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A typescript copy of the D.Phil. thesis 'The Life, Work, and Thought of Vavasor Powell (1617-70)' by Robert Tudur Jones.

An article, 2004, written by John Malcolm on 'Sir John Malcolm, William Erskine and The life of Robert, Lord Clive, of India, published in 1836.

A transcript of the notebook of Kurt Ockert (1920-2011), a German Prisoner of War, posted to work in Radnorshire during the Second World War who married a Welsh girl from Presteigne and lived there until his death. It was transcribed by the donor George P. Lancett after Kurt Ockert's death in November 2011.

A copy of William Thomas Owen's PhD thesis 'The life and thought of Dr Edward Williams, with special reference to his influence on Welsh and English nonconformity' (University of London, 1960)

An account, [c. 1830] (watermark 1823), of the life of the Rev. Philip Henry, seventeenth-century diarist and preacher of Worthenbury and Broad Oak, Flintshire, together with details of his descendants, set out in the form of a tree, perhaps written by a member of the related Bickersteth family.
Henry's life is written in black ink in a vertical central panel; details of his six children and their issue are recorded in black and red ink on either side.

Genealogical study, 2009, compiled by the donor. The second volume contains appendices including family trees, and printed items relating to his duties as Lord Mayor of the City of London, 2007-08.

A transcript by the donor Brian D. Price of the letter books of Jacob Richards, including letters to and from correspondents in India. The original manuscripts NLW MSS 22870-1D are held at the National Library of Wales .

The Laws of Hywel Dda by Dafydd Jenkins (typescript). Paper. Sourced from Dafydd Jenkins, M.A., Ll.M., Aberystwyth, October 1949.

The Law and Commercial Daily Remembrancer, yn cynnwys nodiadau pregethau gan y Parchedig Edward Williams, gweinidog y Bedyddwyr, Aberystwyth. Meingefn lledr. Rhoddwyd gan D. R. Davies,Ysw., Aberdâr, Gorffennaf 1961.

A copy of D.G.M. Thomas's typescript work 'The Land of Ceredigion. The Changing Landscape of the County from 1952 to 1985', an anecdotal review of agriculture and the development of agricultural education in the County.

Papers relating to 'the Ladies of Llangollen', Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, of Plas Newydd, Llangollen, consisting of transcripts, 1885, by Isabel Jane Crewe of extracts from the journals of a tour in Wales by Sir George Crewe and Jane, Lady Crewe, 1826; a transcript of recollections related to Isabel Jane Crewe by Jane Thomas, a former servant of the Ladies, 1885; and associated printed items including pamphlets by General John Yorke, 'Plas Newydd as it was and is' (Llangollen, 1884) and the late Rev. J. Prichard, 'An account of the Ladies of Llangollen' (Llangollen, c. 1909).

An illuminated copy of the Kur'an in Indian style, containing only the Arabic text.

An account book and papers of the Kidwelly Neighbourly Society, 1819-1850.

A list of officials and members for 1912 of The Jubilee Female Friendly Society, Bala.

Transcripts by the donor Alice V. Nissen of the journals, 1854-1909, of Mary Ann Chadwell (1817-1909), a cousin to the transcriber's great great great grandmother. The original diaries are held here (Baker-Gabb 1187-1205).

A bound volume, 1984-1985, relating to the genealogy of the Jenkins family of Cardigan and their family connections with the Jenkins family of Cilbronnau, Llangoedmor.

Parts II and III of a dissertation on 'Race, Demography and Rural Settlement in the Isle of Man' submitted by Elwyn Davies for the degree of PhD at the University of Manchester, 1937. Part I was published as 'A Report on an Anthropometric Survey of the Isle of Man' in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 66 (1936), 129-187.