This series of records includes photographs, photostats and photocopies. Much of the material consists of facsimiles of manuscripts and archives in other libraries and record offices. There is also, however, material of which the original is in private hands. A point to be reflected on is that the boundary between manuscripts and facsimiles has become very indistinct since the arrival of cheap copying machines and printers. While authors' typescripts or carbons have long been accepted as manuscripts, today a photocopy or print may have the same potential status as an author's holograph.
Xerox copies of the manuscripts of Francis Green, St Davids, in the Regional Library Haverfordwest, containing pedigree extracts and notes, abstracts of wills, etc., relating mainly to Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. These are available on the open shelves of the South Reading Room.
Photostat facsimiles of Bibliotheque Imperiale Manuscripts (in French) relating to the Welsh troop in France, 1376 (Owen de Galles, etc.). See also NLW Facs 22.
Xerox copies of the parish registers of Bromyard, Herefordshire, 1620-1646, 1656-1837. See NLW Facs 105a for an index to the registers. See also NLW Facs 98-105.
Index of personal names in the parish register of Bromyard, Herefordshire, compiled by May Colville, 1972. See NLW Facs 95-105 for copies of the original registers.
Letter, dated 17 October 1806, from Thomas Johnes, Hafod, to William Davies, Llangoras, Cardigan, re. the purchase of working oxen at Narberth fair. Formerly Lancych 86.
Copies of particulars and plans concerning the removal of human remains from Capel Taf Fechan, parish of Llanddeti, and Bethlehem chapel, parish of Vaynor, Breconshire, mostly to a new burial ground provided by the Taf Fechan Water Board at Pontsticill, Vaynor, in 1926.
Negative photostat facsimiles (two copies of each) of three wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: (i) William Lloyd of Maesbangor, Cardiganshire, gent., 1675-1676; (ii) Elizabeth Baxter of Llanllwchhearn, Montgomeryshire, widow, 1697/8; and (iii) Rev. Thomas Powell of Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, 1795 (pedigree note on dorse).
Probate copies of the wills of John Harris, bishop of Llandaff, 1738, and of his cousin once removed William Harris, parish of Llandaff, Glamorgan, clerk, 1756.
Ffacsimile o adysgrif, [1940au hwyr], gan Miss Cassie Davies, Tregaron, o gyfrol o farddoniaeth gan Waldo Williams yn dwyn y teitl 'Odlau Idwaldo'. Am hanes copïo'r gyfrol gweler Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 3 Mehefin 1971. Mae llawysgrif gwreiddiol Waldo nawr yn NLW MS 20867B.
Registered copy of the will, dated 10 December 1858, proved London, 9 June 1859, of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau. This copy was formerly NLW MS 13210.
Household accounts, 1763-1764, of Elizabeth Martin of Verville House, Verville, near Merthyr-mawr, Glamorgan. The original is in Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff.
Manuscript (sixteen pages, the text on p. 2 being incomplete) of 'A conversation about Christmas' by Dylan Thomas. It was published in Picture Post, 27 December 1947, and republished in Dylan Thomas, A prospect of the sea, ed. by Daniel Jones (London, 1955). This copy was formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 25.