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Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly addressed to Charles E. Breese, by the Kellow Rock Drill Syndicate, Ltd., Croesor, 1909, A. B. Kempe, 1917, John Edward Lloyd, 1911. W. H. More, 1922, D. C. Lloyd Owen, 1922-1923; D. Rhys Phillips, 1912, John Rhys, Llanberis, 1879, Edward Roberts, Caernarvon, 1903, Sidney Robinson, 1912, W. H. Seager, 1922, Stanley Smith, 1920, Ronald Temple, 1921, D. R. Thomas, 1914, David Thomas, 1927, Thomas Walters, 1911, Maurice Williams, 1911, John Williams, Llanfair P. G., 1913, Sir Osmond Williams, 1922, W. W. E. Wynne, 1872-1879, and W. R. M. Wynne, 1900.

Abstracts of deeds and documents, 1683-1837, relating to properties in Trefeglwys and Machynlleth; extracts from letters, 1886, from Mrs. Cath[erine] Gilbertson to D.C. Ll[oyd-] O[wen], relating to the family of Pritchard of Ceniarth, parish of Machynlleth, etc.; extracts of births and baptisms from the registers of Llandinam Calvinistic Methodist Church, 1811-1848, and from account books of the church, 1824-1845; extracts from the Calendar (1927) of Crosswood deeds and documents in the National Library of Wales; extracts of marriages from the parish registers of Carno, 1737- 1808, and of baptisms and burials from the parish register of Llanwnog, 1785-1808; an abstract of the tithe book of the vicar of Llanwnog, 1804-1810; lists of ratepayers of the parish of Llanwnog, 1743, 1749, 1775; and a list of tithepayers surnamed Reynolds [in the parish of Llanwnnog], 1743- 1805.

Abstracts of Estimaner probate records, 1705-1790; a copy, in the writer's hand, of a letter from Richd. Bennett to Dr. [D. C.] Lloyd-Owen, undated ( probate records at Bangor); extracts of baptisms, marriages, and burials from the parish registers of Kerry, 1616-1791, Llanwrin, 1709-1812, Llanfair Caereinion, 1725-1776, Penstrowed, 1672-1832, Llanwnog, 1683-1745, Llanwyddelan, 1772-1828, and Llandinam, 1721-1868; abstracts of two deeds relating to properties in Llanegryn, 1749-1772; statistics relating to the [ Newtown] District of [Calvinistic Methodist] Sunday Schools, 1858-1862?, extracted from a volume in the custody of J. R. Evans, Trefeglwys; miscellaneous eighteenth century extracts from parish registers relating to the Montgomeryshire families of Morris, Stephens, etc.; extracts from memorial inscriptions in the churchyards of Llandinam, 1711-1883, Llanwnog, 1757-1910, and Llanbryn-mair, 1830-1842, and of Caersws Baptist Church, 1869- 1904; and transcripts and extracts from manuscript and printed sources, among them being an annotated list of sheriffs of co. Montgomery, 1541- 1847, 1867. The volume was compiled in 1930.

Material from manuscript and printed sources compiled largely by William Fowler Carter, Maidsmere, near Bromsgrove, towards a study of the early genealogy of the family of Kenrick of Nantclwyd, Cerniogau, etc., and of the associated family of Wynn. Accompanying the material are letters largely to W. F. Carter from G. J. Murray Atkins, Diocesan Registry, Lichfield, 1935, J. C. Ballantyne, University of Glasgow, 1913 (autograph), J. Harvey Bloom, Upper Tooting, [1922]-3, W. Ll. Davies, National Library of Wales, 1935 (autograph), Crayford Edwards, barrister, Burbage, near Hinckley, 1918, C. T. Flower, Public Record Office, 1935 (autograph), A. Ranken Ford, Gray’s Inn, London, 1917 (autograph), Thomas Allen Glenn, Meliden, etc., 1911-22 (one autograph), Frederick Wm. Hackwood, Balham, 1917 (to Sir Geo. Kenrick), Strachan Holme, Bridgewater [Collieries & Ellesmere Estates] Office, Walkden, Manchester, 1915 (autograph), Cyril C. C. Kenrick, Westgate-on-Sea [1922], [Sir] Geo. H. Kenrick, Edgbaston, 1908- 35 (with copy replies), Bernard Kettle, Guildhall Library, London, 1915, J. B. Marsland, Wyberton Rectory, Boston, 1923, H. H. Meakin, Longnor Vicarage, Shrewsbury, 1918 (to [ ] Blackett), D. C. Lloyd Owen, Four Oaks, 1915 and undated, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1911, William Rees, University College . . ., Cardiff, 1935, Mary Sampson Smith, Llangollen Fechan, 1911, A. H. Stanton, Hambleden Rectory, Henley on Thames [1922], W. B. Stewart, Birkenhead, 1912 (to Sir George Kenrick), Ethel Stokes, London, 1935, Annie Wynn, Llanfihangel, near Borth, 1911, and Edward W. Wynne, Aberystwyth, 1917. There are also typescript copies of letters to the Kenrick family from R. Obbard, Redhill, 1901, Greene Kendrick, Waterbury, Conn., U.S.A., 1901-02, and Henry Rigg, Bayswater, London, 1901 and undated.

One of eight volumes consisting of several hundred letters, chiefly of the first half of the nineteenth century, written mainly to John Jenkins and his wife, to Walter Davies and his daughter Jane, and to John Vaughan (Penmaen Dyfi) and other members of his family, by numerous correspondents, including: William Oakeley, Aneurin Owen, Anne Warburton Owen, D. C. Lloyd Owen (Birmingham), David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), Francis Owen, William Owen (Gwilym Glan Hafren), William Owen [-Pughe], John Parker, David Parry (Carmarthen), Henry Parry (Llanasa), John Parry (Bardd Alaw), David Peter (Carmarthen), Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), Hugh Pugh (harper), William Pugh (Brynllywarch), and Huw Meyrig Puw (Patagonia).

Two volumes which contain two groups of scrapbooks, eighteen in all, containing materials relating principally to Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire, compiled by George Eyre Evans in 1910 in his capacity of Assistant Inspector to the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire.
They consist of notes in the autograph of George Eyre Evans, including extracts from the parish registers of Llanidloes, 1616-1747, Llanerfyl, 1670-1783, and Cemmaes, 1733-1812, and a transcript of a part of a journal of a visit by the Reverend Thomas Price, vicar of Merthyr Tydfil, to Dolcoed Wells, Llanwrtyd, 1762; autograph letters to George Eyre Evans from Henry Bonsal, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Llanbedrog, S. A. Evans, Llanbadarn Fawr, H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury, C. P. Gasquoine, Caxton Press, Oswestry, F. W. Gibbins, Pendine, J. D. James, Llanerfyl Rectory, D. E. Jones, Board of Education, Katie Jones, Llansilin, D. C. Lloyd Owen, Four Oaks, Warwickshire, Elsie Owen, Cwmrhaiadr, Machynlleth, O. R. Owen, Llangynog, Norman Penney, Friends' Historical Society, London, J. H. Swann, Manchester, E. R. Vaughan, Staylittle and John Williams, Llanwddyn Vicarage; photographs, illustrations, rubbings of inscriptions, press cuttings and broadsides; and miscellanea, including notes in Welsh on the ancient monuments of Cemmaes, compiled in 1909 by Hugh Francis, clerk to the parish council.

Annotated abstracts of Montgomeryshire (especially Arwystley) and Merioneth probate records, 1660-1695, preserved in the District Probate Registry, Bangor. MSS. 11859, 11861 are indexed. At the end of MS. 11859 are abstracts, from the papers of D. C. Ll[oyd-] O[wen], of probate records of Arwystli interest, 1582-1781 and undated.

Annotated abstracts of Arwystli and Estimaner probate records preserved in the District Probate Registry, Bangor, 1635-1855. MS. 11862 contains similar abstracts (partly from the papers of D. C. Ll[oyd-] O[wen]) of Montgomeryshire probate records preserved in Somerset House, 1681/2-1778. MS. 11862 is indexed. MS. 11863, compiled in 1924, contains extracts from the parish registers of Towyn, Pennal, and Talyllyn, 1663-1840, and extracts of Montgomeryshire interest from printed sources, including pedigrees and lists of contributions to the London Missionary Society, 1799, 1824, 1831-1832.

Extracts of Montgomeryshire and Merioneth interest from public and other records, 1600-1773; annotated abstracts and lists (partly from the papers of D. C. Lloyd-Owen) of probate records of Montgomeryshire and Merioneth (especially Arwystley and Estimaner) interest proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and in the Consistory Courts of the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph, 1572-1810; a pedigree of the ancestors of D. C. Lloyd-Owen; and annotated extracts of Montgomeryshire and Merioneth interest from A. Ivor Pryce: The Diocese of Bangor during Three Centuries (Cardiff, 1929).

Transcripts of marriages, 1780-1808, and of burials, 1813-1844, from the parish registers of Llanbrynmair, taken from copies made by R[ichard] Williams ['Celynog'], F.R.H[ist.]S. [of Newtown]; extracts from the register of Old Chapel Congregational Church, Llanbrynmair, being an account of children baptised during the ministry of the Reverend Rich[ar]d Tibbott, 1762-1796; lists and abstracts of Montgomeryshire wills (partly from the papers of D. C. Ll[oyd-] Owen [of Birmingham]); transcripts of marriages from the parish register of Llanbrynmair, 1809-1812; transcripts from the parish register of Machynlleth, 1782-1812; and notes on the ancestors of Mr. J[ohn] H[umphreys] Davies [Principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth] ('From his writings. D.C.D.', i.e., David Charles Davies, Director of The Field Natural History Museum, Chicago).

Transcripts of baptisms, marriages, and burials from the parish registers of Machynlleth, 1684-1809, from a copy made by Dr. [D. C.] Lloyd-Owen; transcripts of 'miscellaneous' entries from the parish registers of Machynlleth, 1783-1860, copied by Edwd. Rees, chemist [of Caer-sws?] and from the register of the Wesleyan Church, Machynlleth, 1816- 1835; transcripts of baptisms, marriages, and burials from the bishops' transcripts of the parish of Machynlleth, 1723-1733 (wanting in the original registers); a list of Machynlleth wills, 1569-1712, 'apparently at Somerset House, found by D. C. Ll. O'; a list of 'persons mentioned [in the parish registers of Machynlleth] with names of residences'; etc.

Transcripts by Charles Ashton, including a deed of composition between Richard Mytton, lord of the manor of Mawddwy, co. Merioneth, and his tenants, 11 September 1598; and an English translation of a grant of land in the manor of Mawddwy from Richard Mytton to Richard ap Rees David ap Howell, 31 July 1599; extracts from the parish registers of Mallwyd, 1727-1855; a letter from Father T. A. Pope, Oratory of St Philip Neri, Birmingham to Dr D[avid] C[harles] Lloyd-Owen, Birmingham, 11 December 1893; a charter of James I, 11 May 1607, granting Richard Mytton three fairs in the manor of Mawddwy; and a charter of Edward I, 28 December 1291, granting Owen de la Pole a weekly market and two annual fairs at Machynlleth, together with an English translation.