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The holograph manuscript of a speech delivered by Madame Clara Novello Davies at the Neath National Eisteddfod, 1934.

An English translation by Merfyn and Nan Griffiths of R. Bryn Williams: Gwladfa Patagonia (Cardiff, 1965) (typescript). (Formerly R. Bryn Williams MS 84.) See also NLW MSS 18175-18246. English. Donated by R. Bryn Williams, Llanbadarn Fawr, November 1978.

An English translation of NLW MS. 21706E, an account of the voyage of William Parry, a dissenting minister, to New York on the ship Ohio.

An enlarged and revised version of Gordon K Maliphant's notes and charts on Maliphant Families entitled 'Maliphant Families of the 16th to 20th Centuries. 3rd Edition'; An enlarged and revised version of Gordon Maliphant's notes and charts on Maliphant Families entitled 'Maliphant Families c1520-1996' (Fourth Edition), November 1996. See also NLW ex 968.

An essay by David Llewelyn Davies on the Ceiriog Valley and the Glyn Valley Tramway (typescript). English. In a file. Donated by David Davies, London, April 1963.

An essayby Francis Evans (of Long Buckby and Ulverston) entitled 'A general revival of religion'. English. (Formerly Oakford MS 26). See also NLW MSS 14036-14060. In boards. Donated by Mr S. Jones, Oakford, Llanarth, January 1942.

An essay by Thomas Rhys Llywelyn (d. 1990) dealing with the characteristics of 15 parish churches in the county of Surrey covering the Norman, Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular periods of architecture, illustrated with drawings and photographs.

An essay entitled 'Welshmen in Shakespeare's plays' by H. E. Branch. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) English. Between boards. Purchased from Mrs Bob Owen, Croesor, December 1963.

An essay in Welsh by the late Reverend W Price, Holyhead, on the Reverend Evan Evans Jones ('Ieuan Padarn', c. 1850-1910), Rhos-y-bol.

An essay on Griffith Davies (1788-1855), mathematician, entitled 'Bywyd a gwaith Griffith Davies Y Cyfrifydd', entered for competition at the Caernarfon National Eisteddfod, 1935 (NLW ex 842). A register, 1943-71, of envelope offertory of members of the Methodist Central Hall, Wood Street, Bargoed (NLW ex 843).

An essay on repentance by Griffith Thomas Evans. English. (Formerly Oakford MS 13.) See also NLW MSS 14036-14060. Donated by Mr S. Jones, Oakford, Llanarth, January 1942.

An essay on the history of Penrhyndeudraeth; notes by Bob Owen taken from the parish registers of Llanynys, Denighshire; notes by Bob Owen concerning the parish of Llaniestyn in Llyn; notebook of John Evans-Williams containing the history of Penrhyndeudraeth; and notes on Llaniestyn by Owen Williams, Glanbeuno, Llaniestyn. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, June 1959.

'An Essay on the Island of Anglesey', 1832, in an unidentified hand, apparently the original version submitted by the Rev. Peter Bailey Williams in the competition for an essay on the history of Anglesey at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod, 1832, winning the second prize for its author.
The essay was published in The Gwyneddion for 1832: Containing the Prize Poems, &c., of the Beaumaris Eisteddfod and North Wales Literary Society, ed. by W. Jones (London, 1839), pp. 1-97. The first prize was won by Angharad Llwyd for the work later published as A History of the Island of Mona, or Anglesey (Ruthin, 1833). Williams may have forwarded his work to the competition in the hand of an amanuensis in order to disguise the authorship from the adjudicator, his fellow diocesan cleric, the Rev. J. H. Cotton.

'An Essay on the general cultivation of the Welsh Language and on its particular use with reference to the poems of the Welsh Bards in elucidating historical occurrences', written by John Jones ('Tegid'), Christ Church, Oxford, 1822.

An essay on 'Y Beibl a Chynghrair y Cenhedloedd' by the Reverend Owen Evans Williams (1889-1967), Penrhyn-coch, entered for competition at Seilo Chapel, Aberystwyth, Annual Eisteddfod, 1924.