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Scripts, letters and photographs, 1974-1975, relating to the production of 'Augustus and Gwen: The Fire and the Fountain', a television documentary film about Augustus John and Gwen John, written by Eric Rowan and first transmitted, 19 March 1975, on BBC2.
The papers comprise a location list, [1974] (ff. 1-3), dubbing script, 25 February 1975 (ff. 4-31), and post-shoot script, [January 1975] (ff. 32-63); letters to Eric Rowan from Michael Holroyd, 1974 (ff. 64-66), Caspar John, [5] August 1974 (f. 67, postcard), Edwin John, 1974-1975 (ff. 68-70, 73), Poppet Pol, 4 October 1974 (f. 75), Romilly John, 1974-1975 (ff. 76-77 verso), and Mary Taubman, 9 October 1974 (ff. 78-79, incomplete); draft and copy letters of Eric Rowan to Edwin John, [December 1974], 19 February 1975 (ff. 71-72, 74); and five photographs taken during the filming in Provence of Poppet Pol's contribution, [Summer 1974] (ff. 80-84).

The Family of Morris of Llanstephan ... and the Carmarthen Bank (typescript) by H[erbert] M[illingchamp] Vaughan. English. Bound at NLW, December 1942.

A volume containing copies of The Book of Common Prayer ... Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David ... (Oxford, 1786), The Holy Bible ... (Oxford, 1794), and The Whole Book of Psalms collected into English Metre ... (Oxford, 1787), with manuscript biographical entries relating to members of the Frere family, of which Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, first baronet (D.N.B. xx, 257), who was christened at Llanelly, Brecknockshire, was a member.

Typescript, [1915x1917], of 'The Fallacies of Economic Militarism' by William Archer, a critique of Roland G. Usher, Pan-Americanism: A Forecast of the Inevitable Clash between the United States and Europe's Victor (New York, 1915).
A leaf entitled 'Suggestions for Preface' is loose in the volume (f. ii). There are a few minor pencil and ink corrections and deletions; a new typed section has been pasted in on f. 6. The essay evidently relates to Archer's work with the War Propaganda Bureau but is apparently unpublished.

The Etymology and Early History of Caerphilly by Evan Evans. English. Donated by the Reverend Prebendary S. H. Martin, May 1951.

Papers, 1841-1842, relating to the estate of William Dodsworth of Cardiff, engineer, a bankrupt.

An account book (1669-1740) containing entries by George Powell, of Greenhill, relating to the rents of the estate of Major-General Laugharne (D.N.B. xxxii, 203) due to Sir Robert Clayton, accounts for iron and agricultural commodities, accounts of Richard Powell, memoranda touching agriculture at Upton and Carew, Pembrokeshire and accounts of J. Bowen and of the guardian of Rees Bowen.

'Maxims on the political, social, and domestic economy of the English country gentleman in his public and individual capacity', written in 1823 by Thomas Netherton Parker, Sweeney [Hall, near Oswestry]'.

A manuscript entitled Particulars of Estates in the Counties of Glamorgan, Warwick, Gloucester, Oxford, Middlesex and Kent to which The Right Honorable The Earl of Jersey became entitled at the death of the late Dowager Countess of Jersey on the 26th day of January 1867.

A set of bound volumes of the journal produced by the Ancient Order of Druids, a charitable society, extensively annotated.

Typescript copy of 'The "Dolwyddelen" Family', compiled by R. E. Jones, Wabasha, Minnesota, 1937, being a history of the Jones family of Tanycastell, Dolwyddelan, Caernarfonshire, intended as an introduction to the "Family Wheel" by Edward L. Williams, Wisconsin (now NLW Rolls 73), together with a copy of the Tanycastell pedigree (ff. 13-14), and related typescript notes and verses, 1936, by R. E. Jones (f. 1).

The pedigree of the Lloyd family of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries, compiled by Charles Lloyd, November 1753.

A copy of the family history of the Roberts family of Dôl Llech, Capel Curig, being the research undertaken by A. E. Naylor (Eddy), November 2002, and revised January 2004.

A vellum manuscript with illuminated capitals comprising an incomplete transcript of the 'Divinae Institutiones' of Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius.

A transcript by Thomas Charles Townsend, Prestatyn, Flintshire, dated 1 August 1943, of the Order in Council of 1860 creating the ecclesiastical parish of Prestatyn (formally 'The District of Prestatyn', p. 3) from parts of the parishes of Meliden and Llanasa.
Included as part of the text are schedules describing the boundaries of the new district (pp. 6-8) and listing landowners and occupiers, with details of rent charges due, within the townships of Prestatyn and Meliden (pp. 8-11).

A letter from Thomas Ellis, Holyhead (1711/12-1792) concerning the distribution of Welsh Bibles, etc in Anglesey. English.

Typescript transcript by Robert Humphries of the diary of William Herbert, a Welsh emigrant to Ohio, which he kept while on a visit to the Rhondda Valleys and the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, 1886-8. The original Welsh transcription is side by side with the English translation by Robert Humphries. William Herbert was born in Colwinston, Glamorgan, and began working as a coal miner as a young boy. The foreword and genealogical notes are by Catherine Reuther, Spring Green, Wisconsin, great-great granddaughter of the diarist, 2014.