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The second of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 755B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall. NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand whilst NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).

Microfilm copies of manuscript and printed material relating to Katherine Philips ('The Matchless Orinda', 1632-64) held at the National Library of Wales, Cardiff Central Library, the University of Texas at Austin, Worcester College, Oxford, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Yale University, and Hertfordshire County Record Office; together with copies of the guide Orinda: The Literary Manuscripts of Catherine Philips (1632-1664) (Adam Matthew Publications, 1995)

A small group of letters, [1945]-1983, written by Kate Roberts and on her behalf, to Mrs Hilda Edmunds, Cardiff, who used to do cleaning work for Kate Roberts and her husband when they were living in the Rhondda.

Words and music of a song entitled 'Kate O' Shane' by G. Lindsay.

Notebooks, 1946-1979, of Kate Davies, writer, of Pren-gwyn, Llandysul. The contents of the notebooks include reviews of her published books, lecture notes, poetry, notes on local and family history, poetry by her father Daniel Thomas, etc.

Copies of appendices and tables from K. H. Edwards's University of Wales College, Cardiff, dissertation based on the account books and diaries of William Williams (1806-1890), Brynmawr, grocer and draper; they include a schedule of leases for the Brynmawr area, 1800-1895, and other summaries based on documents in the NLW Badminton Collection.

Papers, 1997, relating to the 'Just Say No' 1997 devolution referendum campaign, including correspondence, strategy papers, campaign materials, and papers relating to the Charter Movement; also included in this file are further papers regarding the 'Just Say No' campaign, including material collected from the internet.

A CD copy of the website for the 'Just Say No' Campaign, 1997, designed by Jeremy Clulow, Webs Wonder Design

An autograph letter, 1789, from Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817), painter, written from South Wales to William Anderson (1757-1837), marine painter, Southwark. The Merthyr Tydfil iron-works are mentioned in the letter.

Papers of Julian Williams, former set designer in the Design Department of BBC Wales, including scripts of plays broadcast during the 1960s, among them works by Saunders Lewis and Gwenlyn Parry. The collection includes papers, photographs, and a few books relating to the donor’s family, including his parents Thomas Basil and Rhyda Ann Williams, his great-aunt Professor Mary Williams, and her husband G. Arbour Stephens of Swansea.

A photocopy of Judith's Morgan family tree bearing the title 'Jones (Johnes) Maesybidie, Abergorlech, Carmarthenshire, Wales'.

A group of thirty documents of, or relating to, George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem, Lord Chancellor. They include acquittances and releases, 1667/8-77, for the payment of money, partly by the hand, or for the use, of Sir Robert Clayton and Mr. [John] Morris; dockets, 16886-8, from the Treasury Chambers, of the creations of titles (e.g. marquis of Powis, 1686/7), grants of offices and licences, and leases of fines in the Court of King's Bench and of the profits of the Alienation Office, with the counter-signatures of John Belasyse, baron Belasyse, Sidney Godolphin, 1st earl of Godolphin, [Sir] John Ernle, Henry Jermyn, 1st baron Dover, and [Sir] Stephen Fox; an undated petition by Leonard Bryar, gent., to Lord Jeffreys to be one of the Masters Extraordinary for taking affidavits in Chancery, together with a recommendation by Rich[ard] Allibon; recommendations [1688] by Rich. Allibon for the offices of Masters in Chancery in Stratford, Herefordshire, and near Settle, Yorkshire; case, and opinion of [Sir] J[ohn] Holt, 1686, in an action before the Lord Chancellor; and a petition [1689] by Thomas Burdet and the rest of the farmers of the markets of the city of London to Lord Jeffreys for the reimbursement by the city of losses incurred as a result of the reduction of duty payable by tanners at Leadenhall market.

A manuscript souvenir (with illustrations and press cuttings) of the silver jubilee of the accession of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935, as celebrated in Barbados, British West Indies. The volume is in the hand of Evan Taylor, Bridgetown, Barbados.

The fonds comprises reports and planning papers, minutes, newsletters, briefs, press releases, press cuttings, correspondence, campaign posters, paste-ups, financial records, leaflets, information packs and travelling particulars relating to the Jubilee 2000 campaign in Wales, 1998-2001.

Works of the theologian Juan de Lugo, SJ: Tractatus de venerabili sacramento eucharistice, 1627 (ff. 1-194); index to the volume (ff. 195-9); De sacramento poenitentiae, 1628 (ff. 205-346); Assertationes theologica de fide, spe et charitate (ff. 346-8 verso); extracts from the Fathers, &c. (ff. 349-66 verso); De Angelis (ff. 367-78 verso). All very likely copied by a student at Rome. None of de Lugo's works were printed until 1631.

Two journals of Sir William Edmond Logan, Canadian geologist, describing his travels as 'provincial geologist' and relating to work conducted in and around the Gaspé Peninsula in that part of the province of Quebec which lies south of the St Lawrence River. In addition to their geological value, the journals contain interesting observations on the people encountered on these journeys. Many of the entries were originally in pencil and afterwards rewritten in ink, and the volumes contain several pen-and-ink sketches. The first volume, 13 July-30 September 1843, records a voyage by canoe along both shores of Baie de Gaspé and as far as Cape Maquereau on the northern side of Baie des Chaleurs. The diarist was accompanied by a Mr Stevens and an Indian, John Basque. The second volume, 31 May-4 November 1844, with a dozen blank pages between 12 and 28 September, describes further explorations of the Gaspé Peninsula. Logan, accompanied by de Rottermond, Murray, Stevens and five Indians, proceeded by canoe from Gaspé up the St Lawrence River to Cape Chatte, then inland over the Shick Shock hills to Bay Chaleur. From around 6 September to 7 October, when they crossed the estuary to Dalhousie on the New Brunswick side, seems to have been spent on the northern shore of this bay, travelling as far east as Paspebiac. A recrossing of the Gaspé Peninsula along the Matapedia River was then undertaken, and afterwards the party followed the right bank of the St Lawrence River towards Quebec.

A volume containing journals of tours through parts of Wales, [27] July-11 August 1812 (ff. 1-45), and along the South Devon coast, 9-[20] August 1813 (ff. 46-71), by W[illiam] Evill of 12 Devonshire Buildings, Bath.
The Welsh tour consists of a journey from the New Passage, Monmouthshire, through Abergavenny, Brecon and Rhayader to Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, northwards through Talyllyn, Harlech, Maentwrog and Bala, all Merionethshire, on to Llangollen, then south through Shropshire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, crossing the River Severn at the Old Passage. The Devon tour consists of a journey from Bath, via Glastonbury and Exeter, to Plymouth, Devon, followed by the journey along the coast from Teignmouth, Devon, to Weymouth, Dorset. The writer describes becoming lost on the roads to and from Builth Wells (ff. 8 verso-11), climbing Cader Idris (ff. 19-21), the rivalry of innkeepers in Barmouth (f. 23 recto-verso), the sights of Llangollen (ff. 30-33), and visits to Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall (ff. 54 verso-56 verso), Devonport Royal Dockyard (ff. 57-59) and the partly completed Plymouth Breakwater (f. 59 recto-verso). There are also a few comments on French prisoners seen at Abergavenny (f. 7) and Oswestry (f. 34). Three hand-drawn maps showing the itinerary of the tours have been tipped into the volume (ff. 2 verso, 16, 47 verso). Engravings depicting English and Welsh views have been pasted into the volume; a minority of these relate to the tours (ff. i verso, 3, 43, 45 recto-verso, 72).