Miscellaneous personal, parish and estate papers belonging to the owners of the Bathafarn and Llanbedr estates, 1758-1863. They comprise lists of Denbighshire freeholders, 1758, [18th cent.]; extracts from the records of various Denbighshire parishes, 1811-1837; diary entries and other personal papers of John Jesse, 1822-1863; financial and personal papers of Joseph Ablett, 1814-1828; estate and household management records from Llanbedr Hall, 1829, 1856-1859; and papers concerning medical matters and the history of Lancashire, [c. 1787], 1823-1863.
An account book bearing the name of John Evans, grocer, Oswestry, 2 May [18]50. All the accounts, however, have been cut away, leaving only a few memoranda.
Mansfield's Commercial Diary, 1853, with manuscript entries and memoranda, 1853-5, of a Monmouthshire? brewer, largely relating to the recovery of debts.
Photocopies of the journal for 1819 of Lady Eleanor Butler, one of the Ladies of Llangollen, and of her daybook, 1806, containing jottings of conversations and anecdotes, 1805-6.
Letters, 1847-54, to Hugh Jones ('Erfyl') from H. Gryffydd, Bodlondeb, near Gwyndy, Anglesey, together with enclosed lists of errors in Y Bibl Darluniadol, 1844-50.
Photocopies of crew agreements and log sheets of the ship Mimosa from its maiden voyage in 1853 to the last one in 1872, and including the voyage which took emigrants to Patagonia in 1865. The donor is the author of Mimosa: the life & times of the ship that sailed to Patagonia and its companion volume Mimosa's voyages : official logs, crew lists and masters (Talybont, 2007).
Photocopies relating to the genealogy of Benjamin Williams III whose great grandfather Benjamin Williams (d. 1896) emigrated from Wales in 1853 to the United States and was one of the early Welsh settlers in Middle Granville, New York .
Photocopies of papers relating to Llyfr Melyn Tyfrydog (NLW MS 23969F) which is a volume in the hand of Hugh Hughes ('Y Bardd Coch o Fôn). The originals are in the possession of the donor John Iwan Parry Hughes, a descendant of Hugh Hughes, and include photocopies of his family tree and the family crest .
Photocopies from the catalogue of the manuscripts of R. Gwyneddon Davies held at the University of Wales Bangor compiled by his son R[obert] G[wyneddon] D[avies], 1916-1917.
A journal of a tour through the counties of Denbigh, Merioneth, Cardigan, and Caernarvon, and the island of Anglesea in 1793. The author lived in Bridgnorth, Salop.
A volume of poems, 1890-1901, by three 'Rhymers'. It contains poems by A. E. Lomax, L. I. E. P[ughe] and C. E. L[omax], many of them having a Montgomeryshire setting, poems by G. R. G. P[ughe] and Jane Gould Pughe; and a copy of The Church in Wales: A versified review of her reverses by G. R. G. Pughe, vicar of Mellor, Lancashire, 1894.
The diary, 1865-79, of Hugh Charles Howells, containing an autobiography, reminiscences, and records of his ministry at Baptist churches at Sirhowy and Clydach.