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Journal of John Matthews of Birmingham, describing a tour which he made through France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria from May to October 1842 with his wife, Hannah Maria Matthews (1799?-1890) (ff. 1-86), and their tour in Wales, May to September 1844 (ff. 88-127), the latter section being illustrated with engravings, 1841-1842.

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).

Journal of a tour through Wales and part of Ireland in August 1848 by Charles Lucey of Clapham and later of Henley, shipwright, with a map showing his itinerary and further notes added by him, 1856-1891.

Wrexham district pupils' school attendance record cards used in 1905.

A typescript dissertation on 'The History of Traeth Mawr and the Industrial Results of the Formation of the Embankment', by William Morgan Richards, Portmadoc, 1925.

Correspondence, 1854, relating to sanitation at Portmadoc and Tremadoc.

Anthems and hymn-tunes by John Ambrose Lloyd, D[aniel] T[homas] Williams ('Tydfylyn'), Richard Mills, John Owen ('Owain Alaw') and others, copied by John Evans, Skewen, 1867.

Papers, 1894-1917, found loose inside an essay by the Reverend Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid, 1828-1898) [DWB] on Hanes Bywgraphyddol a Beirniadol o Gerddorion Cymreig; hyd Ganol y Ganrif Bresenol (see NLW MS 22549iD).

An essay in Welsh by the Reverend Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid, 1828-1898) [DWB] on Hanes Bywgraphyddol a Beirniadol o Gerddorion Cymreig; hyd Ganol y Ganrif Bresenol, entered for competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, London, 1887, and partly published in Yr Haul, 1888-1890, 1894-1895. Papers, 1894-1917, found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (MS 22549iiE).

A volume, [1798x1810], containing anthems and psalm-tunes.

A tune book, [c. 1835], containing unattributed hymn-tunes and anthems. The register of a singing school held at Brynhenllan, north Pembrokeshire, 1835 (ff. 48-50), and notes on the rudiments of music (ff. 1-2), are also included in the volume.

A tune-book, [c. 1828], containing hymn-tunes, psalm-tunes and anthems in the hand of Hugh Williams, whose name occurs inside front cover.

A volume containing nineteenth-century manuscript sermons in Welsh by the Rev. William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog, 1802-1883).

A volume containing transcripts, 1778-1781, by Thomas Evans, Cydweli, of pastoral poems (bugeilgerddi) by Edward Richard, Ystradmeurig, dated 1764-1776, together with a few other eighteenth-century poems in Welsh and some medical and veterinary recipes.

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.

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).

Llungopi o lythyr a yrrwyd oddi wrth Gwynfor Evans at E. G. Millward drannoeth protest Pont Trefechan ym 1963.

A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, A-K (vol. I), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coat-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.

A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, L-Z (vol. II), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coats-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.

Photographs of the fragments of a computus and of a calendar which are comprised in Cambridge University Library MS 4543 and which were described by E. C. Quiggin in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, VII, 406-10.