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Undated press cuttings of an account of 'Holiday Travels of the Liverpool Teachers' Guild' in Lucerne; and a printed Monthly Calendar of Hope Street Unitarian Church, Liverpool, December 1892.

A journal, 1858-1860, kept by Mrs John Montgomery Traherne (née Charlotte Louisa Talbot).

Notes of a journey along the River Chubut to the Andes by E. J. Williams. English. Formerly I. Mostyn Williams A 2.

A volume in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') containing accounts of a journey made by the said Edward Williams through parts of cos. Glamorgan and Carmarthen in June 1796, agricultural data, etc. P. ix is inscribed 'Agricultural Observations, &c., 1796', and p. xi 'Agricultural Observations Made in a Journey thro some Parts of Glamorgan and Caermarthenshire In June 1796 By Edward Williams'. Pp. 1-116 contain an account of the aforementioned journey, the writer setting out from the parish of Flimston, co. Glamorgan, and travelling via the parish of St. Athan, Newton Down, Pyle, Margam, Swansea, the parish of Langyvelach, Pont ar Dulais, Llanedy Forest, Llanon, Llandarog, Carmarthen, Abergwily, Llanllawddog, Glangwily, and Brechva, to Ystyffylau Carn Mountain, co. Carmarthen, and thence back via Pibwr Village, Llangyndeyrn, Llandyfaelog, Kidwely, Llanelly, Lougher, Swansea, Morris Town, the parish of Llansamled, Neath, and Pont Rhyd y Fen, to Llangynwyd. Observations are made on the topography, geology, soil, climate, vegetation, horticultural and agricultural produce and methods, local industries, mineral resources, buildings, people, etc., of the areas visited, and there are also agricultural and horticultural observations and suggestions of a more general nature arising from what the writer saw. Pp. 117-20 + 125 contain further notes being addenda to the material in pp. 1-116, and pp. 121-4 (misplaced) notes headed 'Orchards and Gardening'. Pp. 133-61 contain a section headed 'Anecdotes of Ancient Agriculture In the County of Glamorgan' which includes notes relating to ancient lime quarries and marl pits in Glamorgan, allusions to references relating to agriculture and horticulture in the works of certain Welsh bards, the Welsh laws, and other Welsh manuscripts, a reference to a 'very ancient' Welsh manuscript treatise on agriculture called 'Cynghorion Hen wr izei vab yng nghylch trin Tir a Neveilod' or 'Cato Gymraeg', and notes on the practice of alternating manures, whilst pp. 165-224 contain an incomplete section headed 'Manures' which lists eighteen 'manures of Glamorgan' and deals in great detail with the properties, results, etc., of two of these, viz. marl and lime. Pp. 237-84 contain a section dealing with the rotation of crops [? in co. Glamorgan] which outlines and comments on different schemes or courses of rotation for different soils, and pp. 285-316 contain fifty-one numbered paragraphs providing miscellaneous information and data relating to co. Glamorgan including a list of buildings, etc., attributed to Inigo Jones, notes on Frampton House, a measure called 'Mesur Llath Fleddyn', locations where astroites, trochites, alabaster, mundic, tobacco-pipe clay, and Stourbridge clay were to be found, New Margam (or Tai Bach) with the copper works and colliery located there, Melin Grufudd and the tin mills there, St. Mary Hill Down, Penlline Castle, the building of Rumney Bridge, Ffynon Gattwg, the islands called Landaff Arles in the river Tave, the locations of veins of rag lias and bastard lias, 'the several Tracts of [the] Country [of Glamorgan] and their soil', Dyffryn Goluch, and Riwperra Castle, copies of memorial inscriptions in various churches and churchyards, etc. Another or draft version of the account of the journey described on pp. 1-116 is to be found on pp. 317-80.

A copy of A Journey to Llandrindod Wells, in Radnorshire ... By a Countryman. The Second Edition ... (London, 1746), with, inserted, a letter and three sheets dated 15 February 1928 written to Sir John Ballinger (1860-1933) by Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney (1859-1933), giving notes of identification of the persons named in the book.

June 1977. 'To Sir David Willcocks and The Bach Choir in the twenty-fifth year of the Accession to the throne of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II'. [Duration: 15 min.]. Commissioned by The Bach Choir in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain. [First performed, L'Eglise de Montreuil, Paris, Sept. 1977, by The Bach Choir, conducted by Sir David Willcocks. Published London: Oxford University Press, 1978]. 27 Ff. 382 x 279 mm.

26 May - 17 June 1977. 10 Ff. 368 x 272 mm.

A Judgement (copy) in favour of the Chanter and Chapter of St David's against Alexander Eliot, esq., of Eareweare, Pem., made in the Court of Exchequer, 30 Jan. 1755 and produced by John Stokes, gent., a witness in Chancery proceedings between Elizabeth Eliot, widow, complainant, and John Williams and others, defendants.

"A just account of what money and goods Thomas Griffith had from Joseph Taylor and his wife, of Mould, being in the year 1690", carried on to 1698; together with a just account of what Joseph Taylor layd and paid out in shueing (?suing) of Mr. Thomas Griffith and others. Paper. English.

'A Just And Perfect Inventory of the goods and Chattels and Catle of Mrs. Magdalen Mostyn...' consisting of upwards of 500 items. Bound in a fragment of account of hide collection in the Wrexhan Division 1722.

Desires answers to the enclosed inquiries concerning the Woore Gate.

A kind of album belonging at one time perhaps to a Mrs Bayley, containing a 'Catalogue Raisonnee [sic] of Family Mottos' [of various dukes and earls, each motto accompanied by a satirical comment in verse] (2pp.), and miscellaneous items mainly of verse, some in the form of press-cuttings pasted into the vol. The cuttings include a copy of the ballad containing the story of Gelert's grave at Beddgelert by [William Robert Spencer], a speech by Mr [Charles James] Fox containing a tribute to the late Duke of Bedford, an obituary notice also concerning Francis Russell, fifth Duke of Bedford (dec. 1802), and an extract from a speech by [Richard Watson], bishop of Landaff in the House of Lords on the motion of the Duke of Bedford, [27 Jan. 1795].