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A group of ecclesiastical papers, 1917-1919, of William Morgan, vicar of St. Ann's, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, including letters addressed to him, 1917, in connection with the Welsh Church Act, the Convention of the Church in Wales at Cardiff (1917), elections in the diocese of Bangor to the Representative Body and the Governing Body of the Church in Wales, etc.; manuscript, typescript, or printed balance sheets, 19171918, of the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund [in the diocese of Bangor], Bangor Diocesan Tract Society, Bangor Diocesan Church Building Society, the Church Defence and Instruction Committee [in the diocese of Bangor], Bangor Diocesan Board of Education, Bangor Clerical Education Society, Bangor Branch of the S. P. C. K., and Bangor Diocesan Church Extension Society; typescript schedules for the dioceses of St. Davids and Llandaff of incumbents with vested interests who had moved since 18 September, 1914; two printed letters by Watkin [Herbert Williams], bishop of Bangor, 1917-1919, relating to the implications of the Welsh Church Act, and the election of delegates in the diocese of Bangor for the Convention of the Church in Wales; a printed list for the Bangor Diocesan Conference, 14 November, 1917, of clerical and lay nominations for the Representative Body and the Governing Body of the Church in Wales; and manuscript and typescript notes, memoranda, and financial accounts by William Morgan.

A statistical summary, [1907], of church work and finance in the Diocese of Bangor during the year 1906-1907.
The volume presents total figures relating to work, income and contributions in the Archdeaconries of Bangor and Merioneth (ff. 1-4), followed by detailed statistics for individual parishes, arranged by Archdeaconry and Rural Deanery (ff. 5-36).

The 1944 deposit comprises mainly episcopal registers, 1408-1864; subscription books 1720-1924; ordinations, 1690-1939; appointments, 1661-1947; resignations, 1751-1935; non-residence, 1785-1919; licences to practice surgery and midwifery, 1750-1809; bishops' transcripts, 1666-1917; marriage bonds and affidavits, 1691-1931; Orders in Council, diocesan decrees, 1841-1937; terriers, 1630-1928; consecrations, 1793-1934; petitions for licences to solemnize marriages, 1841-1932; licences for divine service, 1822-1930; faculty papers, 1821-1932; dilapidations papers, 1872-1937; sequestration papers, 1796-1910; Queen Anne's Bounty papers, 1747-1914; registration of Dissenters' meeting houses, 1802-1849; returns to the Privy Council, 1814-1919; tithe documents and papers, 1685-1928; visitation papers, 1567-1942; statistical returns of Church work and finance, 1890-1938; chapter records, 1673-1937; deeds, 1449-1938; and Consistory Court papers, 1586-1917. -- Records, 1823-1997, deposited after 1944 include marriage licenses, 1823, 1924, 1950-1997; ordinations, 1939-1986, appointments, 1921-1987; licences to lay persons, 1929-1969, 1984-1985; enthronements, 1899-1991; subscription books, 1924-1959; dilapidation papers, 1877, 1914, 1931-1962; correspondence files, 1944-1975; properties and land, 1846-1987; licensing of premises to perform Divine Service and for the solemnization of marriages, 1931-1933, 1952-1969, 1989-[1990]; Orders in Council and diocesan decrees, 1911-1991; consecrations, de-consecrations and dedications, 1834, 1925-1987; memorial funds, bequests and charities, 1911-1990; bishops' papers, 1888-1994; visitation papers, 1959-1984; parish and clergy files, 1933-1994; statistical returns, 1907, 1937-1938, [1977]; and confirmation registers, 1945-1975.

Incomplete autograph draft, [c. 1906], of an unpublished historical novel, Dio, by Arthur Owen Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl'), set in Wales in the 1480s.

Manuscripts, [late 12 cent.]-[19 cent.], including the oldest known Welsh version of the Brut or Chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Dinas yr Haul gan R. Bryn Williams ('Valencia' yn ei gyfrol Teithiau Tramor) (teipysgrif). (Gynt R. Bryn Williams MS 83.) Gweler hefyd NLW MSS 18175-18246.

Records, 1455-1919, of the Lee family of Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, and their predecessors, including rentals of the manor of Dinas Powis and of the Dinas Powis estate, 1610, 1671-1906, surveys of the same, 1566-1610; title deeds, legal papers and correspondence, 1514-1919 (mainly post-1640) relating to properties in Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and Breconshire; records relating to the Friars estate, Glamorgan, of William Hurst, including a survey and rentals, 1777-1786. The archive also includes deeds relating to the estates of the Lords Brooke in Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire.

Letters, 1953-1956, to Dinah White from John Cowper Powys, his brother Littleton Charles Powys, and others; together with printed items, 1954-1987, relating to Father Littleton Alfred Powys and the Powys family.

Proof sheets of 'The Great Hymns of Wales', with an introduction on Welsh religious poetry from the earliest times to the fifteenth century, by Digain Williams [fl. 1888-1895], San Francisco, 1933. A letter signed by the author, 1 October 1934, is attached to the proof.

Llawysgrif Difyr Gampau a Gorchestion yr enwog Twm Shon Catti ... (Llanidloes, 1872), sef cyfieithiad gan John Evans ('Eilonydd') o lyfr Saesneg T. J. Llewelyn Pritchard [The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti ... (1828)]. Prynwyd oddi wrth Mr S. G. Lloyd Evans, Caerdydd, Rhagfyr 1977.

'Diferyn Difyrrwch neu ganiadau plygeiniol er coffadwriaeth am ymddangosiad Duw yn y cnawd', being a collection made by G. C. Griffith of 'englynion', 'carolau', and other poems by Robert Hughes (Neuadd y blawd), William Griffith ('Gwilym ab Gryffydd', 1794), John Thomas (Pentrefoelas, 1800), David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifionydd'), G. C. Gryffydd (1816), and Richard Jones (Trefdraeth).

Manuscript draft, 1914, with typescript draft introduction, of an apparently unpublished Historical Grammar and Dictionary of the Silurian Dialect of the Welsh Language, by the Rev. Dr Lemuel Hopkin-James (Hopcyn, 1874-1937), cleric and antiquary.

Dictionary of the English Language by Joseph Ritson. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 10.) English. Parchment. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

A manuscript volume in Arabic and Persian which, according to an accompanying note, was picked up after the Battle of Inkerman in 1854. It opens in Arabic ('This is the book of the Jewels of Isālām') and then follow the invocation of the name of Allah and the laudatory reference to Mohammed. The text follows in Persian and consists of a dictionary of Islamic names, personal and geographical. The end is again in Arabic, and the colophon is dated 1213 of the Hejra, i.e. 1835.

Research papers, [1988x2016], relating to the publication of the reference book Post-war to Post-modern: a Dictionary of Artists in Wales published in 2015 in English and the Welsh edition Ȏl-ryfel i Ȏl-fodernaidd: Bywgraffiadau Artistiaid Cymru. The papers include minutes of the editorial group, biographical profiles of visual and applied artists, details of exhibitions held and images of their work.

A copy of [W. Stanley Roscoe,] Memoir of Richard Robert Jones of Aberdaron (London, 1822), with a letter from Joseph Mayer to William Upcott, 27 August 1843, and a holograph autobiography, transcripts in Greek and Hebrew, and a sketch of a harp by Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron).

[William Stanley Roscoe:] Memoir of Richard Roberts Jones of Aberdaron ... (London, 1822), with manuscript additions and insertions by 'Dic Aberdaron' himself. Bound into the volume are a number of printed items, notably Y ffordd i fod yn iach a dedwydd, being no. 445 in the series published by the Religious Tract Society.