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A notebook kept by John Griffith, Llwyndyrus containing drafts or copies of letters sent to superior officers, extracts from medical works, and the log, 28 November 1808-18 April 1809, of an expedition from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Martinique and back to Halifax.

A photocopy of the probate copy, 1795, of the will, 1791, of John Griffith of Cefnamlwch [?Cefnamwlch], Caernarvonshire, proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PRO PROB 11/1255, ff. 291 LH-292 RH).

Papers, 1864-[1910], of John Griffiths, relating mainly to his career as an artist and Principal of the Bombay School of Art in India, comprising thirty-eight letters, 1864-1905, mainly from colonial administrators and officials in India and London, including several Governors of Bombay, and from noted artists (items 1-38); together with miscellaneous papers, 1870-[1910] (items 39-47).
The correspondents are Evelyn Baring, Government House, Calcutta, 2 January 1874 (item 1), [Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of] Northbrook, June-October 1876 (items 2-3), [Sir] George Birdwood, India Office, 19 October 1888 (item 4), [Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl] Brassey, [n.d.] (item 5), [Sir] Ja[mes] Clark, Bagshot Park, 1864-1865 (items 6-8), John Collier, 11-15 June 1905 (items 9-10, with a draft reply by Griffiths on item 9), Arthur Ellis, [Equerry to the Prince of Wales], January-March 1876 (items 11-13), [Sir] B. H. Ellis, Calcutta, 1874, and India Office, 1885 (items 14-15), [Sir] James Fergusson, Governor of Bombay, 8-12 October 1882 (items 16-17), H. B[artle] E. Frere, 1870-1972 (items 18-19), William Gill, 15 July [?1880] (item 20), [Sir] A[rthur] E[dward] Hardinge, Commander in Chief, Bombay [Army], 2 March [1881x1886] (item 21), [G. R. C. Harris, Baron] Harris, [Governor of Bombay], 16 April 1893 (item 22), [George James Howard, Earl of] Carlisle, 20 September 1892 (item 23), [Donald James Mackay, Baron] Reay, [Governor of Bombay], 6 April 1890 (item 24), F. G. J. [Mackay, Baroness] Reay, 16 October 1890 (item 25), Daniel Maclise, 1 September 1865 (item 26), [Sir] M[axwell] Melvill, 24 March [?] (item 27), George [Porter], Archbishop of Bombay, 21 August 1889 (item 28), Samaldas Parmanand[d]as, [Divan of Bhavnagar], 24 October 1883 (item 29), Val Prinsep, 21 April 1882 (item 30), [Sir] J[ohn] Scott, [?1890s] (items 31-32), Takhtsinhji, [Maharaja of Bhavnagar], 3 March 1893 (item 33), [Sir] R. Temple, [?Governor of Bombay], Matheran, [1877x1880] (item 34), T. H. Thornton, Delhi, 2 January 1877 (item 35), G. F. Watts, 23 July 1865 (item 36), W[illiam] Wordsworth, 24 December 1890 (item 37), and J. Young, Freemasons' Hall, Byculla, 30 October 1888 (item 38). Other papers include an account of a tiger shoot, 16-18 May 1883 (item 39); a table plan for a Farewell Dinner to [G. R. C. Harris, Baron] Harris, 14 February 1895 (item 42); an illustrated brochure concerning the 'Sir J. J.' School of Art, [1910] (item 43); and six newspaper cuttings, 1894-1898, concerning Sir Charles Hutton Gregory and his wife Mrs Fanny Stirling (item 47).

Autograph copy, with revision, of the radio play 'Pry Ffenast' by John Gwilym Jones, first broadcast on BBC Welsh radio, 1 March 1961, and later published in Pedair Drama (Dinbych, 1971).

Autograph copy, with revision, of a short story, Y Briodas, by John Gwilym Jones (1904-1988), published in Y Goeden Eirin (Dinbych, 1946).

A copy of the memoirs of John Gwyn (fl. 1660), captain in the King's regiment of guards, written before 1679. John Gwyn probably wrote several copies for presentation to his patrons. The text, from a later version comparable with that of Cardiff MS 2.269, was printed by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) in Military Memoirs of the Great Civil War ... Edinburgh, 1822. This manuscript is in the same hand as the Cardiff MS. Appended to the memoirs is a pedigree, with emblazoned arms, of the family of Gwyn of Trelydan, Montgomeryshire.

A volume containing an autobiographical account by John Gwyn (fl. 1660, DNB) of Trelydan, Guilsfield, co. Montgomery, a captain in the Royal Regiment of Guards, of his military career during the English Civil War, prefaced by dedicatory epistles to the king, the dukes of York, Buckingham, Monmouth, Albermarle, the earls of Pembroke, Maxenfield [? Macclesfield], the officers of the Board of Green Cloth, Sir John Salsbury, and Colonel [? Thomas Salusbury]. One of several copies probably written, [1679] x [1682], by a professional scribe for Gwyn's patrons. The text, probably from Cardiff MS 2.269, was edited by Walter Scott in Military memoirs of the great Civil War being the military memoirs of John Gwynne (Edinburgh, 1822) and by Norman Tucker in Military memoirs, the Civil War: Richard Atkyns and John Gwynne (London, 1967). Notes comparing the manuscript with Scott's edition, found loose within the volume, have been tipped in at the end.

The journal, 1800-1808, of John Hughes (1776-1843) one of the first two missionaries appointed by the Methodist Conference, 1800, to introduce Wesleyan Methodism into North Wales.

Notes of sermons written by John Hughes (1787-1860), vicar of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire and archdeacon of Cardigan, and delivered by him between 1835 and 1859 at Llanbadarn Fawr and Aberystwyth and elsewhere in Cardiganshire.

John Hughes's book of press cuttings. English. (Formerly Alltlwyd MS 12.) Striped leather. Purchased from Mrs Lloyd Hughes, Alltlwyd, December 1941.

Material collected by Principal John Humphreys Davies (1871-1926) when he was editing The Life and Opinions of Robert Roberts ..., including notes on the career of Robert Roberts (1834-1885) by J. H. Davies and Howell Roberts (Hywel Tudur) (1842?-1922) and letters, mainly to J. H. Davies.

A letter, 14 March 1796, from John Ingleby with a list, annotated by Thomas Pennant, of illustrations intended for Tours in Wales.

Letters, 1915-1956, written to the Rev. John Islan Jones from his friend James H. Thomas, school-teacher and book-binder at Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1915-1956, together with an exercise book of prayers in Welsh, written and used by John Islan Jones. = Llythyrau, 1915-1956, a ysgrifennwyd at y Parch. John Islan Jones gan ei ffrind James H. Thomas, athro a rhwymwr llyfrau ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog, ynghyd â llyfr ysgrifennu'n cynnwys gweddïau yn Gymraeg a luniwyd ac a ddefnyddiwyd gan y Parch. John Islan Jones.

Sermons, poems, and notes written by John J. Owen at Abergavenny, 1828-1830.

Portions of two letters, 1865, from John Jones (Talhaiarn) (1810-1869) written from London, when he was assisting in the Crystal Palace planning, to W. W. P. Williams, and relating to the proposed colonisation of a part of Patagonia by Welshmen; also a part of a letter from W. W. P. Williams to Talhaiarn on the same subject.

The original manuscript of John Jones (1820-1907): The History of the Baptists in Radnorshire, with a sketch of the History of Nonconformity in the County (London, 1895).

Outlines of sermons, probably by John Jones (1761-1822), Penybryn, Edeyrn, Caernarvonshire.

A selection of cywyddau, awdlau and metrical areithiau of Welsh bards who flourished from the middle of the thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, transcribed, mainly from manuscripts preserved in his own family, by John Jones, Gellilyfdy (c. 1585-1657/8). The transcriber describes his work in this way: ... llyma lyfr o gywydde ag Odlev ag Araethev o waith amrafaelion feirdd a phrydyddion ag o amrafaelion ysgrifenyddion y rhai oll a gynhillis i gyd ag ai hysgrifennis yn un llyfr allan o hen lyfrev kandrell yr hai a vvessynt lyfrev im taid Sion ap Wiliam ap ap [sic] Sion ap Dd ap Ithel Vychan ... . John Jones, according to his usual practice, supplied tables of incipits, subjects and authors. At the end of the manuscript the transcriber has added variant readings and some notes on the poems contained in the collection. Additions in square brackets are in the hand of Lewis Morris (1701-1765), who made a transcript of the manuscript in 1727.

A volume, compiled [19 cent., first half], containing a number of homilies on moral and religious topics by an unidentified Quaker (inside front cover-f. 19); together with extracts from the manuscripts of John Kelsall, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, comprising brief accounts, 1701-1712, of meetings of the Society of Friends, including those held at Dolobran and yearly meetings of the Society in Wales (ff. 19 verso-27).

A composition for handbells and piano entitled 'Stanton', by John L. C. Dickson.