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Nineteen letters, 1879-1884, from Josiah Pitman and eight holograph letters from Mabel Woodford, 1895-1896, to Edward Hall at Covent Garden.

A volume, 1863, entitled Letters from Llangollen and based on a series of nineteen letters describing a tour in North Wales and which were published in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph in September 1863. Cuttings from the paper are interspersed with illustrative prints (mainly of churches, castles and other edifices in Wales and England), a few cuttings from other sources, and additional manuscript notes apparently by the author, John Holland.
There are references to the 'Ladies of Llangollen' (ff. 19-22), Dinas Brân (ff. 23-25 verso) and other local features of Llangollen. Pasted onto f. 38 is an envelope, postmarked at Sheffield, 12 September 1863, and addressed to John Holland at Upper Bangor, together with a photograph presumably originally enclosed in the envelope and which probably depicts Holland's correspondent.

Seventy-two letters, mainly from Maurice James (1916-1968) to his mother in Bala, co. Merioneth, describing his tour of Canada, the United States of America and Mexico with a friend, Anthony S. Brennan of Huddersfield, between May 1957 and August 1958. The tour included a six-month stay at Cecil Lake, British Columbia, where Maurice James served as headmaster of the local school during the winter of 1957. Also included (ff. i-xiii) are introductory notes and a list of the letters, compiled by D. Tecwyn Lloyd.

Letters from Pryse Pryse, Gogerddan to Charles Deare, Temple, London relating to Gogerddan estate matters, and a letter to the same from B. A. Griffiths, B[recknock] & A[bergavenny] Canal Office, Llanelli, Breconshire. English. Between boards.

177 letters, 1915-1918, from Sapper Robert Glynn Griffiths (1898-1991), Royal Engineers, mainly to his parents in Deganwy whilst receiving military training in Bletchley and Birmingham, and in the battlefields of France. Also included is a volume compiled by his son D Geraint Griffith, the donor, entitled: ‘Letters of the First World War from Sapper Robert Glynn Griffiths’, 2009-2015, together with a Welsh version.

Press cuttings and typescript copies of letters and postcards from Rhodesia and articles in the Cape Times written by Huw Williams (1860-1922).

Letters, 1840-1863, from Richard Cobden and Catherine, his wife, to Hugh Williams, Catherine’s brother; Hugh Williams to his family; etc.

Autograph letters, mainly of North Wales interest, from Robert Cholmondeley (afterwards Earl of Leinster) (1584?-1659), 13 March 1633/4, to Sir Roger Mostyn, kt (1559/60-1642); letters from Joseph Bunbury, Llay, 19 October 1676, to Sir Roger Mostyn, first baronet (1623/4-1690); letters from William Lloyd, bishop of Lichfield, Chester and Coventry (formerly bishop of St Asaph) (1627-1717), 6 May 1693, to Richard Mostyn, Penbedw (?the son of Sir Roger Mostyn, first baronet); letters from Richard Mostyn, Penbedw, 15 December 1693, to Sir John [?Conway]; letters from Thomas Puleston, Nantclwyd, 8 August 1720; letters from Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, fourth baronet (1749-1789), Wynnstay, 15 March 1745/6, to Richard Williams, Penbedw; a statement dated 20 May 1678, signed by Owen Thelwall and others, relating to the burial of Dorothy Lloyd, alias Meredith, at Nannerch; financial memoranda, 15 April 1704, relating to Sir John Conway and a certain Mr Mostyn.

Copies of letters, 1941-1942, to Rene Le Roux ('Meven Mordiern') from Roparz Hemon and Guillaume Berthou ('Guillaume B. Kerverziou'), relating to the establishment of a standardised orthography of Modern Breton, and formerly in the possession of Armand Keravel; together with copies of documents and correspondence, 1940-1963, relating to Keravel, including letters from Yann Fouere and Joseph Martray.

Letters from Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) to Mr R. Guy Harland relating to the donor's musical compositions. English. Guard and file (1981). Donated by Mr R. Guy Harland, Colwall Green, Malvern, May 1981.

Holograph letters, 1802-1815, from Sir Thomas Picton to Joseph Marryat.

Six holograph letters from [Sir] W[illiam] Jones [jurist and orientalist] to ?Rich[ar]d Johnson, 1784-[1787] and undated (personal and domestic matters, points of Indian botanical interest, the writer's hymn to [the Hindu goddess] Sereswaty, his intention of composing eighteen such hymns [to various Hindu gods and goddesses] including Indra and Lacshmy, his 'Discourse on the Arabs' [delivered to the Bengal Asiatic Society, 1787]). Both the writer and recipient were resident in India.

Typescript copies, with manuscript corrections and additions, of an Introduction and forty-seven 'Letters from Spain', written by Griffith Hartwell Jones to record his experiences and impressions during a visit to the Spanish Peninsula in the winter of 1920-1921.

Some sixty letters, 1901-1902, from Lieutenant Thomas Lewis Prichard, first Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, South Africa Field Force, to his parents, the Rev. and Mrs Thomas Prichard, Llanbadrig Vicarage, Anglesey. Written mostly from South Africa, they describe his experiences on active service during the South African War, 1901-1902, including accounts of skirmishes with the Boers and the progress towards peace (ff. 1-121). Also included are four letters, 1914, relating to his service in France, where he died on 11 November 1914 (ff. 122-129).

Letters written from the Crimea, 1855-1856, by Douglas A. Reid, M.D.

Letters from the United States of America. (Formerly Rees Jenkin Jones MS.) English, Welsh. In boards. Donated by Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea.

Letters from the United States of America. (Formerly Rees Jenkin Jones MS.) English, Welsh. In boards. Donated by Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea.

Letters from the United States of America from Morgan Evans and others. Welsh, English. (Formerly Oakford MS 45.) See also NLW MSS 14036-14060. In boards. Donated by Mr S. Jones, Oakford, Llanarth, January 1942.