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A self published research paper by Mr James Miles Burton, entitled 'The Burton Story', which traces his ancestors, the Burtons of Lostwithiel, Plymouth and Mid Glamorgan, from 1770 to the present day.

A copy, in three bound volumes, of the family history of the Howells family of Cwmystwyth, Ceredigion, being the research undertaken by John and Francesca McLaren, 2005. The Howells, John McLaren's Welsh forebears, were involved in lead mining in Cwmystwyth over many generations, and occupied many of the cottages in the area. The work contains transcriptions of parish records and some census information for local chapels, 1798-1965.

A self published research paper by Mr James Miles Burton, entitled 'The Owen Story', which traces his mother's ancestors, the Owen family of Ystradgynlais, Cwm Aman, and Slough, from 1760 to 1999.

Research notes of Canon Hugh Pierce Jones, rector of Pwllheli, dealing with the S.P.C.K. and other societies in Anglesey (see Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club Transactions 1963) and a copy of his Christmas play 'Yn y Mynydd Hwn'.

Research by Dr. Clive Gareth Grey on the work of Rowland Huw Prichard, namely: 1) 'The 'Other' Hymn Tunes of Rowland Huw Prichard of Bala (1811-1887)'; 2) 'Sixteen Hymn Tunes including 'Hyfrydol'. Arranged and reharmonised by Clive Gareth Grey. Revised 2021'; 3) 'Un deg chwech o donau. Trefnwyd ac ail-harmoneiddwyd gan Clive Gareth Grey. 2021'. Copies of the above were printed and bound at NLW.

A copy of resolutions passed at a meeting held at Holywell, 1816, under the chairmanship of David Pennant, Downing to consider the distressed state of lead miners and others in the locality as a result of the duties payable on the exportation of lead to the Continent; together with a holograph letter, 1816, from R. Lushington at the Treasury Chambers to Sir Thomas Mostyn of Mostyn, stating that the export duty on lead had been suspended for a period of three years.

(Formerly Ernest L. M. Prichard MS 9.) Music notation, English. Between boards. Donated by the Honourable Mervyn Roberts, Abergele, April 1959.

Photocopies of papers, 1902-1903, relating to the Rev. Arthur John Riddle, Hughesovska.

A Book of Private Prayer used as a scrapbook, 1927-1944, by the Rev. B. G. Rees, Curate of Defynock (1934-36), Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), and Rector of Llansannor (1944-48); the volume consists mostly of press cuttings and letters relating to his ordination and career and his column in the Bridgend Advertiser, with some syllabuses for his lecture courses at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre with the WEA and YMCA (45 ff.). Also included are proofs, [?1938], of W. H. Auden's twenty-seven sonnet sequence 'In Time of War', for publication in W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Journey to a War (London, 1939), pp. 259-285; the proofs contain a very few manuscript emendations by the author and suggested titles for some of the sonnets and were given to Rees by Auden (see Auden's letter, NLW MS 24059E, f. 2) (6 ff.).

Papers, 1935-1945, of the Rev. B. George Rees, Curate of Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), Rector of Llansannor (1944-48), and a WEA lecturer on literature at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre and elsewhere. The papers include letters, 1939-1940, from a number of authors and poets, responding to requests by Rees for their thoughts on lecture subjects such as 'Life and Literature'.
The respondents include W. H. Auden, [1939] (ff. 2-3), Winston Churchill, 17 January 1939 (f. 8), C. Day Lewis, [?1939]-1940 (ff. 10-12), Aldous Huxley, 27 March 1940 (f. 16), Glyn Jones, April 1939-February 1940 (ff. 19-27), Herbert E. Palmer, February-March 1940 (ff. 35-44), John Cowper Powys, February-March 1940 (ff. 45-47), J. B. Priestley, 10 January 1939 (f. 48), Dylan Thomas, September 1939-February 1940 (ff. 56-60), and Emlyn Williams, 8 February 1940 (f. 63); a few respondents, such as Glyn Jones (f. 25) and Dylan Thomas (ff. 59-60), supplied Rees with brief essays. Also included are notes, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to Rees's lectures (ff. 66-91); and papers, 1935-1945, relating to his Church career, including letters and telegrams concerning his Institution at Llansannor, August-September 1944 (ff. 92-100), sermon notes (ff. 102-109), and parish magazines and pages from annual reports relating to Laleston, 1935-1944 (ff. 110-120).

Papers relating to the Reverend Caradoc Jones (1875-1969), Rhosllannerchrugog, who went to Paimpol in Brittany in 1920 under the auspices of the Pioneer Mission and remained there until his retirement in 1967. The papers include some 75 letters, 1937-1968, written by Caradoc Jones to Eirene Stephens together with a summary list prepared by her of these, other documents and photographs of Paimpol; her correspondence, 1978-1979, with The National Library of Wales; together with publications of Caradoc Jones and concerning him, an article, 'The Gospel in Brittany', reprinted from The Christian, 25 November 1937; an account 'Holding the fort at Paimpol' by Rev. Caradoc Jones published in The Pioneer Review, April-June 1940, Winifred M. Pearce, Knight in royal service: a brief biography of the Rev. Caradoc Jones (London, 1962); and a newsletter, March 1969, from the Pioneer Mission, containing his obituary.

Notebook containing diary entries by the Rev. Ellis Thomas Davies, Abergele, Congregational minister, October 1864-March 1865 (ff. 4-38 verso), November-December 1866 (ff. 50-56), recording personal news and preaching engagements.
An englyn by Davies is on f. 18.

The diaries of the late Reverend Francis Insull for 1945 and 1946 during his period of service in the Middle East as Assistant Commissioner Church Army; together with a copy of the Mid-East Review, no 5, January 1946, edited by him.

Papers of the Rev. Professor John Evans (1858-1963), Congregational minister and a master at the Memorial College, Brecon. The material includes sermon notes and prayers, radio scripts, a diary, notebooks, and letters, many of which relate to his being made a freeman of the borough of Brecon, together with numerous cards received on his centenary birthday.

Photocopies of pages from a volume (Iowa, 1902), edited by the Rev W. Roland Williams, dedicated to David R. Hughes's great grandfather, the Rev. Richard Hughes ('Bishop of the West', 1825-1898), born at Talyllychau, co. Carmarthen, and who emigrated to the USA in 1870; the photocopies were taken from a copy of the volume held in the Cotter, Iowa, Library, USA.

A photocopy of a dedication in a copy of the book Cicero presented by David Hughes, DD, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, to the Rev. Robert Williams, scholar of Jesus College Oxford, 1813, and afterwards a fellow of the college, together with his family tree.

Correspondence, 1976-1978 and 1985, between John Jenkins, a member of staff at Llandovery College, and editor of the school journal during the 1970s, and the Rev. T. H. Ward Hill, former master at the school and editor of the journal, 1924-1948, together with notes and an article by Rev. Hill for the centenary edition of the School Journal in 1977. The file includes an endowment deed for the Thomas Phillips Foundation at Llandovery, dated 25 August 1847.

Two notebooks listing the texts of almost six thousand sermons preached, 1830-1881, by the Rev. Thomas Thomas, first president of the Baptist College, Pontypool, co. Monmouth, with details of the date, place and occasion of delivery.

A typescript copy of an article by William D. Grey relating to his great uncle the Reverend William Isaac Jones ('Irwyn', 1874-1955), published in the Clydach Historical Society Newsletter, 1997, nos 55-6, together with a photograph of 'Irwyn'.