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An entry book, 1783-1798, of fees collected by the Reverend John Rocke on the passing of fines and recoveries in the Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire circuit of the Court of Great Sessions.

Notebook, 1914-1916, kept by Nursing Sergeant Davies of 'C' section of the 130th (St John) Field Ambulance unit, attached to the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army. It includes a diary, November 1914-June 1916 (ff. 1-12), describing duties in Britain before embarkation for France on 3 December 1915, and subsequent activities on the Western Front prior to the Battle of Mametz Wood.
A draft application for an army commission (ff. 45, 46 verso) suggests that Sergeant Davies was a native of Carmarthenshire and a former miner. The notebook also contains medicinal recipes (ff. 13-14, 44 verso, 45-6), ration tables (ff. 8 verso-9, 14), and poetry in both English and Welsh (ff. 22 verso-23, 31-44, 49-53). An additional folio, tipped into the volume (f. 16a), contains further diary entries, October 1916, and suggests the existence of a second volume, subsequently lost.

Commercial Memorandum-Book, with an Almanac for 1854 ..., with notes on Greek grammar in the hand of Thomas Charles Edwards, first principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

A copy of F[rederick] H[enry] A[mbrose] Scrivener: H. KAINH ΔIAΘHKH Novum Testamentum. Textus Stephanici A.D. 1550. Accedunt variae lectiones editionum Bezae, Elzeviri, Lachmanni, Tischendorfii, Tregellesii. (Cambridge and London, 1877), with numerous manuscript, marginal annotations.

Illustrated diary, 1981-1984, of Ann Pettitt, peace campaigner and one of the founders of the Greenham Common peace protest (NLW MS 23901iC). The diary describes the peace march from Cardiff to Greenham Common Air Base, August-September 1981 (ff. 1-4), which led to the establishment of the peace camp there, together with a similar march to R.A.F. Brawdy, May 1982 (ff. 11-23 verso), and a ten-day camp at Greenham Common in September 1984 (ff. 23 verso-68).
Also included (NLW MS 23901iiC) is a copy of Pettitt's chapter, 'Ten days at Greenham Common', which was intended for a proposed, but unpublished, anthology of women's writing in Wales (ff. 4-19); and associated correspondence, February-May 1988 (ff. 1-3). The illustrations in NLW MS 23901iC, ff. 29, 32 and 51 are reproduced in Ann Pettitt, Walking to Greenham (Dinas Powys, 2006), pp. 81, 7, 155 respectively.

Mainly copies of items believed from NLW collections inc 21 of "A New Map of Denbighshire & Flintshire" by W Williams, ca.1720; photos of Tregaron area; Water mills in N Wales, Nanteos cup etc. Also a series of copy photographs of views around Tregaron ca.1910. On the reverse of these is information regarding Miss Janet Phillips, owner of the originals.

Cartes de visite, postcards and cabinet cards of various personalities, some identified on reverse. These are from a variety of different sources.

Gregynog visitors' book containing records of, and attendances at, conferences and committee meetings. Welsh, English. Leather. Donated by Evan C. Powell, Esq., Newtown, May 1963.

Gregynog visitors' book containing records of, and attendances at, conferences and committee meetings. Welsh, English. Leather. Donated by Evan C. Powell, Esq., Newtown, May 1963.

Notes of sermons in the hand of Griffith Edwards, Minera, Wrexham.

An account book, 1775-1813, containing particulars of farming, estate and household, together with personal receipts and payments of members of the Griffith family of Llwyndyrus (Cardiganshire) and Andover.

Genealogical memoranda of the family of Richard Griffith of Pwllheli, who married Elizabeth Jones of Caernarvon, 23 August 1833.

Papers, 1630-[?1877], of the Griffith family of Garn, Henllan, Denbighshire, mostly relating to George Griffith.
The papers comprise twenty-six letters, 1841-1865, to George Griffith (ff. 44-94), including ten from his wife Charlotte Griffith (née Douglas), March 1841, on the illness and death of her brother Hargreave (ff. 44-63), and ten from Joseph Brereton, Liverpool, 1861-1862 (ff. 69-79, 82-89); nine letters, 1833-1842, to Charlotte Griffith (ff. 22-43); and eleven letters, 1763-1848, addressed to other members of the family (ff. 1-21); together with other papers of George Griffith, [1850s]-[?1877] (some 100 items in total), which include draft and copy letters, newspaper correspondence, and drafts of articles and speeches, mostly by Griffith, on topics of both national interest, such as taxation, the Game Laws, the Reform Bill, etc, and local Denbighshire interest (ff. 95-415), some being written on the reverse of printed ephemera, dated 1859-1866 (ff. 95-108, 245-246, 306-307, 309-310). Also included are miscellaneous items including a receipt, dated 1 October 1630 (f. 416); part of a transcript, [?1690], of a valuation of the Lordship of Ruthin (ff. 417-418); draft answers, [c. 1705], to a bill of complaint of Richard Griffith, relating to the 1686 marriage agreement of Grace Williams, Coedmawr, and John Williams, Caerberllan (ff. 419-423); notes, [c. 1816], on Napoleon and recent European military matters (ff. 424-430); and a letter, 30 October 1853, from [the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General], Scutari, [Istanbul], to the Commanding Officer of the troops at Kulali, [Istanbul] (f. 431). A letter, 4 November 1958, from Ermine Dixon, Preston, to Edward Hall is included (f. iii), together with a few notes on specific items, apparently in the hand of Edward Hall (ff. 2a, 3a, 7a, 13a, 16a, 21b, 416a, 423a).