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A volume containing a collection of articles 'Notices of British fungi' (from the Annals and Magazine of Natural History), 1844-59, by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, including a note by the author on the interest in mycology shown by Mrs Lloyd Wynne of Coed Coch, Denbigh, together with copies of letters and articles on the subject.

A research work undertaken by John C. Heard relating to a scheme by which ex-servicemen, through their own labour, could obtain satisfactory housing accommodation for themselves and for their families in the post war years, with the assistance of the British Legion (Wrexham) Branch Committee.

A British passport issued 25 July 1860 to Martha Lewis (afterwards Mrs Wheldon) to enable her to travel on the continent of Europe accompanied by her sister Sarah Jane Lewis.

A minute book, 1864-1870, of the committee of Adwy and Coedpoeth British School, Denbighshire.

A slightly abridged text, on vellum (circa 1400), with unusual readings, of William Briton (or Breton)'s best known work 'Vocabularium Bibliae', a treatise explanatory of obscure words in the Vulgate version of the Bible; a short treatise on prosody; and a fragment of an abridgement (circa 1450) of Alexander Neckam's 'Repertorium Bibliae', a work similar to the 'Vocabularium Bibliae'.

Diary, March-November 1885, of an unidentified Scottish girl staying at Port-Manech and elsewhere in Finistère, Brittany, containing many observations on local life and customs and references to artists working in the Pont-Aven district. A few notes have been added in pencil by a later hand.

Incomplete autograph manuscript, 1916-1928, by Josef Charles Holbrooke of his three-act opera Bronwen (op. 75), being the third and final part of his operatic trilogy The Cauldron of Annwn; Act I is lacking. The libretto, based on the narratives of The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, was written by Holbrooke's patron, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, eighth baron Howard de Walden.
Mostly composed at Harlech, the work was completed in parts, the Overture (MS 23863F) (published as a piano arrangement in 1917), here dated July 1916 (p. 17); Act II (MS 23864F) dated 5 August 1918 (p. 183); and Act III (MS 23865F), dated 12 October [19]24 (p. 295); the latter is probably the completion date of the full score (confirmed by the note at the end of the published version of 1929), as opposed to the vocal score of the opera, which was apparently completed at Harlech on 5 February 1920 (see note at end of the published vocal score (1922), and cf. George Lowe, Josef Holbrooke and His Work (London, 1920), p. 273). However, a note added at the end of the Prelude to Act III (MS 23865F, p. 190) suggests that a final revision was made in 1928. The vocal score was first published, with English and German words, as Bronwen: A Music Drama (No. 3) (London, 1922), and the full score in 1929 (see British Library Catalogue of Printed Music); the opera was first performed by the Carl Rosa Opera Company in Huddersfield on 1 February 1929.

Account book, 1848-77, recording expenditure on building work on the Bronwydd estate in counties Cardigan, Carmarthen and Pembroke; with additions, 1926, listing measurements and prices of timber.

Papers relating to the Broom Hall estate, Caernarvonshire, including pedigrees, etc.

Two cost books of Broughton & Plas Power Coal Co. Ltd., 1 June, 1889-29 July, 1893, and 2 September, 1893-28 July, 1900, containing coal and slack costs accounts and coal sales accounts for Plas Power and Gate-Wen Collieries, generally compiled at four-weekly intervals. On the fly-leaf of NLW MS 10743B is a statement showing advances and reductions in colliers' wages in North Wales during the period 1880-1900.

A copy of Browne Willis: A Survey of the Cathedral Church of St. David's ... (London, 1717), which belonged in the eighteenth century to Erasmus Lewes and in the nineteenth to David Lloyd Isaac, both of whom have added marginalia and notes on fly-leaves. According to a note by Lewes the friend who supplied Browne Willis with material for the first ninety pages was a Dr. Edwards who lived under that name at Carmarthen though his real name was Dr. Wotton (i.e., William Wotton, 1666-1726, D.N.B., lxiii, 61-3).

An incomplete transcript of 'Chronica Principum Walliae' or 'Brut y Tywysogion', probably based on the text in 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' and bearing a close resemblance to the text found in Peniarth MS. 212, and a transcript of another chronicle from Cadwalydr Vendigeid to A.D. 1565.

Specifications, [c. 1876], of alterations and repairs to Bryn Bras Castle, parish of Llanrug, co. Caernarfon, the property of the Reverend C. H. Griffith (ff. 1-17); and receipted bills, 1878-1888, of tradesmen from Bangor, Caernarfon, and Port Dinorwic to William Dew of Bryn Bras Castle.

The holograph manuscript of the hymn-tune 'Bryn Calfaria' composed in 1850 by William Owen ('William Owen Prysgol').

A minute book, 1860-79, of the Lodge of Oddfellows (Manchester Unity), established at Brynaman, co. Carmarthen, on 17 March 1860.

Bryncroes & Llaniestyn Parish Council correspondence and rough minutes. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, October 1959.

A manuscript entitled Disbursements for ye use of ye Company at Bryndinas mines in Merion[eth]shire, 1752-1762, together with various other accounts, 1789-1793.

A bound typescript, 2025, of the donor's study 'Bryngwyn and Old Hope Pen: A Story of Wales and Jamaica'.

Brynkinallt Auxiliary Hospital, Chirk: account of donations in cash and kind. (Formerly Brynkinallt MS 6.) English. Cloth. Donated by Mrs P. C. Storey, Glyn Ceiriog, April 1944.