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A volume written in Batak containing a work on magic or divination. It may have been written in the early nineteenth century.

A volume, dated 1888, from the library of James Morris, blacksmith and magician, of Cwmbelan, Montgomeryshire, containing transcripts from ['Raphael' (pseud.):] The Art of Talismanic Magic: being selections from the Works of Rabbi Solomon, C. Agrippa, F. Barrett, etc. ... 1879 (London, 1880).

Two manuscript books : 'The Book of Ra: Hoor: Khuit' and 'The Group Records' - parts one and two of the magical record by the donor Peter R. Chatfield.

Papers, 2011, relating to the donor's research into the Cilgwyn Estate Records for his series of articles 'Letters from the War' on the First World War experiences of Major John Kenrick Lloyd Fitzwilliams, Cilgwyn, Newcastle Emlyn, youngest of eight sons. They comprise draft copies and photocopies of the articles published in Carmarthenshire Life, 2007-2009, which focus on letters written by the Major from France, Russia and Romania to his wife Margery. Also included are excerpts from letters home by his two brothers Colonel Duncan Fitzwilliams and Major Gerard Fitzwilliams and military details about all eight brothers.

An album compiled, ca. 1973-1988, by Margaret Joan Mills (formerly Baylis, d. 1992), containing pedigrees, photographs, copies of civil registration certificates and wills, and other genealogical memoranda, 1729-1988, concerning various branches of the Makeig family, originally from the parish of Llandygwydd, co. Cardigan; together with press cuttings and notes relating to her research.

A microfilm copy of Royal College of Music MS 2091 comprising a volume of Welsh, Irish and Scottish tunes collected by John Malchair (1730-1812), including a tune sung by a man at Harlech Castle.

A typescript draft of Part 1 (with index, NLW MS 21717iiD) of Arthur V. Mellefont, Malenfant Families (Killarney Vale, NSW, 1983), a study in three parts dealing with the Welsh, Irish and Australian branches of the family. Part 1 deals with the Welsh branch of the Maliphant/Malenfant family.

An enlarged and revised version of Gordon Maliphant's notes and charts on Maliphant Families entitled 'Maliphant Families c 1520-1996' (Fourth Edition), November 1996.

Additional pedigrees of the Maliphant family of Kidwelly and St Ishmael's, Carmarthenshire, compiled by Ian Meredith.

Additional papers, 2013-2014, comprising three articles by the donor on the Malefant family of Upton and the Maliphant family of Kidwelly entitled: 'Maliphant gatherings - a history spanning 760 years', 'The Malefaunt wardships of 1441, 1450 and 1488' and 'The Malefants and the Fleming inheritants in 1382 and 1546'.

Letters and papers, 1754-1854, of various members of the Mallum family, cider makers, Speen, Berkshire, and the Ingle family, joiners, undertakers, etc., connected with Southwark, Newington, etc. Some of the letters are written from Newtown, Montgomeryshire.

An account book of David Jameson, maltster, of Bailey Street, Oswestry, 1800-1825, to which have been added a single entry for 1844 and accounts of goods (tea, coffee, sugar, etc.) received in 1871. The volume was subsequently used as an album for cuttings from Bye-Gones.

A delivery book, 1864-1872, of William Morgan and Sons, maltsters, Welshpool, recording deliveries of grain, malt, hops, etc., to customers mainly in co. Montgomery. Each entry includes the type and quantity of the goods delivered and the names of the customer, deliverer and receiver. Later accounts, 1917, relating to the sale of livestock have been added at the end of the volume (ff. 363v-7v).

Manchester Union of Welsh Literary Societies minutes by Thomas Thomas. English, Welsh. 1/4 leather. Purchased from Mrs T. Thomas, Aberystwyth, June 1940.

A letter, 12 May 1893, to Arthur Charles Humphreys Owen (1836-1905), Glansevern, Montgomeryshire from Bulkeley O. Jones, Warden of Ruthin Grammar School, accompanying a copy of a manifesto, dated 17 April 1893, prepared by the Warden and others, including Alfred George Edwards (1848-1937), bishop of St Asaph, on behalf of the Governing Body of the school, giving their views as Governors against action contemplated by the Denbighshire County Education Authority and the Charity Commissioners in relation to the school, together with a note dated 8 May 1893 by Arthur Charles Humphreys Owen.

Fragments of poems, letters, etc., by Lewis William Lewis (Llew Llwyfo).

Extracts and notes, mainly by Charles Ashton, wedding stanzas, folk-lore, notes on Glamorgan, etc.

Papers of, or relating to, the Manley family of Manley Hall, parish of Erbistock, co. Denbigh, 1698-1904, mainly comprising genealogical extracts, accounts, and correspondence, including an extract from a letter, c. 1810, of Sir Christopher Cole, recounting his part in the capture of the Banda Islands from the Dutch. Also included are letters from Sir Arthur H. D. Acland (2) 1887-91, Sir Henry Hatton, 13th earl of Winchilsea (1) 1902, and George Fitz-Roy Henry Somerset, 3rd baron Raglan (1, to Sir Henry Vincent) 1904.

An extent of the manor of Mawddwy in the parish of Llanymawddwy, Merioneth, showing the division into holdings, sheep-walks, commons, etc., with the names of the occupiers and the acreage.