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Manuscript report by William Galloway on the Ynysfeio (Ynisfaio) colliery, Glamorgan, with statistics and two plans.

Typescript report by William Galloway on the Glyncastle mines, with cross sections of seams, two plans, and financial information.

Particulars of ‘returns sent up’ [servants’ wages and expenses], and other money paid in the counties, [16]89-[16]96.

Volume entitled ‘Rough leases and agreements’ but which actually contains applications for leases of properties around Aberystwyth, Bow Street, Penrhyn-coch and Ponterwyd, belonging to the Gogerddan estate, 1883-1908.

Copy of the sales and show yard timber account book of the Gogerddan estate, 1909.

Title deeds, letters and legal papers relating to a dispute between Walter Pryse on behalf of George Lewis Langton, and John Philipps of Kilgetty, 1726-1743, concerning the title to the Paddock, the Old Slate House, etc. near the beach at Saundersfoot in the parish of St Issells. The papers include drafts and copies of earlier leases, deeds and disputes, 1622-1683. The letters are addressed to the Lewis family of Hurst and Coedmor, and to Walter Pryse in Holborn, London, mainly from lawyers and agents, 1701-1743; one of them justifies an attempted salvage from a shipwreck at Freshwater East, 1729. There are statements of the claims on both sides, describing the construction of a quay by Walter Pryse, with a pictorial map of the area in dispute [1726]; evidence of boundaries and rights in the lordships of Coydrath and East and West Pembroke, and a copy of the chief rent roll for the latter, 1738

Correspondence (1950-1963) and a typescript copy (1949) of a story for adults about Welsh valley characters broadcast by the BBC Welsh Home Service in June 1950. Reference made in correspondence in file 31.

Small notebook labelled ‘Schedule of Farm Agreements and Leases included in Rent Roll of Gogerddan Estate - where deposited’, apparently mainly at Rhoscellan and Gogerddan, 1884.

Printed report by William Galloway on the Tkvartchely coalfield, including the geology of the area, with statistics, a geological plan, a map, cross sections of seams and five photographs.

‘Security’ (mortgage) for £9412 by Sir Pryse Pryse to Col John Lewes, Henry Charles Fryer and Col. Edward Lewis Peyse, 1876, on lands in Wales not comprised in the family settlement of 1846, endorsed with a release back to Sir Pryse Pryse, 1879, and two further charges for securing additional sums to enable the transfer of mortgages on Cwmsymlog Ganol and Cwmsymlog Issa, 1877-1878.

Correspondence and a typescript copy of a murder mystery play for adults submitted to the BBC.

Typescript copy (1957) of a story that was accepted on 2 Jan 1958 but published under the name of Violet Williams (see ‘Sunny Stories correspondence 14 March 1958, file 99). The story was also published in ‘Sunny Stories’, 7 April 1958 and the ‘Fishguard County Echo’ in October 1958.

A complete edition of La Revue Litterature, Histoire, Arts et Sciences des Deux Mondes, containing an article by Auguste de Radwan entitled ‘Souvenir de Chopin’, 1949.

Papers relating mainly to the election for the Cardigan Boroughs in which Pryse Pryse proposed Herbert Evans of Highmead against John Vaughan of Trawsgoed, 1812. The file contains printed notices of the state of the poll, resolutions of a meeting at Adpar in support of Col. Vaughan, election propaganda and the sheriff’s public proclamation of the election in the shire hall at Cardigan; part of a burgess list from Nancwnlle; letters of support to Mrs Pryse from Mrs Gilbertson of Dolyclettwr, Mrs Bonsall, and others; a letter to Edward Loveden Loveden of Buscot Park from Samuel Sellwood about the Lampeter books and questioning the rights of mayors and freemen; and the state of the poll in the Pembrokeshire election, 1812