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An album of nearly four hundred holograph and autograph letters, with some accounts and other papers, 1846-1856, of the Committee of Visitors of the United Lunatic Asylum for the counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, and Pembroke (to be established under the provisions of Act 8 & 9 Victoria, c. 126). Almost all of the letters are addressed to the clerk of the Committee, namely Thomas Dalton, Cardiff, who was Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan, and the writers include John Nicholl, M.P., Merthyr-mawr, etc.; [Sir] Denis Le Marchant, Whitehall [Under-Secretary to the Hom Department]; Walter Coffin, Llandaff, etc.; George Child-Villiers, 5th earl of Jersey; [Colonel] N. Cameron, London, etc.; and [Sir] George Tyler, M.P. The majority of the letters relate to negotiations for the purchase, as a site for the lunatic asylum, of part of the Danygraig estate near Swansea in the possession of Lord Jersey and in the occupation of Col. Cameron. Towards the beginning of the volume are orders and/or resolutions of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and/or the provisional county committees of Justices of the Peace for the counties of Pembroke, Monmouth, Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Glamorgan, the county borough of Carmarthen, and the town and county of Haverfordwest, 1846-1848; printed minutes of the united Committee of Visitors of the proposed asylum, 1848-1849; and the opinion, 1849, of Arthur Morgan, Equitable Assurance Office [London], on the value of the fee simple of the proposed site. Inset are statements of accounts due to Edmd. Scott Barber, civil engineer and surveyor, 1849-1852 (with a covering letter to Thomas Dalton, 1853), and to Thomas Dalton, 1853-1854; resolutions of the Courts of Quarter Sessions for the counties of Glamorgan and Cardigan, 1855-1856; a resolution of the Committee of Visitors, 1855, endorsed with the approval of [Sir] George Grey, Home Secretary; and draft minutes of the Committee of Visitors, 1856.

Union of Welsh People in Dispersion: Correspondence. Welsh, English, Spanish. Between boards. Donated by the Union of Welsh People in Dispersion, per T. Elwyn Griffith, Caernarvon, May 1969.

Records of the Unemployment Assistance Board (Cardiff) Sports and Social Club, 1935-1945, including committee minutes, correspondence, annual reports and financial accounts, and programmes; papers relating to Unemployment Assistance Board (Wales) eisteddfodau, 1938-1939; and papers concerning the Cardiff Channel Dry Docks and Pontoon Co. Ltd, 1927-1930, and the Civil Service Clerical Association, 1938. There are no records of the Board's official activities.

Account book, 1898-1918, of John Thomas, Rhoshelyg, Dinas Cross, co. Pembroke, undertaker and carpenter, with a few entries for 1880 and later additions, 1932-1942.

A first draft screenplay by the director Andrew Sinclair (Timon Films, London), [1971]-[1972], of the play by Dylan Thomas. A piece of paper has been pasted on the title page with the words: 'For Andrew, I have rarely admired or liked a man better! Affectionately Richard B.'.

Undeb y Cymry ar Wasgar: llyfr cofnodion y pwyllgor ym Mhatagonia yn llaw Valmai Jones. Byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan Undeb y Cymry ar Wasgar, trwy law T. Elwyn Griffith, Caernarfon, Mai 1969.

Two rough notebooks of J. R. Williams, Rhosgadfan, containing minutes, memoranda, and accounts of 'Cylchwyl Undeb Llenyddol a Cherddorol Rhostryfan a Rhosgadfan', 1896. Inset are a carol and other verses; typescript and printed balance sheets, 1911, 1918; and an undated holograph letter from the secretary H. S. Hughes, Rhostryfan.

Minute and record book, 1892-1904, of the Uwch Llifon Temperance Union.

Minute-book, 1886-1908, of the Taf valley, counties Carmarthen and Pembroke, Temperance Union.

Undeb Cenedlaethol y Cymdeithasau Cymraeg (Adran Meirion)(National Union of Welsh Societies (Merioneth Section)): press cuttings. Welsh, English. Boards. Donated by D. T. Morgan, Barmouth, June 1960.

Undeb Cenedlaethol y Cymdeithasau Cymraeg (Adran Meirion): awgrymiadau i'r Cymdeithasau gan D. T. Morgan. Byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan D. T. Morgan, Y Bermo, Mehefin 1960.

Undeb Cenedlaethol y Cymdeithasau Cymraeg (Adran Meirion): adroddiad y dalaithgan D. T. Morgan. Byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan D. T. Morgan, Y Bermo, Mehefin 1960.

Minute-book of the Union of Welsh Teachers from its formation in 1926 up to 1938.

A typescript undated copy containing the words for eight songs including 'The wild wild railroad man or the ballad of Richard Hilton, 'Pen Cob races' and 'Blaenau town ride', [1930]-[1960].

Holograph manuscripts of three tenor solos composed in 1930 by Thomas Hubert J. Rees - 'Y Gwylanod', 'Y Seren Unig', and 'Y Cwmwl', words by Sir John Morris-Jones.