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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.

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 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).

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'.

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].

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.

'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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.).

'Llyfr Newydd Cyfochraeth ... Enwau, Ymadroddion, Traddodiad, Chwedloniaeth, a Llên, Groeg-Cymraeg, wedi eu Taflennu'n Gyfochrol, a'u hegluro ag enghreifftiau o'r clasuron. Y Gyferbyniaeth yn ol Arddull Deheubarth Cymru. Gan Gerwyn Wyn', being a glossary, with index, purporting to trace from Greek the derivation of Welsh (especially Carmarthenshire) common, personal, and place names. The volume was submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Caernarvon, 1935.

'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.

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.