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Notes and extracts relating to the Society of Friends in Wales.

Miscellaneous manuscript and printed material, 1775-1870, relating to Captain John Phillips of Liverpool, his heirs, and the Smalls Lighthouse on the Pembrokeshire coast, the building of which he instigated, including two broadsides, articles of agreement, legal opinions, autograph letters and the signed document by which Phillips transferred the management of the lighthouse to Trinity House.

Material relating to the restoration of Llangurig Parish Church (typescript). See also NLW MS 20694E. English. 1/2 leather. Purchased from Jabez Elliott, Ringwood, September 1971.

(Typescript). See also NLW MS 20693E. English. 1/2 leather. Purchased from Jabez Elliott, Ringwood, September 1971.

Copies sent by E. M. L. Mostyn, M.P. for Flintshire, 1832, to Edward Lloyd, Cefn, St Asaph, of A List of the Majority for, and the Minority against, the Passing of the Reform Bill ... and of Protest against the Second Reading of the Reform Bill (England) over the name of the Duke of Wellington and others, dated 16 April 1832, and endorsed with a note by Mostyn relating to the formation of a new ministry.

Papers relating to the Panteidal Copper Mine near Aberdyfi, including 'An old Welsh coppper mine related item. An illustrated essay' by the donor, together with the original attendance and payment book, 1898-1899, discussed in this work, and other research material.

A file of typescript copies and extracts from ancient deeds, ministers' accounts, Chancery depositions and state papers relating mainly to the manor of Trelleck (i.e. Trelech) in the lordship of Usk and Caerleon, 1262-1583.

Extracts from documents relating to John Lloyd, Alice Lloyd, Charles Llwyd and Thomas Llwyd, members of the Lloyd family of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire.

Papers, [1915]-[1980], relating to Mary Hannah James, a mathematics teacher, and papers written by Marie N. Stephens [KInd afterwards], formerly of the Department of Animal Health, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, including 'The naturl history of the British otter families' [1957].

A volume described as Post Office Vol. VIII and containing drafts and fair copies of letters and statements from the General Post Office to the Lords of the Treasury, March and April 1790, concerning the postage of letters and methods of checking them, accounts of twopenny letters from April 1789 to June 1790, dead letters, statements of the conveyance of mails in coaches, correspondence relating to the Leeward Islands Mails, statistics and correspondence relating to the Packet Boats, West India Packet Postage in 1789, and the Dover Packets, and weekly returns of the Packet Boats on the Falmouth Station, March-July 1789; copies of letters from John Drummond to Thomas, 2nd baron Walsingham (1748-1818), in 1789, relating to French schemes in the West Indies and elsewhere, to the manufacture of saltpetre, and to papers belonging to Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) and Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), some of which refer to the alleged discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd (fl. 1170); letters from Joseph Cawthorne to Lord Walsingham referring to the Asiatic monopoly of the East India Company; printed copies of Acts of Parliament, 17-18 cents.

Transcripts of documents, mainly official letters, etc., relating to the landing of French troops near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, 1797, with a plan of the attempted invasion.

Material relating to the family of Makeig of Llandygwydd, Cardiganshire compiled by M. J. Baylis. Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs M. J. Baylis, East Sheen, February & October 1973.

One of three volumes containing 'Annals of Crynfryn', Cardiganshire, including notes on the ancestry of the Edwardes family, details of trees planted on the property between 1893 and 1908, etc.

One of three volumes containing 'Annals of Crynfryn', Cardiganshire, including notes on the ancestry of the Edwardes family, details of trees planted on the property between 1893 and 1908, etc.

One of three volumes containing 'Annals of Crynfryn', Cardiganshire, including notes on the ancestry of the Edwardes family, details of trees planted on the property between 1893 and 1908, etc.

Photocopies of background notes in Welsh and English, lent by Rev. Emrys W. Evans to the Library in October 2009, to assist with cataloguing seven issues of a magazine entitled Cymro, produced by the Cymric Club in Stalag IVB, Muhlberg-on-Elbe, Germany, in 1943-1944, known as NLW MS 22424F. Also included are printouts of reminiscences by Gareth Prytherch, of Vancouver, Canada, a contributor to the above magazine, which were published online and information relating to Idwal Pugh who was also a prisoner of war at the same camp.

A volume of manuscript text comprising the original version, and notes relating to the popular World War Two song 'We'll keep a welcome in the hillsides', together with a printed booklet containing notes on how the song became an auxiliary Welsh national anthem during and after the war.

A copy of The Holy Bible ... (Cambridge, 1775-6), containing manuscript entries relating to the family of Blackwell, Hendre, Llanrwst, etc.