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A typescript, with manuscript corrections by the author, of a part of Josef Baudiš: Grammar of Early Welsh ... (Oxford, 1924).

A volume compiled in 1939 by Francis Jones [of the National Library of Wales, later Herald Extraordinary for Wales], containing a pedigree of the family of Jones of Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, from the mid-fifteenth to the twentieth century, with ancillary pedigrees of the associated families of Jones of Greenston, Brawdy, Jones of Southfield, Llysyfran, Roberts of Tregidreg, parish of Mathry, Griffith of Mathry, Morgans, the Flemings, of Roose, Francis of St. Elvis, Jenkins of Mathry, Thomas of Rhydyrharding, parish of Mathry, Williams of Newport, and Harries of Binchurn, all in Pembrokeshire.

Jones family notes (typescript). (Formerly Sarah E. Miles MS 9.) English. In a file. Donated by Miss Sarah E. Miles, Pittsburgh, March 1925.

Three undated letters, c. 1760-1764, from J[onathan] Shipley (1714-1788), dean of Winchester, afterwards bishop of Llandaff and, later, of St Asaph, to Henry Bilson-Legge (1708-1764), Chancellor of the Exchequer.

A work entitled Mr. Jonathan Andrews's Book of Gardening Trees &c., written with own hand, 1690, being a descriptive list of flowers and plants arranged by season and of trees and shrubs, with particular reference to their medicinal qualities; recipes; indexes of English and botanical names.

Memorandum book belonging, 1798-1838, to Jonathan Morgan, Pant-y-bryn, parish of Llandybïe, co. Carmarthen, farmer and joiner, containing farming, joinery and other accounts including payments to workmen, accounts of money loaned on 'Bidding Days', and accounts relating to the building of Bethel Congregational church ('Yr Hen Fethel'), Cwmaman, co. Carmarthen; furniture designs and specifications; recipes for colouring wood; and miscellaneous memoranda. Further entries, to 1883, by his son William Morgan and grandson Jonathan Morgan, both of Bodist Uchaf, Glanaman, co. Carmarthen, include rent, bidding and other accounts; and family memoranda.

Photostat reproductions, [1934], of six letters, 1622-1635, of John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, addressed primarily to Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon.

A copy of John Williams, ed.: Gwaith Prydyddawl ... William Williams o Bantycelyn ... (Carmarthen, 1811), prepared for a new edition, with numerous manuscript corrections and additions, together with a few translations by John Owen (1788-1867), vicar of Thrussington.

A volume containing 19th century translations by John Williams, M.D., Corwen and Wrexham, of some of the works of Alexander Pope.

A manuscript containing an abridgement of the New Testament entitled A Collection of Spiritual and Instructive Gleanings ... By John Williams ... 1829.

A manuscript volume, [1825] (watermarks 1822, 1824), containing autograph drafts of poems, some of Welsh interest, by John William Bythell, attorney, of Shoplatch, Shrewsbury, with numerous emendations and deletions in pencil.
A few of the poems had previously appeared in The Salopian Journal and the Shrewsbury Chronicle; many were later published in his Salopia, The News-Room and Other Poems (London & Shrewsbury, 1841). Included is a parody of a poem by Thomas Moore (pp. 18-20).

An abstract of title (1774-1780) to the manor of Bradley, co. Stafford, and to properties in Bradley late belonging to John Wilkinson, esq., ironmaster, of Bilston, Bersham, etc.; and an abstract of the will and codicils of John Wilkinson (proved 1808), and subsequent title (1806-1828) to the same properties. Both abstracts were compiled circa 1830.

A group of accounts relating to the estate of John Wilkinson, ironmaster, including bills of costs of Messrs. Fitchett and Wagstaff to the surviving executor and devisee in trust to James Kyrke, esq., trustee for the sale of the estates, etc., 1825-1831, touching the sale and title of the Brymbo and other estates in Wales, the sale and title of estates in Staffordshire, the same of the Rotherhithe property, the sale of the Tividale estate, the appointment of a new receiver in the room of Thomas Turner, esq., deceased, loans of £40,000 and £13,200, general business, business in specified lawsuits, etc.; and bills of costs of Samuel Edge, 1830-1831, to Messrs. Wilkinson, Legh, and Murray, touching a mortgage to secure £40,000 and the conveyance of the Little Vownog estate. Also included in the group is a proof ('20 Feb. 1901. Stanford. Long Acre') of a photocopy of a letter, 12 July, 1712, from Abr[ah]am Darby from Madely Court to Wi[llia]m Rawlinson (Ralleson), near 'Kandell', Westmorland, relating to the writer's projects for the manufacture of iron, the enclosed Swedish method, the recipient's dispute with Hall over the increase in the price of wood, etc.

A volume containing balance sheets of the estates of John Wilkinson, ironmaster, at Castlehead, Brymbo, Bradley (Bradley Trial), and Hadley (Hadley Trial), 1820-1823.

One of two volumes containing a copy of John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland ... (London, 1631), interleaved, with manuscript additions.

One of two volumes containing a copy of John Wee[v]er: Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland ... (London, 1631), interleaved, with manuscript additions.

Two poems written in March 1918 - The Great Battle [in the 1914-18 War] and Morning in March - by and in the autograph of John W. Swan, Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Part of the original manuscript, 1940, of the MA thesis of Mary Clement, Llanelli, entitled 'Hanes yr S.P.C.K. yn Sir Gaerfyrddin o 1700 hyd 1750 gyda chyfeiriad arbennig at John Vaughan, Cwrt Derllys, a'i waith', submitted to the University of Wales at UCW Aberystwyth. It comprises transcripts and abstracts of the correspondence of John Vaughan (1663-1722), of Derllys, with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, concerning the supply of Bibles and other Christian publications for distribution in Welsh parishes. Most of the original correspondence and records are held at the SPCK headquarters in London.

Literary papers of John Tripp, [1967]-[1975], comprising manuscript and typescript poetry (ff. 1-26, 28-116, 130-151, 166-171), short stories (ff. 117-118, 152-153) and scripts for radio plays (ff. 119-129, 154-165).
The poetry includes original manuscript and typescript working sheets (ff. 1-26), photocopies of published poems (ff. 166-171), fair typescript copies (typed by Fay Williams) and photocopies of original typescripts (typed by John Tripp) of poems, seventy-two mainly unpublished (ff. 28-100), and twenty-one published in The Meaning of Apricot Sponge: Selected writings of John Tripp, ed. by Tony Curtis (Cardigan, 2010) (ff. 130-151), and a series of twelve poems entitled 'Intervals of Heat', mainly unpublished (ff. 101-116). The short story 'Ferret and Weasel' (ff. 152-153) and the verse play for radio 'The Seed of Dismemberment' (ff. 154-165) were published in The Meaning of Apricot Sponge, while 'Confessions of an English Tutor' and 'Sketches from Provincial Love' (ff. 117-129) remain unpublished. Also included is a letter to Tripp from Meic Stephens, 9 September 1968 (f. 6 verso), and a draft letter from Tripp to John Stuart Williams, 2 April 1969 (f. 27). A list of the contents, compiled by the donor, [?2010], is also included (ff. i-v).

A manuscript containing a note by Thomas Thomas (1824-1908) on John Thomas, Wempa, who preached at Capelygroes and Lloydjack Unitarian churches in 1814.