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A collection of miscellaneous songs.

Press cuttings of letters and articles contributed to North Wales newspapers by John Wynne, schoolmaster, of Caernarvon, author of Sir a Thre' Caernarfon, fel yr oedd ac fel y maent yn 1860; and a copy of a letter addressed by him to Lord Derby expressing satisfaction at the appointment of a bishop of Bangor, 1861. The press cuttings have been pasted in a book containing an incomplete essay on the early history of Britain and a list of Caernarvon residents.

The fonds comprises research material relating to drovers and drove roads in Wales, and in other parts of Britain and Ireland, reflecting R. G. Avent's interest in the subject. The papers include manuscript notes, notebooks and offprints from journals and magazines, together with some related publications. Also included is a card index containing references to relevant printed sources, some of which are cross-referenced with the notes.

A manuscript containing recipes for dyeing wool and cotton; household and medical recipes; miscellaneous accounts, 1852-1867; a copy of Reynolds' Original Birmingham Almanack ... 1850.

A scrapbook containing autographs, franks and prints compiled, [1831]-[c. 1867], probably by Sarah Dorothy Grey of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees (later Sarah Dorothy Robinson of Silksworth Hall, County Durham, and Quedgeley, Gloucestershire).
Nearly all the autographs are in the form of 'free fronts', mostly dated 1806-1839, being franked address panels signed by Members of Parliament (or Lords) to allow them free postage (ff. 2-110 passim; a number of these are addressed to members of the Grey family of Norton). The prints include engravings depicting Royalty (ff. 1 verso, 4, 16, 34), topographical and architectural views (ff. 4 verso-111 passim) and female fashions of 1830 (ff. 10 recto-verso, 28 recto-verso). Also included are cuttings of a few ballads (ff. 12, 18, 22 verso, 72) and two 'skit notes' (f. 18). Items found loose inside the volume (19 ff.) have been placed in an archival envelope; these include eleven free fronts, 1828-1837, and three invitations (in French) to the Robinson family to attend events at the French Court in Paris, 1867.

A scrap-book containing material collected by Eleanor Lloyd, part author of a Book of Sundials, towards a book on Stone Crosses, including notes, sketches, photographs, and printed matter.

A facsimile copy, presented to Sir William Thomas Lewis (afterwards 1st Baron Merthyr), of a study by W. Nelson Greenwood, Lancaster, illustrated with statistical tables and diagrams, entitled The influence of atmospheric pressure on the free flow of the Tidal Wave in the Bristol and St George's Channels, 1890.

Records accumulated by Dr John Herbert, 1968-1984, comprising Welsh Secondary Schools Association records, minutes and papers, 1968-1984; and Headmasters' Association and Secondary Heads Association minutes, correspondence, discussion papers and related material, 1969-1984.

Log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923-15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Abersoch, shipping engineer, describing races, regattas and sailings on Merseyside, the North Wales coast, in particular the Llŷn peninsula, Menai Straits and Anglesey, and the Isle of Man (see Beti Isabel Hughes, 'The Log-books of the yacht Ayesha and the S.C.Y.C. at Abersoch', Cymru a'r Môr, 16 (1994), 116-123). A reference to the formation of the South Caernarfonshire Yacht Club is found on f. 5. An incomplete draft of the same, 21 May-3 September 1927, found loose inside the volume, has been filed separately (NLW MS 22633iiA).

An incomplete draft of a log-book of the yacht Ayesha, 4 August 1923-15 August 1927, kept by Joseph Boumphrey (1881-1951) of Liverpool, later of Abersoch, shipping engineer. Found loose inside NLW MS 22633iA.