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A small notebook which belonged to J. H. Davies containing bibliographical references to the Reverend Peter Williams, mainly from William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) (ed. D. Silvan Evans), Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry (Llanidloes, 1869), together with a few biographical notes. At the reverse end of the volume are a few notes relating to (?) Cardiganshire Highways Committee and some observations on Sir Owen M. Edwards, perhaps for an article or an address.

Letters, 1896-1902, to Daniel Lleufer Thomas from Sir Owen M[organ] Edwards, Thomas Edward Ellis, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, W. Thomas, Mining Offices, Bryn-Awel, Aberdare, and W[illiam] Llewelyn Williams.

A scrap album containing manuscript and printed items, newspaper cuttings, etc., described on the first page as 'Casgliad amrywiol o eiddo Ionawryn Williams [see the preceding manuscript] yn cynnwys engreifftiau o'i ddiddordeb a'i weithgarwch. Ceir ynddo hefyd nodiadau ychwanegol ar rai o Gymry Manceinion . . .' The manuscript material includes a copy of an anonymous election manifesto addressed to the [Manchester] Welsh, denouncing the previous Conservative administration and advocating the return of Messrs. Jacob Bright and John Slagg as [Liberal] members for the city [of Manchester] [?1880]; a holograph letter from Joseph Parry, University College, Cardiff, to Mr. [Ionawryn] Williams, 1899 (reference to the writer's fifth opera King Arthur); a holograph postcard from Owen M[organ] Edwards, Oxford, to Mr. [Ionawryn] Williams, 1898 (acknowledging the receipt of 'englynion' and hymns); poems addressed to Ionawryn Williams at Bethesda [co. Caernarvon] (1900); miscellaneous other poems; a few biographical notes on Manchester Welshmen; etc. The printed items include copies of a prospectus (with order form attached) advertising Ionawryn Williams's forthcoming volume of biographies of Manchester Welshmen [see the preceding manuscript]; a handbill announcing 'A Liberal demonstration of the north east and south east divisions of the county of Lancaster' to be held at Manchester, 24 and 25 October 1879; the rules (with balance sheet and list of members and officials) of the Manchester Welsh National Society (1894-1895); the programme of the same society's activities for the session 1895-1896; menus and programmes in connection with St. David's day celebration dinners in Manchester (1891 and undated); the programme (with rules and list of officials) of the Booth Street East Young People's Literary Society for the session 1869-1870; a commemorative article on Ellis Roberts of Manchester by Ionawryn Williams (extracted from Y Cronicl, July 1893), and a similar article on Ionawryn Williams himself (extracted from Y Cronicl, October 1907). The newspaper cuttings, which form the largest class of insets, are of a varied nature. Most refer to persons and events connected with the Manchester and Salford area from the 1860's to the early twentieth century. They include, inter alia, obituary notices of Welshmen who had some connection with Manchester (e.g., Sir William Roberts, physician, ob. 1899, Professor Thomas Jones, surgeon, ob. in South Africa, 1900), Manchester news items of Welsh interest (e.g., St. David's day celebrations, meetings of Welsh societies, a meeting in connection with Welsh disestablishment in 1883), poems by Ionawryn Williams, and other miscellaneous verse.

A volume, c. 1789-1801, containing Welsh medieval prose texts and later verse, mainly in the hand of Owen Jones ('Owain Myfyr', 1741-1814). Other hands include Hugh Maurice (ff. 64-74) and Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') (ff. 110v-11v). The prose includes texts relating to cerdd dant, copied mainly from 'Llyfr Rhobert ap Huw o Fodwigen' [BL Add. MS 14905]; 'Cato Cymraeg', 'Ystori y Llong Foel', 'Breuddwyd Paul Abostol' and other texts, 'o Lyfr Mr Thomas or Gest yn Eifionydd Mehefin 1777' [Richard Thomas (1753-80)] (ff. 14-33); 'Y Diharebion Cymraeg' (ff. 66-79); 'Y Pedwar Brenin ar ugain o'r Brytaniaid ... allan o Lyfr Havod Uchdrud' [? Havod MS 5] (ff. 112-23); and 'Llyma val y descennodd Pendevigaeth Gymru yn oes Vaelgwyn Gwynedd ...' 'Tomas Wiliams o drevriw allan o hen vemrwn a gawsei y cof hwnn' [NLW MS 16962] (ff. 131v-6). The verse includes 'Casgliad o Benillion o waith Anonymows', collected by William Jones, Llangadfan (ff. 79v-110). Tipped into the volume are a list of contents compiled by Griffith Hugh Jones ('Gutyn Arfon'), a note on the above collection of penillion, and two letters to 'Gutyn Arfon' from O. M. Edwards, 1900 (f. v), and Robert David Rowland ('Anthropos'), 1903.

Manuscript draft of an article, in Welsh, by Saunders Lewis on 'Owen M. Edwards', published in Triwyr Penllyn (Caerdydd, 1956), edited by Gwynedd O. Pierce, together with a related letter, 1956, from Saunders Lewis to the latter.

A scrap-book containing cuttings from Prestatyn Weekly, etc., 1905-10, relating to Prestatyn, Diserth, Gwaenysgor, and Newmarket. Among them are several cuttings of a Bygones column edited by Thomas Edwards, containing a history of the Talargoch Lead Mine. Also included in the volume are two typewritten acknowledgements, 1911, of copies of anthems and a Welsh coronation hymn presented by Thomas Edwards to the King, and holograph letters to Thomas Edwards from D[aniel] L[ewis Lloyd], bishop of Bangor, 1894, [Sir] O[wen] M. Edwards, Oxford, 1906, Thos. Francis, music printer, Islington, London, undated, and members of his family.

Includes letters from Owen Edwards, Richard Ellis, Robinson Ellis (3), Émile Espérandieu, Herbert Davies-Evans, J. Gwenogvryn Evans (3), T. C. Evans (Cadrawd), A. M. Fairbairn, J. G. Frazer, Edward A. Freeman, Laurence Gomme, S. Baring-Gould, A. S. Green, Augusta P. Gregory, William B. Halhed, E. Sidney Hartland, F. Haverfield (13), George Charles Herbert (Earl of Powis), Charles Holroyd (note on reverse of watercolour of Knaresborough Castle), and Douglas Hyde.

Includes letters from: Sir Francis Edwards (11); Sir O. M. Edwards (2); T[homas] P[eter] Ellis (8); A. W. Wade-Evans (24)

Letters, 1864-1910, addressed to Elspeth Rhŷs, including some from John Rhŷs and other family members, with occasional letters and replies in her hand. Among the correspondents are Charles de Gaulle (12), Henri Gaidoz, A. H. Sayce (3), Hugh Derfel Hughes, E. R. Wharton, Eluned Morgan (2), Grant Allen, Edwin Hatch, Queen Victoria (copy), James Darmesteter (2), James MacFadden (2), David G. Ritchie, Frederick York Powell (2), O. M. Edwards, W. R. Morfill, Thomas Ellis (4), Paul Meyer, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart (Marquess of Bute, 2), William Jones (2), Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, J. A. Simon, Annie J. Ellis, James Hills-Johnes, Ellis J. Ellis-Griffith, Alfred Daniell, D. Brynmor Jones, Marie Corelli, Edward Anwyl, E. Vincent Evans, Lydia E. Becker, A. Darmesteter, Frances Hoggan, and John Dillon.

The first of seven volumes of about six hundred letters mainly addressed to Thomas Gee and relating to a variety of subjects particularly in the fields of education, temperance reform, religious movements, and political questions. -- The principal correspondents are H. Adams, Ruthin, 1868; William Ambrose ('Emrys'), 1865; R. Myddelton Biddulph, 1868; John Bright, 1866-85; Joseph Chamberlain, 1885-90; David Charles, Abercarn and Aberystwyth, 1866-9; Sir Robert A. Cunliffe, 1872, 85; Dr. R. W. Dale, 1885; David Davies, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1898; Sir. D. S. Davies, 1892; W. Cadwaladr Davies, 1884; O. M. Edwards, 1889-91; Principal Thomas Charles Edwards, 1889; Thomas E. Ellis, Dr. E. Herber Evans, 1877; E. Vincent Evans, 1898; S. T. Evans, 1891-3; and William Evans, Chester, 1883-4.

Letters, mainly to Edward Anwyl, the correspondents including J. Mortimer Angus, Sir John Ballinger, Vernon Bartlett (Oxford), Sir Joseph A. Bradney, Charles E. Breese, W. N. Bruce, O. H. Fynes-Clinton, John Daniel ('Rhabanian'), Thomas Darlington, C. Dauncey, D. H. Davies (Cenarth), R. Isgarn Davies, E. S. Dodgson, Sir Owen M. Edwards, Thomas Charles Edwards, Thomas Edward Ellis, Sir E. Vincent Evans, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, John Young Evans, Samuel J. Evans, A. M. Fairbairn, John Fisher, W. Foy (Cologne), Alfred Perceval Graves, John Griffith (Llangynwyd), W. B. Halhed (Llanrwst), James Hastings (editor of the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics), C.H. Herford, N. Marais-Hoogenhout, Paul Hook, Ivor B. John, Sir John Morris-Jones, L. D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), M. H. Jones, T. O. Neill Lane, Edward Laws, Philip H. Lawson, Sir John Herbert Lewis, Charles Lloyd (Maesycrugiau), R. Luyten (Haarlem), Jean Marx (Paris), A. Meillet (Paris), Kuno Meyer, A. W. Moore (Douglas, I.O.M.), Eluned Morgan (Patagonia), Sir James M. Murray (Oxford), E. W. B. Nicholson, Henry Owen (Poyston), A. C. Humphreys-Owen, Owen Owen (Chief Inspector, Central Welsh Board), Sir T. Isambard Owen, Julius Pokorny, Stuart (1st baron) Rendel, Sir John Rhys, T. Francis Roberts, Sir Walter Runciman, K. G. Schilling (Giessen, Germany), E. A. Sonnenschein, John E. Southall, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Ludwig Christian Stern, John Strachan, Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl'), J. Vendryes, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, Alfred T. Warren, Stanley J. Weyman, Hugh Williams (Bala), and Sir Thomas Marchant Williams.

The file comprises letters, 1887-1933, to Samuel Maurice Jones from various correspondents, including Susan Mainwaring, Robert Bryan, Ifan ab Owen Edwards, O. M. Edwards, T. T. Lucius Morgan, Beriah Gwynfe Evans, and E. Davies Bryan.

Forty-four letters, mainly to Lewis Jones Davies of the Post Office, Llanuwchllyn, father of the donor. The topics discussed are varied and correspondents include: Owen Morgan Edwards (2), 1895-1906; Thomas Edward Ellis (1), 1897; Michael D. Jones (1), 1875; Eluned Morgan (1), 1904; Thomas Francis Roberts (1), 1895; and Sir Osmond Williams (4), 1907-1910.

Letters addressed to H. Cernyw Williams, the correspondents including Joseph Angus, London, 1892; Alfred George Edwards, Archbishop of Wales, 1933; Owen M. Edwards, Oxford, 1899-1905; William Hobley, Caernarvon, 1904; Benjamin Humphreys, Llanelli, 1933; Henry Jones, Llangernyw and Glasgow, 1905-1919; Robert Jones, Llanllyfni, 1905; Robert Jones, Rotherhithe, 1898; Wilfrid Lawson, House of Commons, 1889; Daniel Lewis Lloyd, Bishop of Bangor, 1897; Ellis Roberts ('Elis Wyn o Wyrfai'), Llangwm, 1886; Thomas Shankland, Bangor, 1904; Edward B. Underhill, London, 1892; and Peter Williams ('Pedr Hir'), Tredegar, 1895.

A manuscript containing music set to Welsh words for the Sir Owen M. Edwards (1858-1920) memorial number of Cymru, January 1921.

Material relating to the production of the film O.M. by Eigra Lewis Roberts, based on the life of historian, educationalist and writer Sir Owen Morgan (O. M.) Edwards, including draft screenplays (some folios annotated); storyline; overview and background notes; list of production team members; shooting schedule; notice of première; press releases; press cuttings and articles; printed poster; correspondence; and printed flyer relating to the English-language version of the film, titled White Hall.

Notes of lectures on the Reformation by Canon Fremantle, 1885, written by Owen M. Edwards.

Transcripts, by Edward Edwards, of the poetry of John Davies ('Siôn Dafydd Las'), with a letter (pasted onto inside front cover) to Sir Owen M. Edwards, 1918.

Stray items relating to Major Edgar Jones (1868-1953), father of Gareth Vaughan Jones, and headmaster of the Barry Boys' County School from 1899 until his retirement in 1933. They include a small quantity of correspondence on a wide range of subjects, including letters from Gwilym Davies, undated; Sir Owen M. Edwards, 1916; W. Goscombe John, 1952; Dr Thomas Jones CH, 1925, 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1952 (many referring to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth); and Sir John Edward Lloyd, 1929 (relating to the Welsh Language Society). Many of the letters refer to educational themes. There are also two letters, both dated 1953, from Major Edgar Jones to his daughter Eirian Lewis, mother of Dr Siriol Colley. There are also some tributes to Major Jones upon his death in 1953.

Papers, 1938-1972, relating to projects commissioned by Urdd Gobaith Cymru, including memorials to O. M. Edwards and Ifan ab Owen Edwards at Llanuwchllyn, a Lloyd George plaque in Cricieth, and Urdd eisteddfod medals, crowns and chairs, as well as aspects of the Urdd's administrative business in which R. L. Gapper was involved.