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(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.

A composite volume of the period c. 1764-1765 containing transcripts and drafts of reports on education in England, Wales, and Ireland, and of other papers on education, collected by a Russian commissioner with a view to establishing an educational system in Russia. The titles of the reports include 'Des Ecoles dans le Roiaume d'Irlande connues sous le Nom de Charter-Schools', 'Etat des Ecoles de Charité de la Grande Brétagne et de l'Irlande, l'année dernière, 1764', 'Ecoles ambulantes de Charite, dans la Principauté de Galles, en Angleterre', 'Etudes de l'École des Humanités', ‘'Reflexions sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs, établies à St. Petersbourg & à Moscou', 'Utilités de l'Étude de la Langue Latine & de la Grecque, pour l'avancement des Connoissances', 'Supplement à la pétite Dissertation sur l'utilité de deux Sociétés de Traducteurs . . .', 'Doutes & Rémarques détachées, sur le Mémoire de Mr. le Conseiller Müller', 'Touchant le Protecteur général des Grandes Écoles & les Conseillers', 'Doutes touchant le Projet pour avoir 4 différentes sortes de Grandes Ecoles', 'Memoire Touchant les Grandes Ecoles d'Humanités en Angleterre, presenté au Mois de Novembre, 1764', 'Idée superficielle des deux Universites de l'Angleterre', 'Méthode d'enseigner les Humanités', 'Refléxions générales sur les principales Branches des Connoissances sur- tout en ce qui regarde La Prémière Education, & les Genres d'Études qui y conviennent', 'Projet de deux Grandes Ecoles, ou Séminaires Séculiers, l'un à St. Petersbourg, & l'autre à Moscou', etc.

A group of Directors' Reports and Statements of Account, 1885-1898, (numbered 2-29)of the Barry Dock and Railways Company.

Reports by E. Owen Phillips of inspections of Madam Bevan's [Bridget Bevan (1698-1779)] schools in South Wales, 1862-1866, also accounts of subscriptions towards the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1862-1867.

Reports by E. Owen Phillips of inspections of Madam [Bridget] Bevan's (1698-1779) schools, 1887-1888, also accounts of contributions towards the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1888-[?1892], and towards the Clergy Widows and Orphans' Fund, 1868.

Reports and papers by W. J. Williams, E. H. Jones and W. Lloyd Davies relating to parts of Snowdonia and the Pembrokeshire coast being included in the Welsh National Parks. English. Between boards. Donated by T. M. Griffith, Romiley, October 1955.