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A composite volume containing verse and prose written in various hands, mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries, with additions of the 18th century.

Autograph letters, 1832-1879, to the Thomas family of Pantyclochydd and others in the Llanwenog district, Cardiganshire from relatives and others in New York, Cleveland (Ohio), Salt Lake City (Utah), Rhymney (Monmouthshire), Dowlais (Glamorgan) and Carmarthen.

A speech by the Reverend Edward Hughes (Y Dryw) (1773-1850) on the establishing of the Denbigh Welsh Literary Society, 4th April 1823; Marwnad Bardd Cloff (i.e. Thomas Jones (1768-1828)), three times president of the Gwyneddigion Society, by Cyvaill; fragments of poetry.

A short account of Rhuddlan and its castle, being the original manuscript of Thomas Edwards: Rhuddlan Castle, A Short History and Guide (Chester, 1914).

Sermons notes and hymns, written c. 1819-1820 in the autograph of Daniel Williams, Baptist minister of Soar, Welshpool.

A copy, from the library of Frederic Seebohm, of a collotype facsimile of Extenta Castri et Honoris de Denbeigh, facta per Hugonem de Beckele ... anno regni Regis Edwardi Tertii (post Conquestum) octavo, A.D. 1335 (see Survey of the Honour of Denbigh, 1334, ed. for the British Academy by P. Vinogradoff and F. Morgan, 1914).

Poetry by David Jones, alias David John James (Dafydd ab Ioan or Dafydd Deudraeth), mostly awdlau for eisteddfodau.

Minutes and general accounts of the Portmadoc Literary and Debating Society, 1878-1886, with a copy of the original list of members, etc. Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor was admitted a member of the society in 1881.

A Commonwealth warrant, dated 4 May 1655, issued to Gualter Frost and signed by Henry Lawrence (Lord President of the Council of State), Philip Jones (member of the Council and governor of Cardiff), Francis Rous (Speaker of the little parliament) and others, to pay the sum of 'threescore and eighteene pounds' to Robert Roberts, 'being for Satisfaccon to ye Souldyers who recovered ye horses of ye Lord Cheife Justice Rolls and Mr. Baron Nicholas Seized upon by the Rebells at Salisbury', endorsed with the receipt and signature of Robert Roberts.

A transcript of The Literary Life of Thomas Pennant, probably made by one of his secretaries and signed by Pennant on 1 March 1790.

An autograph letter, 1789, from Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817), painter, written from South Wales to William Anderson (1757-1837), marine painter, Southwark. The Merthyr Tydfil iron-works are mentioned in the letter.

The Rules and Regulations of the Savings Bank for the Town of Bala,. and Neighbouring Parishes; established At Bala, November 9th, 1819 . . .', containing the names of the officials of the bank at Bala, its original and amended rules, and its annual statements of accounts from 1821 to 1833.

One of four volumes containing a full account of A Universal Alphabet devised by William Jones, Merthyr Tydfil, 1923, with letters relating thereto, illustrative examples, etc.

A copy of Marwnad y diweddar Barch. J. Morris, Cwmifor [near Llandilo, Carmarthenshire] ... gan Watcyn Wyn [i.e. Watkin Hezekiah Williams] (1844-1905), printed at Llandilo in 1877 and described by Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas (1863-1940) in a manuscript note added to the volume as probably the earliest work of Watcyn Wyn [which is] printed in book form; with the book is a cutting from Y Darian, 7 October 1926, containing an article by David James (Defynnog) (1865-1928) describing the book.

Accounts, minutes and other proceedings of the committee which arranged an eisteddfod at Brynmadog, Cardiganshire, 1881.

A ledger account book, 1906-1916, of the Aberystwyth and Aberdovey Steam Packet Company.

The original manuscript of The Union Jack, a patriotic poem written by Thomas Michaeliones (1880-1960), Rhyd-y-parc, Caersws, Montgomeryshire, 1925, together with press cuttings.

Transcripts of the titles of Welsh ballads contained in a manuscript at one time [1925] in the possession of Hugh Davies, Lluest, Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire, together with transcripts by Hugh Davies of the titles of books of local Montgomeryshire interest, with notes by the transcriber on the authors and subjects of the ballads and books.

One of two volumes consisting of an interleaved copy of William F. Skene: The Four Ancient Books of Wales . . . (Edinburgh, 1863), with manuscript notes, additions, and corrections in the autograph of the author.

A copy of Y Brython: sef Cylchgrawn Llenyddol Cymru, Cyfrol V, 1862-3 . . . (Tremadog, 1863) which belonged to Owen Wynne Jones ('Glasynys'), who has inserted a list of his contributions to the volume- 'Ysgrifeniadau Glasynys yn y gyfrol hon'.