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An order book of the trustees of Caernarvonshire Turnpike Trust, 1875-1882. Inset are two undertakings, 1882, by Owen Morris, builder and contractor, Carnarvon, to erect a footbridge at Cwmyglo.

Caeronnen Unitarian Chapel accountsin the hand of Jane Jones. (Formerly W. S. Jones MS.) English. Boards. Donated by Principal W. S. Jones, M.A., MSc., Llandre, 1947.

An account book, 1840-1869, of Caeronnen Unitarian Church near Lampeter, containing particulars of payments to preachers, etc.

Two volumes of minutes, with some accounts, 1868-1903, of the committee of management of Caersws British School; and minutes, 1905-06, of the committee of management of 'Ysgol Salem', near Clatter. The latter was an independent school which was governed by a joint committee of representatives of Siloh Wesleyan Methodist Church, Clatter, Saron Calvinistic Methodist Church, Pont-dol-goch, and Seion Congregational Church, Llanwnnog. The committee first met on 22 September, 1905, and the school was recognized by the Board of Education as from 22 March, 1906.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register, 1568-1714, of Caerwent, Monmouthshire, recording baptisms, marriages and burials.

One of two volumes containing photostat facsimiles of the parish registers of Caerwys, Flintshire, 1673-1790.

One of two volumes containing photostat facsimiles of the parish registers of Caerwys, Flintshire, 1673-1790.

Thirty-five letters, 1944-1957, to the artists' model Mary Keene, comprising twenty-three from her friend Caitlin Thomas, 1945-1954 (ff. 1-30), six from the latter's sister Brigit Marnier, 1944-1949 (ff. 33-43), and six from Florence Thomas, mother of Dylan Thomas, 1954-1957 (ff. 44-53), all containing personal and family news.
Also included is a letter, 11 October 1950, to Caitlin Thomas from her domestic help, Dolly Long of Laugharne (ff. 31-32). There are numerous references to Dylan Thomas (ff. 1 verso-10 passim, 19, 20 27 verso) and his funeral (ff. 43-44) and to Caitlin (in addition to her own letters) (ff. 36 verso, 44-54 passim). There are also references to Laurie Lee (f. 16 verso), Anthony Devas (f. 23 verso), Louis MacNeice (f. 45 verso) and Daniel Jones (f. 47 verso).

Typescript calendar, [1943], of correspondence, 1623-1641, of John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, held by Lincoln Diocesan Record Office, now part of Lincolnshire Archives (ff. 1-4).
The calendar summarises the contents of twenty-three letters to Williams, 1623-1641, and five copy and draft letters by him, 1623-1631.

Copy-book of John David Griffith Howel of Abergwili, co. Carmarthen, 1741-1778, containing calligraphic exercises in the principal contemporary scripts, together with multiplication tables, rough calculations and a few jottings. Some of the exercises have been adapted from the books of English writing-masters: ff. 2 verso, 3 verso from John Davies of Hereford's The Writing Schoolemaster (London, 1636), f. 36 verso from Edward Cocker, The Clerk's Tutor for Writing (London, 1667), and f. 53 verso from ibid., The Pen's Transcendency (London, 1660).

Two addresses presented to the Reverend Rhys Morgan, as moderator of the [South Wales Calvinistic Methodist] Association, by the Llandilo Urban District Council, and by the ministers and deacons of the free churches in the town of Llandilo, welcoming the Association's conference to the town, 1911.

Account book, 1876-1929, of the Treasurer of Montgomeryshire Presbytery in respect of the Ministers' Fund of the North Wales Association of the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion.

Manuscript parts of the cantata by Dr Joseph Parry in an anonymous hand published in [1896?].

A Cambrian Archaeological Association bank pass-book for 18 July - 21 August 1901, recording the payments made through the National Provincial Bank, Newtown, Montgomeryshire in connection with the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Association, held at Newtown.

A file containing papers, 1911-1913, relating to Ernest Evans from Welshpool (b. 1897), Junior Clerk, Cambrian Railways Company, Oswestry, including his application form for the position, 1911, and examination paper, 1913.

A list of debenture holders in the Cambrian Railways Scheme, 1864-1870.

A bound volume labelled 'Eisteddfod Proceddings', compiled by William Jenkins Rees (1772-1855), rector of Cascob, Radnorshire, and consisting largely of printed notices addressed to him by Cambrian Societies in Wales and in London. The contents include a notice of an eisteddfod under the auspices of the Gwyneddigion Society at Caerwys, 1798, together with Gosodaethau a Rheolau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion and other material relating to the Society; a draft consitution of the Cambrian Society in the hand of W. J. Rees [1818]; resolutions and accounts of the Cambrian Society in Dyfed, 1818-20 and undated; programmes of concerts at the Town Hall, Carmarthen, by the Royal Bath Harmonic Society, 1819-20; a programme of an eisteddfod to be held at Carmarthen in 1823, together with manuscript addresses delivered by Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') and [Daniel Evans ('Daniel Ddu o Geredigion'); resolutions of the Cambrian Society in Gwent, 1821-2; material relating to eisteddfodau and concerts held at Brecon, 1822 and 1826; resolutions of the Cymmrodorion Society in Powys, 1819-24; announcements of eisteddfodau to be held at Wrexham, 1820, and Welshpool, 1824; a holograph letter from Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain') to W. J. Rees, 1824; records of the Welshpool eisteddfod of 1824, including adjudications by Rowland Williams [Ysceifiog] and [John Jenkins ('Ifor Ceri')], an address by ['Gwallter Mechain], and 'englynion' to Powis Castle by R. D[avies] ('Bardd Nantglyn'); resolutions and proceedings, etc. of the Cymmrodorion Society in London or the Metropolitan Cambrian Institution, 1820-8, a copy of a letter from J. Parry ('Bardd Alaw') to J. Jenkins ('Ifor Ceri'), 1820 (enclosing a letter from Wm. Owen Pughe to Mr. Parry), a copy of a letter to Sir W. W. Wynn, 1820, a holograph letter from John Parry to [W. J. Rees], 1820, a copy of the resolution of the Society admitting W. J. Rees to honourary membership, 1820, and two holograph letters from the Society to W. J. Rees, 1821-2; order of proceedings of the sixth anniversary of the Carmarthen Cymreigyddion Society, 1828; a programme of a concert held in the nave of Bangor Cathedral, principally by the Bath Harmonic Society, 1821; a programme of a concert at St. Mary's Church [Brecon], 1822; etc.

Two notebooks containing draft minutes or 'reports' by Rowland Rees of the Cambro-Briton Society, London, from 6 November, 1885, to 12 March, 1886.

Minute or 'report' book of the Cambro-Briton Society ('Cymdeithas y Brythonwys'), London, 23 January-18 December, 1885, together with an account of its foundation at meetings held on 19 and 30 December, 1884. The minutes were written by T. G. Davies and Rowland Rees, respectively the first and second secretaries of the Society.