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A typescript précis of the text of NLW MS 24191B, a journal of an 1816 tour of New York State and the Niagara Peninsula, Upper Canada (ff. 1-7 verso), together with endnotes (ff. 7 verso-8). The typescript contains annotations, corrections and underlinings throughout. The folio numbers and quotes given are not always entirely accurate.

Copi E. Vincent Evans o broflenni cyfrol Charles Ashton Llyfryddiaeth Gymreig o 1801 i 1810 (Croesoswallt, 1908), yn cynnwys cywiriadau ac ychwanegiadau ar gyfer 1811 ac 1812. Ceir nodiadau yn llaw E. Vincent Evans ar y tudalennau drwyddi draw y gyfrol yn awgrymu cywiriadau.

Copies of 22 speeches given by Dame Margaret Lloyd George (1918-1921) relating to politics, charity functions, social work for the poor and the war wounded, the opening of schools, exhibitions, bazaars, an unveiling of a war memorial, presentations of awards, and addresses to major conventions. Also contains transcribed copies of the speeches, and also contains notes by the donor (grandson of Rev J.T Rhys) providing additional contextual information (2019). A booklet titled 'Mrs. Lloyd George Goes to Lampeter: 17th June 1919, A Rhys/Rees Story in Three Parts ' (see JTR MLG SP4 Lampeter Cardiganshire Liberals 17th June 1919) written by the donor is also included; originally a supplement to an exhibition in Lampeter Museum and a prior publication 'A Lampeter Family Story 1870-1971'.
Also contains copies of four letters from Viscountess Nancy Astor, 3 of which are to Mrs Lloyd-George, and 1 to JTR. Notes regarding the information and context of the letters from the donor are included.

Each speech has been referenced as follows:
JTR MLG SP1: Free Church Council Women, Social Rescue, Bloomsbury Central Church March 1918;
JTR MLG SP2 National Federation of Women's Institutes Exhibition, Caxton Hall, November 1918;
JTR MLG SP3 Garreglwyd, Holyhead, 14th June 1919;
JTR MLG SP4 Lampeter Cardiganshire Liberals 17th June 1919;
JTR MLG SP5 Women and peace on earth, 'Liverpool Courier' article 30th June 1919;
JTR MLG SP6 Bangor, Opening of the new Hostel for the Normal College, 21 October 1919;
JTR MLG SP7 Royal Dental Hospital, Roll of Honour and Prize Giving, 5th November 1919;
JTR MLG SP8 Plymouth in support of Lady Astor, afternoon of 14th November 1919;
JTR MLG SP9 YWCA Bazaar Opening Remarks, Central Hall Westminster, 4th December 1919;
JTR MLG SP10 On Temperance, notes written by MLG at Melchet Court, early March 1920;
JTR MLG SP11 Stockport Women's groups, 25th March 1920;
JTR MLG SP12 Camberwell Women's Rally for Dr Macnamara, 26th March 1920 by-election;
JTR MLG SP13 World Women's Temperance Conference, Central Hall Westminster, April 1920;
JTR MLG SP14 Browns of Chester, 28th October 1920;
JTR MLG SP15 Llandudno Women's Liberal Association, probably early 1921;
JTR MLG SP16 Baptist Women's League, Bloomsbury Central Church, London, 27th April 1921;
JTR MLG SP17 Sunday School Bloomsbury Central Church, London, May 1921?;
JTR MLG SP18 Llanfairfechan, circa May 1921;
JTR MLG SP19 Carnarvon Boroughs, May 1921;
JTR MLG SP20 On Temperance, Purity and Religion, Welsh Presbyterians, Porthmadog, 13th June 1921;
JTR MLG SP21 Milton Mount College 23rd June 1921;
JTR MLG SP22 Liverpool, British and Foreign Bible Society, The Sun Hall, Liverpool, 29th June 1921.

Some ninety-nine letters and postcards, 1975-2013, from the poet and local historian Ruth Bidgood, Abergwesyn and later Beulah, Powys, addressed to the Rev. James Coutts, and frequently also to his wife Stevie, discussing her poetry, publications and public readings, her daily life and her family, containing frequent references to friends including Anne Cluysenaar, Angela Morton and A. M. (Donald) Allchin (ff. 1-188, 191-214).
Also included are typescript copies of eighteen of Bidgood's poems and sequences of poems, published and unpublished, [c. 1979]-2014, notably 'Hymn to Sant Ffraed' (ff. 215-225), most given by her to Coutts and a few re-typed by him, and cuttings and photocopies of a further fifteen poems from periodicals, 1983-2002 (ff. 25, 37-38, 52-53, 70, 116, 120, 215-265); typescript drafts, cuttings and photocopies of articles, interviews and reviews, [1978]-2006 (ff. 266-299), including two typescript articles by Donald Allchin (ff. 279-293); and a letter from Bidgood's friend Mary [MacGregor], of Myddfai, to James Coutts, 2 June 2009 (ff. 189-190). Many of the letters were written on the backs of sixty-three of Bidgood's own photographs, so as to resemble postcards; besides these a further twenty-nine of her photographs are also included amongst the letters.

Papers of Thomas Charles Edwards, Ampleforth, 1918, 1935-1976, including fifty-seven letters, in Welsh and English, from Saunders Lewis to him, 1935-1976 (ff. 1-5, 7-11, 13-15, 18, 20-45, 47-48, 50-55, 58-69), to his wife Imelda, 1940-1941, 1950 (ff. 16-17, 19, 49), or to both, 1939 (f. 12), containing personal news and discussing politics, current affairs, the Catholic Church and articles by TCE.
Also included are letters to TCE from David Jones, 17 June 1937, seeking to send Lewis a copy of his 'In Parenthesis' (f. 6), G[riffith] J[ohn] Williams, 16 July 1948, concerning an R. W[illiams] Parry englyn (f. 46) and John B[arrett] Davies, St Dogmaels, 22 October 1962 (ff. 56-57); together with a letter, 19 May 1918, from TCE, Shrewsbury, to his mother (ff. 70-73); a script for Lewis's radio talk 'A Prospect of Wales: 7. Welsh Writers of Today', as transmitted on the Welsh Home Service, 25 April 1961, being the copy sent by Lewis to TCE (ff. 74-84); and seven press cuttings, 1935-1936, mainly relating to Lewis and the burning of the bombing school at Penyberth (ff. 85-91).

Sgript y ffilm Un Nos Ola Leuad (1991), addasiad Gwenlyn Parry ac Endaf Emlyn o nofel Caradog Prichard. Mae'r sgript yn cynnwys nodiadau a darluniau o waith y cyfarwyddwr, Endaf Emlyn, sy'n ymwneud â'r cynhyrchiad.

A dissertation by Elsie M. Price, entitled 'The Welsh Woollen Industry', submitted in 1969 as part of a course at C F Mott Teacher's Training College (Liverpool) during the 1960s. The work is typed and bound, and includes photographs together with samples of wool and weave for blankets and clothing.

An archive relating to the life history of the Welsh boy soprano, Tom Howell (born 1911), including a letter from the BBC dated 1925 offering an engagement to broadcast, press cuttings relating to his singing awards, prize certificates, and ribbons, letters, a music sheet book for pianoforte, R.A.F. ID service tags and Service Book from his WWII military service as 1127491 Cpl. RAF in the Japanese campaign, a June 26th, 1943 copy of Ceylon Review regarding the Allies' victory over Japan in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), a group photograph of NTTC (Non-Technical Training Centre) R.A.F. India Equipment Accounts 1944 including Tom Howell, and a pocket watch inset with his photo portrait as a youth.

Manuscript journal of a tour of south and west Wales, as well as parts of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, 4 June-2 October 1805 (ff. 3-32 verso passim), also including several contemporary illustrations and later pasted-in engravings.
The writer is unknown but appears to be female and was travelling in the company of her 'Papa' and several other presumed relatives. Beginning in Gloucester (ff. 3-4), the journal then recounts a journey down the River Wye from Ross-on-Wye to Chepstow (ff. 7-8, 10-11 verso) and an extended stay at Swansea, 16 June-30 July (ff. 13-14, 16-17, 19, 21-22), before proceeding to Pembrokeshire (ff. 22 verso-23, 26-28 verso), Aberystwyth (ff. 29-31 verso) and Dolgellau (ff. 32 recto-verso), where the narrative ends abruptly, mid-sentence. The volume includes descriptions of Gloucester Cathedral (ff. 3-4), Margam Park (ff. 12-13), the Brownslade estate, [Castlemartin] (ff. 26-27 verso), St Govan's Head (ff. 26 verso-27 verso), the lower River Teifi (ff. 28-29), Devil's Bridge (ff. 29 verso-31) and the house at Hafod, Cardiganshire (f. 31 recto-verso). The illustrations are of pen and wash in a naïve style and comprise eight full page drawings (ff. 2, 6, 9, 15, 18, 20, 24, 25) and three text illustrations (ff. 8, 14, 17) all depicting views along the route. Conversely the fifteen engravings, [1831]-[1845], pasted into the volume depict various views in England, Wales and India and are, with a single exception, unrelated to the text (inside front cover, ff. 1 verso, 2 verso, 33-44 (rectos only)).

Manuscript journal of a tour of New York State and the Niagara Peninsula, Upper Canada (now Ontario), 15 August-1 September 1816, written by a Welsh Old Etonian, possibly Pierce Wynne Yorke.
The writer and his companion (identified only as Richard, see ff. 18 and 45) leave New York City on 15 August 1816 (f. 1) and travel by steamer and wagon up the Hudson River valley (ff. 1-10 verso) to Albany, staying there 17-20 August (ff. 10 verso-16); they then continue overland, visiting Utica, 21-[23] August (ff. 21-24 verso), the Finger Lakes (ff. 28 verso-33 verso), and Buffalo, 28-29 August (ff. 35 verso, 38 verso). After crossing the Niagara River into Upper Canada they visit Niagara Falls, 29 August-1 September (ff. 40 verso-45), and continue to Newark [Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario] on 1 September (f. 45 verso). The volume contains frequent references to their accommodation, travel arrangements and the often unseasonable weather (1816 being the so called 'Year without a Summer'), as well as descriptions of the scenery and flora, agricultural practices, Indigenous Americans, American manners and politics and the effects of the War of 1812. Also included, in pencil, are a verse on Col. Cecil Bisshopp (inside front cover), brief accounts of bills paid (f. i) and mostly illegible notes apparently relating to the contents of the journal (inside back cover). The author is not named but evidently has close connections with North Wales (see ff. 4 recto-verso, 5 verso, 27 verso, 28 verso-29 verso, 45), is an Old Etonian and a schoolfriend of Bisshopp, whose grave he visits at Lundy's Lane, Niagara (see f. 44); Pierce (or Peirce) Wynne Yorke of Dyffryn Aled appears to be the most plausible candidate.

An exercise book, 1930-1955, in the hand of the Rev. W. P. Jones, Principal of Trevecca College, Talgarth, containing an annual record of students admitted to the College for the years 1930-31 to 1954-55 (ff. 2-51 verso). Entries include the names of students and typically list their home and college addresses and, less frequently, ages and subjects studied.
The volume also includes various memoranda, notes, accounts and lists (ff. 1 recto-verso, 60, 70-82 verso and inside the covers), including petty cash and other accounts, 1932-1941 (ff. 60, 73 recto-verso, 75, 76-80 verso, 82), details of scholarship exams and awards, 1936-1940 (f. 72 verso, 74 verso, 75 verso-76), lists of new students, 1949-1952 (ff. 70 verso-71) and a list of landladies at Talgarth (f. 74). Items found loose in the volume (now in an archival envelope) comprise a letter, 14 January 1955, to W. P. Jones from Ieuan Ll. Jenkins, Dowlais (f. 83), and eleven printed copies of the Trevecca College Regulations, each signed by students of the 1954-55 intake (ff. 84-94). From 1906 to 1964 Trevecca was run by the Calvinistic Methodist Church as a preparatory college.

A file of correspondence, 30 March-7 May 2017, between Valerie Wynne-Williams and her solicitors Kuits on the one hand and Thomas Dilworth and his publishers Penguin Random House UK on the other, relating to the contents of Dilworth's biography David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet (London, 2017). The correspondence resulted in a number of amendments being made to subsequent editions of the book.

A visitors' book, 1990-1995, of the exhibition 'New Traditions: contemporary Welsh craft / Traddodiadau Newydd: crefftau Cymreig cyfoes' by Charles and Patricia Aithie, which accompanied the Welsh-Yemeni Festival held in Sana, Yemen. Most entries are in Arabic; a typescript containing an English translation is included in the front of the volume. The visitors' book was transferred to NLW among the Charles and Patricia Aithie photographic collection.

A manuscript music book of popular songs originally belonging to William Williams, cabinet maker, including ballads and operatic pieces such as The Highland Laddie and Robin Hood. The volume then passed on into the possession of Thomas Llewelyn, Newbridge.

Notes by T. Ivor Davies and T. Charles Jones, from contemporary sources including the Coroner's Court records, a public meeting at Beaumaris and service at Bangor Cathedral, relating to the sinking of the 'Rothsay Castle' steam packet on 17th August 1831, on its journey from Liverpool to Beaumaris, during which over a hundred and forty lives were lost.

Llythyr, dyddiedig 6 Mehefin 1929, gan Richard Griffith (Carneddog) at ei chwaer-yng-nghyfraith Elin Griffith a'i nith Jane, yng Nghicieth, yn cynnwys yn bennaf newyddion teuluol (ff. 1-20). Mae'r llythyr yn cynnwys englynion ganddo er cof am deulu a chyfeillion (ff. 12-20), englynion a oedd i'w cyhoeddi yn O Greigiau'r Grug (Dinbych, 1930), tt. 25-32. = A letter, dated 6 June 1929, from Richard Griffith (Carneddog) to his sister-in-law Elin Griffith and his niece Jane in Cricieth, containing mainly family news (ff. 1-20). The letter includes englynion composed by him in memory of family and friends (ff. 12-20), which were to be published in his forthcoming book O Greigiau'r Grug (Denbigh, 1930), pp. 25-32.
Ceir hefyd yn y llawysgrif ddau hysbysiad rhent stad Hafodgarregog, 1902-1903, yn ôl pob golwg ar gyfer William Griffith, Tylyrni, brawd Carneddog a gŵr Elin (ff. 21-22), a theipysgrif o ddyfyniad byr o araith a draddodwyd gan David Lloyd George ym 1925 (f. 23). = The manuscript also contains two Hafodgarregog estate rent notices, 1902-1903, apparently for Carneddog's brother and Elin's husband, William Griffith, Tylyrni (ff. 21-22), and a short typed extract from a 1925 speech by David Lloyd George (f. 23).

Ceir hefyd tri cherdyn post yn dangos lluniau fel a ganlyn - (1) grŵp, yn cynnwys Olwen Silvester ar achlysur dathlu hanner canmlwyddiant Cymdeithas Cymmrodorion y Rhyl, 1959, (2) y Parchedig Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Mon; 1823-1905), a (3) golygfa yn ninas Caeredin, 1905 (gyda darn o farddoniaeth Gymraeg wedi ei ysgrifennu ar y cefn). Rhaglen gwasanaeth a gynhaliwyd yng Nghapel Clwyd Street, Rhyl, 22 Mehefin 1911, ar achlysur coroniad Sior V. Llythyr, 1931, oddi wrth Ifan ab Owen Edwards at y rhodddwr ynglŷn â phenillion a gynigiodd i'w cyhoeddi yn Cymru'r Plant.

Adysgrif, 1863, yn bennaf yn llaw D[aniel] L[ewis] Moses, gynt o Lanbedr Pont Steffan, o'r gyfrol Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym, gol. gan Owen Jones a William Owen (Llundain, 1789). = Transcript, 1863, mainly in the hand of D[aniel] L[ewis] Moses, formerly of Lampeter, of the volume Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym, ed. by Owen Jones and William Owen (London, 1789).
Mae'r llawysgrif yn cynnwys y cyfan o gerddi Dafydd ap Gwilym yn y gyfrol, heblaw am ambell i fwlch, damweiniol mae'n debyg, ar tt. 67, 354 a 423 ac eraill o bosib (tt. 1-210, 249-492). Mae hefyd yn cynnwys cerddi ffug Iolo Morganwg o'r atodiad (tt. 211-243); crynodeb, yng Nghymraeg, o hanes Dafydd (yn Saesneg) gan Owen Jones (ff. vi-xii); y marwnadau i Dafydd (ff. xii verso-xv verso); a chychwyn (Abermaw-Gwdion ab Don) yr eirfa Saesneg o bobol a llefydd yn y cerddi (tt. 493-502). Heblaw am Moses, ysgrifennwyd y llawysgrif mewn dwy law ychwanegol (tt. 249-279 a 297-328 yn eu tro). = The manuscript contains all the Dafydd ap Gwilym poems, except for a few apparently unintentional lacunae on pp. 67, 354 and 423 and possibly elsewhere (pp. 1-210, 249-492). It also includes Iolo Morganwg’s forgeries from the appendix (pp. 211-243); a precis, in Welsh, of Owen Jones's (English) biography of Dafydd (ff. vi-xii); the elegies to Dafydd (ff. xii verso-xv verso); and the beginning (Abermaw-Gwdion ab Don) of the English glossary of people and places mentioned in the poems (pp. 493-502). Besides Moses, parts of the manuscript are written in two additional hands (pp. 249-279 and 297-328 respectively).

Cwestiynau a luniwyd yn Saesneg gan yr Athro Dewi Z. Phillipps, Coleg Prifysgol Cymru, Abertawe, mewn ateb i ddarlith ar y testun 'Beth yw pwrpas llenydda?' a draddodwyd gan y Dr. R. M. Jones, Coleg Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth, yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yng Nghaerfyrddin, Awst 1974. Am fersiwn Gymraeg o'r cwestiynau gan yr Athro Bedwyr Lewis Jones gweler Y Traethodydd, Ionawr 1975, tt. 10-44.

Copïau o gerddi ac o draethawd gan H. Griffiths ('Hywel Myrddin'), Caerfyrddin, ynghyd â llyfr nodiadau yn cynnwys ei feirniadaethau ar gyfansoddiadau llenyddol yn Eisteddfod Beulah, a llythyr ato oddi wrth J. Iorwerth Roberts, Llangollen. = Copies of poems and an essay by H. Griffiths ('Hywel Myrddin'), Carmarthen; a note-book containing his adjudications on literary compositions at Beulah Eisteddfod; and a letter to him from. J. Iorwerth Roberts, Llangollen.