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A collection of forms used at the port of Bristol, 1803-1804, filled in probably as precedents for customs officers - reports on ships and cargoes, form of damage and over entry, wool book, current receipts and payments, account of foreign goods paying high duties, coast account, corn account, accounts of imports from Ireland, Jersey and the Isle of Man, searchers' export account, out port register book; and a printed notice to customs officers, 17 December 1812.

Papers of Brith Gof, including correspondence, papers and photographs relating to the company’s site specific and theatre productions, projects, and television productions; together with administrative papers relating to company productions and company business and information papers; and general papers relating to the company and its work, site specific theatre and theatre in Wales. A further consignment of 8 crates Brith Gof's administrative papers were received from Mike Pearson, November 2012. This group remains uncatalogued.

An incomplete catalogue of manuscripts amongst the Harleian MSS 'tending to elucidate British antiquities' compiled, 1784, by the Reverend Thomas Jeffreys (1749-1793) and arranged according to subject: Welsh churches, principality of Wales, princes of Wales, etc.

A volume containing a collection of articles 'Notices of British fungi' (from the Annals and Magazine of Natural History), 1844-59, by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, including a note by the author on the interest in mycology shown by Mrs Lloyd Wynne of Coed Coch, Denbigh, together with copies of letters and articles on the subject.

A research work undertaken by John C. Heard relating to a scheme by which ex-servicemen, through their own labour, could obtain satisfactory housing accommodation for themselves and for their families in the post war years, with the assistance of the British Legion (Wrexham) Branch Committee.

A British passport issued 25 July 1860 to Martha Lewis (afterwards Mrs Wheldon) to enable her to travel on the continent of Europe accompanied by her sister Sarah Jane Lewis.

Deeds, relating to properties in the following counties: Anglesey, 1737-1871; Cardiganshire, 1736-1780; Carmarthenshire, 1684-1838; Caernarfonshire, 1831-1878; Denbighshire, 1591-1837; Flintshire, 1465-1855; Glamorgan, 1597-1883; Merionethshire, 1793; Pembrokeshire, 1683-1857; and Radnorshire 1623-1816.

Records relating to properties in Wales, mostly from London solicitors' offices, including court rolls and other records of the following manors of the Earl of Ashburnham: Brecknock-Alltmarcham, 1644-1826, Cantercelly, 1658-1810, Killonow, 1644-1826, Cwmdu, 1659-1839, Talgarth Borough, 1631-1826, and Wernfawr, 1644-1826; deeds and documents relating to the Earl of Ashburnham's estates in Breconshire and in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, [1706]-[1863]; the estates of the Griffith family of Cefnamwlch, Caenarfonshire, 1707-1842; a portion of the Glanusk estate, 1771-1918, in the counties of Brecon and Radnor owned by the Bailey family of Nant-y-glo; the Glandyfi estate, Cardiganshire, [1787]-[1904] including probates of the family of Jeffreys of Shrewsbury and Glandyfi Castle; the Slwch, Breconshire, and Bow, Middlesex, estates of the barons Tredegar, 1757-1913; the families of Tickell of Whitechapel and Cheltenham and Jones of Gwynfryn, Cardiganshire, 1769-1855, relating mainly to properties in Llangollen and Ruabon, Denbighshire, Llanbadarn Fawr and Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire, and in cos. Middlesex, Surrey, Kent and Cambridge; papers relating to the development of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, 1790-1921; records relating to the affairs of the Milford Haven Dock & Railway Company, the Milford Dock Company, the Milford Haven Railway & Estate Company Ltd, and the National Provident Institution, London, in its connection with the Milford estate; records of the manor of Nethergorther, Montgomeryshire, 1750-1781; papers relating to the Holyhead Shipbuilding & Trading Company Ltd, 1867-1875; together with a large number of miscellaneous deeds and documents relating mainly to properties in all the Welsh counties and in Shropshire and Herefordshire, 1362-1925.

A minute book, 1864-1870, of the committee of Adwy and Coedpoeth British School, Denbighshire.

Title deeds relating to the Briton Ferry estate, 1627-1879, mainly in the parishes of Aberavon, Baglan, Briton Ferry, Llantwit-iuxta-Neath, Llansamlet, Michaelstone, Glamorganshire, together with probate records, marriage settlements, etc.

Records of the Briton Ferry Labour Party, 1939-1988; including financial records, 1939-1986; minute books, 1945-1988; an attendance book, 1970-1984; and copies of the Labour Leader, 1915 and 1917.

A slightly abridged text, on vellum (circa 1400), with unusual readings, of William Briton (or Breton)'s best known work 'Vocabularium Bibliae', a treatise explanatory of obscure words in the Vulgate version of the Bible; a short treatise on prosody; and a fragment of an abridgement (circa 1450) of Alexander Neckam's 'Repertorium Bibliae', a work similar to the 'Vocabularium Bibliae'.

Diary, March-November 1885, of an unidentified Scottish girl staying at Port-Manech and elsewhere in Finistère, Brittany, containing many observations on local life and customs and references to artists working in the Pont-Aven district. A few notes have been added in pencil by a later hand.

Deeds and documents relating to the estate of the Brock family in Carmarthenshire, 1843-75, and others, 1774-1900; and other deeds and documents, 1774-1900.

Records of the Brogyntyn estate, home of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, 1296-1951. They include estate papers and deeds, legal papers, financial papers, family papers and county administration papers of the Ormsby-Gore family, their ancestors, the Maurices and the Owens of Clenennau, the Wynns of Glyn and others, such as Anwyl of Park, Clayton of Lea Hall, Godolphin of Abertanat, Lyster of Penrhos, Mostyn of Nant, and Vaughan of Corsygedol. The three main estates represented in the collection are Brogyntyn, Clenennau and Glyn, the latter constituting a major addition to the existing North Wales holdings of Sir Robert Owen upon his marriage to Margaret Wynn in 1683. The documentation also covers other, subsiduary estates acquired by marriage or inheritance, namely Llanddyn, Sylfaen, Ystumcegid, Nant, Cemais, Penrhos, Abertanat and properties in the west of Ireland. The record types include title deeds for lands in Caernarfonshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, elsewhere in England and Wales, and in the Irish counties of Westmeath, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon, 1296-1838; rentals, accounts and other papers associated with estate administration, [1380s]-1951; manorial records, 1429-1804; household management papers, 1662-[c. 1949]; legal and arbitration papers, 1410-1834; financial papers such as mortgages and accounts, 1492-1876; family settlements, probate records and trusts, 1485-[c. 1862]; private letters, 1582-1950; papers relating to family interests, [14th cent.]-1951; personal papers of family members, 1672-1945; royal appointments and honours, 1795-1948; central government papers, 1581-1887; county administration papers, 1518-1904; and administration records of the church, schools and charities, 1598-[1876x1904]. Other component parts of the archive are the Clenennau Letters and Papers, which combine personal correspondence with the civil and military administration of Caernarfonshire from the late sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries. Additional records, comprising Lord Harlech's Game Books (3 volumes), 1882-1933, a journal kept by W. R. Ormsby Gore of the 13th Light Dragoons, May-September 1854, two manuscript catalogues of plays, 1815, and a manuscript catalogue of the library at Porkington, 1809, were acquired in March 2017.
The Brogyntyn (Longueville) group comprises deeds and documents relating to the Brogyntyn estate, 1607-1977, deposited by Longueville Gittins solicitors who provided professional legal services to the estate.

Important mediæval manuscripts and later literary and historical manuscripts, [12 cent, first ½]-[late 19 cent.], reflecting the collecting interests of the Maurice and Owen families of Clenennau and Brogyntyn.
They include an important mid-fifteenth century miscellany of prose and verse in Middle English (Brogyntyn MS II.1); English and Welsh poetry; plays; astrology and prophecies; chronicles of the history of Britain, one of which is a thirteenth century version of Historia Regum Britanniæ of Geoffrey of Monmouth (Brogyntyn MS I.7); a lute book, [c. 1595] (Brogyntyn MS I.27); a copy of the laws of Hywel Dda [1625x1632] (Brogyntyn MS I.12); legal precedents and other papers of legal interest in Latin and English; pedigrees, genealogy and heraldry of North and South Wales families; religious treatises, prayers, devotions and sermons; a seventeenth-century Latin-Welsh dictionary and other manuscripts of linguistic interest; extracts from classical literature; commonplace books; academic notes; copies of significant historical letters and documents; political tracts; moralistic and philosophical works; memoranda, journals and private papers of members of the Anwyl and Owen families; a few Brogyntyn estate and trust papers, 1727-1792; and notes on public offices and official papers deriving from the administration of Oswestry Corporation, 1660, 1673. Some ancilliary materials, [19 cent, second ½]-[1960s], mostly correspondence and notes relating to individual manuscripts, are also included (MSS I.27a, II.1a, II.10a, II.22a, II.42a, II.54(h), II.56a).

Incomplete autograph manuscript, 1916-1928, by Josef Charles Holbrooke of his three-act opera Bronwen (op. 75), being the third and final part of his operatic trilogy The Cauldron of Annwn; Act I is lacking. The libretto, based on the narratives of The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, was written by Holbrooke's patron, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, eighth baron Howard de Walden.
Mostly composed at Harlech, the work was completed in parts, the Overture (MS 23863F) (published as a piano arrangement in 1917), here dated July 1916 (p. 17); Act II (MS 23864F) dated 5 August 1918 (p. 183); and Act III (MS 23865F), dated 12 October [19]24 (p. 295); the latter is probably the completion date of the full score (confirmed by the note at the end of the published version of 1929), as opposed to the vocal score of the opera, which was apparently completed at Harlech on 5 February 1920 (see note at end of the published vocal score (1922), and cf. George Lowe, Josef Holbrooke and His Work (London, 1920), p. 273). However, a note added at the end of the Prelude to Act III (MS 23865F, p. 190) suggests that a final revision was made in 1928. The vocal score was first published, with English and German words, as Bronwen: A Music Drama (No. 3) (London, 1922), and the full score in 1929 (see British Library Catalogue of Printed Music); the opera was first performed by the Carl Rosa Opera Company in Huddersfield on 1 February 1929.

Account book, 1848-77, recording expenditure on building work on the Bronwydd estate in counties Cardigan, Carmarthen and Pembroke; with additions, 1926, listing measurements and prices of timber.