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Balance sheets of National Eisteddfodau, 1880-1932, compiled by Isaac Davies, Birkenhead, with instructions for eisteddfod secretaries.

The National Diary of Wales, with MS notes by William Pugh, Argoed. (Formerly Bontddu MS.) Welsh, English. Cloth. Donated by Mrs Anne Pugh, Bontddu, March 1940.

A note on Cwpan Nanteos, the so-called healing cup kept at Nanteos, near Aberystwyth.

The Mystery of Elizabeth Canning, a story by Arthur Machen. (Formerly Caradoc Evans MS 6.) English. Unbound. Donated by Mrs M. Caradoc Evans, Penrhyncoch, 1946/1947.

Letters re. the Myddfai 'S. Paul inscription' by H. T. Payne, John Jenkins, Kerry, Thomas Beynon, etc. English, Welsh. Donated by W. Isaac Williams, London, 1948.

A volume relating to the murder in 1770 of William Powell, Glanareth, Llangadog, co. Carmarthen, compiled, ca. 1850, by Charles John Bird (1777-1854), rector of Mordiford, co. Hereford. It comprises copies of An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot [and others] ... for the Inhuman Murder of William Powell ... (Hereford, 1770) (wanting final leaf, the deficiency supplied in manuscript) (pp. 7-46), and The Trial of William Spiggot [and others] ... (Glocester, [1770]) (pp. 75-90); and memoranda, notes, and extracts from printed sources concerning the case in the hand of C. J. Bird, including a transcript of an account published in the Hereford Journal, 31 March 1771, of the trial and acquittal of Powell's brother-in-law, Marmaduke Bowen, Cil-y-cwm, co. Carmarthen, and others as being accessories before and after the fact [in which trial C. J. Bird's father, William Bird, defended the accused] (pp. 49-73).

A volume of transcripts and extracts relating to the murder, 8 January 1770, of William Powell of Glanareth, co. Carmarthen. The greater part of the volume (100 pp.) consists of a transcript of the account of the trial published under the title An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot . . ., John Spiggot . . ., William Morris, William Thomas . . ., David Morgan . . ., William Walter Evan, Charles David Morgan, William Charles, and David Llewellin, who were tried on Wednesday, the 28th of March, 1770, at Hereford. . . for the inhuman murder of William Powell . . . [(Hereford, 1770)]. Included also are a further account of the episode (? transcribed from a printed source), entitled 'A Narrative of the unexampled cases of William Spiggott, William Morris, David Morgan, William Walter Evan, Charles David Morgan, and David Llewellin, who were executed at Hereford . . . for murdering William Powell . . .'; a transcript of a broadsheet offering an award for the apprehension of two of the murderers, viz. William Williams and William Morris; and extracts from printed sources, including T[homas] Rees: The Beauties of [England and Wales . . .], South Wales, The Merthyr Guardian, 9 Sept. 1848, etc.

An abstract of documents relating to William Powell, Glanareth, Carmarthenshire (d. 1769), with a copy of An Authentic Trial of William Spiggott [and others] ... for the inhuman murder of William Powell ... (Hereford, 1770).

'The Morgans of Glamorgan-Down to Miles Morgan-the Emigrant of 1635', by J. Edward Lane, being an account of the ancestry and some of the progeny of Miles Morgan, a native of Llandaff, who emigrated to North America.

Programmes of meetings and social events held by the Montgomeryshire Society/Cymdeithas Maldwyn between 1979 and 2014, including a leaflet promoting the society's activities, a short history and membership details.

The third of three volumes containing papers relating to the House of Commons Inquiry, 1833, into the Montgomery Boroughs Parliamentary election, 1832.

The second of three volumes containing papers relating to the House of Commons Inquiry, 1833, into the Montgomery Boroughs Parliamentary election, 1832.

The first of three volumes containing papers relating to the House of Commons Inquiry, 1833, into the Montgomery Borough Parliamentary election, 1832.

Returns relating to the Monmouth and Brecon militia, 6 May 1804 - 10 September 1810.

A manuscript containing a history of the jubilee tower on Moel Fammau, North Wales, compiled by R. J. Edwards, Ruthin.

The Messiah: main choruses adaptation for male voices by T. O. Thomas (facsimile.) Musical notation, English. Boards. Donated by T. O. Thomas, L.R.A.M., Blaenau Ffestiniog, May 1970.

A typescript copy of the memories of Francis Gordon Baker (1920-2007), Barry, as an RAF aircraft maintenance fitter in the UK and Ceylon [Sri Lanka], during the Second World War, recorded by David S. Wellings, November 2007.