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Records of rent tribunals in Wales: North Wales Tribunal, North East Wales Tribunal, North West Wales Tribunal, Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Radnorshire Tribunal, and Swansea and West Wales Tribunal, including cases arising from the 1946 and 1949 Rent Control Acts, 1946-1960; and papers relating to the Housing and Rent Acts, 1946-1954. They comprise mainly case papers under the 1946 act.

A composite volume of the period c. 1764-1765 containing transcripts and drafts of reports on education in England, Wales, and Ireland, and of other papers on education, collected by a Russian commissioner with a view to establishing an educational system in Russia. The titles of the reports include 'Des Ecoles dans le Roiaume d'Irlande connues sous le Nom de Charter-Schools', 'Etat des Ecoles de Charité de la Grande Brétagne et de l'Irlande, l'année dernière, 1764', 'Ecoles ambulantes de Charite, dans la Principauté de Galles, en Angleterre', 'Etudes de l'École des Humanités', ‘'Reflexions sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs, établies à St. Petersbourg & à Moscou', 'Utilités de l'Étude de la Langue Latine & de la Grecque, pour l'avancement des Connoissances', 'Supplement à la pétite Dissertation sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs . . .', 'Doutes & Rémarques détachées, sur le Mémoire de Mr. le Conseiller Müller', 'Touchant le Protecteur général des Grandes Écoles & les Conseillers', 'Doutes touchant le Projet pour avoir 4 différentes sortes de Grandes Ecoles', 'Memoire Touchant les Grandes Ecoles d'Humanités en Angleterre, presenté au Mois de Novembre, 1764', 'Idée superficielle des deux Universites de l'Angleterre', 'Méthode d'enseigner les Humanités', 'Refléxions générales sur les principales Branches des Connoissances sur- tout en ce qui regarde La Prémière Education, & les Genres d'Études qui y conviennent', 'Projet de deux Grandes Ecoles, ou Séminaires Séculiers, l'un à St. Petersbourg, & l'autre à Moscou', etc.

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.

Ffotogopïau yn ymwneud â rheilffordd Ffestiniog i'w hychwanegu at y gyfrol a dderbyniwyd gan John Sam Efans ym mis Medi 1995 / Photocopies relating to the Ffestiniog railway to be added to the volume donated by John Sam Efans in September 1995.

Records of the Rhondda Conservative and Unionist Association, 1971-1986, including minutes of Executive Council meetings, 1973-1986; minutes of the Mid-Rhondda Branch, 1971-1976; minutes of Joint Branch meetings, 1976-1986; and photocopies of the Rhondda Conservative and Unionist Association Newsletter, 1976-1986.

Notebook of Henry Harris, Ystrad Rhondda, begun in 1921, containing lists of place-names and field names in the Rhondda. Some of the names are taken from a tithe map of 1847 (ff. i, 1-51).
Also included is a typescript list of the same place-names, on loose sheets, the names numbered and in alphabetical order (ff. 52-98); typescript and manuscript notes, [?1938], on the Rhondda in the year 1737, including transcripts of Overseers of the Poor accounts (ff. 103-109); notes, 1938, relating to bird life in the Rhondda (f. 110); and three letters to Harris, October 1921-May 1928, including two from M. H. Jones, Penllwyn (ff. 99-102).

Minutes, 1907, of a committee for postal reforms in Rhostryfan and Rhosgadfan, Caernarvonshire.

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.

A lecture on the Welsh gypsies by Robert Jones (1845-1906), rector of Llanycil and afterwards of Llysfaen.

A transcript in the hand of Roger Morris (fl. 1590), Coed y Talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd of the herbal generally attributed to William Salesbury (1520?-1600?), joint-translator of the New Testament and of the Book of Common Prayer into Welsh, 1567. This volume provides an earlier transcript than the 18th century copy in the hand of Evan Thomas (d. 1781), Cwmchwylfod, near Bala, which belonged later to John Peter (Ioan Pedr) (1833-1877) and which was edited by E. Stanton Roberts and published under the title of Llysieulyfr Meddyginiaethol a briodolir i William Salesbury ... (Liverpool, 1916).

Hymn- and psalm-tunes, anthems, etc., some of them with Welsh words.

Holograph music by John A. A. Williams ('Brochmael'):- 'The Lord is my Shepherd', 1932; 'O Lamb of God'; and hymn-tunes and carols.

Ledger containing accounts of Thomas Jones, Dolfor, Ciliau Aeron, co. Cardigan, saddler, 1894 - ca. 1925, and of his son, D. J. Jones, cycle agent, ca. 1925-1936.

An account book of an agricultural sale (livestock, implements, etc.) at Waunfawr, parish of Caron Isclawdd, co. Cardigan, 1874, together with later accounts, partly unrelated, to 1877. Laid down on the inside upper cover are printed conditions of sale, witnessed by David Williams, clerk to the Board of Guardians [of the Tregaron Union].

Two account books of John Davies, auctioneer, of Talley, Carmarthenshire, 1853-1858, and an account book of Thomas Griffiths, Penrhiwgeingen, Talley, and John Davies, 1862-1865, containing accounts with individual purchasers at specified local sales, e.g. of timber at Pwllfa and Cwmgelynyn, parish of Caeo, and at Maes-pwll, parish of Pencarreg.

A collection of psalm-tunes and anthems made c. 1850.

A collection of psalm-tunes ('erddiganau salmau') by Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg).

A school exercise book of a pupil at [Gwernafield School, Flintshire], 1870-1.