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Rent-roll of chief rents, 1664 x 76, payable by the freeholders, copyholders and tenants of the lordship of Cydweli, co. Carmarthen, to the Golden Grove estate.

Photostat facsimiles of two letters, 1864-1865, from 'Talhaiarn' to his niece Elizabeth Anne Jones, of a psalm tune composed by her with English and Welsh words by 'Talhaiarn', and of two letters, 1922, from Elizabeth Anne Jones's daughter Lilian M. Jones, Craigfechan, near Ruthin, to Sir John Ballinger, with a list of 'Talhaiarn''s material transferred to the National Library in 1922.

The file consists of miscellaneous items accumulated by Dr Roderic Bowen during the course of his career. They include copies of his election address circulated to the Cardiganshire electorate in 1945 and 1951, photocopies of papers relating to Dr Bowen's appointment in 1946 to act as Judge Advocate at a military court for the trial of war criminals, a 1950 general election poster and a full transcript of an interview, 8 August 2000, between Dr Bowen and Matt Cole of Birmingham University. In this interview Dr Bowen reflects in some detail on his life and the major landmarks in his professional career.

'Addysg y Cristion; yn Cynnwys Myfyrdodau Moesawl ar fannau Neilldûol or Testament Newydd ...', sef cyfieithiad gan Lewis Anwyl o waith Saesneg anhysbys, gyda chynigion printiedig yn dwyn y teitl Cynnygiadau; am Brintio trwy Gynnorthwy, Y Cristion wedi ei Addysgu ... ar gyfer cyhoeddi'r fersiwn Gymraeg = 'Addysg y Cristion; yn Cynnwys Myfyrdodau Moesawl ar fannau Neilldûol or Testament Newydd ...', a translation by Lewis Anwyl of an unidentified English work, together with printed proposals entitled Cynnygiadau; am Brintio trwy Gynnorthwy, Y Cristion wedi ei Addysgu ... for the publication of the Welsh version.

Lists of the overseers, surveyors of highways, and petty constables for the hamlets of Energlyn, Rhydyboithan, Hendredenny, and Glyn Taf, 1713-1860, and of Park, 1713-1758, and of the churchwardens of Eglwys Ilan, 1713-1844.

A copy of a survey, 1822, and vestry minutes and accounts of the overseers of the poor, 1823-1892, of the parish of Llanfairorllwyn, co. Cardigan.

A holograph letter from [the Reverend] John Elias ('o Fô'), Llanfechell, to Mr. F. Carmichael, Llysdulas, near Amlwch, 1822 (explaining the effects of revivals upon the behaviour of the congregations at Welsh Nonconformist religious meetings).

A steward's account book of Newtown (Montgomeryshire) Wesleyan Circuit for the period 1830-1867. The accounts are almost entirely in the form of statements of receipts and disbursements in respect of successive quarterly meetings. Insets in the volume include a receipt, [18]48, from Thos. Kempster, Welsh Pool, to the Newtown Circuit for the payment of £31.3s. in settlement of a claim; statements of prospective income and present income, 1866; and a holograph letter from Jno. Davies, Newtown, circuit steward, to the Reverend Chas. Prest, Islington, London, and a reply, 1866 (the division of the circuit and the possibility of a grant towards the support of ministers at Newtown and Welshpool).

Four holograph letters to the Reverend Dr. [William] Buckland, Christ Church, Oxford, from J[oshua] Trimmer, Caerna[r]von, etc., 1834-1836 (a 'good budget' of 'diluvial news' from Caernarvonshire, the 'alluvia' of Dublin Bay, etc.) (together with one draft reply), and from J[ohn] E[ddowes] Bowman [the elder], from Varteg near Ponty Pool, Monmouthshire, and from Gresford, near Wrexham, 1836 (papers read at the British Association meetings at Bristol, the excavation of the Cefn bone cave); and one holograph letter from Geo. Cumming, Dolhyfryd, near Denbigh, to the Reverend Edward Stanley (of Adderley) [sic] at the British Association, Bristol, 1836 (observations on the limestone caves at Cefn).

Printed volume including data recording the names of fishermen and the number of fish caught in north Ceredigion lakes (Llyn Conach, New Pool, Llynpenrhaidr and Llyn Dwfn) owned by the Gogerddan estate, 1944-1960.

An autograph album of Ellen ('Nellie') Harris Jones (née Williams, d. 1994), Caernarfon and Llanrwst, containing entries, mostly in Welsh, 1924-45 and 1972, by E. Morgan Humphreys, R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos'), R. J. Rowlands ('Meuryn'), Eliseus Williams ('Eifion Wyn'), T. H. Parry-Williams and others.

Highway rate receipt and payment book, 1887-90, for the parish of Llangathen, co. Carmarthen.

Notes of sermons largely by, and in the hand of, John Jones (1807-75), Calvinistic Methodist minister of Blaenannerch, Cardiganshire. MS. 11336 contains a certificate of declarations and subscriptions to oaths made by John Jones (described as of Bryn Hyfrid, parish of Tremain), 16 July, 1863.

A pocket book of Robert Daniel of Llandderfel, father of D. R. Daniel, containing farming accounts, 1844-5, largely connected with the purchase and sale of stock and the sale of wool.

Two account books of John Davies, auctioneer, of Talley, Carmarthenshire, 1853-1858, and an account book of Thomas Griffiths, Penrhiwgeingen, Talley, and John Davies, 1862-1865, containing accounts with individual purchasers at specified local sales, e.g. of timber at Pwllfa and Cwmgelynyn, parish of Caeo, and at Maes-pwll, parish of Pencarreg.

A survey of the manors of Penmarke, Funmon, Barrey, and Lancadle, Glamorgan, made by Evan Mouse in 1622, being a typescript copy (280 pp.) of the Welsh section of a manorial survey acquired in 1936 by the Bedfordshire County Record Office.

Stanzas, written in 1826, by John Parry ('Bardd Alaw'):- 'A sentiment' (with music), 'The Scare-crow', and' Musicians and actors'.

An essay, written about 1913, by Dr. Hugh Jones, Liverpool, entitled 'A Scheme for the Diffusion of Knowledge of First Aid, Home Nursing, and Domestic Hygiene in Wales'.

A minute book, 1900-1908, of the Dinorwic Calvinistic Methodist District Meeting, Caernarvonshire.

A survey undertaken by Randall Evans Enoch and members of the Treftadaeth Llandre Heritage Trust, 2006. = Arolwg a wnaed gan Randall Evans Enoch ac aelodau o Treftadaeth Llandre Heritage yn 2006 o arysgrifau ym mynwent newydd Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn.