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An elaborately bound album of material relating to Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron'; 1780-1843), including paste-downs of Memoir of Richard Robert Jones .... (London, 1822); particulars of the 'Phrenological development of Richard Jones'; three holograph letters from H[ugh] Humphreys, Carnarvon to [Joseph] Mayer, Goldsmith, Liverpool, 1848 (the loan of a woodcut and thanks for information towards a biography of 'Dic Aberdaron' to be published by the writer); a pencil drawing and water-colour copy, together with wood and other engravings of 'Dic Aberdaron'; etc.

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing a list of 'Llyfrau March', being books from the library of the Reverend John Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro'; 1835-1919), Congregational minister of March, Cambridgeshire; and (beginning from the end of the volume) a list of books entitled 'Llywarch Reynolds "Amryw" P[roper]ty of Sir E. D. Jones'.

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing lists of works by William Williams, Pantycelyn, Rees Prichard, John Bunyan (translations into Welsh), Thomas Edwards ('o'r Nant') and Thomas Jones, Denbigh, and of Welsh periodicals and almanacs [in the Cwrtmawr library]. The volume was originally used to record, in another hand, a 'Catalogue of Pamphlets', 1789-1891 and undated [also in the Cwrtmawr library].

A notebook in the hand of D. Silvan Evans containing a list of eighteenth century Welsh printed books 'Had from Myrddin Fardd, July 1, 1881'; a few glossary words; and brief notes on some Carmarthenshie and Cardiganshire river names. There are also some Latin exercises (Nos. [33]-40), presumably in the hand of the original owner of the volume.

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing a short list of Welsh books and books of Welsh interest, 1573-1760. Tipped in at the end are additional titles written on the dorse of a letter from Owen Jones, Esgerwenfach, Mydroilyn to J. H. Davies, [19]16 (the completion of an agricultural form).

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing a chronologically arranged list of Welsh books and books of Welsh interest, 1517-1897 and undated [in the Cwrtmawr library]. Among a few relevant insets is a receipted invoice, 1896, for books purchased from D. Williams, Carmarthen.

A list written under the letter-head of University College of Swansea [in the hand of Henry Lewis, Professor of Welsh] entitled 'Rhestr o Lyfrau ar gyfer y Llyfrgell Gymraeg', being books and periodicals for the [College] Welsh Library.

A chronological list in the hand of J. H. Davies of titles of books in Welsh and of Welsh interest, beginning with 'Lancelot du Lac 1488' and ending with 'Psalmau Ed. Prys 1652'.

A chronological list of books and almanacs, largely of Welsh interest, 1517-1800 [in the Cwrtmawr library].

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing a list of first lines of, and references to, poetry by Tudur Aled in manuscripts in the Peniarth Collection in the National Library of Wales.

A notebook, with a few insets, in the hand of J. H. Davies containing lists, with some locations, of printed and manuscript interludes by Ellis Roberts ('Elis y Cowper'), Hugh Jones (Llangwm), Hugh Jones and John Cadwaladr, Thomas Edwards ('Twm o'r Nant'), David Jones (Trefriw), Richard Parry (Diserth), Dr. Lodwick William, John Thomas (Penfforddwen), Jonathan Hughes, Mathew Owen and Edward Thomas (Rhydwen), and anonymous and fragmentary works.

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing a list of seventeenth to nineteenth century Welsh almanacs [in the Cwrtmawr library].

Cwrtmawr MSS 876-891 consist mainly of letters addressed to the Reverend Owen Jones (1833-99) of Liverpool and Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain, Montgomeryshire, Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, book collector and bibliographer. See also MSS 474-5, 851 and 1471, and NLW MSS 2641-79.

Cwrtmawr MSS 895-925 consist mainly of letters addressed to the Reverend Daniel Silvan Evans (1818-1903), cleric, poet, translator, editor and lexicographer. See also MSS 755, 758-759, 767-768. Note: There is a very large number of letters addressed to D. Silvan Evans with the D. Silvan Evans Papers, which form part of the Cwrtmawr Papers.

A mutilated volume containing a treatise (11 pp.) on 'The Revelation or Manifestation of Jesus Christ' and an extensive commentary (147 pp.) on Chapters XI - XVIII of the Book of Revelations. Beginning at the end and inset are memoranda and accounts in the hand of Peter Bailey Williams and vouchers relating largely to the purchase of building materials and payments to builders and workmen at Llanrug, 1802-3. On the inside upper cover, also in the hand of Peter Bailey Williams, is the name of Mr O[wen] Rowlands, Novem[ber] 21 1802, followed by the inscription 'Mr. O. Rowlands began serving Llanrug [as a curate]'. The volume is lettered on the spine 'On the Revelations'.

A nineteenth century translation of a rental, 1577, of the lands of the dissolved monastery of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire, the original document being Crosswood I, 75. The rental contains details of leases, 1485- , giving tenants, rents, heriots, services, etc. for the granges of Pennarth, Cwmustoith, Henhynock and Morva Mawr, Blaynayron, Meveneth and Havodwen. There are also a few later memoranda, 1581-91.

'A Booke or Rent Booke' of rents, duties, customs and services due and payable upon the tenants of the possessions of the late suppressed monastery of Strataflorida, Cardiganshire for one year ending at the feast of St Luke the Evangelist (18 Oct.) 1608. Used as a protective cover, and bearing additional accounts is a lease, 1595, for 20 years from Gelly Meyrick and Henry Lyndley, esquires, to William Warren of Trewern, Pembrokeshire, esquire, of the grange of Castell Cossam, late parcel of the possessions of the late dissolved monastery of Whytland, Carmarthenshire.

A manuscript lettered 'Reliquiae Lhuydianae', being a composite volume partly in the hand of Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709). It contains accounts [1693] of 'L[l]yn yr Afangc' and 'Crigcaeth', published, with English translations by the Reverend Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau (who then owned the texts) respectively under the titles 'The Legend of Llyn yr Afangc' and 'Legends of Wales' in The Cambrian Journal (1859), pp. 142-150, 208-16, and reprinted respectively under the titles 'Chwedl Llyn yr Afangc' and 'Chwedl Crigcaeth ac eraill' in the Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society, 1895-6, pp.99-105, 105-112; 'The names of Pools or Ponds in Merionethshire' and the names of pools in 'Angleyshire' [Anglesey] (Llyn Maen-meudwy, Llyn Coron) and Caernarfonshire (Llyn Drothwch) with a few notes relating thereto; notes on stones in Inisowen (Ynys Owen), co. Dunegall (Donegal); 'Responsa G. R. ad Quaestiones Dmi' E. Lh.' (an account of Snowdonia), 1693, and notes on urns and stones in Caernarvonshire and elsewhere, published in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1860, pp. 237-40. An English translation of the account of Snowdonia has been published in Frank Emery, 'A new account of Snowdonia, 1693, written for Edward Lhuyd', The National Library of Wales Journal, XVIII, pp. 405-17, where it is suggested that 'G. R.' was William Rowlands, later vicar of Conwy.

A religious text (132 folios) in an eighteenth century hand. The following headings occur: f. 9 verso: Yr ail rhan iw hystyriad yn enwedig yn y Grawus ac yn wythnos y dioddefaint; f. 37 verso: Y drydedd ran iw ysdyried yn enwedig tia'r Derchafel a'r Sulgwyn; part of the text (ff. 55 verso-69 recto) describes how the Lord ('y brenin Adoneiah') won in one war against Lucifer; f. 55 verso: Ynawr a mi'n myfyrio ar y Brenin sef yr ardderchog frenin Adoneiah ac yn rhyfeddu at ei allu a'i ddaioni. Mi a ddanghosaf mewn rhiw fesur y modd yr enillodd ef mewn un rhyfel yn Enwedig ac a osodaf riw draws amcan yr amriw achosion a ddigwyddasant ynddi; f. 67 recto: Ynyr unrhiw amser efe a ddaliodd y brenin Lucifer yn garcharor ac a ddygodd ymaeth ei goron ef oddiar ei ben. This part of the text is of an allegorical nature and contains many personifications e.g. emprwr pechod, Captan ofn angau, Twysog ffydd hyderus, Captan gwybodaeth, Captan diniweidrwydd; f. 68 verso: Fellu captan twyll a'r captan celwydd a ragflaenasant captan gwir a'r captan crediniaeth ac am hynnu y meddienir gwlâd yr Iddewon gan y captan angrhediniaeth hyd heiddiw. Er hynnu captan gwir, y captan crediniaeth gyda'r ardderchog gaptan gras a orchfygant y capteiniaid gelynion fy Arglwydd. There are annotations in the margin relating to the text, e.g. f. 55 verso: Ystyr Hist. ar gwymp dyn drwy dwyll Satan .... Many refer to the numerous images of Christ in the text e.g. Christ yn ennaint, Christ yn afon, Christ yn llong, etc. According to a note by J. H. Davies on the flyleaf it is 'By Robert Williams 1746'. A note in pencil on f. 99 recto reads: 'Robert Williams ai gwnayth ond fe?ddayth arno biso tew a chachy dwyman 1746', and on f. 74 verso: 'Robert William fyrgyn roys ?ddant yr og mewn [?gr]ibin'.

Registers of study and conduct of Miss S. Davies, at Mrs Philip Fowke's Establishment.