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Papurau'n ymwneud â'i weinidogaeth, ynghyd â nodiadau pregethau, [1911]-1951.

Papers regarding renovations and alterations to the following public buildings including correspondence, plans, specifications of work, contracts, lists & prices of work done:.

Dyddiaduron T. Eirug Davies, 1914-1951, yn cynnwys ychydig o gofnodion am ei ddyletswyddau fel gweinidog yn bennaf.

Game books recording game birds, hares, rabbits, and occasionally deer, shot at Brogyntyn (Porkington), Glyn, Penrhos, Cemais, and other estates in Wales, England, Ireland and Scotland, and listing game given or received as presents, 1822-1933, 1951 They also record persons present at the shoots, such as the Ormsby Gore family (Lords Harlech), the Egerton family, Lord Kenyon, Lord Spencer Chichester, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the Duke of Portland, Lord Gordon, the Duke of Grafton, the Bentinck family, Sir John Gladstone, Lord Churchill, the Prince and Duke of Teck, Lord Penrhyn, Lord Powis and numerous other members of the aristocracy.

Collection of newspaper articles, mostley regarding international affairs, the build up the the Second World War, policies of the New Commonwealth Society, post-war international issues, the United Nations, the Cold War and the Marshall Plan.

Correspondence and papers, 1929-50, relating to the establishment, administration and activities of the Welsh National Memorial Association, including material on the Committee of Enquiry into the Anti-Tuberculosis Service in Wales and Monmouthshire chaired by Clement Davies in 1937-38.

Poetry, songs and prose literature, mainly manuscript, accumulated by the Pryse family of Gogerddan, [1650x1950]. The main themes of the poems are eulogies of the distinguished house of Gogerddan, Pryse family birthdays, love, hunting, drinking, mortality, contemporary national and local events, politics and elections. They include an early ‘cywydd’ to Sir Richard Pryse [1650x1675] and a notebook containing ‘Barddoniaeth’ and other writings of John Lewis of Cardiff, compiled in 1879-1880. Other items of interest are a sheet of maxims framed in a decorative roundel, traced from the original manuscript of Elizabeth Henrietta Phelps (printed 1782), an early 19th century Welsh-English vocabulary, and typescript essays on salads and dressings, possibly by Sir Lewes Pryse (d. 1946)

Series contains issues of The New Commonwealth (Journal).

Wages accounts of the Gogerddan estate, 1873-1950. They comprise one file of miscellaneous pay sheets and wages accounts, 1873-1950, and the regular monthly accounts or pay sheets submitted by John Joseph, consisting of the Gogerddan home farm labour account, together with the woodward’s returns and balance sheet, 1902-1906, 1923.

Papers deriving from various trusts, being either trusts undertaken by members of the Pryse family acting as trustees for others, or trusts undertaken for the Pryse family, 1587-1950. They include two trusts by Sir Richard Pryse (d. 1623); the administration by Richard Pryse (d. 1675) of the estate of Lady Mary Vandyke, 1653; and trusts by Edward Pryse of Llanvread for William Corbett of Nanteos 1685, Walter Pryse for Jonathan Castlemain of Painswick, 1731, Pryse Pryse for Francis Warneford, 1833; and J.C.P Vaughan for the J.P. Vaughan Pryse trust, 1937. There are also reports on the settled estates of Sir Pryse Pryse, 1888, 1896; and accounts with the trustees of the settled estates, 1887, 1901-1950.

Letters to Sir Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Sir Edward John Webley-Parry-Pryse, George Rice Pryse, Sir Lewes Thomas Loveden Pryse, Sir Pryse Loveden Saunders-Pryse, and the agents, Capt. Edward Howell, William Lloyd and Roger Lloyd, 1900-1949. Most files also contain printed official circulars, third party letters, occasional family letters and copies of outgoing correspondence. The correspondents are mainly estate tenants, agents of other estates, solicitors, banks, timber merchants, agricultural suppliers, electrical engineers, mining companies, local government officials, school boards and local vicars. They include Percy Wilkinson of Crosswood (Trawsgoed) estate office, Charles R. Kenyon of Glandyfi and Machynlleth, agent of the Gwynfryn estate, Roberts and Evans of Aberystwyth, Hugh Hughes, Gillart and Sons of Machynlleth, Bridges Sawtell and Company of London, J.E. James, auctioneer, Aberllefenni Slate Quarry, the Alliance Assurance Company, the Inland Revenue, W. Evans of Pomterwyd, collector, officials of Cardiganshire County Council, Cardiganshire Education Committee, Aberystwyth Corporation, Arthur Johnson Hughes of the Town Clerk’s Office, James Hughes, sanitary inspector for Aberystwyth Rural District Council, The General Post Office, Cambrian Railways Company, Edward Evans of Tal-y-bont, the Office of Woods and Forests, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, The Lands Improvement Company, the Small Holdings and Allotments Department, W.H. More of Harlech, Crown Receiver, Wales, D.J. Lloyd of the Crown Manors Office, Lampeter, John Jenkins of Llwynderw and the Garland family of Cwmsymlog. Recurrent subjects include routine affairs of the Gogerddan estate and occasionally Abernantbychan. Notable topics are the court leet of the manor of Genau’r-glyn; applications to The Lands Improvement Company, the Gogerddan Fox Hounds, gamekeeping; sporting rights in Llanbadarn Fawr in the manor of Perfedd, and at Ysbyty Ystwyth; lead and copper mining at Esgair Hir, Esgair Fraith, Bryn yr Afr, South Darren, East Darren, Leri Valley Mine (Penpompren), the Loveden Mine and Blaenceulan, repairs to the Dovey and Leri embankments, drainage on Cors Fochno, sea defences at Borth; the Hafan tramway; boundary fences on the sheepwalks of the Gogerddan esate and in the crown manor of Perfedd; improvement of the water supply at Craig y Penrhyn and elsewhere, lead pollution and other sanitary concerns; church business at Penrhyn-coch and Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn; the supply of quarry stone and timber from the Gogerddan estate to the County Council; the establishment of telegraph offices at Taliesin and Eglwys-fach and subsequent financial deficiencies from 1905; proposals for the commercial extraction of peat from Cors Fochno for the manufacture of fuel; orders from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for compulsory sheep dipping from 1906; the installation of electricity at Gogerddan from 1907, and telephone from 1909; the acquisition of land by Cardiganshire County Council under the Small Holdings and Allotments Act from 1908; the increased mechanisation of agriculture; the allocation of land at Bow Street and Devils Bridge for a Territorial Army training camp from 1909; insurance of employees and claims against the Railway Passengers Assurance Company; and the effects of World War I on the operation of the estate. A number of the letters illustrate the problems involved with the Pryse family settlements and the deteriorating financial position of the estate, mostly between 1918 and 1924.