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Transcripts of entries of the births and baptisms, 1828-45, of the children of Thomas and Dorothy Peters of Brynyorkin, Hope, Flintshire, taken from the parish registers of Hope, Northope, and Flint, and the register of Northope [Calvinistic Methodist] Church.

Two albums containing over two hundred and thirty letters, 1949-50, received by the Port Talbot Forum in support of its petition for the award of a Civil List pension to the poet Huw Owen Williams ('Huw Menai', 1888-1961), together with related press cuttings.

A volume containing a holograph translation made in 1810 by the Reverend Ebenezer Richard (1781-1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Tregaron, etc., of an unknown Welsh treatise written in support of the Ordination movement. The title-page reads: 'The Complaint of the Calvinistic Methodists in Wales On account of their being destitute of the Ordinances of Christ in his Churches, viz. Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Translated from the Ancient British 1810'. According to the dedicatory letter, the translation was undertaken at the request of Ebenezer Richard's friend and patron, Captain James Bowen of Cardigan and subsequently of Llwyn-gwair, Pembrokeshire.

A volume containing the petition of William Hurst, formerly of Gabalfa and Dinas Powys, to the Court of Exchequer concerning his claims in Dinas Powys, Rumney, Llandough, Highlight, Cibwr, St Andrews Major, Merthyr Dyfan, Cogan, Roath, St Brides-super-Ely, Llanedern, Llandaf, Ystradyfodwg, Peterston-super-Ely and Cardiff. Also included are: a sale bill, 1825, from the Roath estate; a promissory note, 1821, from Harford's ironworks, Machen; the probate record, 1845, of Noah Morgan, Cymer; and an election address, 1851, from General Sir George Tyler to the voters of Glamorgan, with manuscript notes on the contents by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.

A photostat copy of a document belonging to the Birmingham Reference Library, being a petition, [c. 1620]-1636, by one John Feild of Kings Norton, Worcestershire to the Rt Hon. William Compton, Earl of Northampton (d. 1630) and President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, requesting the Council to compel certain tenants of the manor of Kings Norton to fulfil their promise to bear a part of the expenses of Feild's action, while holding the office of bailiff of the manor, against one Thomas Rea in a dispute concerning the goods of two women who had been executed for witchcraft.

A copy of Philip M. Freeman's study 'Ireland and the Classical World', submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998.

Pedigree and coat of arms of Henry Philipps (d. 1731), eldest son of Thomas Philipps of Cilsant, Llanwinio, co. Carmarthen, traced from Cydifor Fawr, lord of Dyfed, and Bleddyn ap Maenyrch, lord of Brecon, with thirty-six other coats of arms, all emblazoned and painted, compiled, [1687] x [1690], by David Edwardes (d. 1690, DWB) of Rhyd-y-gors, co. Carmarthen.

Three notebooks of Dr Thomas Jones as a student at the University of Glasgow, 1897-1901, containing notes on lectures delivered by Professor Henry Jones on ‘Moral philosophy’.

Phonological Features of London Dialect by Barbara Alida Mackenzie (typescript). (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 16.) English. Cloth. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Photographic prints of a draft letter, 27 December 1872 with an additional note dated 31 January 1873, from Michael D. Jones (1822-98) to an unknown recipient, regarding further emigration to the Welsh Colony in Patagonia.

Photocopies of a small number of 17th - 18th century manuscripts relating to Glascwm parish and the Kington area of Radnorshire, including affidavits relating to burials in woollen, accounts of overseers of the poor, printed items and poetry.

Photocopies of historical documents from the Bibliotheque Nationale and the State Archives, Bern, together with a copy of an off-print entitled Welshmen in the Service of France, written by Dr M. P. Siddons for the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vol. XXXVI.

Photocopies of a manuscript in the hand of Harri Webb (1920-94) containing his lectures 'Dic Penderyn a Gwrthryfel Merthyr 1831', delivered to Cymreigyddion Merthyr Tydfil in 1955; together with an English version 'Dic Penderyn and the Merthyr Rising of 1831', delivered to the Merthyr Tydfil Trades Council and Labour Party, 1955, and to other groups and societies in the area in 1956 (it was later published in 1956 as Dic Penderyn and the Merthyr Rising of 1831 (Swansea: Gwasg Penderyn, 1956)); and an account 'Brwydrau Beca'

Photocopies of annotated pages of Augustus John's Chiaroscuro (1952), presented to Ronald Storrs by the author, and annotated by Storrs.

Photocopies of twelve articles by Saunders Lewis published in The Workington Star, 1921-2 (see NLW MS 23027); a copy of The University of Liverpool Roll of Service (Liverpool, 1916); and newspaper cuttings, c.1921-61. Included with correspondence and papers of John Saunders Lewis and of his wife Margaret Lewis (née Gilcriest) purchased from Mrs Mair Saunders Jones, Penarth, in January 1994 (now NLW MSS 23224-33).