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A manuscript containing recipes for dyeing wool and cotton; household and medical recipes; miscellaneous accounts, 1852-1867; a copy of Reynolds' Original Birmingham Almanack ... 1850.

A volume, [c. 1825]-1881, apparently mainly compiled by Morgan Rice James (c. 1791-1855), solicitor, and his wife, Mary Ann James (née Crymes, c. 1790-1871), of High Street and later of Hill Lane, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. The volume was originally used for legal notes but now contains chiefly veterinary, household and culinary recipes, in various hands, acquired partly from relatives, including the compilers' daughter Elizabeth (f. 30 verso), and from acquaintances in Haverfordwest, Milford Haven and Narberth, but also from printed sources, notably John Bartlet, The Gentleman's Farriery (London & Eton, 1753) and Francis Clater, Every Man his own Farrier (Newark, 1783).

'Recollections of a Ruthinian', i.e., R. J Edwards, being an account of Ruthin from about 1860, written by R. J. Edwards, and printed in the Denbighshire Free Press, March 10, 1917 - April 15, 1922, together with other press cuttings and broadsides.

Recollections of Edward Williams by Elijah Waring: copy byLady Coffin Greenly and another. English. Full calf. Purchased from Lowe Brothers, Birmingham, December 1953.

A copy of Mrs Ruth Evans's typescript recollections, 1983, of her late husband, Ifor L. Evans (1897-1952), Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1934-52, including extracts from family correspondence and diaries.

A notebook giving the names of the purchasers and the prices realised at a sale of crops, livestock, farm implements and furniture at Lanlanisa farm, Cellan, Cardiganshire, 1864, with the prices of dairy produce, etc. sold in 1901-1902.

Record of apprenticeships in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 77.) English. Vellum. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

A list of household goods, agricultural implements, crops and livestock of Mrs Elinor Davies which were sold by auction at Rhydwhied Issa, Llanllwchaiarn, Cardiganshire, 12 October 1799, with the names of the purchasers and the amounts paid.

Record of sufferancies for the landing and shipping of goods in the hand of William Hughes, Aberdyfi. English. Vellum. Donated by Mrs T. Wynne Thomas, Kingsheath, Birmingham, July 1971.

A photostat facsimile of the record of the trial of Michael Tillert, alias Michael Morgan, a native of St Bride's, Glamorgan, for heresy before the Inquisitorial Court in New Mexico, 1572-1574.

Record of work done on specified ships in the hand of Griffith Owen ?of Aberdyfi. English. Boards. Donated by Mrs T. Wynne Thomas, Kingsheath, Birmingham, July 1971.

A photostat facsimile of an Abergwili (Bishop's Palace) manuscript containing a contemporary record - comprising bills, writs, returns of commissions, interrogatories and depositions - of a case begun 4 Edward VI (1560) concerning the status, whether collegiate or parochial, of the church of Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire. At the beginning of the volume is a valuation of the temporalities and spiritualities of the diocese of St Davids, with a note dated 1582.

Records and genealogy of the Charlton (Charleton) family from 1177 to 1843, compiled, about 1843, from manuscript and record sources in the British Museum and the Heralds' College and illuminated, with arms emblazoned, by E. Worrall. The volume contains an account of Hawys Gadarn [1291-before 1353] of Powys.

Records of baptisms at Saron Congregational Chapel, Llangeler in the hand of the Reverend Thomas Jones. English. Leather. Donated by Mrs B. Howard, Killay, Swansea, August 1971.

Records, 1853-1966, of Methodist Circuits in Ceredigion, including minute and account books and registers of baptisms.

Original records, 1746-1794, of Glandwr Congregational Church, Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire, together with notes by John Lloyd James (Clwydwenfro) (1835-1919), who published a history of the church in 1902, and by David Morgan Lewis (1851-1937).

Fifteen notebooks containing 'Cyfrif o'm Goruchwyliaeth' or records of visits to Welsh patients at Liverpool hospitals and elsewhere, 1896-1913, by the Reverend John Evans (1847-1921), Calvinistic Methodist Town Missionary, of Beaconsfield Street, Princes Road, Liverpool. Mounted or stitched into the volumes are a large number of relevant letters and postcards addressed to John Evans, among the correspondents being J. J. Roberts ('Iolo Caernarfon'), Portmadoc, 1897-[9], Griffith Ellis, Bootle, 1898-1908, Rosina Davies, Treherbert, 1898, [Evan Rees] ('Dyfed'), Cardiff, 1902, W. Pari Huws, Dolgellau, 1904, Thomas Levi, Aberystwyth, 1904, The Religious Tract Society, 1904-7, [J. O. Williams] ('Pedrog'), 1906-11, etc.

Cofysgrifau'n perthyn i Eglwys Gymraeg Mayer Street, Hanley, c.1874-1982, gan gynnwys anerchiad ar hanes y Cymry yn Hanley, pregethau cylchwyl, papurau yn ymwneud â Peter Williams (Pedr Mostyn), Ysgrifennydd yr Eglwys, 1850-1857, ffotograffau o aelodau'r Eglwys ac aelodau'r Ysgol Sul.