregynog estate, of pictures and sculpture collected by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.

Rate book, [1827x1829], for the parish of Berriew, Montgomeryshire, listing owners and occupiers and description of property by township.