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Financial papers, etc of the Wrexham and District Cymmrodorion Society. Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by W. Emyr Williams, Wrexham, April 1952.

A typescript copy of Firenza Guidi's play 'All the Sundays of May', commissioned and first performed by Hijinx Theatre Company at The Point, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay, 29 September 1998.

An essay, written about 1913, by Dr. Hugh Jones, Liverpool, entitled 'A Scheme for the Diffusion of Knowledge of First Aid, Home Nursing, and Domestic Hygiene in Wales'.

(Formerly Ernest L. M. Prichard MS 3.) Music notation, English. Cloth. Donated by the Honourable Mervyn Roberts, Abergele, April 1959.

First set of songs from 'Mychurachan' by R Ernest L. M. Prichard. (Formerly Ernest L. M. Prichard MS 4.) Music notation, English. Between boards. Donated by the Honourable Mervyn Roberts, Abergele, April 1959.

British Red Cross Society's Note Book and Diary for 1916, of Corporal Howard Ll[oyd] Roberts of Borth, Cardiganshire, serving on the Western Front in France and Belgium with the 129th Field Ambulance of the RAMC, attached to 15th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, part of the 38th (Welsh) Division, containing diary entries for 16 January and 2 February-31 December 1916 (pp. 74, 78-174). The frequent references to water tanks and carts indicate Cpl Roberts was part of the 129th Ambulance's Sanitary Section.
The Division began the year in the Neuve-Chapelle sector, between Merville and Bethune (pp. 78-116), then in June was ordered to the Somme, taking part in the Battle of Mametz Wood during the 1st Battle of the Somme in July (pp. 121-124). On 31 July (p. 130) Roberts's battalion arrived at Poperinghe, Belgium, and spent the rest of the year in the vicinity of Ypres (pp. 130-174). Roberts was on leave in Birmingham and Borth, 3-10 April (pp. 96-98), and was hospitalised at St Omer with German measles, 4-15 May (pp. 104-108). As an artist Roberts contributed sketches to the New Year Souvenir of the Welsh Division for 1917 (see pp. 160-165). A sketch map of the British lines at Windy Corner, [Neuve-Chapelle sector], is on p. 65; a very small pencil sketch is on p. 124.

Fourteen lantern slides showing military scenes from the First World War. The slides have been made utilising original photographs from British Official Photographs, The Illustrated London News and unattributed sources. Each is numbered but there is much disparity in the numbering system. Numbers are in the range 36-929.

Letters, 1916-1918, written by three brothers, Dick (born 1894), Gib (born 1896) and Ivor (born 1898), mainly to their mother Mrs Eustis, Pontardawe, from active service during the First World War, including letters from France, Palestine and Egypt.

Ratebooks of the parish of St Athan for 1880-1905.

Records of the Fishguard Harbour Improvement Company comprising minutes, 1857-1864; other administrative papers (notices, reports, bye-laws, specifications and estimates), 1857-1897; financial papers (account books, receipts and vouchers), 1857-1897; and correspondence with the Admiralty, the Board of Trade, firms of lawyers and others, 1857-1897. There are no records relating to the later history of the Company.

Three letters, January - February 1797, from A[nn] Knight, [a young Quakeress], writing from H[averford] West to her father, Henry Knight, Cooper, Wapping, London (events in connection with the French landing at Fishguard).

A copy of the Order Book of the Fishguard Turnpike Trust, 1791-1843.

Fishing book of Sir Frederic George Morgan, 5th baron Tredegar. English. Leather. Donated by the executors of the late the Hon. Mrs S. A. Gurney, London, December 1964.

Fishing book of Sir Frederic George Morgan, 5th baron Tredegar. English. Leather. Donated by the executors of the late the Hon. Mrs S. A. Gurney, London, December 1964.

Fishing book of Sir Frederic George Morgan, 5th baron Tredegar. English. Leather. Donated by the executors of the late the Hon. Mrs S. A. Gurney, London, December 1964.