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A letter, sent to the press, [February 1820], containing a poem, 'The Tribute of Wales' by Owen Jones, relating to the death of George III.
The poem was published in its entirety in the Morning Chronicle, 17 February 1820, p. 3, the day after the King’s funeral. A covering letter from the donor, 19 January 1957, is also included (f. i).

'The Welsh Budget', [1909], a holograph poem by John Cowper Powys concerning David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget' of 1909; it is apparently unpublished.
Also included is a cutting from the Radio Times, 18-24 June 1966, listing a radio programme on that Budget, transmitted 21 June.

Manuscript, [1822x1849], of the second and third verses (of three) of Charles Swain's 'Tripping Down the Field-Path', published in Charles Swain, English Melodies (London, 1849).

Typescript copies, with the author's signature, [?1949], of two poems by T. H. Jones, 'The Anglo-Welsh' (ff. 1-2) and 'Amends' (f. 3), both addressed to Aneirin Talfan Davies.
'The Anglo-Welsh' was first published in Dock Leaves, 4.11 (Summer 1953), 26, and 'Amends' in The Dublin Magazine, 25.3 (July-September 1950), 4. Also included is a letter from Jones to Davies, 27 March 1957, concerning Jones's book The Enemy in the Heart (London, 1957), in which 'Amends' was first collected (f. i).

Dwy gerdd teipysgrif, [1917x1918], [gan Caradog Rowlands, Llanuwchllyn], un, yn dwyn y teitl 'Yr Hen Gloch', ynglŷn â Lewis Davies, Blaenau Ffestiniog, golygydd papur newydd Y Gloch, oedd hefyd yn Swyddog Gorfodaeth i'r Fyddin (f. 1), a’r llall, ['Palas Pen Gwalia'], am Robert Edward Roberts, a oedd gyda swydd cyffelyb yn ardal Llanuwchllyn (f. 2). Ceir rhywfaint o gefndir y cerddi yn Haf Llewelyn, I Wyneb y Ddrycin: Hedd Wyn, Yr Ysgwrn a'r Rhyfel Mawr (Bala?, 2017), tt. 41-43, yn ogystal a saith pennill cyntaf 'Palas Pen Gwalia' (t. 43). = Two typescript poems, [1917x1918], [by Caradog Rowlands, Llanuwchllyn], one, entitled 'Yr Hen Gloch', concerning Lewis Davies, Blaenau Ffestiniog, editor of the newspaper Y Gloch who was also an Army Conscription Officer (f. 1), the other, ['Palas Pen Gwalia'], concerning Robert Edward Roberts, who fulfilled the same role in the Llanuwchllyn area (f. 2). The background to the poems is briefly discussed in Haf Llewelyn, I Wyneb y Ddrycin: Hedd Wyn, Yr Ysgwrn a'r Rhyfel Mawr (Bala?, 2017), pp. 41-43, alongside the first seven verses of 'Palas Pen Gwalia' (p. 43).