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Llungopïau gan gynnwys erthygl 'Mynwent Rawson' gan R. J. Berwyn (1863-1917) ar gyfer Y Drafod; tystysgrif geni, 1912,yn Sbaeneg, y plentyn cyntaf a anwyd yn y Wladfa yn 1865 yn dwyn llofnod 'RJB'; a dau lythyr, 1912 a heb ddyddiad, oddi wrth R. J. Berwyn at aelodau o'i deulu. / Photocopies including an article 'Mynwent Rawson' by R. J. Berwyn (1863-1917) for Y Drafod; a birth certificate, 1912, in Spanish, of the first child born in the Welsh Colony, Patagonia, 1865, bearing the signature of 'RJB'; and two letters, 1912 and undated, from R. J. Berwyn to members of his family.

A copy, with annotations and additions, of R. H. G. Smallwood: Wales and Shorthand. Some Notes towards a Bibliography and History of Welsh Shorthand Systems and Authors ... (Gresford and London, 1912).

A catalogue, compiled by R. Gwyneddon Davies (1870?-1928), of the contents of four manuscript volumes purchased c. 1890 by John Davies (Gwyneddon) (1832-1904) from the representatives of Peter Bayley Williams (1763-1836), Llanrug.

Typescript draft, c. 1945, of Y Pila Glas Mawr ac Ysgrifau Eraill, a collection of essays, in Welsh, on various species of insects, illustrated with original pen-and-ink and water-colour drawings, by R. E. Vaughan Roberts (1888-1962), naturalist and broadcaster. Many of the essays were published under the pseudonym Tomos ap y Dryw Bach in Yr Haul, May 1936 - December 1938, and the volume, compiled with a view to publication (see f. 2), is referred to in Melfyn R. Williams, Doctor Alun (Tal-y-bont, 1977), p. 129.

'Logic and Organum' - notes written by R. D. Blackmore at Oxford, with drawings of various species of pansies, examination papers in classics, and definitions in Aristotle's 'Rhetoric and Ethics'.

'Miscellanea Classica or General Notes both critical and explanatory, &c.', written at Blundell's School by R. D. Blackmore in 1843.

Quotations relating to Twm o'r Nant by G. M. Ashton. Welsh, English. In boards. Donated by Glyn Mills Ashton, Cardiff, July 1954.

Questionnaire giving an account of the history of Port Dinorwic; and 'Taith Ysgol Trawsfynydd, 1956'. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, 1959-1960.

An extract from the proceedings of the Epiphany Quarter Sessions for Cardiganshire, 1826, signed by the Clerk of the Peace, presenting Rees Jones, Nantremenin, Llandysul 'as a fit person to serve the office of chief constable for the lower Division of the Hundred of Moyddyn for the year ensuing in the Room of John David Jones ...'.

Quarry stores account book. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 131.) English. Boards. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

A journal of John Griffith (1713-1776) of co. Radnor and Pennsylvania, Quaker, recording his voyage from America to England, 1747-1748 (ff. 2-13, 67v); his itinerary of England and Wales, visiting Quaker meetings and including a visit to his mother in co. Radnor, 1748-1750 (ff. 14-35); his return voyage to America, 1750 (ff. 55-62v, 35v-7v); his second voyage to England, 1750 (ff. 38-54); and personal memoranda (ff. 63v-7, 68r-v). The writer describes his detention at Bayonne (f. 7r-v) and Dax in France in December 1747, his ship having been seized by a French privateer off San Sebastian, and comments upon the superstitions and religious customs of the inhabitants (ff. 7v-11v). Much of the contents of the manuscript was later used in his autobiography, A journal of the life, travels, and labours ... of John Griffith (London, 1779).

An album of miscellanies, compiled [c. 1825]-[1869] (watermark 1823), including transcripts of epistles from the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends in New York to the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends in London, 1808, and from the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends in London to the Quarterly Meetings ... of Women Friends in Great Britain, 1810, 1812, 1813; a letter from Lady Rachel Russell to her son, the Duke of Bedford, 1706; testimonies concerning Sarah Hustler, Bradford, 1817, and Elizabeth Nicholson, Cockermouth, 1835; extracts of pieces of prose and verse, mainly of Quaker interest; three holograph letters and an album entry by Elihu Burritt, 1847-1869; and miscellaneous autographs, and signatures cut from correspondence.