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Photocopies of an article by W. N. Davis, Dinuba, California, relating to Stephen S. Jones and family who emigrated in 1878 from Cardiganshire to Jackson County, Ohio, together with copies of letters from America and from relations in Wales and poetry entered in a literary meeting in Oak Hill, 1893, together with a copy of an undated photoghraph of Stephen and Anna (Morgan) Jones taken in Jackson.

A telegram from the P[ress] A[ssociation] to the Cambrian News, Aberystwyth, [ ] September [19]39, quoting unconfirmed Associated Press reports of fighting at Danzig and the bombing of Polish towns, a Reuter statement relating to a broadcast by Hitler and the proclamation by Danzig of itself as a part of Germany, and unconfirmed reports from Paris of the beginning of the German offensive.

For xerox copies of original material donated at the same time, see NLW Facs 396-404.

An overseers' book of receipts and payments for the parish of St Nicholas, Haverfordwest Union, 1848-1868. The name of Gwynne Vaughan Bowen, overseer, occurs in 1849, 1868, etc.

Deeds, 1632-1798, relating to properties in the townships of Dyffrydan and Dolgledr, Dolgellau, and the Cefn yr Owen estate in the parish of Dolgellau, Merionethshire.

A copy of L. J. Roberts: Owen Glyndwr: Darlith (Gwrecsam, c. 1904), with manuscript notes by Lewis Davies Jones (Llew Tegid) (1851-1928).

Letters and papers, 1927-1938, accumulated by Sir Alfred T. Davies, relating to the Owen Glyndwr Memorial Institute, Glyndyfrdwy, Merionethshire, and Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire.
The file includes ten letters, 1932-1934, from Walter L. Irvine, landscape architect, to Sir Alfred T. Davies, President of the Memorial Committee, concerning proposed gardens for the Institute (ff. 7-25); papers relating to the commemorative stone, 1931, the opening of the memorial hall, 1932 (ff. 26-32), and the foundation and administration of the Institute (ff. 33-40). In addition, the file contains two letters, 1927-1928, addressed to Sir Alfred T. Davies from J. Elias Jones, regarding the preservation and future of Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire (ff. 42-5).

A collection of manuscripts which includes a copy of Lewis Morris (ed. D. Silvan Evans): Celtic Remains ..., 1878; original poetry and translations; transcripts from various sources, including hymn tunes, anthems, etc., manuscripts, poetry and printed works; correspondence; genealogy; sermon notes; diaries, 1858-1862, 1864, 1871, 1875-1898, and those of Thomas Jones, Owen Jones's father, 1873-1885.

A volume of sermons by and in the autograph of Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) (1806-1889).

The Homes of Wales, a translation, 1926, by Arthur Simon Thomas (Anellydd) (1865-1935), rector of Trefilan, Cardiganshire, of Owen Morgan Edwards: Cartrefi Cymru ... (Wrexham, 1896).

The coat of arms, coloured, of the Owen family of Orielton, Pembrokeshire.

Account books and ledgers, [1878]-1910, of Owen Owen, draper, of Liverpool and London, containing mainly receipts, disbursements, balance sheets and details of rents of properties in Montgomeryshire, Caernarvonshire, Liverpool and London.

Yr Ymwelydd Blyneddol; neu Almanac a Dydd-lyfr, am y flwyddyn 1838, Mold, with diary entries by Owen Owens, Rhes-y-cae.

Papers of the Owen family of Summerhill, Roch, Pembrokeshire, 1770-1986, including diaries of members of the family, 1887-1956, containing entries relating mainly to farming activities at Summerhill; title deeds and documents, 1843-1963, including probate copies of wills; correspondence, 1894-1963; memoirs of Elizabeth Myfanwy Robinson (née Owen, 1891-1978), sister of Ita Owen; family photographs; almanac with entries, 1770-1771; account books and school reports.

The manuscripts comprise mainly sermons and sermon notes by Owen Thomas and other preachers; together with poetry, correspondence, a diary, and other miscellaneous papers.

Llungopïau o bedwar llythyr, 1915, oddi wrth aelodau o'r teulu Owen a ymfudodd o Batagonia i Moora, Gorllewin Awstralia, at eu perthynas Maggie Owen yn Abergele. = Photocopies of four letters in Welsh, 1915, from members of the Owen family who emigrated to Moora, Western Australia, from Patagonia, to their relative Maggie Owen in Abergele.

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).

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

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

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.