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A letter, 29 December 1801, from William Owen [-Pughe] (1759-1835) to William Coxe (1747-1828), author of An Historical Tour through Monmouthshire ... (London, 1801), together with a note on druidism and bardism.

A short autobiography and poems in the hand of William Owen, Penywern, Borth, Cardiganshire, 1913.

Hymns written by William Owen (Gwilym Alaw o Fôn).

A printed copy of an anonymous work, entitled The Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Gardens Complete in Four Parts ... (Dublin: printed by George Faulkner, 1751) [ESTC N54118]. Extensive manuscript notes in the form of original observations and quotations, have been added, 1751-1756, by William Morris of Holyhead (inside front and rear covers, fly-leaf, pp. i-xvi, 149-156, and a few annotations in the margins of the printed book), together with an index (pp. 137-149).

A manuscript containing a sermon, 1837, in the hand of William Morris, Cilgerran.

A sermon written by William Morris, St Davids, 1823.

A typescipt volume entitled 'Poems' by William Morgan Thomas (1921-1942) and a printed collection of 'Poems' written by him and David Ian Thomas (1924-1962).

A notebook containing an unbroken record of the preaching engagements, 1870-1921, of the Reverend William Maurice (1850-1925), Baptist minister, with details of texts of sermons preached and renumeration received; autobiographical notes; and comments on his various pastorates.

An addition to the archive of the composer William Mathias (1934-92), namely Divertimento for string orchestra, op. 7. Ink full score, with ink and pencil additions. 21 January-10 February 1958. 'To Douglas Cameron'

Papers relating to the incident when SOE commando William Killick fired bullets into Majoda, New Quay, in 1945 and was later charged with, but acquitted, of the attempted murder of Dylan Thomas and friends. Also included are papers from the Foreign Office relating to William Killick and his own account of his war experiences in Greece, from where he had just returned when the shooting happened.

A volume relating to William Jones (ca. 1825-93), Clwt-y-bont, parish of Llanddeiniolen, co. Caernarfon, compiled, 1893, by his son Griffith Williams Jones (d. 1924), Lewisham, London, with an index of contents (f. 100 verso). It comprises transcripts of letters of condolence on the death of William Jones addressed to various members of the family, many of them from Calvinistic Methodist ministers, and of englynion in his memory by 'Dewi Arfon' and 'Eifionydd'; and press cuttings of obituaries. Iems, 1923-69, relating to Griffith Williams Jones and to Lewisham Welsh Presbyterian church, of which he was a founder member, have been added on ff. 91 verso-3.

A manuscript containing sermons delivered at Bridgend and Coity, 1829-1830, by William Jones, Congregational minister (1784-1847).

A collection of papers by William John Parry, C.B.E., Bethesda:- 'The public record of Alderman W. J. Parry'; 'Adgofion Taith i Dde America'; 'Hanes Symudiadau Llenyddol Bethesda a'r Cylch'; 'Tanymarian'; 'Scheme of Leasehold Enfranchisement taking the Cefnfaes Estate as a basis, 1924'; and a copy of a letter to Isaac Edwards, Merthyr, 1926.

A typescript copy (8 pp.) of 'The Public Record of Alderman W. J. Parry, C.B.E. [of Bethesda, Caernarvonshire]', signed by Wm. Jno. Parry, 25 February, 1925; and 'Hanes fy Mywyd a'm Gwaith' by W. J. Parry, the introduction ('rhagdraeth') and chapters I-XXXII (pp. 1-149) being in the form of an offprint from Y Cronicl (Conwy), 1908-10, with copious revisions in the hand of the author, and chapters XXXIII-XL (65 pp.) being the transcript copy published in Cymru, 1923. Chapters I-XXXII were also published, with omissions and revisions, in Cymru, 1912-13, and an additional chapter appeared in Cymru, 1924.

A letter, dated 7 January 1925, from Rev. William Jenkyn Jones, the Welsh missionary, from Quimper, to a 'dear friend', possibly a composer of music, in which he discusses the Temperance Hall, Ystradgynlais, and to his protestant mission to Brittany.

An account book, 1877-1891, kept by William Jenkins, bookseller and stationer, Aberystwyth.

An incomplete collection of his own poetry by William Hugh Evans (Gwilim Cleifiog) (1791-1864), 1852, under the title Blodau Cleifiog, sef Cyfansoddiadau Barddonawl William Hugh Evans (Gwilim Cleifiog).

Commonplace book, 1876-1893, of the Rev. Dr William Hopkyn Rees, a missionary in the North China, LMS, mission field, containing Welsh and English verse; sermon and other notes; quotations and maxims; and personal memoranda.

Diary of William Hibbs Bevan (c. 1788-1846) of Glannant, Crickhowell, co. Brecon, ironmaster, containing brief, intermittent entries, 1833-1846, relating to his personal and domestic affairs, business activities (cf. the NLW typescript lists of the Maybery records) and public duties, together with geological notes on the South Wales coalfield and the chemical composition of various types of British coal. Continued after his death by his wife, Margaret Ann Bevan, the entries, 1846-1872 (ff. 95v-108v), mostly recording the deaths of members of her family.

An interleaved copy of Catalogue of the Library in the Free Grammar-School at Lewisham ... by William Henry Black (d. 1872), 1831, with numerous annotations and corrections in the autograph of the compiler.