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Commonplace book, 1866-1916, in Welsh, of Owen Roberts (1848-1917), Frondeg, Tre-garth, co. Caernarfon, containing transcripts of hymns and secular verse, and notes of local events, including notes concerning chapel activities and the Penrhyn slate quarry.

The first of six volumes of day-books of the Richards family of the Post Office, Pontfathew, Bryn-crug, co. Merioneth, containing accounts, 1894-1921, relating to their drapery and grocery store.

A report, in four volumes, on a research project entitled 'The rural economy and society of Wales between 1790-1815 with special reference to the manuscripts of Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'), undertaken by Dr David Ceri Jones, on behalf of Professor David W. Howell and Professor Prys Morgan, Directors of the Project, for the History and Law Committee, Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales, 2000-2001.

Almost three hundred letters, 1931-1974, from Llewelyn Wyn Griffith (1890-1977), novelist, poet and translator, to Arthur Behrend (1895-1974), shipbroker and novelist, together with photocopies of two pages from an unpublished memoir written by Arthur Behrend, in which he describes how he came to meet Lyn Wyn Griffith in the early spring of 1931, and tells of their subsequent close friendship.

Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys taflen ystadegol am y flwyddyn yn diweddu 31 Rhagfyr 1977, cyfrifon, 1979, a dogfen yn dwyn y teitl 'Y sefyllfa heddiw', 1995, yn perthyn i Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru Weston Rhyn, Croesoswallt. Daeth cofysgrifau ychwanegol yn perthyn i'r capel gan gynnwys tri llyfr cagliadau tuag at y Weinidogaeth, 1938-1982; dau lyfr y Trysorydd, 1936-1988, llyfr casgliad yr aelodaeth, 1920-1937; cyfrol yn nodi casgliad misol y plant, 1889-1950; llyfr yr eisteddleoedd, 1890-1963; ac ystadegau, 1910-1991 i'r Llyfrgell yn ddiweddarach.

Eleven letters, 1938-1940, from John Cowper Powys to the writer Harlan Cozad McIntosh (1908-1940), containing detailed comments on a draft of the recipient's novel, This Finer Shadow (New York, 1941) (ff. 8-34 verso); and twelve letters, 1938-1942, from the same to McIntosh's wife, Jane Hardy, a New York literary agent (ff. 3, 35-58 verso). Also included are a manuscript copy of Powys's foreword to the novel, and carbon copies of three letters from Jane Hardy: two, 1938, to Powys (ff. 1, 5), and one, 1966, to Powys's literary agent, Gerald Pollinger (f. 59).
The letters contain references to Edwin Muir (f. 8 verso), James Hanley (ff. 10 recto-verso, 12 verso, 13-14 verso, 15 recto-verso, 47, 48 verso, 57) and John Redwood Anderson (f. 58 verso), and to the death of Llewelyn Powys (ff. 33 verso-34).

Two large scrap-books containing numerous miscellaneous material - photographs, newspaper cuttings, original letters, leaflets and publications relating mainly to William Haines, historian of Monmouthshire and the history of Monmouthshire in particular, compiled by his wife, Mary Haines, Y Bryn, Penpergwm, Abergavenny, with annotations by their granddaughter Lorna Pragnell.

A collection of newspaper cuttings relating to the history of the poet Will Hopkyn and the maid from Cefn Ydfa, accumulated by the donor's grandfather, together with cuttings and letters relating to the Neath area, and a poster regarding the life and career of Dr Wm Price, Llantrisant.

A file containing letters, cards and other papers received by Arthur S. B. Davies from people with an interest in the various Celtic cultures. The papers reflect his interest in various Celtic cultures. Also included are some letters to D. Gareth Davies, A. S. B. Davies's son.

Notebook, 1949-1964, containing holograph poems by the Anglo-Welsh poet Thomas Harri Jones, comprising fair copies of his compositions, dated May 1950-September 1964.
The notebook was presented to the poet by Delia Glanville in 1949 (see T. Harri Jones 1921-1965, ed. by P. Power (Cardiff, 1987), no. 88) and contains poems written in London and Portsmouth, England (ff. 1-98), and Newcastle, New South Wales (ff. 99-306). Also included is a cutting, [1965], from an Australian newspaper, of an article on T. Harri Jones, written following his death. Many of the poems were published for the first time in The Complete Poems of T. H. Jones, ed. by Don Dale-Jones and P. Bernard Jones (Cardiff, 2008).

An account by 'Mr M-' [Thomas Martyn], illustrated with a few water-colour sketches, of a journey from London to South Wales in August 1801.

A thesis by W. Hughes Edwards on the history of Chatham Street Chapel, Liverpool, submitted for a degree in Civic Studies Honours, [1963].

Accounts of the churchwardens, overseers of the poor and surveyors of the roads in the parish of Llanfihangel Ciliau Aeron for various years between 1833 and 1883.

A collection made by Isaac Mann (1785-1831) of about two hundred autograph letters of Baptist ministers, missionaries (including William Carey) and converts, written 1711-1831; together with a calendar, prepared by F. G. Hastings, with annotations by W. T. Whitley, which was printed in The Baptist Quarterly, VI and VII (1932-1935).

Autograph letters from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, to Howel Harris, 1770, with a draft reply by Harris, from David Jones, Llangan to Mr. Rogers at Carnachenwen, near Fishguard, 1804, from Thomas Charles, Bala, to Mrs. D. Davies at the Bank, Aberystwyth, 1809, and from E[benezer] R[ichard], Tregaron, to Mrs. Davies, Carnachenwen, 1816, and an extract from an unsigned letter.

Letters from Thomas Rees (Swansea), and William George Jenkins (Llandyssul, to Rees Jenkin Jones (Aberdare), a letter from Rees Jenkin Jones, and press cuttings containing a translation by Williams Thomas (Gwilym Marles) of In memorium verses written by Rees Jenkin Jones.

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Darlington, one of his Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in Wales, including essays and articles, drafts of speeches and addresses, letters from Ellis Edwards, Tom Ellis, Beriah Gwynfe Evans, D. Silvan Evans, David Howell (Llawdden), J. Puleston Jones, Sir John Rhys, A. Neobard Palmer, and Hugh Williams, and press cuttings.

Tystysgrif cyfranddaliadau yng nghwmni cydweithredol dyfrhau Y Gaiman, Chubut, Patagonia, Yr Ariannin, yn enw Aaron Jenkins, 5 Medi 1934, wedi ei harwyddo gan John ap Hughes, Robert Evans a Myrddin Griffith.

The first of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 756B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall, antiquary and bookseller of King's Lynn, Norfolk. NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips, whilst NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).
The volume contains corrected fair copies of fifty-five poems, with the titles only of two others. See Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 4 vols (London, 1980-1997), II, part 2, compiled by Peter Beal (1993), pp. 128-129, and The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, ed. by Patrick Thomas, 3 vols (Stump Cross, Essex, 1990-1993), I: The Poems (1990).

A survey of grave spaces and headstones relating to St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth, carried out by W. Rees Davies, Borough Engineer, August 1972, and indexed by E. Alwyn Benjamin, 1981.