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Papers of D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, including letters to D. A. Thomas on political matters such as working conditions in the mining industry, education, church disestablishment, and the temperance movement, 1891-1910 (mainly 1891-1895); drafts and copies of letters from D. A. Thomas on similar subjects, 1891-1895; miscellaneous letters, 1893-1895; subject files, 1874-1917, on the coal industry, including the Cambrian Navigation Collieries, the Mining Association of Great Britain, the South Wales Liberal Federation, temperance and disestablishment; scrapbooks of press cuttings, 1894-1927, relating to Cymru Fydd, D.A Thomas, Merthyr politics and Keir Hardie, the Lusitania, and Lady Rhondda; miscellaneous items, 1897-1934, including genealogical material and congratulatory addresses to D.A.T.; circulars and memoranda.

Papers relating to temperance, including a circular letter from Aubrey C. Davey, Education Secretary, South Wales Temperance Union, inviting speakers to lecture on the increasing consumption of alcohol; a list of the successful candidates of the temperance knowledge exam at Port Talbot Temperance and Band of Hope Union, 1926, together with a one-act play entitled 'Hit and Run' by K. D. Evans.

Papers, 1918-1954, of Professor Robert Richards comprising papers relating to the Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales, 1919-1954; notebooks containing historical research notes and notes for lectures, extracts from books and journals, reviews, drafts of monographs and articles by Professor Robert Richards, letters from historians and authors, correspondence and papers, 1941-1954, relating to The Monastic Houses of Wales and the Borders; notebooks on economics and economic history; political papers, including material on the agricultural question, 1919-1923, Welsh Affairs, 1945-1954, parliamentary correspondence, 1934-1953, miscellaneous papers, 1918-1947, and papers concerning temperance and religion, 1924-1949; and papers reflecting Robert Richards's interest in nature, 1923-1944, including a diary for the period 1938-1944.

Llyfr poced masnachol, 1849-1862, yn cynnwys cerddi gan, ac yn llaw, W. J. Roberts ('Caersallwg'), dilledydd, Caernarfon, ynghyd â nodiadau ganddo yn ymwneud â dirwest. = Commercial pocket book, 1849-1862, containing poems by, and in the hand of, W. J. Roberts ('Caersallwg'), draper, Caernarfon, together with notes by him relating to temperance.