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Text of sketch, 'Teifi a'i Physgotwyr', performed at Aberystwyth, 29 November 1937 by L.W.E., Tom Davies, Fred Llewellyn and Thomas Griffiths.

Text of a report of the Schools Council Project, Social and cultural change and the implications for secondary education in Wales, prepared by the Departments of Education and Sociology of University College, Cardiff, 1972.

Studies in Welsh education....1880-1925 (1974):. 17/1 Typescript drafts of some chapters of L.W.E., Studies in Welsh education...1880-1925 (1974). 17/2 List of indexing terms, typescript and galley proof of the index. 17/3 Report of a reader appointed by the University of Wales Press. 17/4 Galley proofs. 17/5-6 Two sets of page proofs. 17/7 Bundle of advertising brochures.

Sir J. Herbert Lewis. Correspondence (copies and originals, to and from J.H.L.) press cuttings, notes for speeches, election addresses and extracts from Hansard, January 1916 - December 1923, relating mainly to the work of J.H.L. as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education and, in particular, to the passage and implementation of Fisher's Education Act of 1918 and of the Teachers' Superannuation Act. The correspondents include Rt. Hon. H.A.L. Fisher, M.P., President of the Board of Education (8/18, 23-5, 27, 30); Rt. Hon. W.H. Fisher, M.P. (8/6); Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, M.P., President of the Board of Education (8/2); J.H.L. (8/3, 9, 21-2, 26, 29); Principal T.F.Roberts (8/10); and Rt. Hon. Edward Wood, M.P., President of the Board of Education (8/28). The letters from J.H.L. are copies addressed to D. Lloyd George, Government Ministers and his daughter Kitty, later Mrs. K. Idwal Jones.

Sir Alfred T. Davies. Twelve letters, 1904, 1911 and 1922-24, to and from Sir A.T.D. 10/3-9 and 11-12 are xerox copies of correspondence in the Sir A.T.D. papers at Wilton, Connecticut, U.S.A., and relate to his work as Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Department of the Board of Education. They consist of exchanges between Sir A.T.D. and Rt. Hon. Edward Wood, M.P., President of the Board of Education. 10/1 is a holograph letter from D. Lloyd George to A.T.D. dated 15 June 1904, 10/2 is an autograph letter from A.T.D. to Joseph Parry, 5 May 1911, and 10/10 is a transcript by L.W.E. of a letter from A.T.D. to his wife, Mary, 23 January 1907.

Public Record Office: Board of Education records. Files of xerox copies of papers held mainly in Class ED at the P.R.O. No. P.R.O. reference no. Subject. 12/1 CAB. 41/XXIX P.M. Cabinet Letters to the Sovereign: no. 21, Balfour, 29 June 1904. 12/2 ED. 23/144 Staffing of Welsh Department; H.M.I.s; H.M.I.s in 1907. 12/3 ED. 23/146 Methods of procedure to increase the Welsh inspectorate, 1913. 12/4 ED. 23/147 Correspondence between the Welsh Department and the Board of Education to initiate the new grade of assistant inspector in lieu of junior inspector, 1915. 12/5 ED. 23/149 Owen Edwards corresponds with his H.M.I.s, 1918. 12/6 ED. 23/152A Re-organization of the Welsh inspectorate; correspondence between Owen Edwards, A.T. Davies and G. Prys Williams [c. 1920]. 12/7 ED. 23/242 Details and circumstances of appointments of A.T. Davies and Owen Edwards to the Welsh Department, Board of Education, 1918. 12/8 ED. 23/244 Procedures and difficulties of the transfer of work and responsibilities from the Board of Education to the Welsh Department. Correspondence between A.T. Davies, Dr. Heath and the President of the Board of Education, 1912-14. 12/9 ED. 24/117-18 117: 1906, Box J : Amendments, Draft Bills; Mr. Thring's notes on Amendments; Draft Clauses 26 or 37. 118: 1906, Box K : Welsh National Council for Education : Drafts of Cabinet Memoranda on Clause 37. 12/10 ED. 24/576 Proposals towards an Interim Concordatin Wales. 'Confidential'. 12/11 ED. 24/577 Confidential Memorandum on the Defaulting Authorities Bill from R.P. Hills to R.L. Morant, 25 June 1904. 12/12 ED. 24/578 Education Act of 1902 : The Educational Situation in Wales (Revised), 27 June 1904. 12/13 ED. 24/579 Proposed Welsh National Council for Education, 1906. 12/14-15 ED. 24/581 Welsh Department: correspondence re-appointments of Davies and Edwards and staffing of the new Department, 1907. 12/16 ED. 24/582 Criticism of the Welsh Department by Haydn Jones, M.P., 1911. 12/17 ED. 24/584 Notes for the President of the Board of Education on the work of the Welsh Department by Owen Edwards and A.T. Davies, 27 November 1909. 12/18 ED. 24/585 A.T. Davies and the publications of the Welsh Department, c. 1909. 12/19 ED. 24/586 Friction between the Welsh Department and the Board of Education, 1910. 12/19A ED. 24/588 Controversy between the Welsh Department and the Central Welsh Board, 1909. 12/20 ED. 24/589 Reaction to the 1909 Report from various quarters, 1910. 12/21 ED. 35/3406 The Central Welsh Board seeks increase of powers; request to amend scheme; dual inspection of schools, 1902-8. 12/22 ED. 35/3407 Deputations and correspondence from the Central Welsh Board to the Board of Education relating to the increase of grants, 1903-4. 12/23-4 ED. 35/3408 Deputations from the Central Welsh Board to the Board of Education relating to the inspection of all secondary schools and other matters including dual inspection; the Jolliffe case, 1910-14. 12/25 ED. 35/3409 Central Welsh Board seeks amendment of Scheme and extension of powers, 1911-12. 12/26-7 ED. 35/3415B Deputations from the Central Welsh Board to the Board of Education; dual inspectior overhaul of administrative procedures between the Board of Education and the Central Welsh Board, 1907-8. 12/28 ED. 91/8 Six Files : preliminaries to the Departmental Committee of 1880 on Higher and Intermediate Education in Wales,1880-6. 12/29 ED. 91/9 Functions of the Welsh Department and its Officers : Questions and Answers, House of Commons, March 1907. 12/30 ED. 91/10 Initiation of external negotiations for the Welsh National Council for Education; correspondence and discussions between the Board of Education, Anson, Morant, Bruce, etc., with Lloyd George, Evan R. Davies, etc.; Draft model schemes of Joint Council, Joint Board, etc.; correspondence between Welsh County Councils and Board of Education,etc., 1903-4. 12/31 ED. 91/11 Evan R. Davies, Caernarvonshire Draft Scheme for National Council and Agreement; position of Welsh County Councils and Carmarthenshire County Council; failure of National Council; end of external negotiations, 1905. 12/32,32A ED. 111/252 Carmarthenshire and the working of the 1902 Education Act, 1904. 12/33 ED. 111/254 Preliminaries to the Inquiry by the Law Officers of the Crown for the Board of Education; Index to Documents referred to in Instructions, 1903. 12/34 ED. 111/255 The Public enquiry and result; report by A.T. Lawrence, K.C., 1904.

Preparatory notes and drafts of 'The history of Ironworks schools in South Wales during the industrial revolution, and up to the Education Act of 1870', M.Ed. (Dunelm) 1948. Much of the same material was used in 'The works schools of the industrial revolution in Wales', Ph.D.(Wales) 1953.

Part of L.W.E.'s Ph.D. thesis, 'The works schools of the industrial revolution in Wales', presented in the University of Wales in 1953.

Papers relating to University College, Cardiff, 1962-77.

O. M. Edwards. Thirteen letters, some originals and some copies, February 1907 - April 1911, from O.M.E. to Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, M.P., Secretary of State for Home Affairs (7/1-3); Rt. Hon. J. Herbert Lewis, M.P., (7/4-11, 13); and H.G. Maurice (7/12). The letters discuss the writer's work as the first chief inspector of schools under the new Welsh Education Department, his policies and his attitudes towards educational provision. They include some comments on Welsh political life.

Notebook containing material relating to the National Committee for Club and Hostel Property and Finance, 1970-77.

Nine miscellaneous letters and papers, 1937-71.