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A letter dated 26 August 1665, signed by King Charles II (1630-1685) and sent, per the Earl of Carlingford [d. 1677], from Salisbury, whither the English Court had removed owing to the plague, to 'Mon Cousin, L'Euesque de Munster', i.e. Christopher Bernard von Ghalen, prince-bishop of Munster, Westphalia, ally of England in the Anglo-Dutch war.

A copy of Richard Blackmore: King Arthur. An Heroick Poem ... (London, 1697), with manuscript notes explaining the numerous names (some of which are veiled) and classical references in the text.

Letter-book of Thomas Bowen of Pen-bre, co. Carmarthen, superintendent of the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal and Railway Co., comprising an inventory of the company's records, 1831 (ff. 1-4), copy and draft letters, 1838-1840 (ff. 5-136 verso), a humorous poem on the failures of an anonymous colliery proprietor (ff. 151-5) and an arithmetical problem in Welsh, English and Latin (ff. 155 verso-6).

Minute book, November 1898 - February 1906, of the Kerry [co. Montgomery], Mutual Improvement Association. Inset are letters from [Doctor] F[rederick] Wilson, Newtown, to Mr. [Alexander] Anderson [secretary of the Association ], [19]05 (a promise to give a magic-lantern lecture on 'Infection'), and from John Naylor, Leighton Hall, Welshpool, to [ ], [19]05 (accepting the presidency of the Association for the ensuing year).

A register, 1898-1903, of members of the Kerry [co. Montgomery], Mutual Improvement Association, with a record of their attendances at meetings. At the reverse end of the volume are incomplete lists of officers of the Association during the same period.

A pedigree, 1680, of the Kerry family of Binweston, Worthen, Shropshire, containing twenty-five coats of arms, all emblazoned and painted. It is a copy, with continuation, apparently by Thomas Fr[ancis, of Montgomery], from a Lewys Dwnn original of 1598. The pedigree is traced from Gwrgene, Lord of Yal and Bromfield [?Gwernen ap Gwaeddgar], Llyr ap Maenyrch, King of Gloster [Llyr Marini], and King Pelenaur [Pellinore or Pelinor], as well as Cadell ap Rhodri Mawr and Severus [ap Cadwr Wynwyn].
Comparison with NLW MS 23219G, a 1792 copy of the pedigree, suggests that the present roll was created as the pedigree and achievement of Edward Kerry (d. c. 1698) of Binweston, the original achievement now having been lost from the foot of the roll. Several arms originally emblazoned 'or, a lion rampant regardant gules, armed and langued azure' seem subsequently to have been over-painted 'party per saltire, azure and ermine' (NLW MS 23219G shows the latter arms); all the arms have suffered from the loss of pigment.

Pedigree and achievement of Edward Kerry (d. ca. 1698), Binweston, parish of Worthen, Shropshire, traced from Gwernen ap Gwaeddgar, lord of Bromfield and Iâl, Llyr Marini, king of Gloucester, and King Pelinor, with twenty-five other coats of arms, all emblazoned and painted, apparently copied by Joseph Patrick, 1792.

Miscellaneous notes written by Robert Kenrick, Aberystwyth, together with letters to him from several correspondents; poetry; a copy of the resolution, 1847, by which the school at Penparke, near Aberystwyth, was united to the National Society; press cuttings; etc.

Material from manuscript and printed sources compiled largely by William Fowler Carter, Maidsmere, near Bromsgrove, towards a study of the early genealogy of the family of Kenrick of Nantclwyd, Cerniogau, etc., and of the associated family of Wynn. Accompanying the material are letters largely to W. F. Carter from G. J. Murray Atkins, Diocesan Registry, Lichfield, 1935, J. C. Ballantyne, University of Glasgow, 1913 (autograph), J. Harvey Bloom, Upper Tooting, [1922]-3, W. Ll. Davies, National Library of Wales, 1935 (autograph), Crayford Edwards, barrister, Burbage, near Hinckley, 1918, C. T. Flower, Public Record Office, 1935 (autograph), A. Ranken Ford, Gray’s Inn, London, 1917 (autograph), Thomas Allen Glenn, Meliden, etc., 1911-22 (one autograph), Frederick Wm. Hackwood, Balham, 1917 (to Sir Geo. Kenrick), Strachan Holme, Bridgewater [Collieries & Ellesmere Estates] Office, Walkden, Manchester, 1915 (autograph), Cyril C. C. Kenrick, Westgate-on-Sea [1922], [Sir] Geo. H. Kenrick, Edgbaston, 1908- 35 (with copy replies), Bernard Kettle, Guildhall Library, London, 1915, J. B. Marsland, Wyberton Rectory, Boston, 1923, H. H. Meakin, Longnor Vicarage, Shrewsbury, 1918 (to [ ] Blackett), D. C. Lloyd Owen, Four Oaks, 1915 and undated, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1911, William Rees, University College . . ., Cardiff, 1935, Mary Sampson Smith, Llangollen Fechan, 1911, A. H. Stanton, Hambleden Rectory, Henley on Thames [1922], W. B. Stewart, Birkenhead, 1912 (to Sir George Kenrick), Ethel Stokes, London, 1935, Annie Wynn, Llanfihangel, near Borth, 1911, and Edward W. Wynne, Aberystwyth, 1917. There are also typescript copies of letters to the Kenrick family from R. Obbard, Redhill, 1901, Greene Kendrick, Waterbury, Conn., U.S.A., 1901-02, and Henry Rigg, Bayswater, London, 1901 and undated.

A copy of the late Kenneth Milligan's incomplete typescript work 'Corner of Wales. An historical account of the country west of the River Conway...from the earliest times to the present day'.

Miscellaneous letters and accounts, 1688-1831, relating to the Kemeys and Kemeys-Tynte families of Cefnmabli, co. Glamorgan, including letters, 1740-1752, to and from Sir Charles Kemeys-Tynte, 4th bart, and two letters, 1751, relating to the illness of Lady Mary Kemeys.

Includes manuscript notes and two letters in Welsh, 1980.

Kearsly's Pocket Ledger, with entries of payments possibly by a Cardigan solicitor. English. Leather. Donated by Roderick P. Waldo Lewis, Earley, October 1972.

Papers, 1929-[1987], of Kathleen Joan Smith, author, actress, playwright and former assistant governor of Holloway. In 1960 she moved to a smallholding in Clynnog Fawr from London. The papers include a typescript of her novel Twelve months, Mrs Brown: A novel of prison life [pubished in 1964] and a playscript, 1975; manuscripts of a number of plays scripted by her including 'Six days of justice', 1973, for Thames Television and 'The Brontë story', 1986; and scripts written for the series 'Within these walls' in the 1970s. Also included are programmes and posters of plays written by her and in which she appeared as an actress, together with her birth certificate, 1929, and election address as a Conservative candidate for the Caernarfon constituency in the 1970 General Election.

A volume of transcripts of prayers, devotions, epitaphs, verses, etc. from printed and family sources by Mrs Katherine Thomas (?of Herefordshire), together with verses by her on the deaths of her children, Katherine (1665) and Dorothy (1676) and of her husband (1671) and on other occasions, also a copy of verses by Elizabeth Peirce, daughter of Dr Peirce (possibly Bishop William Peirs) of Bath.

The first of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 756B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall, antiquary and bookseller of King's Lynn, Norfolk. NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips, whilst NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).
The volume contains corrected fair copies of fifty-five poems, with the titles only of two others. See Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 4 vols (London, 1980-1997), II, part 2, compiled by Peter Beal (1993), pp. 128-129, and The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, ed. by Patrick Thomas, 3 vols (Stump Cross, Essex, 1990-1993), I: The Poems (1990).

The second of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 755B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall. NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand whilst NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).

Microfilm copies of manuscript and printed material relating to Katherine Philips ('The Matchless Orinda', 1632-64) held at the National Library of Wales, Cardiff Central Library, the University of Texas at Austin, Worcester College, Oxford, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Yale University, and Hertfordshire County Record Office; together with copies of the guide Orinda: The Literary Manuscripts of Catherine Philips (1632-1664) (Adam Matthew Publications, 1995)

A small group of letters, [1945]-1983, written by Kate Roberts and on her behalf, to Mrs Hilda Edmunds, Cardiff, who used to do cleaning work for Kate Roberts and her husband when they were living in the Rhondda.