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A typescript copy, [1962]-1979, of Saunders Lewis's Welsh play 'Excelsior', first published Swansea, 1980, with corrections in the author's hand (ff. 1-56); together with correspondence, 1980, in English and Welsh, of the publisher Christopher Davies, regarding its publication in view of the allegation, when broadcast in 1962, that it libelled the Rev. Llywelyn Williams, MP (ff. 57-81).
The typescript consists of pages from the original script, [1962], transmitted on BBC TV on St David's Day 1962 (ff. 5-16, 20-21, 42-51), interspersed with revised sections, [1979], for an abortive stage version (ff. 17-19, 22-41, 52-56), and the new Preface for the published volume, April 1980 (ff. 2-4). The correspondence consists of nineteen letters, April-October 1980, including copies and drafts, mostly between Saunders Lewis, Christopher Davies, Sir Alun Talfan Davies and Glyndwr Williams, brother of Llywelyn Williams. A cutting of Clive Betts' article, 'Saunders Lewis publishes play BBC abandoned' (Western Mail, 1 December 1980, p. 9), is on f. 82. The 1962 and 1980 versions of the play both appear in Dramâu Saunders Lewis: Y Casgliad Cyflawn, Cyfrol 2, ed. by Ioan M. Williams (Cardiff, 2000), pp. 273-414.

'The names of the 43,625 Deponents in the "Exchequer Depositions by Commission" from 1 Elizabeth to 18 James I, arranged in eight geographical groups, according to the Counties to which the documents relate'; the same for 44, 924 deponents from 19 James I to 19 Charles II, and for the 39, 079 deponents from 20 Charles II to 7 William III. Issued to members of the Genealogical Co-operative Search Club. No. 20 of 22 sets signed by Charles A. Bernau. 1916-18.

Letters and papers, 1781-1810, of Morgan Thomas, Norfolk Street, the Strand, London, and William Makepeace Thackeray, grandfather of the novelist W. M. Thackeray, executors appointed under the will of Hopkin Walters, surgeon with the East India Company in Bengal, who died at sea in 1781. The documents include references to the seizure of the testator's original will by the authorities in Cadiz and an attempt to recover his effects and part of his fortune in gold and silver from the ship Diana.

Exemplification, dated 26 November 1832, of a Recovery suffered 30 October 1832 between Henry Hurle, gentleman, (demandant), and John Evans, of four messuages, four gardens and 100 acres of land in the parish of Llanidloes, county of Montgomery.

Exercise book belonging to David Jones, aged 14, Tu-hwnt-i'r-afon, Betws-yn-Rhos, co. Denbigh, 1871, containing transcripts of English and Welsh poems, and English dictation and other exercises (NLW ex 1461). A copy of Francis Storr, Cowper's Task (London, Oxford and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1875) belonging to John Davies, C.M. College, Bala, 1880, and afterwards to R. Williams, containing copious textual notes by the latter (NLW ex 1462).

Exercise book containing reminiscences of Mrs Henry Wood (nee Parry of Ty Llwyd, co. Cardigan) born 1867.

A volume of exercises in commercial arithmetic and precedents of invoices compiled in 1826 by William Saunders Davies, a native of Brynhafod and afterwards shopkeeper of Felin-fach, co. Cardigan.

Exercise books -containing arithmetic, trigonometry, etc, apparently in connection with navigational studies. English. Boards. Donated by Mr T. Brisbane Jones, New Quay, February 1965.

A volume compiled by John Matthews, comprising book-keeping exercises in the form of a day-book and ledgers, 1816-1822; transcripts of 'Letters', 'Descriptive Letters', and 'Letters of Precept and Advice' written by John Gay, Stanton Harcourt, 1718, James Beattie, Peterhead and Aberdeen, 1784-1790, Thomas Gray, Anna Seward, Lichfield, 1765, Sir William Jones [orientalist], 1769, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford, 1641, Sir Matthew Hale, undated, and Dr. [Philip] Doddridge, Northampton, 1730; and a series of twenty-two 'Themes', being observations on procrastination, flattery, industry, swiftness of time, etc.

English-German exercises written by Hans Bottcher, a German prisoner of war who worked on farms at Llangwm, Denbighshire, 1918-1919.

A volume entitled 'Exercitatione Dialecticae' by Charles Benvenuti, 1742.

John Brutus Davies. Welsh, Spanish, English. Between boards. Donated by Mr G. N. G. Davies, Shrewsbury, July 1967.

A composite text made of the extent of the castle and honour of Denbigh taken by Hugh de Beckele, 1334, being a transcript by Frederic Seebohm of British Museum Harleian MS 3632, ff. 1-48 and Maitland Library, All Souls' College, Oxford MS ff. 165-287. From f. 233 (NLW MS 17304E) onwards, the text was transcribed from Colonel Howard's manuscript. The text is written on the recto only and NLW MS 17304E is a direct continuation of NLW MS 17303E. Pasted in on the frontispiece is a letter, 1894, from the Clarendon Press, Oxford to Frederic Seebohm which relates to the publication of a facsimile of the Denbigh manuscript.
There are some annotations in pencil and red ink throughout both volumes and some notes in a different hand from that of the scribe inserted loose (NLW MS 17303E: f. 29; NLW MS 17304E: ff. 268, 273, 319).

Extents of Neath taken by John Stuart Corbett and D. Rhys Phillips from Inquisitiones post mortem, 1296-1375. Latin, English. (Formerly D. Rhys Phillips MS 7.) In boards. Purchased from D. Rhys Phillips, Swansea, April 1942.

Extract from the diary of the Bristol Congress of Moravians, January 1 & February 11 1840, with reference to Drws-y-coed, Beddgelert (typescript); copies of the letters of Richard Jones o'r Wern, c. 1830-1832. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) Welsh, English. Between boards. Purchased from Mrs Bob Owen, Croesor, December 1963.