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A photostat facsimile of the parish register, 1598-1785, of Panteg, Monmouthshire, recording baptisms, marriages and burials.

Manuscripts, 1813-1875, from the library of John and Henry Harries of Cwrt-y-cadno, astrologers, cunning men and conjurors. The collection includes records of patient prescriptions and payment, draft horoscopes compiled in response to patient requests, a printed astrological almanac with manuscript entries, patient correspondence, notes and transcripts of medical lectures, and medical treatises; together with general account books, miscellaneous papers, etc.

Papers, 1842-1936, of or from the library of John Davies, pastor of Pandy and Forest Coalpit Calvinistic Methodist churches, both in Monmouthshire. The collection largely comprises material of Monmouthshire and Calvinistic Methodist interest and includes autograph sermons, diaries, correspondence and miscellaneous notebooks of John Davies.

Minute-book of the Palleg commoners' committee, 1871-1905, concerning the regulating of the number of sheep and cattle on Palleg mountain in the parish of Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, the appointment of shepherds, and other matters relating to the common.

Papers of the Pale estate belonging to Henry Beyer Robertson, 1879-1950, comprising correspondence on Council matters, especially the contract between Bala Urban District Council and Merionethshire County Council for the upkeep of the main roads, 1880-1948; pamphlets, diagrams and letters concerning the Pale hydro-electric plant, 1892-1936; and miscellaneous papers, 1885-1948, including items relating to the 1885 general election campaign in Merionethshire.

Page proofs with MS revisions of a parochial history of Tregynon by W. Scott Owen.English. Between boards. Donated by J. A. A. Williams, Caernarvon, October 1942.

Page proofs of Browne Willis, A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of Landaff (London, 1719), with MS corrections by the author. English. Purchased from Mr W. J. West, Exeter, December 1980.

Papers of John Davies, mainly ecclesiastical material and personal papers, 1846-1881, and papers acquired by him, including personal papers of Rev. D. B. Davies, Edward Morgan, 1868-1898, and Rev. John Morgan, 1894-1918; a notebook describing analysis of the chalybeate water at Aberystwyth, attributed to Richard Williams, an Aberystwyth surgeon, 1817; and a Cefncoedycymer policeman's patrol book, 1869-1870, including the exhumation of a body in connection with the defence of Dr William Price, charged with manslaughter.

Llythyr, heb ddyddiad, oddi wrth 'Dalethin' (?y Parchedig Tom Jones, Llanrwst) at olygydd Y Rhedegydd yn ymwneud â phabyddiaeth yn Llanrwst, sir Ddinbych; ynghyd â ffotograff o'r Parch Tom Jones. / An undated letter in Welsh addressed to the editor of Y Rhedegydd from 'Dalethin' (?the Reverend Tom Jones, Llanrwst) relating to Catholicism in Llanrwst, co. Denbigh; together with a photograph of the Rev. Tom Jones.

An account book, 1843-1854, of Soar's Tent (No.957), Merioneth District, Independent Order of Rechabites, established at Dinas Mawddwy on 31 March 1843. Also included in the volume are an obituary of John D. Jones of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York, an emigrant from Mallwyd, and draft essays on 'Dyledswydd Gwraig ar yr Aelwyd', etc.

Deeds and other documents mainly relating to families and estates in the St Davids area, Pembrokeshire, 1694-1896, including manuscript maps relating to the parishes of Llanrheithan and Mathri, Pembrokeshire, and Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, 1812-1821. The families involved include Howells of Llysyfran, Ford of Stonehall, Owen of Orielton, James of Llandeloy and St Edrins, Parry of Porthiddy (Llanrian), Laugharne of Orlandon, and Mathias of Lochmeyler and Castle Cenlas. The Mathias family include Rev. John Matthias (d. 1805) of Lochmeyler, vicar of Llandeloy, who bought Castle Cenlas, c.1792.

Papers of Mrs. Phoebe Joyce Evans, comprising diaries, 1906-1984, some of which contain accounts of visits to France, Poland, Belgium, Madagascar, Port Said, the United States of America, and various places in England, and including a diary of her husband, Rev. William Evans and a diary on cassette; letters, 1913-1938, from Phoebe Joyce Evans, in the form of diaries, to family and friends from Madagascar and to her from her husband; miscellaneous papers, [1906x1981], including notes and texts of talks given, accounts of visits to America in 1959 and 1971, extracts from diaries, letters and newspaper cuttings; together with autobiographical notes, c. 1900, by [?the Reverend William Evans].

Files of notes, transcripts and indexes of various Welsh genealogical manuscripts, as part of Dr Bartrum's genealogical research. Also the manuscript to the first ten volumes of his 'Welsh genealogies 1400-1500 AD' (1983).
Additional files comprising typescript copies of manuscripts edited by Peter C. Bartrum, namely Peniarth MSS 131-133, 137 and 176-178 (a folder containing letters, 1972-1997, from P. C. Bartrum to the donor was transferred to the Michael Powell Siddons Papers); October 2019.

Five scrapbooks of press cuttings collated by the photographer P. B. Abery of photographs taken by him, 1930-1945, for national daily newspapers.

A scrapbook compiled by Oxfam Cymru relating to its charity work.

A volume, 1830-1847 (watermark 1830), containing fair copies of verse composed between 1829 and 1847 by H. W. Mortimer of Islington, later of St Mary Church, Devon, and of Fersfield, Norfolk, a Unitarian and follower of the social reformer, Robert Owen. Much of the work, 1830-1832, is in praise of Owen and his communitarian ideals, but it also includes satires on some sections of the English clergy, as well as verse dedicated to family and friends.
Subjects of some of the verses include Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, 1829 (pp. 1-3), William Johnson Fox, Unitarian preacher and writer, 1829 (pp. 21-25), the Rev. Thomas Belsham, Unitarian minister, 1829 (pp. 21-25), John Howard, the philanthropist, 1830 (pp. 35-37), the London Female Penitentiary, 1830 (p. 44), Mary Leman Grimstone, novelist, 1832 (pp. 137-139), Marianne Prowse, poet, 1834 (pp. 225-227), the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, priest and theological writer, 1835 (p. 231), and the Rev. Richard Cobbold, Wortham, novelist, 1845 (p. 263).