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The fonds comprises reports and planning papers, minutes, newsletters, briefs, press releases, press cuttings, correspondence, campaign posters, paste-ups, financial records, leaflets, information packs and travelling particulars relating to the Jubilee 2000 campaign in Wales, 1998-2001.

A manuscript souvenir (with illustrations and press cuttings) of the silver jubilee of the accession of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935, as celebrated in Barbados, British West Indies. The volume is in the hand of Evan Taylor, Bridgetown, Barbados.

A group of thirty documents of, or relating to, George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem, Lord Chancellor. They include acquittances and releases, 1667/8-77, for the payment of money, partly by the hand, or for the use, of Sir Robert Clayton and Mr. [John] Morris; dockets, 16886-8, from the Treasury Chambers, of the creations of titles (e.g. marquis of Powis, 1686/7), grants of offices and licences, and leases of fines in the Court of King's Bench and of the profits of the Alienation Office, with the counter-signatures of John Belasyse, baron Belasyse, Sidney Godolphin, 1st earl of Godolphin, [Sir] John Ernle, Henry Jermyn, 1st baron Dover, and [Sir] Stephen Fox; an undated petition by Leonard Bryar, gent., to Lord Jeffreys to be one of the Masters Extraordinary for taking affidavits in Chancery, together with a recommendation by Rich[ard] Allibon; recommendations [1688] by Rich. Allibon for the offices of Masters in Chancery in Stratford, Herefordshire, and near Settle, Yorkshire; case, and opinion of [Sir] J[ohn] Holt, 1686, in an action before the Lord Chancellor; and a petition [1689] by Thomas Burdet and the rest of the farmers of the markets of the city of London to Lord Jeffreys for the reimbursement by the city of losses incurred as a result of the reduction of duty payable by tanners at Leadenhall market.

A photocopy of Judith's Morgan family tree bearing the title 'Jones (Johnes) Maesybidie, Abergorlech, Carmarthenshire, Wales'.

Papers of Julian Williams, former set designer in the Design Department of BBC Wales, including scripts of plays broadcast during the 1960s, among them works by Saunders Lewis and Gwenlyn Parry. The collection includes papers, photographs, and a few books relating to the donor’s family, including his parents Thomas Basil and Rhyda Ann Williams, his great-aunt Professor Mary Williams, and her husband G. Arbour Stephens of Swansea.

An autograph letter, 1789, from Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817), painter, written from South Wales to William Anderson (1757-1837), marine painter, Southwark. The Merthyr Tydfil iron-works are mentioned in the letter.

A CD copy of the website for the 'Just Say No' Campaign, 1997, designed by Jeremy Clulow, Webs Wonder Design

Papers, 1997, relating to the 'Just Say No' 1997 devolution referendum campaign, including correspondence, strategy papers, campaign materials, and papers relating to the Charter Movement; also included in this file are further papers regarding the 'Just Say No' campaign, including material collected from the internet.

Copies of appendices and tables from K. H. Edwards's University of Wales College, Cardiff, dissertation based on the account books and diaries of William Williams (1806-1890), Brynmawr, grocer and draper; they include a schedule of leases for the Brynmawr area, 1800-1895, and other summaries based on documents in the NLW Badminton Collection.

Notebooks, 1946-1979, of Kate Davies, writer, of Pren-gwyn, Llandysul. The contents of the notebooks include reviews of her published books, lecture notes, poetry, notes on local and family history, poetry by her father Daniel Thomas, etc.

Words and music of a song entitled 'Kate O' Shane' by G. Lindsay.

A small group of letters, [1945]-1983, written by Kate Roberts and on her behalf, to Mrs Hilda Edmunds, Cardiff, who used to do cleaning work for Kate Roberts and her husband when they were living in the Rhondda.

Microfilm copies of manuscript and printed material relating to Katherine Philips ('The Matchless Orinda', 1632-64) held at the National Library of Wales, Cardiff Central Library, the University of Texas at Austin, Worcester College, Oxford, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Yale University, and Hertfordshire County Record Office; together with copies of the guide Orinda: The Literary Manuscripts of Catherine Philips (1632-1664) (Adam Matthew Publications, 1995)

The first of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 756B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall, antiquary and bookseller of King's Lynn, Norfolk. NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips, whilst NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).
The volume contains corrected fair copies of fifty-five poems, with the titles only of two others. See Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 4 vols (London, 1980-1997), II, part 2, compiled by Peter Beal (1993), pp. 128-129, and The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, ed. by Patrick Thomas, 3 vols (Stump Cross, Essex, 1990-1993), I: The Poems (1990).

The second of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 755B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall. NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand whilst NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).

A volume of transcripts of prayers, devotions, epitaphs, verses, etc. from printed and family sources by Mrs Katherine Thomas (?of Herefordshire), together with verses by her on the deaths of her children, Katherine (1665) and Dorothy (1676) and of her husband (1671) and on other occasions, also a copy of verses by Elizabeth Peirce, daughter of Dr Peirce (possibly Bishop William Peirs) of Bath.

Papers, 1929-[1987], of Kathleen Joan Smith, author, actress, playwright and former assistant governor of Holloway. In 1960 she moved to a smallholding in Clynnog Fawr from London. The papers include a typescript of her novel Twelve months, Mrs Brown: A novel of prison life [pubished in 1964] and a playscript, 1975; manuscripts of a number of plays scripted by her including 'Six days of justice', 1973, for Thames Television and 'The Brontë story', 1986; and scripts written for the series 'Within these walls' in the 1970s. Also included are programmes and posters of plays written by her and in which she appeared as an actress, together with her birth certificate, 1929, and election address as a Conservative candidate for the Caernarfon constituency in the 1970 General Election.

Kearsly's Pocket Ledger, with entries of payments possibly by a Cardigan solicitor. English. Leather. Donated by Roderick P. Waldo Lewis, Earley, October 1972.