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Correspondence and papers, 1967, relating to the Transport and General Workers' Union and the formation of a TUC for Wales; together with various newsletters, pamphlets and magazines produced by the South Wales Communist League, the Communist Workers Organization, Swansea University students, the Revolutionary National Freedom Movement, and Coleg Harlech Welsh Society, 1970-1974.

Papers of the Polish Society of Cardiganshire, 1942-1973, including correspondence; financial papers; minutes of meetings; membership and subscription records; papers relating to the organisation of festivals and events; papers relating to Polish servicemen in Britain; cuttings from the Polish press and the Western Mail; and papers relating to the foundation, constitution and dissolution of the Society.

Seventeen photos,mainly snapshots, some annotated on the reverse, most of which relate to a holiday or holidays in Poland in 1928. One passport type photo is annotated on the reverse 'Kazik Szumowski, London, 12/viii/1931'. The same individual can be identified in other photos wearing Polish military uniform. Amongst the annotated photos are a camp organised by the Polish YMCA, hiking in the Tatras mountains and a group of Polish military officers. The four postcards in the collection are two portraits of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a group of girls in swimming costumes dancing on a beach and a real photographic card of a group of young men with bicycles.

Poets of the Silver Age of Welsh Poetry, being renderings of Welsh medieval poetry (typescript). English. Between boards. Purchased from J. R. Morris, Bethel, Caernarvonshire, October 1965.

Poetry, specimens of pennillion singing, etc by Herbert Emlyn and others. English, Welsh. Between boards. Donated by Arthur Emlyn, London, October 1956.

Poetry, lectures, press cuttings, etc by William Deudraeth Jones ('Deudraeth') and others . Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Mr & Mrs R. D. Jones, Woolwich, October 1942.

A volume lettered 'Etchings, Sketchings, and Scribblings by F. P. G.', being a collection of holograph poetry in English, with copious pen-and- wash illustrations, by F. P. Gwynne, St. Julian House, Tenby. Among the titles are 'The Border Legend, or A Fiction of the Welch Marches', 'The Battle Field, or The Gallant Soldier, Dedicated to The Royal Welsh Fusiliers', 'The Welch Harper's Lament', and 'The County Church in Pembrokeshire'. The paper is watermarked 1856, and one of the poems is dated 1858.

Papers from the collection of John Jones, J.P., Bethesda, including holograph and typescript poetry by J. N. Crowther ('Glanceri'), 1914-1922; a typescript hymn by W. J. Parry, Bethesda, 1912; poetry by Robert Thomas, Llidiartau [sic], Bala, and Thomas Jones, J.P. ('Treforydd'), Wrexham; an elegy to the Reverend Morris Jones, Jerusalem, Llanllechid, by John [D]. Griffith ('Ioan Arfon'), Caernarvon; a hymn-tune, 'Addfwynder', the words by J. Jones, Bethesda, and the music by G. Jones, A.C. ('Gutyn Mawrth'); 'There's only one England' ('Nid oes ond un Gwalia'), being a song composed to words by 'Glanceri'; a paper (incomplete) on 'Rhwymedigaeth Proffeswyr Crefydd i fod yn aelodau o'r Ysgol Sabbothol' by John Jones, Bethesda; a paper (incomplete) entitled 'Sylwadau erbyn cyfarfod ysgol'; a balance-sheet of the Cefnfaes (Bethesda) School Bazaar, October, 1893; etc.

Poetry, englynion and law notes by John Hughes ('Ioan Glanymor'), John Williams and others. English, Welsh. (Formerly Alltlwyd MS 15.) 1/2 calf. Purchased from S. V. Galloway, Aberystwyth, November 1941.

A volume containing translations into English of Latin and Greek poems by George Herbert, viz. 'Parentalia', 'An Apology on behalf of a Suppliant amongst the Evangelical Ministers in England, addressed to His Most Serene Majesty against the Bewitched Gorgon of the Two Universities or the Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoria ...', 'Epigrams in Defence of the Discipline of our Church', 'The Inventions of War', and 'Other Latin Poems' (incomplete). Inset are transcripts of six sonnets, e.g. '... on the statue at Florenze of Lorenzo Duke of Milan, sculptured by Michel Angelo', 'Written on the lake of Albano', etc.

A volume of poems, 1890-1901, by three 'Rhymers'. It contains poems by A. E. Lomax, L. I. E. P[ughe] and C. E. L[omax], many of them having a Montgomeryshire setting, poems by G. R. G. P[ughe] and Jane Gould Pughe; and a copy of The Church in Wales: A versified review of her reverses by G. R. G. Pughe, vicar of Mellor, Lancashire, 1894.

Two 17th century stanzas which have been attributed to Henry Vaughan (Silurist) (1621-1695).

A volume of poems, 1890-1901, by three 'Rhymers'. It contains poems by A. E. Lomax, L. I. E. P[ughe] and C. E. L[omax], many of them having a Montgomeryshire setting, poems by G. R. G. P[ughe] and Jane Gould Pughe; and a copy of The Church in Wales: A versified review of her reverses by G. R. G. Pughe, vicar of Mellor, Lancashire, 1894.

A commonplace book compiled early in the nineteenth century and containing copies of contemporary English poetry, mainly by Scott, Byron, Campbell, Thomas Moore, and William Roscoe; verses 'inscribed to the worthy inhabitants of Carmarthen' by 'Mr. Davies, Cringell'; a pamphlet, issued by the Financial Reform Association, Liverpool, entitled The Peers' Plunder and the People's Poverty; and cuttings from The Atlanta Argus, 1883, Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 1884, and other sources.

A presentation typescript copy by the author, H. W. Badley, Mold, afterwards of Hawarden, of a poem written in March, 1933, under the title of 'Y Gwir yn erbyn y byd. Here followeth ye (Poster) Prize Poem of ye Welsh National Eisteddfod, Wrexham, 1933. Dedicated, without permission, but with due respect, to the Appeals Committee. Not for competition.'

A collection of sonnets and other verse by Frederick Samwell Henderson (1857-1931). Typescript.

A poem (202 lines), with annotations, entitled 'The Celtae'; and a list of contents of, and some transcripts from, a manuscript in the library of Chetham College, Manchester, entitled 'Short pedigree [sic] of Divers Noblemen, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen & Gentlewomen of Pembrokeshire, containing all or most of the Eight Ancestors from whom they are Descended together with the arms of most of them - London - Printed by John Winter for the author, a.d. 1671'.

A short criticism of selected poetry of Sir Lewis Morris, prepared for the Scribbling Club, 16 February 1911.

Poetry, c. 1874-1876, by Richard Jenkins (Rhisiart Ddu o'r Nant), Moriah, near Aberystwyth, and others.

Miscellaneous manuscript poems of John Davies ('Ossian Gwent'). Welsh, English.