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This collection of manuscripts comprises transcripted biographies of women, 1888-1893, together with an index, press cuttings of obituary notices, 1903-1917, and miscellaneous press cuttings from the second half of the 19th century.

Papers of Gwen Davies relating to the translation and adaptation of the novel Martha, Jac a Sianco (Talybont, 2004) by Caryl Lewis into English published as Martha, Jack & Shanco by Parthian in 2007, together with editorial notes, and copies of both printed works. Also included is a translation of the first chapter of Llwyd Owen’s Ffydd, gobaith, cariad (Talybont, 2006) published as Faith, love and hope in 2010. = Papurau Gwen Davies yn ymwneud â chyfieithu ac addasu nofel Caryl Lewis, Martha Jac a Sianco (Talybont, 2004) i’r Saesneg a gyhoeddwyd fel Martha, Jack & Shanco yn 2007, ynghyd â chopïau printiedig o’r ddwy gyfrol. Ceir hefyd cyfieithiad o bennod gyntaf nofel Llwyd Owen, Ffydd, gobaith, cariad ((Talybont, 2006) a gyhoeddwyd fel Faith, love and hope yn 2010.

Biographical sketches of Welsh priests, 1568-1795; research notes and papers on the education of Welsh recusants, 1579-1648; research papers relating to Welsh Catholic printed books, 1579-1777; research papers relating to Catholics in Breconshire, 1799-1830; press cuttings, 1953-1957, mainly from The Tablet, relating to Ronald Knox (1888-1957), and to the Carmelites in Wales; letters, 1953-1958, relating to Welsh Martyrs; undated notes on the Welsh clergy in Seville, 1591-1671; the Clifton diocesan archives, 1827-1828; letters, 1989-1993 and undated, from Emeritus Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd; Welshmen at Rheims, 1579-1593, and Catholic Record Society letters, 1993-1994; press cuttings, 1938-1993 and undated on reviews of religious books and archaeology; photocopies relating to Holywell, Caerwys and Llanfechain in the seventeenth century; photocopies of correspondence and papers of James Peter Coghlan (1731-1800), 1797-1799; Sir Edward Carne (c.1496-1561); Father John Kemble (1599-1679); the Blessed David Lewis (1616-1679); letters, 1956-1963, relating to the publications of The Catholic Recusancy of the Barlow Family of Slebech in Pembrokeshire the XVI and XVII Centuries (Cardiff, 1956), and A Checklist of Welsh Students in the Seminaries, 1568-1603 (Cardiff, 1958); letters, 1939-1997; genealogical notes on the Cleary line and radio scripts.

Martin Culliford allowed the Library to photocopy a list of individuals (arranged by surnames) from Newport and St. Woolos, co. Monmouth, extracted from the pre-1800 Llandaff Consistory Court Probate Act Books and Indexes.

An offprint of G. Martin Murphy's article, 'Maria's Dreams: Lady Mary Herbert, 1685-1775', published in Montgomeryshire Collections 85 (1997), 87-100, and including several references to documents from the Powis Castle Collection.

Photographs taken of various areas in South Wales by Bournemouth photographer Martin Ridley (1861-1936). Some unidentified. Particularly well represented are Cardiff, Newport, Rhondda Valley, Abertillery, Ebbw Vale and Cowbridge.

An elegy by David Jones, Bethel, Llangwyrfon, on the death of Mary Jones, sister of John Jones (Ivon), Aberystwyth.

A manuscript containing Cywydd Marwnad Gwen Fletcher o Dreborth, an autograph poem by Owen Gruffydd (c. 1643-1730), Llanystumdwy, 1716.

A poem in memory of Robert Gwyneddon Davies (Gwyneddon) (1870?-1928) written by H. Isgaer Lewis for Eisteddfod Gwynedd, 1907, together with an essay entitled Natur yn dangos Duw by Elizabeth Jane Williams (Awen Mona).

Copi llawysgrif o farwnad gan John Davies ('Ossian Gwent') i Edward Evans ('Heman Gwent').

A manuscript containing an elegy by Richard Jones Owen (Glaslyn) (1831-1909) entitled Er cof am Mrs Greaves, Aberglaslyn.

A transcript of an elegy entitled 'Marwnad ar y Pendefig goreu yn ei ddydd, Sion Lewis o'r Ddinas Gerdin [John Lewis, Dinas Cerdin, parish of Llandysul, co. Cardigan, ob. 1706]', by Gryffyd[d] Rys, 1706.

A manuscript containing a transcript of Cywydd er Coffadwriaeth o Farwolaeth Thomas Lloyd Yswain o Fronwydd Gorphenaf 13, 1807 by Benjamin Evans, Trewen, with an extract from a letter relating to it sent by Dr D. Rhys Jones, Cardiff to J. Bodvan Anwyl (1875-1949), 9 September 1921.

An elegy to W[illiam] Hughes, [Calvinistic Methodist] minister, Llanengan, co. Caernarvon, and 'chwech Penill a'r Enllibwr', both submitted for competition at a literary meeting at Penycaera[u], 1867.

'Galarnad ar farwolaeth W. O. Pughe, Yswn., D.C.L., F.A.S.', being an elegy (206 lines) on the death of W[illiam] O[wen] Pughe [lexicographer, antiquary, and poet] by 'Ywain Cyfeiliog'. The present copy was folded and sent by post to R. Saunderson, junior, Bala, with the ? author's proper name 'Griffith W. Edwards, G. ab Gwilym Padarn, Llanrug near Carnarv[on]' inscribed under seal in the bottom right-hand corner of p. 4. This suggests that the poem was forwarded to be submitted for competition at an eisteddfod, and the note 'Barnwyd y Farwnad hon yn fuddugol yn Eisteddfod y Bala, 1836. . .' inserted subsequently between the title and text appears to confirm the suggestion.

A copy of Marwnad y diweddar Barch. J. Morris, Cwmifor [near Llandilo, Carmarthenshire] ... gan Watcyn Wyn [i.e. Watkin Hezekiah Williams] (1844-1905), printed at Llandilo in 1877 and described by Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas (1863-1940) in a manuscript note added to the volume as probably the earliest work of Watcyn Wyn [which is] printed in book form; with the book is a cutting from Y Darian, 7 October 1926, containing an article by David James (Defynnog) (1865-1928) describing the book.

A manuscript containing a poem entitled Heol Dewi Sant: Deigryn adgof am Stanley Jones by Howell Roberts (Hywel Tudur) (1842?-1922) and an elegiac englyn by Robert Evans (Cybi) (1871-1956).

Photocopy, [2010], of a typescript account of recollections by Mary Anne Ruck of Pantlludw, grandmother of the romantic novelist Berta Ruck.

46 photographs, 22 loose, in a small album. The photographs are individually mounted on pages of different pastel colours. Some photographs are cut into oval shape, others are oblong with trimmed corners. Most are small still life arrangements of flowers. Others show toys, family members, friends and animals. There is no indication on the blank folios or the reverse of the loose photographs that they were ever fixed into the album. Digital version of the album described in greater detail.

Papers of Mary Garbett Edwards, including scrapbooks containing family photographs and letters, [1890]-1973; Montgomeryshire Liberal Party, General Purposes Committee, minute book, 1950-1959; letters, 1929-1983; journals of visits to North America, 1936-1949; notebooks and notes for speeches, [20th century]; radio scripts and related material, 1943-1963; papers relating to Garbett Edwards, including eisteddfod essays and other papers, 1897-[1930s], journal of Canadian visits, 1936-1939, and publications and annual reports of the Mid Wales Industrial Development Association, 1957-1973.