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The Descendants of Howell Harris - a chapter prepared for the Cymmrodorion Society by Eliseus Howells (MS and typescript). (Formerly Eliseus Howells MS 3.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Mrs Eliseus Howells, Bridgend, March 1970.

The Descendants of Howel & Ann Harris ... by Eliseus Howells. (Formerly Eliseus Howells MS 1.) Welsh, English. Boards. Purchased from Mrs Eliseus Howells, Bridgend, March 1970.

Memoranda and papers submitted to the committee set up by the Board of Education to inquire into the position of Welsh in the educational system of Wales, 1925.

The Delhi Welsh Society by H. F. Oldham and E. R. Sonter (typescript). Morocco. Donated by The Delhi Welsh Society, March 1949.

A lecture by W. J. Waterhouse on the history of the Church of England, particularly in Wales, in the seventeenth century, and minutes of various Church Defence committees and meetings held in the Rural Deanery of Ultra Aeron, Cardiganshire, 1906-1907, during the campaign for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales.

The Dark Journey, a collection of poems by Richard Vaughan, and two TV plays by Vaughan: Dark Wanes the Moon and Whose Hands hold Anger (typescripts). English. In boards. Sourced from Richard Vaughan, Talley.

The Dale Castle Book of Pedigrees in the hand of Iaco ap Dewi. English. (Formerly Alltlwyd MS 1.) Calf. Purchased from Mrs Lloyd Hughes, Alltlwyd, December 1941.

The Cymric (Welsh Society Inc.), New York (typescript). English. In an envelope. Donated by Miss Ethel Morgan, New York, June 1948.

'A History of the Cycle 1710-1869' compiled in 1935 by Nest Lloyd and Susan Mainwaring, recounts the history of 'The Cycle of the White Rose', originally a Welsh Jacobite Club, which was established at Wrexham in 1710 to serve north-east Wales and part of Cheshire. The volumes consist mainly of extracts from the extant minute-books, now designated NLW MSS 14941-2C, supplemented by additional material from other sources. NLW MS 23301C includes a chapter on the Jacobite links of the Williams Wynn family of Wynnstay and an appendix containing details for Cycle meetings kept at Overton, co. Flint, during the period 1760-74 (see NLW MS 14943D); NLW MS 23302C consists of lists of, and notes on, members, illustrated with armorial bearings and engravings of 'Cycle' houses; and NLW MS 23303B includes notes on the Wynnstay Theatre, comprising lists of performances and casts, 1773-87.

An anthology compiled by Basil Roberts-Jones ('Rhys ap Iorwerth'), Cardiff.

A copy of 'The Croesor file', comprising Adrian Barrell's and others' research material relating to the Croesor Slate Quarry, Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, from the 1860s onwards (1994 donation). A supplement copy to 'The Croesor file', also including extensive extracts from the Minute Book of the Park & Croesor Slate Co., and a section dealing with the research note books of Moses Kellow, the company's manager and engineer, together with a CD which contains the full autobiography of Moses Kellow (2003 donation).

Two volumes of a research study by Dr E. O. Davies, the late Miss Monica Davies's father, entitled 'The Credibility of the Miracles of Jesus'.

Copies of the Queen's instructions to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 1586; the commission of the lieutenancy of Wales and the Marches to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, March 22, 1600, with power to make deputations to persons named in the commission for the different counties within the lieutenancy; a petition by six members of the Privy Council to the Lord Keeper to renew the commission of lieutenancy for Merioneth and to leave out the names of John Lewys Owen and Cadwalader ap Ris, who had been arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber for misdemeanours, and to appoint Griffith Vaughan and Robert Lloyd to be deputies for the Earl of Pembroke for that county; a Privy Council letter to the same effect covering a renewed commission to the Earl of Pembroke, March 31, 1600, with a list of justices of the peace for Merioneth; and orders for the reformation of the Court of the Marches, 1577.

A contemporary copy of Queen Elizabeth's Instructions, 1586, to the Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales [?in the hand of George Owen, the historian of Pembrokeshire].

A transcript by Dr Timothy Whelan of NLW MS 13587F, comprising the correspondence of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1808, together with an introduction and some notes.