The fonds comprises manuscript, typescript and printed material, including copies of acts or bills, correspondence, reports, etc., relating to Aberystwyth Borough and Rural District Councils Water Supplies.
Correspondence, 1975-1995; minutes of Annual General Meetings and Secretary's reports, 1976-1988; financial papers, 1976-1980; lists of members, 1976-1981; publicity material and miscellaneous papers, 1978-1989, and papers relating to symposiums, 1981, 1984, 1988 and 1992.
Papers, 1967-1996, including correspondence, newspaper cuttings, plans and photographs of the memorial site of the Aberfan disaster, 1966. Included are letters from Dewi-Prys Thomas, Head of the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff, and his design.
Order books, 1865-1879; account books (listing revenue and expenditure, rentals and lime sales), 1850-1878; and printed material relating to brewing, 1867-1873.
Printers' files of jobbing undertaken for individuals and societies in the Aberystwyth area, 1968-1984, comprising business cards, handbills, brochures, letterheads, poster headings and funeral and wedding services, 1975-1983, and job samples and posters, 1968-1984.
The original manuscript, prepared for the printer, of the Introduction, Subject Index, Index to Abbreviated Titles and Glossary of A Welsh Leech Book ... Edited by Timothy Lewis (Liverpool, 1914).
A typescript dissertation entitled 'A General Survey of the Slate Industry of Caernarvonshire and Merionethshire', by William Morgan Richards, Portmadoc, 1933.
A school exercise book in arithmetic subsequently used for agricultural accounts and memoranda, 1858-1892, by James James, Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, Cardiganshire; a register of pupils, 1859-1860; and letters by Thomas James, Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr, 1895-1897, Thomas Hamer, Aberdare, 1895, and Mary Parry, Liverpool.
Two copies - one intended for presentation to the House of Lords and the other to the House of Commons of a petition signed by John Jenkins, mayor of Aberystwyth, and many other residents of the town and district, in favour of a proposed railway between Trawscoed, Cardiganshire, and New Radnor, 1898.
Jenkins, John, fl. 1898 Petition signed by, NLW MS 4942E
Original text in typescript form, 2000, of the recollections of Dillwyn Miles published as A mingled yarn, (Gwasg Dinefwr, 2000), together with addenda.
An extract from the lay subsidy roll for the hundreds of Llanbadarn, Llanilar, and Pennardd, Cardiganshire, 35 Henry VIII, (P.R.O. Exchequer, King's Remembrancer; Box 219, roll 68) covering the parish of Llanrhystyd.
A register of infant baptisms solemnised by Ministers of a Congregation of Dissenting Protestants in the parish of Llangunnor, Carmarthenshire, 1819-1865.