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Minute-book, 1899-1909, of the executive committee of the Arfon District Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars ('Urdd Annibynol y Temlwyr Da').

Attendance register, 1900-1907, for branch meetings of the Arfon District Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars ('Urdd Annibynol y Temlwyr Da').

A volume containing minutes, accounts, pasted-in tickets, programmes, press cuttings and other memoranda relating to the Rhostryfan and Rhosgadfan Sunday Schools' literary and musical festival, held annually on Christmas Day between 1882 and 1886.

Eleven letters and a card, 1923-1926, from Winifred Coombe Tennant (Mam o Nedd) to Beriah Gwynfe Evans; together with three letters, 1924-1925, to his granddaughter Buddug Frances Thomas, relating mainly to the correspondent's work as Mistress of the Robes for the Gorsedd of Bards.

A manuscript essay, 1899, by William W. Jones (Cyrus), Llanllyfni, Caernarvonshire, entitled 'Hanes addysg yn Nyffryn Nantlle', entered at 'Cystadleuaeth Iau Dyrchafe[l], Tal-y-sarn, Caernarvonshire, in 1899.

A notebook containing a draft of a presidential address delivered by William W. Jones (Cyrus) to the North Wales Quarrymen's Union, 1901.

Manuscript of an apparently unpublished pastoral poem by Richard Jones (Gwynfryn), London, entitled 'Bugeilgerdd Gwallter, Bugail Hafod y Cwm', the winning entry at Eisteddfod Tal-y-sarn, Caernarvonshire, 21 May 1903.

Ninety-seven letters, 1904-1921, to John Thomas (Eifionydd), mostly relating to the examinations set by Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain. Among the corresponents are Haydn Morris (4) 1919, Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (2) 1919, David Davies, 1st baron Davies of Llandinam (1) 1921, and Huw Owen Williams (Huw Menai) (1) 1921.

A volume containing over eighty letters, 1906-1914, from Charles William Dymond (1833-1915), antiquary and Quaker, to Richard Griffith Owen (Pencerdd Llyfnwy) relating mainly to the correspondent's interest in the Welsh language and culture; together with one letter, 1915, from his son, Philip W. Dymond.
Papers found loose inside the volume have been tipped in on ff. i-v.

An account book of poor-rate assessments for the parish of Llanwnda, Caernarvonshire, 1910.

A volume, 1911, containing press cuttings and transcripts from printed sources, by O. Llew Owain, of nineteenth-century Welsh ballads and other popular verse.

A volume containing articles, eisteddfod adjudications, and other material, [c. 1912]-1931, in the hand of Thomas Gwynn Jones, mostly for publication in Y Genedl Gymreig and including a memorial tribute to Daniel Rees.

A draft of the introduction to Llen Cymru: Detholiad o ryddiaith a phrydyddiaeth at wasanaeth myfyrwyr gwlad ac ysgol, Rhan I-IV (Caernarfon, 1921-7), in the hand of Thomas Gwynn Jones, together with drafts of some of the poems and prose passages selected for inclusion in the series.

A manuscript copy, with corrections, of an apparently unpublished one act play, [?1930s], by William John Davies (Gwilym Peris) entitled 'Y llestr gwanaf', depicting the plight of an unmarried mother in conflict with nonconformist values.

A manuscript copy, in several hands, of Oswald Rees Owen, Siop Morgan (Denbigh, 1937), a translation of Boyd's Shop (1936), a play by St John Ervine, first performed at the Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl, October 1936.

Membership list, 1938-1948, of the Caernarvonshire Society in London.

Letters, 1897-1931, mainly to Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist, and Recorder of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain, from various correspondents, including J. H. Davies, Cwrtmawr (1) 1901, T. I. Ellis (1) 1923, H. Elvet Lewis (Elfed) (9) 1923-1925, D. Rhys Phillips (8) 1924-1926, R. D. Rowlands (Meuryn) (1) 1924, Thomas Shankland (3) 1899-1903, J. J. Williams (2) 1924, J. O. Williams (Pedrog) (5) 1923-1924, Watkin Hezekiah Williams (Watcyn Wyn) (2) 1897, and W. S. Gwynn Williams (5) 1924-1925.