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Account book, 1895-1905, of Y Graig Unitarian church, Trebanos, co. Glamorgan, containing a list of members and their contributions and recording sundry receipts and payments.

Notes, 1923, in Welsh, by E. Thomas, on the history of Dock Chapel, the Congregational church at New Dock, Llanelli, co. Carmarthen, 1855-1923.

Account book of Wern Welsh Congregational church, Ystalyfera, co. Glamorgan, containing general accounts and miscellaneous memoranda, 1894-1911.

Pew rent account book, 1896-ca. 1914, of Gwaunysgor Wesleyan Methodist church, co. Flint.

A typescript copy of a register of the Particular Baptist Church of Capel-y-ffin, parish of Llanigon, Brecknockshire, and of Tabernacle, Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire, and its other branches, covering, with many interruptions, the period 1737-1921. It contains records of births, baptisms, deaths, and dismissals of church members; accounts of the opening of new chapels at Llanvihangel Crucorney, 1837, and at Foothog in the parish of Cwmyoy, 1838, and of a room at 'the Henllan' in Cwmyoy, 1839, and of Jubilee meetings at Capel-y-ffin and Tabernacle, Cwmyoy, 1842; accounts of the ordination of ministers; registers of members; financial accounts; etc.

A journal of a tour made through parts of England and Wales, 1827, by Captain Lloyd.

Papers of and relating to Captain Rowland Humphreys, 1915-2005, master of the SS Saxon, who was imprisoned for four years at the Ruhleben prisoner of war camp, near Berlin, Germany, during the First World War. He was the father of Mrs Myfanwy Morris, the donor. The papers include publications relating to the Ruhleben camp, 1915-1917, including a prospectus for the camp school, 1917, with a Welsh course being offered and a membership card of the school; a photocopy of his discharge certificate, 1918; notes by the donor on the prisoners, and her talk 'The internment of Capt. Rowland Humphreys 1914-18', Porthmadog, 1992. Papers, 1915-1918, relating to the teaching of Welsh at Ruhleben internment camp are in NLW ex 2803.

English. Between boards. Donated by Dr John Thomas, M.A., F.R.S.A., Didsbury, May 1972.

A card which was originally designed as a Christmas card by the artist David Jones (1895-1974) for Faber and Faber, London, showing a figure playing the viol, 1961, but sent to Marged and Elwyn Evans, parents of the donor Sara Dobson, 16 May 1962.

Records of the Cardiff Bay Opera House Trust (and its predecessor Opera House Steering Committee), mainly committee and publicity material, 1991-1997; papers relating to the architects competition, 1994-1996; proposed Opera House building design and surveyors' correspondence, 1994-1995; administrative correspondence, 1994-1996; funding applications, 1995-1996; financial papers, 1993-1995; and public relations (press cuttings), 1994-1996.

Cardiff land tax assessments, etcand the 1851 census for Roath (typescript copies). English. Between boards. Donated by C. V. Appleton, Cardiff, 1950.

Microfilm copies, produced between 1980 and 1984, of the bulk of manuscripts held at Cardiff Central Library, commonly referred to as the 'Cardiff MSS'. The manuscripts are wide-ranging in date and content, from the 12th century manuscript 'Vita Sancti Winwaloi; Vitae Sanctorum', to twentieth-century diaries, letters, minute books and scrapbooks. The Cardiff MSS include one of the oldest and most important of Welsh manuscripts, namely the 13th century Book of Aneirin ('Llyfr Aneirin') containing eulogies for soldiers of the Gododdin tribe who died in a battle at Catterick, Yorkshire, around the year 600. Notable collections are included, such as the Tonn, Havod, Cadrawd, Scott, Bradley and Wooding groups of manuscripts, as well as a large number of individual items of literary, religious, philological, topographical, local, and genealogical interest. Manuscripts described by Gwenogvryn Evans in Reports on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language (Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts , London, 1898-1910), ii, pp. 91-345, 783-93 (with designated RMWL reference numbers), together with those manuscripts described by N. R. Ker in Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries (Oxford, 1969-2002) (with designated MMBL reference numbers), are included, although catalogue entries do not usually contain descriptions of their content.

A typescript volume containing transcripts of talks and speeches in debates, 1898-9, given by members of the Cardiff Pickwick Club, compiled by the secretary, Charles Winn Jones (d. 1952). A brief history of the Club since its formation in 1898 is included on ff. 191-6.

Copies of the reports, printed and manuscript, of the Auxiliary Bible Society for the Town of Cardigan, South Cardiganshire, and the Vicinity, 1814-1820.

A register of books belonging to the library founded by the Associates of the late Reverend Dr Bray at Cardigan, co. Cardigan, in 1765 and augmented in 1823, 1872, 1889 and 1896, together with a record of borrowers, 1872-1915. Rules for the preservation of Dr. Bray's Lending Libraries pasted inside front cover.

A poor rate assessment book for the borough of Cardigan, 1867.

Deeds relating mainly to Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire, 1782-1951, including deeds of the Johnes family of Hafod, Cardiganshire, and rentals of manors in Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire, [c. 1891]-1925, including the manor of Tal-sarn and Silian, [c. 1891]-1916.

Records and court rolls, 1832-1936, mainly relating to the manors of Anhuniog, Creuddyn, Cyfoethbrenin, Mebwynion, Mefenydd, Perfedd, Tal-y-sarn and Silian, in Cardiganshire, 1874-1936, and the manors of Caeo, Catheiniog, Glyncothi and Bwlchcymbyd, Mabelfyw, Mabedrud, Maenordeilo, Mallaen, Pennant Forest and Talley, in Carmarthenshire, 1883-1934; copies of surveys of Talley, 1832; and miscellaneous documents, 1842-1858.