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Trecefel family diaries, South Wales Choral Union.
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Joseph Jenkins Australian notebook,

Notebook of Joseph Jenkins, [1869]-1887, containing his poems including 'The Swagman's Complaint', 'Our Age is only a Race for Life', Victoria, 1871; englyn 'Y ddanod' (toothache); two verses which he composed on the request of his daughter Elinor to commemorate his two sons Jenkin and Lewis who died in their twenties; verses to congratulate Caradog and his choir on their success in 1873; a poem in memory of his friend Ioan Mynyw [John Lewis], 1873; a number of poems written by him as a patient in Maryborough Hospital, 1874, and on leaving; and four lines, 1887, written after the death of his daughter Margaret in 1883.