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The visitors' introduction book, 1846-1855, of the Dolgellau Cricket Club Reading Room, which was established 26 October 1846.

Highway rate assessments made on the inhabitants of the township and parish of Dolgellau, 1839.

A small account book, 1819-1828, associated with the Dolgellau area, containing a memorandum of the payment of land tax by Rich[ar]d William, [of Hengwrt], particulars of payments to David Owen(s) for lime and culm and the carriage of the same, measurements of timber and planks, particulars of road repairs, memoranda of the weights of cheeses, etc.

Poor rate assessments made on the inhabitants of the township and parish of Dolgellau, Merionethshire.

A valuation of property in the neighbourhood of Dolgellau liable to poor rates.

A rent receipt book in respect of property near Dolgellau, 1851-1861.

A Dolgellau tithe account book, 1848-1865, kept by the rector, Henry Wier White.

Papers of, or collected by, Evan William Evans, Dolgellau, 1808-[1921x1925], consisting mainly of material of Dolgellau local historical and religious interest, including rate assessments and valuations, accounts, rentals, chapel records and other records, 1813-1877; agricultural, timber, slate and other account books, 1823-1879; papers of T. Mordaf Pierce, including correspondence, essays, sermons and material relating to Dolgellau history, 1894-1914; material relating to Calvinistic Methodism in Llanidloes and Dolgellau, 1808-1918; and correspondence, 1850-1921, mainly addressed to Evans.

An essay entitled 'Traethawd: Gwaith ac Athrylith William Owen-Pughe ... (1759-1835). Un o destynau Eisteddfod Meirion [Dolgellau]: Calan, 1913. Gan Glan Idris' [i.e. T. Mordaf Pierce].

Notes by T. Mordaf Pierce on the history of various religious bodies in Dolgellau.

An essay entitled 'Hanes "Millsiaid Llanidloes" cyn dechrau y ganrif bresennol', written by T. Mordaf Pierce for an eisteddfod at Llanidloes, 1899.

Letters to Griffith Owen, Vaner, Llanelltyd, near Dolgellau, E. W. Evans, and others in the Dolgellau district, from John and Margred Owen, Baraboo, Wisconsin, 1847; William and Margaret Bebb and William G. Bebb, Vanwert, Ohio, 1850; Edward [?], Miliken’s Bend, Louisiana, 1863; J. F. Williams, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1877; T. Ll. Williams, Racine, 1907; and John Gwylym Owen, Portage, 1907; together with photographs of the Caledonia Welsh church and Caledonia home-coming, 1907, etc.

Notebooks containing particulars of annual rents paid, with receipts, in respect of Faner, Llanelltyd, 1813-1853, Derwas, Dolgellau, 1858-1878, Ty'n Twll, [?Dolgellau], 1847-1858, and Moelisbri, Llanelltyd, 1853-1877.

'Llyfr Miss Catherine Jones Post Office Clynnog 1861', being a notebook containing a pedigree showing the descendants of Gruffydd Humphrey, Llangybi, Caernarvonshire, one of them being Evan Owen, who was a Calvinistic Methodist preacher at Talysarn in 1861, together with miscellaneous poems by Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd).

Account book, 1842-1843, kept by Griffith Owen, Vaner, Llanelltyd, near Dolgellau, recording details of haulage and agricultural work, including sums owing to him for cartage of hay, gravel, timber, etc., for ploughing and other work, and for the sale of agricultural stock and produce, and disbursements made by him.

Letters, 1913-1914, to T. Mordaf Pierce from Sir Thomas Marchant Williams, Edward Griffith, Dolgellau, Thomas Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth, and Edward D. Snyder, Harvard University, relating to Pierce’s essay on William Owen[-Pughe] (see NLW MS 6184D).

Lists of texts of sermons preached by T. Mordaf Pierce at China Street and Glanynant, Llanidloes, and elsewhere, 1894-1910; the names of persons baptised at Llanidloes, 1895-1910, and at Dolgellau, 1910; the names of persons received into full membership of China Street Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church, Llanidloes, 1895-1910, and of Salem Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church, Dolgellau, 1910.

Memorandum book, 1844-1857, of Griffith Owen, Vaner, Llanelltyd, near Dolgellau, containing miscellaneous memoranda, poetry, etc.

An agreement, 23 February, 1846, for the lease by Griffith Howell Vaughan, esq., of Rug, Merioneth, to Griffith Owen, of Vaner, parish of Llanelltyd; an indenture, 1 May, 1848, of apprenticeship for five years of Joseph Roberts of Rose Street, Ruthin, as master in Ruthin British School (Edward Jones of Brynhyfryd, esq., James Maurice of Well Street, esq., and John Jones of Market Place, Ruthin, managers, and John Edmunds of Ruthin, master) (a printed appendix contains extracts from minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, 21 December, 1846, and endorsed is an assignment of the original indenture to James Cromwell, successor to John Edmunds, 27 November, 1850); an unexecuted agreement for the lease from Hugh John Ellis Nanney of Gwynfryn, parish of Llanstymddwy, Caernarvonshire, esq., to David Evans of Cae Einion, Dolgelley, Merioneth, from year to year, commencing 25 March, 1887, of the farm called Cae Einion; a declaration signed by thirty-two students of Trevecca College, 11 November, 1889, denying statements made in Yr Haul 'concerning the intended secession of any student to the Church of England'; a galley proof of an article entitled 'Mr. Lloyd George, M.P., and the Goleuad', relating to Disestablishment and the bearing of Mr. Lloyd George's political action on Welsh Liberal policy, together with manuscript observations by Sir E. J. Reed, M.P. for Cardiff; a pedigree of the family of Jones of Llanio, Cardiganshire; miscelaneous poetry of Dolgelley interest (e.g. verses on the occasion of the marriage of Joseph Roberts, C.M., British School, and Miss Annie Jones, Penbryn, Dolgellau, 1860); a receipt for poor rate for the parish of Dolgelley, 1846; press cuttings, 1888, relating to the case of H. J. Ellis Nanney and his Merioneth tenants; Morris Charles Jones: Valle Crucis Abbey ... (London, 1866), bearing the name of R[ichard] Williams [Celynog, Newtown], 20 October, 1866; and 'Etholiad Cyffredinol 1900. Miss Meirion: Hanes ei Charwriaeth, ei Gwaeledd, ei Thranc, a'i Chynhebrwng. Gan Tudur Llwyd' (3rd edition).

Notes relating to the social and religious history of Dolgellau copied from various sources by T. Mordaf Pierce.