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A volume containing offprints and articles relating to Welsh Gypsy folk-tales, mainly from the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, collected and edited by John Sampson.

A group of about one hundred and eighty business letters, 1880-91 (with some of the period 1897-1908), largely written by George W. Farren, general manager, Welsh Granite Company Limited, Yr Eifl Quarry, Trevor, Caernarvonshire, to his foreman, Thomas Hughes, Cae-glas, Llanaelhaearn. Some letters refer also to emigration and to the Welsh Granite Company's School.

'A synoptical tabular key to the vowel inflections and the consonant mutations in words in the Welsh Language' presented to the Earl of Ashburnham by Thos. W. Hancock, 1899.

A collection of twenty-eight folk-songs, mostly with words, noted by Mrs [later Lady] Ruth Herbert Lewis, collected in Flintshire and Denbighshire in 1910-1911. Thirteen of the songs are published in her Folk-songs collected in Flintshire and the Vale of Clwyd (Wrexham, 1914) or Journal of the Welsh Folk-song Society, 1 (1909-12) and 2 (1914-25).

Records of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, 1908-1993, including minutes, 1908-1957; correspondence, 1915-1975; reports, 1931-1957; financial papers, 1928-1953; publication material relating to the Journal, 1909-1954; executive committee and annual general meeting minutes, 1958-1993; and folk song material, including words and music collected by W. Emrys Cleaver, with related correspondence and notes, 1959-1964, and composed and arranged songs with related correspondence and notes, [1960s]. The correspondents include many prominent composers and musicians.

A further five volumes belonging to the Welsh Folk-Song Society were received. These remain uncatalogued.

A photostat facsimile of a Llanover manuscript containing Welsh folk tunes.

A photostat facsimile of a Llanover manuscript containing Welsh folk songs, airs and dance tunes some of them transcribed by John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri) (1770-1829) and John Parry (Bardd Alaw) (1776-1851).

Welsh folk songs in the hand of Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover, etc. (Formerly J. R. Hughes MS 23.) Welsh, English. Box file. Purchased from Mr J. R. Hughes, Dolgellau, January 1955.

Commentary on the Psalms, fragment, [1300]; deeds relating to lands in Losdworth, Sussex, 1572-1806; miscellaneous documents relating to land and manors in Wales, 1496-1667; assessment of ship money for Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, [1635]; household accounts (unidentified), 1799-1800, and letter from Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, to Viscount Sydney, 1821.

A copy of a lecture given at the National Library of Wales, 31 January 2008, by Richard Livsey, Lord Livsey of Talgarth.

Photocopies of biographical notes and of printed material relating to Welsh emigrants and their descendants in Queensland, Australia, compiled by Professor W. Ross Johnston, Department of History, Queensland University.

Archive comprises the papers of the Welsh Conservative Party group within the National Assembly for Wales including minutes, agendas and papers for group meetings, Material related to policy development and manifestos for elections to the National Assembly for Wales, material related to the organisation of the group and the Conservative Party in Wales and subject files including files on the party's position on the creation of the post of Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Government of Wales Act 2006.

The fonds comprises the administrative papers of the Welsh Committee Against Racialism and mainly consists of letters, 1976-1980; declarations and affiliation slips, 1976-1978; circulars, newsletters and leaflets, 1976-1979; together with a small amount of press cuttings, 1977-1979.

A collection of seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century manuscripts containing sermons and correspondence of Welsh clergymen, who include Lewis Evans of Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn and Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, David Price of Merthyr Cynog and Robert Pughe of Dolgellau.

Draft typescript (Transcript from the Shorthand Notes of Messrs J Moore & Son ...) of the minutes of proceedings of the Royal Commission on the Welsh Church, days 1-4, 19-20, 26-27 October 1906, varying somewhat from the published Minutes of Evidence of the Commission. The evidence relates to the parishes of Abergwili, Carmarthen, Llanelli, Llan-gain and Llanpumsaint, co. Carmarthen.

Papers of, and acquired by, the Welsh Church Commission, 1283-1960, including records of the Commission, 1914-1960; records relating to border parishes, 1914-1915; accounts, 1920-1958; papers relating to Sir Alfred Watson, 1916-1941; records concerning compensation to lay holders of freehold offices, 1915-1931; records relating to burial grounds, 1934-1947; records relating to the destination of records, 1914-1960; records relating to parish lands, 1844-1946; manorial records and court books, 1842-1925; transfer of documents, 1822-1947; deeds of properties, 1566-1929; and rentals and surveys, 1919-1947.

The archive comprises papers relating to the Welsh Chess Union and affiliated regional chess clubs, 1954-2014. The first group (2018 deposit) consists mainly of correspondence, minutes, and administrative records relating to chess in Wales, details of national and international tournaments, tournament participation, and papers relating to other chess associations both in Wales and overseas. The second group (2024 donation) comprises papers and memorabilia relating to the Welsh Chess Union and accumulated by the Welsh chess player Iolo Jones, including copies of the WCU magazine 'Y Ddraig', and reports and memorabilia from international Chess Olympiads.

The collection also originally contained four photographic albums which have been transferred for further conservation.

A List of Catholics connected with Wales who suffered death for the Faith, 1539-1680 A.D., with an addition and a corrigendum in manuscript by Thomas Peter Ellis.