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Papers relating to families and estates in north Wales, including the West family, the Chirk Castle estate, the Hengwrt, Rug and Nannau estate, the Wynnstay estate, the Penbedw estate, the estate of Richard Willding of Llanrhaeadr Hall, Denbighshire, and the Whitehall-Davies family of Broughton Hall, Flintshire, and Llannerch, Denbighshire. Records and correspondence, including relating to abstracts of title, chapels, churches, conveyances, inclosures, industrial activity, law suits, mining, parliamentary elections, probate, railways, schools and tithe commutation. Office records, including cash journals, bill books and letter books, [19th century]-[20th century].

Registers of shareholders, bonds, mortgages, and debentures of proprietors of railway companies in Wales and the Borders which became incorporated in the LMS Railway Co., comprising the following: Bangor and Caernarvon Railway, 1854-1866; Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway, 1868-1869; Carnarvon & Llanberis Railway, 1864-1871; Carnarvonshire Railway, 1863-1871; Central Wales Railway and Central Wales Extension Railway, 1862-1887; Chester and Holyhead Railway, 1844-1857; Conway and Llanrwst, and Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railways, 1866-1869; Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwen Railway, 1861-1890; Hereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway, 1864-1871; Knighton Railway, 1860-1869; Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railway, 1861-1866; Mold Railway, 1849-1852; Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway, 1860-1867; Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, 1848-1852; Sirhowy Railway, 1860-1880; Swansea Vale Railway, 1852-1880; Vale of Clwyd Railway, 1859-1868; and Vale of Towy Railway, 1853-1885.

Records of the London Welsh Golfing Society, comprising a minute book, 1922-49, including minutes, lists of winners of competitions, a brief history and draft rules of the association, menus of annual dinners, press cuttings and letters; papers relating to fixtures and results, 1984-2009 and 2019 (with photographs of cups), and annual dinners, 1984-97, financial records, 1979-2019, and membership records, 1984 2011.

Records relating chiefly to the Welsh estates of the Wood / Lockwood family, comprising volumes of rentals and disbursements, 1830-1843, and manorial records, 1564-1849; about 550 autograph letters relating to the management of the Wood estates in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, 1836-1853; over 500 deeds relating to properties in Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Anglesey, Breconshire, Radnorshire, Surrey and Middlesex, 1640-1891; and documents relating to various industrial activities, 1838-1905.

Family letters, [c.1800]-1880, and deeds, 1634-1861, relating to the John and Thomas families of Trehale in the parish of St Edrens, Pembrokeshire.

Papers, 1945-1949, of the Local Government Boundary Commission, including minutes; progress summaries; correspondence; and reports and briefs relating to boundary reviews in Welsh counties and county boroughs.

Papers relating to the Local Authority Survey, 1985-1987, comprising replies from local authorities in Wales, 1985, and in the United Kingdom, 1986, in response to circulars from Gareth D. Evans; Standing Orders from various local authorities, [1986]; samples of circular letters, 1986-1987; letters received by GDE, 1986-1987; and draft of summary of replies received and their subsequent analysis, 1986.

L.M.S., Welsh Council, minute books, 1925-1966.

A collection which includes correspondence; transcripts of manuscripts and of poetry; biographical material relating to historical Welsh figures; copies of material relating to the manors of Machen and Abercarn; and a translation by Reynolds of Act III, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Also included are translations from German literature by Elsa Irene Reynolds and a volume of letters to Jonathan Reynolds (Nathan Dyfed).

Deeds relating to the Llysnewydd estate in Carmarthenshire, 1429-1954, Pembrokeshire, England and Ireland, [early 14 cent].-1906; deeds, letters, accounts, etc., relating to industrial development, mainly coal mining, in the Gwendraeth valley, Carmarthenshire, 1645-1760, 1859-1913; deeds of the Gwastod Gwrda estate in the parish of Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire, 1731-1892; correspondence, 1704-1919; accounts, 1618-1899, 1945-1946; legal papers, 1707-1880; and maps and plans, 1801-1907.

The greater part of the archive consists of letters to or from Richard Venables, 1810-1858, archdeacon of Carmarthen, mainly from solicitors and members of his family and dealing largely with personal, legal, and business matters, and of letters to or from his two sons Richard Lister Venables, vicar of Clyro, 1835-1893, (mainly letters from his brother George) and George Stovin Venables, Q.C. [?1831]-1888, (mainly social, personal and legal). Other personal papers include the diaries of Richard Lister Venables, 1828-1893, diaries and journals of George Stovin Venables, and diaries of Mary Hannah Venables, 1809-1834. -- The remainder of the archive comprises mainly title deeds, 1665-1863, relating to properties in Breconshire, Denbighshire, Merioneth, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, and in the USA, personal, housekeeping and bank accounts, 1806-1893, and material relating to establishing All Saints church, Newbridge-on-Wye, 1883.

Manuscripts and records of the Llwyngwair estate in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, and of associated families, particularly the Bevans of Laugharne, including account books and rentals, 1689-1957; deeds, 1549-1884; manuscript maps of parts of the estate, 18-20 cent.; records of the Llwyngwair Estates Company, 1937-1953; accounts with traders in London, Cardigan, and of the Crymmych Arms, 1869-1903, accounts of servants' wages, 1914-1931; newspaper cuttings of family and local interest, 1866-1912; game and fishing registers, 1852-1940; and an album of photographs.

Deeds and documents relating to the Llwyndyrys estate and other properties in the parish of Llandygwydd, Cardiganshire, 1730-1923, including the Ddôl estate.

1952 and 1966: Llwyn estate records, mainly title deeds and abstracts of title, 1623-1932, together with a few business letters, plans, printed sale catalogues and rentals, 1855-1908, relating to properties principally in Llanfyllin (including the manor of Brithdir) and elsewhere in Montgomeryshire, and to a lesser extent in Denbighshire, Merioneth, Shropshire, Cheshire and Lancashire.

2017: Four scrapbooks (one disbound), c.1857-c.1952, eleven letter books, 1874-1906, three photograph albums, bundles of letters, 1880-1900, and three game books, 1900-1950. Bundles of deeds, letters and other papers related to the purchase and sale of properties, mainly in p. Llanfyllin, c.1851-c.1954. Manuscript 'History and topography of the hundred of Llanfyllin', by "Mechain", 1893, notes for a history of Llanfyllin, c.1893-1916, and a typescript 'History of the parish of Llanfyllin from 1862 to 1913', by J. Marshall Dugdale, c.1916.

Deeds and papers, 1521-1839, relating mainly to the families of Lloyd, Youde, and Verney of Clochfaen, Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, Lloyd of Plas Madoc, Ruabon, and Youde of Ruthin, Denbighshire; papers, 1549-1779, relating to lands in the township of Rhydonnen, Llanynys, Denbighshire; and miscellaneous deeds, 1521-1825, relating to lands in Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire.

Papers, [1750x1830], consisting mainly of extracts made by Mrs Mary Lloyd and her husband, Colonel Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd, Cardiganshire from theological writers, including treatises, sermons, letters, etc. by John Wesley, Samuel Horsley, Samuel Johnson, Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, John Newton, George Whitefield, John Owen, Machynlleth and Llangyndeyrn and others; together with prayers and miscellanea.

Deeds and documents, 1764-1865, relating to the Lloyd Jack estate mainly in the parish of Llanfihangel Ystrad, Cardiganshire, and premises in the parishes of Dihewyd, Cardiganshire, Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire, and Almondsbury, Gloucestershire.

Papers, 1886-1968, of the Lloyd George family. The collection is comprised mainly of correspondence, the bulk of which is addressed to David Lloyd George, mostly from contemporary political figures and from members of his family. The political correspondence relates largely to Welsh affairs, including Disestablishment, the Welsh Church Commission, education and the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1911, as well as to the Irish Question and the First World War. David Lloyd George's family correspondence includes letters, [c. 1886]-1941, between David Lloyd George and his wife Margaret, from David Lloyd George to his uncle Richard Lloyd, 1890-1916, and to David Lloyd George from his brother William George, 1891-1915; other family correspondence includes letters to Margaret Lloyd George, 1893-1939, from various correspondents, and from Margaret Lloyd George mainly to her daughter Olwen Carey-Evans, 1917-1939; correspondence and papers of Megan Lloyd George, daughter of David and Margaret Lloyd George, including letters, 1939-1957, to and from Labour politician Philip Noel-Baker and from other correspondents, 1910-1966, including her parents, together with a tour journal, 1923-1924, and diary, 1947, and correspondence and papers, 1914-[c. 1963], of Gwilym Lloyd George, son of David and Margaret Lloyd George, including a typescript draft, [c. 1960]-1962, of his (unpublished) autobiography; together with speech notes, notebooks and miscellaneous papers, [c. 1904]-1939, of David Lloyd George, and correspondence and papers, 1898-1909, relating to Mair Eluned Lloyd George, daughter of David and Margaret Lloyd George.

Personal and estate papers of the family of Parry of Llidiardau, Llanilar, Cardiganshire, and of the associated families of Hughes of Glanrheidol, Llanbadarn Fawr, and Hughes of Alltlwyd, Llansantffraid, both also of Cardiganshire, mainly 18 cent.-20 cent., mainly comprising deeds, 1545-1901; rentals of the Llwyniorwerth estate, 1736-1740, 1776, the estates of George Parry, Havefordwest, 1786-1836, the Pantsheriff estate, 1806-1822, Wervilbrook, 1824-1831, and of Llidiardau, 1885-1926; correspondence, 1725, 1782-1936; probate records, 1610-1866; legal papers from the office of Charles Parry, solicitor, Aberystwyth 1824-1870; papers relating to Charles Parry's clerkship of the Cardiganshire Roads Board; and documents acquired by G.W. Parry as justice of the peace and chairman of the Cardiganshire Quarter Sessions, 1848-1870.

Records of the Lleweni estate, Denbighshire, and papers of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, consisting mainly of letters, deeds and other legal documents. The letters are mainly to or from members of the Salusbury family, 1546-1645, the greater number belonging to the last fifteen years of that period, and relating to Sir Thomas Salusbury, the second baronet. The letters are mainly family correspondence and business letters from estate agents, lawyers, and servants of the household. A few are in the nature of news-letters, particularly those written by James Lloyd, [c. 1640], when relations between Charles I and his Parliament were becoming strained. The deeds and legal documents, 1357-1800, relate to the Llewenni estate in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire.