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Score-book, 1904-1906, of Ceredigion (Aberystwyth) Cricket Club. Correspondence and other papers, 1937-48, relating mainly to subscriptions to, and fixtures of, the club after it was re-formed, found loose inside the volume, have been filed separately (MS 22677iiD).

Pocket-book of Police Constable John Williams, stationed at Garndolbenmaen, containing a record of sheep earmarks in the parishes of Clynnog, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, co. Caernarfon.

A notebook containing almost six hundred sheep earmarks from farms in counties Merioneth and Montgomery, with a list of localities and parishes (f. 1).

A typescript copy of Alun Trevor's reminiscences of his childhood in north east Wales during the 1920s, and his life and career afterwards, entitled The songbird is singing (published by Parthian Books, 2009).

A volume of holograph sermons by Robert Jones, Baptist minister, Llanllyfni, co. Caernarvon. One of the sermons is dated at his home at Ochr y Foel, 29 January 1883. Also included in the volume are two hymns and a catechism. At the beginning is a list of contents ('Cynnwysiad').

The first register of [Corris] Temperance Society, August-December [1836] and undated.

A volume of transcripts of leases, grants, charters, etc., 1704-1755, relating to the issues and profits of the origianl seal for cos. Caernarvon, Anglesey, and Merioneth, and of sums of money payable for fines and recoveries levied in the said counties, compiled for reference by William Wynne, serjeant at law, who was granted a lease of the original seal in 1729. The volume is indexed.

Notebook, partly in Welsh, of Daniel Jones, Tynbwlch, parish of Lledrod, co. Cardigan, containing farming accounts, 1928-9; details of payment to servants and workmen, 1929-37; and of sale of farm stock and equipment, 1937 (inverted text ff. 69 verso-76 verso).

Ledger containing accounts of Thomas Jones, Dolfor, Ciliau Aeron, co. Cardigan, saddler, 1894 - ca. 1925, and of his son, D. J. Jones, cycle agent, ca. 1925-1936.

Two charms against witchcraft from the Towyn area of Merioneth, and photostat facsimiles of two similar charms discovered in the neighbourhood of Llanidloes?, Montgomeryshire.

Holograph music compositions, 1918-19 and undated, by George Stephen Evans, Aberystwyth and Llanilar, including a short anthem or introit, 'O Love the Lord', to words from Psalm 31; two version of a song, 'Solitude', to words by Henry Kirke White ('To my friend W. D. Owen'); a song, 'Doreen', to words by Marina Benbow; and a 'five fold Amen' for five voices.

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)).

Account book, 1898-1918, of John Thomas, Rhoshelyg, Dinas Cross, co. Pembroke, undertaker and carpenter, with a few entries for 1880 and later additions, 1932-1942.

Notebook, 1842-1853, of Thomas Williams, Felin-fach, Pumsaint, afterwards of Talley, co. Carmarthen, surveyor, and schoolmaster at Cwmdwr (Llanwrda), and Gwynfe, containing memoranda relating to rates, etc. in the parish of Talley; mathematical exercises; accounts, with names of pupils, relating to schools at ?Salem (Llandeilo) and Llan-crwys (inverted text ff. 72, 75 verso-6); and miscellaneous notes.

Minute-book, 1904-1929, of meetings of the managers of Tavernspite Non-Provided school, co. Pembroke, with related enclosures, 1923-1936.

An autograph album of Elizabeth Sarah Roberts, Llanrwst, wife of the Reverend Thomas Roberts ('Scorpion'), containing entries, 1859-1879, by Ellis Thomas Davies, Abergele, Richard Parry ('Gwalchmai'), Hugh Pugh, Mostyn, William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), William Williams ('Caledfryn'), and others.

Autograph hymn-tunes, 1947, by J. T. Rees , Bow Street, co. Cardigan. 'Copied' on some indicates the copying of tunes into the two MS volumes which appear to be the composer's definitive collection of his hymn-tunes (NLW Minor Deposits 779-80).

A volume containing transcripts, 1778-1781, by Thomas Evans, Cydweli, of pastoral poems (bugeilgerddi) by Edward Richard, Ystradmeurig, dated 1764-1776, together with a few other eighteenth-century poems in Welsh and some medical and veterinary recipes.

A volume containing attendance registers, accounts, committee minutes and memoranda, 1854-1856, of the charity school at Llansadwrn, co. Carmarthen, in the hand of the schoolmaster, John L. Butler. Also included are accounts, memoranda and correspondence in Butler's hand, 1858-1861, relating to his activities as a tea dealer and grocer in Dowlais, together with a signed temperance pledge witnessed by Butler (f. 37 verso), temperance verses in Welsh (ff. 39 verso-40), and a letter from J. J. Thomas, Carmarthen, 1930 (f. 24).

Ledger of A. M. Hartley, Queen Street, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, corn merchant, recording details of corn purchased and sold, 1918-1928.