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Five scrapbooks of press cuttings compiled by R O F Wynne, with some additional comments in his hand; the cuttings relate mostly to cultural and political events in Wales and the Welsh Language Society campaigns, the earliest also containing cuttings concerning the Wynne family of Garthewin, the Garthewin Barn Theatre and Llanfair Talhaearn.

A file of promissory notes relating mainly to the Flint Lead Works, 1832-1845; a letter from Henry Trappes, Manchester, to George Roskell, 1854; and receipts for rents due to the Earl of Powis from tenements in Cefn-coch and Cornorion, 1879-1882.

An interleaved copy of Edward Parry, Historical Researches on the Flintshire Castles ... (Chester, 1830), being the author's own copy with his signature and numerous manuscript notes by him, and a letter to him from Morris Williams (Nicander).

A register of parliamentary voters for the county of Flint, 1833.

A manuscript containing the case for John Wynne, appellant, and Sir George Wynne, bart, MP, Leeswood, Flintshire, respondent, together with the verdict in a lawsuit heard in the House of Lords, 10 March 1731/2.

A manuscript entitled Flintshire Monthly Meeting Lease Book, August 5th, 1819, containing an account of the leases of lands in Flintshire and Denbighshire held by the Calvinistic Methodist Monthly Meeting, on which chapels have been erected, together with the names of the trustees of the chapels and of the owners of the lands, also the rents paid.

Notebook containing financial accounts (ff. 1, 104 verso), a list of personal names (f. 2 recto-verso), and notes of legal cases in 1642 (ff. 3-4, 12-17 verso), all relating to Flintshire.
Also included are notes of a 'voluntary Contribution towards the maintaynance of his majesties person' from [the parishes of] Whitford and Holywell (f. 75 verso), a note on shipping troops from Chester to Ireland in the time of Queen Elizabeth I (ff. 100 verso-101 verso) and proverbs in Latin (f. 102 recto-verso). The volume is perhaps partly in the hand of David Pennant of Bychton, parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who was Sheriff of Flintshire in 1641-2, the legal notes possibly referring to cases heard at the Flintshire Quarter Sessions during that year.

A file of draft and printed election addresses, with correspondence relating to the same, by Sir John Herbert Lewis, 1891-1910.

A survey of tenements, etc. in the parishes of Hawarden and Mold and in the townships of Uwchymynudd Issa, Rhanbervedd, Caergwrley and Eastyn, Flintshire.

Research papers of the botanist Richard Henry Roberts, [1953]-[2002], a county recorder for the Botanical Society of the British Isles. The papers including field notes on plants in Anglesey, together with a copy of The flowering plant and ferns of Anglesey (Cardiff, 1982) by him and heavily annotated, and offprints of articles relating to his research.

A folding case formerly housing a letter, 29 May 1813, from the Rev. Thomas Charles, Bala, to Joseph T. Price, Neath Abbey (now NLW MS 24045F, f. 38). Affixed to the case is a paper label attesting to the loan of the letter to the Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition held during the Church Congress at Swansea in October 1909.

A file of papers, certificates, and cards, relating to food rationing, 1917-1920, kept by William Henry Davies, The Stores, Rhuddlan.

A copy of Alun E. Evans's MA thesis 'Football on the Edge. The relationship between Welsh football policy-making and the British International Championship' (De Montfort University, Leicester, 1996).

Forest (Cilgerran) rent receipts of Thomas Edwards, John Edwards, and Elinor Edwards. English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs M. J. Phillips, Rhoshill, Cardigan, April 1959.

Correspondence, press cuttings and broadsheets, 1969-1996, relating to The Forestry Action Group formed in 1970; together with a booklet entitled Undertaker (1962) produced for the 'Thirty Club', a debating society at U.C.N.W., Bangor, and including an explanatory note by Jim Davies.

Two prayers, prepared by the archbishop of Canterbury, to be used in all churches and chapels in 1833 'during the continuance of danger from the cholera morbus'.

Two tabulated forms, filled in for the Bangor and Beddgelert districts, giving details of the use made of grants for midwifery and maternity nursing provided by the Ministry of Health for work done by District Nursing Associations affiliated to the Caernarvon County Nursing Association for the year ending 31 March 1929.