Deeds and documents, 1511-1905, relating to premises mainly in Merionethshire, including Dolgellau, Llanfachreth, Brithdir, Llangelynnin and Llanelltyd.
A 'Book of Quotations and General Remarks' or 'Cyfeiriadau Clasurol (Detholion)', containing extracts from, and notes on, classical and other sources, e.g. Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Virgil, Dante, John Milton, etc. The volume was originally used as a contributions book of a Workmen's Association, and some accounts for the period 1881 are preserved on the inside lower cover.
Photocopies of an article by W. N. Davis, Dinuba, California, relating to Stephen S. Jones and family who emigrated in 1878 from Cardiganshire to Jackson County, Ohio, together with copies of letters from America and from relations in Wales and poetry entered in a literary meeting in Oak Hill, 1893, together with a copy of an undated photoghraph of Stephen and Anna (Morgan) Jones taken in Jackson.
A boy aged about twelve years old kneeling beside a light coloured dog harnessed to a small two wheel cart. The boy is wearing a peaked cap.The photograph has been taken in front of a large house, possibly Penllergare. No evidence that this photograph was ever affixed into the album.
Subscription book, 1832 and 1837-1843, account book of materials and labour, 1838, and accounts and vouchers, 1837-1843, for the building of a schoolhouse in p. Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn.
Three collecting books used for recording subscriptions received towards the formation of a 'Darllenfa', or reading-room, at Penparcau, near Aberystwyth, 1908-1909.
A memorandum book kept by Robert Ellis containing a record of his stipend as pastor at Llanelian and Llanddulas, 1836-1837, and at Glynceiriog until 1840; accounts of his receipts from itinerant preaching engagements; disbursements, February 1837; a list of subscribers towards Tarian Rhyddid, 1839; and records of his texts at Llanelian and Llanddulas, 1836-1837.
'Calendar of all The High-Sheriffs for The County of Carmarthen and of all the Mayors, Bailiffs and Sheriffs of the Corporation of Carmarthen from the year of Our Lord 1400 to 1818 ...'; genealogical notes and tables largely of South Wales families, with numerous notes and annotations by Stedman Thomas; etc.
The fonds comprises minutes books of the Society, 1952-1997, and files of correspondence and papers, 1960-2001, together with a file of correspondence with the Inland Revenue, 1960-1961.