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Two registers (incomplete) recording the attendance of students at lectures [at the C.M. Theological College, Bala] during the sessions 1909- 1910, 1910-1911, 1912-1913, and 1919-1920, and terminal examination results [at the same college], 1907-1909.

Three note-books containing cyclostyled copies (mounted or tipped in) of examination papers in Hebrew grammar and composition, Old Testament history, Old Testament canon, etc. [? set in terminal examinations at the Calvinistic Methodist College, Bala], 1907-1913. NLW MS 13026D also contains mounted cuttings of the Hebrew text of 2 Samuel, chapters ?I-XIV, with accompanying manuscript notes, and NLW MS 13027D mounted cuttings of the Hebrew text of chapters XV-XXIV of the same book. In several instances the examination papers have been superimposed on the text of, and notes on, the Book of Samuel.

Forty letters to Owen Jones (1833-99) from the following correspondents: Stuart Rendel, Guildford, 1891 (New Year greetings, qualifying his assent in a certain letter to the proposition 'that Wales will never get home rule from Mr Gladstone'), Hugh Roberts, Bala College, [18]66 (a request for information about the examination), Hugh ag [sic] Ellinor Roberts, Blaenau Festiniog, 1891 (their wish to find a situation for their eldest daughter), John Roberts, Bala, [18]70 (a request for advice in view of his desire to offer himself to the Missionary Board), John Roberts, Tanyrallt, Abergele, undated (acknowledging congratulations [on the election result]), Jno. H. Roberts, Carnarvon, 1895-6 (6) (concerning material for a tune-book), [J. J. Roberts], 'Iolo Carnarvon' [postmark Portmadoc, [18]97] (expressing thanks in verse for a letter), Robert Roberts, Brynhyfryd, Abergele, 1866 and 1873 (2, the first to the Reverend G. Parry) (sending a letter and papers received from Mr Hughes, Gaerwen, the appointment of the addressee to a tutorship at Bala College), Thomas Roberts, Broniarth, Guilsfield, 1858-62 (5) (lodgings in London, reference to a storm, a request to the addressee to preach at Groes, asking about the date of the addressee's marriage), Thomas Roberts, Hendre Isaf, n[ea]r Pentrefoelas, [18]61 (a request for the extracts from Bailey's Festus which the addressee has translated into Welsh), Tho[ma]s Roberts, Bethesda, 1869 (2) (a request to the addressee to adjudicate at a competitive meeting), R. Leigh [?Roose [?Rhos]], Wrexham, [18]66 (wishing to know his position in the examination), and Daniel Rowlands, Llanidloes and Normal College, Bangor, 1863-76 and undated (17, one to [Mrs Owen Jones], with one letter to Daniel Rowlands from W[illia]m Williams, Crickhowell, 1870) (Y Traethodydd, the addressee's translation of 'Antigone', Y Goleuad, the Education Act, 1870, sums promised to a certain fund, acknowledging sympathy).

Thirty-two letters and a fragment, nearly all to Owen Jones (1833-99), from the following correspondents: G[riffith] Parry, Llanrwst and Lower Broughton, Manchester, 1866-75 (14) (the unfortunate experience of Mr Bagshaw, their work as examiners, 'Cofiant Robert Tomos', articles in Y Goleuad, etc.), John Parry, Llanddoget, [18]91 (2) (asking for a testimonial and expressing thanks), E[van] Peters, Talybont, Bala, 1867-9 (5) (the biography of Robert Tomos, reference to a storm (fig.) at Dolgelley, delay in receiving the questions on the Miracles), John Peters, Henllan, Rhyl, [18]85 (reference to the death of R. Williams, Llanuwchllyn, the international scene, the date of various meetings), E[van] Phillips, Castellnewydd Emlyn (concerning J. Jno. Davies), John Price, London, 1858 (regret at leaving Bala, mention of being obliged to go with Dr Hugh Owen on a visit to Mr Forster instead of to a concert, Edgar Allan Poe's poems), Jno. Prichard, Birmingham, [18]98 (returning a pair of spectacles, the addresee's illness), R. Pritchard, Rhyducha [nea]r Bala, 1885 (an old Bible (1746), etc.), E. Pugh at Llandrindod Wells and Llanidloes, 1885 [?Eliezer Pugh, Liverpool] (2) (the death of David Jones, Sunday School centenary celebrations in Llanidloes), (?) T. Davies and Hugh M. Pugh, Croesoswallt, 1866 (wishing to know where and when the Bala College (entrance) examination is to be held), John Pugh, Llanfechain near Oswestry, 1864 (sending a portrait and wishing the addressee much success at Festiniog), and an unnamed correspondent signing himself 'Ni waeth pwy and 'Balzabub', undated (2, one incomplete and addressed to Mr (?) Ev. Peters).

Miscellaneous papers of Owen Jones (1833-99) comprising a notebook containing a Welsh translation by [Owen Jones] of 'Antigone', dated 12 Jan. 1866 (cf. Y Traethodydd XXI (1866), pp. 176-202) and some items of verse, 1869-75; a list of book titles, 1841-90, also by Owen Jones, with some notes in pencil probably by Charles Ashton; a notebook in an earlier hand containing hymn stanzas and other items of verse in Welsh, with receipts, 1854-5, from Thomas Jones, Vrongain [Llidiardau near Bala] to various persons for rents in the Llidiardau district, 'Coste wrth adeiladu Ty'r ffridd, 1859', etc.; and other items including 'Cwrs y Byd', gan un a'i lygad yn ei ben, Llythyr viii', a letter from Owen Jones to [?the Reverend John Davies, Bontddu] (beginning wanting), a copy of a reply, 1861, from Owen Jones to Dr Edwards concerning Llanuwchllyn, some Bala College examination results [1866], 'Dau Hir a Thoddaid, Beddargraph Thomas Stephens, Merthyr (Eisteddfod Caernarfon 1877)' by 'Dyfrid Beneurog', Alban Hefin 1877, extracts from printed sources including Y Drysorfa and one or two printed items ('Cyfarfod Misol Trefaldwyn Uchaf. Rheolau Sefydlog'), etc.