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Notebook containing diary entries by the Rev. Ellis Thomas Davies, Abergele, Congregational minister, October 1864-March 1865 (ff. 4-38 verso), November-December 1866 (ff. 50-56), recording personal news and preaching engagements.
An englyn by Davies is on f. 18.

Papers relating to the Reverend Caradoc Jones (1875-1969), Rhosllannerchrugog, who went to Paimpol in Brittany in 1920 under the auspices of the Pioneer Mission and remained there until his retirement in 1967. The papers include some 75 letters, 1937-1968, written by Caradoc Jones to Eirene Stephens together with a summary list prepared by her of these, other documents and photographs of Paimpol; her correspondence, 1978-1979, with The National Library of Wales; together with publications of Caradoc Jones and concerning him, an article, 'The Gospel in Brittany', reprinted from The Christian, 25 November 1937; an account 'Holding the fort at Paimpol' by Rev. Caradoc Jones published in The Pioneer Review, April-June 1940, Winifred M. Pearce, Knight in royal service: a brief biography of the Rev. Caradoc Jones (London, 1962); and a newsletter, March 1969, from the Pioneer Mission, containing his obituary.

Papers, 1935-1945, of the Rev. B. George Rees, Curate of Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), Rector of Llansannor (1944-48), and a WEA lecturer on literature at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre and elsewhere. The papers include letters, 1939-1940, from a number of authors and poets, responding to requests by Rees for their thoughts on lecture subjects such as 'Life and Literature'.
The respondents include W. H. Auden, [1939] (ff. 2-3), Winston Churchill, 17 January 1939 (f. 8), C. Day Lewis, [?1939]-1940 (ff. 10-12), Aldous Huxley, 27 March 1940 (f. 16), Glyn Jones, April 1939-February 1940 (ff. 19-27), Herbert E. Palmer, February-March 1940 (ff. 35-44), John Cowper Powys, February-March 1940 (ff. 45-47), J. B. Priestley, 10 January 1939 (f. 48), Dylan Thomas, September 1939-February 1940 (ff. 56-60), and Emlyn Williams, 8 February 1940 (f. 63); a few respondents, such as Glyn Jones (f. 25) and Dylan Thomas (ff. 59-60), supplied Rees with brief essays. Also included are notes, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to Rees's lectures (ff. 66-91); and papers, 1935-1945, relating to his Church career, including letters and telegrams concerning his Institution at Llansannor, August-September 1944 (ff. 92-100), sermon notes (ff. 102-109), and parish magazines and pages from annual reports relating to Laleston, 1935-1944 (ff. 110-120).

A Book of Private Prayer used as a scrapbook, 1927-1944, by the Rev. B. G. Rees, Curate of Defynock (1934-36), Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), and Rector of Llansannor (1944-48); the volume consists mostly of press cuttings and letters relating to his ordination and career and his column in the Bridgend Advertiser, with some syllabuses for his lecture courses at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre with the WEA and YMCA (45 ff.). Also included are proofs, [?1938], of W. H. Auden's twenty-seven sonnet sequence 'In Time of War', for publication in W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Journey to a War (London, 1939), pp. 259-285; the proofs contain a very few manuscript emendations by the author and suggested titles for some of the sonnets and were given to Rees by Auden (see Auden's letter, NLW MS 24059E, f. 2) (6 ff.).

Photocopies of papers, 1902-1903, relating to the Rev. Arthur John Riddle, Hughesovska.

(Formerly Ernest L. M. Prichard MS 9.) Music notation, English. Between boards. Donated by the Honourable Mervyn Roberts, Abergele, April 1959.

A copy of resolutions passed at a meeting held at Holywell, 1816, under the chairmanship of David Pennant, Downing to consider the distressed state of lead miners and others in the locality as a result of the duties payable on the exportation of lead to the Continent; together with a holograph letter, 1816, from R. Lushington at the Treasury Chambers to Sir Thomas Mostyn of Mostyn, stating that the export duty on lead had been suspended for a period of three years.

Research by Dr. Clive Gareth Grey on the work of Rowland Huw Prichard, namely: 1) 'The 'Other' Hymn Tunes of Rowland Huw Prichard of Bala (1811-1887)'; 2) 'Sixteen Hymn Tunes including 'Hyfrydol'. Arranged and reharmonised by Clive Gareth Grey. Revised 2021'; 3) 'Un deg chwech o donau. Trefnwyd ac ail-harmoneiddwyd gan Clive Gareth Grey. 2021'. Copies of the above were printed and bound at NLW.

Research notes of Canon Hugh Pierce Jones, rector of Pwllheli, dealing with the S.P.C.K. and other societies in Anglesey (see Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club Transactions 1963) and a copy of his Christmas play 'Yn y Mynydd Hwn'.

A self published research paper by Mr James Miles Burton, entitled 'The Owen Story', which traces his mother's ancestors, the Owen family of Ystradgynlais, Cwm Aman, and Slough, from 1760 to 1999.

A copy, in three bound volumes, of the family history of the Howells family of Cwmystwyth, Ceredigion, being the research undertaken by John and Francesca McLaren, 2005. The Howells, John McLaren's Welsh forebears, were involved in lead mining in Cwmystwyth over many generations, and occupied many of the cottages in the area. The work contains transcriptions of parish records and some census information for local chapels, 1798-1965.

A self published research paper by Mr James Miles Burton, entitled 'The Burton Story', which traces his ancestors, the Burtons of Lostwithiel, Plymouth and Mid Glamorgan, from 1770 to the present day.

Reproductions from a 17th century St Cuthbert's Gospel of St John. Latin. (Formerly Stonyhurst MS.) In boards. Photographed from the original manuscript, July 1942.

Two reports written by the donor, 1995 and 1996, for the Welsh Library Association, relating to the 'proposed provision of public library services in the new unitary authorities for Wales', together with an appendix to the second report.

A manuscript volume containing mineral reports, copies of letters, plans and diagrams relating mainly to coal mining in Glamorgan, compiled 1849-1868 (watermark 1841), by Lewis A[mbrose] Williams, mineral and land surveyor and mine manager, of Bridgend and Cardiff (see Martin Laverty, 'Native Talent: A Williams Family of Early Victorian Swansea' in Swansea History Journal, 23 (2015-16), pp. 111-127).
The contents include mineral reports relating to various properties (ff. 3-75 passim, 102 verso-133 passim, 187-198); copy letters, 1849-1868, relating to Williams's work both as surveyor and mine manager (ff. 4-139 passim, 204); various diagrams, including mineral sections, some in colour (ff. 1-2, 152 verso, 153 verso, 155 verso-156, 157 verso, 160, 171 verso, 172 verso, 173 verso-174 verso, 177 verso, 178 verso, 197 verso, 199, 201 recto-verso), plans (ff. 40, 82, 83, 200, 202), and technical drawings and cross-sections (ff. 11, 19, 20, 79 verso, 83 verso, 88 verso-89, 134, 149 verso, 150 verso, 151 verso-152, 154 verso, 156 verso, 158 verso-166 verso (versos only), 169 verso-170 verso, 176 verso, 203, 215). Items found loose in the volume (ff. 183-220) have been placed in an archival envelope.

Reports on the Pant Mawr Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog by Robert Roberts, etc. English. Between boards. Purchased from G. W. Humphreys, Esq., Blaenau Ffestiniog, April 1964.

Between boards. Purchased from G. W. Humphreys, Esq., Blaenau Ffestiniog, April 1964.

Reports and minutes, 1986-1987, on plans to publish news relating to Wales, in the News on Sunday newspaper. [It was published April-November 1987].

Copies of engineers' reports, valuations, and accounts, 1856-1893, mainly by Samuel Dobson, Pontypridd, Thomas Evans and William Thomas, Aberdâr, and Morgan W. Davies, Swansea, relating to Clydach Vale, Dan-y-deri, Dinas, Foxhole, and Pwllmawr collieries, Glamorganshire, the Murton colliery, co. Durham, the Monkstone manganese mines, Devonshire, and the Aspeich copper mines, southern France. A printed prospectus, 1889, of shares in Richard Evans & Co. Ltd, Haydock Collieries, near St Helens, is pasted inside the back cover.