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A small group of correspondence relating to the following festivals: Abertawe Festival for Young Musicians, 1992-1993, relating to his role as President; Lower Machen Festival, 1998-1999, relating to a performance of 'One must always have love'; and Swansea Festival, 1984, relating to an invitation to conduct 'The sun, the great luminary of the universe'.

A manuscript containing a list of parishes in Wales, with the names of the incumbents from the sixteenth century to 1840 and the dates of their institution.

Scrapbooks containing press cuttings etc., 1900-1982, relating largely to Welsh drama, theatrical activities and popular entertainment in Wales and amongst Welsh communities in English cities, including material on dramatists of Wales, 1932-1953; drama in Wales, 1922-1982; Welsh actors, 1932-1946; theatre cuttings, 1931-1953; fairs, folklore and folk-dancing in Wales, 1936-1938; children's theatre, 1959-1967; Welsh National Theatre, 1900-1978; and information on theatre in Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia, America, and other countries.

Records of the Teliesyn film and television production company, comprising administration and production files.

A manuscript in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing triads (pp. 1-32); poetry, the poets cited including Taliesin, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Siôn Cent and Gruffydd Dwnn (pp. 33-86, 95-102); a list of Welsh holy (saints') days (pp. 87-90); names of Welsh rivers and their sources (pp. 91-94); etc. The volume also contains an appendix in the hand of D[avid] Ellis, [1787x1788]. The section containing triads is apparently left unfinished as most of p. 32 and the whole of p. 33 are blank.

Forty three notebooks, 1873-1915, the majority of which are numbered and labelled with a list of contents, recording inscribed stones examined by John Rhŷs mostly in Wales, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and Ireland. They contain descriptions of his journeys, of stones and inscriptions, folklore and other related notes. Also included are unbound diaries of 'ogham hunts', 1883-1899.

Printed items on a wide range of subjects and issues many of them concerning educational matters, the National Library of Wales and the Calvinistic Methodist denomination.

Papers of Sir Cadwaladr Bryner Jones, including personal papers, 1902-1907; lecture notes, [1900s]; correspondence and papers relating to research into the history of cattle, [?1920s]-1951; and miscellaneous papers collected by Sir Cadwaladr Bryner Jones, 1600-1928. The archive does not include any papers relating to his public life.

'Hymnau o Fawl i Dduw' written by Evan Lewis, Carmarthen, 1798; poems by Evan Lewis, Rees Jones ['Amnon'], I. Thomas, R. Davies, 'Ioan Machno' [John M. Price], 'Britwn' [Edwin Foulkes], 'Eryr Trichrug', 'Meudwy', 'Dewi Glan Ffrydlas' [David E. Davies], 'Telynog' [Thomas Evans], 'Talhaiarn' [John Jones], 'Gwerydd Gwyllt' [Evan W. Jones], John Jones and Richard [Rhisiart] Phylip; 'englynion'; miscellaneous notes on Unitarians and Unitarianism.

Research papers of Douglas B. Hague, including general correspondence relating to research work on lighthouses, 1960-1988; typescript drafts, correspondence, 1967-1975, and notes relating to the publication of Lighthouses: their Architecture, History and Archaeology; notes relating to the publication of Lighthouses of Wales; and miscellaneous papers, 1965-1987.

Holograph manuscript music for Welsh and English vocal works, [?1950s]-1964; songs, 1918-[?1963]; orchestral works, 1939-[c. 1943]; works for wind and strings, [1930s]-1962; works for strings, including quartets, [?1920s]-[?1946]; pianoforte quintets, quartets and trios, [1920s]-1944; works for violin and pianoforte, 1920-1949; and miscellaneous works, [c. 1920]-1958.

Miscellaneous music, including part-songs and hymn-tunes, composed by 'Alaw Afan'.

Tune book containing hymn-tunes and anthems.

Documents accumulated by A. J. Gwillim, Ystradfellte, including eight deeds, 1703-1816, relating to properties in the parish of Ystradfellte, co. Brecknock; and papers of Morgan Evans ('Pencerdd Mellte'), including a diary, 1887, and a collection of Welsh ballads compiled by him.

Llyfr nodiadau, [18 gan., canol], yn cynnwys meddyginiaethau a ryseitiau meddyginiaethol, ynghyd â detholiadau a nodiadau yn bennaf yn ymwneud â phynciau meddygol, iechyd a gwyddoniaeth. Ymddengys fel pe bai'r awdur wedi nodi darganfyddiadau meddygol a wnaed ganddo ef ei hun ar ff. 66 verso-7. = A notebook, [mid-19 cent.], containing remedies and medical recipes, together with notes and extracts mainly on medical topics, general health and science. It appears that the author has noted his own medical discoveries on ff. 66 verso-7.

Accounts, 1906, in Welsh and English, of the religious revival of 1904-1905, received from eighteen Baptist churches in Wales in response to a questionnaire by the Welsh Baptist Historical Society; together with a list of all twenty-two replies received (f. i).

Letters and postcards, 1923-1987, sent by Emlyn Williams to Miss Hilda Morris and Miss Dorothy Swinnerton in Abergavenny, two of his teachers at Holywell County School, together with a copy of a script by him: 'Emlyn Williams as Saki', 1977, programme of the ceremony of his conferement of the freedom of the Borough of Delyn, 1982, and signed theatre programmes and newspaper cuttings of theatre reviews and his autobiography George : an early autobiography (London, 1961).