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Twenty-seven boxes of papers relating to the Roman Catholic Church, Wrexham Diocese. Material includes Ad clerums 1897-1946; Pastoral letters 1913-1935; Histories of missions (mainly N. Wales) 1888-1893; Misc. papers relating to seminaries and colleges (St. Sulpice; Vallodolid; Ushaw; Up Holland; Oscott; Lisbon; Cotton College), c.1920-1946; Parish statistics 1922-47; Visitations to 1947; Religious orders in diocese to 1947; Financial papers 1901-47; Ordinations 1938-45; Reconciliations 1926-46; Marriage dispensations 1895-1947; Parish financial returns 1930s; Deeds, conveyances c.1914-1939; Papers of Bishop John Petit (relating primarily to the Second Vatican Council) c. 1960s; Prayer books and other printed items; Newscuttings 1930s.

This collection remains uncatalogued (a working list is available in Box 1).

A further deposit of papers relating to the Roman Catholic Church, Wrexham Diocese. 3 boxes.

Cofysgrifau'n perthyn i Eglwys Gymraeg Mayer Street, Hanley, c.1874-1982, gan gynnwys anerchiad ar hanes y Cymry yn Hanley, pregethau cylchwyl, papurau yn ymwneud â Peter Williams (Pedr Mostyn), Ysgrifennydd yr Eglwys, 1850-1857, ffotograffau o aelodau'r Eglwys ac aelodau'r Ysgol Sul.

Fifteen notebooks containing 'Cyfrif o'm Goruchwyliaeth' or records of visits to Welsh patients at Liverpool hospitals and elsewhere, 1896-1913, by the Reverend John Evans (1847-1921), Calvinistic Methodist Town Missionary, of Beaconsfield Street, Princes Road, Liverpool. Mounted or stitched into the volumes are a large number of relevant letters and postcards addressed to John Evans, among the correspondents being J. J. Roberts ('Iolo Caernarfon'), Portmadoc, 1897-[9], Griffith Ellis, Bootle, 1898-1908, Rosina Davies, Treherbert, 1898, [Evan Rees] ('Dyfed'), Cardiff, 1902, W. Pari Huws, Dolgellau, 1904, Thomas Levi, Aberystwyth, 1904, The Religious Tract Society, 1904-7, [J. O. Williams] ('Pedrog'), 1906-11, etc.

Original records, 1746-1794, of Glandwr Congregational Church, Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire, together with notes by John Lloyd James (Clwydwenfro) (1835-1919), who published a history of the church in 1902, and by David Morgan Lewis (1851-1937).

Records, 1853-1966, of Methodist Circuits in Ceredigion, including minute and account books and registers of baptisms.

Records of baptisms at Saron Congregational Chapel, Llangeler in the hand of the Reverend Thomas Jones. English. Leather. Donated by Mrs B. Howard, Killay, Swansea, August 1971.

Records and genealogy of the Charlton (Charleton) family from 1177 to 1843, compiled, about 1843, from manuscript and record sources in the British Museum and the Heralds' College and illuminated, with arms emblazoned, by E. Worrall. The volume contains an account of Hawys Gadarn [1291-before 1353] of Powys.

A photostat facsimile of an Abergwili (Bishop's Palace) manuscript containing a contemporary record - comprising bills, writs, returns of commissions, interrogatories and depositions - of a case begun 4 Edward VI (1560) concerning the status, whether collegiate or parochial, of the church of Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire. At the beginning of the volume is a valuation of the temporalities and spiritualities of the diocese of St Davids, with a note dated 1582.

Record of work done on specified ships in the hand of Griffith Owen ?of Aberdyfi. English. Boards. Donated by Mrs T. Wynne Thomas, Kingsheath, Birmingham, July 1971.

A photostat facsimile of the record of the trial of Michael Tillert, alias Michael Morgan, a native of St Bride's, Glamorgan, for heresy before the Inquisitorial Court in New Mexico, 1572-1574.

Record of sufferancies for the landing and shipping of goods in the hand of William Hughes, Aberdyfi. English. Vellum. Donated by Mrs T. Wynne Thomas, Kingsheath, Birmingham, July 1971.

A list of household goods, agricultural implements, crops and livestock of Mrs Elinor Davies which were sold by auction at Rhydwhied Issa, Llanllwchaiarn, Cardiganshire, 12 October 1799, with the names of the purchasers and the amounts paid.

Record of apprenticeships in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 77.) English. Vellum. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

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.

A copy of Mrs Ruth Evans's typescript recollections, 1983, of her late husband, Ifor L. Evans (1897-1952), Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1934-52, including extracts from family correspondence and diaries.

Recollections of Edward Williams by Elijah Waring: copy byLady Coffin Greenly and another. English. Full calf. Purchased from Lowe Brothers, Birmingham, December 1953.

'Recollections of a Ruthinian', i.e., R. J Edwards, being an account of Ruthin from about 1860, written by R. J. Edwards, and printed in the Denbighshire Free Press, March 10, 1917 - April 15, 1922, together with other press cuttings and broadsides.