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A typewritten copy of the poem 'Glamorgan terriers' by Private William Owen ('Ryrdinfab') of the 5th Welsh Regiment, Haverfordwest, and great-grandfather of the donor, written during the First World War.

Draft heads of agreement, 1865, between the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation Company, vendors, and the Trustees of the Marquess of Bute, concerning the purchase of the canal (ff. 15-19), together with related draft and carbon copy letters, 7-9 June 1865, from John Boyle, Bute trustee, to R. T. Crawshay, chairman of the Canal Company (ff. 3-14).

Documents, including several copies and drafts, 1795-1796 and undated, of the Company of Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation, relating especially to a petition for An Act to Amend an Act of the Thirtieth Year of His present Majesty, for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Merthyr Tidvile, to and through a Place called The Bank, near the Town of Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, and for extending the said Canal to a Place called The Lower Layer, below the said Town. They include the printed Act, 1796; notices and minutes of the Company; a letter to the Company from Cha. Hassall; and letters to John Wood, Cardiff, law clerk to the Company, from Edwd. Barwell, Abingdon Street [London], Rd. Crawshay, Cyfa[rth]fa, etc., W. Taitt, Cardiff, Benjamin Hall, Landaff, C. Brown, Cardiff, W. Richards, Abingdon Street [London], and Tho. Key, St. Fagans.

Glanrhyd, Edern, Caernarvonshire farm account books in the hand of G. Hughes Roberts. Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by J. E. Roberts, Glanrhyd, Edern, January 1968 or 1969.

Includes two group portraits taken outside a country house by Peters, Photographer of Oswestry; carte de visite of Robertson, consul in China (possibly Sir Daniel Brooke Robertson, consul in Canton, 1864); an un-named steam locomotive made at the Atlas Works, Manchester in 1861 (possibly no 1297); a panorama taken at Garthmyl, Otago, New Zealand.

A poem by Gwyneth Lewis written when she was the National Poet of Wales in 2005, commissioned by Glas Cymru to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its founding in 2000, and printed by the Gregynog Press.

A volume containing 'A Glossary To Explain The Original, the Acceptation, and Obsoleteness of Words and Phrases. And to Shew the Rise, Progress, and Alteration, Of Customs, Laws, & Manners. From [White] Kennett's Parochial Antiquities'; 'A Scottish Glossary Annex'd to Robert Burns's Scottish Poetry'; 'A Catalogue of Animals described by Mr. Pennant in his British Zoology, with their British Names, by Richard Morris, Esqr.'; and an incomplete transcript, with some additions by the scribe, of 'Some part of the Substance of a Letter to the Bishop of Carlisle, about the signification of the Names of Places in the British. by Edw. Llwyd, late Keeper of the Ashmolean Musaeum, in Oxford. Called 'D. E. Luidii Adversaria', & annexed to [William] Baxters Gloss[arium] Antiq[uitatum] Britannic[arum] 8vo Lond[ini] MDCCXXXIII'. There are slight variations in the script, but the volume is probably entirely in the hand of Henry Thomas Payne, archdeacon of Carmarthen.

A volume of notebooks of Robert Williams, rector of Llanbedrycennin, Tal-y-cafn, Caernarvonshire (author of 'The History of Charlemagne', Cymmrodor, vol. XX, 1907), containing material towards a glossary of Welsh words taken largely from Thomas Powel: Ystorya de Carolo Magno ([London], 1883). Inset is an autograph letter, 1922, from the Reverend J. Bodvan Anwyl ('Bodfan'), Aberystwyth, to Robert Williams.

Glossary by Leonard Owen of personal names extracted from his own transcripts of lay and clerical subsidy rolls, etc in the Public Records Office. English. In a file. Donated by Leonard Owen, Gerrard's Cross, October 1965.

Glossary of North Country Words, with MS notes, by John Trotter Brockett. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 26.) English. 1/2 morocco. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Gloucester Fire and Life Insurance forms and registers. (Formerly Thomas Dyke MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Mr Grenfell Jones, Abergavenny, June 1971.

Account book, 1748-1756, of Roderick Richard (d. 1753) and Roderick Rees (d. 1772), glovers, of Pen Bont, Llanbadarn Fawr, co. Cardigan, containing particulars of wool and skins purchased, together with other accounts and memoranda.

Typescript copies of Glyn Ifans, Canllaw Traethawd (Llandysul, 1974), short guidelines for writing different types of essays, with examples, and of Gwynt yr ynysoedd bach (Llandysul, 1975), a diary of an educational voyage, July 1970, from Swansea, on board the Uganda, to Madeira, the Canary Islands and Tangier; together with an undated letter from Gwasg Gomer.

Copïau teipysgrif o Glyn Ifans, Canllaw Traethawd (Llandysul, 1974) sef cyfarwyddyd byr ar ysgrifennu gwahanol draethodau, ynghyd â phatrymau ohonynt, ac o Gwynt yr ynysoedd bach (Llandysul, 1975), dyddiadur mordaith addysgol, Gorffennaf 1970, o Abertawe, ar long yr Uganda i Madeira, Ynysoedd y Caneri a Tangier; ynghyd ̂a llythyr, heb ddyddiad, oddi wrth Gwasg Gomer.

Manuscript and typescript drafts, [1970s]-[1995], by Glyn Jones of his unfinished poem 'Seven Keys to Shaderdom', on which the version published in The Collected Poems of Glyn Jones, ed. by Meic Stephens (Cardiff, 1996), pp. 111-131, was based.
The published poem consists of seven sections with a prose Prologue, represented in the manuscript by multiple drafts (ff. 1-202, 208-224). Section I was previously published as 'Shader's Vision' in Poetry Wales 19.3 (1984), 51-2, the Prologue and Sections I-III appeared as 'Prologue and Three Fragments' in Glyn Jones, Selected Poems, Fragments and Fictions (Ogmore-by-Sea, 1988), pp. 133-144, and Section V was published in Poetry Wales 28.2 (October 1992), 18-19. The manuscript also includes other material including drafts and fragments of other poems, notes, images and completed lines (ff. 203-207, 225-279). Some leaves re-use miscellaneous letters, newsletters, television drama scripts and other papers. A self-portrait sketch in ink by Jones is on f. i verso.

A copy of Leonid Morgan's work '''Glynllech'' Families, Abercraf [Price & Powell]', together with a family tree showing the relationship with other families in the parishes of Ystradgynlais and Ystradfellte, co Brecon.

A printed sale catalogue, August 1932, of Glynllivon Park, Llanwnda, Caernarvonshire, with marginal notes by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, and press cuttings.

An offprint of Glynnis M. Cropp, 'The Medieval French Tradition' (with comments on NLW MS 5038D) from Boethius in the Middle Ages. Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the Consolatio Philosophiae, edited by Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen and Lodi Nauta (Brill, 1997).