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A file of loose sheets containing notes ('nodiadau cofion') on the history of Llanelly; and abstracts, 1864-1893, from a register of Maescanner Baptist Church recording payments to the minister, the Rev. Phillip Phillips, and to visiting preachers and lecturers.

A file of loose sheets containing reminiscences, biographies, and other notes relating to the history of Dafen, near Llanelly, and compiled during the period 1927-1933.

A glossary of Welsh common, personal, and place-names, purporting to trace their derivation from Greek.

'Geiriau Groeg-Cymraeg Chwanegol. Y Gyfrol Gyntaf a gynwysa 400 Geiriau Groeg Cymraeg Wedi eu Taflenu'n Gyfochrog yn Nghyd a Sylwadau ar Olion Ffug chwedlau Groeg yn Ofergoelion Cymru. Dilynwyd yr un Cynllun yn y Casgliad yma drwy daflenu y geiriau yn Gyfochrol gyda Nodiadau. Cynwysa'r Casgliad yma 400 Geiriau Cyfochrol Chwanegol . . .', being a glossary of approximately four hundred Greek words compiled by T. Eurwedd Williams, with notes in Welsh purporting to equate them with alleged Welsh cognates. The present volume appears to be a sequel to NLW MS 10680C compiled by the same author.

An English-Cornish-Welsh dictionary in two volumes (vol. i, a-peer; vol. ii, peerage-z) compiled in 1938 by T. Eurwedd Williams, by copying in two adjacent columns the English words with their Cornish equivalents given by R[obert] Morton Nance and A[rthur] S[axon] D[ennett] Smith in their English-Cornish Dictionary, produced for the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies in 1934, and adding a third column containing the Welsh equivalents. The introduction to the Nance-Smith dictionary has been translated into Welsh as an introduction to the present work.

Diaries of T. Eurwedd Williams for the years 1932-1935.

Copies of Collins' Gardeners' Diary, 1936, Collins' Gentleman's Diary, 1937, and Collins Paragon Diary, 1938, with copious manuscript entries in Welsh for almost every day of the three years by [Thomas Eurwedd Williams].

A file of loose sheets containing summaries, with notes, of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi; and an essay on the Greek and other affinities of the tales, written in 1929 and entitled 'Ystyriaethau Ar y Mabinogion Cymraeg. Cais I'w Dehongli Drwy Gyferbyniaeth Gyfochrol Y Chwedlonau Groegaidd a Rhai Gwledydd Eraill'.

An interlinear translation into Welsh by Thomas Eurwedd Williams of the Greek text of sections 34-45 ('Croesus ac Adrastus'), 84-88 ('Croesus a Cyrus'), and 108-122 ('Cyrus, Astyages a Harpagus'), of the first book of the Histories of Herodotus, with short Greek-Welsh vocabularies at the end of each section; and a short Greek-Welsh vocabulary based upon Sophocles's Antigone.

A commonplace book compiled by [the Rev.] David Bowen, first minister of Seion Baptist church, Llanelly, containing sermon notes; a copy of proposals made to David Bowen by the trustees of Seion church in 1843, whereby he was to resign his ministry of the church and receive an annual pension of twenty pounds subject to certain stipulated conditions; a list of marriage gifts received by David and Mary Bowen; a list of farm implements, livestock, household furniture, etc., with their values, given by David Bowen to several of his children on the occasion of their marriages, 182[?7]-1834; autobiographical data; comments on the growth of the Baptist denomination and the establishing of new churches in the Llanelly area; acknowledgements of the receipt of various sums of money on behalf of the Baptist chapel at Velinvoel [near Llanelly], 1820-1830; a note on Baptist meetings held at Aberystwith ('Hanes Cymanfa Aberystwith' [1803]); various recipes; and other miscellaneous memoranda. Inset are three holograph letters to [Thomas Eurwedd Williams] from B. Humphreys [?the Rev. Benjamin Humphreys, Baptist minister], Felinfoel, Igio, and Ifano Jones, Cardiff, 1910 (2) (replies to queries relating to the establishing of the aforementioned Seion Baptist church at Llanelly).

A biographical essay ('Traethawd Bywgraffyddol') on Samuel Williams, 'Sam y Gof', of Felinfoel, which was awarded the first prize by the adjudicator, the Rev. J. R. Morgan, 'Lleurwg', at an eisteddfod held at Adulam Baptist Chapel, Felin-foel, in 1890. Inset is a sheet of biographical notes, in English, in a different hand.

A list of lines of defective 'cynghanedd' compiled in 1921 from the 1873 edition by Robert Ellis ('Cynddelw') of the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym. The volume was originally (1884) used as a trigonometry exercise book, and also contains quotations from Sophocles (Oxford Classics edition). Inset is a letter, 31 October 1891, from Sir Lewis Morris, Penbryn, Carmarthen, to Thomas Williams ('Eurwedd'), Dafen, relating to the writer's nomination for Parliament.