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Letter book of Hendre-Ddu Slate Quarry Ltd, Porthmadog. See also NLW MS 19654E. English. 1/2 leather. Purchased from J. E. Young, Criccieth, January 1967.

Letter book of George Burrell. See also NLW MSS 20899D, 20901D. English. Vellum. Purchased from Sotheby & Co., London, July 1972.

Letter book of Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). English. Marbled paper. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

A copy of Lesley W. Hanlon's thesis, [2000], relating to manuscript NLW MS 5025B (Bourdillon 25), namely La temple de Bocace by Georges Chastellain (c. 1459-1463), including a transcript of the text, published in 1999 as An examination and transcription of George Chastellain Le Temple de Bocace (ca. 1463) ...

A collection of papers, 1997-2004, relating to Lesley McCarthy's campaign to prevent the building of schools on old refuse tips in Conwy and Newport, including correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings with task groups and various bodies, press cuttings and other miscellaneous papers.

A copy of a thesis 'Joseph Cooper Walker (1761-1810): Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards' presented by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile for the degree of Ph.D.(Galway, 2001), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003.

A manuscript of the French prose romance of Tristran, Chevalier de la Table Ronde, illuminated on vellum.

A copy of S. Davies, The Reverend Samuel Davies ''The First'', and his Times, relating to Samuel Davies (1788-1854), Wesleyan Methodist minister, Cilcain, Flintshire, re-written by Leonard Twiston Davies in 1932, containing pasted-in photographs, postcards, typescript pedigrees and notes; together with the original Welsh version, Y Parch. Samuel Davies, 1af, a'i Amserau..., published in 1866, bearing the name of Samuel Twiston Davies and set in a protective wooden frame at the end of the volume.

Papers collated by Leonard Owen, CIE, Gerrards Cross, relating to his work as treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1952-1964, and to the Welsh Dictionary of National Biography.

A photocopy of a thesis by Nelly Blanchard entitled 'Leo Weisgerber und die Bretagne', submitted by her for her maîtrise at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, in June 1998. The thesis, in German, includes copies of original documents from archives in Berlin, Koblenz, Marburg, Freiburg and Bonn

A manuscript containing a reply by Lemuel J. James (1874-1937) to Thomas Hughes: Ymneillduaeth Eglwys Loegr (Liverpool, 1903).

A holograph copy of the poem 'Leisure' by W. H. Davies, signed and dated 8 May 1914.
The poem was first published in William H. Davies, Songs of Joy and Others (London, 1911) and thereafter appeared in various collections and anthologies, including William H. Davies, Collected Poems (London, 1916), The Essential W. H. Davies (London, 1951) and The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies (London, 1963). This fair copy was possibly written whilst the poet was in Gloucestershire visiting friends among the Dymock poets (see Selected letters of Robert Frost, ed. by Lawrance Thompson (London, 1965), pp. 122-124).

A copy of John Cottrell's PhD thesis, 'Leinster, South Wales, Bristol and Angevin Politics: 1135-1172. Some Influences on the Earliest English in Ireland' (University of Bristol, 2000)

Photocopies of two press cuttings relating to the Welsh singer Leila Megane (Margaret/Maggie Jones, 1891-1960), wife of the composer T. Osborne Roberts (1879-1948), purchased with NLW MSS 15281-310 in February 1980 (see Annual Report 1979-80, p. 63), one showing her congratulating the winner of the Osborne Roberts prize at the National Eisteddfod at Ebbw Vale, 1958, and the other an undated cutting in Italian giving an account of the welcome concert arranged for the Prince of Wales at Rome which included a performance by Leila Megane.

Autograph album, 1898-1913, of Leigh Roose who was killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.