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The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to the preparation and drafting of the Welsh Language Bill, 1993. It includes a large number of reports, circulars and memoranda. The file includes letters from Dr Carl Clowes, David Hunt MP, Emyr Jenkins, Principal Derec Llwyd Morgan, Sir Wyn Roberts (Lord Roberts of Conwy), (2) and Professor J. Beverley Smith (2).

Extracts by Tom Ellis from 'Y Traethodydd', 'Llyfr y Tri Aderyn', 'Hanes y Ffydd', etc. on Welsh language and literature, religious revivals in Wales, etc.

Eight notebooks of the Reverend D. Silvan Evans containing notes on Welsh grammar, language and literature.

A scrap-book compiled by John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') containing miscellaneous press cuttings entitled 'Ffurfiad y Genedl Gymreig' by J. E. Lloyd, 'o Goleg Aberystwyth' (?from Y Drych), 'Y Gymraeg a'r Llydaweg' by Aneurin Jones ('Aneurin Fardd'), 'Celtiaid Cymru, a'u Llenyddiaeth', 'Hanes yr Hen Eglwys Brydeinig' (trans. Herbert Jones), 'Penod yn Hanes Cymru' by O. M. Williams, Wymore, Nebraska, 'Y Llan a'r Llyfr' by B. D. Johns, Llwynypia, 'Olion y Goresgyniad Gwyddelig yng Ngwynedd' by the late Owen Williamson, 'Llew Llwyfo yn y De', 'Y diweddar Ebenezer Lloyd [Edwardsville, Pa.]' by 'Melindwr', 'Porthmona yn yr hen amser' by Ellis Pierce ('Elis o'r Nant'), 'Yn Hen Gapel y Pandy' by [Howell Roberts] 'Hywel Tudur', etc.

A 'waste book' of Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') consisting largely of problems in fluxions, together with 'The Welsh' and 'The Welsh Language' (being attacks on the Welsh people for their prejudices against the English language and their adherence to their native language), an incomplete draft of a play entitled 'Deio Meurig's Visit to Pwllhely on a Saturday afternoon in June', English and Welsh verses; etc.

Questionnaire to incumbents concerning the Welsh Language, 1961 and includes a questionnaire signed by T. Bayley Hughes.

A file of mainly printed material, together with a small quantity of letters, concerning the preparation of the new Welsh Language Bill and the resultant act, including a copy of Recommendations for a New Welsh Language Act, a report published by the Welsh Language Board in February 1991. There are also some parliamentary papers.

The file comprises miscellaneous items assembled by Lady White relating to the drafting and preparation of the Welsh Language Bill. The file includes a letter from Lord Prys-Davies, 1987.

A printed report by a sub-committee of the Cymmrodorion Council on the use of the Welsh language in elementary schools in Welsh speaking districts, 8 September 1884, printed for a meeting of the Society at Liverpool, 18 September 1884. Printed by Whiting and Co., Sardinia Street, London

The file includes correspondence between Ffred Ffrancis, Chairman of Cymdeithas Yr Iaith Gymraeg (The Welsh Language Society), and Hywel I Evans concerning the Welsh language in the curriculum, 1988-1991.

The file comprises correspondence and papers, 1989-1991, relating to the meetings of the Welsh Language Working Party set up by the Labour Party Wales, including agenda, minutes and reports.

The file consists of parliamentary papers relating to the attitudes and policies of the Labour Party towards the Welsh language.

The file consists of a manuscript report entitled 'Labour and the Welsh language: an integrated policy' prepared by Gareth Howells, Cardiff, April 1973.

Two volumes of miscellaneous transcripts mainly in the hand of Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain, 1761-1849), relating to the antiquities, history, topography, language, and literature of Wales. They include catalogues of Welsh manuscripts; transcripts of manuscripts of Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), of letters of Edward Lhuyd, Lewis Morris, Goronwy Owen, etc., of Strata Marcella abbey charters, of monumental inscriptions, of Evan Evans's transcripts of Richard Farrington's archaeological notes, etc.; notes on Llanerfyl, Llangadfan, and Garthbeibio, written by William Jones, Llangadfan, and sent by him, with letters, to Walter Davies; a letter, 1792, from Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) to Walter Davies; an extract, by Lewis Morris, from his Celtic Remains; Marwnad Lewis Morys ... by Goronwy Owen, in the autograph of Evan Evans; etc. Both volumes are indexed.

Three volumes of transcripts and notes made by Walter Davies, including extracts relating to the history, language, topography, and archaeology of Wales, 'englynion' and other poems, extracts from the Bible, etc.

Miscellaneous notes and extracts made by Walter Davies and dealing with the language, literature, and agriculture of Wales.

'Diquisitions by Various Persons on the Welsh Language and Welsh Poetry', being transcripts by John Jenkins of letters, 1821, in The Gentleman's Magazine, etc., by David Williams (Rumsey, Hants.), John Parry ('Bardd Alaw'), and Walter Davies.

'Casgliad o eiriau yn y Beibl Cymraeg, sydd naill ai wedi newid eu hystyr, ney ynte wedi myned allan o arferiad, ynghydag eglurhad arnynt', written for 'Cyfarfod Llenyddol y Bala, Nadolig, 1886'.

Notes on the Welsh language and its place in the life of Wales in the seventeenth century.