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A volume containing 'A Glossary To Explain The Original, the Acceptation, and Obsoleteness of Words and Phrases. And to Shew the Rise, Progress, and Alteration, Of Customs, Laws, & Manners. From [White] Kennett's Parochial Antiquities'; 'A Scottish Glossary Annex'd to Robert Burns's Scottish Poetry'; 'A Catalogue of Animals described by Mr. Pennant in his British Zoology, with their British Names, by Richard Morris, Esqr.'; and an incomplete transcript, with some additions by the scribe, of 'Some part of the Substance of a Letter to the Bishop of Carlisle, about the signification of the Names of Places in the British. by Edw. Llwyd, late Keeper of the Ashmolean Musaeum, in Oxford. Called 'D. E. Luidii Adversaria', & annexed to [William] Baxters Gloss[arium] Antiq[uitatum] Britannic[arum] 8vo Lond[ini] MDCCXXXIII'. There are slight variations in the script, but the volume is probably entirely in the hand of Henry Thomas Payne, archdeacon of Carmarthen.

Copies of the elegies on Richard Morris, President of the Cymmrodorion Society, by 'Guttun Gwrecsam' [i.e. John Edwards (Sion Ceiriog)] and 'Risiart Jones o Drefdraeth ym Mon', both dated 1781, and of the statement known as 'Hyriad Gutyn Gwrecsam' (cf. Y Gwyliedydd (1825), pp. 78, 109).

The file comprises correspondence relating to the work of replacing a slate tablet at the entrance to the field in Penrhosllugwy where the Morris Memorial stood, and the practical arrangements with the Tablet unveiling ceremony, 11 June 1945. There are also letetrs concerning the proposed Morysiaid library/Museum at Holyhead, and other issues related to the Morris brothers.