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Most of them copies presented by the author, 1900-1931, to Mr & Mrs Robert Ellis-Jones, Miss Menai Ellis-Jones, or Miss Ellen Jones.

Cf. NLW MS 18799. English. Formerly J. Seymour Rees MS 57.

A collection of essays on local characters, entered by T. J. Jenkin in the competition 'Portreadau o Chwe Chymeriad Gwreiddiol o unrhyw ardal' at the Dyffryn Maelor National Eisteddfod, 1961.

A collection of extracts of Mathew items by Edward Hazard Mathews, extracted by E. M. Bishop. English. (Formerly E. M. Bishop MS 28.) Donated by Alwyn Andrew, Liverpool, 1945.

A collection of hymn-tunes and part songs composed by Tom Carrington, Coed-poeth, (1881-1961), together with draft copies of Ysgol Gân, 1956, and biographical notes.

A collection of legal precedents, with examples relating to Denbighshire properties. English. Leather. Donated by Mrs D. Macdonald, London, July 1949.

A collection of letters, 1929-73, addressed to Mr A. H. Williams dealing with various aspects of (Wesleyan) Methodist research including the Day School Pontypridd (See Bathafarn v 73), Robert Jones, Fonmon (See Bathafarn xxv 43.) and other subjects, together with Miscellaneous queries.

A collection of memorial addresses, mostly by Ben Bowen Thomas, as well as tributes and obituaries from papers and pamphlets, and service sheets. The subjects include: William Abraham ('Mabon') (1842-1922); Dr. Gwilym Davies (1879-1955); Sir O. M. Edwards (1858-1920); Ellen Evans (1891-1953); Thomas Rowland Hughes (1903-49); Sir Julian Huxley (1887-1975); Rev. Harry Longueville Jones (1806-70); Dr. Thomas Jones (1870-1955); T. Jesse Jones (1873-1950); Walter Idris Jones; Albert Mainsbridge (1876-1952); Herbert Morgan; Sir Hugh Owen (1804-81); Sir Thomas [H.] Parry-Williams (1887-1975); Mary Silyn Roberts (1877-1972); R. Silyn Roberts (1870-1930); Sir Oliver Graham Sutton (1903-77); Christopher Williams.

Pp. 3-36, 39-46. Title-page and remainder or volume wanting.

A collection of miscellaneous papers relating to the Swansea (Wesleyan) Methodist circuit and chapels within that circuit as follows:. (1) Papers relating to the Swansea (Wesleyan) Methodist circuit including copies and drafts of petitions to the District Meetings re the stationing of ministers, 1823-37, and to substitute a public collection for the 6d. per member tax, 1840; a list of subscribers to the Jubilee Fund, 1866; a Sunday Schools Return, 1876. Papers relating to Tabernacl (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Tontine Street, Swansea, including copies of Financial Statements sent to the District Meetings, 1822-32; receipts to Richard Rowe, 1824-25; copy of application for grant from Chapel Fund, 1832; a letter from Richard Rowe, Oxwich, dated 12 June 1838, to Dr [Jabez] Bunting [at the District Meeting], Swansea, re his part as trustee; invoices for furniture and furnishings for minister's house and chapel, 1831-82; an account book containing the accounts of Watkin Morgan re Minister's house, 1839-41; a notebook containing accounts of collections, 1851-53; a certificate for registering as a place of public worship, 1854; letters and accounts re sale of chapel, 1882-84. (2) Papers relating to the (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Neath Abbey, including a copy of John Beal's lists of subscribers, 1824, a note book containing an account of payments made by Watkin Morgan, 1830-19, and a list of subscriptions, 1834-35. (3) Papers relating to the (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Aberafan, being two copies of the Sanction of the Chapel Building Committee, Manchester [1839]. (4) Papers relating to the (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Gurnos, including two copies of the Sanction of the Chapel Building Committee, Manchester, 1839; receipts 1844, 1851; certificate for registering as a place of public worship, 1854; and a statement of the account of the sale of the chapel, 1856. (5) Papers relating to the (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Ystalyfera, being receipts for money to be applied in the erection of the chapel, 1863. (6) Papers relating to the Alexandra Road (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Swansea, being financial memoranda, 1883-84. (7) Two items from the Carmarthen and the Llanelli (Wesleyan) Methodist circuits as follows: A Return from the (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Pembrey, to the South Wales District, 1883. A Tea-meeting ticket of Jerusalem (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Llanelli, 1906.

A composite volume of music books put together and annotated by Nicholas Bennett. It includes Richard Roberts: Cambrian Harmony, Carnarvon, 1829, (a copy given by J. D. Jones to John Ceiriog Hughes in 1863, and to Nicholas Bennett by J. H. C. 1874); Hughes: British Melodies, London, not dated; T. D. Morris: A Selection of... Welsh Airs, Chester, 1860; John Parry: A Collection of Welsh Airs . . . London, 1807; H. S. Hayden: A Collection of... Welsh Airs . . . Carnarvon, 1862; J. D. Jones: Cwymp Llywelyn, Wrexham, not dated; Brinley Richards: God Bless the Prince of Wales, London, not dated; George F. West: Rule Britannia, arranged for the Piano Forte, London, not dated; and Thecla Badarzewska: The Bells of Aberdovey, London, not dated.

Outsize scrap book containing English manuscript and printed poems, letters, ballads, songs, press cuttings, posters and speeches, 1648-1763. As the title suggests, the majority of the material is concerned with royalist themes under the Stuart monarchs, support for the Jacobite cause and anti-Hanoverian propaganda. The earlier works include a copy of a poem by Charles I during his captivity at Carisbrooke Castle, 1648, and items relating to the Commonwealth regime. The later 17th century material concentrates particularly on William III 's foreign wars and his unpopular policies. Individual items of interest include a poem by by Hugh Quellyn praising Sir Robert Owen 's royalist loyalties [pre-1698]; a translation of Merlin 's prophecy; a poster for the [Denbighshire] elections entitled The Protestant Ballad or Advice to Freeholders [c. 1730]; programmes for a puppet show, 1734, and for songs performed at Hardwick, 1763; and well-known accounts of the executions of Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino, 1746.

A collection of papers dealing with the dispute concerning Jurisdictions "that have fallen out betweene ye Ld. B. of Bangor and his Chauncellor.".

A collection of pedigrees by Peter le Neve and others. (Formerly Clark MS.) 1/2 calf. Donated by Wyndham D. Clark, May 1949.

A collection of pedigrees, &c., made by Thomas Ellis, B.D., Dolgellau. English, Welsh. Donated by the Reverend T. J. Morris, Holyhead, & T. I. Ellis, Aberystwyth, May 1944.