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A manuscript containing A true Coppie and Some of A grante made to the Deane and Cannons of the Chappell of Saint George in the Castle of Windsore by ... Edward the 3d and since confirmed ... by Edward the fourth ... and ... Phillippe and Marye ... made at the Request and charges of John Sheefeeld, 4 March 1627.

A letter, 1999, from Rodney Jones, relating to the location and original construction of the grave of Dr John Gwenogvryn Evans (1852-1930) and his wife Edith (d. 1923) which he prepared for himself in a rock near their home at Tremvan Hall, Llanbedrog, Caernarvonshire, where the donor's mother worked as a domestic servant; together with a plan of the grave.

A typescript copy of the memoirs of Arthur Sydney Parfitt, 2002, as written by his son Lewis Parfitt. The work portrays Arthur Parfitt's involvement with the St John's Ambulance movement, and with the struggle to provide basic First Aid facilities at the pithead in South Wales collieries during the early part of the 20th century.

An incomplete, typescript copy of a work by the Reverend Digain Williams, San Francisco, U.S.A., described on the title-page as 'The Great Hymns of Wales, translated by Rev. Digain Williams . . .', and intended for publication. The text consists of brief notes on twenty-one well-known Welsh hymn-writers (in alphabetical order), with translations into English of some of their best-known hymns. The preface, introduction, and pp. 1-5 of the text, which, according to the table of contents, would have dealt with two other writers, are missing. In some instances, spaces have been left in the text for the insertion of hymn-tunes.

An entry book, 1783-1798, of fees collected by the Reverend John Rocke on the passing of fines and recoveries in the Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire circuit of the Court of Great Sessions.

Notebook, 1914-1916, kept by Nursing Sergeant Davies of 'C' section of the 130th (St John) Field Ambulance unit, attached to the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army. It includes a diary, November 1914-June 1916 (ff. 1-12), describing duties in Britain before embarkation for France on 3 December 1915, and subsequent activities on the Western Front prior to the Battle of Mametz Wood.
A draft application for an army commission (ff. 45, 46 verso) suggests that Sergeant Davies was a native of Carmarthenshire and a former miner. The notebook also contains medicinal recipes (ff. 13-14, 44 verso, 45-6), ration tables (ff. 8 verso-9, 14), and poetry in both English and Welsh (ff. 22 verso-23, 31-44, 49-53). An additional folio, tipped into the volume (f. 16a), contains further diary entries, October 1916, and suggests the existence of a second volume, subsequently lost.

Agreements, plans, correspondence etc. relating to water and sewage pipes, cables, wires etc. laid over and under private and railway property in Wales (plus a very few in neighbouring parts of England), including grants of right and easements for maintenance. Almost every agreement includes one or more plans.

Commercial Memorandum-Book, with an Almanac for 1854 ..., with notes on Greek grammar in the hand of Thomas Charles Edwards, first principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

A copy of F[rederick] H[enry] A[mbrose] Scrivener: H. KAINH ΔIAΘHKH Novum Testamentum. Textus Stephanici A.D. 1550. Accedunt variae lectiones editionum Bezae, Elzeviri, Lachmanni, Tischendorfii, Tregellesii. (Cambridge and London, 1877), with numerous manuscript, marginal annotations.

Illustrated diary, 1981-1984, of Ann Pettitt, peace campaigner and one of the founders of the Greenham Common peace protest (NLW MS 23901iC). The diary describes the peace march from Cardiff to Greenham Common Air Base, August-September 1981 (ff. 1-4), which led to the establishment of the peace camp there, together with a similar march to R.A.F. Brawdy, May 1982 (ff. 11-23 verso), and a ten-day camp at Greenham Common in September 1984 (ff. 23 verso-68).
Also included (NLW MS 23901iiC) is a copy of Pettitt's chapter, 'Ten days at Greenham Common', which was intended for a proposed, but unpublished, anthology of women's writing in Wales (ff. 4-19); and associated correspondence, February-May 1988 (ff. 1-3). The illustrations in NLW MS 23901iC, ff. 29, 32 and 51 are reproduced in Ann Pettitt, Walking to Greenham (Dinas Powys, 2006), pp. 81, 7, 155 respectively.

Mainly copies of items believed from NLW collections inc 21 of "A New Map of Denbighshire & Flintshire" by W Williams, ca.1720; photos of Tregaron area; Water mills in N Wales, Nanteos cup etc. Also a series of copy photographs of views around Tregaron ca.1910. On the reverse of these is information regarding Miss Janet Phillips, owner of the originals.

Cartes de visite, postcards and cabinet cards of various personalities, some identified on reverse. These are from a variety of different sources.

Papers of the writer, poet, and literary editor Greg Hill (1949-), including personal and editorial correspondence from various poets and literary figures mainly from Wales and of Welsh interest, and related papers (1952; 1980-2010); papers relating to both published and some unpublished works, including poems, essays, translations, and typescripts (1930-2012); papers relating to the journal Materion Dwyieithiog/Bilingual Matters published by the Media Studies Group, Coleg Ceredigion, including correspondence and typescripts (1989-1992); reviews and press cuttings from various literary journals of Welsh interest (1977-2021); and papers relating to the organisation of the ‘Poets on Poets’ event at Coleg Harlech (1993-1994).