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Nine letters, 1835-1850, to R. H. Grundy, printseller, of Manchester and Liverpool, from the artist David Cox (1783-1859), mostly relating to the latter's work.
The letters contain references to paintings, among them an oil painting of Harlech Castle, submitted for an exhibition at Liverpool (ff. 4-8), and sketches sold to R. H. Grundy (ff. 12, 15-16). A memorial card of David Cox, 1859 (f. 18), and a letter from his son, David Cox, 1870 (f. 19), are also included.

Twenty letters and cards, 1935-1960, from the architect Clough Williams-Ellis to the topographer Edmund Vale, Bethesda (ff. 1-16, 18-20, 23-27, 29-35), some discussing the proposed publication of the former's Britain and the Beast (London, 1937), to which Vale was a contributor (ff. 1-20 passim).
Also included are seven letters and cards (one incomplete), 1948-1959, from the architect's sister-in-law, Cecily Williams-Ellis, to Vale, mostly relating to the activities of the Caernarvonshire Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales (ff. 36-39, 41-45); as well as three carbon copies of letters from Vale, 1937, 1949 (ff. 17, 21, 40). There are also references to the bombing school at Porth Neigwl (f. 14), film production in Wales (ff. 27-29), the landscape architect Dame Sylvia Crowe (ff. 33), and to Portmeirion (ff. 26, 31, 35).

Letters from Christopher Williams, Lord St Davids and Saunders Lewis. English.

Letters from Christopher Williams, Annie Ffoulkes and others. Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs R. T. Jenkins, Bangor, March 1970.

Nine letters, 1965-1971, from the poet, novelist and film director B. S. Johnson to the poet Bryn Griffiths, discussing the latter's poetry and prose contributions to Transatlantic Review and other publications edited by Johnson, as well as giving news of Johnson's own work.
Also included are a carbon copy of a testimonial from Johnson, supporting Griffiths's application for a bursary from the [?Welsh] Arts Council, [1967] (f. 4), and a contract (ff. 7-8) and letter (f. 9), February 1968, from the publishers Victor Gollancz, concerning Griffiths's article for The Evacuees, ed. by B. S. Johnson (London, 1968).

Letters from Augustus John to Dr John Sampson and others. English, Romany.

Twenty-two holograph letters, some incomplete, 1838-1840, from A[rthur] P[enrhyn] Stanley [aft. dean of Westminster] from Alderley Park [co. Chester ], [London], Norwich, and Oxford, to C[harles] J[ohn] Vaughan [aft. dean of Llandaff] at Trin[ity] College, Cambridge, Leicester, [London], and Southend (the writer's health and general movements from place to place, his prospects of a fellowship at Oxford and his eventual election [at University College], the writing of [University prize] essays, a family visit to Alderley Park, a decision 'to put Newmanism on the shelf for a space', visits to the House of Lords and speeches heard there, an introduction in the House of Lords to [Henry Phillpotts], bishop of Exeter, an inclination to join the Athenaeum Club, attendance at lectures by [Thomas] Carlyle and [? the Reverend Thomas] Chalmers, references to [Thomas] Arnold [headmaster of Rugby school], comments on Sedgwick [? the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, canon of Norwich Cathedral, 1834-1873], Mr. Wodehouse [?the Reverend Charles Nourse Wodehouse, prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, 1817- ], 'Milne or Mills . . . the Apostle and M.P.' [? Richard Monckton Milnes, aft. 1st baron Houghton], '[Joseph] Wolff, the Missionary', and Lord Melbourne, an article on George IV and Queen Caroline in the Edinborough (sic) [Review, vol. LXVII, pp. 1-80] and an article on Plato in the Quarterly [Review, vol. LXI, pp. 462-506], views on the Whig ministry as opposed to the Tories and Radicals, the scene at the coronation [of Queen Victoria] in Westminster Abbey and impressions made by the ceremony, a comparison of the views held by [John Henry] Newman and [Thomas] Arnold with regard to certain Christian doctrines, the incident relating to the subscription by the writer's father [Edward Stanley, bishop of Norwich, 1837-1849] to a volume of sermons by [the Reverend William] Turner, Unitarian [minister of Newcastle upon Tyne], class lists and awards of scholarships at Oxford, the results of elections [to four fellowships at Balliol College, Oxford], Arnold's 'savage phrases about Newmanism . . . that it was mumbo jumbo buffoonery . . .', news that recipient was 10th Senior Optime, competition between recipient and [George William, 6th baron] Lyttleton [for University prizes] at Cambridge, references to colleagues (1838); the writer's ordination [as deacon] by the bishop of Oxford [December 1839], references to his doubts [concerning the damnatory clauses of the Athanasian creed] in connection with the subscription oath required at ordination and his dialogue with [Charles Carr Clerke], archdeacon [of Oxford], on the subject prior to ordination, his clerical activities at Norwich in the immediate post-ordination period, doubts as to his future attitudes 'whether I shall be . . . an obedient priest and so far happy follower in the train of Newmanism, or . . . a great agitator', the postponement of the presentation to the House of Lords by [Richard] Whately [archbishop of Dublin] of a petition for alterations in the liturgy, a draft petition to the Lords (copy enclosed), narrower in scope and relating to the subscription oath only, drawn up by the writer in the meantime, the writer's eventual signing of the Whately petition, the debate on the petition in the House of Lords (1840)).

Some two hundred and forty letters, airgraphs and cards, 1939-45, from Vera K[athleen] Jones (b. 1916) to her family in Heybridge, co. Essex. Written mostly from Palestine and India, they describe her experiences while serving as a nursing sister with the Army during the Second World War.

Correspondence and other papers relating to members of the Morgan family, Alltyfanog farm, Llangyfelach, 1817-1898, including nineteenth century financial transactions relating to their farm; wills of Evan Morgan, 1831 and Elizabeth Morgan, 1867; letters from their son John Morgan who emigrated from Wales to the United States, 1850-66; and to Australia, 1864-98; together with other letters to Elizabeth Morgan and her son Phillip Morgan, 1856-98. Also included are documents relating to Evan and Elizabeth Morgan and their sons Philip and Rees, 1817-97.

Letters, 1938-1944, from Alun Lewis, the Anglo-Welsh writer, to Richard (Dick) Mills.

Letters from actors, 1978-1981, collected by Meleri Mair as a production assistant at HTV.

Photocopies of transcripts of letters from Abel Simner, 1862-1873, to various people, and offprints of the donor's artiocle: 'A decade of deeds : Abel Simner and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists', in two parts, published in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1995 and 1996.

Between boards. Purchased from Winifred Myers, London, October 1963.

Twenty-nine letters, April-May 1896, discussing the proposed establishment of a Welsh (or Cymric) Institute as a meeting place for the Welsh in London. The letters are addressed to T. J. Evans as editor of the London Kelt (Celt Llundain), in which some were subsequently published.
The correspondents (listed on f. 59) include A. C. Humphreys-Owen (ff. 26-27), J. E. Morris (ff. 32-33), Sir Lewis Morris (ff. 34-35), Isambard Owen (ff. 36-37), J. Bryn Roberts (ff. 48-49), J. Herbert Roberts (f. 50), Sir John Williams (f. 55), W. Llewelyn Williams (ff. 56-58) and other prominent London Welshmen and Welsh MPs.

Letters, 1933-1953, mainly from David Astor (b. 1912) to Dr Thomas Jones C. H. (1870-1950).

Letters (correspondents including J. A. Bradney) and miscellaneous papers from the library of John Kyrle Fletcher, Newport. Between boards.

Fifty-four letters and cards, 1955-1964, from Mrs Essex Hope, niece of Francis Kilvert, and two letters, 1956, from William Plomer, editor of Kilvert's Diary, to Charles E. Harvey, mostly relating to Kilvert.

Letters concerning Carmarthen Presbyterian College from J. E. Manning, Thomas Thomas (Pantdefaid) and others. (Formerly Rees Jenkin Jones MS.) English. In boards. Donated by Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea.

Letters Close of King Henry VIII to Sir Edwarde Northe, knight, Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations of the Revenues of the Crown, permitting Sir William Herbert, knight, to buy two thousand 'fothers' of lead anywhere in England or Wales or the Marches at £4. 6s. 8d. per 'fother'. Given under the sign manual at the manor of Oatlands, 7 December, 1546.