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An address on 'Chester in its relation to Flintshire'; and a few notes from printed sources on the Justices of Chester.

Notes of Flintshire interest, comprising extracts from public records and from Harleian manuscripts (e.g. arms from MS 1143), and lists of original sources to be examined.

Extracts from Recognizance Rolls relating to sheriffs, justices, auditors, escheators and other officers for Flintshire; together with a few extracts from Bills and Answers (Deputy-Keeper's 25th Report).

Extracts from public records (Ministers' Accounts, Exchequer (King's Remembrancer) Accounts, and Court Rolls) relating to Rhuddlan and, in a few instances, to Prestatyn and Coleshill, transcribed and translated by a professional searcher [Miss Ethel Stokes].

A minute book of 'Cymdeithas Cymry Caer' (Chester Welsh Society), 1893-8; with some cuttings from The Chester Chronicle, 1895-7, recording meetings of the Society. Much of the volume is in the hand of Morris Parry, Chester.

Material towards a history of the parish of Cwm, comprising a transcript of a terrier of 1774 and an abstract of another of 1856; a transcript of an allotment by John Calveley, 1813, of commons and waste lands in the parishes of Newmarket and Cwm; a list of field names taken from the tithe apportionment, 1844; extracts from Recognizance Rolls, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; and some notes on the flora of Cwm [in the hand of R. H. Day, Cwm], together with a covering letter, 1913.

Extracts from 'Bodrhyddan Memoirs. Entries copied out of Pierce Roberts of Bronhwylwa [sic] his Memorandum Book, written from the year 1595-1546 [sic for 1646]', printed in Archaeologia Cambrensis, Ser. III, Vol. X, pp. 320ff.

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.

A large group of cuttings, 1907-18, from Prestatyn Weekly, The Rhyl Journal, The Flintshire Observer, The Chester Observer, The Chester Chronicle, etc., relating to a variety of subjects of Flintshire interest, such as the antiquities of Holywell, St. Asaph, Rhuddlan, Newmarket, Gwaenysgor and Llanasa, excursions of the Dyserth Field Club, strikes at Talar Goch, etc., etc.

A reprint in booklet form of the Bygones column edited by Thomas Edwards in Prestatyn Weekly, containing extracts from Walter Davies: General View of the Agriculture ... of North Wales, 1810; and P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton: The Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coinage of Wales, 1906, reprinted from The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. II, 1906.

Positive photostat facsimiles of extracts relating to Flintshire from the Domesday Book, corresponding to James Tait: 'Flintshire in Domesday Book' in Flintshire Historical Society Publications, Vol. XI, pp. 14-36.

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 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, 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 group of pictorial postcards addressed, 1907-16, to Thomas Edwards and members of his family.

An album of press cuttings from a variety of newspapers (e.g. Y Llan a'r Dywysogaeth, Yr Haul, Y Cerddor, The Rhyl Journal, The Flintshire Observer, etc., etc.), 1892-1918, relating largely to church music, and including reviews and notices of the musical works of Thomas Edwards, an address by him on church music, and accounts of choral festivals, etc.; together with letters from Thomas and Mary Wynne, Seaforth, 1898.

Music by Thomas Edwards - 'O Na Foliannent Yr Arglwydd', 1887, 'Magnificat', 1893, 'Nunc Dimmittis [sic]', 1893, 'Wyrfai', 'Llangwm', 'St. Martin', 1894, 'Llanerchymor', 1894, 'Gwlad yr Addewid', etc.; together with transcripts, 1902, of music by other composers including Lionel Monckton and Paul A. Rubens.

Music (anthems, hymn- and psalm-tunes, etc.) by Thomas Edwards - 'Festival Te Deum', 'Magnificat a Nunc Dimittis', 'Te Deum Laudamus', 'Peace, perfect peace', 'The Royal Welsh [sic] Fusiliers', 'Coroniad y Brenin', 'Emyn y Diwygiad', 'Anthem Genedlaethol', etc.; together with 'Three Double Chants' by E. J. Hopkins, 1895, transcribed in 1896, and a signed presentation copy by the author to Thomas Edwards, 1921, of Caradog Roberts: Yr Arglwydd yw fy Mugail: Anthem Gynulleidfaol.

Certified copies of the certificates of birth, 6 August 1867, of Elizabeth Ann Davies, Whitford, and of the marriage, 16 September 1897, at Christ Church, Mostyn, of Thomas Edwards, Chester, and Elizabeth Ann Davies, Llanerchymor, Mostyn.

Two sets of transcripts of Welsh poems - 'Ffordd Gofidiau' and 'Dioddefaint Crist', with English counterpart, to be set to music for chorus and solo voices by Thomas Edwards. There are marginal notes by Thomas Edwards, and he has dated 'Ffordd Gofidiau' 25 January 1895.