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Transcripts of Flintshire interest, comprising extracts from Recognizance Rolls relating to Axton, Caerfallwch (Caervalloch), Creycray, Englefield, Gronant, Gwespyr (Westbury), Linacre, Llanasa, Llewarled, Mostyn, Newmarket, Picton, and Vaynol; notes from printed sources relating to Llanasa (including extracts from the parish registers - see Archaeologia Cambrensis, Ser. V, Vol. IX, pp. 321ff.), Golden Grove, and the family of Griffith of Pantyllongdy; an essay on Gwilgre (Golden Grove); a transcript of a Bodrhyddan estate document relating to a lease of Picton coal mine [in Llanasa], 1631; illustrations from Harleian MS. 2129, p. 175, of arms in 'Westbury Church'; tombstone inscriptions from Llanasa; and correspondence to Thomas Edwards from Dyserth and District Field Club, 1912.

Extracts relating to Flintshire from printed editions and catalogues of, and reports on, public records, principally the 'Taxatio' of Pope Nicholas, c. 1291, Recognizance Rolls [of the Palatinate of Chester] and 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio'.

A transcript of a notice of sale, by auction, at the Town Hall, Rhyl, 1 (corrected 11) August 1863, of 4,000 acres of land and houses in Tremeirchion, Cwm, Newmarket and Gwaenysgor.

Transcripts relating to Flintshire from William Camden (trans. Edmund Gibson): Britannia, 1772, Vol. II; together with an incomplete table (abbas-calumpniatorum) of Latin abbreviations.

A transcript of a history of Newmarket compiled in 1910 ?by Wynne [K.] Roberts.

Transcripts of material prepared by Thomas Edwards and Colonel Charles S. Mainwaring, Galltfaenan, Trefnant, relating to the arms entitled to be used by the Dinorben (Hughes of Kinmel) family, and particularly to the relationship claimed to the family of Hughes of Llewerllyd, co. Flint; together with holograph letters and a postcard, 1914, to Thomas Edwards from Philip H. Lawson, Chester, and Charles S. Mainwaring. The papers include extracts from Bodrhyddan estate muniments, a Hughes of Kinmel pedigree prepared by Philip H. Lawson, and the opinion of A. M. Burke, 1 Cloisters, Temple, E.C., 1906.

Letters to Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon') from [Lady Margaret Stanley], Penrhos, 1805 [autograph cut away], G. Thomson, Edinburgh, 1817, and Ed. Pughe, Ruthin, undated; letters from Richard Llwyd to Hugh Jones ('Erfyl') [1822], and Thomas Williams, Beaumaris [1824]; and some verses in the hand of Richard Llwyd.

Letters addressed to John Owen ('Owain Alaw'). The correspondents include Jane Davies, daughter of 'Gwallter Mechain', 1858; Morris Davies, Upper Bangor, 1859-60; Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), 1853-4; John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog'), 1863-7; John Jones ('Talhaiarn'), 1865; Brinley Richards, 1864 and undated; E[benezer] Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), 1860; Lady Mary Emily William Wynn, Wynnstay, 1865; and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 6th bart., Wynnstay, [1865]. There are also two letters from [Sir] C[harles] B[eaumont] Phipps, Windsor Castle, for H.M. The Queen, to Charles Hughes, publisher, Wrexham, 1863.
Among the subjects discussed, apart from 'Owain Alaw's musical interests and the dedication of his publications, are 'Gwallter Mechain's letters (by Jane Davies) and the proposed biography of Hugh Jones ('Erfyl) (by Morris Davies). Also included among the letters is a printed song - 'The Welcome Home, sung by the children of the Rhos-y-Medre and Rhosllanerchrugog National Schools on the occasion of the birth of an heiress to the noble House of Wynnstay', 1865.

Letters and postcards addressed to Thomas Edwards. The correspondents include Sir John Herbert Lewis, Caerwys, 1912; Sir John Edward Lloyd, Bangor, 1911; Charles S. Mainwaring, Galltfaenan, Trefnant, 1904-14 and undated; Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn, 3rd baron Mosyn, 1912; Alfed Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1911; D. Rhys Phillips, Swansea, 1906; Sir John Rhys, Oxford, 1911; Ethel Stokes, Chancery Lane, London, 1915; and John Thomas ('Eifionydd'), 1905-?6.
Among the subjects discussed in NLW MSS 9002E, 9003-9004C are ancient monuments in Flintshire; the history of Prestatyn Castle; the activities of Dyserth Field Club and 'Cymdeithas Cymry Caer'; measures of the Gop, Newmarket; the friar preachers of Rhuddlan; the pedigrees of Ellis Gruffydd, 'a soldier of Calais', of Hughes of Kinmel, and of Wynne of Copa'rlenni, and of the recipient; the works of 'Talhaiarn'; and the biography of Hugh Jones ('Erfyl').

Letters and postcards addressed to Thomas Edwards. The correspondents include Sir Arthur [John] Bigge, 1911; Sir Owen M. Edwards, Oxford, 1904-5; Beriah Gwynfe Evans, 1923; and T. Allen Glenn, 1911-12 and undated.

Letters, 1914, to Thomas Edwards from Chas. T. Lamacraft and George C. Brooke, both of the British Museum, and from Donald Macbeth Artists Illustrators, Ltd, Fleet Street, London, together with invoices and memoranda, relating to photographs taken for Thomas Edwards of the charter of Rhuddlan and of coins from the Rhuddlan mint.

A description of the boundaries of the manor of Picton and Axton and the parish of Llanasa, and of the townships, hamlets, parishes, or districts [specified] adjoining thereto or within the same, 12 May 1812, determined by John Calveley and Thomas Wedge, gentlemen, commissioners appointed by the Llanasa Enclosure Act of 51 George III [1811]; and a draft circular of St. Winifryda's Talacre Convent School, mounted on part of a draft lease, 1903, of a cottage at Accra, parish of Llanasa.

Transcripts of records relating to the history of the parish of Llanasa, comprising an account of the state of the parish, 1855-60, prepared by Edward Evans, a former vicar and then (9 August 1860) rector of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa; a letter, 6 August 1860, from Edward Evans to the bishop of St Asaph, and notes by Edward Evans relating to the establishment of the Talacre Roman Catholic Schools and of the Parochial School in the parish; a list of subscribers to the Parochial School, 1859; extracts from churchwardens' accounts, 1827-50; an abstract of part of the tithe apportionment, 1839-40, and of the altered apportionment, 1851; and tombstone inscriptions.

Extracts and transcripts from the parish registers of Llanasa, 1619-1871, with an annotated list of vicars; extracts from the vestry book, 1859-1912; transcripts of tombstone inscriptions; and notes on church plate.

A transcript of the tithe apportionment of the parish of Meliden, 1839[-41].

'Memorandum on the Remains from the Cave at the Great Ormes Head' by Professor W. Boyd Dawkins; extracts from the parish register of Newmarket, 1698-1718, Newmarket tombstone inscriptions, and extracts from St. Asaph probate records, in the hand of T. Allen Glenn; notes by Edward Owen on 'Abbrevatio Rotulorum Originalium'; and a variety of extracts by Thomas Edwards from printed sources (relating to Offa's Dyke, the geography of North Wales in the Neolithic Age, Norman Britain), and from 'Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd'.

Manuscript and printed matter and miscellaneous memoranda acquired by Thomas Edwards. Among them are a notice of musical works published by Thomas Edwards; a programme of the dedication service and opening of the organ at Rhuddlan Parish Church, 1915; and holograph poetry of Blaenau Ffestiniog interest - 'Rhanbarth Conglywal a Theigil', 'Rhanbarth Bethania a Fourcrosses' - by Robert Roberts ('Isallt'), 1910.

An estimate submitted by ----, organ builders, of ----, for a new organ to be erected in [Mostyn] church. Both the name and the address of the builders have been crossed out on the dorse of each sheet.

A typewritten essay entitled 'Records Historical and Genealogical of the Royal House of North Wales. The line of Tudor Trefor, Earl of Hereford, and the noble family of Mostyn de[s]cended therefrom ...'; together with two holograph letters to the author on behalf of Lady [Anna Maria] Mostyn of Talacre, Prestatyn, and of the Mount, Constitution Hill, Parkstone, Dorset, 5-31 January 1914.

A hymn-tune - 'Christleton', and a 'Litany' by John Owen ('Owain Alaw'); an anthem - 'Dyn a aned o wraig' by [name erased]; a hymn-tune - 'Geirionydd' by E. Evans ['Ieuan Glan Geirionydd']; and incomplete transcripts of sixty chants, single and double, composed by John Jones, organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1785.