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Log book of the sailing vessel 'Lily' of Barmouth kept by Dr J. H. Lister of Llwyngwril. See also NLW MSS 19039C. English. Donated by Mr J. Austen Roberts, F.R.I.C.S., Welshpool, May 1980.

Log book of the sailing vessel 'Lily' of Barmouth kept by Dr J. H. Lister of Llwyngwril. See also NLW MSS 19038C. English. Donated by Mr J. Austen Roberts, F.R.I.C.S., Welshpool, May 1980.

Log book of the Pupil Teachers' School of Llandeilo Tal-y-bont School Board, Glamorganshire in the hand of J. J. Morgan. English. 1/2 leather. Donated by Iwan Morgan, Esq., Cardiff, March 1964.

Log book, 1810-1812 (watermarks 1807, 1809), of the sailing ship 'Lord Nelson', employed by the Admiralty transporting cargo including provisions, soldiers, horses and mules, mainly in connection with the Peninsular War, usually sailing in convoy and with Naval escorts.
The ship sailed from Deptford to Gibraltar, Dec. 1810-April 1811 (ff. 1-13); to Valetta, Messina and Cadiz, May-Oct. 1811 (ff. 15 verso-39); from Gibraltar to Portsmouth, Dec. 1811-Jan. 1812 (ff. 41 verso-50); then back to Gibraltar, Feb.-April 1812 (f. 52-61). She spent the remainder of 1812 in the Mediterranean, visiting Palma (Majorca), Mahón (Minorca), Alicante, Palermo and Messina (ff. 61-89). The volume also acts as a harbour log, recording extended stays at Valetta, May-Aug. 1811 (ff. 20 verso-25), Gibraltar, Oct.-Dec. 1811 (ff. 39-41) and Mahón, May-July 1812 (ff. 64-66). The volume is written in a hand resembling that of NLW MS 15462D.

Log book, 1804-1806 (watermarks 1801, 1802), of the sailing ship 'Liberty'.
The volume records voyages from London to Surinam, July-October 1804 (ff. 1-15 verso), and Surinam to London (via Cork), January-April 1805 (ff. 17 verso-34); from London to Jamaica (via Cowes, Madeira and Barbados; carrying 250 soldiers and their families), August-November 1805 (ff. 35 verso-55), and from Jamaica to London, February-May 1806 (ff. 56 verso-77). A note on f. 89 verso records an encounter on 28 April 1806 with HM Brig Raven (see also f. 72 verso). The volume is written in a hand resembling that of NLW MS 15463D.

A volume, 1875-1879, belonging to Thomas Hughes, Holyhead, containing a log of the barque 'Oswingo' (commanded by Captain A. Waycott), recording a voyage from Manilla to New York, September-November 1876 (ff. 1-33), and from New York towards Glasgow, December 1876 (ff. 37 verso-44).
The volume also contains scriptural catechisms in Welsh (ff. 46 verso-50 verso, 52 verso, 53 verso-58), shorthand exercises (ff. 59-65, 100 verso), notes on navigation (ff. 94 verso-98 verso) and miscellaneous prose and poetry in Welsh (ff. 81 verso, 82 verso, 83 verso, 91 verso-93 verso, 99 verso-100, 101).

Journal, 1834-1835 (watermark 1833), of the barque 'Amelia Matilda' of Liverpool, commanded by R. F. Jones, the journal kept by E[dward] F. Jones. The volume records a voyage from Liverpool to the Benin River, [Nigeria], September-November 1834 (ff. 3-21), and the return voyage, from Corisco, [Equatorial Guinea], to Liverpool, March-June 1835 (ff. 21 verso-47).
A letter, 22 October 1835, from John Mather, Bonny River, [Nigeria], to Edward Jones on board the barque 'Mansfield' at New Calabar, [Nigeria], and a receipt, 1832, are enclosed in an archival envelope (3 ff.).

Log book of Market Street British School, Llanelli. (Formerly J. R. Hughes MS 21.) English. 1/2 leather. Purchased from Mr J. R. Hughes, Dolgellau, January 1955.

A memorandum book of deputy lieutenancy and other local government activities mainly in the hundred of Maelor Saesneg kept largely by or for Sir Thomas Hanmer (1612-1678) and his son Sir John Hanmer (d. 1701). It contains transcripts of estreats of assessments of subsidies, royal aids and grants, 1594, 1663-5, 1673, 1689 and 1691-2, levied upon the hundred of Maelor Saesneg; tables of proportions of taxes levied upon the counties of Wales and upon the different townships of Maelor Saesneg and Hope, 1665-1728; circulars and correspondence which passed between the Lords of the Council, Richard Vaughan, Earl of Carbery (1600?-1686) and the deputy lieutenants of Flintshire and Denbighshire concerning the establishment and administration of the militia, 1661-3, an account of the three months' assessment for defraying the expense of the militia, 1663-5, and lists of persons charged with foot soldiers in Maelor Saesneg and Hope, 1661 and 1683; precedents of deputy lieutenancy warrants; a list of burgesses of Overton, 1679; Bettisfield estate rentals, 1678-82; an estimate of the charge of maintaining at sea fifty ships (listed) of the Royal Navy, 1670.

A small volume written in the eighteenth century lettered on the spine 'Llyvr Dos=parth a Cadwe= digaeth Cerdd Dannau, I'. The scribe was David Jones ('Dewi Fardd') of Trefriw. The contents are as follows: pp. 1-23, 'Clod Cerdd ai Dechreuad' beginning 'Fy Mryd sydd ar hyn om llafur ddwyn ar ddeall it Darllewr . . . Eithr o arfer Cerdd Theoricall y Nef, ni ymadroddwn am dano' [cf. B.M. Addit. MS 14989, ff. 82 recto-111 verso, and also D. Gwenallt Jones, 'Clod Cerdd Dafod', in Llên Cymru, I, pp. 186-7, and Gwendraeth Jones, 'Siôn Conwy III a'i Waith', in B.B.C.S., XXII, pp. 23-4 in particular]; pp. 24-30, 'Gryffydd ap Cynan Twysog Cymru a wnaeth Gyfraith ar y Gwyr wrth Gerdd, yr hon a elwir Ystatud Gryffydd ap Cynan', beginning 'Llyma y sawl y sydd rydd yddynt Glera . . .' and ending '. . . a Disgyblion, gwedi Cael graddau or blaen mewn Eisteddfodau neu Neithorau Reiol. Ac felly y Terfyna Ystatud Gryffydd ap Cynan Twysog Gwynedd, ar y Gwyr wrth Gerdd'; pp. 32-54 , 'Naw o Gyd-gordiadau sydd mewn Desgant neu Brior . . .' followed by lists of airs, etc. ('Ar y Bragod Gywair', 'Y Clyme, y Gogywair', etc.) ending with 'Llyma'r 24 mesurau Cerdd Dant' and 'Llyma y Rheolau Cerdd Dafod'; p. 55, 'Llyma Lyfr a Elwir Cadwedigaeth Cerdd Dannau' beginning 'Nid amgen, Telynnau, a Chrythau o fewn 3 Talaith Gymru . . .'; p. 59, 'Llyma fal y nodwyd wrth Ystatud Gryff: ap Cynan, Rhoddion i bob Gradd yn ei Radd, o Gerdd Dafod, a Thant', beginning 'Tair Gwyl arbennig sydd nid amgen Nadolig, Pasg, ar Sul gwyn . . .'; p. 62, a 'cywydd' by William Llun ('Cywydd i ofyn Telyn i Siencin Gwynn, o Lan=idlos'); and pp. 65-71, a list of the names of bards ('Henwau'r Beirdd'), A-R, with one or two later additions, one name on p. 66 ('Gruffdd. ap Lln. Vychan'), being probably in the autograph of Edward Williams, 'Iolo Morganwg'. There is a triad on p.54. On the fly-leaf in a later hand is written 'Dosparth Cerdd Dafod'.

Saith llythyr, 1966-1978, oddi wrth Dr Emyr Wyn Jones (Emyr Feddyg) at ei gyfaill, William John Jones, Gladstone, Aberdaron, gof y pentref, ynghyd ag erthygl fer o bosib yn llaw William Jones ei hun.

Dros ugain o lythyron, 1972-1997, gan y Parch. Ddr R. Tudur Jones (1921-1998), Prifathro Coleg Bala-Bangor, at y Parch. Derwyn Morris Jones, Ysgrifennydd Cyffredinol Undeb yr Annibynwyr Cymraeg, ynghyd â thri llythyr, 1976-1998, at Dr Tudur Jones a'i weddw Gwen, oddi wrth y Parch. Derwyn Morris Jones.

Llythyrauat y Parchedig D. Jones oddi wrth D. Davies, Ton ac eraill. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan D. T. Morgan, Y Bermo, Mehefin 1960.

Papur newydd. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan William Evans, Caerdydd, wedi 1955.

Llythyrauat William Evans oddi wrth Dr T. Gwynn Jones; ynghyd â barddoniaeth. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan William Evans, Caerdydd, wedi 1955.

Llythyrauat W. J. Roberts pan yr oedd ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog oddi wrth W. T. Edwards, T. Gwynn Jones, Ifor Williams ac eraill. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan W. J. Roberts, Llandudno, Ebrill 1960.

Llythyrauat Iorwerth Peate a John Davies, Bridgewater oddi wrth T. Gwynn Jones. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan Iorwerth Peate, Sain Ffagan, Mawrth 1960.

Llythyrau, gwreiddiol ac mewn teipysgrif, oddi wrth ymfudwyr Cymreig i'r America, ynghyd â chopi o ewyllys John Prichard, Cincinnati, dyddiedig 3 Hydref 1877. (Gynt Bob Owen MS.) Rhwng byrddau. Prynwyd oddi wrth Bob Owen, Croesor, Mawrth 1960.