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Papers, [19 cent, first ½]-1938, from the library of T[homas] Eurwedd Williams. They comprise mainly essays and notes relating to Welsh and other languages, literatures and mythologies, translations from and notes on Greek and Latin literature, material relating to Dafen, Llanelli, and surrounding districts, and general notes on Welsh public figures, literature, eisteddfodau, political issues, etc.; together with diaries, 1932-1935, of T. Eurwedd Williams, and a commonplace book of the Rev. David Bowen, first minister of Seion Baptist church, Llanelli.

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

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of the Llanelly Bank Holiday Eisteddfod, of which T. Eurwedd Williams and J. Rees Hopkins were joint secretaries, from 23 April to 30 July 1901. The remainder of the volume, beginning from the end, was used during the period 1915-1920 to record orders by T. Eurwedd Williams, on behalf of customers, for books and periodicals.

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

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol II. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period 2 January 1924-27 April 1935. The majority of the entries consist of observations on domestic and international politics. There are also references to some of the literary awards made at the National Eisteddfod held at Pontypool in 1924. Inset are miscellaneous press cuttings.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol VII. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period January 1930-4 March 1931, and relating to domestic and international politics, the death of Dr. J. Gwenogvryn Evans, the National Eisteddfod at Llanelly in 1930, the absence of adult Welsh classes in the Llanelly area, etc. Inset are miscellaneous press cuttings and notes.

A volume entitled 'Llopion Llên', compiled during the period 1930-1934, containing press cuttings of Welsh literary and antiquarian interest ('Welsh Sidelights', 'Llên Gwerin Morgannwg', etc.).

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 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'.

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.

'Llyfr Cofnodion [sic] Eglwys Maescanner', being the first account book of Maescanner Baptist Church, Dafen, recording receipts and disbursements from 7 June 1864 to 1894.
According to a note on the first page by Edward Williams, secretary, the Church was incorporated on 13 May 1864 by J. R. Morgan (Lleurwg) and William Hughes, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Glanmôr, Llanelli.

Notes by T. Eurwedd Williams on his early life at Dafen ('Nodiadau Personol. Math o Hunangofiant'); together with a note on the place-name Dafen, the names of emigrants from Dafen to the United States of America and Australia, a biographical note on John Rees, pastor of the English Baptist Church, Pontrhydyrynn, notes on the associations with Dafen of Principal Silas Morris of the Baptist College, Bangor, John Jenkins (Gwili), and Gwilym Evans, colliery proprietor and eminent chemist, of Llanelly, and lists of eminent natives of Dafen and of members of the Dafen Brass Band. The autobiography contains copious references to the writer's early education and to the development of Dafen Tin Works.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol V. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period January-27 September 1928. The entries relate to domestic and international politics, Welsh orthography, the death of Thomas Hardy and of Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, emigration to Australia, the National Eisteddfod held at Treorchy, reminiscences of persons who played a prominent part in the public life of Llanelly, etc.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol X. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period 17 January 1934-14 February 1936, and relating to domestic and international politics, the last publication of the South Wales Press printed at Llanelly, the writer's mother's recollections of the Merthyr riots of 1830, 'penny readings' held at Dafen during the writer's childhood, the death of Sir Edward Elgar, etc. Inset are a few miscellaneous press cuttings.

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 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.

An essay on old members of Maescanner Baptist Church, Dafen.

A volume entitled 'Hen Gymeriadau', written circa 1890 and containing reminiscences of residents of Dafen and especially of early members of Maescanner Baptist Church. There are also reminiscences of John Rhys Morgan, 'Lleurwg', minister of Zion Baptist Church, Llanelly. The volume contains two pages of notes on Welsh grammar, and may have been originally intended for that purpose.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol 1. Nodion Cyffredinol' containing journal entries, personal reminiscences, and autobiographical notes by T. Eurwedd Williams for the periods 4 November 1906-6 March 1908, 25 January-24 April 1914, 13 March 1917-22 October 1919, and 8 February-29 December 1923. There are copious references to the writer's business as bookseller and stationer in Market Street, Llanelly, religious meetings at Zion Baptist Church, Llanelly, the progress of World War I, and the writer's employment in an ordnance factory at Penbre. Inset are press cuttings relating to political affairs, poetry by T. Eurwedd Williams, a post card from John Jenkins (Gwili), 1917, and aerial photographs of Llanelly. The volume used by the writer is a dummy of The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, Vol. I, A-Boë.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol III. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period May 1925-April 1926. The entries relate to domestic and international politics, the writer's removal to Chester, the writer's donation of nearly one thousand books to Llanelly Public Library, the death of the Rev. J. Towyn Jones, M.P., and of Arthur Mee, Welsh place-names, Welsh grammar, the works of Xenophon and Aristotle, numerals used by Cumberland shepherds, etc. Also included in the volume are lists of dialect words from the Llanelly district and of Welsh land measurements.