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Account book, 1832-1856, kept by Griffith Owen, Vaner, Llanelltyd, near Dolgellau, recording details of haulage and agricultural work, including sums owing to him for cartage of hay, gravel, timber, etc., for ploughing and other work, and for the sale of agricultural stock and produce, and disbursements made by him.

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

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.

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).

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].

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

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.

Essays on 'Dyddiau Boreu Thomas Edward Ellis' by R. Roberts, Penrhyn, and on his associations with Y Goleuad by [E. W. Evans], and press cuttings relating to Thomas E. Ellis and to the matter of H. J. Ellis Nanney and his Merioneth tenants, 1888.

Letters mainly addressed to E. W. Evans, in connection with contributions to Y Goleuad and other publications; with some addressed to T. J. Hughes (Adfyfyr), editor of Cymru Fydd, and William Williams, of Dolgellau, etc.
The correspondents include Sir Edward Anwyl, Chester, 1898 (a translation by the writer's brother of Dr. Lentzner's MS); H. H. Asquith, 1895 (Welsh Church Bill); William Canton, Berkhamsted, 1910-1911 (Mary Jones and the British and Foreign Bible Society); D. Charles, Aberdovey, 1878 (the publication of a 'Memoir' by the writer); A. Crawshay, The Waverley Book Company Limited, 1913 (with an inventory of T. E. Ellis papers loaned by the recipient); R. W. Dale, Birmingham, 1886-1893 (Disestablishment, a discussion of Higher Criticism in the Welsh press); D. R. Daniel, Camberwell, [1914x1918] (recruiting for World War I); D. Charles Davies, Upper Bangor, 1885 (a centenary address by the writer, etc.); E. O. Davies, Bala, [?1907] (with a statement on the writer's duties at the Theological College at Bala); Griffith Davies, The Cottage, Walton Workhouse, Liverpool, 1901 (the publication of an account of the case of W. O. Jones); Martin Diosy, formerly secretary to [Ferencz Lajos Akos] Kossuth, from Liverpool, to the editor of Yr Amserau, 1850 (a memorial to Lord Palmerston on behalf of Kossuth and his fellow-prisoners, and the writer's proposed visit to A. J. Johnes, Garthmyl); George C. M. Douglas, Glasgow, 1894 (permission to make use of the writer's printed works on the Scriptures); Ellis Edwards, Bala, etc., 1902 and [n.d.] (Mold C. M. Association, press contributions by laymen, etc.); D. Charles Edwards, Llanbedr, Merioneth, 1901 (the case of W. O. Jones); Lewis Edwards, Bala, to various recipients, 1878-1884 and [n.d.] (an adjudication of Welsh translations from Robert Burns, the purchase of books for Bala College, etc.); O. M. Edwards, Lincoln College, Oxford, etc., 1889-1999 (the writer's co-editorship of Cymru Fydd, the writer's nomination for the parliamentary representation of Merioneth, etc.); and Principal Thomas Charles Edwards, Aberystwyth, Bala, etc., 1881-1896 and [n.d.], with some written on his behalf by his wife Mary Edwards (publications in Y Goleuad, the proposed union of Bala and Trevecca Colleges, a reply to an attack on Dr. Lewis Edwards in Y Goleuad, a proposed official Calvinistic Methodist newspaper, the death of David Morgan, Ysbyty Ystwyth, etc.); with some draft replies.

Poor rate assessments made on the inhabitants of the township and parish of Dolgellau, Merionethshire.

A valuation of property in the neighbourhood of Dolgellau liable to poor rates.

Poor rate assessments made on the inhabitants of the township of Cefnrowen in the parish of Dolgellau.

A Dolgellau tithe account book, 1848-1865, kept by the rector, Henry Wier White.

'Llyfr y Penderfyniadau', being the minute book, 1864-1877, of the Golden Goat Friendly Society, Dolgellau.

The visitors' introduction book, 1846-1855, of the Dolgellau Cricket Club Reading Room, which was established 26 October 1846.

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.

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

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

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