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Llythyr, tua 1875, yn llaw y 'Cyrnol' R. E. Jones, Rawson, Patagonia, yr Ariannin, lle mae'n sôn am yr helynt a fu pan gipiwyd pump ar hugain o Gymry a oedd yn byw yn yr ardal gan Indiaid, ynghyd â chopïau teipysgrif o'r llythyr a chyfieithiad Saesneg ohono gan y rhoddwr.

Llyfr lloffion yn cynnwys papurau amrywiol, 1988-1992, wedi eu pastio yn y gyfrol, yn ymwneud yn bennaf â theithiau i Batagonia ac i Oberammergau.

Photocopies of sermons, in Welsh, 1869-76, delivered at churches in Bangor and Dwygyfylchi by the Reverend Hugh Davies ('Hywel Ddu o Arfon', d. 1909), who emigrated to Patagonia in 1883 and was a Welsh Chaplain in the Chubut Colony (cf. NLW MS 23383B); and of the diary, 1909-10, of his son Robert Llywelyn Davies (b. 1878), Chubut.

Cyfres o bum englyn penfyr yn dwyn y teitl 'Cŵyn yr Indiad', yn llaw R. Bryn Williams, [?1980], sydd yn ddetholiad o benillion o'i awdl 'Patagonia', a enillodd iddo Gadair Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Abertawe 1964 (gw. R. Bryn Williams, Patagonia (Aberystwyth, 1965), tt. 32-33, ac R. Bryn Williams, O'r Tir Pell: Cyfrol o Gerddi (Lerpwl, 1972), tt. 86-87). = A series of five englynion penfyr titled 'Cŵyn yr Indiad', in the hand of R. Bryn Williams, [?1980], being a selection of verses from his awdl 'Patagonia', which won him the chair at the 1964 National Eisteddfod in Swansea (see R. Bryn Williams, Patagonia (Aberystwyth, 1965), pp. 32-33, and R. Bryn Williams, O'r Tir Pell: Cyfrol o Gerddi (Liverpool, 1972), pp. 86-87).

A letter, 26 May 1970, from Kyffin Williams, [London], to Meic Stephens, [Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council], attempting to secure financial support to publish his book on his 1968-1969 visit to Patagonia.
The book remained unpublished, although parts of it appeared as 'An Artist in Welsh Patagonia', in The Anglo-Welsh Review, 18.42 (February 1970), 5-32, or would be adapted for his book A Wider Sky (Llandysul, 1991). The letter contains references to Christopher Falkus of prospective publishers Weidenfeld [& Nicolson].

Papers of and acquired by R. Bryn Williams, mainly relating to the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, including a diary of Joseph Seth Jones, one of the first wave of emigrants on the Mimosa to Patagonia, 1865, and correspondence, 1865-1868; correspondence of his brother, Robert Charles Jones, 1867-1877; copy records of the Welsh courts in Y Wladfa, 1872-1881; letters and minute books relating to Vrondeg Baptist Chapel, 1875-1887, Gaiman, 1877-1891, Eglwys Llanddewi, 1891, Eglwys Bryn Gwyn and Cyfarfod Misol Y Wladfa (Calvinistic Methodists), 1881-1955; papers relating to the Centenary Celebrations of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 1952-1962; letters from the founders of the Welsh colony, 1866, and from others who had experienced life there; letters to R. Bryn Williams from Patagonia and from Wales relating to Patagonia, [c. 1941-1961]; research notes and manuscripts of books and radio plays by R. Bryn Williams, 1942-1962; miscellaneous records relating to Wales and elsewhere collected by Williams, 1865-1962; papers relating to John S. Williams, 1901-1962; papers and press cuttings on the history, culture and industry of Patagonia, 1869-1962; and typescripts of published and unpublished works, lectures, scripts, etc.

Dau lyfr lloffion yn cynnwys llythyron, ffotograffau, darnau o farddoniaeth, tystysgrifau geni, a thorion o'r wasg, 1913-1986, wedi'u pastio yn y cyfrolau, yn ymwneud ag Elias Garmon Owen, Gaiman, Chubut, Patagonia (1892-1986).

Llungopïau o lythyr W. H. Hughes ('Glan Caeron'), Dolavon, Patagonia, 1925, at Mrs Ellen Jones ('Nel Fach y Books'), Emporium, Llandysul, yn cydymdeimlo â hi ar farwolaeth ei thad, ei 'hen gyfaill' [John Davies] a fu'n byw yn Y Wladfa, ac yn cynnwys newyddion am y datblygiadau yn y wlad a'r twf yn y boblogaeth.

A copy of Maria Teresa Agozzino's Senior Honours thesis 'Transplanted Traditions: An Assessment and Analysis of Welsh Folklore in Patagonia' (University of California, Berkeley, 1999).

A photocopy of a translation into Welsh, mostly in manuscript, by Eryl McDonald de Hughes of the novel El Evangelio y Don Eduardo (Buenos Aires, 1991) by Roy Centeno Humphreys, and an English translation 'Go Patagonia, said Edwin' by the latter of his novel Go Patagonia, dijo Edwin (Argentina, 1993), both of which relate to the Welsh colonization of the Chubut Valley and were declared works of National Cultural Interest by the Argentine Government in 1996; together with Roy Centeno Humphreys's curriculum vitae and photocopies of research papers including letters to Edward Humphreys, genealogical notes, and reviews of the novels, mainly in Spanish. The author is the great grandson of Elizabeth and Morris Humphreys, who came to Patagonia aboard the Mimosa in 1865; copies of both novels have been transferred to the Department of Printed Books.

A photocopy of the last letter, 1925, written by 'Glan Caeron' (Guillermo H. Hughes, 1866-1926), Chubut, Patagonia, to his relatives in Wales. = Llungopi o'r llythyr olaf, 1925, a ysgrifennodd 'Glan Caeron' (Guillermo H. Hughes, 1866-1926), Chubut, Patagonia, at ei berthnasau yng Nghymru.