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One of nine in a series of assessments for a special rate, under the Sanitary Act and the Public Health Act, in the parish of Machynlleth, 1876-1879, 1884, 1886, 1888-1889, 1894.

One of fifteen in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish, township and liberties of Machynlleth, 1862, 1869-1870, 1872-1908, 1915-1916.

One of fifteen in a series of assessments for the relief of the poor in the parish, township and liberties of Machynlleth, 1862, 1869-1870, 1872-1908, 1915-1916.

Correspondence and other papers used in preparation towards the Wales Assembly of Women's report for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on the status of women, Beijing, 1995.

Original text in typescript form, 2000, of the recollections of Dillwyn Miles published as A mingled yarn, (Gwasg Dinefwr, 2000), together with addenda.

Accounts, 1786-1800, of the overseers of the poor in the hamlet of Neath Lower, Glamorgan.

Adysgrifau a mynegeion a baratowyd gan Dr E. L. James a Dr M. A. James o feddargraffiadau ar gyfer plwyfi Llanddewibrefi a Llangeitho, Ceredigion (Cyfrol XVII).

A typewritten transcript, with manuscript insertions, by K. M. Davies and W. Lloyd Davies, Bournemouth, of the enclosure award of Henllan Wastes and Denbigh Green, 1814. The transcript was made at the County Offices, Ruthin, in November 1936. Inset are a typewritten copy of the article on the award by W. Lloyd Davies which appeared in the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, Vol. IX, pp. 247-71, and a 'pull' of the map accompanying the article.

A rent collecting book of Lewis Jones in the Aberdyfi-Tywyn area of co. Merioneth, 1846-1847.

A manuscript of John Roberts ('Ieuan Gwyllt') used originally as a register of the pupils who enrolled in his school at Nanteos Arms [Capel Seion, near Aberystwyth] from its foundation on 12 June to 1 July 1839. The volume was subsequently used, [c. 1839-1840], to record hymn-tunes, hymns, metrical psalms, etc., by 'Ieuan Gwyllt', and notes of sermons by John Hughes, Pontrobert, [Thomas] Richards, Fishguard, David Howels, Thos. Evans, O. Williams, and H. Hughes, Llanrwst.

A composite volume of the period c. 1764-1765 containing transcripts and drafts of reports on education in England, Wales, and Ireland, and of other papers on education, collected by a Russian commissioner with a view to establishing an educational system in Russia. The titles of the reports include 'Des Ecoles dans le Roiaume d'Irlande connues sous le Nom de Charter-Schools', 'Etat des Ecoles de Charité de la Grande Brétagne et de l'Irlande, l'année dernière, 1764', 'Ecoles ambulantes de Charite, dans la Principauté de Galles, en Angleterre', 'Etudes de l'École des Humanités', ‘'Reflexions sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs, établies à St. Petersbourg & à Moscou', 'Utilités de l'Étude de la Langue Latine & de la Grecque, pour l'avancement des Connoissances', 'Supplement à la pétite Dissertation sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs . . .', 'Doutes & Rémarques détachées, sur le Mémoire de Mr. le Conseiller Müller', 'Touchant le Protecteur général des Grandes Écoles & les Conseillers', 'Doutes touchant le Projet pour avoir 4 différentes sortes de Grandes Ecoles', 'Memoire Touchant les Grandes Ecoles d'Humanités en Angleterre, presenté au Mois de Novembre, 1764', 'Idée superficielle des deux Universites de l'Angleterre', 'Méthode d'enseigner les Humanités', 'Refléxions générales sur les principales Branches des Connoissances sur- tout en ce qui regarde La Prémière Education, & les Genres d'Études qui y conviennent', 'Projet de deux Grandes Ecoles, ou Séminaires Séculiers, l'un à St. Petersbourg, & l'autre à Moscou', etc.

Dyddiadur yr Annibynwyr, 1846, 1852, 1855-7, 1864, 1867, 1871-1873, with farming and personal entries by John Thomas, Tynlon, Llangybi, co. Caernarvon.

Account books, 1840-1877, of David Jonathan, farmer and drover, of Ffwrneithin, Dihewid.

Over seventy letters and cards, 1917-1986, of miscellaneous provenance from twentieth-century Welsh writers to various recipients; the correspondents include E. Tegla Davies (1) 1956, W. J. Gruffydd (1) 1952, R. T. Jenkins (1), 1946, David James Jones (Gwenallt) (1) 1953, T. Gwynn Jones (9) 1923-1939, J. Saunders Lewis (5) 1931-1976, Caradog Prichard (4) 1962-1972, Kate Roberts (28) 1937-1983, D. J. Williams (6) 1917-1969, and T. H. Parry-Williams (1) 1953.

A notebook, 1882, containing sheep earmarks from farms in the parishes of Penmachno, Caernarvonshire, Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, and Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire.

Property tax assessment book, 1852, for the town of Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, listing the names of occupiers and owners of properties, arranged according to street name.
A contemporary inscription on the wrapper identifies the collectors as Edward Ellis and Lewis Hopkins.

An incomplete transcript of 'Chronica Principum Walliae' or 'Brut y Tywysogion', probably based on the text in 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' and bearing a close resemblance to the text found in Peniarth MS. 212, and a transcript of another chronicle from Cadwalydr Vendigeid to A.D. 1565.

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.

A manuscript by R. J. Edwards entitled Incidents of the Great War which burst out in Europe in 1914, as seen at Ruthin. The narrative is continued until July 1921.