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'Contrasts in American and British Educational Aims', being a paper prepared for a meeting of the Welsh County Schools Association at Aberystwyth, 19 April, 1907. The paper is written on blank forms of terminal reports to parents of pupils at the County Intermediate Schools, Llanidloes.

A rough, draft version (manuscript and typescript) by E. R. Horsfall Turner of his proposed work on the Chartist disturbances in Llanidloes, April 1839.

A calandar of letters and documents relating to Chartist riots in the county of Montgomery in the possession of the Rt. Hon. [George Charles Herbert] 4th earl of Powis, and extracts from an article entitled 'The Montgomeryshire Chartist Riots' by J. E. Samuel, Dowlais, published in Cymru Fu, 31 August, 1889. The calendar was prepared during the time the records were deposited at the National Library of Wales (see 561, below).

Papers, 1885-[1922x1936], of Ernest Richmond Horsfall Turner, largely of Montgomeryshire interest. They include extracts, notes and draft essays relating to Llanidloes and Montgomeryshire history, including the Chartist movement within that county; addresses prepared for local societies, meetings, etc.; correspondence; and compositions submitted for the Llanidloes Eisteddfod of 1912; together with poetry by John Newton Crowther (Glanceri), Horsfall Turner's father-in-law.

Transcripts or abbreviated abstracts of entries recording marriages, 1614/15-97, 1740-1836, and publications of banns, 1754-1783, 1791-1797, 1824-1845, from the registers of the parish of Llanidloes; a transcript of a terrier of the buildings, lands, etc., belonging to the vicarage of Llanidloes, 1762; a list of holders of pews in Llanidloes parish church (undated); a list of mills and farms near the town of Llanidloes recorded in entries in the parish registers, 1816-1830, with the names of the tenants, etc.; and miscellaneous extracts from the registers of the parish of Llandinam, 1607- 1852.

Transcripts or abbreviated abstracts of entries recording baptisms, 1616- 1719, 1740-1830, and burials, January -March 1614/15, from the registers of the parish of Llanidloes.

Transcripts or abbreviated abstracts of entries recording burials, 1615- 1710/11 1740-1839, 1850, from the registers of the parish of Llanidloes.

Holograph and printed poetry, c. 1920-1922, by John Newton Crowther ('Glanceri'), father-in-law of E. R. Horsfall Turner, including original poems (e.g. 'Etholiad Ceredigion 1921') and translations from Welsh (e.g. 'The Church Bell' from Cerddi Crwys and 'Rhuddlan Marsh (Morfa Rhuddlan)'); extracts from the Western Mail, 1917, relating to an address by 'Glanceri' on Welsh novelists; transcripts by 'Glanceri' of poetry by 'Ceriferch' (addressed to 'Glanceri' in 1919 on his seventy-second birthday) and Anne Fielding, Hebden Bridge; and press cuttings containing autobiographical notes and poetry by 'Glanceri', and articles by him on a holiday in Torquay and in appreciation of L. J. Roberts, Aberaeron, and the Reverend David Adams, Hawen and Bryngwenith, Cardiganshire.

Four holograph letters:- to J. Horsfall Turner from Morris Charles Jones, Welshpool, 1885 (exchange of books on Nonconformist subjects from the recipient's library for the Powys-land Museum and Library), and to E. R. Horsfall Turner from Harold P. Cooke, Cambridge, 1908 (the writer's essay in competition for the Charles Oldham Prize at the University of Oxford, the vacant chair of Greek at University College, Cardiff), and W. H. Robinson, Central Welsh Board, Cardiff, 1910 (C. W. B. inspectors' reports on schools); and one holograph postcard to Mrs. [Hilda Gladys] Turner, County School, Llanidloes, from P. Davies, Llanidloes [1922] (a copy of a translation by the recipient's father).

Two typescript copies, with manuscript annotations, of an assessment made at a vestry, 25 April, 1828, on the inhabitants and landowners of the town and parish of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, 'for and towards compleating the Payment of Bills now in arrear Defraying the expences attending the repairs of the Church, the fences of the Churchyard, etc., and other exigencies attending the Churchwardens Office'. The assessment includes the account of David Jones, Richard Woosnam, and Thomas Price, churchwardens for the first, second, and third divisions respectively.

A volume of notes based on the parish records of Llanidloes, including extracts from the churchwardens' accounts, 1822-73 (with gaps); entries and indexes of occupations and names from the parish registers (arranged separately for the periods 1614-1700, 1700-1740, 1740-1760, 1761-1780, 1781-1800, 1800-1820, 1821-1840); and lists of petty constables, surveyors of highways, innkeepers, and clergy and ministers, 1764-1836 and undated (with gaps).

Compositions submitted for competition at the Llanidloes Chair Eisteddfod, Whit Monday, 1912, including a 'pryddest' on 'Llais y Mynyddoedd', twelve 'englynion' on 'Y Bugail', and an essay on 'The Development of Wales during the last 50 years'.

A notebook entitled 'Local History Notes', containing extracts from George R. Wythen Baxter: The Book of the Bastiles; or, the History of the working of The New Poor-Law (London, 1841); An Account of Rejoicings in the counties of Montgomery, Salop, etc., in honor of the Coming-of-Age of the Viscount Clive [aft. 3rd earl of Powis] ... (Welshpool, 1840); [John M. Morgan]: The Reproof of Brutus (London, 1830); 'Solicitor' [Conway Loveridge Hodgkinson]: English Justice (London, 1932); and Thomas Robert Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798). The volume was originally used as a chemistry notebook.

A volume of economics lecture notes entitled 'Local Indebtedness' delivered to honours degree candidates, 1908-1909, by S[tanley] H[orsfall] T[urner], brother of E. R. Horsfall Turner and lecturer in Political Economy in the University of Aberdeen.

Miscellanea, including 'Llinellau Priodasol Cyflwynedig i Mr. a Mrs. E. R. H. Turner, B.A., Llanidloes' by 'Rhigymwr o'r Glyn'; a mimeograph list of 'books wanted' by E. R. Horsfall Turner; 'Hiawatha (A parody)' by 'W. K.'; and facsimiles of letters of Queen Victoria, William Wordsworth, 1834 (from British Museum Add. MS. 34225, f. 193), and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1859 (from B. M. Add. Ms. 35155, f. 2), and of the agreement, 27 April, 1667, between John Milton and Samuel Symons, printer, for the publication of Paradise Lost; etc.

An address on early settlements in the Llanidloes area, and miscellaneous notes (extracted largely from J. Y. W. Lloyd: The History ... of Powys Fadog, London, 1881-1887) relating to Owen Glyn Dŵr's revolt, Offa's Dyke, Nannau mansion, Cymmer Abbey, Dolgelley, Towyn, Manafon, the operation of the Poor Law Act (1834) in Caersws, etc.

Notes and draft essays on the histories of Kerry; Welshpool; Berriew; Montgomery; Newtown; Caersws and Carno; Machynlleth and the Dovey Valley; the Principality and the Red Castle of Powys; Guilsfield, Buttington, and the Llanfyllin district; the Tanat Valley, Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, Meifod, etc.; and the lower Corris Valley, Aberdovey, and Pennal.

An 'Index Locorum' or list of Montgomeryshire place-names, alphabetically arranged, with references to printed and manuscript sources.

'Early Nonconformity in Llanidloes', being rough notes of a paper given at the Congregational Church, Llanidloes, 12 February, 1908. The notes are written partly on blank forms of reports, as in NLW MS 10961B.

Notes, extracts, etc., by E. R. Horsfall Turner from various printed sources including [A. H.] Dodd: The Industrial Revolution in North Wales [( Cardiff, 1933)]; [Edward] Hamer [:A Brief Account of the] Chartist Outbreak [at Llanidloes in the year 1839 (Llanidloes, 1867)]; [J. L. and B.] Hammond: The Age of the Chartists, 1832-54 [(London, 1930)]; History of the Chartists and the Bloodless Wars of Montgomeryshire (Welshpool, N.D.); various numbers of the Shrewsbury Chronicle and Salopian journal for the year 1839, etc. The material was probably collected in the course of research work on Chartism in co. Montgomery.