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A manuscript in the hand of David Richards ('Dewi Silin') containing transcripts of John Davies: A Display of Herauldry (Salop, 1716); 'cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Hugh Morys; 'Edeyrn Dafawd aur' (see Cwrtmawr MS 233); 'cywyddau' by Ieuan ab Hywel Swrdwal and Gruffudd ab Ieuan ab Llywelyn, and 'Chwedl Rhitta Gawr' from a transcript by Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') of a manuscript of James Davies ('Iaco ap Dewi'); a 'Letter from Mr Owen [William Owen-Pughe], Author of the Welsh and English Dictionary, containing Remarks on the Structure of the Welsh Language, and on the Characteristic of the Gwentian Dialect ...', printed in William Coxe: An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire, part II (London, 1801), pp. 405-7; and 'cywyddau', an 'awdl' and 'englynion' by Hugh Morys, Jno. Davies ('o'r Rhiwlas'), William Miltwn, Doctor Sion Kent, Simwnt Fychan, Richart Phylip, Sion Philip and Sion Cain, and incomplete poems. Pasted on the inside lower cover is an imperfect printed prospectus of Seren Gomer, 1813.

A volume containing 'A Compend of Rhetoric in two parts, 1756'. The spine is lettered 'Watsons Rhetoric' [most probably Robert Watson (1730?-1781), historian and rhetorician].

An interleaved copy of A Calendar of High Sheriffs, Mayors, Bailiffs, etc., for Carmarthen, 1400-1818, with manuscript notes.

Proof-sheets (galley) of parts of J. H. Davies, A Bibliography of Welsh Ballads (1911) viz. 'The Introduction', which differs slightly from the published version, and pp. 161-88, which have been corrected and revised and to which a number of ballads have been added in the published version.

An interleaved copy of J. H. Davies, A Bibliography of Welsh Ballads (London, 1908-1911), with manuscript notes by the author.

A transcript of [John Lewis] Contemplations upon these times or the Parliament explained to Wales (London, 1646) made by J. R. Jones, London for J. H. Davies (see receipt, 16 December 1904, with the letters from J. R. Jones in the J. H. Davies Correspondence (Cwrtmawr Papers)). A reprint of this work was published in 1907 by Cymdeithas Llên Cymru.

Wilhelmi Schickardi Horologium Ebraeum ... editio ultima ... (Apud Johannem à Sambix: Ultrajecti 1661), with the mark of ownership and textual additions in the hand of 'Richard Robert Jones [('Dic Aberdaron')] of the Parish of Aberdaron Lleyn Caernarvonshire North Wales'. On the same page is written the name of John Peter ('Ioan Pedr'), Bala, 1871, who has added the following annotations: 'Dic Aberdaron a ysgrifenodd yr uchod a'i law ei hun. Byddai weithiau yn defnyddio s ar ddiwedd yr enw canol, ac yn ei sillebu yn 'Roberts'. Gwelais ef yn cam sillebu Cymraeg a Seisonaeg fel hyn - 'Richard Roberts Jones ydi gwir berchenog y llyfr hwn', 'R.R.J. is the rite owner of this book. J. P. Gor. 29. 1871'.