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Poems and essays, most of them entered for competition at literary meetings in Llanuwchllyn, [c. 1861]-1874; and other miscellaneous items relating to Llanuwchllyn.

Manuscripts of works by Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan, Llanbrynmair, [1620x1660], and others; accounts, rentals and chapel records relating to Llanuwchllyn, Llandderfel and Llandrillo-yn-Edeirnion, and the Glanllyn estate, Merionethshire, 1785-1878; commonplace books, 1717-1824; letters, mainly to Ivan T. Davies, from O. M. Edwards, T. E. Ellis, Professor Kuno Meyer and others, 1869-1929; and other items relating to the Rev. Ivan T. Davies, 1872-1969.

Miscellaneous essays, notes, etc., of a topographical and biographical nature, relating mainly to the parishes of Llanfor, Llanuwchllyn, and Llanycil, co. Merioneth, including an essay (62 pp.) on 'Hynafiaethau a Hynafiaid Ardal Celyn' [Cwm Celyn, parishes of Llanfor and Llanycil], by ' O letty'r chwilotwr', 1927; two short essays (19 pp. and 11 pp. respectively) on 'Hen Dyddynnod a Bythynod Dadfeiliedig Cwmtirmynach [ parish of Llanfor], ynghyd a preswylwyr olaf', the one by 'Brysiog', and the other bearing no name or pseudonym; a short essay (17 pp.) on 'Edward Jones y Wenallt' [? parish of Llanfor], by R. Price, Llansilin; notes by John Hughes on 'Hen Dyddynod Ardal y Parc'; notes by R. Prys Jones on 'Edward Foulke, Coedyfoel, Bala', who emigrated to America, 1698; and a copy of a paper on 'Hen Dyddynod Adfeiliedig y Plwy [ Llanuwchllyn], ag adgofion am rai o'u preswylwyr', read by Edw[ard] Edwards, to the Young People's Society of Yr Hen Gapel [the Congregational church, Llanuwchllyn]. Some of the essays noted were submitted for competition at local literary meetings.