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Typescript draft by Ernest Lewis Thomas ('Richard Vaughan', 1904-1983) of his first novel, Moulded in Earth (London, 1951), with corrections by the author, being the final draft submitted to the publishers, incorporating a number of changes to the earlier manuscript draft (now NLW MS 14799C).

Correspondence and papers, 1896-1897, relating to aspects of the land question in Wales, including the manifold problems faced by Welsh tenant farmers, the report of the Royal Commission on Land in Wales, the convention of public meetings and conferences, and the appointment of delegates to attend conferences. The correspondents include H. Tobit Evans, 1896, D. Lloyd George, 1896, and W. Llywelyn Williams, 1896.

Two volumes of notes, extracts, and memoranda relating to the agriculture and domestic economy of Wales, mainly in the hand of Walter Davies.

Surveys relating to farming in Wales, 1989-1995, including the results of a survey carried out to assess the attitudes of farmers in Anglesey towards farming unions, 1989; and a survey on Welsh farming in general, 1995, concerning issues such as organic produce, animal cruelty and farming subsidies.

Thesis: 'Welsh Agriculture 1815-1914' (University of London Ph.D.) by David Wesley Howell (typescript).

Includes miscellaneous correspondence, 1917-18; notes on the national shipyards, 1918; a memorandum on the War Efficiency Group; David Davies, 'The Boom of Beaurocracy [sic] and the Powerlessness of Parliament', undated; a copy of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Tuberculosis, 1919; a file of papers on Aircraft Acceptance Park, 1917-18; a paper on Welsh agriculture; correspondence and papers, 1917, on the Royal Army Medical Corps; and a copy of Sir Henry Norman's report on disabled soldiers, 1916.

The file consists of the Parliamentary Debates of sittings of the Welsh Grand Committee and other official publications, discussing education, rural development, roads and communications, agriculture, proposals for local government re-organisation, the Welsh economy and the Welsh Council.

The file contains an envelope addressed to 'John Rees, Adviser in Agricultural Botany'; correspondence, 1923-1925, between John Rees and D. Lleufer Thomas relating to the Welsh Housing & Development Association Yearbook, 1924; a letter from the National Museum of Wales to the National Library of Wales, 1955, enclosing the material as a donation from John Rees's widow, and a copy of the acknowledgement letter from the Library to Mrs Rees, 1955.

Miscellaneous notes and extracts made by Walter Davies and dealing with the language, literature, and agriculture of Wales.

Diaries and journals of tours in North and South Wales kept by Walter Davies at various times from 1797 to 1822, and containing references to agriculture and other industries.

Notes made by Walter Davies on a journey undertaken on behalf of the Board of Agriculture through Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, and Glamorgan [1811], and dealing particularly with the geology of the counties and with their agriculture and other industries.

Two volumes of diaries and journals of tours in North and South Wales kept by Walter Davies at various times between 1797 and 1817. They contain special references to agriculture and other industries, and most of them appear to have been used by him in the compilation of General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of ... Wales (London, 1810-1815).