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A photocopy of an account book, 1950-2003, of the Ponterwyd and District Fox Destruction Society.

A typescript catalogue, compiled 1926-7 by Daniel Evans (d. 1944), JP, Sheffield, with manuscript additions to 1934, of books in Welsh and English presented by him to the War Memorial Hall Library, Pontargothi, co. Carmarthen.

A typescript account of Ponc y Foryd Lime Kiln in the parish of Llanwnda, Caernavonshire, by W. G[ilbert] W[illiams, Rhostryfan], together with extracts from a memorandum book of Richard Parry, Plas Llanwnda (U.C.N.W., Bangor, Porth-yr-aur MS 6829 (11)), recording sales of lime at the kiln during the period 1814-1815.

A copy of 'Pompey', a translation by Katherine Philips (The Matchless Orinda) of 'La Mort de Pompée' by Pierre Corneille, together with songs by the translator, a prologue by Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon, and an epilogue by Sir Edward Dering. The text bears corrections and additions in Katherine Philips's hand, e.g. the last six lines on f. 38. 'Pompey' was first performed and published in Dublin in 1663. Textual differences indicate that this version cannot be derived from the subsequent London editions of 1663 and 1667 [first, Dublin, edition not available for consultation in NLW].

An album containing ninety-three holograph letters and documents, 1810-1915, apparently one of a series of at least five volumes brought together, [20 cent., first ½], by a member of the Malcolm family of Poltalloch, Argyll, Scotland, as a collection of the autographs of prominent legal, political, ecclesiastical and other public figures.
Fifty-six of the letters, 1894-1915, are addressed to George Cave, [later Viscount Cave] (ff. 5-7, 13-28, 36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-54, 56); three, 1868-1874, are to his father, Thomas Cave, MP (ff. 13, 31, 49). The typescript index to the contents on f. 2 records items, no longer present, from Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Queen Victoria, George IV and others.

A volume of tracts, c. 1679-1689, almost entirely political in content, mostly printed (many of them rare), a few in manuscript, collected and bound by Thomas Sebastian Price of Llanfyllin, recusant and antiquary [DWB, Montgomery Collections, 55 (1957), 26-7, 33, 58 (1964), 143-54] in whose hand there is a contents list on ff. ii-[1]. The tracts are grouped under state trials (items 1-5), poems (items 6-32, 28-32 being broadside ballads) and political tracts (items 33-58). The manuscript items are Lord Rochester's 'An allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace' (item 12), with unrecorded variant readings, Abraham Cowley's 'Epitaph on Richard Crashaw' (item 14), Richard Duke's 'Epithalamium upon the marriage of Captain William Bedloe' (item 23), John Dryden and Lord Mulgrave's 'An Essay Upon Satyr' (item 24), with unrecorded variant readings, and 'The Duke of Monmouth's Letter to the King' (item 25); also in manuscript are a copy of the royal pardon to the Earl of Dunbarton and others, 1685, addressed to Thomas Price (item 43) and, evidently on waste paper, a list of Anglesey parishes (item 15) and a table of distances, 'from Dovy to Machenlleth six miles' and from Machynlleth to various English towns, giving stages (item 59, end flyleaf). There is some contemporary marking in crayon and annotation, notably in item 42, adding names of those present at the Council in Whitehall on 22 October 1688 to hear declarations concerning the birth of the Prince of Wales, and, in item 10, identifying persons in Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel. A full typescript list of the contents of the volume is NLW ex 1246.

Papers, c 1972-87, including correspondence, minutes, newsletters, leaflets and printed material, relating to the Plaid Cymru National Left Group; Devolution to Wales; the Anti-Apartheid Movement; and the Welsh Language Society. Among the correspondence are three letters from Dafydd Wigley, 1984 and 1987, and a note from Dafydd Orwig, 1985. The printed material includes a pamphlet by Gareth Meils entitled Cymru Rydd, Cymru Cymraeg, Cymru Sosialaidd, 1972; a Government publication entitled Devolution: The New Assemblies for Wales and Scotland, 1976; and Keep Wales United With Britain: Vote No to the Welsh Assembly, issued by the No Assembly Campaign during the 1979 referendum

Papurau, c 1972-87, gan gynnwys gohebiaeth, cofnodion, cylchlythyrau, pamffledi a deunydd printiedig, yn ymwneud â 'Gr43wp Chwith Genedlaethol Plaid Cymru'; Datganoli i Gymru; y Mudiad Gwrth-Apartheid; a Chymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg. Ymhlith yr ohebiaeth ceir tri llythyr oddi wrth Dafydd Wigley, 1984 a 1987, a nodyn oddi wrth Dafydd Orwig, 1985. Y mae'r deunydd printiedig yn cynnwys pamffled gan Gareth Meils yn dwyn y teitl Cymru Rydd, Cymru Cymraeg, Cymru Sosialaidd, 1972; cyhoeddiad gan y Llywodraeth, Devolution: The New Assemblies for Wales and Scotland, 1976; a Keep Wales United With Britain: Vote No to the Welsh Assembly, a baratowyd gan ymgyrchwyr yn erbyn Cynulliad i Gymru yn ystod Refferendwm 1979

Correspondence and papers, 1967, relating to the Transport and General Workers' Union and the formation of a TUC for Wales; together with various newsletters, pamphlets and magazines produced by the South Wales Communist League, the Communist Workers Organization, Swansea University students, the Revolutionary National Freedom Movement, and Coleg Harlech Welsh Society, 1970-1974.

Poets of the Silver Age of Welsh Poetry, being renderings of Welsh medieval poetry (typescript). English. Between boards. Purchased from J. R. Morris, Bethel, Caernarvonshire, October 1965.

Poetry, specimens of pennillion singing, etc by Herbert Emlyn and others. English, Welsh. Between boards. Donated by Arthur Emlyn, London, October 1956.

Poetry, lectures, press cuttings, etc by William Deudraeth Jones ('Deudraeth') and others . Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Mr & Mrs R. D. Jones, Woolwich, October 1942.

A volume lettered 'Etchings, Sketchings, and Scribblings by F. P. G.', being a collection of holograph poetry in English, with copious pen-and- wash illustrations, by F. P. Gwynne, St. Julian House, Tenby. Among the titles are 'The Border Legend, or A Fiction of the Welch Marches', 'The Battle Field, or The Gallant Soldier, Dedicated to The Royal Welsh Fusiliers', 'The Welch Harper's Lament', and 'The County Church in Pembrokeshire'. The paper is watermarked 1856, and one of the poems is dated 1858.

Papers from the collection of John Jones, J.P., Bethesda, including holograph and typescript poetry by J. N. Crowther ('Glanceri'), 1914-1922; a typescript hymn by W. J. Parry, Bethesda, 1912; poetry by Robert Thomas, Llidiartau [sic], Bala, and Thomas Jones, J.P. ('Treforydd'), Wrexham; an elegy to the Reverend Morris Jones, Jerusalem, Llanllechid, by John [D]. Griffith ('Ioan Arfon'), Caernarvon; a hymn-tune, 'Addfwynder', the words by J. Jones, Bethesda, and the music by G. Jones, A.C. ('Gutyn Mawrth'); 'There's only one England' ('Nid oes ond un Gwalia'), being a song composed to words by 'Glanceri'; a paper (incomplete) on 'Rhwymedigaeth Proffeswyr Crefydd i fod yn aelodau o'r Ysgol Sabbothol' by John Jones, Bethesda; a paper (incomplete) entitled 'Sylwadau erbyn cyfarfod ysgol'; a balance-sheet of the Cefnfaes (Bethesda) School Bazaar, October, 1893; etc.

Poetry, englynion and law notes by John Hughes ('Ioan Glanymor'), John Williams and others. English, Welsh. (Formerly Alltlwyd MS 15.) 1/2 calf. Purchased from S. V. Galloway, Aberystwyth, November 1941.

A volume containing translations into English of Latin and Greek poems by George Herbert, viz. 'Parentalia', 'An Apology on behalf of a Suppliant amongst the Evangelical Ministers in England, addressed to His Most Serene Majesty against the Bewitched Gorgon of the Two Universities or the Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoria ...', 'Epigrams in Defence of the Discipline of our Church', 'The Inventions of War', and 'Other Latin Poems' (incomplete). Inset are transcripts of six sonnets, e.g. '... on the statue at Florenze of Lorenzo Duke of Milan, sculptured by Michel Angelo', 'Written on the lake of Albano', etc.

A volume of poems, 1890-1901, by three 'Rhymers'. It contains poems by A. E. Lomax, L. I. E. P[ughe] and C. E. L[omax], many of them having a Montgomeryshire setting, poems by G. R. G. P[ughe] and Jane Gould Pughe; and a copy of The Church in Wales: A versified review of her reverses by G. R. G. Pughe, vicar of Mellor, Lancashire, 1894.

Two 17th century stanzas which have been attributed to Henry Vaughan (Silurist) (1621-1695).

A volume of poems, 1890-1901, by three 'Rhymers'. It contains poems by A. E. Lomax, L. I. E. P[ughe] and C. E. L[omax], many of them having a Montgomeryshire setting, poems by G. R. G. P[ughe] and Jane Gould Pughe; and a copy of The Church in Wales: A versified review of her reverses by G. R. G. Pughe, vicar of Mellor, Lancashire, 1894.

A commonplace book compiled early in the nineteenth century and containing copies of contemporary English poetry, mainly by Scott, Byron, Campbell, Thomas Moore, and William Roscoe; verses 'inscribed to the worthy inhabitants of Carmarthen' by 'Mr. Davies, Cringell'; a pamphlet, issued by the Financial Reform Association, Liverpool, entitled The Peers' Plunder and the People's Poverty; and cuttings from The Atlanta Argus, 1883, Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 1884, and other sources.

A presentation typescript copy by the author, H. W. Badley, Mold, afterwards of Hawarden, of a poem written in March, 1933, under the title of 'Y Gwir yn erbyn y byd. Here followeth ye (Poster) Prize Poem of ye Welsh National Eisteddfod, Wrexham, 1933. Dedicated, without permission, but with due respect, to the Appeals Committee. Not for competition.'