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Records acquired by the Haswell Brothers relating mainly to its clients, 1891-1956, including the North Wales Employers' Mutual Indemnity Company, 1898-1952 (the records include a notice of accidents relating to the Gresford mining disaster); United Westminster and Wrexham Collieries Ltd., 1905-1950, and the Ruabon Coal and Coke Company, 1891-1939; the Minera Silica Quarries Ltd., 1926-1940; Messrs. Charles R. Eames Ltd., 1950-1956; William Thomas and Sons Ltd., 1924-1936; Wrexham Tenants Ltd., 1928-1931; Gresford Colliery Ltd., 1920-1924; Dennis Ruabon Ltd., 1934-1945; and Brymbo Silica Quarries Ltd., 1936-1940. Also included are the administrative papers of the firm itself, mainly registers of letters received, 1906-1919, and files of press copy outgoing letters, 1914-1919.

Estate, personal, professional and shipping records of the Havard family of Newport and Milford, both in Pembrokeshire, including the business papers, 1839-1858, of Levi Havard of Milford, shipbuilder, and the professional papers, 1867-1893, of Dr David Havard of Newport, District Medical Officer for the Cardigan Poor Law Union. Amongst the shipping records there are papers, 1833-1879, relating to the Newport schooners 'Harmony','Claudia' and 'Adroit', and the Milford brig 'Anne'.

A typescript draft of 'Have a Cigarette', an English translation by Saunders Lewis of his play 'Gymerwch Chi Sigaret? (Llandybie, 1956); the translation is apparently unperformed and unpublished.
The English translation amends the original Welsh version in some places, particularly in the second act, the most substantial emendation being an entirely new beginning to that act (ff. 18-21). There are also manuscript emendations and annotations by the author and another unidentified hand. The manuscript title-page (f. i) is in the hand of Saunders Lewis.

'Have a Cigarette?', draft manuscript translation by R. O. F. Wynne, [n.d.], of Saunders Lewis, Gymerwch Chi Sigaret? (Llandybïe, 1956).

A typescript copy of an account of the 'Awakening' in Pembrokeshire, especially in Haverfordwest, 1739-1767, compiled by Brother Nyberg; an account of religious awakenings in Pembrokeshire during the first half of the eighteenth century; an incomplete draft report of proceedings arising out of a shipping disaster at Milford; a 'pull' of a review of Henry Owen; Old Pembroke Families, 1902; a history of the Guildhall, Council Chamber, and Market at Haverfordwest; typescript extracts from Haverfordwest Town Council records, 1660-1730; copies of a minute of a meeting of the Haverfordwest Town Council, 6 December 1848, relating to Oliver Cromwell's letter and warrant for the demolition of Haverfordwest castle, correspondence relating to the same, and notes on the trusts of Haverfordwest Grammar school; notes on Haverfordwest charters; and a draft of a 'Guide to St. Davids'. The manuscripts are mainly in the hand of Thomas Lewis James.

The minute book, 1853-1877, of the committee of the Haverfordwest Baptist Academy.

Minute book, 1907-1973, of the Board of Trustees of the Haverfordwest Baptist Foundation, containing minutes of Board meetings, 1907-1913, 1926, 1929-1930, 1967-1970 (pp. 1-71).
The Foundation was established by a scheme of the Board of Education in February 1907 to administer the foundations and subsidiary endowments of the former Haverfordwest Baptist College, Pembrokeshire, and thereby provide an annual income to the North and South Wales Baptist Colleges.

Copies of deeds relating to Haverfordwest and of charters of the craft guilds of the town in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A group of manuscripts that form part of an extensive collection of Pembrokeshire documents and papers from the offices of Messrs. Williams & Williams, solicitors, Haverfordwest.

A scrapbook containing press cuttings of reports of meetings of the Haverfordwest School Board, 1871-1876. The volume was originally an arithmetic exercise book.

The collection comprises records from the office of Williams & Williams, Haverfordwest, solicitors, largely deeds and draft deeds, mostly 19th century, and many relating to the Haverfordwest area of Pembrokeshire. In the course of their work, Williams & Williams accumulated legal and other papers relating to their clients interests, including the estates of Ambleston, Begelly, Brawdy, Camrose, Court House, Cwmgloyne, Hean Castle, Hodgeston, Hook, Manorbier, Manorowen, Orielton, Pigeonsford, Somerton, Treffgarne, Ty Gwynne, Walwyns Castle, Welsh Hook, Wilsons, Wolfsdale and Yelverton. There are also documents relating to the Fishguard Harbour Improvement Company, several railway companies and a large number of probate records and marriage settlements. There are also groups of deeds and documents relating mainly to properties in Carmarthenshire, Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire. There are also documents relating to church properties, nonconformist chapels, poor rate papers, articles of apprenticeship and articles of partnership.

A minute book of the Hawarden Choral Society from its revival on 1 November, 1909, until its dissolution on 10 October, 1910; together with additional memoranda dated 11 January, [19]11. The volume is in the hand of Geo. T. Gartell.

A photostat facsimile of a minute book of the Hawarden Embankment Trust, 1753-1931.

A letter, November 1997, in Welsh, from Hazel Charles Evans, Chubut, Patagonia, to William Howells, Aberystwyth, regarding Welsh books sent to Patagonia.

Llythyr, Tachwedd 1997, oddi wrth Hazel Charles Evans, Chubut, Patagonia, at William Howells, Aberystwyth, yn diolch iddo am anfon llyfrau Cymraeg i'r Wladfa.

A farewell address, dated 15 September 1917, written by J. Edwal Williams, headmaster of Brynconin School, Llandissilio, Pembrokeshire, to pupils entering the County School at Narberth.
Williams's son, the poet Waldo Williams, was then twelve years of age and was possibly one of the pupils being addressed.

Words by Ray Howard-Jones to music by Nigel Morgan.

A copy of an essay by Dr Heather Williams entitled 'Writing to Paris: poets, nobles and savages in nineteenth-century Brittany', submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.

Heavily corrected typescript of an unpublished play by Caradoc Evans. (Formerly Caradoc Evans MS 3.) English. Unbound. Donated by Mrs M. Caradoc Evans, Penrhyncoch, 1946/1947.

A manuscript containing a Hebrew-English vocabulary and notes on Hebrew grammar written, c. 1863, by Thomas Richards Morice.