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A holograph draft of a section of Dylan Thomas’s story 'The Outing'.

Holograph annals and press cuttings relating to Arthur Emlyn [Jones] by Arthur Emlyn [Jones]. English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs Rosalind M. Emlyn, Bournemouth, June 1973.

The original manuscripts, prepared for printing, of several examples of questions and answers on scriptural subjects studied by members of Sunday schools in south Cardiganshire and north Pembrokeshire in preparation for Cymanfa'r Pwnc.

The archive comprises a circular issued by the Union of Welsh Baptists in 1936 to the Baptist chapels; the completed questionnaires; a list of the chapel records collected; a list of the chapel records compiled from the questionnaire (8 copies); a list of the pre-1837 records compiled from the questionnaire.

Holiaduron a ddychwelwyd gan y beirdd a gynrychiolwyd yn NLW MSS 14461-14462. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 3.) Mewn byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.

A printed questionnaire, containing lists of various editions in Welsh of the Bible and of portions of it, the Book of Common Prayer, the prose Psalms, Psalters, etc., circulated by John Ballinger (1860-1933) in 1903 on behalf of the Cardiff Public Library, with annotations by David Richard Thomas (1833-1916), archdeacon of St Asaph.

Manuscripts and papers from the collection of Hobley Griffith, much of which are of literary or historical interest, and include poetry, transcripts and miscellanea by W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including transcripts and translations of sermons of his uncle, Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), together with correspondence of 'Gwilym Cowlyd' and 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'; eisteddfod adjudications by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), Ellis Roberts ('Elis Wyn o Wyrfai') and others; volumes of (mainly Welsh) transcripted poetry, including a seventeenth century volume which once belonged to and is annotated by Lewis Morris (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn'); seven manuscript volumes written by William Hobley in the preparation of his Hanes Methodistiaeth Arfon (1910-1924), together with correspondence of William Hobley; volumes of eighteenth and nineteenth century sermons, two of which contain notes by William Hobley; an eighteenth century tract relating to the disestablishment of the Welsh Dissenters from the Church of England; an elegy by John Roderick (Siôn Rhydderch) on the death of Ellis Wynne of Lasynys; autobiographical notes by Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'); annotated nineteenth century Acts of Parliament relating to British railways; a commonplace book of Llanberis interest; etc.

A typescript history of Windsor Road Calvinistic Methodist Church, Caerphillly, written in 1946 by D. T. Salathiel to commemorate the Church's Golden Jubilee.

An essay on the history of Wales by an unidentified author, 'Historicus', 1896, together with a related letter, [c. 1970], from Prys T. J. Morgan to Ralph A. Griffiths.

A History of the South Wales Area Baptist Joint Board 1915-1973 by Miss R. I. John (typescript). English.

History of the Rebecca Riots i.e. Rebecca and her daughters by H. Tobit Evans and Gwladys Tobit Evans. See also NLW MSS 20940C, 20942-20943E. English. Between boards. Purchased from Mrs G. Hale, Penbryn, Llandysul, October 1968.

A photocopy of a letter, 1925, from L. G. Williams & Prichard, Solicitors, Cardiff, to the Secretary of the Public Record Office, London, enclosing a brief summary of the history of the manor of Trecastle, Glamorgan.

An essay entitled 'History of the Knights of the County of Carnarvon from 1542 to 1870' written by an unknown author, n. d., under the pseudonym "Rossell of Isgorfai".

A history of the Kemeys family of Cefn Mabli, Cardiff, collated by Millicent Kemeys McLean (1917-2012) of Australia whose great-grandmother Mary Kemeys emigrated to Australia in the 1830s. It includes family photographs and photographs of Cefn Mabli, marriage certificates, her reminiscences and poems by her.

A typescript copy of the `History of the James Family and Sundry Information' by Richard Arnold James and John Henry Watts,written to commemorate the 75th reunion of the descendants of William Duncan James and Amy Celestine Thornton, 21 May 1995.