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A typescript work, The Monastic Houses of Wales and the Border by Robert Richards (1884-1954), MP for Wrexham, with autograph additions and corrections. For background material to this work see typescript schedule of Robert Richards Papers in NLW.

A volume, [1850]-1855 (watermarks 1849, 1850), containing pen, ink and wash drawings of ancient buildings and archaeological remains in Anglesey with accompanying text. The volume appears to be the work of Helen Spode (née Heywood), and also her husband, Josiah Spode of Hawkesyard Hall, Staffordshire, and of Plas Gwyn and Beaumaris.
The layout consists typically of a page of text in black and red ink and an illuminated initial in Celtic style, with a drawing on the facing page (thirty-five in total); additional drawings often form vignettes in the text. A few of the drawings are initialled 'H.S.' (ff. 12, 31 verso, 39, 41) and 'J.S.' (ff. 10, 33). Subjects include various cromlechs, churches and castles; the majority are in the east of the island, including Beaumaris (ff. 1 verso-13) and Penmon Priory (ff. 14 verso-26). The volume also includes a single parchment leaf (f. 67) containing a copy of the illumination on f. 8 verso of the Bangor Pontifical (now in Bangor University, Welsh Library, Special Collections, Cathedral Collection).

A copy of Henry Rowlands: Mona Antiqua Restaurata ..., 2nd ed., London, 1766, with additions by J[ohn] P[arsons] Earwaker and profuse biographical and genealogical notes by (?) Aneurin Williams; a silhouette of Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon'), with a press cutting of his 'Lines ... on seeing mr. Burt's collection of miniature portraits'; letters by James Williams, Llanfairynghornwy, 1855; notes on Capel Llansantffraid, near Holyhead; and a copy by W. O. Stanley of a drawing of Carreg y Saethau at Nant Anhafon.

Scrapbooks, 1928-1936, relating to the ice skating career of Mollie Doreen Phillips (1907-1994), covering the eight years in which she was a leading figure skater; together with letters and photographs. Also included are black and white photographs of her carrying the Great Britain flag at the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, and carrying the flag in front of the Great Britain all-female ice skating team. She was the first woman to judge at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St Moritz.

Papers of artist, lecturer, curator and writer Moira Vincentelli, comprising material relating to the 1985 Women's Art in Wales touring exhibition and to other exhibitions; questionnaires completed and returned by Welsh women artists and craftspeople; material relating to the 1983 Retrospective Exhibition by painter and poet Ray Howard-Jones; general correspondence; and miscellaneous material.

Moesau ac Arferion yn ôl y Penillion Telyn gan 'Allfro' (y Parchedig D. D. Williams, Manceinion), sef y traethawd buddugol yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Wrecsam 1912. (Gynt Bob Owen MS.) Byrddau. Prynwyd oddi wrth Bob Owen, Croesor, Tachwedd 1959.

One of two volumes of letters, mainly of the Watkin family of Moelycerni, near Aberystwyth, most of them written to Evan Watkin (fl. c. 1801-c. 1845), schoolmaster, translator of the first four books of Homer's Iliad, compiler of Greek grammars and editor of The Demetian Mirror, or Aberystwyth Reporter; letters from correspondents other than members of the Watkin family; a copy of the elegy on Lewis Morris (1701-1765) by Goronwy Owen (1723-1769); sermons preached at Llangorwen and elsewhere; etc.

One of two volumes of letters, mainly of the Watkin family of Moelycerni, near Aberystwyth, most of them written to Evan Watkin (fl. c. 1801-c. 1845), schoolmaster, translator of the first four books of Homer's Iliad, compiler of Greek grammars and editor of The Demetian Mirror, or Aberystwyth Reporter; letters from correspondents other than members of the Watkin family; a copy of the elegy on Lewis Morris (1701-1765) by Goronwy Owen (1723-1769); sermons preached at Llangorwen and elsewhere; etc.

Casgliad o tua dau gant a hanner o lythyron at Mrs Mya Hughes, gwraig y bardd Moelwyn (John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, 1866-1944), gan ei phriod ac eraill, 1884-1944.

Letters, 1910-1944; scrapbooks, 1893-1948; poetry, 1910-1952; manuscripts and typescripts of prose compositions, essays, articles and addresses, [1909]-1918; sermons, undated, [1897x1953]. None of her major works are represented among the papers.

An illuminated and noted missal of the mid-fifteenth century, probably copied in a London workshop, and apparently of Sarum use. The Rev. W.H. Maskell's theory that it was the sole survivor of the 'use of Bangor' is not substantiated by subsequent authorities on liturgical studies. Originally produced for the church of Great Easton, Essex, for the Calendar includes its dedication, at 4 August ('Dedicacio ecclesie sancti Egidii de Eyston. ad montem'); a note by a later hand at 20 August of the death of William Jaye ('Obitus Willelmi Jaye') and an erased inscription in the bottom margin, show that the manuscript was still at Great Easton in 1508.
References to the pope (e.g. f. 261), to purgatory (f. 256 verso) and to St Thomas of Canterbury (e.g. f. 24) are, as usually, erased or cancelled, particularly so in the calendar. Responses for the marriage service are given in English (f. 240), with English forms of the priest's address to couples added in a late-15th or early-16th cent. hand on f. 239 verso.

Missa Sanctae Werburgae by Dr Ernest L. M. Prichard. (Formerly Ernest L. M. Prichard MS 11.) Music notation, English. Between boards. Donated by the Honourable Mervyn Roberts, Abergele, April 1959.

Autograph reproduction of Missa Cambrensis for soli, chorus and orchestra by Dr Gomer Llywelyn Jones ('Llywelyn Gomer'), formerly Associate Professor of Music, Michigan State University, and Director of the University's Symphony Orchestra. 'Begun in Cardiff, Wales, 1946-1947 Completed in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1953-1954' (f. iv).

A miscellany collected by Robert Kenrick, Aberystwyth and containing Welsh hymns and lyrics and letters from medical men paying tribute to Aberystwyth as a health resort.

Miscellany of Sea Life by an Engineer by Thomas E. Owen. English. Boards. Donated by Mr Thomas E. Owen, Aberystwyth, November 1961.

A typescript volume comprising photocopies of the donor's research into various family histories and abodes in the parish of Ystradgynlais, undertaken between 1994 and 2003.

Miscellanies No. 1 by John Hutton. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 5.) English. Brown paper. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Transcripts of sonnets by William Jackson, Canterbury (d. 1789), a memorial sermon and obituary notices upon the death of William Jackson, a sermon preached at Ramsgate, 1797, miscellaneous poems, extracts, etc.