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Estate, financial, legal, personal, domestic, industrial and commercial papers of the several families who held the Plas Power estate, notably the Myddeltons, Lloyds and FitzHughs, including some papers relating to the Myddelton family of Chirk and their estates.

Microfilm copies of Plas Newydd, Llangollen, Manuscripts, namely MS 1983.154: an account book of Sarah Ponsonby, 1791-1800; and MS EY 134: two bound volumes of letters, 1811-31, from Sarah Ponsonby to Mary Parker of Sweeney Hall, Oswestry, later Lady Leighton. Also included are engravings of related portraits and landscapes, and watercolours, 1830s, by Lady Leighton of Plas Newydd, its grounds and local views.

Album bound in black leather with gold tooling and slightly damaged. Includes commercially and privately produced photographs, many of Lancaster and the north west of England. Of particular note are images of the Yarlside Iron Mines, street scenes in Preston (Lancashire), Lancaster Quay Commissioners trip 188-, River Thames after a University boat race, numerous views of Downing Hall, Flintshire and grounds, some being snowscenes.

Records of the Wynne and Edwards families of Plas Nantglyn, Denbighshire, including Welsh literary manuscripts, [17 cent.]-[18 cent.]; deeds and documents, 1527-1817; correspondence, 1827-1876; and printed items.

Records of the Welsh estates of the marquesses of Londonderry, mostly in the Machynlleth area of Montgomeryshire, 1604-1923. The records include deeds, 1603-1849, rentals, 1848-1921, cash books, 1869-1917, and building and improvement ledgers, 1904-1913; records of the Van Mines, 1869-1914, including inspectors' report books, 1882-1914, letter books, 1869-1909, and pay books, 1866-1902; records of the Llanidloes Mining & Machinery Company, 1889-1920, including inspectors' report books, 1889-1916, letter books, 1908-1915, and lead ore weighing books, 1907-1920; records of the Welsh Van Mining Company, 1907-1920; and records of the Nantiago Mines Ltd, 1901-1923.

An abstract of title deed, dated 1951, of Sir Charles Stewart Henry Vane Tempest Stewart., seventh marquess of Londonderry, deceased, to freehold hereditaments and premises forming part of the Machynlleth estate in the counties of Merioneth and Montgomery. Includes a printed plan of this estate, 1930.

Deeds and legal papers relating to the Crosswood estate, Cardiganshire, 1631, 1705-1820, and to the Plas Llangoedmor estate, 1808-1898, mainly in Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire.

Family and estate papers of the Heaton family of Plas Heaton, comprising mainly of deeds, 1381-1908, relating to estates in Denbighshire, Flintshire, Norfolk and the city of Chester.

Estate and family papers of Panton of Bagillt, Flintshire, and Plas Gwyn, Anglesey comprising deeds of the estate in North Wales, 1507-1844; Panton family correspondence, notably that of Paul Panton and Paul Panton junior, 1752-1847; and papers of John Jones (1650-1727), dean of Bangor, including records relating to the diocese of Bangor, and antiquarian correspondence.

A volume, [late 18 cent.]-[1840s], containing pedigrees, in several hands, mostly of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families. The earlier portions, [late 18 cent.] (pp. 37-140), were copied mostly from Llyfr Melyn Tyfrydog (now NLW MS 23969F); later additions, [?1820s] (pp. 5, 151-283), are derived from the Taicroesion Manuscript (now NLW MS 19058E and Bangor MS 13564) or from intermediate copies.
A note by Jonathan Jones of Caernarfon in NLW MS 825D (inside front cover), dated 1855, describes the present volume as having been copied 'about 60 years ago from Llyfr Melyn Tyfrydog' by Robert Jones, for John Price (d. 1804) of Mona Lodge, Amlwch, with the pedigrees being continued by Price's son, John Price of Cadnant. The volume also includes descriptions of the Five Royal Tribes of Wales and the Fifteen Tribes of Gwynedd, partly in Welsh (pp. 137-150), and various antiquarian notes and statistics [in the hand of John Price of Cadnant] (pp. 290-355), including lists of Anglesey Sheriffs to 1843 (pp. 309-323), and transcripts relating to Amlwch parish church (pp. 341-347). Items loose within the volume, including a pedigree of the Bulkely family in the hand of John Price (watermark 1825), and a newspaper cutting, [1881], listing Caernarvonshire landowners, have been placed in an archival envelope. The contents of the manuscript are listed on pp. i-iv, 1-2.

Correspondence, 1732-[1820], of the Williams and Ellis family; and deeds and documents, 1611-1838, relating to properties mainly in Merionethshire and Caernarfonshire, together with genealogical material and a brief history of Plas Brondanw.

Plans, specifications, and bills of deductions and additions, relating to houses and shops to be built at Station Crescent, Llandrindod Wells, for Mr. Coates. A plan of a proposed tramway to Cambergi slate quarry, Aberllefenni, a farm plan of the Dolarddyn estate copied from the tithe apportionment map, parish of Castell Caereinion, 1839, together with details from the apportionment schedule, and two draft plans for the catalogue of sale of the Cyfronnydd estate, 1927, have been transferred to the Department of Prints, Drawings and Maps (PE 2179-81.).

A blue-print plan of the vicarage at Pentrefelin drawn by the late Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, February 1912 (completed 1913); plans for a dual purpose church and church hall at Pentrefelin by Clough Williams-Ellis, with specifications, building contract, correspondence including letters from the architect, bills, etc., 1930s; and drawings, specifications, and a letter from Harold Hughes, Diocesan Office, Bangor [author of Old Churches of Snowdonia, etc.], relating to proposals for a new western doorway and repairs to windows at Ynyscynhaearn Church, 1934-1935.

Papers relating to the magazine Planet, including printers' copies for numbers 1-36 of Planet, 1970-1977, including typescripts of articles, artwork and proofs; manuscripts, 1971-1977, submitted to John Tripp as literary editor, with related correspondence; correspondence, 1970-1975, to the editors, Ned Thomas and Sarah Erskine; letters, 1972-1979, received by John Tripp in his capacity as literary editor; and records of subscriptions, 1971-1974. The papers include manuscripts and letters from many important Welsh and Anglo-Welsh writers.

Additional papers, 1978-2006 (mainly 1985-2006), mostly consisting of correspondence addressed to the editor John Barnie; these remain uncatalogued.

Papers of John Barnie, including correspondence from various poets and literary figures from Wales and other countries, and his own literary and personal papers.

Copies of the newsletter of Plaid Cymru Cangen Llundain, 1987-2003, variously titled 'Update', 'Triban Tafwys' and more recently, 'Y Ddolen'.

Constitution and rules of the Hydro Group and minutes of meetings, 1983-1986; correspondence, 1983-1986; copies of Tonnau/Waves, 1984-1986; study reports and questionnaires, 1983-1984.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register of Pitchford, Salop, 1543- 1581.

Family and estate papers of the family of Ottley of Pitchford Hall, Shropshire, of Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851), and later of the Cotes family, including extensive correspondence, 1684-c.1793, mostly centered on Adam Ottley (1653-1723), bishop of St Davids, and Adam Ottley (1685-1752), registrar of St Davids, including a series of letters from Browne Willis (1682-1760), 1716-1723, and some civil war correspondence and literary papers, 16 cent.-18 cent; estate papers, mainly deeds relating to Pitchford Hall, Salop, mainly in the areas of Bridgnorth and Pitchford, with some lands in adjoining counties, c. 1150-1820; including almost a thousand medieval deeds.
The group also includes a pedigree of the Ottley family, Pitchford ([16 cent.]-1744).

Pioneers of Patagonia: chapters I - XIIIa by W. Casnodyn Rhys. (Formerly W. Casnodyn Rhys MS 2.) English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs Jessie M. Rhys, Swansea, June 1944.