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A volume containing an incomplete holograph copy, [mid-19 cent.], of An Abbridgement of the History of Britain From the Time of Constantine the Great to the Invasion by the Saxons Collected Out of the Works of William Cathrall, by Richard R. Jones (Dic Aberdaron, 1780-1843); together with a transcript by him of a passage in Latin and Hebrew from Johannis Buxtorfii Institutio epistolaris hebraica (Basel, 1610) made, 7 January 1837, for Hugh Jones, draper (f. 23).

A copy of [W. Stanley Roscoe,] Memoir of Richard Robert Jones of Aberdaron (London, 1822), with a letter from Joseph Mayer to William Upcott, 27 August 1843, and a holograph autobiography, transcripts in Greek and Hebrew, and a sketch of a harp by Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron).

[William Stanley Roscoe:] Memoir of Richard Roberts Jones of Aberdaron ... (London, 1822), with manuscript additions and insertions by 'Dic Aberdaron' himself. Bound into the volume are a number of printed items, notably Y ffordd i fod yn iach a dedwydd, being no. 445 in the series published by the Religious Tract Society.

A manuscript volume in Arabic and Persian which, according to an accompanying note, was picked up after the Battle of Inkerman in 1854. It opens in Arabic ('This is the book of the Jewels of Isālām') and then follow the invocation of the name of Allah and the laudatory reference to Mohammed. The text follows in Persian and consists of a dictionary of Islamic names, personal and geographical. The end is again in Arabic, and the colophon is dated 1213 of the Hejra, i.e. 1835.

Dictionary of the English Language by Joseph Ritson. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 10.) English. Parchment. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Manuscript draft, 1914, with typescript draft introduction, of an apparently unpublished Historical Grammar and Dictionary of the Silurian Dialect of the Welsh Language, by the Rev. Dr Lemuel Hopkin-James (Hopcyn, 1874-1937), cleric and antiquary.

'Diferyn Difyrrwch neu ganiadau plygeiniol er coffadwriaeth am ymddangosiad Duw yn y cnawd', being a collection made by G. C. Griffith of 'englynion', 'carolau', and other poems by Robert Hughes (Neuadd y blawd), William Griffith ('Gwilym ab Gryffydd', 1794), John Thomas (Pentrefoelas, 1800), David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifionydd'), G. C. Gryffydd (1816), and Richard Jones (Trefdraeth).

Llawysgrif Difyr Gampau a Gorchestion yr enwog Twm Shon Catti ... (Llanidloes, 1872), sef cyfieithiad gan John Evans ('Eilonydd') o lyfr Saesneg T. J. Llewelyn Pritchard [The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti ... (1828)]. Prynwyd oddi wrth Mr S. G. Lloyd Evans, Caerdydd, Rhagfyr 1977.

Proof sheets of 'The Great Hymns of Wales', with an introduction on Welsh religious poetry from the earliest times to the fifteenth century, by Digain Williams [fl. 1888-1895], San Francisco, 1933. A letter signed by the author, 1 October 1934, is attached to the proof.

Dinas yr Haul gan R. Bryn Williams ('Valencia' yn ei gyfrol Teithiau Tramor) (teipysgrif). (Gynt R. Bryn Williams MS 83.) Gweler hefyd NLW MSS 18175-18246.

Incomplete autograph draft, [c. 1906], of an unpublished historical novel, Dio, by Arthur Owen Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl'), set in Wales in the 1480s.

A statistical summary, [1907], of church work and finance in the Diocese of Bangor during the year 1906-1907.
The volume presents total figures relating to work, income and contributions in the Archdeaconries of Bangor and Merioneth (ff. 1-4), followed by detailed statistics for individual parishes, arranged by Archdeaconry and Rural Deanery (ff. 5-36).

A group of ecclesiastical papers, 1917-1919, of William Morgan, vicar of St. Ann's, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, including letters addressed to him, 1917, in connection with the Welsh Church Act, the Convention of the Church in Wales at Cardiff (1917), elections in the diocese of Bangor to the Representative Body and the Governing Body of the Church in Wales, etc.; manuscript, typescript, or printed balance sheets, 19171918, of the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund [in the diocese of Bangor], Bangor Diocesan Tract Society, Bangor Diocesan Church Building Society, the Church Defence and Instruction Committee [in the diocese of Bangor], Bangor Diocesan Board of Education, Bangor Clerical Education Society, Bangor Branch of the S. P. C. K., and Bangor Diocesan Church Extension Society; typescript schedules for the dioceses of St. Davids and Llandaff of incumbents with vested interests who had moved since 18 September, 1914; two printed letters by Watkin [Herbert Williams], bishop of Bangor, 1917-1919, relating to the implications of the Welsh Church Act, and the election of delegates in the diocese of Bangor for the Convention of the Church in Wales; a printed list for the Bangor Diocesan Conference, 14 November, 1917, of clerical and lay nominations for the Representative Body and the Governing Body of the Church in Wales; and manuscript and typescript notes, memoranda, and financial accounts by William Morgan.

Diplomas and certificates awarded to Timothy Richards Lewis. German, English. (Formerly T. R. Lewis MS 18.) Donated by Colonel W. H. Lewis, London, November 1925.

Directions for the practice of an attorney in the sessions of Wales; and a schedule of deedsrelating to property in Llangernyw, Denbighshire. English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs D. Macdonald, London, July 1949.