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A manuscript containing memoranda mainly relating to Shropshire and comprising notices of marriages and births, obituaries, etc., 1796-1850, together with advice relating to a tour from Gloucester to Mid and North Wales.

A photostat facsimile of the fifteenth century Shrewsbury School MS XI, which contains Welsh versions of 'Officium Beatae Mariae', the Credo, the Spirit of Guido, the Gospel of Nicodemus, the Crucifixion, Elen's Finding of the Cross, the Vision of Paul, etc., and which is closely allied to Peniarth MS 191, the bulk of which is also of the fifteenth century.

The original manuscript of 'An Acco[un]t of the Poll for member of Parliament for the Borough of Shrewsbury taken June 29 & 30th. 1747, in which the Proceedings of the Mayor at that Election are fully vindicated', with a reprint of the text from the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, bound with the following pamphlets: The Poll for the Borough of Shrewsbury, 1796; the same for 1807; A Short Account of the Mandamus Cause ... 1806; A Correct Alphabetical list of the Burgesses who voted ... at the Election for the Borough of Shrewsbury, 1812; A Correct Alphabetical List of the Freeholders who voted ... at the Election for the County of Salop, 1831; A Correct Alphabetical List of the Burgesses who voted ... at the Election for the Borough of Shrewsbury ..., 1830; A Correct Alphabetical List of the Electors who voted at the Election of Representatives for the Borough of Shrewsbury, 1832; the same for 1835, 1841 and 1847; The Alphabetical List of the Burgesses of the Town of Shrewsbury in the Castle Ward within, entitled to vote ... 1848-1849; Alphabetical List of the Electors who voted at the Election of Representatives for the Borough of Shrewsbury, 1852; A Correct Alphabetical List of the Electors who voted at the Election of Councillors for the Castle Ward within ... 1855; and mounted cuttings of lists of voters showing how they voted at borough elections, 1857 and 1862.

Short stories, poetry, etc by W. D. Davies (typescripts and press cuttings). (Formerly W. D. Davies MS 14.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Mrs Whiting, Llandrindod Wells, October 1969.

Short stories by Richard Hughes Williams ('Dic Tryfan') (d. 1919) (typescripts, etc). Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Mr Francis Wynn Jones, Aberystwyth, March 1964.

Short stories and essays by and letters to Sam Ellis, Utica, New York; correspondence of R. Morris Williams, mainly relating to Moriah C. M. Chapel, Utica. Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs Sam Ellis, c/o New York, August & October 1961.

Account books, 1903-16, 1932-48, of Evan Jones and later of Jenkin Henry Jones, St David's Villa, Pontgarreg, Llangrannog, co. Cardigan, grocers and general dealers.

Photocopies of a plan of the Majoda bungalow, New Quay, commissioned by the police after the shooting in 1945, and of the notes of PC Islwyn Williams, the policeman who arrested William Killick. Also included is and an explanatory note in the hand of John Williams, the officer's son .

A memorandum book, c. 1880-1895, of William Evans, shoemaker, Aberystwyth, with a note of sizes of shoes ordered by various customers; etc.

Accounts, 1846-1868, of Abraham Williams of Coedcae-bach, parish of Llangynog, co. Carmarthen, shoemaker, the homesteads mentioned lying mainly in the parishes of Llanfihangel Abercywyn and Llangynog, together with a few earlier memoranda.

A log-book of the ship British Monarch, kept by the commander, Thomas Bowen Rees, containing an account of her voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta, June-October 1865 (ff. 1 verso-23 verso), and from Calcutta to London, December 1865 - April 1866 (inverted text ff. 27-54 verso). Also included is a draft letter, ca. 1866, from Thomas Bowen Rees to 'Mrs Rowlands', ?'Yet y Cwrt', near Newport, co. Pembroke (inverted text f. 26 recto-verso); and notes in Welsh in praise of the Sunday School (inverted text ff. 24-5 verso).

An incomplete log-book, 1902-1903, of the steamship 'Frederick Knight', sailing from Barry and Cardiff to Portsaid, Theodosia, Odessa, Rotterdam and Leghorn, copied by Cadwalader Owen, a member of the crew.