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Typescript draft by Ernest Lewis Thomas ('Richard Vaughan', 1904-1983) of his first novel, Moulded in Earth (London, 1951), with corrections by the author, being the final draft submitted to the publishers, incorporating a number of changes to the earlier manuscript draft (now NLW MS 14799C).

A copy of an essay 'Towards a fifth and sixth century chronology of Southern Britain' by Richard White, Essex, submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998.

A volume containing material collected by the editor, Richard Williams, Celynog, Newtown, for the second edition (1887) of Philip Yorke: The Royal Tribes of Wales ... (Wrexham, 1799), with a few notes in the hand of Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf), the publisher of the second edition.

A holograph letter, 8 July 1751, from the painter Richard Wilson, Venice, to [Admiral] Thomas Smith, London, touching on Wilson's studies of Titian, Francesco Zuccarelli, his portrait of the German ambassador, and various acquaintances in Venice (ff. 3-4). Also included is a letter, 7 November 1750, from the painter's sister E[lizabeth] Wilson, Bristol, to Smith, apparently on behalf of her brother, concerning a dispute with a Mr Harris arising from 'the pictures of the two Miss Jenkins' (ff. 1-2).
Both letters were first published in Maud M. Wyndham, Chronicles of the Eighteenth Century: Founded on the Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lyttelton and his Family, 2 vols (London, 1924), II, 66-69; they have subsequently seen print in Adrian Bury, Richard Wilson, R.A.: The Grand Classic (Leigh-on-Sea, 1947), pp. 17-18, W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson (London, 1953), pp. 19-22, and elsewhere. This is one of only three holograph Richard Wilson letters known to exist (see Constable, pp. 1, 13).

An account book kept by Richard Wynne, Garthewin, attorney, and secretary on the Brecknock circuit of the Court of Great Sessions, together with a letter from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn dated December 1740.

Manuscripts containing an attorney's accounts, 1693-1700; a catalogue, in the hand of Richard Wynne, attorney, of law and other books in his library; a catalogue, in a later hand, 'of my Books now in my Studdy att Garthewin, April 20, 1722'; an index, by Richard Wynne, to legal works by Edmund Wingate and Joseph Washington.

Rider's British Merlin, 1748, with MS notes by the Reverend John Jones, curate of Henllan and rector of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Denbighshire. Leather. Donated by the late Mrs E. G. Williams, Glan Conwy, November 1965.

Rider's British Merlin, 1751, with MS notes by the Reverend John Jones, curate of Henllan and rector of Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Denbighshire. Leather. Donated by the late Mrs E. G. Williams, Glan Conwy, November 1965.

Rider's British Merlin, with MS notes by the Reverend William Pugh. (Formerly Bontddu MS.) Welsh, English. Leather. Donated by Mrs Anne Pugh, Bontddu, March 1940.

Rider's British Merlin, with MS notes by the Reverend William Pugh. (Formerly Bontddu MS.) Welsh, English. Leather. Donated by Mrs Anne Pugh, Bontddu, March 1940.

Rider's British Merlin, with MS notes by the Reverend William Pugh. (Formerly Bontddu MS.) Welsh, English. Leather. Donated by Mrs Anne Pugh, Bontddu, March 1940.

Rider's British Merlin, with MS notes by the Reverend William Pugh. (Formerly Bontddu MS.) Welsh, English. Leather. Donated by Mrs Anne Pugh, Bontddu, March 1940.

Drafts of the donor's second novel Rifling Paradise (London, 2006), including a note by him on the text which was written in Australia and the first draft of the book's cover.

A view of the Bandstand in Roath Park and the pond in Thompson's Park, both Cardiff. Both images are modern digital prints prepared from the original glass negatives for LENS 2010.

Lord Rosebery [Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl]: Robert Burns ... (Edinburgh, 1896), being a vellum-bound presentation copy by the author to D. R. Daniel (marked 'For the sake of Tom Ellis ...'), and a covering letter from 'Tom' [Thomas E. Ellis] to David [R. Daniel] which is bound in the volume.

Y Dyddiadur Annibynol am 1879, with manuscript entries and accounts by Robert D. Edwards (Derfel Meirion), Llandderfel.

A copy of Robert Daniel Powell's PhD thesis 'The Politics of Agricultural Settlement: The case of the Welsh in the Chubut Valley, Argentina' (McGill University, Canada, November 1978).

A brief account by Robert Edwards, Penyffordd, Cynwyd of the rise of Calvinistic Methodism in Llandrillo, Cynwyd, Corwen and the surrounding district, with the writer's reminiscences of negotiations for building a chapel at Ucheldref.

Poetry, including militia songs, transcribed between 1762 and 1766 by Robert Evans, Syrior, Llandrillo (Merioneth).