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Bundle of printed source materials, 1846-1947, accumulated by L.W.E. relating to his researches into the history of Welsh education including press cuttings, xerox copies of extracts from Hansard, texts of speeches, pamphlets and leaflets, parliamentary reports and reports of the Board of Education .

Central Welsh Board. Bundle of xerox copies of the minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee of the C.W.B. and of the half-yearly meetings of the C. W. B., October 1908 - October 1915.

Certificate recording L.W.E.'s admission to membership of the National Geographic Society, January 1955.

Copies of L.W.E.'s M.A. thesis, 'The regional development of the metallurgical industries of South-East Carmarthen-shire', presented in the University of Wales in 1937.

Copy of L.W.E.'s thesis 'Geographical and economic factors associated with the variations in the distribution and density of population in the Anthracite Coalfield of South Wales with special reference to the development of the Steel and Tinplate Industries of the Llanelly area' completed for 1st year Honours Geography, November 1930.

Correspondence and other papers addressed to L.W.E., 1931-38. Most relate to his research work on the metallurgical industries of Carmarthenshire, his contribution to J.E. Lloyd (ed.), A history of Carmarthenshire, Volume 2 (1939), and to applications for teaching and other posts.

Drafts of articles:. 15/1-3 Typescript of 'Caniadaeth y Cysegr ymhlith yr hen Ymneilltuwyr a'r Bedyddwyr, 1550-1850', published in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru 1956 pp. 6-40. 15/4 Typescript of 'Pamffled Eugenius Junior, 1700', published in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru 1957, pp. 59-65. 15/5 Offprint of, 'Voluntary education in the industrial areas of Wales before 1870', published in The National Library of Wales Journal, Vol. XIV, no. 4 (Winter 1966), pp. 407-23. 15/6 'Notes on rural bias in a secondary school', unpublished?. 15/7-8 'Y Parch. David Rees (1683?-1748): Amddiffynnydd Caniadaeth y Cysegr', unpublished?.

Drafts of articles, chapters etc:. 33/1 'Ysgolion Sul y Bedyddwyr yn gysylltiedig â'r gweithfeydd haearn yn Neheudir Cymru, 1800-1850'. 33/2 'Sir John Guest's education scheme at Dowlais in the mid-nineteenth century'. 33/3 'The Dowlais Ironworks' Schools'. 33/4 'Ironworks schools in South Wales in the early days of the Industrial Revolution'. 33/5 'Elementary education in industrial south Wales before the Education Act of 1870'. 33/6 'School Boards and the works schools system after the Education Act of 1870'. 33/7 'Voluntary education in the industrial areas of Wales before 1870'. 33/8 Miscellaneous fragments.

Education in industrial Wales, 1700-1900 (1971):. 16/1 Galley proofs of some chapters of L.W.E., Education in industrial Wales, 1700-1900 (1971). 16/2-3 Two sets of page proofs. 16/4 Miscellaneous page proofs.

File of 158 letters and papers, June 1943 - December 1949, relating to L.W.E.'s research work on the schools established by the iron masters in south Wales. The research work led to the thesis 'The history of Iron-works schools in South Wales during the industrial revolution, and up to the Education Act of 1870', M.Ed. (Dunelm) 1948. The correspondents include E.G. Bowen (30/4, 117), Sir William Llywelyn Davies (30/67), A.H. Dodd (30/10), George H. Green (30/2, 18, 32, 61, 71, 88, 158), R.T. Jenkins (30/9) and Thomas Jones, C.H. (30/104, 128).

File of twenty-five letters, 1950-53, relating to L.W.E.'s research for the degree of Ph.D. The correspondents include W. Ambrose Bebb (32/11), R.T. Jenkins (32/2, 15), W. W. Price (32/14) and W. Owen Williams (32/17,19).

Forty-six letters, 1937-74, mainly to L.W.E., most relating to his research into the history of education. The correspondents include Professor E.G. Bowen (13/1-2); Sir Idris Foster (13/36); Mrs. Kitty Idwal Jones (13/21-4, 40); Dr. R. Brinley Jones (13/41, 44-6); Professor William Mathias (13/8-9); Dr. Kenneth O. Morgan (13/28-31,33,37, 39); Baroness White (13/42); and W.S. Gwynn Williams (13/5, 18). 13/3 Is a letter from Sir Ben Bowen Thomas to Mr. Gildas Tibbott of the National Library of Wales, December 1953.

Galley proof of an article entitled 'The Minor Industries' and endorsed 'Carmarthenshire Chapter IV, Galley 24' and prepared for inclusion in J.E. Lloyd (ed.), A history of Carmarthenshire (Cardiff, 1939).