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A typescript copy of a 'Chronological Record' compiled by S[amuel] G[wbert] Adams as a supplement to a paper on Cardigan Castle prepared for the annual meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Association held at Cardigan, 1904.

A day account book of D[avid Ivon] and T[homas Ivon] Jones, grocers, Bridge Street, Aberystwyth, 1904-1906, with diary entries and other miscellaneous additions in the autograph of David Ivon Jones, including an account of his conversion to Unitarianism, Welsh and English poems and translations of poems by him, quotations, comments on books, etc.

A copy of Sir John E. Lloyd, A History of Carmarthenshire, vol. I From Prehistoric Times to the Act of Union (Cardiff, 1935), containing letters, press cuttings and a few manuscript notes. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 439.

A copy of an article by George Eyre Evans on 'Llandyssul Grammar School', reprinted from The Alauda, the magazine of the Llandyssul County School, Christmas term, 1913; autograph letters to George Eyre Evans from C. E. Vowles, Llandyssul County School, 1913, J. D. Lewis, Gomerian Press, Llandyssul, 1913, D[ian] Marles Thomas, Antwerp, 1914, and Sir John Williams, bart., 1917; and notes in the autograph of George Eyre Evans relating to Llandyssul, including descriptions and illustrations of ancient monuments, a list of vicars, notes on the communion plate and the bells of the parish church, and extracts from manuscript and printed sources.

George Eyre Evans's own copy of A History of Renshaw Street Chapel and its institutions: with some account of the former chapels in Castle Hey and Benn's Garden (London, 1887).

Subscribers to A History of Renshaw Street Chapel... (London, 1887).

Undated press cuttings of an account of 'Holiday Travels of the Liverpool Teachers' Guild' in Lucerne; and a printed Monthly Calendar of Hope Street Unitarian Church, Liverpool, December 1892.

A journal kept by Catherine Powell Evans, sister of George Eyre Evans, then of Birkenhead, of an expedition made in 1890 by members of the Liverpool Teachers' Guild to Venice via Rotterdam, Cologne, etc.

The second visitors' book, July-September 1909, used in the Exhibition of the Centenary of the Introduction of Printing, held at Aberystwyth.

George Eyre Evans's own copy of Aberystwyth and its Court Leet (Aberystwyth, 1902).

A copy of the booklet A chronological summary of the chief events in the history of the castle of Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth, 1849), said to be compiled by 'A Member of the Aberystwyth Town Council', together with cuttings of articles on the castle, 1905, by George Eyre Evans from the Welsh Gazette. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 431.

A group of letters relating to the Aberystwyth Dispensary, later known as the Aberystwyth Infirmary. The letters, mainly addressed to Dr. Richard Williams, include correspondence concerning subscriptions to the hospital scheme, as well as items relating to the administration of the establishment. On the background to the establishment of both institutions see D. I. Evans, 'Hospital Services in Aberystwyth before 1948', Ceredigion, vol. 5 (1965), pp. 168-208. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 379.

An album compiled by George Eyre Evans, containing a collection of one hundred and ninety-five autograph letters, manuscript poems and other documents, printed notices, broadsides, circulars, photographs, etc., of Aberystwyth interest. The majority relate to the Aberystwyth Dispensary, later known as the Aberystwyth Infirmary, and particularly to the payment of subscriptions, 1821-1844. Others relate to the erection and renovation of St Michael's Church, 1825-1846; the restoration of the parish church of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1867; the opening of the Public Library, 1906; and the Exhibition of the Centenary of the Introduction of Printing, 1909.
Included in the volume is a typescript schedule of the documents.

A bound volume of notebooks containing wharfage accounts at Aberystwyth Harbour, 1826-1835.

An account book of expenses incurred by George Eyre Evans in his capacity as executor of Miss Delia Powell (1833-1923), his aunt. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 168.

Commonplace book of George Morris of Wiveliscombe, 1854-1856, with miscellaneous accounts, 1884-1897. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 417.

An account book, 1890-1891, pertaining to various accounts of the Free Christian Church, Whitchurch, co. Salop., and a list of church offertories, 1877-1889. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 169.

A notebook containing memoranda and accounts of the Reverend David Lewis Evans. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 86.

Official acknowledgments of gifts of manuscripts, books, periodicals, circulars, broadsides, photographs, etc., made by George Eyre Evans to the National Library of Wales, 1909-1913.

A bound volume of official acknowledgments of gifts of manuscripts, books, periodicals, pamphlets, etc. made by George Eyre Evans to various libraries in the British Isles, 1901-1933; together with a list, in the autograph of George Eyre Evans, of the chairmen or librarians of such libraries.