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Petitions and correspondence relating to appeals for aid to clear the debts of Baptist Churches in North Wales, 1885.

The series comprises files relating to the activities of the Grŵp Canolbarth America Môn Arfon Central America Group, and the Tom Hargreaves memorial fund, 1987-1995.

The file comprises a volume, entitled A Preliminary Survey of Lowland Grassland in Two Areas of North Wales, Volume 2, by Paul Day, produced by the Nature Conservancy Council.

Notebooks, 1871-1873, utilized by John Rhŷs as HM Inspector of Schools, containing his assessment of schools in north Wales, together with notes on Celtic philology and some inscriptions.

A collection of traditions, anecdotes, and poems made circa 1870, by John Castell Evans, entitled 'Yr Hen Amser gynt, ei Veirdd, ei Varddoniaeth, ei Bobl a'i Chwedlau, sev Casgliad o hen Draddodiadau, Darnau Barddonol a Bywgraffiadau &c. yn dal cysylltiad yn benav a Gogledd Cymru yn enwedig Sir Merionydd ... Casglwyd, yn benav, oddiar lavar gwlad gan John Castell Evans, Pine Cottage, Millbrook, gynt o Gastell-y-Waen, Llanuwchllyn, Merion.'

Precedents in conveyancing; copies of legal instruments by Hugh Davies, Machynlleth, 1815.
An alphabetical index of the contents is at the beginning of the volume.

Papers relating to the 1961 and 1968 Sunday opening referenda, including correspondence, 1958-1969, between Alwyn Thomas and politicians and various temperance-related organizations; copies of Alliance News, pamphlets and other printed matter, 1960-1968; posters, 1961-[1968]; press cuttings, 1961-[1968]; financial records, 1969; and other miscellaneous papers, 1961. A further donation was received August 2014. These papers remail uncatalogued.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, June 1918-September 1919, containing impressions of wartime life in North Wales and London and of her visit to the USA in 1919, later reworked and incorporated into chapters 16-25 of her autobiographical volume A Story-teller tells the Truth (London, 1935); also included are commonplace entries and extracts from letters received.

Pedigrees of North Wales and border counties families, with many coloured coats of arms.
This manuscript is possibly a copy of the seventeenth-century Owen Salusbury of Rhug and John Salusbury of Erbistock genealogical collection (see also NLW MS 1504E).

Letters and papers regarding the creation of Portmeirion, the selection of buildings for and their removal to the estate; letters from and papers dealing with tenants and the upkeep of the buildings and gardens at Portmeirion; papers relating to the advertising of Portmeirion in the press by means of articles written about it; and papers relating to his interest in seaside retreats, 1928-1978.

Papers relating to Jonathan Davies's period as a prominent member of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church in Caernarfonshire. Of particular interest are the groups of papers relating to the campaign against Sunday opening, 1889-1890 and letters and papers relating to the Welsh Ministers' Fund appeal in support of the Welsh undenominational church at Cape Town, South Africa.