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Autograph verse and notes, 1705-1745, by Andrew Mansell of the parish of Ightfield, co. Salop, including verse on religious and personal themes, on local events, people and places, epigrams and acrostics, and notes on sermons preached locally.

A volume of verse, 1776-1814, by various authors, connected with the family and friends of the Rev. Henry Thomas Payne (1759-1832), archdeacon of Carmarthen, including several compositions relating to the marriage of Maria Payne to the Hon. John Hyde and their departure for India (ff. 14 verso-15 verso).
The authors include Sir William Jones (f. 4 verso), Henry Mackenzie (ff. 10-12), Anna Snelling (ff. 14 verso-15 verso), Thomas Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton (ff. 17 verso-18), Robert Jephson (f. 31 verso), Edward Young (f. 32), Peter Pindar (f. 40 verso), Charlotte Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (f. 41), Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irvine (ff. 49 verso-50), Thomas Powys (ff. 56 verso-57 verso), and the Rev. Thomas Payne (ff. 59 verso-60). The verses include riddles and charades (ff. 33, 35 verso, 38 recto-verso) and epitaphs (ff. 46 verso-47, 54).

A volume containing verse, 1777-1799, by various authors, connected with the family and friends of the Rev. Henry Thomas Payne (1759-1832), archdeacon of Carmarthen, including riddles composed by his father, the Rev. Thomas Payne, Llangatwg, Breconshire (ff. 3 verso, 6-7).

Notebook, 1719-1754, of the Reverend John Phillips, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, containing verses by various authors including himself, chiefly of topical and local interest.

Corrected galley proofs of Ballad of the Mari Lwyd and Other Poems, 2nd edn (1947), The Death Bell: Poems and Ballads (1954) and The Ballad of the Outer Dark and Other Poems (1979) by Vernon Watkins, together with correspondence relating to the publishing of his work.

Papers, [1920s]-1988, of Vernon Watkins, comprising drafts of poems published in collections and elsewhere, 1934-1967, unpublished poems, [1920s]-1967, and verse translations from German, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian, [1920s]-1967; drafts and translations of verse dramas, [1920s]-[1940x1967]; prose articles and essays, [1935]-1967; radio scripts, 1948-1967; talks and lecture notes, 1947-1967; correspondence, 1937-1988, including letters to Gwen Watkins following her husband's death; diaries, 1931, 1966; bibliographical lists of his poetry, [?1941]-1967; and some literary material relating to posthumous publications, 1976-1978.

Some fourteen letters, 1923-1950 (mostly 1923-1924), from Vernon Watkins to his schoolfriend, Eric V. Falk, chiefly concerned with life at Repton School and the poet's unhappiness after leaving, including two apparently unpublished poems (ff. 14-15); together with two further letters to Falk, 1923, one being from Graham B. Smith, history master at Repton, the 'Mr Holmes' of Christopher Isherwood's Lions and Shadows (London, 1938).

One hundred and seven letters, 1937-1940 and 1944-1967, from Vernon Watkins, mainly at Pennard and Swansea, to his friend and occasional translator, Francis Dufau-Labeyrie, containing personal and family news, and discussing his poetry and other literary output, his and Francis's poetry translations and other poets and their work, notably their mutual friend Dylan Thomas and W. B. Yeats (ff. 1-9, 13-40, 43-121, 125-133, 137-148, 151-158, 161-164, 166-196, 199-211).
Also included are typescript transcripts, [?1970s], of eight of the letters (ff. 10-12, 41-42, 122-124, 134-136, 149-150, 159-160, 165, 197-198, inserted after the originals). The letters occasionally contain poetry by Watkins, including parts of 'After Sunset' (f. 15), an attempt at a poem about Francis (f. 32 verso, in French), the first two verses of 'the Wine Ballad' ['Ballad of the Two Tapsters'] (f. 38), a limerick [?by VW] (f. 40), a verse (f. 46), a verse from 'the Broken Net ballad' ['Ballad of Dundrum Bay'] (f. 50 verso), the end of 'Portrait of a Friend' (f. 75 verso) and the sonnet 'The Conception' (f. 147); there are also transcripts of poems by Yeats (ff. 68, 88 verso, 109 verso) and other miscellaneous poems in English (ff. 46, 76 verso, 119 verso, 190) and French (ff. 17, 82 verso, 86, 128). A few rough ink sketches are on ff. 2, 19, 46, 103, 109 verso, 117 verso. The letters contain annotations and markings in the hand of Francis Dufau-Labeyrie, including attempts at dating and ordering. The letters were mostly sent to Francis while he was living in Bristol, 1937-1938, Beckenham, 1938-1939, Paris, 1939-1947, and thereafter Montreal, Quebec, the later correspondence being mostly by air letter. For extracts from sixteen of the letters, 1937-1946, see 'Vernon Watkins: Selected quotations from his letters to Francis Dufau-Labeyrie', Temenos, 8 (1987), 146-155.

Forty-five letters and cards, 1948-1967 (mostly 1964-1967), from Vernon Watkins to his mother, Sarah Watkins, 1962-1967 (ff. 1-71), and to his sisters, Marjorie Watkins, 1964 (ff. 72-73), and Dorothy Watkins, 1948-1967 (ff. 74-94 verso), containing mainly personal and family news.

A collection comprising largely of eighteenth and nineteenth century volumes of music, including vocal music, piano and other instrumental arrangements, dance music, etc., some of which are of Italian and Spanish-American origin. Amongst the composers mentioned are Weber, Beethoven, Rossini, Mozart, Verdi and Mendelssohn. Also included is a nineteenth century volume comprising poetry, hymns and transcripts of correspondence.

Papers, largely relating to her work, of artist and draughtswoman Vera Bassett, comprising items relating to exhibitions; draft pictorial and textual designs; correspondence; press cuttings; photographs; and miscellaneous material relating to Vera Bassett or to her family.

Dates denote those of original material, not date of photocopying.

Estate and family records of the Lyon, Winder, and Corbett-Winder families of Vaynor Park, Berriew, Montgomeryshire, including title deeds, leases, abstracts of title, and subsidiary documents relating to the Vaynor Park estate in Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, 1459-1977; plans, valuations, and accounts, mainly nineteenth century; particulars and conditions of sale of properties in Montgomeryshire; and accounts of rents of Lord Viscount Herefordshire's estates in Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Pembrokeshire, and Herefordshire, 1740-1751.

A photostat facsimile of Cardiff Public Library MS. 80 containing prayers said to be in the hand of Vavasor Powell (1617-70), a few hymns and accounts in a later hand, and [Mr Perkins] Hi[s] Catechism Printed ... now in Welsh the third time ... Catechism Mr. Perkins ... (Llundain, 1672).

The collection known as the Vaux Manuscripts are the manuscripts of W. S. W. Vaux, F.R.S., Cambridge.

An appeal, 1836, for subscriptions to establish a scholarship or exhibition at Oxford for the benefit of the sons of freeholders of Merionethshire and of natives of the county, one of whose parents shall also be a native of the county, and to be known as the Vaughan Scholarship or Exhibition, after Sir Robert Williams Vaughan, bart, M.P. (d. 1859); there is also a list of some of the subscribers.

Deeds and documents of the Bennett family of Glanyrafon, Montgomeryshire, and the Owen family of Dolgoed and Llawrpenegoes, 1546-1946, relating mainly to properties in the parishes of Llanidloes, Llanwrin, Penegoes, and Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, and Talyllyn, Merionethshire; and a map of properties in Trefeglwys, 1819.

Two grocers' account books, Denbigh, 1865-1879, 1866-1873, which belonged to Mrs Vaughan Horne, together with copies of the birth, marriage and death certificates of her husband James Vaughan Horne (see Emyr Wyn Jones, 'H M Stanley: The Mystery of Three Fathers', National Library of Wales Journal, Summer and Winter 1993.

Various pedigrees in the hands of Bob Owen, J. Glyn Davies and others; together with letters relating to genealogy, etc. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, 1959-1962.

A valuation book containing valuations, [1874]-1882, by William Dew & Son, Bangor, auctioneers and valuers, of parts of the Llanfawr estate in Holyhead, Anglesey, [1874] (ff. 3 verso-66), and of the Coedmawr estate, Llanbeblig and Llanfaglan, Caernarvonshire, 14-16 February 1882 (ff. 81 verso-92).
Tables of purchasers and prices realised in the Llanfawr estate auction are included on ff. 69 verso-78. A rough sketch plan of Ty Eiddaw [i.e. Ty Eiddew] farm, Llanfaglan, is on ff. 89 verso-90.