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Lectures on rhetorick by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). English. 1/4 red skiver. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

Lectures on psychology by W. D. Davies. (Formerly W. D. Davies MS 6.) English. Boards. Purchased from Mrs Whiting, Llandrindod Wells, October 1969.

Notes on lectures given by Prof. Nicholas Saunderson at Cambridge, comprising 'Hydrostatics' (pp. 1-53), 'Sanderson upon the tides' (pp. 54-63), 'Sandersons Opticks' (pp. 65-130), 'Sanderson's Astronomy' (pp. 131-200) and 'Lectures on Mechanicks partly professor Sanderson' (pp. 205-266), followed by brief notes on various subjects such as distillation, the Zodiac, the barometer, etc. (pp. 269-290).

Lecture notes, 1745, comprising 'Sanderson's Astronomy' (ff. 1-71, first foliation), 'Motuum Coelestium Explicatio Physica', in Latin (ff. 71 verso and ff. 1-13 verso, second foliation) and 'The Laws of Nature apply'd to the System of the World' (ff. 1-5, third foliation).

A manuscript containing lectures on anatomy, surgery, 'physicke', etc., taken down by Charles George Ireland, together with a letter, 24 May 1798, from William Morgan, Actuary, Equitable Assurance Office, London.

Lectures by Francis Evans (of Long Buckby and Ulverston) on the mediatorial career of Christ. English. (Formerly Oakford MS 27.) See also NLW MSS 14036-14060. In boards. Donated by Mr S. Jones, Oakford, Llanarth, January 1942.

Script of a lecture given by Ted Harrison, at the National Library of Wales in December 2022 entitled 'The boy from Barry who became a Fleet Street legend', on the cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth. Also included are photocopies of the slides used in the lecture.

A volume containing a lecture, 1840, on the Celtic languages by Edward Ward Foster (1762-1865) of Derby, philologist, the second in a series of six lectures by him on 'Language, Rhetoric and Elocution'.

A manuscript containing a transcript of a lecture on The Influence of the Literature of Wales on that of other countries, given by Teilo at Llandilo, 16 March 1864; a note on Thomas Jones (Twm Sion Catti); material relating to the late Rev. John Evans, Llwynffortun, 1865.

Three copybooks of lecture notes, 1902-1904, compiled by John Tudor of Hebron, Pembrokeshire, whilst an undergraduate at the University College of North Wales, Bangor.
The volumes include notes on Welsh poetry (1450-1600) and exercises in Hebrew grammar (NLW MS 16192iB); notes on Welsh poetry (1300-1450), notes on Welsh and Irish philology and a comparative list of Irish and Welsh words (NLW MS 16192iiB); and notes on Welsh poets of the fifteenth century (NLW MS 16192iiiB). A note from the donor is included (with NLW MS 16192iB)

A volume, 1830s, containing lecture notes relating to theology, mostly taken from English sources; the name 'Joseph Williams', ?Newtown, co. Montgomery, appears on the front cover.

Notebook in the hand of J. Lodwick Evans, Ystradgynlais, containing notes of W.E.A. Tutorial Class lectures on Plato's Republic given at the Workmen's Institute, Ferndale, by the donor's husband and the late Reverend D. Jeffrey Davies, Penuel, Ferndale.

Lecture notes on 'Medieval Church History' and 'Puritanism' by John Evans, Brecon. English. Paper. Donated by the Reverend J. Penry Edwards, August 1960.

Lecture notes of the Reverend D. D. Williams, Liverpool, including those of a lecture on 'Twm o'r Nant'. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, June 1959.

Lecture: 'Fifteen years in Patagonia' by W. Casnodyn Rhys. (Formerly W. Casnodyn Rhys MS 1.) English. Cloth. Donated by Mrs Jessie M. Rhys, Swansea, June 1944.

Specimens of initial capital letters taken from illuminated manuscripts and copies of initials and decoration from illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Among the originals are a leaf from a Graduale, containing a portion of the Mass for the Nativity of St John Baptist (German, XV cent.); a leaf from the Decretum of Gratian (Low Counties, late XII cent.); one leaf and twenty-six initials from a manuscript of the Enarrationes in Psalmos of St Augustine (probably Bohemian, under strong Italian influence, late XIV cent.); a leaf from a Book of Hours (Italian, late XV cent.); and fragments from a choir-book, in Latin, with music (Italian, late XV cent.).

Leaves from an autograph album containing signatures of John Ruskin, W. M. Thackeray and others. In boards. Donated by A. W. S. Jones, Wimborne Minster, September 1951.

Papers, 1937-1967, of the Leasehold Reform Association in Wales, comprising attendance books, minutes, correspondence, press cuttings, and printed material.