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A copy of 'Speech of the Earl of Powis [i.e. Edward, second earl] in the House of Lords on Tuesday, May 23, 1843, on moving the second reading of a bill for preventing the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor . . .' (London, 1843), with letters and printed papers relating to the threatened union of the sees, the object of which was to transfer the income of the see that would be suppressed to a see of Manchester. Among the papers are letters from the earl of Powis, George William, fourth baron Lyttelton, and Charles Scott Luxmoore, dean of St. Asaph.

Research work undertaken by Hugh Jones on the casulaties listed on the memorial tablet at St George's Church, Reynoldston, Gower, who died during the First World War. Included are short biographies of the fallen soldiers.

A copy of the report of a research project conducted and presented by Owen Roberts and directed jointly by Dr Richard Coopey and Professor Aled Jones. The three main objectives of the project were to write a series of narrative histories of dam building and water supply in north east Wales from the 1880s to the present day, to equip future researchers with a guide to archives and collections pertaining to the Welsh water industry, and to establish within the University of Wales an internationally recognised centre for the study of water history.

A note written in 1931 by Tom Jones, Coedcae, Trealaw, Glamorgan, on 'The Place-Name Britannia, Porth, Rhondda'.

Miscellaneous data (typewritten) relating to the parish of Llandwrog, co. Caernarvon, including extracts from a lay subsidy roll, 1663, a hearth tax return, 1664, an assessment for church mise, 1743, and a land tax assessment, 1788; incomplete lists of the rectors, 1652-1936, curates, 1633-1896, and churchwardens, 1739-1812; lists of freeholders, jurors, and electors, mid-sixteenth century - 1794; etc. The whole has been bound in the form of a small booklet.

Papers and letters relating to Christian missions in Wales, 1942-1950, 1974; papers relating to the mission in Blaendulais, 1952; the 'Yr Ymgyrch Newydd yng Nghymru' newsletter, and letters 1949-1951 and correspondence between Erastus Jones and Griff J. Miles, 1948-1951, 1987-1988.

A photocopy, 2007, of an unpublished typescript work entitled 'The Llanbadrig Churches and the "Chilton" plate' by Cliff Corker, 1986.

A transcript of the notebook of Kurt Ockert (1920-2011), a German Prisoner of War, posted to work in Radnorshire during the Second World War who married a Welsh girl from Presteigne and lived there until his death. It was transcribed by the donor George P. Lancett after Kurt Ockert's death in November 2011.

A transcript, [c. 1878-1879], by the Rev. John Evans (1843-97), Westerly, Rhode Island, of extracts from the Welsh portion of the 'Ilston Book', containing records, 1649-1660, of the Baptist church established in 1649 at Ilston, near Swansea (see The Ilston Book, ed. by B. G. Owens (Aberystwyth, 1996); for a discussion of this transcript see pp. lxxiii-lxxvi). It was made at the request of the Rev. John Jones (1834-87), Felin-foel, Llanelli (see D. Rhys Phillips, 'Cefndir Hanes Eglwys Ilston, 1649-60', Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1928, 1-107 (pp. 54-5)) and was later used by the Rev. Thomas Shankland, Bangor (see f. 1v and Seren Gomer, 21-3 (1900-2)).

A typescript dissertation on 'The History of Traeth Mawr and the Industrial Results of the Formation of the Embankment', by William Morgan Richards, Portmadoc, 1925.

A transcript by Thomas Charles Townsend, Prestatyn, Flintshire, dated 1 August 1943, of the Order in Council of 1860 creating the ecclesiastical parish of Prestatyn (formally 'The District of Prestatyn', p. 3) from parts of the parishes of Meliden and Llanasa.
Included as part of the text are schedules describing the boundaries of the new district (pp. 6-8) and listing landowners and occupiers, with details of rent charges due, within the townships of Prestatyn and Meliden (pp. 8-11).

A lecture by W. J. Waterhouse on the history of the Church of England, particularly in Wales, in the seventeenth century, and minutes of various Church Defence committees and meetings held in the Rural Deanery of Ultra Aeron, Cardiganshire, 1906-1907, during the campaign for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales.

Copies of the Queen's instructions to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 1586; the commission of the lieutenancy of Wales and the Marches to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, March 22, 1600, with power to make deputations to persons named in the commission for the different counties within the lieutenancy; a petition by six members of the Privy Council to the Lord Keeper to renew the commission of lieutenancy for Merioneth and to leave out the names of John Lewys Owen and Cadwalader ap Ris, who had been arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber for misdemeanours, and to appoint Griffith Vaughan and Robert Lloyd to be deputies for the Earl of Pembroke for that county; a Privy Council letter to the same effect covering a renewed commission to the Earl of Pembroke, March 31, 1600, with a list of justices of the peace for Merioneth; and orders for the reformation of the Court of the Marches, 1577.

Notes by H. R. Roberts, rector of Llanengan, on the capture of an eagle at Llanengan, Caernarvonshire, 29 November 1910.

Mainly manuscript and typescript notes, 1970-1987, prepared by Sir Goronwy Daniel for addresses and speeches on themes relating to the arts in Wales, together with a small quantity of related printed items and press cuttings. The file also contains notes for an address on 'Yr Ieuanc a Disgyblaeth Heddiw' delivered by Sir Goronwy at Cyfundeb Annibynwyr Penfro, 16 July 1980.

A copy of Donald Parr's thesis, 'The study of the development and present form of agriculture in Denbighshire', prepared for the degree of BA (University of Durham, 1959).

A terrier of the parish of Llanfair [juxta Harlech, co. Merioneth], 17 August 1811, in the hand of William Pugh, the officiating curate.

A terrier of all buildings, glebe lands, tithes, and other profits and rights appertaining to the parish of Llanbeblig in the county of Carnarvon and diocese of Bangor, 18[35].

A manuscript containing a terrier of lands, 1616, in Cheshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, together with memoranda involving money owing and lent, etc.

Political correspondence and papers of Ted Spanswick, 1957-1994, relating in particular to Plaid Cymru, the EEC and the anti-Common Market campaign. Further papers not yet catalogued.