The file comprises a photocopy of a music manuscript from St Davids Cathedral Library. The manuscript, St Davids MS E3/5, is an eighteenth cent. bass part-book; recto and verso sides have been photocopied and collated separately.
A notebook containing Chwarelau Dyffryn Nantlle a chymdogaeth Moeltryfan, the prize-winning essay at Cylchwyl Lenyddol Rhostryfan, 1889, by John Griffith, Bodgadfan, Rhostryfan, bearing additional notes in the hand of W. J. Griffith, the author's son, who edited the essay for publication in 1934, and J. J. Thomas, Kendal, the publisher.
Griffith, John, Rhosgadfan Essay (1889), NLW MS 22838B
A transcript of the diary, 26 July 1914-22 April 1916, of a soldier from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, serving with the Royal Engineers in the First World War, including a record of his experiences on active service in the Dardanelles. On the basis of information supplied by Mr Gwyn Jenkins, Talybont, January 2012, the writer of the diary has been identified as Hubert Cole, a Sapper with the 1st Welsh Field Company Royal Engineers. He married Kate Eveline Webb at St Luke's Bayswater on 1 November 1914.
A catalogue of the library of Frederick Richard West (1799-1862) at Rhuthun Castle, co. Denbigh, August 1859, arranged in shelf order, with pencilled valuations and additions to the original list in a later hand.
Papers found loose inside NLW MS 13854iE, including draft notes by Walter Jones Williams for an article on 'Brecknockshire traditions, &c.', published in Archaeologia Cambrensis (1858), 156-161.
Notebook, [1905x1930], of M. H. Jones, Penllwyn, Aberystwyth, containing lists of place-names in Carmarthenshire, arranged by letter and accompanied by etymological and philological notes, as well as detailed notes relating to older forms of names. Notes found loose inside the volume have been placed in an archival envelope (ff. 144-145).
Account book, 1849-1852, 1864-1875, of the Rev. Joseph Morris, a Congregational minister in Nefyn and elsewhere in Lleyn, Caernarvonshire, also employed by the Madryn estate as a joiner. The volume records general accounts, January 1849-January 1850 (ff. 2 verso-10); payments received at Nefyn, February 1851-June 1852 (ff. 10 verso-11 verso, 14); and payments for preaching and other work, January 1851-August 1852, January 1864-January 1875 (ff. 12-13 verso, 14 verso-38, 39, 40 verso).
Property tax assessment book, 1852, for the town of Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, listing the names of occupiers and owners of properties, arranged according to street name. A contemporary inscription on the wrapper identifies the collectors as Edward Ellis and Lewis Hopkins.
Minute-book, 1796-1909, of the trustees of the charity created by the will of Ellen Glynne of Elernion, parish of Llanaelhaearn, co. Caernarfon, spinster, respecting the almshouse at Llandwrog and property in the parishes of Llandwrog and Llanllyfni, co. Caernarfon, and in the parish of Llangoed, co. Anglesey. The minutes include details of admittances to the almshouse and details of tenants, rents and repair of trust property. Also included in the volume are copies of the will, 1727, with codicils, 1728 and 1732/3, of Ellen Glynne, proved at London, 1733 (tipped in between ff. i and ii; ff. 1-6v).
Account books, 1849-1880, of Daniel Jenkins of Coed, Llanddewi Aber-arth, later of Tyngwndwn, Llanbadarn Trefeglwys, co. Cardigan, farmer, containing farming and other accounts; a list of purchasers at the Coed sale, 1874, with the amounts paid for the various lots (MS 22878, ff. 1v, 9v-62); and miscellaneous memoranda. Inserted in MS 22877 is a copy of Reynolds's Astrological and Prophetic Almanack for 1848 (ff. 126-34v).
An autograph album, 1879-1918, thought to belong to 'Ap Ieuan', possibly Samuel Evans, a member of Tabernacl Welsh Congregational church, Shrewsbury, containing entries in Welsh, English, Chinese and other eastern and African languages, mainly by Congregationalist ministers and missionaries, including Ben Davies, Pant-teg, T. Eynon Davies, David Picton Jones, J. R. Kilsby Jones and H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed'); together with pasted-in photographs. Papers found loose inside have been tipped in at the end of the volume (ff. 27-32).
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 survey of the manors of Penmarke, Funmon, Barrey, and Lancadle, Glamorgan, made by Evan Mouse in 1622, being a typescript copy (280 pp.) of the Welsh section of a manorial survey acquired in 1936 by the Bedfordshire County Record Office.