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Articles and addresses by David Samuel mainly on Welsh literature, history and education, 1890-1909, and an account of his tour in the United States of America, 1889.

Notes and articles by David Samuel on Welsh literature, including addresses entitled 'Theophilus Evans a Drych y Prif Oesoedd' and 'Some local ballad singers and ballad writers'.

Letters, 1835-1840, from David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion') to Richard Humphreys (Faerdref) , Ellis Owen and James Spooner (Tremadog), together with drafts of letters by David Owen relating to Welsh literary matters.

Nearly two hundred autograph letters, 1855-1891, relating mainly to Welsh literary matters, and especially to Glamorgan, 1855-1899, to Jonathan Reynolds ('Nathan Dyfed') from contemporary Welsh poets and authors; miscellaneous poems; printed broadsides; press cuttings; etc.

Addresses by Meredith J. Hughes on 'Myth and legend in the literature of Wales', 1914, and 'Democratic Theory and Institutions', 1919; a hymn 'Ymwel a mi o Arglwydd da', and a poem entitled 'Afon Alun', 1924.

Manuscripts, [late 12 cent.]-[early 20 cent.], formerly part of the library of the Mostyn family of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, comprising transcripts and extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Dares Phrygius, Nennius, Gildas, David Jenkins (Judge Jenkins), Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, Lydgate's 'Life of Our Lady', Leland's Itinerary, 'Chroniques de France', historical manuscripts such as Brut y Tywysiogion and Brut y Brenhinoedd, Welsh romances and the Mabinogion; collections of mainly Welsh poetry, among them the seventeenth-century volumes Llyfr Coch Nannau and Llyfr Gwyn Corsygedol, containing poems by Dafydd ap Gwilym, Guto'r Glyn, Tudur Aled, Siôn Cent and others; genealogies, pedigrees and histories; official papers relating to Caernarvonshire; catalogues of the Mostyn and Gloddaeth libraries, 1692-1842; etc.

One of two volumes of 'Nefydd' miscellanea, including material relating to Welsh literature and bibliography, eisteddfod adjudications, etc.

One of two volumes of 'Nefydd' miscellanea, including material relating to Welsh literature and bibliography, eisteddfod adjudications, etc.

Some three hundred and fifty letters, 1945-1969, from Gilbert Turner to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, which include references to the novelist Elena Puw Morgan, Welsh language and literature, visits to North Wales, the writer's procurement of library books for the recipients and the preparation of typescript copies of Powys's Dostoievsky (1947) and Rabelais (1948). Turner continued corresponding with Phyllis Playter after John Cowper Powys's death in 1963.

A letter, 1855, from John Williams ('Ab Ithel') to [Evan Davies ('Myfyr Morganwg')].

A manuscript containing a transcript of a lecture on The Influence of the Literature of Wales on that of other countries, given by Teilo at Llandilo, 16 March 1864; a note on Thomas Jones (Twm Sion Catti); material relating to the late Rev. John Evans, Llwynffortun, 1865.

A holograph essay on 'Y Mabinogion fel Llenyddiaeth' by 'Y Macwy Mud' [E. Stanton Roberts]. The essay was submitted in January 1911 for the T. E. Ellis Essay Prize at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.