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Five letters and a post card from John Cowper Powys, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to Mrs. Olwen Caradog Evans, Conwy.

Typescript dissertation, 1981, entitled 'John Cowper Powys, landscapist of liberation: a study of space in A Glastonbury Romance' by Jean-Yves Le Disez, a student of l'École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Paris.

The revised and heavily corrected final three pages, 1931, in John Cowper Powys's hand, of his novel A Glastonbury Romance (London, 1932) (ff. 1-3); Powys apparently rewrote the ending at the instigation of Phyllis Playter, who suggested the changes subsequently made to the original text.
Also included is correspondence, 1955-1957, of a Mr Baston, then owner of the novel's manuscript, comprising letters from Powys, 27 July 1955 (f. 4), and the US publishing house Simon & Schuster, 2 September 1955 (f. 6), with a carbon copy letter from Baston to Simon & Schuster, 15 August 1955 (f. 5), concerning Baston’s efforts to find the manuscript's missing chapters, and a letter from the bookseller George Sims, 28 January 1957, offering the present three folios to Baston (f. 7).

Llyfr cyfrifon John Daniels, Gwyn Villa, Bronwydd, sir Gaerfyrddin, 1898-1929, yn cynnwys taliadau am waith adeiladu cyffredinol; ynghyd â llyfr nodiadau yn ymwneud yn bennaf â chapeli sir Gaerfyrddin ac ymweliadau Howell Harris a'r ardal. / Account book, 1898-1929, of John Daniels, Gwyn Villa, Bronwydd, co. Carmarthen, containing payments for general building work; together with a notebook relating to chapels in Carmarthenshire and Howell Harris's visits to the area.

A miscellany compiled partly in his eighty-fifth year (1760) by John Davies or David of Pentre Vidoc (or Foelas) and containing eleven psalms in 'cywydd' metre by Sion Tudur, 'cywyddau' by Humphrey Thomas ('Bardd yr Ennig') and others unnamed, an 'awdl gyffes' by Sion Phylip, 'englynion' by Edward Morys, Richard Jones, and Owen Gruffydd, 'tribanau', a transcript of a Welsh historical chart (beginning with a synopsis of the 'Promptuarium Biblia' and continued to the reign of Richard III) compiled by John Gruffudd Eyton (1513), anecdotes, and holograph 'englynion' addressed to John Davies by T. E. Nant. (i.e., Thomas Edwards, 'Twm or Nant').

An index compiled by John Davies, Aberystwyth (1860-1939) to Vols I-LXXII, 1891-1917, of Cymru, edited by Sir Owen M. Edwards (1858-1920). The material is arranged both under authors' names and under subject matter.

A collection of pedigrees of English families and a few Welsh families, with the arms coloured in some instances, compiled by John Davies, Rhiwlas, Llansilin, author of A Display of Herauldry ... (Salop, 1716), with additions in later hands.

Results of a psychological audit undertaken by the donor, comprising copies of correspondence, newsletters entitled Landore Labour News, and 'An annotated bibliography about Labour's anti-social behaviour measures'.

John Downame: A Briefe concordance ... (London, 1642), with over one hundred manuscript leaves containing prayers, etc. Welsh, English. Purchased from Charles F. Worel, London, January 1965.

John Downame: Annotations upon the books of the Old and New Testaments (1657), with the signature of William Griffith, Gower. English. Leather. Donated by Miss Alicia Gower Jones, February 1969.

An essay entitled The best means of developing the industrial resources of Wales by John E. Thomas, Wrexham, awarded a prize at the Brecon National Eisteddfod, 1889, and printed in The Transactions of the National Eisteddfod of Wales (London, 1890).

A small collection of the papers of John Edward Williams (1896-1921), Corwen.

Papers assembled by Peter Black relating to John Edwards ('Eos Glan Twrch', 1806-1887), including an introduction and a list of his known works, together with photocopies of obituaries and of his work Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth ar Amryfal Destynau (Utica, 1854).

A manuscript containing a sermon in the hand of John Elias, 1835.

An autograph ballad-poem by John Ellis Jones (Elidirfab), Nant Peris, Llanberis entitled Hen Feibl Peter Williams (Alaw - Y Fronfraith, neu Hen Feibl Mawr fy Mam); Elidirfab also wrote Y Bwthyn ar y Bryn.

Miscellaneous papers, 1940s-1997, of the artist John Elwyn (John Elwyn Davies, 1916-1997), consisting mainly of exhibition catalogues, printed material relating to other artists' work, including pamphlets and ephemera produced by the Old Stile Press, papers relating to artists' societies, minor correspondence and personal papers.

A manuscript containing a sermon in the hand of John Evans, Unitarian minister.

Research papers, 1974-99 and undated, assembled by the donor John Freer relating to local history in Monmouthshire, including notes on Bailey Street Presbyterian Church, Bryn-mawr; Bethany Baptist Church, Llanvaches; Griffithstown Methodist Church; Hope Presbyterian Church, Pandy; Lion Street Congregational Church, Blaenavon; Llantilio Crossenny Church; Paran Presbyterian Church at Man-moel; Pen-y-waun Congregational Chapel, Llanfihangel Llantarnam; St Illtyd's Parish Church, Mamhilad; St Luke's, Pontnewynydd; Seion Independent Chapel, Rhymney; Seion Independent Chapel, Llanofer; Twyn Gwyn Baptist Church, Ynys-ddu; Underwood Baptist Free Church, Llanmartin; a guide 'Where to find places of worship in Monmouthshire?' and a list of borough, municipal and private cemeteries; together with photocopies of information sheets on the poet 'Islwyn' (Reverend William Thomas, 1832-78) and his association with Capel y Babell, Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Ynys-ddu, produced by the Sirhowy Valley Country Park; a survey, 1974, of the Monmouthshire Canal (Crumlin Branch); and a pamphlet from an exhibition on railways and tramroads in Rogerstone, 1742-1992.

An essay entitled 'O Ddinodedd i Enwogrwydd. John Gibson, R.A., y Mynor - Gerfiwr Cymreig Bydenwog' [From Obscurity to Fame. John Gibson, R.A., the world-famous, Welsh marble sculptor], by the Reverend B. Menai Francis [Congregational minister]. The work had won a prize at an eisteddfod held at Conway, and according to the author's obituary notice in Y Dysgedydd, 1930, pp. 73-8, had been published in an unspecified, Welsh newspaper. The present copy consists of cuttings, printed on one side only, mounted in a note-book. A manuscript list of chapter headings is given at the beginning, and a postcard photograph of the bust of John Gibson in Conway parish church, has been pasted in as frontispiece.

An Enquiry into the Excellence of the British Constitution, written probably by John Glyn Wynne, 1787.