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Papers of the Owen family of Summerhill, Roch, Pembrokeshire, 1770-1986, including diaries of members of the family, 1887-1956, containing entries relating mainly to farming activities at Summerhill; title deeds and documents, 1843-1963, including probate copies of wills; correspondence, 1894-1963; memoirs of Elizabeth Myfanwy Robinson (née Owen, 1891-1978), sister of Ita Owen; family photographs; almanac with entries, 1770-1771; account books and school reports.

Yr Ymwelydd Blyneddol; neu Almanac a Dydd-lyfr, am y flwyddyn 1838, Mold, with diary entries by Owen Owens, Rhes-y-cae.

Account books and ledgers, [1878]-1910, of Owen Owen, draper, of Liverpool and London, containing mainly receipts, disbursements, balance sheets and details of rents of properties in Montgomeryshire, Caernarvonshire, Liverpool and London.

The coat of arms, coloured, of the Owen family of Orielton, Pembrokeshire.

The Homes of Wales, a translation, 1926, by Arthur Simon Thomas (Anellydd) (1865-1935), rector of Trefilan, Cardiganshire, of Owen Morgan Edwards: Cartrefi Cymru ... (Wrexham, 1896).

A volume of sermons by and in the autograph of Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) (1806-1889).

A collection of manuscripts which includes a copy of Lewis Morris (ed. D. Silvan Evans): Celtic Remains ..., 1878; original poetry and translations; transcripts from various sources, including hymn tunes, anthems, etc., manuscripts, poetry and printed works; correspondence; genealogy; sermon notes; diaries, 1858-1862, 1864, 1871, 1875-1898, and those of Thomas Jones, Owen Jones's father, 1873-1885.

Letters and papers, 1927-1938, accumulated by Sir Alfred T. Davies, relating to the Owen Glyndwr Memorial Institute, Glyndyfrdwy, Merionethshire, and Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire.
The file includes ten letters, 1932-1934, from Walter L. Irvine, landscape architect, to Sir Alfred T. Davies, President of the Memorial Committee, concerning proposed gardens for the Institute (ff. 7-25); papers relating to the commemorative stone, 1931, the opening of the memorial hall, 1932 (ff. 26-32), and the foundation and administration of the Institute (ff. 33-40). In addition, the file contains two letters, 1927-1928, addressed to Sir Alfred T. Davies from J. Elias Jones, regarding the preservation and future of Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire (ff. 42-5).

A copy of L. J. Roberts: Owen Glyndwr: Darlith (Gwrecsam, c. 1904), with manuscript notes by Lewis Davies Jones (Llew Tegid) (1851-1928).

Deeds, 1632-1798, relating to properties in the townships of Dyffrydan and Dolgledr, Dolgellau, and the Cefn yr Owen estate in the parish of Dolgellau, Merionethshire.

An overseers' book of receipts and payments for the parish of St Nicholas, Haverfordwest Union, 1848-1868. The name of Gwynne Vaughan Bowen, overseer, occurs in 1849, 1868, etc.

For xerox copies of original material donated at the same time, see NLW Facs 396-404.

A telegram from the P[ress] A[ssociation] to the Cambrian News, Aberystwyth, [ ] September [19]39, quoting unconfirmed Associated Press reports of fighting at Danzig and the bombing of Polish towns, a Reuter statement relating to a broadcast by Hitler and the proclamation by Danzig of itself as a part of Germany, and unconfirmed reports from Paris of the beginning of the German offensive.

Photocopies of an article by W. N. Davis, Dinuba, California, relating to Stephen S. Jones and family who emigrated in 1878 from Cardiganshire to Jackson County, Ohio, together with copies of letters from America and from relations in Wales and poetry entered in a literary meeting in Oak Hill, 1893, together with a copy of an undated photoghraph of Stephen and Anna (Morgan) Jones taken in Jackson.

A volume containing humorous prose (ff. 4-16 verso) and poetry (ff. 19-33), [1867], by a young woman identifying herself as 'Angelina Workington' (f. 9), for her uncle, 'Slatey Hughes Esquire', as a memento of their visit to Llandudno and the surrounding area in July 1867.
The volume consists of a fanciful prologue (ff. 4-6), followed by equally fanciful accounts of excursions to the Great Orme (ff. 9-10 verso, 12-13 verso) and Capel Curig (ff. 14 recto-verso, 16 recto-verso), and poems entitled 'Ffos Noddyn' (ff. 19-20), 'A Growl from Gelert's Ghost' (ff. 22-25), 'The Streamlet's Song' (ff. 27-29) and 'Excelsior' (ff. 31-33). The manuscript is written mainly in black ink, with some words in red, blue, green and gold paint. In addition there is an illuminated title page (f. 2) and dedication (f. 3), with further illuminations or decorative initials on ff. 4, 8, 9, 16, 19, 22, 31; together with five pen drawings (ff. 7, 11, 15, 17, 22) and a photograph of the Great Orme, Llandudno (pasted in on f. 8). The name 'Angelina Workington' is presumed to be a pseudonym; the writer may actually be the Isabella Slater to whom the volume was gifted in 1862 (see f. 1).

Papers, 1747-1948, of the Ottley family, including several pedigrees, one traced back to Arthur Ottley (c.1649-1705) of the island of St Christopher; two wash drawings, both panoramas of Antigua, apparently in the 1770s; miscellaneous family papers, 1747-1948, including a copy of proceedings in causes in the courts of common pleas and errors, island of St Vincent, 1768, probate records, records of the military careers of family members around the world, photographs and copies of portraits; and material of genealogical interest concerning the history of the Ottley and other related families.

Oskosh Welsh Centennial, 1947 (typescriptby Howell D. Davies). English. Green cloth, Donated by Howell D. Davies, Oak Park, Illinois, February 1954.

Estate and family records of the family of Walsh (also Benn, Benn-Walsh), later barons Ormathwaite, of Radnorshire, including rentals and surveys, 1865-1939; deeds relating to premises purchased in Radnorshire, 1558-1912, and deeds relating to mortgages and sales of parts of the same estate, 1875-1947; estate papers, 1844-1943; family papers, [late 1690s]-1920, including diaries of Sir John Benn Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite (1798-1881), politician, 1811-1877, diaries of his mother, Lady Margaret Walsh, 1788-1828, and diaries of Arthur John Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite, 1848-1917. -- The BRA deposit relates mainly to the marriage settlement, mortgages, bankruptcy, receivership and executorship of Arthur Henry John Walsh (1859-1937), 3rd Baron Ormathwaite, 1841-1951.

A further three boxes of papers relating to the family was received, together with a portrait of Jane Walsh and a collection of photographs. This deposit remains uncatalogued.

A copy of Orin David Gensler's PhD thesis 'A Typological Evaluation of Celtic/Hamito-Semitic Syntactic Parallels', University of California at Berkeley, 1993.

Original typescript of 'Y plentyn wrthododd ran Iesu', a translation into Welsh by Gwenan Creunant Davies of the play 'The boy who wouldn't play Jesus' by Bernard Kops, for performance at Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig, Christmas 1982.