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The minute book of the committee appointed to arrange the Royal Welsh United Choir's visit to the Paris Exhibition, 1900; letters from J. J. Brazier, Philbert Breban, Jean le Fustec (founder of the Gorsedd of Brittany) and others; miscellaneous printed material.

Royal Welsh Fusiliers recruiting accounts in the hand of Sam. Hobson. English. In boards. Purchased from Myers & Co., booksellers, Ltd, March 1942.

A royal sanction, dated 11 February 1761, given to the establishment of a corps of Royal Welch Volunteers; a certificate, dated 7 June 1822, showing that John Morris, Trefeurig was accepted as a substitute in the Cardiganshire militia for John Jones, weaver, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire; a royal commission, dated 22 June 1900, appointing Edward Price Meredith a second lieutenant in the 1st Herefordshire Volunteer Rifle Corps.

A typescript 'Register of Appointments to the Royal Victorian Order' compiled by Philip Hancock, recording (in chronological order) all Dames Grand Cross, Knights Grand Cross, Dames Commander and Knights Commander, appointed between 1936 and 1997.

The order book of the Royal Monmouth and Brecon Militia, 3 February 1804 - 1 November 1805.

A typewritten report of 'Tour No. VI' by the Sub-Committee of the Royal Commission on Coast Erosion in the United Kingdom, July-August [1907], and of a resolution of the Sub-Committee taken at Carmarthen, 24 July [1907]. The tour comprised visits to, among other places, Caldicot Level, Berwick Embankment near Llanelly, Burry Port, New Quay, Aberayron, Aberystwyth, Borth, Barmouth, Criccieth, the track of the Cambrian Railway, Nevin and Morva Nevin, Carnarvon, Llanfairfechan, Colwyn Bay, Rhuddlan Marsh Embankment, and Rhyl. Following the report is the name in pencil of D. R. Daniel, who was secretary to the Commission, and following the resolution the name of Sir W[illiam] Ffolkes, the chairman.

'An Account of the Planting of Forest and Ornamental Trees &c. done at Appleby [Hall, Brigg, Lincolnshire] from the year 1847 to 1857' by Rowland Winn (1820-1893), afterwards Baron St Oswald. At the beginning of the volume is a genealogical table showing the connection of the Winn family with that of Wynn of Gwydir.

A volume containing notes of the first eleven in a series of lectures on divinity, the first dated 20 October 1801, made by Rowland Williams, later rector and vicar of Ysceifiog, Flintshire, whilst a student at Jesus College, Oxford. The lectures were delivered by the Regius Professor of Divinity, John Randolph, Bishop of Oxford (see his Heads of a course of lectures in divinity, ([Oxford(?)]: [n. pub.], [1784(?)]) [ESTC T130135], which gives headings for thirty-five lectures).
Originally used as a wrapper (now ff. i, 36) is the final leaf from a copy of The Office of the Judge, promoted by Collet and Havard, against Evanson: Depositions of Witnesses ... ([Gloucester(?)]: [n. pub.], [1774(?)]) [ESTC T142453], relating to the 1775 trial in the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Gloucester of the Rev. Edward Evanson for publishing a tract contrary to Church doctrine. On f. i Rowland Williams has added a note recording his election, 9 December 1801, as a scholar of Jesus College.

A short ode composed by Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) (1823-1905) for the opening of the Bangor National Eisteddfod, 1890.

The original manuscript of the ode Caradog yn Rhufain which won for Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) (1823-1905) the chair at the Mold National Eisteddfod, 1873.

The original manuscript of the poem on Owain Glyndŵr (1354?-1416?) which won for Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) (1823-1905) the gold medal at the Carmarthen National Eisteddfod, 1867.

A commonplace book kept, 1837-1857, by Rowland Williams, one of the contributors to Essays and Reviews, 1860, the book containing extracts from theological works, notes of sermons heard at Cambridge and elsewhere, etc.

A manuscript entitled Positions proved by Rowland Owen gentleman of ... Anglesey ... that the papistes have most inhumanely iniured your most sacred Maiestie from your infancie; that they have wronged me by whom they understood ... that your wronges should be reavealed ... The manuscript is unfinished and was prepared by the author for presentation to King James I, with the royal arms stamped on the front and back of the cover.

A volume containing abstracts of wages and other accounts of Rowe's Colliery, Pembrokeshire, worked by James M. Child of Begelly House, including abstracts in respect of parts worked in partnership between him and Jeremiah Mathias & Co., Thomas Allen & Co., James Waters & Co., and William Eynon, and of shipment and other disbursements by Thomas Eynon, 1818-1819.

Rough minutes of a [?Caernarfonshire] Rural Community Council committee; notes by Bob Owen for a lecture to Caernarfonshire R[ural] C[ommunity] C[ouncil] on 'Llandudno Prior to 1832'. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, 1959-1962.

Further family papers, [1992]-1999, comprising a short autobiography, [1992 x 1999], by Dr Rosentyl Griffiths; two obituaries, 1999, of Dr Griffiths, from the periodicals GP and British Medical Journal; and an address delivered by the Reverend Noel Evans, Cardiff, on the day of her funeral, 6 March 1999.

Further family papers including a brief biography of Martha Griffiths (née Howells, d. 1920), Dr Rosentyl Griffiths's mother, who cured many people of cancer, and four verses written in appreciation by Tom Williams ('Castellydd'), Pontypridd, whom she cured; together with a letter to her, 1920, asking for assistance after conventional treatment for breast cancer had failed.