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A manuscript containing a dictionary of legal terms and notes of cases of Cardiganshire interest.

A group of eleven parchment bifolia written in the same hand, and which form about one fourth part of a manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century, containing a version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-ca. 1298), archbishop of Genoa.

Autograph album, 1898-1913, of Leigh Roose who was killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Papers of Leighton Andrews, including material relating to his time in the National Assembly; material relating to his early career, including at the BBC; correspondence with various public figures, including Lord Scarman; and material relating to the 1997 Yes for Wales campaign.

Papers, 1839-1931, relating to the Naylor family and the Leighton Hall and Brynllywarch estates, comprising accounts, rent schedules, valuations and sale catalogues, together with correspondence and other material relating to the family, and in particular to their activities as high sheriffs for Montgomeryshire.

Additional papers were received in July 2021, this material mainly comprising correspondence and newspaper cuttings, which trace the history of and events within the Naylor family and the Leighton Hall estate from the mid-nineteenth century to the near present day. The material includes a memorandum book, 1848-1856, belonging to John Naylor (1813-1889) of Leighton Hall.

Papers, [early 20 cent.]-1979, of or relating to the contralto Margaret Jones (afterwards Roberts) (Leila Mégane), Pwllheli, and her husband the composer and musician Thomas Osborne Roberts.

Photocopies of two press cuttings relating to the Welsh singer Leila Megane (Margaret/Maggie Jones, 1891-1960), wife of the composer T. Osborne Roberts (1879-1948), purchased with NLW MSS 15281-310 in February 1980 (see Annual Report 1979-80, p. 63), one showing her congratulating the winner of the Osborne Roberts prize at the National Eisteddfod at Ebbw Vale, 1958, and the other an undated cutting in Italian giving an account of the welcome concert arranged for the Prince of Wales at Rome which included a performance by Leila Megane.

A copy of John Cottrell's PhD thesis, 'Leinster, South Wales, Bristol and Angevin Politics: 1135-1172. Some Influences on the Earliest English in Ireland' (University of Bristol, 2000)

A holograph copy of the poem 'Leisure' by W. H. Davies, signed and dated 8 May 1914.
The poem was first published in William H. Davies, Songs of Joy and Others (London, 1911) and thereafter appeared in various collections and anthologies, including William H. Davies, Collected Poems (London, 1916), The Essential W. H. Davies (London, 1951) and The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies (London, 1963). This fair copy was possibly written whilst the poet was in Gloucestershire visiting friends among the Dymock poets (see Selected letters of Robert Frost, ed. by Lawrance Thompson (London, 1965), pp. 122-124).

A manuscript containing a reply by Lemuel J. James (1874-1937) to Thomas Hughes: Ymneillduaeth Eglwys Loegr (Liverpool, 1903).

One twenty four frame film of Ilford HP5 Plus showing Leo & Ania Abse, probably on their wedding day. Most are taken standing in or near a doorway partially obscured by a creeper. Others show them sitting down and holding drinks. There iare also three strips of Ilford FP4 plus which appear to be copies of photos from HP5 negatives.

General and parliamentary correspondence, 1961-1987; constituency correspondence, 1970-1987, files relating to constituency affairs, 1947-1987; files relating to the following: Welsh affairs, 1985-1987, including transport, 1959-1973; health service, 1960-1978; Welsh language and nationalism, 1966-1979; devolution, 1970-1979; Select Committee for Welsh Affairs, 1975-1985; the Labour Party, 1964-1987, mainly annual conferences and general elections; industrial affairs, 1958-1985, penal reform, 1961-1987, children, 1968-1987, abortion, 1969-1979, nuclear energy, 1977-1987, genetic engineering, [c. 1977] - 1985; and personal papers, mainly letters, [1930s]-1946, and articles, notes and diaries, [1930s]-[1980s]. A further consignment of papers were received. These remain uncatalogued.

A photocopy of a thesis by Nelly Blanchard entitled 'Leo Weisgerber und die Bretagne', submitted by her for her maîtrise at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, in June 1998. The thesis, in German, includes copies of original documents from archives in Berlin, Koblenz, Marburg, Freiburg and Bonn

Personal diaries, 1892-1949, which include detailed accounts of his years in retirement at Barmouth, Merionethshire, from 1939 and subsequently at Ty'n y Ceunant, Islaw'r dref, Dolgellau; draft notebooks, 1895-1946, containing records of appointments, activities and descriptions of holiday visits, including many to Wales, detailed accounts of ascents of Cadair Idris, Merionethshire, and other British mountains, including Snowdon, Elidir Fach and Elidir Fawr in Caernarfonshire, and Pumlumon, Cardiganshire; registers of correspondence, 1939-1940, 1943-1944; a register of snapshots [which are not part of the archive], 1906-1940; a volume of statistics of his mountain ascents, holiday travels, and walks, 1892-1951, and family papers (including some relating to L. W. Brown of Bath), 1846-1926.

Papers collated by Leonard Owen, CIE, Gerrards Cross, relating to his work as treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1952-1964, and to the Welsh Dictionary of National Biography.

A copy of S. Davies, The Reverend Samuel Davies ''The First'', and his Times, relating to Samuel Davies (1788-1854), Wesleyan Methodist minister, Cilcain, Flintshire, re-written by Leonard Twiston Davies in 1932, containing pasted-in photographs, postcards, typescript pedigrees and notes; together with the original Welsh version, Y Parch. Samuel Davies, 1af, a'i Amserau..., published in 1866, bearing the name of Samuel Twiston Davies and set in a protective wooden frame at the end of the volume.

A manuscript of the French prose romance of Tristran, Chevalier de la Table Ronde, illuminated on vellum.

A copy of a thesis 'Joseph Cooper Walker (1761-1810): Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards' presented by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile for the degree of Ph.D.(Galway, 2001), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.