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A satirical poem entitled Will of J[ohn] D[effett] Francis, Esq. [1815-1901], 30 June 1876 - a satirical poem by Wyndham Lawrence, with references to some of Francis's contemporaries in Swansea.

A manuscript containing hymn- and psalm-tunes, etc., some of them with Welsh and English words.

Photographic prints of a 16th century English manuscript book containing five distinct series of decorative alphabets and numerous calligraphic specimens, probably the work of Robert Jones. The original manuscript is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

A manuscript containing an account of a tour from London through parts of England and Wales, 1776.

The editor's own copy, with a few manuscript notes, of The Ottley Papers at Pitchford, Shropshire, relating to the Civil War, Transcribed an edited by William Philips from the original in the possession of Colonel James Cotes. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1893. The original papers are deposited in the Library in the Ottley collection.

An extent of the manor of Mawddwy in the parish of Llanymawddwy, Merioneth, showing the division into holdings, sheep-walks, commons, etc., with the names of the occupiers and the acreage.

Press cuttings, mainly from the Illustrated London News and the Penny Magazine containing descriptions and illustrations of ceremonies connected with various eisteddfodau held at Abergavenny, Aberystwyth, Pontypool, London, etc., 1845-1887.

Y Dyddiadur Annibynol am 1879, with manuscript entries and accounts by Robert D. Edwards (Derfel Meirion), Llandderfel.

Poetry transcribed between 1758 and 1765 by Robert Evans, Syrior, Llandrillo (Merioneth), together with a few riddles in verse, etc.

An ode to Princess Victoria (aft. Queen Victoria) written by Thomas W. Booker for the Gwent and Dyfed royal eisteddfod and musical festival held at Cardiff, 1834, and a receipt on silk from The Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian of an account of the proceedings at the various meetings of the eisteddfod.

A copy, made in 1837, of the baptismal register of the Congregational Church in Chapel Street, Holywell, 1788-1837, with original entries from 1837 to 1861. A printed prospectus, 1816, of the Chapel Street Day School kept by E. Williams is sewn to the last leaf.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register, 1722-1765, of Llandysul, Cardiganshire, recording baptisms, marriages and burials.

The ledger, journal and waste book for part of the year 1794 of Charles Ireland, Cardiff, trader in wines, tobacco, pepper, cloths, etc., together with his household expenses and also notes on materia medica, etc.

A copy of the second draft of Dr Mervyn Jones's typescript work, 'One Hundred Years of Physics at UCW Aberystwyth' (Part 1, pp 4-187, 'By the Sea', and Part 2, pp 188-375, 'On the Hill').

An 18th century transcript (?by David Jones) of a Welsh version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's (1100?-1154) Historia Regum Britanniae.

A photocopy of a typescript transcript of a letter, 1789, from Thomas Lloyd, Cilgwyn, near Cardigan, to William Wilberforce (1759-1833), written on his return from Jamaica and relating to the maltreatment of slaves.

Extracts from the Scriptures entitled 'Bennet's Collection of such Scriptures As ought to be Seriously and frequently Considered by all those Who ... design for Holy Orders ...', transcribed by John Harries 'a Divinity Scholar at the Free Grammar School St. Davids 1816'.

Notes taken by J. G. Caulett, 1778, of Dr Pate's observations on the pharmacopoeia used in St Bartholomew's Hospital.

A transcript in the hand of Roger Morris (fl. 1590), Coed y Talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd of the herbal generally attributed to William Salesbury (1520?-1600?), joint-translator of the New Testament and of the Book of Common Prayer into Welsh, 1567. This volume provides an earlier transcript than the 18th century copy in the hand of Evan Thomas (d. 1781), Cwmchwylfod, near Bala, which belonged later to John Peter (Ioan Pedr) (1833-1877) and which was edited by E. Stanton Roberts and published under the title of Llysieulyfr Meddyginiaethol a briodolir i William Salesbury ... (Liverpool, 1916).