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Also included with the diaries are loose miscellaneous papers, press cuttings and a few photographs which were originally inserted in the diaries.

Journals of Winifred Coombe Tennant, 1897-1908 (1 vol.) and 1909-55, with her observations on her war work, public life and politics. Peter Lord (editor) used these for Between two worlds: the diary of Winifred Coombe Tennant, 1909-1924 (Aberystwyth, 2011).

Letters relating to Winifred Coombe Tennant's acquisition of 57 Japanese prints in Normandy, and her subsequent donation of them in 1926 to the National Museum of Wales with the intention of their being used for educational purposes, together with a list of the prints, and letters on this subject and personal matters from Laurence Binyon.

Letters, exhibition catalogues, press cuttings, financial receipts and notes relating to pictures purchased by Winifred Coombe Tennant's son, Henry, as well as pictures bought by her for him.

Letters, notes and other material relating to the purchase by Swansea Art Galleries of Gwen John's painting, 'The Nun'.

Letters, minutes, accounts, circulars and invitations relating to the activities of the municipal council's Art Galleries Committee, of which Winifred Coombe Tennant was a member, together with a copy of her speech at the opening of the 1935 former students' exhibition and a copy of the exhibition catalogue.

A poster from Winifred Coombe Tennant's campaign as a Liberal candidate in the Forest of Dean during the 1922 General Election.

Printed material including catalogues from exhibitions of Welsh art, a list of competitions at the 1952 National Eisteddfod, a copy of the Welsh Review (1948), and a pamphlet about St Fagans Folk Museum, together with related letters. Many of these publications are annotated in the hand of Winifred Coombe Tennant.

Letters from Maurice Bond, author of a book on the inventories of St George's Chapel, Windsor, concerning Winifred Coombe Tennant's research into the fate of the Crux Neoti (or Croes Naid), as well as social matters; her work was later published as an article in the National Library of Wales Journal (vii 1951-1952, pp. 102-15).

Correspondence, agendas and minutes of meetings, reports, exhibition catalogues, invitations and subscription receipts relating to Winifred Coombe Tennant's involvement in the Society's activities. Most of the letters are from Brynmor Anthony, the Honorary Secretary.

Correspondence, notes, press cuttings and other material relating to craft industries producing porcelain and textiles in Wales.

Annotated catalogues, invitations, letters, circulars and financial receipts relating to the activities of the Swansea Art Society.

A scrapbook of press cuttings and other material relating to exhibitions of French and Welsh art in Wales and England, with particular reference to Winifred Coombe Tennant's own collection. The volume bears the inscription ‘Modern French and other paintings. Book I’.

Miscellaneous press cuttings, circulars, notes and other material relating to art and artists, primarily in Wales.

Correspondence and press cuttings relating to the portrait of Josephine Butler by G. F. Watts, its loan to the National Portrait Gallery on the centenary of her birth, and Winifred Coombe Tennant's efforts to secure its permanent display there.

Correspondence, notes, catalogues and press cuttings relating to two paintings by Anthony Devis that were purchased by Winifred Coombe Tennant and lent to the Glynn Vivian Gallery in 1934, and subsequently exhibited at Preston in 1937.

Correspondence and notes relating to enquiries by Winifred Coombe Tennant, on behalf of the National Museum of Wales, about a carved wooden panel originally from the church of St Michael, Llanyblodwel, Shropshire, which she purchased in 1934.