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Deeds and documents relating to the Glynllifon estate, 1465-[1st half 20 cent.]; rentals and estate accounts, 1664, 1780-1787; and family correspondence, 1657-1845, mainly the correspondence of Thomas Wynn, 1st Lord Newborough, and Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd Lord Newborough. There are also a group of letters from a William Cardell Beattie from Caernarfon goal.

A copy of Leonid Morgan's work '''Glynllech'' Families, Abercraf [Price & Powell]', together with a family tree showing the relationship with other families in the parishes of Ystradgynlais and Ystradfellte, co Brecon.

Deeds and documents relating to Glyneiddan, Nantgaredig, and other premises in Carmarthenshire, 1785-1955, and papers of Henry Jones-Davies, relating to local government in Carmarthenshire, 1895-1950; and to agriculture, 1910-1945, especially to agricultural co-operatives in Wales.

Papers of Glyn Tegai Hughes including diaries, letters, papers relating to his political interests, research papers, and Gwasg Gregynog ephemera.

Papers and publications created and collected by Glyn Mathias in the course of his career related to his career in journalism including his role in broadcasting from the UK Parliament, along with his work for OFCOM, Dwr Cymru and the Electoral Commission.

Manuscript and typescript drafts, [1970s]-[1995], by Glyn Jones of his unfinished poem 'Seven Keys to Shaderdom', on which the version published in The Collected Poems of Glyn Jones, ed. by Meic Stephens (Cardiff, 1996), pp. 111-131, was based.
The published poem consists of seven sections with a prose Prologue, represented in the manuscript by multiple drafts (ff. 1-202, 208-224). Section I was previously published as 'Shader's Vision' in Poetry Wales 19.3 (1984), 51-2, the Prologue and Sections I-III appeared as 'Prologue and Three Fragments' in Glyn Jones, Selected Poems, Fragments and Fictions (Ogmore-by-Sea, 1988), pp. 133-144, and Section V was published in Poetry Wales 28.2 (October 1992), 18-19. The manuscript also includes other material including drafts and fragments of other poems, notes, images and completed lines (ff. 203-207, 225-279). Some leaves re-use miscellaneous letters, newsletters, television drama scripts and other papers. A self-portrait sketch in ink by Jones is on f. i verso.

The fonds comprises the literary and personal papers of Glyn Jones, 1814-1995 (with gaps), including manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry and prose works by him, related correspondence and press cuttings, radio scripts, talks and readings and adjudications. Also included are notes and articles pertaining to Glyn Jones, general correspondence and notebooks; various papers relating to members of his family; and works by other writers.

Typescript copies of Glyn Ifans, Canllaw Traethawd (Llandysul, 1974), short guidelines for writing different types of essays, with examples, and of Gwynt yr ynysoedd bach (Llandysul, 1975), a diary of an educational voyage, July 1970, from Swansea, on board the Uganda, to Madeira, the Canary Islands and Tangier; together with an undated letter from Gwasg Gomer.

Copïau teipysgrif o Glyn Ifans, Canllaw Traethawd (Llandysul, 1974) sef cyfarwyddyd byr ar ysgrifennu gwahanol draethodau, ynghyd â phatrymau ohonynt, ac o Gwynt yr ynysoedd bach (Llandysul, 1975), dyddiadur mordaith addysgol, Gorffennaf 1970, o Abertawe, ar long yr Uganda i Madeira, Ynysoedd y Caneri a Tangier; ynghyd ̂a llythyr, heb ddyddiad, oddi wrth Gwasg Gomer.

Papers of Glyn Hopkins, [c. 1802]-1976, mainly comprising his draft articles and historical notes relating to Llanedi and Yr Hendy, Carmarthenshire, and Pontarddulais, Glamorgan, and to local place names; and a vestry book, [c. 1802]-1827, of Llanedi.

Deeds and documents, 1676-1874, relating to properties in Llandinam, Llanidloes, Mochdre and Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, and to affairs of local government and Turnpike Trusts. The Woosnam material covers the period 1691-1844.

Account book, 1748-1756, of Roderick Richard (d. 1753) and Roderick Rees (d. 1772), glovers, of Pen Bont, Llanbadarn Fawr, co. Cardigan, containing particulars of wool and skins purchased, together with other accounts and memoranda.

Gloucester Fire and Life Insurance forms and registers. (Formerly Thomas Dyke MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Mr Grenfell Jones, Abergavenny, June 1971.

Glossary of North Country Words, with MS notes, by John Trotter Brockett. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 26.) English. 1/2 morocco. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Glossary by Leonard Owen of personal names extracted from his own transcripts of lay and clerical subsidy rolls, etc in the Public Records Office. English. In a file. Donated by Leonard Owen, Gerrard's Cross, October 1965.

A volume containing 'A Glossary To Explain The Original, the Acceptation, and Obsoleteness of Words and Phrases. And to Shew the Rise, Progress, and Alteration, Of Customs, Laws, & Manners. From [White] Kennett's Parochial Antiquities'; 'A Scottish Glossary Annex'd to Robert Burns's Scottish Poetry'; 'A Catalogue of Animals described by Mr. Pennant in his British Zoology, with their British Names, by Richard Morris, Esqr.'; and an incomplete transcript, with some additions by the scribe, of 'Some part of the Substance of a Letter to the Bishop of Carlisle, about the signification of the Names of Places in the British. by Edw. Llwyd, late Keeper of the Ashmolean Musaeum, in Oxford. Called 'D. E. Luidii Adversaria', & annexed to [William] Baxters Gloss[arium] Antiq[uitatum] Britannic[arum] 8vo Lond[ini] MDCCXXXIII'. There are slight variations in the script, but the volume is probably entirely in the hand of Henry Thomas Payne, archdeacon of Carmarthen.

A volume of notebooks of Robert Williams, rector of Llanbedrycennin, Tal-y-cafn, Caernarvonshire (author of 'The History of Charlemagne', Cymmrodor, vol. XX, 1907), containing material towards a glossary of Welsh words taken largely from Thomas Powel: Ystorya de Carolo Magno ([London], 1883). Inset is an autograph letter, 1922, from the Reverend J. Bodvan Anwyl ('Bodfan'), Aberystwyth, to Robert Williams.

Deeds relating to Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, 1528-1833, notably to the families of Morgan of Pencreeg, Monmouthshire, 1621-1679, and the Mackworth family of Neath, Glamorgan, 1724-1795.

A poem by Gwyneth Lewis written when she was the National Poet of Wales in 2005, commissioned by Glas Cymru to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its founding in 2000, and printed by the Gregynog Press.