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One of two scrapbooks compiled by Morris Davies containing newspaper cuttings, 1868-1923, of sporting events, mainly cricket, athletics and hockey, as well as theatre and concert tickets and programmes, cartoons and photographs, and items of general and local interest.

Resolutions passed at a meeting of the 'Young Men Society' at Tabernacle, Aberystwyth, 6 October 1846; papers relating to a church rate for the repair of St. Michael's Chapel, Aberystwyth, 1832, and to proceedings taken against dissenting ministers and others for non-payment thereof; an agreement for the conveyance of voters from Devil's Bridge to Aberystwyth, and bills of expenses and subscription lists in connection with the Cardiganshire election of 1868; adjudication of essays by Michael D. Jones, 9 December 1856; an agreement to let Aberystwyth Market Hall for the use of the Cardiganshire Choral Union, 1870; and recipes.

Papers collected by Howard C. Jones while writing the history of the Cardiganshire Constituency Labour Party (see 'Ceredigion', 9 (1981), 150-61) comprising a letter, [c. 1970x1975], addressed to him from James Griffiths, MP, which contains reminiscences on parliamentary elections in Cardiganshire (ff. 31-40); two letters, 1977, with a typescript note, from Islwyn ap Nicholas, Aberystwyth, on the history of the Aberystwyth branch of the Labour Party (ff. 41-4); and press cuttings, 1911-79, typescript minutes of meetings, 1960s, and miscellanea.