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A letter, 1866, from the pacifist Henry Richard ('Apostle of Peace') to the Rev. Roger Edwards, Mold, editor of Y Drysorfa (ff. 23-24); and a letter in Welsh, 1886, from the novelist Daniel Owen, probably addressed to the Rev. Ellis Edwards, Bala, concerning obituaries of the latter's father, the Rev. Roger Edwards (f. 25).

Four letters, 1947-1950, from Augustus John to the scholar and colonial administrator, Sir Ronald Storrs, regarding arrangements for a proposed portrait of the latter.

A letter, 5 May 1968, from the artist John Petts to Eric Letts, engineer, thanking him for advice on metal coatings for a sculpture for a church in south Wales.
The sculpture, hitherto unidentified, is described as a 'steel figure' (f. 168), and may be the figure of the Risen Christ at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Gorseinon, Swansea.

A letter, [14] August 1960 (received and stamped 15 August 1960), from the poet Dannie Abse to actor and theatre director Bernard Miles enclosing a copy of his book Tenants of the House: Poems 1951-1956 (New York, 1959). The letter is accompanied by a carbon copy of a typescript letter of acknowledgement from Bernard Miles, dated 16 August 1960.

Three autograph letters from Ernest Rhys, two, dated 1905 and 1911, addressed to the magazine editor Clement Shorter (ff. 194-197), and one, dated 19 November 1930, addressed to Sir E. Vincent Evans, signed 'Rhys Goch' and enclosing a book (f. 198).
The letters contain references to the publication of Rhys' Lays of the Round Table (London, 1905) (ff. 194-195) and to W. B. Yeats (ff. 196-197).

A letter, 5 September 1947, from Kate Roberts to Saunders Lewis (ff. 54-55), together with his reply, 9 September 1947 (f. 56, end lacking), concerning her forthcoming radio interview with him to discuss her writing technique.
The discussion was transmitted on the Welsh Home Service of the BBC on 15 October 1947 and a transcript was subsequently published in Crefft y Stori Fer, ed. by Saunders Lewis (Llandysul, 1949). The letters are published in Dafydd Ifans, 'Annwyl Kate, Annwyl Saunders - Atodiad', National Library of Wales Journal, 29 (1995-96), 341-345.

A letter, dated 3 May 1972, from John Roberts, National Eisteddfod organiser (f. 68), and a Plaid Cymru circular letter, 7 June 1972 (f. 69), both addressed to Kate Roberts, and with notes on the verso of each folio in her hand relating to the early history of Calvinistic Methodism in Caernarvonshire, in particular Clynnog and Rhostryfan.
The notes appear to be taken mainly from W. Hobley, Hanes Methodistiaeth Arfon: [Vol. 1] Dosbarth Clynnog (Caernarfon, 1910).

A letter, 22 November 1889, from Walburga, Lady Paget, to Frances Power Cobbe commenting on their anti-vivisection campaigns.
She also refers to her daughter, Lady Windor, later the Countess of Plymouth (f. 1 recto-verso).

A letter, 29 May 1984, from Glyn Jones to Gwyn Jones (f. 131), enclosing a copy of a Russian anthology, Валлийский рассказ (Valliiskii rasskaz) (Moscow, 1983), containing prose works written by them and other Welsh and Anglo-Welsh writers; together with a typescript carbon copy reply from Gwyn Jones, [1984] (f. 132).
Also included are photocopies, [?1984], of part of Valliiskii rasskaz, comprising the title page, copyright page and the first page of text in Cyrillic script, and a list of the authors in Latin script (ff. 133-134).

Two letters in Latin, 1756 and 1762, from the historian and geographer Vito Maria Amico e Statella of Catania, Sicily, to Thomas Pennant, chiefly relating to crustaceans and molluscs.
In the first letter, 1 January 1756 (ff. 175-176), he arranges to send Pennant marine specimens; in the second, [23 November] 1762 (ff. 177-178), written just before Amico's death, and mainly in the hand of an amanuensis, he sends sample shells of snails and shellfish.

A letter, [Summer of 1923 or 1924], signed 'Tristan', from D. James Jones (Gwenallt), Aberystwyth, to Esyllt Jones (later Mrs Esyllt Clarke, New Zealand), concerning personal matters and describing his day-to-day life in Aberystwyth during the Summer (ff. 190-191).
Also included is an explanatory letter, 24 November 1977, from the donor (ff. 192-193).

A letter, November 1954 (dated 'Calan Gaeaf MCMLIV' [1 November 1954] but completed at a later date), and decorated with a coloured inscription, from the artist and writer David Jones to the dramatist, poet and critic Saunders Lewis.
The letter contains personal news and refers to the Lewis's contribution to a radio broadcast about David Jones transmitted on the Welsh Home Service, 29 October 1954 (see NLW, Alun Oldfield-Davies Papers 27 for a copy of the script).

Transcripts of letters and memoranda, both typescript and handwritten, 1936-1937, in support of Saunders Lewis, dismissed from his post as senior lecturer in the Department of Welsh, University College of Swansea, following the Penyberth arson of September 1936.
They include a manuscript draft (ff. 121-123) and partial typescript copy (f. 125), [1937], of a letter sent on behalf of the College's teaching staff to the Executive Council [?of the Association of University Teachers], expressing support for Lewis; a typescript copy of the letter, 20 October 1936, from Principal C. A. Edwards to Lewis, informing him of the decision to suspend him from his duties pending the termination of legal proceedings (f. 120), with a manuscript copy of the same, [1937] (f. 119); a typescript copy of part of a letter, 15 February 1937, to accompany a petition by members of the academic staff calling for his reinstatement (f. 124); and a note by Stephen J. Williams summarising Lewis' literary and political work, published in May 1937 in Universities Review, 9 (1936-37), 169 (f. 126).

Two letters addressed to the novelist Berta Ruck, from Rose Macaulay, 10 April 1928 (f. 31), and Mary Renault, 25 May 1940 (f. 32), both discussing personal and literary matters.

A letter, 6 October 1913, addressed to Tom Hughes Jones from H. Lloyd Jones (ff. 75-77, English), together with a letter, 13 January 1917, to the same recipient from Ambrose Bebb, describing the latter's recent experiences as a conscientious objector before a Military Service Tribunal (ff. 72-74, Welsh).
In pencil in another hand (ff. 76 verso, 77) are various texts, including excerpts of poetry by Joaquin Miller and George Meredith, together with Alfred Russel Wallace's postal address.

An apparently unpublished letter, [Autumn 1937], from Dylan Thomas, Blashford, Hampshire, to Hermann Peschmann, poet and editor. Thomas discusses giving a poetry reading and asks Peschmann to forward a letter to the poet Anna Wickham.
For a subsequent letter to Peschmann, 21 November 1937, thanking him for forwarding the letter, see Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters: New Edition, ed. by Paul Ferris (London, 2000), pp. 306-307.

A letter, 30 January 1940, from Dylan Thomas to E. F. Bozman at J.M. Dent & Sons, his publishers, sending corrected proofs of his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (London, 1940), and discussing the listing of his previous works in the volume.
This letter is published in Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters: New Edition, ed. by Paul Ferris (London, 2000), p. 497.

Two letters, 1969-1970, in Welsh, from Saunders Lewis to Geraint Eckley, concerning the latter's research on W. J. Gruffydd.
The letters contain comments on W. J. Gruffydd's literary and academic work (f. 155) and directions to Lewis' house in Penarth (f. 156).

A letter, 3 December 1927, in Welsh, from Saunders Lewis to the Rev. D. Llewelyn Jones, Pontrhydygroes, Cardiganshire, relating to Lewis's Williams Pantycelyn (London, 1927), reviewed by D. Llewelyn Jones in Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 20 December 1927, p. 7, and 27 December 1927, p. 5.
There is an explanatory note by D. Llewelyn Jones on the envelope (f. 149a verso).

A letter, [1943], from the artist Frances Richards addessed to hitherto unidentified friends ('Nell & Alfred'), discussing the recent work of both herself and her husband, Ceri Richards.