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The Servant Idea in the Old Testament by Rowland John Pritchard. In a green file. Donated by Mrs Myfanwy Pritchard, Aberystwyth, January 1950.

A copy of 'Speech of the Earl of Powis [i.e. Edward, second earl] in the House of Lords on Tuesday, May 23, 1843, on moving the second reading of a bill for preventing the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor . . .' (London, 1843), with letters and printed papers relating to the threatened union of the sees, the object of which was to transfer the income of the see that would be suppressed to a see of Manchester. Among the papers are letters from the earl of Powis, George William, fourth baron Lyttelton, and Charles Scott Luxmoore, dean of St. Asaph.

A ? holograph, draft copy of D[avid] Jones: The Secret History of White- Hall, from the Restoration of Charles II down to the Abdication of the late K. James, writ at the Request of a Noble Lord, and conveyed to him in Letters by . . ., late Secretary Interpreter to the Marquess of Louvois . . . (London, 1697).

The second volume of an essay entitled 'Welshmen in the Wars of the Roses' by 'Meirion' (Thomas Frimston ('Tudur Clwyd')), submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod at London 1909. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) English. 1/2 leather. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, June 1959.

An incomplete copy of John Reynolds: The Scripture Genealogy beginning at Noah, and to which is added the Genealogy of the Caesars. And also a Display of Heraldry of the particular Coat of Armours now in use in the six counties of North Wales ... (Chester, 1739), with a few manuscript additions, etc.

The official report and finanical statement relating to the damage done to the schooner 'Morning Star' of Aberystwyth during a voyage in 1911 from Treport to Great Yarmouth.

Papers relating to the Ruben/Reuben family.

The Ruabon Accident and Cottage Hospital. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 25.) English. In boards. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

An essay on 'The Royal Family of Tudor' elaborately written and illustrated by Phillip Absalom. A large number of engravings and other reproductions of portraits of the Tudor monarchs and their connections have been mounted in the volume.

A copy of William Iain Stevenson's MA thesis, 'The role of symbol and myth in the Welsh settlement of Patagonia, 1865-1911' (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1974).

The Rocks of Valpré by Ethel M. Dell. English. In boards. Donated by Lt-Col. G. T. Savage, DSO, London, February 1942.

A bound typescript copy of Philip Roberts's work 'The Roberts Family of Ruthin. The Scrapbook of a Denbighshire Family'.

Family trees and genealogical notes and extracts relating to the Richards family of Cardiff and the Edwards family of Llandaff House (ff. 1-14 verso); historical notes relating to Wales and the Marches (ff. 15-26 verso); a licence, dated 1 December 1823 and signed by George IV and [Sir] Charles George Young, granting Thomas William Richards the right to adopt the surname of Edwards and to bear the arms of that family (f. 27); notes relating to the murder of William Powell of Glanareth, Carmarthenshire in 1770 (ff. 28-30); letters to Thomas William Edwards from Francis E. Stacey, 1848, ?vicar of Cardiff, and from Thomas [?John] Powell, rector of Llanhamlach, 1857, both relating to genealogical matters (ff. 31-34); and an extract from the pedigree of George Rice Rice-Trevor, 4th baron Dynevor (f. 35).

Research work undertaken by Hugh Jones on the casulaties listed on the memorial tablet at St George's Church, Reynoldston, Gower, who died during the First World War. Included are short biographies of the fallen soldiers.

The Reverend D. O. Jones and the Manchester circuit, &c., by Thomas Thomas and others. English, Welsh. In an envelope. Purchased from Mrs T. Thomas, Aberystwyth, June 1940.

An incomplete copy, with manuscript notes, of John Napier : A Plaine Discouery of the whole Revelation of Saint John ... (Edinburgh, 1593).

A photocopy of an MA thesis presented at Liverpool University, 1964.