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Papers, 1891-[1922], of Frank Phillips comprising reminiscences of his voyages to India, Burma, Zimbabwe and South Africa and a diary, 1891-1892, which Phillips kept whilst in Zimbabwe.

A letter, dated 20th February 1938, from Frank R. Lewis, Fellow of the University of Wales and Editor of the Journal of the Society of Arts, from the Royal Society of Arts, London, to a Mr Davies, in which he discusses the discovery of letters and other papers relating to such people as Sir Joshua Reynolds in the archives of the Royal Society of Arts.

Scrapbooks of the Pontypridd born boxer Freddie Welsh (Frederick Hall Thomas, 1886-1927), world lightweight champion, 1914-1917, mostly comprising press cuttings containing detailed accounts of his contests between 1908 and 1916.

Etchings and sketches drawn by Frederick Charles Richards; pocket diaries, 1919-1929; notebooks; press cuttings from The Egyptian Gazette, The Egyptian Mail and The Sphinx; correspondence, 1927-1932; research notes and a draft typescript of A Persian Journey (1932); research notes on Roman and Egyptian civilization, the architecture of London and other English cities, and various philosophical themes; miscellanea.

Papers, 1962-[c. 1986], of Frederick Davies, relating to John Cowper Powys, including letters to Davies from Phyllis Playter, Alyse Gregory, Lucy Amelia Penny, Marie Canavaggia and others, 1962-1986; letters to Powys on his ninetieth birthday, 1962; and an unpublished account of the love affair between Powys and Frances Gregg, [c. 1986].

Papers of Frederick Grice, mainly relating to Francis Kilvert, 1872-1982, including scrapbooks of notes, articles, off-prints, biographical material, 1977, and letters, 1973-1982.

Monmouthshire deeds and documents, 1477-1761, some concerning the families of Thomas, Kemeys and Gardner (later Gardner-Kemeys) of Bertholey, Llantrissent; together with a small number of deeds and documents relating to properties in Denbighshire, Flintshire and Brecknockshire, 1513-1775; Cardiganshire, 1578-1755; Yorkshire, 1398-1605, and Lincolnshire, 1563.

This collection comprises translations into English of foreign works, mainly French, dealing with political and religio-political thought, socialism, Saint-Simonism, etc., together with translations of three works on the Breton language.

Cloth. Donated by Miss M. A. Lewis, Aberdyfi, September 1963.

Freight book (T. Dyke and T. Swift & Co.). (Formerly Thomas Dyke MS.) English. Vellum. Purchased from Mr Grenfell Jones, Abergavenny, June 1971.

One leaf (which appears to have been used at one time in the binding of a volume) of a document which would seem to be a copy of a manifesto by a French king - possibly Louis XIII or Henri IV - at the conclusion of a military campaign - possibly one of the French religious wars - in which he stresses his lack of funds with which to pay his Swiss mercenaries, repair fortifications and maintain his household, with notes by Egerton B. Phillimore (1856-1937).

Material in the Friulan language including a bibliography, [1989], together with an account book, 1858-1870.

An article, with an introduction by Miss Gwen Roberts [Gwen Rees Roberts, 1916-2002], Missionary to India, on the people of the Lushai Hills, known as the 'Mizo District', in the southernmost district of the State of Assam, once head hunting animists, before being introduced to the Christian Church by Missionaries.

Llungopïau o bapurau yn ymwneud ag ymchwil y rhoddwr i deulu a ymfudodd i Awstralia tua canol y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Mae'r deunydd yn cynnwys copi teipysgrif o lythyr wedi ei gyfieithu, 1856, a sgrifennwyd yn wreiddiol yn Gymraeg gan Sarah Jones, Aberaman, at ei phlant yn Awstralia, copïau o gerddi a sgrifennwyd gan 'Magpie', 11 Mai 1863, ac o gerddi wedi eu cyfieithu i Saesneg gan Richard Rees, Sydney, 1985, ac erthygl gan Cynthia Rees, Rhosllannerchrugog, yn olrhain hanes teulu a gyrfa Edward Edwards a aned yn Nhrelogan, Sir Fflint, yn dwyn y teitl 'From Trelogan to New South Wales', 2003.

'From Wales to Wisconsin - The Plas yn Blaenau Papers'. Transcript of NLW MS 6478D with introduction and notes, by Dr Clare Taylor.

A copy of a thesis relating to the writer Margiad Evans by Yuna Toudic, Department of English, University of Rennes, 2008.

Papers of, or collected by, Evan William Evans, Dolgellau, 1808-[1921x1925], consisting mainly of material of Dolgellau local historical and religious interest, including rate assessments and valuations, accounts, rentals, chapel records and other records, 1813-1877; agricultural, timber, slate and other account books, 1823-1879; papers of T. Mordaf Pierce, including correspondence, essays, sermons and material relating to Dolgellau history, 1894-1914; material relating to Calvinistic Methodism in Llanidloes and Dolgellau, 1808-1918; and correspondence, 1850-1921, mainly addressed to Evans.