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Wages and account book of John James, grandfather of David James, mainly in respect of building work undertaken in Tal-y-bont, co Card., 1906-7, with mention of various properties including the Independent chapel; and a list of donations towards the Memorial Hall, Tal-y-bont, 1920.

Wages account book of the schooner Catherine of New Quay. English. Between boards. Donated by Mr T. Brisbane Jones, New Quay, February 1965.

A manuscript entitled An account of the Grammatical and other peculiarities in the Welsh Dialect prevailing in the district about Brynamman, written by W. Watkins, 1882.

An interleaved copy of W. R. Williams, The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales..., 1541-1895 (Brecknock, 1895) with copious manuscript additions and corrections in the hand of the author, [c. 1912], in preparation for a projected second edition.
Deletions and minor corrections were generally made directly to the original text with more substantial changes supplied on the interleaves opposite. Among the main additions are details of elections, 1895-1910. There are a few further additions to the List of Subscribers (pp. 213-218) up to about 1919. Three items found in the volume have been loosely inserted opposite pp. 77 and 78.

The reminiscences of William Robert Hall (1849-1937), written in forty exercise books and published serially in The Cambrian News, 1920-1921.

A notebook containing notes on the history and practice of the Courts of Great Sessions in Wales accumulated by W. Llewelyn Williams, K.C., M.P. (1867-1922) (see Y Cymmrodor, XVI, pp. 1-87). Many of the extracts are taken from the Llwynwormwood MS, i.e. NLW MS 4492D.

An interleaved copy of William Latham Bevan's Diocesan Histories. St David's (London, 1888) with extensive additional notes and annotations by the author.

Lists of eminent Welshmen, including many who were bishops or who held other ecclesiastical offices, and minutes of the Tregaron (St Caron) church council, 1900-1901, both in the hand of W. J. Waterhouse.

A copy of a typescript work entitled 'Agricultural History of Shropshire' by W. J. Slack (d. 1954), brought together in the form of a volume by Frances M. Wright in 1995.

Papers relating to the poet and author W. H. Davies (1871-1940), including press cuttings, 1930-90 and undated, some concerning the unveiling, in 1990, of a statue in Newport to honour him; photocopies of the wedding certificate of his parents, 1864, his mother's second and third marriages, 1875 and 1891, and her death certificate, 1922; menu, 1930, of a luncheon held at the Westgate Hotel, Newport, in his honour, with his signature; invitations, 1938, to the unveiling of a commemorative plaque to him and to luncheon (the menu bears the signature of W. H. Davies and John Masefield); programmes, 1971, of events to celebrate the centenary of his birth; a poem 'Tribute' to W. H. Davies' by Alison J. Bielski, and poems by children from Newport commemorating the centenary and a first day cover; together with photocopies of photographs.

Letters and other papers of, or relating to, W. H. Davies, 1908-1960, accumulated by his biographer Lawrence Hockey of Newport.
The collection includes twenty-six letters and postcards from W. H. Davies to his literary agent C. F. Cazenove, concerning his literary activities, 1908-1910 (ff. 1, 3-29), and six, mainly personal, letters from Davies to Lawrence Hockey, 1930-1938 (ff. 30-35), as well as letters to Hockey, mainly concerning Davies, from Augustus John, 1941, 1942 (ff. 36-37), Bertram Rota, 22 October 1947 (ff. 38-39), Louis Blake Duff, 1 January 1949 (ff. 40-43), John Gawsworth, 1949 (ff. 44-45), and Huw Menai, 10 February 1955 (f. 51), and a letter from C[harlotte] F[rances] Shaw (wife of G. B. Shaw) to Cazenove, 1 August 1908 (f. 2). Also included are miscellaneous papers relating to W. H. Davies, including typescript copies for publication of three poems, 'The White Horse', [1927] (published in The London Mercury, 15 (1926-27), 344) and 'The Little Devil', [1930], and 'Love Lights his Fire', [1930] (both published in The London Mercury, 23 (1930-31), 105) (ff. 52-54); a photostat copy, [1946], of his will (f. 56); three photographs (ff. 57-59); and newspaper cuttings, [?1930s] (f. 60), 1960 (ff. 62-63); as well as an unpublished letter, 1 February 1955, from Hockey to the Western Mail, in defence of Huw Menai and criticising Dylan Thomas (ff. 47-50).

W. H. Davies: Forty New Poems, with autograph postcard. English. Cloth. Donated by the Misses A. N. & M. G. Lloyd Thomas, Llanarth, August 1955.

W. H. Davies: Autobiography of a Super Tramp, with autograph letters. English. Cloth. Donated by the Misses A. N. & M. G. Lloyd Thomas, Llanarth, August 1955.

A piece entitled A Selection from the Book of Revelation, set to music, 1913, by William Edmund Stevenson, organist of Stow-on-the-Wold (1920).

A memoir of John Hancock (1896-1918), artist, by W. Dyfed Parry.