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A volume containing attendance registers, accounts, committee minutes and memoranda, 1854-1856, of the charity school at Llansadwrn, co. Carmarthen, in the hand of the schoolmaster, John L. Butler. Also included are accounts, memoranda and correspondence in Butler's hand, 1858-1861, relating to his activities as a tea dealer and grocer in Dowlais, together with a signed temperance pledge witnessed by Butler (f. 37 verso), temperance verses in Welsh (ff. 39 verso-40), and a letter from J. J. Thomas, Carmarthen, 1930 (f. 24).

Snowdon Visitors' Books, 1863-1889, containing the autographs, addresses and comments of visitors to the summit of Snowdon. They contain entries for the periods 11 July 1863-1 July 1866 (NLW MS 16083C), 20 June 1883-25 September 1885 (NLW MS 16084C) and 9 January-20 October 1886, 30 May-25 December 1887, 29 June-11 October 1889 (NLW MS 16085C).

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).

Material relating to charities in Wales.

Adysgrif, [?1890au], gan John Williams (Wyr yr Eos), o'r traethawd 'Llawlyfr Cyfarwyddiadau i ganu Penillion ac Awdlau gyda'r Tannau' a ysgrifennwyd yn y 1870au gan ei daid John Williams (Eos Môn). = A transcript, [?1890s], by John Williams (Wyr yr Eos), of an essay on penillion singing, 'Llawlyfr Cyfarwyddiadau i ganu Penillion ac Awdlau gyda'r Tannau', written in the 1870s by his grandfather John Williams (Eos Môn).
Cynhwysir hefyd lythyr, 22 Medi 1955, gan y rhoddwr, yn disgrifio hanes y llawysgrif (f. i). = Also included is a covering letter, 22 September 1955, from the donor, describing the history of the manuscript (f. i).

Over nine hundred portraits, mostly studio, predominantly of First World War era British Soldiers. Most are individual portraits, some are in small groups with family or friends, also large group photographs. Many depicting a Territorial Force summer camp may well be from a 1913 camp held between Bridge and Lovelock farms, Ffairfach in the summer of 1913. The vast majority are anonymous but some can be given approximate dates by the presence of overseas service chevrons, good conduct stripes etc. Many of those dated 1914, especially the Pembroke Yeomanry, may well date from the years preceding the outbreak of WW1. Other portraits are of members of associated services and include veterans of earlier conflicts and servicemen & women from World War Two. The latter category including American troops from the 28th Division who were camped in South Wales from October 1943 until July 1944 as well as Free French and Belgian soldiers. Both US Corps of Engineers and infantry corps are represented. The engineers are believed to be men of the 103rd Engineer Battalion who served with the 28th Division. Their headquarters from October 1943 to April 1944 was the Hotel Belgrave, Tenby. There are also a considerable number of US Quartermaster Corps GI's including African-American soldiers.

A register of criminals apprehended by Cardiganshire Constabulary, 1897-1933, with physical descriptions of prisoners and details of previous convictions. Photographs are included of most of those sentenced between 1897 and 1909.

Over seventy letters and cards, 1917-1986, of miscellaneous provenance from twentieth-century Welsh writers to various recipients; the correspondents include E. Tegla Davies (1) 1956, W. J. Gruffydd (1) 1952, R. T. Jenkins (1), 1946, David James Jones (Gwenallt) (1) 1953, T. Gwynn Jones (9) 1923-1939, J. Saunders Lewis (5) 1931-1976, Caradog Prichard (4) 1962-1972, Kate Roberts (28) 1937-1983, D. J. Williams (6) 1917-1969, and T. H. Parry-Williams (1) 1953.

Notebook of Henry Harris, Ystrad Rhondda, begun in 1921, containing lists of place-names and field names in the Rhondda. Some of the names are taken from a tithe map of 1847 (ff. i, 1-51).
Also included is a typescript list of the same place-names, on loose sheets, the names numbered and in alphabetical order (ff. 52-98); typescript and manuscript notes, [?1938], on the Rhondda in the year 1737, including transcripts of Overseers of the Poor accounts (ff. 103-109); notes, 1938, relating to bird life in the Rhondda (f. 110); and three letters to Harris, October 1921-May 1928, including two from M. H. Jones, Penllwyn (ff. 99-102).

An extract translated into staff notation by Arnold Dolmetsch from British Museum Additional MS 14905, 29 January 1935.

A typescript, prepared for the press, of Iorwerth C. Peate's essay 'The Welsh House: a study in folk culture', published in Y Cymmrodor, 47 (1940).
The volume includes the title page, dedication and preface (ff. i-v), contents (f. vi), a list of illustrations (ff. vii-xxi; the illustrations are not included), the main text (ff. 1-254) and bibliography (ff. 255-275). There are some manuscript annotations and corrections, with a number of significant additions (ff. 11, 67, 154 verso, 163 verso, 179 and 249 verso). The printed version includes a few additional changes and an index. A revised edition was published in 1944.

One of forty-one volumes containing transcripts of, and extracts from, parish registers and bishops' transcripts of parish registers principally from Monmouthshire, in the autograph of Bradney, with several insets in the autographs of John Hobson Matthews (Monmouth), Francis Green (St Davids), John Davies (Aberystwyth) and others. This volume contains transcripts and extracts from the parish registers of Panteg, 1598-1785; Llanishen, 1601-1775; Llanllowell, 1664-1762; Llangibby, 1678-1806; Llangoven, 1691-1745; Llanvapley, 1699-1812; Goytrey, 1700-1778; Trostrey, 1723-1811; Pen-y-clawdd, 1728-1806; Bettws Newydd, 1736-1810; and Oldcastle, 1794-1836.

A manuscript containing the names of all rectories 'in the kingdom of England and Calais and the Marches thereof' of the annual value of over £10, arranged in dioceses, deaneries and counties, followed by the names of all vicarages in England, Wales and the Marches of the annual value of over £10, similarly arranged, all having been transcribed from the Liber Regis in the First Fruits and Tenths Office.

Letter (17 pp.), 1885, from W. J. Hardy, Chancery Lane, London, outlining the result of searches carried out among records at the Public Record Office (now The National Archives), Lambeth Palace, and the British Museum, concerning the Bishop of Bangor's foreshore rights, including wreck of the sea, within all his manors and lands. Also included are extracts from, and abstracts of, documents, 1284-1715, from the three repositories; together with an abstract of a report entitled 'Bangor Bishoprick Estates. Foreshores and Waste Lands', prepared by H. W. Hewlett in 1866.

A poor-rate assessment book, 1835-1836, for Uwch-y-coed township, parish of Penegoes, co. Montgomery.

A typescript copy, 1940, of 'The Tribal System in Wales Examined' by Timothy Lewis (1877-1958), a version of which was published as 'The Tribal System in Wales' in the Economic History Review, second series, 6 (1954), 297-304, and also 'Seebohm's Tribal System of Wales' in ibid., second series, 9 (1956), 16-33.

Sermons preached at Efenechtyd and Llangynhafal, Denbighshire, 1810-1830, by John Jones of Plasynllan, Llangynhafal, rector of Efenechtyd, 1799-1817, and of Llangynhafal, 1817-1830, and brother of Robert Jones, the friend of William Wordsworth; and a copy of Mawr werth enaid dyn (Caernarvon, 1805).

A collection of psalm-tunes and anthems made c. 1850.

A manuscript containing sermons preached at various places in Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Caernarvonshire.

A statement signed by Ebenezer Richard on behalf of the Cardiganshire Calvinistic Methodist monthly meeting, held at Ponterwyd, 19 September 1833, certifying that Phillips was 'an Accredited Preacher in the Welch Calvinistic Connexion'; a letter, 5 December 1839, from Lewis Edwards, Bala, to Phillips; an account of 'The Bangor Controversy - 'Dadl Bangor'' occasioned by a lecture given by Phillips at the Tabernacle Chapel, Bangor on 19 November 1850 on 'Romanism, the Church and Dissent'; a copy of John Phillips: Dadl Bangor, yn cynnwys Sylwadau a draddodwyd mewn Darlith Gyhoeddus ... (Caernarfon, 1852).