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Papers of David Richards, 1886-1894, including letters, 1891-1894, to his wife, describing his voyage and stay in the settlement; journal consisting of loose leaves of the journey to Cwm Hyfryd, Patagonia, September 1891 to January 1892; journal of the voyage home from Buenos Aires to Plymouth, July-August 1892; copies of Welsh poems transcribed and possibly composed by David Richards, proofs of, or cuttings containing, parts of a series of articles on 'Cyfoeth Mwnawl y Wladfa Gymreig' to Y Celt in 1891, and a printed copy of a report on the Garn Gold Mine near Dolgellau, 1888.

Papers, 1917-1980, of Tom Macdonald, including manuscript drafts of his published and unpublished novels and short stories; non-fictional writing and research notes relating to his work as a journalist; correspondence; poetry; plays; a collection of newspaper cuttings; minutes of committee meetings, 1917-1921; educational certificates, 1918-1919.

Personal diaries, 1892-1949, which include detailed accounts of his years in retirement at Barmouth, Merionethshire, from 1939 and subsequently at Ty'n y Ceunant, Islaw'r dref, Dolgellau; draft notebooks, 1895-1946, containing records of appointments, activities and descriptions of holiday visits, including many to Wales, detailed accounts of ascents of Cadair Idris, Merionethshire, and other British mountains, including Snowdon, Elidir Fach and Elidir Fawr in Caernarfonshire, and Pumlumon, Cardiganshire; registers of correspondence, 1939-1940, 1943-1944; a register of snapshots [which are not part of the archive], 1906-1940; a volume of statistics of his mountain ascents, holiday travels, and walks, 1892-1951, and family papers (including some relating to L. W. Brown of Bath), 1846-1926.