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Holograph manuscripts of lectures, papers and sermons by Robert Jones Derfel (1824-1905) including a letter to the Welsh Baptist Church at Granby Row, Manchester, 1866; 'Beginning at Jerusalem', 1866; 'Winter speaking and Summer silence', 1866; 'Not one, not some, but all'; sermons, 1860-1; and letters from John Lewis ('Ap Gwalia'), Aberdare; Robert Parry ('Robyn Ddu Eryri'), Ludlow, 1889; and William Thomas ('Islwyn'), undated and incomplete.

A scrapbook of material relating to William Thomas ('Islwyn'), including press cuttings, etc., in connection with negotiations for the purchase and restoration of his birthplace at Tŷ'r Agent, Ynys-ddu, 1925-1926, and press cuttings, correspondence (addressed to A. W. Games, Cwmfelin-fach), printed matter, photographs, labels attached to relics and personalia, and a balance sheet, in connection with centenary celebration meetings held in 1932 at Cwmfelin-fach and Ynys-ddu. The correspondents include Timothy Rees, bishop of Llandaff, Joseph Bradney, Saunders Lewis, Ifan ab Owen Edwards and John Kyrle Fletcher.

Typewritten copies, and a typewritten certified English translation, of the trust deed, 13 May, 1938, of a lectureship founded at University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, in honour and commemoration of William Thomas ('Islwyn').