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Diary of Hugh William Jones, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Carmarthen, 1840-1854.

Diary of Hugh William Jones, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Carmarthen, 1855-1864.

Diary of Heber Timothy, 1861-1895 (photostat of the original MS, temporarily deposited by Miss Eliza Timothy, Utah, USA). English. Cloth. Original deposited by Miss Eliza Timothy, Utah (c/o Bwlchyllan), October 1960.

Diary of George Samuel Mee, Aberdeen. (Formerly J. R. Hughes MS 19.) English. Leather. Purchased from Mr J. R. Hughes, Dolgellau, January 1955.

Swansea Council Year Book, 1935, with manuscript entries by Dr. G. Arbour Stephens, Swansea, relating largely to his world cruise.

Diary of Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). Welsh, English. Cloth. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

Diary of Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). Welsh, English. Cloth. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

Diary of Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). English. Dark blue grain. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

The Christian Lady's Pocket Book for 1798 belonging to the Rev. David Jones of Llan-gan, Glamorgan, and Manorowen, Pembrokeshire, the prominent Methodist preacher, containing brief diary entries noting day-to-day activities, preaching engagements and tours (pp. 14-118, versos only) with additional material occasionally added on facing pages.
Two short prayers in Welsh are on pp. 111, 113. Additional memoranda, in pencil and ink, 1817-1831, appear to be in the hand of his grandson, the Rev. Lewellin Lewellin (pp. i, iii, vi, 146 and inside the covers). The volume also incorporates printed poetry, prose, tables and other information (pp. 1-12, 121-144). A few extracts from the diary, translated into Welsh, were published in 'Lloffion ar ol yr Hybarch David Jones, Llangan', Y Drysorfa, 70 (1900), 129-131 (pp. 129-130).

The diary of Captain Samuel Roach (1833-1914), Master Mariner, in manuscript and typescript form, together with copies of probate items and other papers relating to him. Captain Roach was born in St David’s, Pembrokeshire. He bequeathed a thousand pounds in his will towards the building of the Town Hall in his native town, where a plaque in his memory is seen to this day.

A volume, 1794-[1827] (watermark 1794), in the hand of Capt. Frederick Jones of Brecon, Breconshire, and Pencerrig, Radnorshire, younger brother of the artist Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, comprising a short narrative account, [1794], of his military career in India while serving as an officer in the army of the East India Company, 1777-1788 (ff. 37-40 verso), and brief diary entries for October 1788-February 1827, described as 'Memorandums extracted from Pocket book ledgers &c of my own' (ff. 41-168, rectos only). The diary entries record his life after his return to Britain from India and refer mainly to family matters, excursions, journeys, and visits to and from friends, with occasional comments on local, national, and European events.
The diary is bound together with copies of Jones's two published volumes, A Brief Account of the Tullaugaum Expedition from Bombay… (Brecknock: W. and G. North, 1794; Libri Walliae 4972, ESTC T113094), published anonymously and based on diaries which he subsequently destroyed (ff. 1-15); together with Copies of Letters, merely intended for, and by the Desire of Intimate Friends (Brecknock: W. and G. North, 1795; not in ESTC), also published anonymously, being three letters from him, two sent from Canton, China, in 1787 and 1788, and the third from Paris, September 1789 (ff. 16-32, the stub of f. 16 apparently being the remains of the title page). The diary includes references to the French landing at Fishguard in 1797 (f. 59), family monuments erected in Nantmel Church and Caebach Chapel, 1810 (ff. 84, 86), and the introduction of gas lighting in Brecon, 1822-1823 (ff. 143, 145). The stubs of ff. 34-36 contain fragments of text. For extracts of the diary see 'The diary of Captain Frederick Jones', ed. by R. C. B. Oliver, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 53 (1983), 28-56; 54 (1984), 41-57; 56 (1986), 52-71; 60 (1990), 41-65; and 61 (1991), 54-70.

Diary of Allan K. Jones written during voyages between London and Sydney. English. Boards. Purchased from Mrs Elizabeth Davies, Blaenau Ffestiniog, September 1961.

Diary of a tour through North Wales and Cardiganshire by Anne Atherton. English. Boards. Purchased from Peter Eaton, London, October 1968.

Diary of a lady who went to Spain, 1858, and an extract relating to the 'Spanish Incident', 1859(typescript copies). See also NLW MS 16328B. English. Between boards. Donated by Hugh J. Owen, Dolgellau, October 1943.