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Miscellaneous music, including part-songs and hymn-tunes, composed by 'Alaw Afan'.

A copy of Edward Jones, Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards ... (London, 1794), with a few annotations by John Dovaston. Among items tipped in are transcripts by Edward Jones of Welsh, English and Irish airs (ff. 1, 73, 106) and a letter from him to Dovaston, 16 January 1817, concerning Welsh folk-tunes and other national airs (ff. 74-75). The letter is in answer to Dovaston's letter of 25 December 1816, which is part of Cardiff MS 4.130.

Papers relating to the work of E. D. Jones as Chairman of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Fund, comprising correspondence, 1961-1979; articles of association of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Fund Ltd, 1964; annual reports and accounts, 1965-6, 1971-2; notes on multiple sclerosis, [1961x1979]; and publicity material, newspaper cuttings and other printed material, [1961x1979].

Papers of Frank H. Cleaver, 1924-1985, mainly accounts, including personal, family and household expenses, 1924-1985; expenses for his work in Argentina, 1929-1931; and summaries of accounts, 1949-1968.

Press-cuttings relating to Welsh Hospital Board, 1951-1974.

Diaries, 1967-2010, of Iona Trefor Jones (1925-2011), relating mainly to her work with flowers, together with her reminiscences: ‘Cofio’ (in Welsh), and a scrapbook chronicling her contribution to flower festivals held in Chester Cathedral, Bangor Cathedral, Holyhead Parish Church and others.

Legal files relating to the court cases of members of the Welsh Language Society, [1968]-[1971]. = Ffeiliau cyfreithiol yn ymwneud ag achosion llys aelodau Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, [1968]-[1971].

Papur a gyhoeddwyd gan Gymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg ar faes yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol a gynhaliwyd yn yr Wyddgrug, Awst 2007, yn dwyn y teitl 'Ardal yr Wyddgrug. Gwers i Gymru gyfan. Astudiaeth achos o ddatblygiadau tai anaddas', ynghyd â thaflen yn hysbysebu protest 'Coleg Cymraeg NAWR' ar y maes.

Research papers of the botanist Richard Henry Roberts, [1953]-[2002], a county recorder for the Botanical Society of the British Isles. The papers including field notes on plants in Anglesey, together with a copy of The flowering plant and ferns of Anglesey (Cardiff, 1982) by him and heavily annotated, and offprints of articles relating to his research.

A volume containing offprints and articles relating to Welsh Gypsy folk-tales, mainly from the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, collected and edited by John Sampson.

Antiphonal, known as the 'Pen-pont MS'.

A composite volume written after 1818 and containing sermons by, and in the hand of, the Reverend Christmas Evans, Baptist minister, of Llangefni, etc.

Tystysgrif y rhoddwr Huw Ceiriog Jones yn dangos ei fod yn berchen ar gyfranddaliadau yng nghwmni Adfer Cyf Ltd, papur ysgrifennu swyddogol yn dangos swyddogion y cwmni, ynghyd â chopi o Femorandwm ac Erthyglau'r cwmni, 9 Medi 1970. = A share certificate in Adfer Cyf Ltd which belonged to the donor Huw Ceiriog Jones, official headed notepaper with names of company officials, together with a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Adfer Limited, 9 September 1970.

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'.

Cyfrol yn cynnwys llythyrau o gefnofaeth yn ymwneud â safiad dau weithiwr ffatri ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog, wedi iddynt golli'u swyddi am siarad Cymraeg yn y gweithle yn 1965, a thorion o'r wasg yn ymwneud â'r achos. Enwyd yr achos ar ôl perchennog y ffatri sef Brewer-Spinks. = A scrapbook containing letters of support following the sacking of two factory workers in 1965 in Blaenau Ffestiniog for speaking Welsh in the workplace, and press cuttings relating to the case. It was named after the owner of the factory, Brewer-Spinks.

Papers of Rev. Daniel Rowland Thomas, pacifist and scholar, including order of services for his induction as minister at Aberdare, 1939 and Merthyr Tydfil, 1945; radio scripts of services conducted by him which were transmitted by the BBC; a programme for his lecture tour in the United States as a visiting lecturer in Biblical Studies in 1967; his poem written for CND Cymru, 1999; press cuttings of articles by him and a leaflet for a Peace festival held in Ammanford in 1990, when he was one of the guest speakers. = Papurau'r Parch. Dr Daniel Rowland Thomas, heddychwr ac ysgolhaig, gan gynnwys taflenni trefn gwasanaeth ei odeinio'n weinidog yn Aberdâr, 1939 ac yn Merthyr Tudful yn 1945; sgriptau o wasanaethau yn ei ofal a ddarlledwyd gan y BBC; rhaglen ei daith ddarlithio i'r Unol Daleithiau fel darlithydd gwadd ar astudiaethau Beiblaidd yn 1967; cerdd a luniodd i CND Cymru, 1999; torion o'r wasg yn cynnwys erthyglau ganddo a thaflen Gŵyl heddwch, Rhydaman, 1990, pan oedd yn un o'r siaradwyr gwadd.

A copy of the publication given to James Ifano Jones by its author William Williams, Keeper of Printed Books at the National Library of Wales, and annotated by the recipient who was a Welsh Librarian at Cardiff City Library.

Letters, 1847-1873 and n.d., from Henry Griffiths of Brecon, Liverpool and Bowden, mainly relating to education in Wales and to the proposed Normal School at Brecon. One letter, 1854, contains adjudications in both Welsh and English by Griffiths on essays submitted for competition at an eisteddfod (see also a letter, 1854, relating to the adjudications), while another, 1862, to William Roberts, tutor at Brecon Independent College, relates to Griffiths's application for the Theological Chair at Carmarthen Presbyterian College.
Also included is a letter, 1889, from Samuel Job of Illinois; a letter, 1906, from Hugh Williams ('Hywel Cernyw') at Pontypridd; and a letter, 1928, from Caleb Lewis at Blaina, Monmouthshire. The last two letters relate to the Welsh periodicals of the time.

Llyfr poced masnachol, 1849-1862, yn cynnwys cerddi gan, ac yn llaw, W. J. Roberts ('Caersallwg'), dilledydd, Caernarfon, ynghyd â nodiadau ganddo yn ymwneud â dirwest. = Commercial pocket book, 1849-1862, containing poems by, and in the hand of, W. J. Roberts ('Caersallwg'), draper, Caernarfon, together with notes by him relating to temperance.

A volume, compiled [19 cent., first half], containing a number of homilies on moral and religious topics by an unidentified Quaker (inside front cover-f. 19); together with extracts from the manuscripts of John Kelsall, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, comprising brief accounts, 1701-1712, of meetings of the Society of Friends, including those held at Dolobran and yearly meetings of the Society in Wales (ff. 19 verso-27).