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Eleven letters, 1776-1788, from Thomas Charles, Bala, to Edward Griffin.

A group of fifty-four holograph letters, 1929-1932, from Thomas Jones, Cerrigellgwm[-isa], Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire, to Evan Roberts, Llandderfel, Merioneth, relating to the writer's literary and musical pursuits. Some letters refer to the Welsh ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America. Also included in the collection is a holograph letter, 15 November, 1932, from Einion Jones, Cerrigellgwm-isa, to Evan Roberts, enclosing a pedigree of his father Thomas Jones and a copy of the latter's last poem.

Three holograph letters from Thomas Price of [Christ Church] Oxford, to George Townshend, 1st marquess Townshend, viceroy of Ireland, 1771-1772 ( improvements to Oxford, the writer's hints for the embellishments of cities executed by the architect [John] Gwyn, the writer's system of education, improvements to Blenheim, noblemen at Oxford, an event in Denmark, opportunities of service by the writer to the recipient).

Two holograph letters, early seventeenth century, the one [?1610] from Tho: Salusburye [bookseller, etc., in London, 1593-1604], at his house 'in cloth fayer in London', to Sir John Wynne, kt., 'att his house in Gwyder', the other, undated and imperfect, from Wylliam Holland, St. John's Coll: Cambridge, to his brother, Mr. [ ] Holland at P[ennant?] in Eglwyse vaghe. Sir John Wynn was anxious to know whether the Psalms had been translated into Welsh and Thomas Salusbury had sent him 'a coppy of them yt are printed' [i.e. the small volume of Edward Kyffin's Psalms (1603)]. He [Edward Kyffin], according to Thomas Salusbury, had finished about fifty before his death seven years previously in the time of the great sickness [?1603]. The letter also contains mention of Archdeacon [Edmund] Price and of an edition of Camden's Britannia. The William Holland letter relates to family matters and is an attempt to show that he is not unnatural but well-disposed towards his kindred.

Letters, 18 January 1697/8-1827, from Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), bishop of St Asaph, two of them to Peter Le Neve (1661-1729) and one to an unknown recipient relating to a petition from some of 'the Parishioners of Mallwyd against Mr. Meredith their Minister'; from John Egerton (1721-1787), bishop of Bangor, to Richard Phelps, Whitehall; from Richard Watson (1737-1816), bishop of Llandaff, to Thomas Percival (1740-1804), physician, Manchester, and to an unknown recipient; from Thomas Burgess (1756-1837), bishop of St Davids, to the Duke of Sussex [Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843)]; from Robert Watson (?1730-1781) to an unknown recipient.

Letters of William A. Salter (Brigadier S.A.) descriptive of a second visit to the Far East. Vol. i. English. Cloth boards. Donated by R. G. Salter, Birmingham, August 1942.

Letters of William A. Salter (Brigadier S.A.) descriptive of a second visit to the Far East. Vol. ii. English. Cloth boards. Donated by R. G. Salter, Birmingham, August 1942.

Letters of William A. Salter (Brigadier S.A.) descriptive of a visit to the Far East. English. Cloth boards. Donated by R. G. Salter, Birmingham, August 1942.

Ten letters, 1894-1925, from, to, or relating to the Rev. Dr William Hopkyn Rees, including three, 1912, from the Rev. Dr Timothy Richard, some of which are quoted in H. T. Jacob's biography of W. Hopkyn Rees; with related printed items, 1883-1925; and five letters, 1894-1915, from a Welsh immigrant family in Patagonia.

Seven letters, 1854, from the botanist William Pamplin (1806-99), later of Llandderfel, to his first wife Caroline (née Hunneman), while he was on a walking tour of North Wales with his friend Alexander Irvine (1793-1873), together with botanical notes, 1855, by Pamplin; also included are printed articles, 1899 and 1937, relating to him.

Letters received by Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths on the death of her husband the Reverend Peter Hughes Griffiths - correspondents A-H. Welsh, English. 1/2 morocco. Donated by T. I. Ellis, Aberystwyth, as executor of the late Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths, August 1959.

Letters received by Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths on the death of her husband the Reverend Peter Hughes Griffiths - correspondents H-P. Welsh, English. 1/2 morocco. Donated by T. I. Ellis, Aberystwyth, as executor of the late Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths, August 1959.

Letters received by Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths on the death of her husband the Reverend Peter Hughes Griffiths - correspondents P-W. Welsh, English. 1/2 morocco. Donated by T. I. Ellis, Aberystwyth, as executor of the late Mrs Peter Hughes Griffiths, August 1959.

Letters relating to Caernarvonshire inscriptions from John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), Alexander Gordon and others. (Formerly Rees Jenkin Jones MS.) English, Welsh. In boards. Donated by Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea.

Letters, 1942-1969, mainly to the donor Trevor Williams relating to his research on Caradoc Evans, novelist and short story writer, the subject of his PhD from Cardiff University and his book on the author published in the series Writers in Wales in 1970. The writers of the letters include Pauline Block, a maid in Evans's Rhydlewis home, and Evans's wife, Marguerite, who was herself an author writing under the pseudonyms Countess Barcynska or Oliver Sandys.

Letters, 1955-1973, to Charles E. Harvey in connection with his research on the Reverend Francis Kilvert; two copy letters from Charles Harvey to Mrs Essex Hope, niece of the diarist, and Frederick Grice of the Kilvert Society; together with explanatory notes by Charles Harvey on the letters (ff. i-ii) and other related items.

Typewritten copies of letters relating to the antiquities of Counties Fermanagh, Roscommon, Sligo and Dublin, containing information collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1834-1835.

Typewritten copies of a letter, 25 September 1897, from Abby Johnson Woodman, Oak Knoll, Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.A., to Frederick J. Gibbins, Neath, Glamorgan, relating to the connection between John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet, and John ap John (1625?-1697), Ruabon, founder of the Society of Friends in Wales and promoter of emigration from Wales to Pennsylvania; typewritten copy of a letter from Whittier, 29 January 1879, to another Friend.

Five autograph letters and a telegram, 1899-1900, to J. T. Jones, Liverpool from Joseph Parry (1841-1903) and one autograph letter from J. Varley Roberts, Oxford, all relating to the Liverpool National Eisteddfod of 1900.