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Miscellaneous data (typewritten) relating to the parish of Llandwrog, co. Caernarvon, including extracts from a lay subsidy roll, 1663, a hearth tax return, 1664, an assessment for church mise, 1743, and a land tax assessment, 1788; incomplete lists of the rectors, 1652-1936, curates, 1633-1896, and churchwardens, 1739-1812; lists of freeholders, jurors, and electors, mid-sixteenth century - 1794; etc. The whole has been bound in the form of a small booklet.

Typewritten extracts from a manuscript in the Llandderfel parish chest written about 1857 by John Jennings, curate of the parish, containing his personal observations on the topography and archaeology of the district.

An incomplete manuscript draft, [1938], by the Rev. John Jenkins, Vicar of Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire (1908-1934), of his book Llanarthney: The Parish, its People and Places (Carmarthen, 1939).
The manuscript consists of drafts of the Introduction and Chapters I-V (ff. 1-17), Chapter VIII (ff. 17-21) and the beginning of Chapter IX (f. 21), mainly concerning the Parish Church, the village and Sir William Paxton. The text is written on the rectos with corrections and additions supplied on those pages or on the versos opposite.

A copy of A Geographical, Historical, and Religious Account of the Parish of Aberystruth: in the County of Monmouth ... By Edmund Jones. Trevecka, 1779.

A copy of Brian Martin Lodwick's M.Phil. thesis, 'The Oxford movement and the diocese of Llandaff during the nineteenth century' (University of Leeds, 1976).

The original typescript of '"Hapus Dyrfa": nefoedd oes Victoria', the Islwyn memorial lecture delivered by Dr. R. Tudur Jones at University College, Cardiff, and published in Llen Cymru, 13, pp. 236-77.

The origin, character and development of Accentual verse in Welsh with special reference to Rhys Goch ap Rhicert by D. Lloyd-Jenkins, Llanddewibrefi (later Tregaron). English. Boards. Donated by Professor J. E. Caerwyn Williams, December 1967.

An autograph essay entitled 'The Origin of Moral Evil' by Thomas Gee, signed and dated 12 February 1837.

The origin and history of the Old Meeting House, Aberdare by Rees Jenkin Jones. (Formerly Rees Jenkin Jones MS.) English. In boards. Donated by Dr Goronwy Jones, Swansea.

A typescript volume on the history of the Oriel family of Pembrokeshire, written by O. J. Vaughan in 1983, and updated in 2001.

The Old Eisteddfodau of Caernarvon by W. E. Davies (1851-1927). English. Between boards. Donated by Professor C. W. Davies, Aberystwyth, August 1960.

A copy of The Oddfellows' Magazine, vol. XLV, No. 475 (July 1914), containing a full account of The Annual Movable Conference of the Manchester Unity held at Aberystwyth, 1914.

The Normal College for Wales, Swansea: reports, and a biography of Evan Davies. English. Leather. Donated by D. T. Morgan, Barmouth, June 1960.

A copy of the second edition of Clement Moody: The New Eton Latin Grammar ... (London, 1840) containing a short note in the autograph of Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron, 1780-1843).

Letters, 1907-1908, mainly to W. B. Halhed, relating to the proposed formation in North Wales of a branch of the National Vigilance Association.

A booklet, [2010], produced for advertising purposes detailing the history of collecting photographs as specifed by the Royal Charter awarded to the National Library of Wales in 1907 and including examples of photography, 1841-1945.