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

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

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).

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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 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').

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.

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).

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.

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

Two letters, 1955, from John Cowper Powys and one, 1962, written on his behalf by Frederick Davies, to W. Disspain of Kingston-on-Thames, tipped in a copy of the writer's The Art of Happiness (London, 1935), inscribed by him for Mr Disspain.
The inscription, dated 9 February 1955, on the fly leaf, consists of a seven line quotation, in Greek with English translation, from the Iliad. A notice of Powys' death from The Times, 18 [recte 19] June 1963, is pasted onto the same leaf.

Thirty-three letters and a card, 1958-1961, from John Cowper Powys to Susanne Lane, together with one letter, 1959, to her husband, Cyril J. Lane.

Some thirty letters, 1951-1960, from John Cowper Powys to Ron[ald] Hall, [?Coventry and Exeter] (ff. 1-61), three of which are incomplete (ff. 5, 11-13) and seventeen of which are in the hand of Powys's companion Phyllis Playter, as his amanuensis (ff. 14-57). The letters, some of which include line drawings by Powys, refer mainly to literary topics, including Powys's own works in progress, and to health and family matters. There are references throughout to Henry Miller. Also included are typescript transcripts of the letters, [?2000s] (ff. 62-93).
Extracts from the first two letters (ff. 1-4) were published in John Cowper Powys, Letters to Henry Miller, introduction by Ronald Hall (London: Village Press, 1975), pp. 13-14.

Some fifty-six letters, 1945-1961, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Marjorie Tilden encouraging her to persevere with her writing; together with two letters from Littleton Powys to Miss Tilden, and about sixteen from Lord Dunsany and Lady ? Dunsany discussing and praising her work.
There are also copies of extracts from some of the letters presumably in the poet's own hand and two volumes of her poetry Songs and Sonnets (1942), and Star Crossed (1947 and 1966) for which J. C. Powys contributed the foreword.

Letters from the files of Laurence Pollinger, literary agent for John Cowper Powys, including one hundred and twenty letters, 1944-1962, from John Cowper Powys, and forty-eight letters, 1945-1964, from his companion Phyllis Playter, many of which were written after Powys's death; together with carbon copies of Pollinger's replies and letters from other members of the Powys family.

Fifty-one letters, 1937-1955, from John Cowper Powys to Iorwerth Peate.
Most of the letters were published in John Cowper Powys, Letters 1937-54, ed. by Iorwerth C. Peate (Cardiff, 1974).