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Compositions submitted to the crown competition (MS 23052D), the chair competition (MS 23053D) and the other poetry competitions (MS 23054D) at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Wrecsam, 1933. MS 23052D includes a letter from J. Gwili Jenkins, one of the adjudicators (f. 1) and the winning pryddest by Simon B. Jones (ff. 2-12); MS 23053D includes letters from the three adjudicators, T. Gwynn Jones, R. Williams Parry and J. J. Williams, together with copies of the latter two's adjudications (ff. 1-25) and the winning awdl by Edgar Phillips ('Trefin') (ff. 26-34).

Includes letters from Lewis Morris (3), Eleanor Hull, T. Fisher Unwin, Harry Speight, J. Strachan (2), H. R. Reichel (2), Paul Vinogradoff, R. A. Stewart Macalister (6), Goddard H. Orpen (3), T. Mansel Franklen (10), D. Lloyd George, Rowland Ellis, Robert Cochrane (2), W. Warde Fowler (2, one enclosing a letter from Georg Wissowa), Marcus N. Tod, E. S. Dodgson (16), Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington (Earl Carrington), A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (7), J. Glyn Davies (5), Norman Lockyer (2), J. H. Hessels, Betha Hills-Johnes, J. Jenkins ('Gwili'), James Hastings, Robert Mowat, P. M. C. Kermode (6), Kuno Meyer (2), W. R. Morfill (2), Hugh Williams (2), F. Haverfield (3), Edward Clodd (4), E. Maunde Thompson, E. Sidney Hartland, Patrick Lyons (9), John Beddoe, John Williams, E. Lorimer Thomas, John Garstang, Julio de Urquijo, Otto Franke, Camille Jullian (6), B. Nogara, O. A. Danielsson, E. Vincent Evans, H. Gaidoz, Émile Espérandieu, Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (2), George Eley Halliday, W. H. Preece, Douglas Hyde, T. H. Thomas (14), E. P. Wright (2), Maurice FitzGerald (Duke of Leinster), W. Baldwin Spencer, S. H. Butcher, A. W. Howitt, J. Romilly Allen (4), T. Herbert Warren, Alfred P. Graves (2), E. C. Quiggin, E. Ch. Babut, W. H. Stevenson, D. Brynmor Jones (2), F. Carruthers Gould (2), Paul Meyer, T. C. Evans ('Cadrawd') (2), J. Mortimer Angus, William Osler, W. Llewelyn Williams, W. Temple (2), Francis J. Jayne, John Edward Lloyd, Martin Hume (2), Henry Owen, Frederick York Powell, Evan Jones ('Ieuan Buallt'), and Marcus Hartog.

The file includes letters from J. H. Davies, Cwrt-mawr, J. Gwenogvryn Evans (2), H. Tobit Evans (2), John M. Howell, Aberaeron, John Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), Thomas A. Levi, Aberystwyth (2), H. R. Reichel, Sir John Rhys, R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos'), and D. Lleufer Thomas.

The file includes letters from Edward Anwyl, A. G. Bradley, H. A. L. Fisher, H. J. Fleure, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), J. Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed'), Bishop John Owen, J. F. Rees, Ernest Rhys, and Dr Thomas Richards.

The file includes letters from O. H. Fynes-Clinton (4), Alfred T. Davies, Thomas Allen Glenn, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), J. Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), Major Edgar R. Jones MP, Henry Haydn Jones (2), Dr Thomas Jones CH, Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon'), and Alfred Neobard Palmer (7).

The file includes letters from Annie J. Ellis (2), John Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), and R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos').

The file includes letters from J. Mortimer Angus, D. R. Daniel, J. Kelt Edwards, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, E. W. Evans, Frondirion, Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, John M. Howell, Aberaeron, Professor David Jenkins, Aberystwyth, J. Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), G. Hartwell Jones, J. Ifano Jones, John Edward Lloyd, Bishop John Owen, Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon'), R. Silyn Roberts, T. F. Roberts, John Rowland, David Samuel, Aberystwyth (3), Mallt Williams, and W. Llewelyn Williams.

Notes by T. Eurwedd Williams on his early life at Dafen ('Nodiadau Personol. Math o Hunangofiant'); together with a note on the place-name Dafen, the names of emigrants from Dafen to the United States of America and Australia, a biographical note on John Rees, pastor of the English Baptist Church, Pontrhydyrynn, notes on the associations with Dafen of Principal Silas Morris of the Baptist College, Bangor, John Jenkins (Gwili), and Gwilym Evans, colliery proprietor and eminent chemist, of Llanelly, and lists of eminent natives of Dafen and of members of the Dafen Brass Band. The autobiography contains copious references to the writer's early education and to the development of Dafen Tin Works.

The file also contains letters bearing some family, domestic and personal news. The file includes letters from Bishop A. G. Edwards, 1890, Canon D. Silvan Evans, 1899, E. Herber Evans (3), 1891-1892, Sir E. Vincent Evans, 1886, Thomas Gee, 1897, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), 1902, J. Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), (2), 1902-1903, John T. Job (7), 1892-1903, W. Goscombe John (16), 1895-1903, Sir Henry Jones, Glasgow, 1893, T. Gwynn Jones, 1901, H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed') (3), 1891-1900, Lewis William Lewis ('Llew Llwyfo'), 1893, Eluned Morgan, 1895, H. Isambard Owen, 1899, Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon') (4), 1899-1902, Evan Rees ('Dyfed'), 1896, R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos') (3), 1901-1903, Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, 1901, Edward Thomas ('Cochfarf') (9), 1899-1903, and Eifion Wyn (2), 1894-1897.

The file includes letters from J. M. Howell, Aberaeron, 1914, T. J. Hughes ('Adfyfyr'), 1907, J. Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili') (4), 1905-1912, John T. Job, 1904, C. Bryner Jones (2), 1904-1912, Ifano Jones (6), 1904-1906, T. Gwynn Jones (4), 1909-1916, Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon') (5), 1905-1913, T. G. Owen, Liverpool (2), 1913, Winnie Parry (3), 1912, R. Silyn Roberts, 1907, R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos') (4), 1904-1911, Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, 1906, Edward Thomas ('Cochfarf'), 1907, T. J. Thomas ('Sarnicol'), 1910, T. Marchant Williams (2), 1905, and Watcyn Wyn (5), 1904-1905.

The correspondents include: J. Spinther James (4), 1901-1910, Gwili (Rev. J. Jenkins), 1918, E. T. John MP, 1913, and W. Goscombe John (8), 1899-1922.

Copi o Tu hwnt i'r llen : pryddest gystadleuol ar destyn y gadair yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Llandudno, 1896 (Llanelli, 1901), pryddest anfuddugol J. Gwili Jenkins, yn cynnwys dau lythyr oddi wrth Gwili, [1912], at deulu J. R.Owen, Gyfelog, Bwlchdewin, Porthmadog, un ar bapur ysgrifennu Ysgol y Gwynfryn, Rhydaman. = A copy of Tu hwnt i'r llen : pryddest gystadleuol ar destyn y gadair yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Llandudno, 1896 (Llanelli, 1901), unsuccessful long poem in free metre by J. Gwili Jenkins entered in the National Eisteddfod held at Llandudno in 1896, including two letters from Gwili, [1912], to the family of J. R.Owen, Gyfelog, Bwlchdewin, Porthmadog, one of them is written on headed notepaper [Gwynfryn School, Ammanford].

Holograph, autograph, and typescript messages of greetings for publication in the first number of Y Cymro, 3 December, 1932. The writers include D[avid] Miall Edwards; Ifan ab Owen Edwards (with a covering letter from R. E. Griffith); D[avid] Emrys Evans, University College of North Wales, Bangor; D[avid] Tecwyn Evans; D[avid] Lloyd George (with a covering letter from A. J. Sylvester); Peter Hughes Griffiths; W. J. Gruffydd; E[dward] Ernest Hughes; John Jenkins ('Gwili'); C[adwaladr] Bryner Jones; and T. Gwynn Jones.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol 1. Nodion Cyffredinol' containing journal entries, personal reminiscences, and autobiographical notes by T. Eurwedd Williams for the periods 4 November 1906-6 March 1908, 25 January-24 April 1914, 13 March 1917-22 October 1919, and 8 February-29 December 1923. There are copious references to the writer's business as bookseller and stationer in Market Street, Llanelly, religious meetings at Zion Baptist Church, Llanelly, the progress of World War I, and the writer's employment in an ordnance factory at Penbre. Inset are press cuttings relating to political affairs, poetry by T. Eurwedd Williams, a post card from John Jenkins (Gwili), 1917, and aerial photographs of Llanelly. The volume used by the writer is a dummy of The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, Vol. I, A-Boë.

A collection of essays submitted for publication in Cymru:- 'Adgofion boreu oes' by Richard Jones Owen ('Glaslyn'); 'Emrys fel bardd a llenor', by the Reverend Hugh Evans; 'Watcyn Wyn, 1844-1905', by J. Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'); 'Dewi Sant' by D. R. Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog; 'Cynnydd Manteision Addysg' (incomplete), by T. Jones, Llanrwst; and a list of 'cywyddau' and other poems collected by Richard Grifths ('Carneddog').

Typescript transcripts and photocopies of letters, 1913-1917, from Edward Thomas to the American poet Robert Frost; typescript transcripts of letters, 1914-1916, from Edward Thomas (including one from Helen Thomas) to John Haines, a Gloucester solicitor; to John Freeman, poet, critic and novelist, 1909-1917; Jesse Berridge, poet, 1901-1916; Holbrook Jackson, 1912 and 1914; and Clifford Bax, poet and dramatist, 1911-1912; together with photocopies of letters, 1904-1914, to the Welsh poet and theologian John Jenkins ('Gwili').

Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys llythyrau gan Norah Isaac, John Gwili Jenkins, Cynan, William John A.S., D. Gwenallt Jones, E. Cefni Jones, E. K. Jones, J. T. Jones, Moelona, Tydfil, D. T. Morgan, Eluned Morgan, T. J. Morgan a J. Dyfnallt Owen.

Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys llythyrau at Ben Bowen, gan gynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth O. M. Edwards, John Gwili Jenkins, Lizzie Bowen, Dyfnallt, E. K. Jones, Elfed, Eluned Morgan, David Bowen, David Richards a Dafydd Morganwg. Ceir llythyrau yn cydymdeimlo ar farwolaeth ei dad, a llythyrau'n sôn am farddoniaeth, am Dde Affrica ac am gyflwr iechyd Ben Bowen.

Llythyrau, 1916-1969. Ymhlith y gohebwyr mae Glyn Ifans (7), Norah Isaac (5), Dafydd Iwan (1), H. T. Jacob (5), Carwyn [James] (1), T. J. Jenkin (7), Dafydd Jenkins (21), Dr David Jenkins (4), J. Gwili Jenkins (2), R. T. Jenkins (2), J. T. Job (3) a Noel John (16).