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Notes by T. Mordaf Pierce on deacons of Salem Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church, Dolgellau, with an outline of the growth and development of the church during the nineteenth century.

Account books, 1846-1851, of David Evans, Maesgarnedd, near Dolgellau, boatman and carrier, who carried goods and merchandise on the river Mawddach, particularly between Barmouth and Maesgarnedd, Dolgellau, and to and from small cargo boats which used the port of Barmouth. Among miscellanea in the volumes are hymns by Robert Shôn, Llanelltyd.

Notebooks containing particulars of annual rents paid, with receipts, in respect of Faner, Llanelltyd, 1813-1853, Derwas, Dolgellau, 1858-1878, Ty'n Twll, [?Dolgellau], 1847-1858, and Moelisbri, Llanelltyd, 1853-1877.

An essay entitled 'Hanes "Millsiaid Llanidloes" cyn dechrau y ganrif bresennol', written by T. Mordaf Pierce for an eisteddfod at Llanidloes, 1899.

Accounts and other memoranda, 1808-1851, kept by Hugh Jones, junior, relating to Calvinistic Methodism in Llanidloes and the surrounding district.

Collectanea of T. Mordaf Pierce relating mainly to the civil and religious history of Llanidloes and Dolgellau, including a list of mayors of Llanidloes (1540-1909); a list of books published and printed at Llanidloes (1827-1908) and at Dolgellau (1820-1910); a list of poets and literary men connected with Llanidloes from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century; notes relating to Calvinistic Methodism in Montgomeryshire, particularly in Llanidloes; a list of eminent Merionethshire men and women; notes on Cymdeithas y Cymreigyddion in Dolgellau (founded 1821); etc.

Miscellanea relating mainly to Calvinistic Methodist affairs in Llanidloes and Dolgellau, with autograph letters from Lewis Edwards, Bala, and Richard Bennett.

Lists of texts of sermons preached by T. Mordaf Pierce at China Street and Glanynant, Llanidloes, and elsewhere, 1894-1910; the names of persons baptised at Llanidloes, 1895-1910, and at Dolgellau, 1910; the names of persons received into full membership of China Street Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church, Llanidloes, 1895-1910, and of Salem Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church, Dolgellau, 1910.

An essay entitled 'Traethawd: Gwaith ac Athrylith William Owen-Pughe ... (1759-1835). Un o destynau Eisteddfod Meirion [Dolgellau]: Calan, 1913. Gan Glan Idris' [i.e. T. Mordaf Pierce].

Letters, 1913-1914, to T. Mordaf Pierce from Sir Thomas Marchant Williams, Edward Griffith, Dolgellau, Thomas Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth, and Edward D. Snyder, Harvard University, relating to Pierce’s essay on William Owen[-Pughe] (see NLW MS 6184D).

'Llyfr Miss Catherine Jones Post Office Clynnog 1861', being a notebook containing a pedigree showing the descendants of Gruffydd Humphrey, Llangybi, Caernarvonshire, one of them being Evan Owen, who was a Calvinistic Methodist preacher at Talysarn in 1861, together with miscellaneous poems by Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd).

A notebook kept, [c. 1836], by a farmer or farm labourer in the Pontrhydfendigaid district of Cardiganshire to record sums of money paid or due to him for hedging and ditching and other work, and to record items of personal expenditure.

The autobiography of James Evans (b. 1827), printer, etc., of Bron Ceris Isaf, Caernarfon.

Notes by T. Mordaf Pierce on the history of various religious bodies in Dolgellau.

Notes relating to the social and religious history of Dolgellau copied from various sources by T. Mordaf Pierce.

Letters to Griffith Owen, Vaner, Llanelltyd, near Dolgellau, E. W. Evans, and others in the Dolgellau district, from John and Margred Owen, Baraboo, Wisconsin, 1847; William and Margaret Bebb and William G. Bebb, Vanwert, Ohio, 1850; Edward [?], Miliken’s Bend, Louisiana, 1863; J. F. Williams, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1877; T. Ll. Williams, Racine, 1907; and John Gwylym Owen, Portage, 1907; together with photographs of the Caledonia Welsh church and Caledonia home-coming, 1907, etc.

Pedigrees of the Vaughans of Hengwrt, near Dolgellau, and other families, some of the tables being in the hand of T. Mordaf Pierce.

A rent receipt book in respect of property near Dolgellau, 1851-1861.

A rent receipt book in respect of property in the town of Ruthin, Denbighshire, 1858-1902.

A notebook kept by William Williams, a Merionethshire farmer and/or butcher, in the mid nineteenth century, containing diagrams of sheep ear-marks used on farms in Merionethshire, mainly in the parishes of Trawsfynydd, Llanfachreth, Llanuwchllyn, Llanycil, Llanfor, Ffestiniog and Llandecwyn, accounts relating to the sale of joints of meat in the Ffestiniog and Trawsfynydd districts, and miscellaneous accounts and memoranda.