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Glossary of North Country Words, with MS notes, by John Trotter Brockett. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 26.) English. 1/2 morocco. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Gloucester Fire and Life Insurance forms and registers. (Formerly Thomas Dyke MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Mr Grenfell Jones, Abergavenny, June 1971.

Account book, 1748-1756, of Roderick Richard (d. 1753) and Roderick Rees (d. 1772), glovers, of Pen Bont, Llanbadarn Fawr, co. Cardigan, containing particulars of wool and skins purchased, together with other accounts and memoranda.

Deeds and documents, 1676-1874, relating to properties in Llandinam, Llanidloes, Mochdre and Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, and to affairs of local government and Turnpike Trusts. The Woosnam material covers the period 1691-1844.

Papers of Glyn Hopkins, [c. 1802]-1976, mainly comprising his draft articles and historical notes relating to Llanedi and Yr Hendy, Carmarthenshire, and Pontarddulais, Glamorgan, and to local place names; and a vestry book, [c. 1802]-1827, of Llanedi.

Typescript copies of Glyn Ifans, Canllaw Traethawd (Llandysul, 1974), short guidelines for writing different types of essays, with examples, and of Gwynt yr ynysoedd bach (Llandysul, 1975), a diary of an educational voyage, July 1970, from Swansea, on board the Uganda, to Madeira, the Canary Islands and Tangier; together with an undated letter from Gwasg Gomer.

Copïau teipysgrif o Glyn Ifans, Canllaw Traethawd (Llandysul, 1974) sef cyfarwyddyd byr ar ysgrifennu gwahanol draethodau, ynghyd â phatrymau ohonynt, ac o Gwynt yr ynysoedd bach (Llandysul, 1975), dyddiadur mordaith addysgol, Gorffennaf 1970, o Abertawe, ar long yr Uganda i Madeira, Ynysoedd y Caneri a Tangier; ynghyd ̂a llythyr, heb ddyddiad, oddi wrth Gwasg Gomer.

The fonds comprises the literary and personal papers of Glyn Jones, 1814-1995 (with gaps), including manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry and prose works by him, related correspondence and press cuttings, radio scripts, talks and readings and adjudications. Also included are notes and articles pertaining to Glyn Jones, general correspondence and notebooks; various papers relating to members of his family; and works by other writers.

Manuscript and typescript drafts, [1970s]-[1995], by Glyn Jones of his unfinished poem 'Seven Keys to Shaderdom', on which the version published in The Collected Poems of Glyn Jones, ed. by Meic Stephens (Cardiff, 1996), pp. 111-131, was based.
The published poem consists of seven sections with a prose Prologue, represented in the manuscript by multiple drafts (ff. 1-202, 208-224). Section I was previously published as 'Shader's Vision' in Poetry Wales 19.3 (1984), 51-2, the Prologue and Sections I-III appeared as 'Prologue and Three Fragments' in Glyn Jones, Selected Poems, Fragments and Fictions (Ogmore-by-Sea, 1988), pp. 133-144, and Section V was published in Poetry Wales 28.2 (October 1992), 18-19. The manuscript also includes other material including drafts and fragments of other poems, notes, images and completed lines (ff. 203-207, 225-279). Some leaves re-use miscellaneous letters, newsletters, television drama scripts and other papers. A self-portrait sketch in ink by Jones is on f. i verso.

Papers and publications created and collected by Glyn Mathias in the course of his career related to his career in journalism including his role in broadcasting from the UK Parliament, along with his work for OFCOM, Dwr Cymru and the Electoral Commission.

Papers of Glyn Tegai Hughes including diaries, letters, papers relating to his political interests, research papers, and Gwasg Gregynog ephemera.

Deeds and documents relating to Glyneiddan, Nantgaredig, and other premises in Carmarthenshire, 1785-1955, and papers of Henry Jones-Davies, relating to local government in Carmarthenshire, 1895-1950; and to agriculture, 1910-1945, especially to agricultural co-operatives in Wales.

A copy of Leonid Morgan's work '''Glynllech'' Families, Abercraf [Price & Powell]', together with a family tree showing the relationship with other families in the parishes of Ystradgynlais and Ystradfellte, co Brecon.

Deeds and documents relating to the Glynllifon estate, 1465-[1st half 20 cent.]; rentals and estate accounts, 1664, 1780-1787; and family correspondence, 1657-1845, mainly the correspondence of Thomas Wynn, 1st Lord Newborough, and Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd Lord Newborough. There are also a group of letters from a William Cardell Beattie from Caernarfon goal.

A printed sale catalogue, August 1932, of Glynllivon Park, Llanwnda, Caernarvonshire, with marginal notes by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, and press cuttings.

Estate records, including deeds and documents, 1304-1887, relating to the estates of the Glynnes in Flintshire and elsewhere. The first three centuries covered by the deeds relate largely to the Ravenscroft family, their property, and their legal transactions. A large body of the documents relate to the period when Sir John Glynne, 6th bart., was the occupier of the estate. Other estate records include accounts, rentals, estate, household, and personal accounts, inventories, election expenses, colliery accounts, lists of charities distributed, estate maps, plans, surveys, bills, vouchers, etc., 1690-1872, including rentals of the lordship of Hawarden, 1686-1886. -- Amongst the personal papers are the diaries and account books of Sir John Glynne, 1753-1757, the diaries of the Rev. Stephen Glynne, 1798-1824, Mary Glynne, afterwards Lady Lyttelton, 1824-1831, Stephen Richard Glynne, 1825-1874, and W. H. Gladstone whilst at Eton College, 1856-1857; travel journals through North Wales, 1824, South Wales, 1824, Scotland, 1839, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Belguim, Greece and Austria, 1834-1866, Turkey, 1848, Egypt, 1850, and Palestine, 1850. -- The archive also includes election papers such as lists of voters, canvass returns, accounts, relating to Flintshire elections, 1727-1837, letters written by and to members of the Glynne family and to Gladstone; notes on history, genealogy and ecclesiology; ships' log-books, 1727-1730 and 1734-1739. -- A separate group of legal papers which belonged to a lawyer named Dovey, relate mainly to bankrupts, and their immediate relevance to the Glynne family is not very obvious.

An offprint of Glynnis M. Cropp, 'The Medieval French Tradition' (with comments on NLW MS 5038D) from Boethius in the Middle Ages. Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the Consolatio Philosophiae, edited by Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen and Lodi Nauta (Brill, 1997).

Political correspondence and papers accumulated by Godfrey Lee, 1968-1989, relating to Plaid Cymru activities in Newport, 1968-1978, Plaid Cymru's Montgomeryshire branch, 1977-1988, and Welshpool branch, 1978-1989; the work of Gwent Regional Council [of Plaid Cymru], 1969-1977; together with Plaid Cymru Conference Programmes, 1969-1988; and literature concerning the Merthyr Tydfil by-election, 1972 and publications.

Records of the Gogerddan estate, Cardiganshire, and the Pryse family, including branches of the family at Glanfred, Ynysgreigiog and Glanmerin,1238-1987. There are also records of various other families linked to Gogerddan by marriage: Loveden of Buscot Park, Berkshire, Lewes (or Lewis) of Llan-gors, Breconshire, and of Abernantbychan and Coedmor in Cardiganshire, Hean Castle in Pembrokeshire and Hurst in Berkshire and Wiltshire, Pughe of Mathafarn, Montgomeryshire, and via the Pughe family, Salesbury of Rug. Merionethshire. The main group of Gogerddan estate papers comprises rentals, 1719-1931; valuations, 1805-[early 20th cent.]; title deeds, 1332-1930; estate administration records which include agency and tenancy papers, 1810-1925, estate accounts, 1474-1926 (mainly 1850s-1926), building records, 1766-1921, agricultural records, 1796-1922, forestry and timber records, 1816-1923, papers relating to enclosures on Cors Fochno and elsewhere, 1743-1899, hunting, shooting and fishing records, 1804-1943, and household administration records, 1668-1928; estate and general correspondencec, 1586-1924; papers of various agricultural societies, 1815-1924; Cardiganshire lead mining records, 1656-1924; manorial records mainly from Genau’r-glyn, Cardiganshire, and Emlyn Iscych, Pembrokeshire, and a few from Lampeter, 1610-1919; legal papers, 1441-[post-1908]; mortgages and other financial papers, 1577-1926; papers relating to the Cardigan Borough elections and other political papers, [1690]-1880[; county administration papers from Cardiganshire and other counties, 1523-1929; records of institutions such as churches and chapels, schools and charities, 1620-1945; papers relating to roads and railways, 1776-1900; the Pryse family probate records and family settlements, 1549-1950; and personal papers of the family, including Lady Marjorie Pryse, 1641-1987. There are several sub-groups of records from the other estates. The first of these is Abernantbychan, 1416-1918, which includes rentals, 1722-1887and valuations, 1790-[c. 1881]. The other estates comprise Mathafarn, 1403-1754, Aberbechan and Main, 1238-1684, Rug, 1529-1744, and miscellaneous estates which include Peterwell and Nanteos, Cardiganshire, Llanboidy in Carmarthenshire and Montserrat, West Indies, 1562-[c.1887],The BRA deposit consisted of papers mainly from the offices of solicitors, Atwood and Hughes of Aberystwyth, and Boys and Tweedie of London. It included original Gogerddan deeds, together with maps, correspondence, papers relating to enclosures in the manor of Genau’r-glyn, sales and purchases of land, mining and court cases, and papers amassed during administration of the estate after the death of Pryse Loveden in 1855. The material in the BRA Deposit has been amalgamated with the main Gogerddan catalogue, albeit as discrete files for retrieval purposes.Overall, the collection reflects the historical importance of Gogerddan and the Pryse family within Cardiganshire. Several major themes emerge from the estate records: the history of property ownership and building development in the Aberystwyth area, estate work such as land drainage, building improvements, agriculture, forestry, mining, gamekeeping and foxhunting, county politics, and participation in large-scale commercial enterprises such as the railways. The personal papers illustrate the family’s interests and their deep concern over financial issues during the final decline of the Gogerddan estate.

Printed volume including data recording the names of fishermen and the number of fish caught in north Ceredigion lakes (Llyn Conach, New Pool, Llynpenrhaidr and Llyn Dwfn) owned by the Gogerddan estate, 1944-1960.