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Reports and minutes of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, the National Council of Music and reports relating to the role of music in education.

Correspondence relating to folk songs in general and individually, and to the work of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, consisting of letters to J. Lloyd Williams mainly in his role as editor of the Society's Journal. Letters addressed to other members of the Society, which had been forwarded to J. Lloyd Williams, are also included. Songs are often enclosed with letters.

Correspondence relating to the publication of Y Cerddor and the work of the National Council of Music.

Correspondence, 1899-1945, reflecting the various aspects of J. Lloyd Williams's interest in the music of Wales. Amongst the topics discussed are singing festivals, lectures, concerts, broadcasting and the publication and performance of his own works. Some letters also include references to Y Cerddor, and to the work of the Welsh Folk-Song Society.

Letters, 1892-1942, many from prominent botanists, mainly covering the period J. Lloyd Williams spent studying at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, 1893-1897, as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Botany and Agricultural Botany at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1897-1915, and as Professor of Botany at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1915 until his retirement in 1925.

Card indexes and lists of names of plants and flowers, together with related correspondence.

Notes of lectures delivered by J. Lloyd Williams, [1905x1937], relating mainly to plant life and often drawing analogies with life in general.

Correspondence, 1938-1945, between J. Lloyd Williams and Myfanwy Morris.

Notebooks containing diary entries, recorded chronologically, relating to Welsh folk songs, music in schools, religious services broadcast on radio, and botany examinations.

Lecture notes and radio scripts on topics other than music or botany.

The financial accounts of J. Lloyd Williams, a will written by him in 1906, and other miscellaneous items.

Indexes and lists of folk songs, melodies and hymn tunes, compiled mainly by J. Lloyd Williams from various printed and manuscript sources.

Notes and press cuttings accumulated by J. Lloyd Williams during his researches into Welsh folk songs.

Manuscript and printed scores, together with related correspondence and papers, 1899-1938, relating to the cantata 'Aelwyd Angharad' by J. Lloyd Williams, words by Llew Tegid.

Correspondence, 1907-1941, relating to the publication of musical works by J. Lloyd Williams, the proposal to establish a 'Welsh Academy of Music', and the Iorwerth Glyndwr John Memorial Shield.

Diaries, journals and log books, 1871-1920, containing entries reflecting J. Lloyd Williams's interest, research and vocation in the field of botany, spanning his entire career.

Pocket diaries kept by J. Lloyd Williams, 1885-1945, containing only brief notes of appointments and engagements.