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The first of three volumes (see also NLW MSS 23702-3D) of typescript and manuscript accounts by women from Wales of their experiences in the Second World War, selections from which were published in Parachutes and Petticoats: Welsh Women Writing on the Second World War, ed. by Leigh Verrill-Rhys and Deirdre Beddoe (Dinas Powys, 1992). The material was submitted in response to an appeal in 1991 by the publishers, Honno. A copy of the complete archive has been donated to the Imperial War Museum, London.

The second and third of three volumes (see also NLW MS 23701E) of typescript and manuscript accounts by women from Wales of their experiences in the Second World War, selections from which were published in Parachutes and Petticoats: Welsh Women Writing on the Second World War, ed. by Leigh Verrill-Rhys and Deirdre Beddoe (Dinas Powys, 1992). The material was submitted in response to an appeal in 1991 by the publishers, Honno. NLW MS 23073D comprises contributions not represented in the published volume; the reminiscences of Hilda H. Price (ff. 232-241) were published in Llafur, 6 (1992), 110-113. A copy of the complete archive has been donated to the Imperial War Museum, London.

A copy of Dr Emyr Wyn Jones's work 'Winifred Coombe Tennant a'r Eisteddfod' to be published in Y Traethodydd, based mainly on the letters of Winifred Coombe Tennant ('Mam o Nedd', 1874-1956) to Beriah Gwynfe Evans (1848-1927) (now NLW MS 23644C).

Copi o waith Dr Emyr Wyn Jones 'Winifred Coombe Tennant a'r Eisteddfod' i'w gyhoeddi yn Y Traethodydd, yn seiliedig yn bennaf ar lythyrau Winifred Coombe Tennant ('Mam o Nedd', 1874-1956) at Beriah Gwynfe Evans (1848-1927) (yn awr NLW MS 23644C).

Abstracts prepared for Robert Owen, Croesor, of wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, including those of Richard Whitford, priest, 14 February, 1510/11, and Rees Vaughan ap William of Corsygedol, parish of Llanthoywey, deanery of Arddudwy, 8 August, 1580; similar abstracts of proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber relating to the counties of Caernarvon and Denbigh, temp. Elizabeth-James I; and a list by Robert Owen of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century probate records, in the diocesan registries of Bangor and St. Asaph, of persons in Llandderfel, Corwen, Llandrillo in Edernion, Gwythelwern, Llansanffraid [Glyndyfrdwy], and Llangar, Merioneth.

A typescript copy of the probate of the will of Rees Lewis of the parish of Killycwm, Carmarthenshire, yeoman (father of Morgan Rhys, Llanfynydd, hymnist), 10 September, 1779 (will dated 26 June, 1768); and two typescript copies of the probate of the will of Morgan Rhys of the parish of Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, yeoman, 7 August, 1779 (will dated 2 August, 1779), together with a photograph of a section of the original will comprising testator's signature and seal.

Original musical manuscript, [c. 1930], of a song, 'Willow Pattern Plate', composed by, and in the hand of, Ivor Novello, and apparently unpublished.
The manuscript contains both the apparent vocal line and piano part in ink but no lyrics; there are a few non-autograph pencil annotations.

Willis' Survey of St Asaph ..., by Edward Edwards, with extensive manuscript notes and insets by Canon Henry Parry, vicar of Llanasa (d. 1854). (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 48.) English. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Four volumes of press cuttings and other papers, 1725-1889, one bearing the title 'Records of Events in North Wales and on The Borders'; and the others relating mainly to the Williams-Wynn family of Wynnstay, the Wynne family of Peniarth, and to politics, mainly in Merionethshire, including election addresses and other political ephemera

A collection of papers, 1797-1924, relating to Mary Williams of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, the Bettiss family of Caernarfon and the Williams and Churchill families of Caernarfon, brought together by the dealer and collector Edward Hall, Surbiton.
Also included are notes on the contents of the manuscript, compiled at NLW, [?1958] (ff. 1-2), and notes by Edward Hall appended to individual items (27 ff., not foliated).

A printed copy of Gudmundur Andrésson, Lexicon Islandicum sive Gothicae runae vel linguae septentrionalis dictionarium ... (Copenhagen: Christian Wering for Christian Gerhard, 1683) [BL STC Scandinavian G385]. The volume was presented, [1702x1704], by James Vernon the younger (1677-1756), (British envoy to Denmark from 1702 to 1707), to the linguist William Wotton (see Wotton's inscription on front pastedown). Wotton subsequently annotated the volume with copious notes comparing Icelandic to English and Anglo-Saxon, whilst working on his groundbreaking research on an Indo-European proto-language. That work was poorly published in Latin as 'Dissertatio de confusione linguarum Babylonica', in John Chamberlayne's Oratio dominica (Amsterdam, 1715), without the author's knowledge. An English version was published posthumously as A discourse concerning the confusion of languages at Babel (London, 1730) [ESTC T83574].

Two letters, 1833 and 1835, from William Wordsworth to Robert Jones, Plas-yn-llan, Llangynhafal.

A short sketch by J. Lloyd Edwards, Cheam, of the biography of William Williams, Glanpwllafon near Cardigan, Baptist minister.

'William Williams his Singing Book 1774 ...', being a copy of The Gamut, or Scale of Music, Very necessary to be learnt by Those, who would attain to the delightful Knowledge of Psalmody, to which psalms and anthems have been added in manuscript.

A diary, 1722, of William Trench, founder of the Skerries lighthouse.

A scrapbook of material relating to William Thomas ('Islwyn'), including press cuttings, etc., in connection with negotiations for the purchase and restoration of his birthplace at Tŷ'r Agent, Ynys-ddu, 1925-1926, and press cuttings, correspondence (addressed to A. W. Games, Cwmfelin-fach), printed matter, photographs, labels attached to relics and personalia, and a balance sheet, in connection with centenary celebration meetings held in 1932 at Cwmfelin-fach and Ynys-ddu. The correspondents include Timothy Rees, bishop of Llandaff, Joseph Bradney, Saunders Lewis, Ifan ab Owen Edwards and John Kyrle Fletcher.

Letters, 1863-1877, written by William Thomas (Islwyn) (1832-1878).

Papers collated by William Scott Owen as agent of the Leighton and Brynllywarch Estates, Montgomeryshire, including farm reports, letters and other papers, 1914-1920. For biography of William Scott Owen see Rachel Jones, 'The Leighton and Brynllywarch estates : William Scott Owen's records', Montgomeryshire collections, vol. 98 (2010).

One of two volumes containing press cuttings relating to the life and work of William Paton Ker (1855-1923), Professor of Poetry at Oxford and previously Professor of English Literature at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and at University College, London, together with reviews of his last work, The Art of Poetry. Seven Lectures 1920-1922 (Oxford, 1923), and of Collected Essays of W. P. Ker (London, 1925).

One of two volumes containing press cuttings relating to the life and work of William Paton Ker (1855-1923), Professor of Poetry at Oxford and previously Professor of English Literature at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and at University College, London, together with reviews of his last work, The Art of Poetry. Seven Lectures 1920-1922 (Oxford, 1923), and of Collected Essays of W. P. Ker (London, 1925).

A catalogue of English, Welsh and foreign books offered for sale in 1892 by William Pamplin (1806-1899), botanist, etc., Llandderfel, Merioneth.