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A photostat facsimile of Tremeirchion parish registers.

A volume entitled on the cover 'The Records of the Corporate Borough of Carmarthen, during the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, Charles II., James II., William & Mary, Anne, George I., and George II. Ad verbum et literam transcripta, ex tabulis publicis ab Alcuino C. Evans'. The volume contains transcripts of records from the original 'Book of Ordinances' preserved in the common coffer of the borough, the records dating from 1590 to 1764. According to the imprint on the title-page the work was compiled at Carmarthen between September 1851 and July 1853.

A notebook giving the names of the purchasers and the prices realised at a sale of crops, livestock, farm implements and furniture at Lanlanisa farm, Cellan, Cardiganshire, 1864, with the prices of dairy produce, etc. sold in 1901-1902.

Miscellaneous printed, typescript, and manuscript material, August - September 1939, relating to plans for the reception of evacuees from Liverpool at Aberystwyth.

A volume of typescript material relating to hunting and Welsh huntsmen entitled 'Random Accounts of Welsh Huntsmen and Hunts' accumulated by Dr T. F. Holley, 2004.

A manuscript by R. J. Edwards entitled Incidents of the Great War which burst out in Europe in 1914, as seen at Ruthin. The narrative is continued until July 1921.

A 'Book of Quotations and General Remarks' or 'Cyfeiriadau Clasurol (Detholion)', containing extracts from, and notes on, classical and other sources, e.g. Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Virgil, Dante, John Milton, etc. The volume was originally used as a contributions book of a Workmen's Association, and some accounts for the period 1881 are preserved on the inside lower cover.

An extract from the proceedings of the Epiphany Quarter Sessions for Cardiganshire, 1826, signed by the Clerk of the Peace, presenting Rees Jones, Nantremenin, Llandysul 'as a fit person to serve the office of chief constable for the lower Division of the Hundred of Moyddyn for the year ensuing in the Room of John David Jones ...'.

Papers of Professor J. N. Hutchinson, 1940-1996, comprising reports on the Aberfan tragedy including Geotechnical investigation into the causes and circumstances of the disater of 21st October, 1966 , by the donor and others, together with a very rare copy of Rubbish Tip slide, Cilfynydd Common 5 December 1939 (1940), and an offprint of an article by him and others entitled 'Rapid failures of colliery spoil heaps in the South Wales coalfield', Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 1996.

Atgofion teipysgrif David Morris Lewis yn dwyn y teitl 'From Prison to Prison', yn ymwneud â'i yrfa yng ngharchardai Wakefield, Wandsworth, Amwythig, Abertawe, Dartmoor, Caerloyw, Canolfan Gadw Brynbuga ac Albany, Ynys Wyth, 1937-1971. / Typescript recollections of David Morris Lewis entitled 'From Prison to Prison', relating to his career in the prison service at Wakefield, Wandsworth, Shrewsbury, Swansea, Dartmoor, Gloucester, Usk Detention Centre and Albany, Isle of Wight, 1937-1971.

Printed material, leaflets, newsletters and circular correspondence relating to trade unions, pressure groups and left-wing organizations, c 1970s-80s, including the Communist Party Welsh Congress, 1972; the Welsh Committee Against Racialism, 1977; Defence of Trade Unions Committee, 1977; the Wales for the Assembly Campaign, 1977-9; Llafur: the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, 1978-9; Gwynedd CND, 1981; the National Left, 1982; and the National Union of Mineworkers, 1984-5; together with a pamphlet by the British and Irish Communist Organization entitled Is Wales a Nation?, 1972; three issues of Mirror on Rural Scotland, 1982-3; an issue of The Communist, undated; and a pamphlet by Plaid Gwerin Cymru entitled Capitalist Socialism, Capitalist Nationalism and Socialist Nationalism, undated.

A volume containing press cuttings, 1887-1898, relating mainly to the Tithe War in Wales, including an index at the front of the volume.

A file of press cuttings kept by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including reports of 'eisteddfodau' held at Llanrwst, 1876-1904.

A volume of early nineteenth-century sermons in Welsh by the Reverend James Davies (1767?-1860, DWB), Baptist minister of Ffynnonhenri and Horeb, Rhydargaeau, co. Carmarthen.

A manuscript containing sermons preached at Llandrillo, Llanddeiniolen, Llansantffraid, Llanllechid, Clynnog, etc., 1813-1833, possibly by J. Hughes, together with a few hymns, one of them by Evan Jones.

A manuscript containing notes of sermons preached in Glamorgan.

A manuscript containing sermons preached at various places in Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Caernarvonshire.

Notes of sermons largely by, and in the hand of, John Jones (1807-75), Calvinistic Methodist minister of Blaenannerch, Cardiganshire. MS. 11336 contains a certificate of declarations and subscriptions to oaths made by John Jones (described as of Bryn Hyfrid, parish of Tremain), 16 July, 1863.

Two autograph sermons by the Venerable Hugh Jones, archdeacon of St Asaph, first preached at Bagillt and Holywell, June-July 1839.

Sermon notes by J. Gwynoro Davies.