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Includes letters from D. Rhys Jones, J. Viriamu Jones, Henry Owen, W. A. Craigie (6), John Lloyd Warden Page (3), A. S. Green (enclosing a letter from Lord Dillon), Augusta Herbert, Llewellyn N. V. Lloyd-Mostyn (4), J. Romilly Allen (3), E. W. B. Nicholson (6), Rudolf Thurneysen, A. M. Fairbairn, Alfred G. Edwards (4), John R. Mowbray (9), John Owen (9), Francis J. Jayne (4), William Jones (2), Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (7), Edward B. Tylor, John T. D. Llewelyn, G. O. Morgan (3), A. C. Humphreys-Owen (3), William N. Bruce, W. Tudor Howell, J. Herbert Lewis, William Abraham ('Mabon'), J. Bryn Roberts, D. Brynmor Jones (2), Edward Jenkins, Frederick York Powell, Daniel Rees (2), Betha Hills-Johnes, Watkin Williams ('Watcyn Wyn'), H. W. Williams (5), James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, E. Sidney Hartland (2), Magnus Maclean (2), Malcolm Macfarlane, A. G. Boscawen (2), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Viscount Cranborne), John Hobson Matthews, Owen Owen, J. H. Rose, F. Victor Dickins, Frederick T. Elworthy (2), Charles Roeder (4), Lewis Morris, H. Augusta Mostyn, Edward Laws, S. A. D'Arcy, P. M. C. Kermode, John Griffiths, Ellis Pierce ('Elis o'r Nant'), Eduard Wölfflin, Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (3), R. Williams, John Williams, and C. H. Firth.

Includes letters from Thomas Powel (3), Edward Laws, William Jones (2), George Eyre Evans (4, one pasted on a report by Jacob Rees Gabriel and GEE, in the latter's hand, on the 'Kilmaenllwyd Stones'), Edward Anwyl (4), Norman Lockyer (3), William Meredith Morris, J. G. Frazer (2), H. J. Fleure, J. Mortimer Angus (2), Hubert von Herkomer (4), J. Glyn Davies, E. W. B. Nicholson (8), Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (3), Arthur Drews, James A. H. Murray, C. S. Burne (2), John L. Myres, A. Amy Brooke, Kuno Meyer (11), H. R. Reichel (2), Lewis Morris (2), Richard Ellis (4), A. H. Sayce (7), D. Lloyd George, Paul Vinogradoff, Edith F. Carey (2), Henry Bellingham, William R. Anson, T. Fisher Unwin (2), Edward Owen, D. Brynmor Jones, G. L. Barstow, I. Gollancz (5), T. Herbert Warren (2), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, J. Estlin Carpenter, Reginald A. Smith, Jonathan Ceredig Davies, John Williams, Lewis Davies Jones ('Llew Tegid'), Alfred Neobard Palmer (3), W. Llewelyn Williams, P. S. Allen, Douglas Hyde (2), R. L. Poole, R. R. Marett (3), John Rowland, J. Lloyd-Jones, Isambard Owen, W. Lewis Jones, F. Haverfield, T. F. Tout (4), John Hamilton-Gordon (Earl of Aberdeen), A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (2), J. H. Davies, and E. Vincent Evans.

Genealogical notes compiled by Professor J. D. R. Thomas relating to his family, including his forefather Morgan Williams (1752-1831), Blaenllynant, Gwynfe, Carmarthenshire, grandfather of Sir John Williams, founder president of the National Library of Wales. Also included is a photocopy of a short history of Capel y Maen Church by Joseph Llywelyn Evans.

General correspondence, 1890s-1906, of David Lloyd George including letters from Charles W. Dilke MP (1) 1901, R. J. Campbell (1) 1905, R. L. Morant (1) [1960x1908], Gwynoro Davies (1) 1906, Sir Samuel Walker (1) 1906, Edward Thomas ('Cochfarf') (1) 1906, John Hugh Edwards MP (1) 1906, and Sir John Williams (1) 1906.

One of four volumes containing a collection of nearly two hundred letters addressed to Thomas Powel. They relate to matters of Welsh education, bibliography, philology and Celtic subjects. The principal correspondents are Isaac Taylor, Settrington, 1878; Thomas [James] Thirlwall, Nantmel, 1896; John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'), 1882; James R[ichard] Thursfield, Dresden, 1873; J[ames] H[enthorn] Todd; T[homas] Fisher Unwin, 1911; C[harles] J[ohn] Vaughan, dean of Llandaff; Professor C[harles Edwyn] Vaughan, Cardiff, 1897; Gwyneth Vaughan [Annie Harriet Hughes], 1906; T. R. Wardale, 1890; Sir John Williams, 1894; T[homas] Marchant Williams, 1883-1884; E[dward] P[erceval] Wright, Dublin; and William W[atkin] E[dward] Wynne, Peniarth, 1860 (to Thomas Stephens).

A catalogue of books, with suggested prices, submitted to Sir John Williams, c. 1897, by Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore. The books are mainly in Welsh or other Celtic languages or relate to Wales and other Celtic countries. There are notes relating to many of the books, mainly describing their condition and whether Sir John Williams already had a copy. Inset is a letter, 25 April 1907, from J. Kyrle Fletcher, Newport, Monmouthshire (books for sale and the writer's own interest in books).

A small group of loose sheets which accumulated during the preparation of J. H. Davies, The National Library of Wales. Catalogue of Manuscripts. Volume I. Additional Manuscripts in the Collections of Sir John Williams, bart G.C.V.O. (Aberystwyth, 1921). They consist mainly of a draft of the 'Introduction', material towards the 'Cross-Reference Numbers' to the Phillimore MSS and Phillipps MSS, one holograph and three autograph letters, 1921, from John Ballinger, National Library of Wales, and 'Queries for Mr Ballinger'.

An album containing book-plates and book labels, 18th-20th centuries, mainly of members of various prominent Welsh and English families, including those of George Rice, 2nd baron Dynevor, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd marquis of Bute, Herbert Vaughan, Llangoedmore, Sir Thomas Bonsall, Fronfraith, and Sir John Williams, Plas Llanstephan.

Letters, 1880-1916, to Daniel Lleufer Thomas from Sir Edward Anwyl, Alcwyn C[aryni] Evans, D. Griffiths, The Vicarage, Llanarthney, D. Caeronwy Harris ('Caeronwy'), E[van] Penllyn Jones, Aberystwyth, Gwenllian E[lizabeth] F[anny] Morgan, Sir Lewis Morris, Henry Oliver, Bristol, Sir John Rhys, Alan Stepney-Gulston, Sir John Williams, Bart. and Sir Thomas Marchant Williams.

A copy of an article by George Eyre Evans on 'Llandyssul Grammar School', reprinted from The Alauda, the magazine of the Llandyssul County School, Christmas term, 1913; autograph letters to George Eyre Evans from C. E. Vowles, Llandyssul County School, 1913, J. D. Lewis, Gomerian Press, Llandyssul, 1913, D[ian] Marles Thomas, Antwerp, 1914, and Sir John Williams, bart., 1917; and notes in the autograph of George Eyre Evans relating to Llandyssul, including descriptions and illustrations of ancient monuments, a list of vicars, notes on the communion plate and the bells of the parish church, and extracts from manuscript and printed sources.