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Papers and autograph letters by Morris C. Jones, T. R. Morris, etc., relating to the formation of Welshpool Free Library and its amalgamation with the Powysland Museum. English. (Formerly D. R. Thomas MS 51.).

Papers, 1970-2004, accumulated by Robert Vale, Printer, relating to various private presses, including correspondence with Mark Arman of the Workshop Press, Essex; with Ann, Peter and Simon Randall, of the Cygnet Press, Oxford; and with Cowan Smail of Smail & Sons Printing Works, Innerleithen; together with letters to Robert Vale from Alison Cox, the Compositor at Robert Smail's Printing Works, Innerleithen.

Papers accumulated by Professor Ralph Maud (Canada) during his researches concerning William Morgan (1916-90), London, agricultural economist and poet, one of whose poems was admired by Dylan Thomas; together with a photocopy of a letter, 1993, from Professor Maud to Dr Meredydd Evans.

Papers accumulated by J. R. Evans including papers, 1977-82, relating to the centenary celebrations of Cwmpadarn Primary School, Llanbadarn Fawr, 1977, and to E. G. Bowen, A history of Llanbadarn (Llandysul, 1979) published to mark the occasion; and papers, 1986-8, relating to the formation of a joint pastorate of Welsh Congregational churches in north Cardiganshire.

Papers accumulated by Humphrey Thomas Jones, Talybont, p. Llanenddwyn, co. Mer., including domestic vouchers, 1866-1877, and notes in Welsh, c.1910, on woollen factories in cos. Caern and Mer.

Papers accumulated by B.M. Smith concerning her opposition to the Gulf War, comprising minutes and correspondence of the Committee to Stop War in the Gulf (Cardiff), 1990, miscellaneous correspondence, pamphlets, posters, petitions and photocopies of press cuttings.

Papers (17 ff.) relating to the history of NLW MS 22688B - Speculum Juratoris by Thomas de Wygenhale - including letters, 1947, from H M Colvin, University College London.

A photostat facsimile of the parish register, 1598-1785, of Panteg, Monmouthshire, recording baptisms, marriages and burials.

Minute-book of the Palleg commoners' committee, 1871-1905, concerning the regulating of the number of sheep and cattle on Palleg mountain in the parish of Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, the appointment of shepherds, and other matters relating to the common.

Page proofs with MS revisions of a parochial history of Tregynon by W. Scott Owen.English. Between boards. Donated by J. A. A. Williams, Caernarvon, October 1942.

Page proofs of Browne Willis, A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of Landaff (London, 1719), with MS corrections by the author. English. Purchased from Mr W. J. West, Exeter, December 1980.

Llythyr, heb ddyddiad, oddi wrth 'Dalethin' (?y Parchedig Tom Jones, Llanrwst) at olygydd Y Rhedegydd yn ymwneud â phabyddiaeth yn Llanrwst, sir Ddinbych; ynghyd â ffotograff o'r Parch Tom Jones. / An undated letter in Welsh addressed to the editor of Y Rhedegydd from 'Dalethin' (?the Reverend Tom Jones, Llanrwst) relating to Catholicism in Llanrwst, co. Denbigh; together with a photograph of the Rev. Tom Jones.

An account book, 1843-1854, of Soar's Tent (No.957), Merioneth District, Independent Order of Rechabites, established at Dinas Mawddwy on 31 March 1843. Also included in the volume are an obituary of John D. Jones of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York, an emigrant from Mallwyd, and draft essays on 'Dyledswydd Gwraig ar yr Aelwyd', etc.

Five scrapbooks of press cuttings collated by the photographer P. B. Abery of photographs taken by him, 1930-1945, for national daily newspapers.

A scrapbook compiled by Oxfam Cymru relating to its charity work.

A volume, 1830-1847 (watermark 1830), containing fair copies of verse composed between 1829 and 1847 by H. W. Mortimer of Islington, later of St Mary Church, Devon, and of Fersfield, Norfolk, a Unitarian and follower of the social reformer, Robert Owen. Much of the work, 1830-1832, is in praise of Owen and his communitarian ideals, but it also includes satires on some sections of the English clergy, as well as verse dedicated to family and friends.
Subjects of some of the verses include Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, 1829 (pp. 1-3), William Johnson Fox, Unitarian preacher and writer, 1829 (pp. 21-25), the Rev. Thomas Belsham, Unitarian minister, 1829 (pp. 21-25), John Howard, the philanthropist, 1830 (pp. 35-37), the London Female Penitentiary, 1830 (p. 44), Mary Leman Grimstone, novelist, 1832 (pp. 137-139), Marianne Prowse, poet, 1834 (pp. 225-227), the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, priest and theological writer, 1835 (p. 231), and the Rev. Richard Cobbold, Wortham, novelist, 1845 (p. 263).