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A copy of John Frederick Brencher's PhD thesis, 'David Martyn Lloyd Jones 1899-1981 and twentieth-century evangelicalism' (University of Sheffield, 1997).

Memoranda, 1871-1887, relating to Bethania Baptist Church, Cardigan, including particulars of preachers and their texts and notes of resolutions and proceedings of the church, by David Mathias.

A memorandum book, 1870-1887, kept by David Mathias, registrar, to enter notices of marriages in the Cardigan district, with statistics of marriages by licence and by certificate.

The Library was permitted to copy documents from the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts, relating to William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech (1918-1985), British Ambassador in Washington, 1961-1965. The papers include letters from Lord Harlech to President Kennedy, May 1961-May 1963, President's Office Files; papers relating mainly to the British political situation, July 1962-May 1963; transcript of an interview between Lord Harlech and Professor Richard Neustadt; and four interviews, 1969-1970, between Lord Harlech and David Nunnerley, author of President Kennedy and Britain (Bodley Head, 1972), with additional notes.

A ledger, 1858-1892, kept by David Peate (1831-1896), carpenter and wheelwright, of Tafarnnewydd and Glanllyn, Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire.

An interleaved copy of David Powel: A Historie of Cambria, now called Wales ... (London, 1584), with numerous notes by William Maurice (d. 1680), Cefnybraich, Llansilin, antiquary and collector of manuscripts.

A sermon notebook kept, 1826-1833, by David Price (1762-1835), Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire.

An addition to David Smitham's China Archive comprising his Chongqing Journal, 1999-2000, on CD-ROM, including collages, paintings and photographs.

The Inundation. A Fragment from the Welsh, being an autograph translation, 1807, by David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) (1759-1822) of the poem beginning Seithenhin sawde allan ... in Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin, with autobiographical notes by Thomas and a note dated 9 January 1807 from him to a Mr Prett.

Black and white photographs of some one hundred and fifty items from the collection, including those sold at Sotheby's in 1960.

The second of two notebooks (see also NLW MS 22319B) containing a list and index compiled, 1952, by T. W. Hughes, agent to the Gregynog estate, of pictures and sculpture collected by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.
Typescript lists and rough notes found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (NLW MS 22321C).

The first of two notebooks (see also NLW MS 22320B) containing a list and index compiled, 1952, by T. W. Hughes, agent to the Gregynog estate, of pictures and sculpture collected by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.

Typescript lists and rough notes found loose inside NLW MS 22320B.

Notes on the descendants of Timothy Davis of Goedtref, Llangybi, Cardiganshire, down to the year 1855, and on the Davis family of Castell Hywel.

Two copies of the pedigree chart of the Davies family of Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, co. Cardigan, compiled by Mr Peter Davies with assistance from Dr Nicola Crossley-Holland, together with a related letter, November 1996; the descendants include the Rev. David Charles, the Rev. Thomas Charles, Principal J. H. Davies, Sir O. M. Edwards and T. E. Ellis, MP.

Notes and lectures by Ceinwen H. Thomas on the folk-dances of the Nantgarw district, based on the recollections of her mother, Catherine Margretta Thomas (1880-1972). They comprise notes, c. 1953, mostly in Welsh, on performing the dances (ff. 1-27; see Dawns (1973-1974), 22-53); and lectures, 1957 and 1974, on life in Nantgarw in the early 1880s (ff. 28-43; see the Welsh Folk Dance Society News-Letter, 5 (1957), 7-11, and Roger Lee Brown, Taff's Well and Nantgarw in the 80s and beyond (Tongwynlais, 1982), pp. 2-17) and on how the dances came to be recorded (ff. 45-62; see Dawns (1973-1974), 10-22).

Photocopies of the journal for 1819 of Lady Eleanor Butler, one of the Ladies of Llangollen, and of her daybook, 1806, containing jottings of conversations and anecdotes, 1805-6.

Day book of a Llandeilo joiner. See also NLW MSS 20116-20117D. English. Vellum. Donated by Professor E. G. Bowen, Aberystwyth, July 1969.

Day book of the Rhiwbach, Bwlch y Slaters, New Welsh, Blaen y Cwm, Maenofferen and Votty and Bowydd slate quarries. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 122.) English. 1/2 leather. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.