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Miscellaneous notes and articles by Griffith Jones ('Gytyn Ardudwy'), including 'Mangofion bywgraffyddol' (short biographical sketches of George Casson, William Griffith Oakeley, Griffith Owen, Harry Roberts, Ellis Pugh ('Ap Hu'), Humphrey Humphreys, D.D., John Davies ('Sion Dafydd Las'), Ellis Wynn[e], Owen Wynne Jones ('Glasynys') and John Thomas, D.D.); notes on Dyffryn Ardudwy; 'Gorchestion Celf a Gwyddor'; 'Awr gyda gwallgofddyn yn Mheiriant Railffordd'; 'Hanesyn tarawiadol gan fordeithydd'; 'Dirgelwch Morawl - Hanesyn gan hen forwr o long ei Mawrhydi y Bridge Watter'; a list of Merioneth sheriffs, 1538-1828; a short history of Russia; the lives of the Apostles; an account of a journey by train from Blaenau Ffestiniog to London, 1888; and other extracts.

A collection of annotated documents bearing the autographs of Welsh bishops and others. They include a letter testimonial, 1683, from Humphr[ey Lloyd], bishop of Bangor; a holograph letter from W[illiam Fleetwood], bishop of St. Asaph, 1711; warrants, 1722, of A[dam Ottley], bishop of St. Davids, for the payments of dividends due to him upon stock in the South Sea Company's books; an acquittance, 1731, signed by Benj[amin Hoadley], bishop of Salisbury (bishop of Bangor, 1716-21); a decree, 1740, by R[ichard Reynolds], bishop of Lincoln (bishop of Bangor, 1721-3), concerning a University of Oxford fellowship; a holograph letter, undated, from Matt[hias] Mawson (bishop of Llandaff, 1739-40); an acquittance, 1757, signed by John [Thomas], bishop of Salisbury; an acquittance, 1771, signed by Edwd. [Willes], bishop of Bath and Wells (bishop of St. Davids, 1743); a holograph letter from J[ohn Ewer], bishop of Bangor, to Richd. Burn, Westminster, 1772; an acquittance, 1750, signed by J[ohn Gilbert], bishop of Salisbury (bishop of Llandaff, 1740-9); a certificate, 1791, from E[dward Smallwell], bishop of Oxford (bishop of St. Davids, 1783-8), to the treasurer of the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty relating to the institution of a clerk in South Stoke, Oxfordshire; a certificate, 1795, by W[illiam Stewart], bishop of St. Davids, relating to the perpetual curacy of Talley; and a holograph letter from [George Murray], bishop of St. Davids, 1802; etc.

A manuscript written by Griffith Jones ('Gytyn Ardudwy'), containing biographical sketches of Ellis Pugh ('Ap Hu'), John Thomas, D.D. and Owen Wynne Jones ('Glasynys'); and a fragment of a questionnaire on constitutional history.