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Agreements, plans, correspondence etc. relating to water and sewage pipes, cables, wires etc. laid over and under private and railway property in Wales (plus a very few in neighbouring parts of England), including grants of right and easements for maintenance. Almost every agreement includes one or more plans.

Commercial Memorandum-Book, with an Almanac for 1854 ..., with notes on Greek grammar in the hand of Thomas Charles Edwards, first principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

A copy of F[rederick] H[enry] A[mbrose] Scrivener: H. KAINH ΔIAΘHKH Novum Testamentum. Textus Stephanici A.D. 1550. Accedunt variae lectiones editionum Bezae, Elzeviri, Lachmanni, Tischendorfii, Tregellesii. (Cambridge and London, 1877), with numerous manuscript, marginal annotations.

Illustrated diary, 1981-1984, of Ann Pettitt, peace campaigner and one of the founders of the Greenham Common peace protest (NLW MS 23901iC). The diary describes the peace march from Cardiff to Greenham Common Air Base, August-September 1981 (ff. 1-4), which led to the establishment of the peace camp there, together with a similar march to R.A.F. Brawdy, May 1982 (ff. 11-23 verso), and a ten-day camp at Greenham Common in September 1984 (ff. 23 verso-68).
Also included (NLW MS 23901iiC) is a copy of Pettitt's chapter, 'Ten days at Greenham Common', which was intended for a proposed, but unpublished, anthology of women's writing in Wales (ff. 4-19); and associated correspondence, February-May 1988 (ff. 1-3). The illustrations in NLW MS 23901iC, ff. 29, 32 and 51 are reproduced in Ann Pettitt, Walking to Greenham (Dinas Powys, 2006), pp. 81, 7, 155 respectively.

Mainly copies of items believed from NLW collections inc 21 of "A New Map of Denbighshire & Flintshire" by W Williams, ca.1720; photos of Tregaron area; Water mills in N Wales, Nanteos cup etc. Also a series of copy photographs of views around Tregaron ca.1910. On the reverse of these is information regarding Miss Janet Phillips, owner of the originals.

Cartes de visite, postcards and cabinet cards of various personalities, some identified on reverse. These are from a variety of different sources.

Papers of the writer, poet, and literary editor Greg Hill (1949-), including personal and editorial correspondence from various poets and literary figures mainly from Wales and of Welsh interest, and related papers (1952; 1980-2010); papers relating to both published and some unpublished works, including poems, essays, translations, and typescripts (1930-2012); papers relating to the journal Materion Dwyieithiog/Bilingual Matters published by the Media Studies Group, Coleg Ceredigion, including correspondence and typescripts (1989-1992); reviews and press cuttings from various literary journals of Welsh interest (1977-2021); and papers relating to the organisation of the ‘Poets on Poets’ event at Coleg Harlech (1993-1994).

Rentals and other estate office books of the Gregynog estate, Montgomeryshire, of Arthur Weaver, Arthur Blayney and Lord Sudeley, 1752-1893.

First tranche of the Gregynog Festival archive, dating from 1988 onwards, including curatorial and administrative papers, photographs, scores, and presentation recordings, programmes and posters signed by Festival artists.

Additional records were transferred from Gregynog in November 2022.

Additional papers relating to the Gregynog Press comprising printed Orders of Services and programmes of Concerts held at Gregynog, 1931-1939.

Records of the Gregynog Press, 1902-1963, mainly 1922-1940, including accounts, 1922-1963; correspondence, 1924-1954; documents relating to published works, 1923-1940; documents relating to books printed for private circulation, 1929-1938, documents relating to unpublished works, 1932-1936; ephemera, 1927-1962; prospectuses and catalogues of printing firms, exhibitions, booksellers, 1926-1940; miscellaneous papers, 1917-1954, and photographs, 1902-1924; and draft designs and illustrations, [c. 1930s].
Additional papers relating to individual publications and general documentation concerning the management and operation of the press; December 2018.
A collection of letters to William McCance, the second Controller of the Gregynog Press, 1930-3, including numerous draft responses by him, and various associated documents; September 2024.

Gregynog visitors' book containing records of, and attendances at, conferences and committee meetings. Welsh, English. Leather. Donated by Evan C. Powell, Esq., Newtown, May 1963.

Gregynog visitors' book containing records of, and attendances at, conferences and committee meetings. Welsh, English. Leather. Donated by Evan C. Powell, Esq., Newtown, May 1963.

A collection, relating to the formative years of the Labour Party, including over 20 signed letters and 25 postcards from J. Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), who served as Prime Minister from 1929 to 1935; 7 signed letters from Philip Snowden (1864-1937), Chancellor of the Exchequer under Ramsay MacDonald; a signed photograph postcard of Keir Hardy; a copy of James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour's Man of Destiny, first edition, signed by the author; and 6 photographs, some featuring Snowden, Grenfell, and Ramsay MacDonald. Also included are letters from JRM's private secretary, Ethel Snowden, C. Rowden Buxton and Ben Tillett. The recipient of the correspondence was Griff Jones, a Labour Party activist from Swansea, who also drew satirical cartoons under the name 'Gytto'.