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Press cuttings, typescript and manuscript notes and accounts, correspondence and printed material, 1894-1917, relating mainly to Aberystwyth County School and its headmaster, David Samuel, and to other Welsh county schools and education in Wales.
The material relating to Aberystwyth County School includes details of a court case, July 1903, involving David Samuel and Mary Isabel Guilbert, a pupil at the school. The remaining material includes typescript and manuscript notes and accounts [by C. M. Williams, Carmarthen], 1894-1914, relating to other county schools in Wales; correspondence, 1903-1917, including two telegrams, dated 30 July 1903, to C. M. Williams, a letter, 1903, to David Samuel from R. H. Guilbert and two letters, 1904, to C. M. Williams from J. Austin Jenkins, Cardiff; and a printed copy, dated May 1902, of a Board of Education report on education and school administration in Wales.

Seven holograph letters and one Christmas card, 1896-1899 and undated, from Fred[erick] W[illiam] P[earce] Jago [Cornish scholar] from Plymouth, to (as per address or by inference) H[enry] T[obit] Evans at Lampeter and Carmarthen. The letters relate largely to a mutual interest in the Cornish language. Specific points referred to include the address of a Truro bookseller who could provide recipient with books on Cornish, the writer's friendship with [the Reverend John] Bannister, variant forms of the writer's name, the death of the Cornish language owing to the pressure of English, the lack of a printed literature, etc., the survival of Cornish dialect in West Cornwall, the writer's published glossary of the Cornish dialect [The Ancient Language and the Dialect of Cornwall with an enlarged Glossary . . . (Truro, 1882)] and his English - Cornish Dictionary . . [(London, 1887)], unpublished manuscript copies of second editions of these two works which the author had offered to sell to the Royal Institute of Cornwall, the possibility that Professor [John] Rhys [of Oxford University] would assist with publication, the state of the Welsh language and the danger to it from English pressure on the eastern border and 'Forster's law of education', the need for 'at least bilingual teaching in the Welsh schools and the employment of native teachers', the lack of information relating to the use of Cornish in church services, the last sermon preached in Cornish, recipient's visit to Cornwall and newspaper articles by him describing the visit, the Breton and Manx languages, the [South African] war, and recipient's newspaper work.

Letters, 1847-1873 and n.d., from Henry Griffiths of Brecon, Liverpool and Bowden, mainly relating to education in Wales and to the proposed Normal School at Brecon. One letter, 1854, contains adjudications in both Welsh and English by Griffiths on essays submitted for competition at an eisteddfod (see also a letter, 1854, relating to the adjudications), while another, 1862, to William Roberts, tutor at Brecon Independent College, relates to Griffiths's application for the Theological Chair at Carmarthen Presbyterian College.
Also included is a letter, 1889, from Samuel Job of Illinois; a letter, 1906, from Hugh Williams ('Hywel Cernyw') at Pontypridd; and a letter, 1928, from Caleb Lewis at Blaina, Monmouthshire. The last two letters relate to the Welsh periodicals of the time.

Correspondence, papers and reports, 1968-1979, concerning publishing in the Welsh language, including correspondence between the Publishers' Section of the Union of Welsh Publishers and Booksellers, Secretaries of State for Wales and the Welsh Office, the Welsh Books Council, and the Welsh Arts Council regarding grants for publishing Welsh books for adults and schools (items 6, 11, 12, 13); and correspondence, 1968, respecting a memorandum on the Gittins Report on Primary Education in Wales submitted by the WJEC to the Secretary of State for Education and Science, which contained a recommendation that a new publishing unit be set up to print and publish children's books in Welsh (item 1).