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The Works of Talhaiarn (Volume III) by John Jones ('Talhaiarn'), with MS notes and revisions by the author (printed). See also NLW MSS 17809-17810A. Welsh, English. Tooled leather. Donated by Miss L. M. Jones, Bath, June 1961.

The Works of Talhaiarn (Volume II) by John Jones ('Talhaiarn'), with MS notes and revisions by the author (printed). See also NLW MSS 17809A, 17811A. Welsh, English. Tooled leather. Donated by Miss L. M. Jones, Bath, June 1961.

The Works of Talhaiarn (Volume I) by John Jones ('Talhaiarn'), with MS notes and revisions by the author (printed). See also NLW MSS 17810-17811A. Welsh, English. Tooled leather. Donated by Miss L. M. Jones, Bath, June 1961.

The Works of ...M. Richard Greenham, with the signature of David Rowland on the title page. English. Leather. Donated by Dr Iorwerth Peate, St Nicholas, Cardiff, December 1973.

A typescript copy of a screenplay for a fantasy based upon the oldest stories of Britain and Ireland from the Mabinogi, Lebor Gabala and Cathe Maig Tuiredh.

An archival copy of the script of the play which featured Richard Elfyn as Lloyd George, November 2011- April 2012, together with a programme.

The Winning of the Kingdom of Glamorgan from the Welsh, 1088, being the traditional account of Robert Fitzhamon and the twelve Norman knights who are said to have accompanied him, with an account of St. Donats Castle and the Stradling family, illustrated by numerous water-colour drawings and sketches.

A bound volume containing the original typescript of an apparently unpublished play, The Winding Stair, by Gwen Pierce of Caerwys, and Professor Eliza Marian Butler of Cambridge, based on the latter's biography of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and performed by the Caerwys Amateur Dramatic Society at Caerwys and Chester, 1944 (see E. M. Butler, Paper Boats (London, 1959)). A contemporary cast-list, with notes on the back by Gwen Pierce for another play, and biographical notes on the actors, c. 1990, by Tom Lloyd-Roberts, have been tipped in at the beginnning of the volume.

A copy of a report prepared by William Stepp and Estelle Cremers, 2004, on the house which is situated in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and placed by the Pennsylvania Historical & Musueum Commission on The National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It was built for Welsh Quaker immigrants in 1720.

The original manuscript of an operetta for ladies' voices entitled 'The Wild Rose', composed by W. Rhys-Herbert, 1915, with words by Edith M. Burrows.

A copy of an early poem by Waldo Williams (1904-1971), c. 1914, entitled 'The wild rose', transcribed from memory by Idwal Lloyd.

Draft of a short adventure novel in three chapters entitled 'The White Violet', written c. 1885 by Alan James Gulston (1813-1886) of Derwydd and Dirleton, co. Carmarthen, brother of Josepha Heath Gulston ('Talbot Gwyn', 1811-1859) the novelist. The novel is set in South Africa during the Cape Frontier (or Kaffir) Wars of 1779-1879, and the draft contains numerous corrections to the text. A reference on the first folio to the author's novel Warren Knowles, published in London in 1885, suggests an approximate date for this composition.

A notebook written by John Jones, Cefnfaes, Rhayader, containing copies of documents relating to various charities - extracts from the will of John Davies, Clerkenwell, 1662, the Rhayader and Disserth Inclosure Award, 1829, the Disserth Inclosure Award, 1815, and the wills of the Reverend Charles Price, 1719, the Reverend Henry Williams, 1813, and David Morgan of Coedglasson, Nantmel, 1720, all relating to charity schools and lectures at Rhayader; a direction by the Charity Commission in the matter of the collegiate school at Llandovery called Thomas Phillips's Foundation, 1860; a scheme for the Foundation drawn up by the Reverend Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc'), with observations by John Jones, Cefnfaes, and Dr Alfred Ollivant, 1847; and a short biographical sketch of Thomas Phillips.

Minute book, 1849-1857, of the trustees of the Welsh Institution, Llandovery.