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A letter, dated 20 April 1945, from Leo Amery, MP, to Lady Frances Lloyd George, presenting his condolences on the death of her husband, David Lloyd George.

A letter, 22 November 1889, from Walburga, Lady Paget, to Frances Power Cobbe commenting on their anti-vivisection campaigns.
She also refers to her daughter, Lady Windor, later the Countess of Plymouth (f. 1 recto-verso).

A letter, 24 August 1973, from the writer Alec Waugh, Tangier, to the novelist Berta Ruck, Aberdovey, containing personal news and referring to a newspaper article on Ruck (see Jim Tucker, 'Mrs Onions knows her romance', The Times, 20 August 1973, p. 14).

A letter, 12 November [18]90, from a certain Will[iam] W[ ... ], a Welsh emigrant to South Africa, to his family in North Wales. He writes from Cape Town, prior to going on to Kimberley.

A letter, [1943], from the artist Frances Richards addessed to hitherto unidentified friends ('Nell & Alfred'), discussing the recent work of both herself and her husband, Ceri Richards.

A letter, 20 March 1967, from Anthony Wedgwood Benn, MP for Bristol South East, to the Welsh language activist and nationalist campaigner, John Ifor Jones, Aberystwyth, discussing the difficulties and limitations of nationalism in Britain.

A letter, 2 October 1990, from the poet R. S. Thomas to Tom Ellis, former MP for Wrexham, regarding a controversial speech by Thomas on the movement of non-Welsh speaking immigrants into the Welsh language heartland (f. 95, Welsh). Also included is a postcard, 1998, sent by Thomas to Ellis reacting to an article concerning Seamus Heaney in Prospect Magazine (f. 96, Welsh).
Accompanying the letter is a cutting of an article by Ellis ('British justice in the dock', Western Mail, 1 October 1990, p. 10) concerning Thomas' speech (f. 94, English).

A note, 7 December 1980, from the philosopher Leopold Kohr, in a Zurich hospital, to Mrs Gwyneth Williams, widow of Prof. Jac L. Williams (f. 167). He encloses a photocopy, [1980], of a letter, dated 1 August 1979, from Sir Goronwy Daniel to Kohr, thanking him for an undisclosed suggestion (ff. 165-166).

A letter, 5 May 1968, from the artist John Petts to Eric Letts, engineer, thanking him for advice on metal coatings for a sculpture for a church in south Wales.
The sculpture, hitherto unidentified, is described as a 'steel figure' (f. 168), and may be the figure of the Risen Christ at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Gorseinon, Swansea.

A letter, 17 October 1965, from the composer Grace Williams to John Moody, Director of Productions, Welsh National Opera, concerning the staging of her opera The Parlour (ff. 57-58), together with a carbon copy of his reply, dated 27 October 1965 (f. 59).

A letter from D. Llewelyn Jones, [?July 1940] (ff. 87-88), and from T. H. Parry-Williams, 6 August 1940 (f. 89), both addressed to E. Prosser Rhys, and relating to the volume Hen Benillion, ed. by T. H. Parry-Williams ([Aberystwyth], 1940), published by Rhys. Also included is a reply from E. Prosser Rhys to D. Llewelyn Jones, 9 August 1940 (f. 90).

Three autograph letters from Ernest Rhys, two, dated 1905 and 1911, addressed to the magazine editor Clement Shorter (ff. 194-197), and one, dated 19 November 1930, addressed to Sir E. Vincent Evans, signed 'Rhys Goch' and enclosing a book (f. 198).
The letters contain references to the publication of Rhys' Lays of the Round Table (London, 1905) (ff. 194-195) and to W. B. Yeats (ff. 196-197).

An elegy, [1835] (watermark 1833), on Lieut. William Wynne Jones of the Third Native Infantry, who died at Nasirabad, India, on 11 September 1835, composed by his cousin, John Vaughan Lloyd, vicar of Hope, Flintshire.

A letter, 23 December 1939, from the English poet Edmund Blunden, Oxford, to Geoff Myatt, a cricketing team-mate, apparently enclosing a copy of John Brunton's Book (Cambridge, 1939) as a Christmas present.
He refers to his wife Sylva's army career and to a recent cricket match at Trent Bridge.

A letter, 30 January 1940, from Dylan Thomas to E. F. Bozman at J.M. Dent & Sons, his publishers, sending corrected proofs of his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (London, 1940), and discussing the listing of his previous works in the volume.
This letter is published in Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters: New Edition, ed. by Paul Ferris (London, 2000), p. 497.

An apparently unpublished letter, [Autumn 1937], from Dylan Thomas, Blashford, Hampshire, to Hermann Peschmann, poet and editor. Thomas discusses giving a poetry reading and asks Peschmann to forward a letter to the poet Anna Wickham.
For a subsequent letter to Peschmann, 21 November 1937, thanking him for forwarding the letter, see Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters: New Edition, ed. by Paul Ferris (London, 2000), pp. 306-307.

A letter, November 1954 (dated 'Calan Gaeaf MCMLIV' [1 November 1954] but completed at a later date), and decorated with a coloured inscription, from the artist and writer David Jones to the dramatist, poet and critic Saunders Lewis.
The letter contains personal news and refers to the Lewis's contribution to a radio broadcast about David Jones transmitted on the Welsh Home Service, 29 October 1954 (see NLW, Alun Oldfield-Davies Papers 27 for a copy of the script).

A true copy, [?1767], by F. Williams of an order, dated 10 September 1767, to the chief constables of the commote of Carnawllon [Carnwyllion], for the county militia of Carmarthenshire to assemble on 7 October 1767, the original having been signed by Francis Dyer of Court Henry, Carmarthenshire, nephew of the poet and artist John Dyer (f. 97). Added on the verso are a receipt for £20, 7 September 1778, paid by John Francis to William Saunders of Llanelli; and a monetary account, 6 May 1783, payable to Mary Henry (f. 97 verso).
A photocopy of a typed transcript, [20 cent., second ½], of the militia order is also included (f. 98).

A postcard, [19] August 1939, in Welsh, to the Rev. Thomas Alban Davies and his son, Gareth Alban Davies, from Mrs Hannah Davies, wife of the former and mother of the latter, on domestic matters.

Four letters, 1947-1950, from Augustus John to the scholar and colonial administrator, Sir Ronald Storrs, regarding arrangements for a proposed portrait of the latter.