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Papers, 1907-1988, mainly relating to the activities of the Labour Party in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, 1917-1967, including: papers of the Llanelli Trades Council and Divisional Labour Party, including minute books, 1940-1967; accounts, financial papers and cash books, 1925-1967; correspondence, 1921-1967; miscellaneous papers, 1917-1967; press cuttings, 1926-1959; and general election papers, 1931-1964; political and professional papers of Loti Rees Hughes, including correspondence, minute books and press cuttings, 1927-1965; and personal and family papers, 1935-1969; papers of W. Douglas Hughes [c. 1920]-1968, including correspondence, 1932-1967; notebooks, c. [1920]-1966; and correspondence and papers relating to Carmarthenshire County Council, 1944-1968; together with the papers of Dr Deian R. Hopkin, 1907-2000, including correspondence, 1962-2000; and miscellaneous printed material, with some concerning the Labour Party, 1907-1984 and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1960-1973.

Additional papers comprising 17 letters from Jennie Eirian Davies, 1978-1981; 2 letters (one incomplete) from Peter Thomas, 1980; items relating to T. E. Nicholas (Niclas y Glais), including two letters, 1978-1979, from his son, Islwyn ap Nicholas; typescript reports concerning the election campaign of Loti Rees Hughes, Labour candidate for Cardigan; and printed material, [1960]-1988; May 2019.

A box of family postcards, 1950s-1970s, to Deian Hopkin, Loti Rees Hughes, Douglas Hughes and Mati Rees; September 2022.

Papers, 1931-1993, accumulated by Delwyn Phillips, including minutes, accounts and correspondence of Undeb y Brythoniaid, 1931-1974; minutes and correspondence, 1931-1976, of Plaid Cymru Midlands Branch; minutes and correspondence, 1947-1979, of Pwyllgor Undebol Cymry Birmingham a'r Cylch; and correspondence and papers, 1956-1992, of the Celtic Congress.

Demand for changes of diet and relief by sea of 800 soldiers enforced by contrary winds to Millbay, Holie head made by two justices of the peace for Anglesey [one of whom was William Lewys, Chwayn]. English. In a box. Purchased from W. A. Myers, London, August 1960.

Demand notes and receipts for taxes rates and tithes. English. Donated by the executors of the late Hugh Evans, Bootle, July 1942.

A file of correspondence and papers relating to the redistribution of seats under the Representation of the People Bill, 1917-18, particularly concerning efforts made to amalgamate the Denbigh and Flint boroughs.

Denbigh records and the Peake family by J. Williams and Hugh Budgen Peake. Cloth. Purchased from S. V. Galloway, Aberystwyth, August 1950.

A collection comprising manuscripts of Denbighshire interest, including overseers' accounts, 1823-1836, poor rate assessments, 1843, and highway assessments, 1853-1862; a Llanefydd vestry book, 1788-1868; an account book of Llansilin Friendly Society, 1811-1832; accounts, etc., relating to Bethania Calvinistic Methodist church Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, 1857-1912, to the Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist church, Rhuthun, 1890-1919, and to the Rhuthun District Calvinistic Methodist Sunday School, 1867-1883; and transcripts of material relating to tithes and highway rate assessments in Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd.

Draft documents etc. concerning the establishment of a Trust for building St Asaph Grammar School, co. Denb., together with two coloured hand drawn plans of Penllan Farm where the school was built, 1876/7. Documents connected with restoration work etc on the parish church at Rhosmedre, co. Denb., including a very fine plan by the architect W. H. Spaull of Oswestry, 1888/9. Documents concerning an extension to the churchyard at Ruabon, co. Denb., including two fine plans on linen showing most of the village, one of these is signed as approved by a Secretary of State at Whitehall, 1905/7. Documents concerning the erection of a monument in the churchyard at Llanfechain, co. Denb., including a large drawing by the architect Hy Jones of Southport, dated 1909. Documents concerning an extension to the churchyard at Chirk, co. Denb., including a hand drawn plan, dated 1938. Documents concerning the Redemption of Tithes in Prestatyn and Meliden, co. Denb., with a considerable correspondence with the Land Office etc and a coloured map on linen, dated 1887. And also a considerable number of documents concerning the Redemption of Tithes in Rhuddlan, co. Flint, 1892-1895.

A photostat facsimile of British Museum Additional MS 40175, which is a Denbighshire Quarter Sessions Order Book dated 5 October 1675 - 2 October 1688, with a gap between 13 January 1679/80 and April 1681.

Two volumes of memoranda by Thos. Hughes of proceedings at Denbighshire Quarter Sessions, 1855-1859, 1865-1873.

Music manuscripts, 1935-1995, of Denis ApIvor, including those of his operas She Stoops To Conquer, Yerma, Ubu Roi and Bouvard et Pécuchet, as well as solo and choral works (including The Hollow Men), songs, concertos, chamber music, etc.

Papers of Denis Balsom, 1979-2004, comprising opinion polls and surveys relating to Welsh politics, culture and society. The collection includes pre-election opinion polls, 1979-2004, concerning voting intentions across Wales and public opinion of devolution; constituency polls, 1987-2003, carried out to assess voting intentions on a regional level; surveys on the Welsh language and culture, 1979-1995; surveys relating to social issues in Wales, 1989-1995; and television image surveys, 1979-1996.

Photocopies of papers, 1925-1951, of Denis Martin (1919-1998), relating to the Communist Party, including press cuttings concerning George Edward Maslin [d. 1951] of Tylorstown, a founder member of the Communist Party in Rhondda and a Communist District Councillor; election addresses of George Edward Maslin and Elizabeth Jessie Collingbourne for the Rhondda District Council elections, 1946; and the election address of Arthur Horner (1894-1968) for the Rhondda East By-election, 1933.

Papers, 1956-1994, relating to Dennis Hoare (1922-1995) and his involvement with Welsh Rugby as referee and secretary of the North Wales Society of Rugby Union Refererees.

A volume lettered on the upper cover 'The Honourable The Irish Society. Report of the Deputation to Ireland in the year 1844'. The contents consist of a manuscript copy of the report presented to the 'Honourable Society of the Governor and Assistants, London, of the New Plantation in Ulster', by the deputation delegated in June 1844, to visit the said plantation. The object of the deputation was to inquire into, and report upon, 'the state of the property, the condition of the Tenantry, and the particulars of the several Schools, and other Charities and Institutions, supported in whole, or in part, by Grants [from the Society]. The visitation was carried out, August - September 1844, and the report signed, 27 January 1845, by John Humphrey (Ald[erma]n, Governor), Wm. Jones (Deputy Governor), Wm. Lawrence, W. Hughes Hughes (Ald[erma]n), William Collingwood, and Thos. Henry Hall. According to an inscription on the title-page, this particular transcript was presented by the Society to the aforesaid Wm. Jones, by whom the actual report had been prepared.

A typescript pedigree relating to the Deputy family, dating from the seventeenth century to the present day, compiled in 1999 by Michael E. Deputy; together with a photocopy of an article 'Castles of Wales' taken from Deseret News, 24 August 1986.

Working drafts, 1984, of Marwnad fy Mam, an elegy by Derec Llwyd Morgan on the death of his mother, published in his volume of poetry, Cefn y Byd (Llandysul, 1987).