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Facsimile copies of material (2 vols) compiled by Graham E. Verity for a history of the family of Verity of Bridgend, etc. For accompanying pedigrees, see NLW Facs 192.

A bound set of photocopies of pedigrees of various branches of the Verity family, to accompany the donor's 'History of the Verity family of Bridgend, Glamorgan' (see NLW Facs 164-165).

A photocopy of Victor Davies of Bargoed's poem 'Snowdonia', together with a photocopy of a letter, 1991, from Viscount Tonypandy to the donor.

Xerox copies of typescript transcripts, [20 cent.], of eighty-five letters with two letter-books and other papers covering the Irish estates of Viscount Midleton, 1686-1838. (Copies from the Guildford Museum and Muniment Room, Castle Arch, Guildford, Surrey, donated to the Library by the Public Record Office of Northen Ireland).

A copy of a Life of St David from Fransiscan Library (Dún Mhuire, Killiney) MS F2.

A copy of a Life of St David from Rouen MS U. 141.

A copy of a Life of St David from Rouen MS U. 19.

A copy of a Life of St David from St Omer MS 716.

A Life of Saint David, from BL Vespasian A. xiv, ff. 61-70 verso.

Volume of facsimiles of documents, seals, etc., with descriptions and occasional transcriptions. Transferred from NLW MS 15602F.

Reminiscences of the East Rand Cambrian Society, 1911-1961, by W. Alun Jones, Pretoria.

Photocopy of an essay entitled 'The last days of my father Sir John Gladstone, 1851', by W[illiam] E[wart] G[ladstone], covering the period 29 August-14 December 1851. Formerly NLW MS 14460C.

A xerox copy of 'The Passing: A setting for Tenor Solo and Orchestra' (words by W. E. Henley) by, and in the hand of Arwel Hughes, 1932.

A xerox copy of 'Souvenir of the Dawkins family, Pembroke' by W. E. (Pembroke Dock, 1916).

Photocopy of an essay on 'Enwogion (hen a diweddar) sir Feirionydd' by W. Jones (Gwyddno), Peniel Terrace, Ffestiniog, placed equal second in a competition at the Blaenau Ffestiniog Literary Meeting, 1870, with a pasted-in newspaper account of the adjudication of the Rev. Owen Jones, Llandudno. The original essay is now NLW MS 22342B.

Photocopy of 'Y Pysgodyn Coch', a play for children by, and in the hand of, Waldo Williams. The original is in the possession of the Welsh National Centre For Children's Literature, Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth.

Photocopy of Mr R. C. B. Oliver, Llandrindod's annotated copy of the will of John Walsh (1726-1795) of Warfield Park, Berkshire (proved at London, 1795); a pedigree of the Walsh family and related families, based on the researches of the late Lord Ormathwaite of Pen-y-bont Hall, co Radnor; and two cheques, 1808, drawn on the Kington & Radnorshire Bank.

Probate copies (2) of the will of Walter Cradock, dated 9 December 1659, proved 28 November 1661.

A photocopy of a poetry manuscript, kept in private hands at Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain, dating from the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The manuscript contains transcripts of several carols and poems of local interest composed by Rev. Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain', 1761-1849) in his younger days, some of which bear the pseudonym 'Dafydd Cadwaladr' as a note on f 23 explains: "... rhoddodd y ffygenw David Cadwaladr am nad oedd am gyd nabod ei waith boreuol...". Other authors named are Maurice Jones, John Rees, John Jones ('Myllin'), David Thomas 'o Sir Fon', Jonathan Hughes (1721-1805), Llangollen, 'Abel or Glyn', and Robert Evans ('Clochydd Meifod', fl c.1750). A few of the poems are written in English, others are macaronic, whilst the majority are in Welsh, the dated poems ranging between 1774 and 1817.

Photocopies of warrants signed by Queen Victoria, granting pardons to Benjamin Rees ('a disorderly apprentice'), 1841, Mary Edwards (perjury), 1854, and Patrick Mochan (larceny), 1856, all convicted in co. Pemb.; together with photocopies of warrants signed by George IV granting pardons, on condition of being transported to New South Wales, to Thomas Hughes (passing counterfeit money), 1827, and David Phillips (sheep stealing), 1828, both committed to death at the Pembrokeshire Great Sessions.