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An illuminated genealogical and heraldic chart compiled in 1866 by Albany Wallace of Worthing, co. Sussex, formerly of Bayswater, co. Middlesex, showing the descent of the Rhys family of Cuffern and Scotsborough, co. Pembroke, who later took the surname Stokes, from Rhys ap Tewdwr, king of Deheubarth, through the families of Warren of Trewarren, Wogan of Wiston, co. Pembroke, and Clement of Caron and Genau'r Glyn, co. Cardigan. The genealogical details, enclosed in decorative cartouches, and the accompanying painted coats of arms are on paper, cut out and pasted on a cardboard base.

Rhys Evans's research papers, 2005, on various topics such as establishing S4C, burning holiday homes, the miners' strike and the Welsh Language Society. The papers were collated by the donor in his position as Political Correspondent for BBC Wales.

Papers of the Rhys Davies Trust (est. 1991), relating mainly to the administration of the Trust and the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Included are five files of papers relating to the Trust’s financial matters, consisting of valuation reports (2014-2019), account, tax, and investment statements together with related correspondence (2008-2014), and a number of cash and cheque books (2008-2018); five files of Trust administrative documents and correspondence (2008-2020), including papers relating to meeting minutes, accounts, publishing matters, website design, royalties (both of the works of Rhys Davies and of Anna Kavan), funding applications, and the Rhys Davies Short Story competition. Correspondents include Meic Stephens, Peter Finch, and M. Wynn Thomas.

Seven further files contain papers (1895-2012) relating to the life and works of Rhys Davies (1901-1978), apparently collected during research for the biography ‘Rhys Davies: a writer’s life’ (Cardigan: Parthian, 2013) by Meic Stephens, secretary of the Trust 1991-2012. The papers consist of correspondence ([1920s]-2012), including letters from Rhys Davies, Lewis Davies, Louis Quinain, Meic Stephens, Fred Blackmore, David Ellis, John Harris, and Gwyn Pritchard; and photographs (1918-1990), mainly of Rhys Davies and friends and family, including Lewis Davies, Gertrude (‘Gertie’) Davies, Anna Kavan, Fred Urquhart, Louise Callender, Colyn Davies, Nina Hamnett, Esther & Charles Lahr, Raymond B. Marriott, Louis Taylor, and Philip Burton; together with notes and cuttings.

Additionally, the archive contains three files of press cuttings and copies of articles (1929-[1987]), collected and written either by or about Rhys Davies, including articles from Keidrych Rhys’s ‘Wales’, and ‘Anglo-Welsh Review’; several items of memorabilia, comprising Rhys Davies’s passport (stamped 1968-1978), OBE medal (awarded 1968), a decorative glass plaque with lettering ’RHYS’ (undated), an ‘MD Magazine’ 10th anniversary medal (1967), and a small box of rosary beads; and nine printed books, consisting of Rhys Davies’ works ‘Marianne’ (London: 1951, signed by author), ‘A Time to Laugh’ (two copies, 1937 & 1938, both with note & signature of Davies), 'Selected Stories' (London/Dublin: [1945], with slip dated 1945), and 'Boy With a Trumpet' (London: 1949, with undated press cutting); together with ‘The Last Sister’ by Fred Urquhart (London: 1950, with note by author), ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ (with slip dated 1945), and translations of Anna Kavan's works ‘L’adversaire Céleste’ (Paris: 1947, with a sketch dated 1951) and ‘Mercury’ (Valencia: 2006, with a letter to the Rhys Davies Trust).

Literary and personal papers of Rhys Davies, 1901-1979, comprising manuscript drafts and typescript copies, mainly of short stories and plays, together with drafts and a manuscript text of his last novel Ram with Red Horns (Bridgend, 1996), set in south Wales. Also included are letters to and from Rhys Davies, mostly 1960s and 1970s, and papers relating to his friend, the novelist Anna Kavan, including a short draft of a work of fiction in her hand. The manuscripts include autograph and typescript drafts of the short story 'The Walled City', [?1950s], the novels Tomorrow to Fresh Woods (1941), Girl Waiting in the Shade (1960), [?late 1950s], and Nobody Answered the Bell (1971), stories collected in The Chosen One (1967), the autobiographical volume Print of a Hare's Foot (1969), and the articles 'The God on the Oven Door', 1963, and 'Anna Kavan', 1971.

Additional letters and papers relating to Rhys Davies were acquired July 2009. This group remains uncatalogued.

Papers of the Rhymney Valley Campaign Against the Poll Tax, 1989-1991, including a personal file containing papers relating to Beatrice M. Smith's non-payment of the poll tax, including correspondence, agenda and minutes of meetings of the Rhymney Valley CAPT, press cuttings; press cuttings and a petition against the first Welsh poll tax imprisonment, 1991; leaflets and posters, and bills and receipts, 1990-1991.

Rhyfel y Sais Bach [sef Augustus Brackenbury]: terfysg tir caeëdig ar Mynydd Bach, sir Aberteifi gan 'Banc-y-môr'. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan Miss N. Powell, Llundain, Medi 1971.

An account book of the Llangwm Tithe Defence Fund, 1887-1889. Inset is a blank form of a printed notice, 1887, to collectors on behalf of the Fund.

A minute book of Llangwm Tithe Defence Fund Committee ('Pwyllgor Trysorfa Amddiffynol Merthyron y Degwm yn Llangwm'), 1887-1889. Inset are a statement of accounts, 1887-1889, a rough estimate of costs incurred (undated), and a writ to the defendants in an action, 1888, by Owen Edwards, plaintiff, against William Williams and others (specified), defendants, for the recovery of fees for professional service rendered in surveying and preparing a plan of a road from Cerrig-y-druidion to Mawddy [sic] Post Office.

Records, 1832-1939, of the Rhydyfelin Husbandry Friendly Society, Cardiganshire.

A manuscript containing prose texts and strict metre poetry in Welsh in the hand of Robert Richard, an otherwise unknown scribe, c. 1760 (see notes on ff. 1, 29v), with a few later additions. Place-names mentioned in accounts added on ff. 47v and 68v suggest the volume to have been in the Betws Abergele area, co. Denbigh, in the late 18th century. The prose includes 'Erra Pater' (ff. 1-10v) and other prognosticatory texts (ff. 10v-13); astronomical memoranda (ff. 13-15v, 43r-v); 'Histori y Saith Wyr Doethion o Rufain' (ff. 17-29v); 'Athrawieth Historaeawl ...' (ff. 29v-41v); 'Histori y Saith Gyscadur' (ff. 42-3); 'Llyma fal i mae un yn tebygu ei ardeml ... sef ei deml gorphorol' (ff. 44v-6v); and 'Histori o hanes Adda ag Efa' (ff. 46v-7). The poetry comprises englynion including an englyn 'a ganwyd am gladdedigaeth Bytheiad Llewelyn ap Ierwerth Drwyn-dwn ...' (f. 18v); 'Erfynniad Taliessin' (f. 44); and cywyddau by Syr Dafydd Owain, Gwilym ap Siôn ap Dafydd, Huw Morys, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, John Prichard, Maredudd ap Rhys, Siôn Dafydd Lâs, Siôn Phylip, Wiliam Llyn and Wiliam Phylip (ff. 48-68).

Film scripts by Rhydderch Jones, 1974-1987, mainly for television, including 'Mr Lollipop MA', 'Lliwiau' and 'Swallows'. = Sgriptiau ffilm gan Rhydderch Jones, 1974-1987, yn bennaf ar gyfer y teledu, gan gynnwys 'Mr Lollipop MA', 'Lliwiau' a 'Swallows'.

May 2022 papers: Draft and fair-copied television film scripts (both Welsh and English versions) by Rhydderch Jones. Where script dialogue is in Welsh, direction notes are always in English, with the exception of ''Roedd Catarina o gwmpas ddoe', where both dialogue and direction notes are in Welsh. = Papurau Mai 2022: Sgriptiau drafft a chopi teg (fersiynau Cymraeg a Saesneg) o ffilmiau ar gyfer y teledu gan Rhydderch Jones. Lle bo deialog y sgript yng Nghymraeg, mae'r nodiadau cyfarwyddol bob amser yn Saesneg, ag eithrio ''Roedd Catarina o gwmpas ddoe', lle mae'r deialog a'r nodiadau cyfarwyddol ill dau yng Nghymraeg.

A history of the village of Rhyd Ddu, Caernarfonshire, 1840-1940, by the donor James Bogle, 2003.

A volume containing pasted-in press cuttings and transcripts of Welsh verse, c. 1899-1936, by Isaac R. Jones (Rhuddonian, 1877-1944), Mountain Ash, co. Glamorgan, coal-miner and leading Trade Unionist. An introductory note by a member of the donor's family has been tipped in at the beginning of the volume (f. i).

Correspondence of and extracts made by Hugh Davies (1739-1821), naturalist, two commonplace books, an autograph album and miscellanea.

Papers of 'Rhuddenfab', comprising correspondence, a diary, poems, hymns, adjudications, essays and articles; papers, 1880, relating to the centenary celebrations of the founding of Sunday schools; and an essay by, and in the hand of, Daniel Owen, 1888.

Minutes, 1907, of a committee for postal reforms in Rhostryfan and Rhosgadfan, Caernarvonshire.

Rhondda U. D. C.: notes of proceedings at above inquiry (typescript). See also NLW MS 20393E. English. Between boards. Donated by D. J. Jones, Esq., Groes-faen, April 1969.

Rhondda Roundabout - the first draft and part of the first draft of Off to Philadelphia in the Morning by Jack Jones. English. Donated by Jack Jones, Rhiwbina, January 1948.

Rhondda Roundabout - the first draft and part of the first draft of Off to Philadelphia in the Morning by Jack Jones. English. Donated by Jack Jones, Rhiwbina, January 1948.