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Three albums containing copies of articles contributed during 1899-1905 by 'Philip Sidney', i.e. George Eyre Evans, to the Welsh Gazette, Aberystwyth.
The articles relate mainly to the history of Aberystwyth and other districts in Cardiganshire, as well as in Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire, and are accompanied by numerous letters to 'Philip Sidney', posters and tickets of lectures and addresses given by him, illustrations, and also reprints in booklet form of some of the articles.

Transcripts made by George Eyre Evans in 1903 of twenty-eight autograph letters of the family of Lloyd of Brynllefrith, parish of Llanwenog, Cardiganshire. The letters were edited by Evans in Lloyd Letters (1754-1796), being extant letters of David Lloyd, Minister of Llwynrhydowen, Posthumous Lloyd, his Brother; and Charles Lloyd, LL. D., his Son ... (Aberystwyth, 1908).
Also included are press cuttings, including extracts from the letters published by George Eyre Evans, under the pseudonym 'Philip Sidney', in The Welsh Gazette, 9 July 1903; and autograph letters, 1903, to George Eyre Evans from Lucy Theakston, Waterloo, near Liverpool, who formerly owned the original letters, Rees Jenkin Jones, Aberdare and Walter Jenkin Evans, Carmarthen.

Rough notes in the autograph of George Eyre Evans relating to the families of Eyre and Powell, including extracts from the parish registers of Great Connell and Lady-town, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 1806-1873, extracts from a letter of Eyre Powell, 1841, copies of monumental inscriptions, etc.

Notes on Carmarthen written by George Eyre Evans as an introduction to the programme of the National Eisteddfod of Wales held in the town, 1911.

Two volumes which contain two groups of scrapbooks, eighteen in all, containing materials relating principally to Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire, compiled by George Eyre Evans in 1910 in his capacity of Assistant Inspector to the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire.
They consist of notes in the autograph of George Eyre Evans, including extracts from the parish registers of Llanidloes, 1616-1747, Llanerfyl, 1670-1783, and Cemmaes, 1733-1812, and a transcript of a part of a journal of a visit by the Reverend Thomas Price, vicar of Merthyr Tydfil, to Dolcoed Wells, Llanwrtyd, 1762; autograph letters to George Eyre Evans from Henry Bonsal, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Llanbedrog, S. A. Evans, Llanbadarn Fawr, H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury, C. P. Gasquoine, Caxton Press, Oswestry, F. W. Gibbins, Pendine, J. D. James, Llanerfyl Rectory, D. E. Jones, Board of Education, Katie Jones, Llansilin, D. C. Lloyd Owen, Four Oaks, Warwickshire, Elsie Owen, Cwmrhaiadr, Machynlleth, O. R. Owen, Llangynog, Norman Penney, Friends' Historical Society, London, J. H. Swann, Manchester, E. R. Vaughan, Staylittle and John Williams, Llanwddyn Vicarage; photographs, illustrations, rubbings of inscriptions, press cuttings and broadsides; and miscellanea, including notes in Welsh on the ancient monuments of Cemmaes, compiled in 1909 by Hugh Francis, clerk to the parish council.

Miscellaneous notes partly in the autograph of George Eyre Evans, including extracts from The Carmarthen Journal and The Welshman, 1812-1835, and a list, compiled in 1910, of some South Pembrokeshire dialect words.

A list compiled by George Eyre Evans of the mayors, bailiffs, sergeants, petty constables, coroners, chamberlains (accountants), scavengers and bellmen of Aberystwyth, 1690-1835.