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Jerome's De viris illustribus in the semi-humanistic hand of Milo de Carraria, who was active as a scribe in Italy, Cologne, Bruges and London from 1437 to 1447 (see Duke Humfrey and English humanism in the Fifteenth century: Catalogue of an Exhibition held in the Bodleian Library Oxford (Oxford, 1970), p. 13).

Two letters of Mrs Hester Lynch Piozzi (formerly Thrale), one to William Parsons, 1786, and the other to Robert Dalgliesh, 1815.

Two letters, 1799, from Hester Lynch Piozzi to Joseph Cooper Walker, Irish historian and writer.

A letter, 1799, from Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) to [John Wynne] Griffiths [sic], Garn, near Denbigh, and two stanzas endorsed Mrs Piozzi's Brynbella's Marr. with Mr. Thrayle by Dr. [Samuel] Johnson [1709-1784].

Papers of Thomas Owen ('Hesgin'), 1904-1956, comprising letters received, and copies of letters written by him to various newspapers and individuals, 1940-1956; literary compositions, including essays and short stories, submitted by him for competition at various eisteddfodau, including the National Eisteddfod of Wales; two volumes of autobiographical essays and reminiscences; nine volumes of press cuttings, mainly of articles by 'Hesgin' which appeared in newspapers and other publications, 1904-1956; scrapbooks and notebooks; and a minute book and other material relating to the Swansea district committee formed in connection with the National Petition for the Legal Recognition of the Welsh Language in Wales, 1938-1939.

Herodoti Historiaia: Cum Vita Homeri. Tom. II, with MS notes by T. F. Roberts. Latin, Greek, English. (Formerly Printed Books DC8053.) Blue cloth.

Herodoti Historiaia: Cum Vita Homeri. Tom. I, with MS notes by T. F. Roberts. Latin, Greek, English. (Formerly Printed Books DC8052.) Blue cloth.

An elderly lady wearing a shawl and hat standing outside her whitewashed and thatched cottage.

Llyfr cofnodion, 1931-1969, yn ymwneud â chyfarfodydd Arolygwyr Addysg Cymru a gynhaliwyd ym Mhîl a Chynffig a mannau eraill i gystadlu am her-gwpan golff.

One of two manuscripts containing notes and abstracts of wills, Chancery proceedings and other documents relating to Herefordshire families, collected by George Sherwood, together with a few original documents.

One of two manuscripts containing notes and abstracts of wills, Chancery proceedings and other documents relating to Herefordshire families, collected by George Sherwood, together with a few original documents.

A manuscript, [1826x1845], entitled 'The Morris, and all other Officers attending upon it', relating to the meeting of veteran Morris dancers at Hereford races in 1609, an event reputedly arranged by John Hoskins. The manuscript is a transcript of part of a larger work which was published as a tract, Old Meg of Herefordshire for a Mayd Marian and Hereford Towne for a Morris Daunce ... (London, 1609). Also included are two letters, 1845, from William Cooke, vicar of Banbury, to an unnamed descendant of John Hoskins at Harewood, Herefordshire, concerning 'a celebrated Morris Dance exhibited before his Sovereign by yr [sic] memorable and learned Ancestor - Mr Sergeant Hoskyns'.

Welsh Black Cattle Society Private Herd book, 1913-1920, of Owen Griffith, Tan-y-llyn, Chwilog, and afterwards of Derlwyn, Pwllheli, co. Caernarfon. Related papers, 1921, found loose inside have been tipped in at the beginning of MS 22850. With NLW MS 22850A.

Welsh Black Cattle Society Private Herd book, 1913-1920, of Owen Griffith, Tan-y-llyn, Chwilog, and afterwards of Derlwyn, Pwllheli, co. Caernarfon. Related papers, 1921, found loose inside have been tipped in at the beginning of MS 22850. With NLW MS 22851A.

Letters, 2001-2010, from Herbert Williams, writer, freelance journalist and radio producer, to the donor, mainly discussing his literary work.

Papers mainly relating to the published work of Herbert Stanley Jevons, 1895-1963, correspondence on overseas development, coal and economics, 1909-1949; correspondence on housing in Wales, 1912-1914; papers relating to Ethiopia, 1935-1955, including correspondence with Emperor Haile Selassie I, 1937-1953; letters between Herbert Stanley Jevons and John Maynard Keynes, 1930-1936.

Manuscripts and papers of the Herbert families of Cherbury, Dolguog and Powis Castle, [1550x1600]-1808, and in particular those of Edward Herbert, 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury (d.1648), including his literary, philosophical, political and personal papers. The archive also includes political, estate and personal papers of the Herbert families of Cherbury and Powis Castle, 1565-1808. Many of the letters in the 1959 deposit are calendared in W. J. Smith, Herbert correspondence: the sixteenth and seventeenth century letters of the Herberts of Chirbury, Powis Castle and Dolguog, formerly at Powis Castle in Montgomeryshire (Cardiff, 1963).

The Herbert Manuscripts belonged or relate mainly to Edward, first baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648; D.N.B., xxvi, 173), philosopher and metaphysician, and to his brothers, Sir Henry Herbert (1595-1673; D.N.B., xxvi, 195), Master of the Revels, and George Herbert (1593-1663; D.N.B., xxvi, 185), poet, and to other members of the Herbert family.