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A General Register, 1903-1918, kept in accordance with the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. Bound into the volume and inset are correspondence from, and reports by, British Engine, Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co. Ltd., 1905-1916.

A sales ledger [of Baner ac Amserau Cymru], 1913-1916, with an alphabetical list of distributors.

A ledger of purchases, 1920-1934.

A cash book, with statements of assets and liabilities, of cash loans, etc., 1853-1872, in the hand of Thomas Gee.

An imperfect volume of hymn-tunes, psalm-tunes, etc., some of which are attributed to John Davies, John Roberts (Wrexham), S. Standly, John Evans, John Jeffreys, Win. Pugh, Thos. Evans (Swansea), Robert Mills, Hugh Evans, etc. At the beginning is an incomplete list of titles.

A volume of holograph sermons, c. 1790, by John Davies, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Glythe, Nantglyn, co. Denbigh. At the beginning is a list of places at which the sermons were preached.

Papers, [1788x1937], largely comprising records, accounts and correspondence of or relating to the Gee printing and publishing press, Denbigh. Also included in the collection are a volume of holograph sermons, c. 1790, by the Reverend John Davies of Nantglyn, Denbighshire and a nineteenth-century volume of hymn-tunes, psalms, etc.

An account book of work done in the printing office of Messrs. Gee & Son, Denbigh, covering (with gaps) the period 1856-1876. The volume was subsequently used as a scrapbook, and contains printed reports and statements of the North Denbighshire Permanent Building Society ('Cymdeithas Adeiladu Barhaol Gogleddbarth Sir Ddinbych'), 1875-1877, 1881-1885, a printed list of sermons preached at the Calvinistic Methodist Quarterly Assembly at Denbigh, 17-20 June, 1879, and numerous press cuttings relating to the parliamentary election of 1868, the trial of the Tichborne claimant, 1868, political speeches of John Bright, M.P., etc.

Miscellaneous papers, 1936-1965, relating to the printing and publishing business of Messrs Gee and Son Ltd including an agreement, 1938, between them and Cambrian News (Aberystwyth) Ltd for the purchase of Baner ac Amserau Cymru and an inventory and valuation of the press, 1956, and of the property, 1965.

Papers and correspondence, 1939-1945, of, or relating to, E. Prosser Rhys mainly concerning publications by Gwasg Aberystwyth and including a copy of an agreement, 1939, between Gwasg Gee and Gwasg Aberystwyth. Correspondents include W. Ambrose Bebb (1) 1945, I. D. Hooson (1) 1942 and R. J. Rowlands ('Meuryn') (1) 1944.

Letters, 1937, concerning a claim for damages by Morris T. Williams, managing director of Gwasg Gee, and his wife, Kate Roberts, against Periodical Press Ltd, following the allegedly defamatory reference to them in an article in the News Review, 21 January 1937, including two letters from I. D. Hooson and Caradog Prichard (ff. 12-14).

Messages from Saunders Lewis, D. J. Williams and Lewis Valentine to the Welsh Nationalist Party newspaper Y Ddraig Goch, September 1937, following their release from prison after serving a sentence for the arson attack at the bombing-school at Penyberth; together with a note from Lewis Valentine to Morris T. Williams and his wife, Kate Roberts.

Autograph fair copies of 'Mewn Gward Ysbyty (Mr Michaeliones)' by E. Tegla Davies, 'Cathod mewn ocsiwn' by Kate Roberts, 'Ni Thawodd y Bytheiaid' by D. J. Williams, all published in Taliesin 1 (1961), and 'Darparu Yng Nghymru', an article by Saunders Lewis, with revision and sub-headings by Gwilym R. Jones, published in Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 5 June 1940, under the title 'Dylifiad Noddedigion i Gymru'.

Manuscripts, 1936-1965, formerly in the possession of Charles Charman, Denbigh, and which include autograph copies of works by E. Tegla Davies, Kate Roberts, D. J. Williams and Saunders Lewis; messages from Saunders Lewis, D. J. Williams and Lewis Valentine following their release from prison; papers and correspondence of or relating to E. Prosser Rhys; correspondence relating to libel action against the Periodical Press by Morris T. Williams and Kate Roberts; and material relating to Gwasg Gee, Denbigh.

An unpublished manuscript by an unknown author, titled 'Toriad y Dydd'. Intended as a religious work for children. A translation of The Peep of Day, by Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer, published by Hatchards of London in 1866.

Old accounts from Trade Ledger J(B1), Trade Baner (C4), Ledger J (1907-16), Advertisement Ledger (1899-1903); General Ledger (1899-1903), North Wales Times (1899-1901), Trade Baner (1904-16) [not in NLW].

A certificate giving the annual letting value of the premises occupied by Messrs. Thomas Gee and Son, given by Clough and Co., Denbigh.

A press cutting, 'Y Gogledd a'r De', by 'S.R.' from Y Drych, Utica, May 11, 1861, with manuscript notes by 'Historicus'.