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Commonplace book containing scraps of music, poetry in English and Welsh, accounts, etc. English, Welsh. Paper. Purchased from Winifred Myers, London, October 1963.

A photostat facsimile of the commonplace book of John Penry, Puritan author, contained in Ellesmere MS. 2146 in the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, U.S.A.

Commonplace book of Louisa H. Morgan and others. English. 1/4 leather. Purchased from Commander H. B. Stewart, c/o Messrs C. E. Williams & Co., Oswestry, 1968.

Commonplace book of Louisa Morgan and others. English. 1/4 leather. Purchased from Commander H. B. Stewart, c/o Messrs C. E. Williams & Co., Oswestry, 1968.

Commonplace book of Louisa Morgan and others. English. Parchment. Purchased from Commander H. B. Stewart, c/o Messrs C. E. Williams & Co., Oswestry, 1968.

Commonplace book of poetry in the hand of Ellen Tompson. English. (Formerly Carl Hanson MS 3.) Red morocco. Donated by the family of the late Carl Hanson, October 1961.

Commonplace book, 1829- , of Thomas Lloyd Jones (‘Gwenffrwd’).

A commonplace book entitled 'Thomas Salubury's Book of Scraps and Diversities', compiled by Thomas Salusbury of Denbigh (b. 1761), third son of Robert Salusbury of Cotton Hall. It contains medical and culinary recipes, many of them attributed to North Wales Physicians; notes on contemporary events during the Napoleonic Wars; press cuttings; anecdotes of George II and Lord Chatham; notes on sermons preached by the Rev. Mr. Edwards at Wrexham, 1787, Bishop Horsley, 1805, the Rev. Mr. Mason at Denbigh, 1807, and the Rev. Mr. Philips at Denbigh, 1818; notes on notable members of the Salusbury family; genealogical extracts from the family Bible at Cotton Hall; and particulars of the birthdays of the compiler's relatives, friends, and acquaintances.

A commonplace book begun by William Thomas of Brecon and London and continued by other members of his family, containing receipts, genealogical memoranda, poetry, horoscopes; and miscellaneous entries relating to the Thomas family from 1673 to 1755.

A volume issued, 1828, to the antiqury Angharad Llwyd, Tyn-y-rhyl, Flintshire, for the collection of subscriptions towards St David's Welsh Church, Liverpool, but utilised by her as a commonplace and autograph book. Verse and prose entries, 1830-1853, mostly of a religious nature, include autograph poetry by John Jones (Tegid), Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), and Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall), and entries by Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Lady Charlotte Guest, Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover, Henry Hart Milman, David Pennant, William Owen[-Pughe], Thomas Raffles, Henry Raikes, John Bird Sumner, and Frances Wrangham. Also included is a letter of address, 1828, to Angharad Llwyd from the Rev. Robert Davies, perpetual curate of St David's Church (f. iii).

A commonplace book of John Jones, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire containing aphorisms and transcripts of poetry by John Davies ('Ossian Gwent').

A commonplace book, 1810-1859, of Mary Evans [? Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire] containing scriptural arguments supporting Unitarian doctrines and refuting various aspects of orthodox Christianity; with sermons, hymns, and religious and other verse. Also included is an account of the death of Thomas Evans, Pen-y-garn, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, 9 December 1833 (ff. 63-5 verso).

A manuscript volume, 1832-44, belonging to Catherine Wood, containing transcripts in various hands of verse and prose extracts.

A commonplace book of David George of Nant Einion, parish of Llanthoysant (Llanddeusant), begun in 1828, and containing rules of English grammar ('Murray's Exercises Corrected at Neuaddlwyd-academy'); farming accounts and settled accounts with the smith, cobbler, mason, weaver, shoemaker, labourers, etc., 1831-1838; a list of Welsh books; scriptural notes, and lists of scriptural readings at prayer meetings, Sunday Schools, etc.