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Genealogical material relating to Captain Thomas James, together with letters relating to him sent in answer to enquiries made by Ivor James.

Letters relating to Captain Thomas James sent to Ivor James by Miller Christy, author of The Voyages of Captain L[uke] Foxe of Hull and Captain T[homas] James of Bristol ... (1894), with a draft of Ivor James's reply; together with a letter from H. Cameron Gillis of the Gaelic Society of London and letters from John A[llen] James to Sir John Ballinger relating to Ivor James's manuscripts.

Material relating to charities in Wales.

An essay on Charles Edwards, author of Y Ffydd Ddiffuant, with reference to his times.

An account of education in Wales, with particular reference to the seventeenth century.

Extracts from the state papers relating mainly to Wales in the Civil War, Commonwealth and Restoration periods.

Extracts from correspondence and other material preserved in the Tonn MSS in the Cardiff Public Library relating to the revision in 1838 of the Welsh translation of the Bible and the Welsh Book of Common Prayer.

Geirfa Cymraeg-Ffrangeg anghyflawn, gyda rhai ystyron cyfwerth Saesneg, wedi'i sylfaenu ar William Salesbury: A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe ... = An incomplete Welsh-French vocabulary, with a few English equivalents, based on William Salesbury: A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe ...

Notes, 1882, on names of persons and places in Bishopston and Pennard.

Papers of, or accumulated by, Ivor James in the course of his studies of the history of Wales during the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.

Notes on and extracts from various sources relating to John Dee, mathematician and astrologer.

Transcripts of correspondence, 1656-1661, between John Lewis, Glascrug, Aberystwyth and Richard Baxter, also of letters from John Ellis, Dolgellau to John Lewis and from Sam. Jones, Coedrawen, Glamorgan to Richard Baxter; together with a few extracts from state papers.

Lists of early Welsh books and of books relating to Wales, etc.

Miscellaneous notes and extracts on a variety of subjects including education, John Owen the epigrammatist, the abbeys of Wales, pirates and piracy and the Stationers' Company.

Notes on Morris Kyffin, his contemporaries, his time period, etc.

Press cuttings of an interview with Ivor James with reference to the library of Enoch Robert Gibbon Salisbury, now in the Cardiff University College library; press cuttings of one of a series of articles by James on The Source of The Ancient Mariner and of a letter by him on 'Intermediate Education'; and a list of the contents of a Browne Willis manuscript.

Material, in both English and Welsh, relating to Rhys Prichard, vicar of Llandovery and author of Canwyll y Cymru, and including notes on his time period and contemporaries.

Notes collected from private individuals and public sources on the state of the established Church and religious denominations in Wales, together with statistics and replies to questionnaires regarding the state of religion in Oswestry, Welshpool, Newtown, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Dolgellau, Barmouth, Harlech and Pwllheli.

Extracts from the state papers relating mainly to Wales in the Civil War, Commonwealth and Restoration periods.

Notes written by Ivor James or collected by him from various manuscript and printed sources in connection with his study of S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge's poem 'The Ancient Mariner' and its sources.
They include biographical and other notes on various navigators as well as extracts from many well-known works relating to travel and discovery, particularly of the seventeenth century. NLW MS 4305 includes notes on John Dee, and NLW MS 4306 notes on Captain Thomas James.