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A copy of a study by Niall MacKenzie entitled 'Dougal MacCullony, I am glad to see thee!': Gaelic Etymology, Jacobite Culture, and 'Exodus Politics'', printed in Scottish Studies Review, 2.2 (Autumn 2001), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.

A copy of a study 'The place name element 'tref', its context and development in Cumbric Scotland and the wider Brittonic world, and implications for the Cumbric language', by Davyth Hicks, submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998.

A copy of a study by Caroline Stevens entitled 'A Culture of Control: Women, National Costume and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Wales', submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.

A copy of a study by Dr C. Stephen Briggs entitled 'Ancient Mines in Britain and Ireland: Celtic Contacts or Historic Technologies? A proposal for firmer chronologies', submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, May 2003.

Studies in the history and administration of the German church 1225-1275 by Frank Robert Lewis (typescript). English. Donated by F. R. Lewis, Aberystwyth, January 1940.

Studies in the diction of Layamon's Brut, &c., by Henry Cecil Wyld. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 9.) English. Boards. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Eight diaries, 1873-1880, kept by Stuart Rendel, later Lord Rendel (1834-1913), recording details of domestic and family life, together with references to the business relationship of the Rendel family with Sir William Armstrong of Newcastle and his family, particularly in engineering and arms manufacture. There are many references to work undertaken for the Elswick Ordnance Company. The diary for 1880 refers to Stuart Rendel's early activities at the House of Commons as the MP for Montgomeryshire.

Letter-book of N. W. Adams, agent to the Stradey estate, Llanelli, co. Carmarthen, and the Romilly estate, Barry, co. Glamorgan, the Stradey correspondence relating to the period January 1880-June 1883, and the Romilly letters to August-December 1895. Subjects include the felling and sale of timber, mainly to local collieries, the sale and shooting of game, the purchase of shrubs, and estate rents. Also included is a detailed statement of food supplied for Stradey poultry in 1879 (f. 7).

A manuscript containing transcripts of three stories concerning Pilate (from Llyfr Antwn o Went), Suddas (i.e. Judas Iscariot) and Joseph of Arimathea and Sidonia; recipes and notes by Evan Thomas (d. 1781), Cwmhwylfod, near Bala.

Storïau byrion gan Richard Hughes Williams ('Dic Tryfan') (bu f. 1919) (torion papur newydd). Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan Mr Francis Wynn Jones, Aberystwyth, Mawrth 1964.

A scrap-book containing material collected by Eleanor Lloyd, part author of a Book of Sundials, towards a book on Stone Crosses, including notes, sketches, photographs, and printed matter.

Stewards' visiting and report book of sick members of the Llannerch-y-medd Druidical Friendly Society. English. Donated by Mr John Hywel Jones, Printing Office, Llannerch-y-medd, November 1978.

Nine volumes relating to members of the Stepney-Gulston family of Derwydd, Llandeilo, co. Carmarthen, and elsewhere, including an account book, 1894-6, diaries, 1906-7 and 1957-61, and notes and extracts, 1902-3, by Agneta Justina Stepney-Gulston (1882-1996).

Letters and papers, 1894-1898, relating to plans for the restoration and repair of Rhayader Church by Stephen W. Williams, architect and surveyor of Rhayader.

A collection comprising mainly of genealogical material (which includes notes on the Stedman family), also: a calendar of Carmarthenshire sheriffs and other officials, 1400-1818; correspondence; copies of printed material; an account book, 1861; historical notes; a transcript of material dated 1681.

Statutes, etc of Jesus College, Oxford in the hand of Iltyd Nicholl (1743-1787). (Formerly Llanmaes MS 84.) English. Vellum. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.

A photostat facsimile of Hampton L. Carson MS. 19 in the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A., being an imperfect fifteenth century manuscript containing extracts from the Record of Caernarvon (extracts from, and summaries of the provisions of, the Statute of Rhuddlan, 1284, and subsequent statutes of Wales, and an abstract of common petitions, and replies thereto, exhibited at the council of the Prince [of Wales, at Kennington, 1305]), pleas before Hugh de Audely, Justice of North Wales, at Caernarvon, 1307/8, etc.