Typescript copies [by W. Gilbert Williams, Rhostryfan, co. Caernarvon] of a report of a test case, 1901, at Carnarvon Petty Sessions against Owen Jones, Rhostryfan, alleging the cruelty of the custom of tread-mill churning by dogs; of a letter from Wm. Williams, Bodadan, to G. Roberts, 1824 (the marriage settlement of the writer's daughter); and of extracts from Caernarvonshire Quarter Sessions records, including a declaration by Thomas Roberts of the proposed use of a printing press in the town of Carnarvon, 1799, a petition by poor cottagers who dwell on the mountains of Llanllyfni and several other parishes for the retention of their cots and enclosed land (permitted as a prevention of their emigration to America), 1812, and an inquest on the body of David Thomas, Llanrug, 1822.

The commonplace book of Robert Roberts, Tyddyn y Felin, an assistant minister of 'Yr Hen Gapel', Llanuwchllyn, containing miscellaneous records and extracts, relating particularly to the affairs of 'Yr Hen Gapel'; copies of notices to quit to tenants of the Glanllyn estate, 1830; a list of persons qualified to serve on juries in Llanuwchllyn, 1834; correspondence relating to Coward's Trust, 1834; extracts from letters by emigrants to the United States of America, 1833-1835; 'Subscriptions when Revd. M. Jones came to Llanuwchllyn'; lists of houses in Llandrillo, Llangower, Llanyckil, Llanfawr, and Llanymowddwy; and lists of dissenting meeting-houses.

A volume of manuscript notes with insets (mostly newspaper cuttings, a few letters, etc.) compiled by Ionawryn Williams [of Manchester and Bethesda], and consisting mainly of biographical data relating to Welshmen who had resided in or been connected with the city of Manchester or the neighbourhood in the nineteenth century, including such figures as Robert Jones Derfel, the Reverend William James , and John Jones ('Poet Jones'), etc. A few of the entries refer to the compiler's previously published work on Manchester Welshmen entitled [Geirlyfr bywgraffiadol yn cynhwys byr-hanes y Cymry mwyaf adnabyddus fuont yn preswylio yn Manceinion, Salford, 1896]. The volume also contains an account of attempts to form a Welsh [literary] society in Manchester in 1835. Amongst the insets is a long autograph letter from R[ichard] J[ones] Berwyn, Trerauson Chwbut [sic] [Patagonia], to Ionawryn Williams, [18]97 ( a reply to a request for information concerning Thomas Penant Evans ('Twmi Dimol'), who had been one of the emigrants who had sailed to Patagonia in the Mimosa in 1865), and a short holograph note from the same writer to [Ionawryn Williams], undated (giving a few autobiographical details).

A copy of Llawlyfr yr Anibynwyr am 1886 used by D. S. Davies to record preaching engagements, etc. The following note is entered under 19 June: 'Hwyliad y fintai fawr 470 i'r Wladfa' [i.e. the sailing of the large party to the Welsh Colony in Chubut, Patagonia].

Manuscripts and papers, 1862-[1892x1900], of or relating to Lewis Jones, pioneer of the Welsh colony in Patagonia. They comprise journals, 1862-1863, of Lewis Jones recording his exploratory visit to Patagonia; material relating to the imprisonment, 1882-1883, of Lewis Jones and R. J. Berwyn whilst attempting to defend the rights of Welsh settlers; an essay, poetry and plays by Lewis Jones; and correspondence, 1862-1892, mainly relating to the Welsh colony.

Four holograph letters (one incomplete), May-June 1867, from R[ichard] Ffoulkes Edwards (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd), from Trefnant, Rhyl, and New York City, to J. R. Davies, concerning the writer's proposed emigration to America, the voyage to New York on board the Nebraska carrying eight hundred emigrants, and impressions of New York.

A composite volume containing miscellaneous lists, notes, jottings, etc., of a very varied nature in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'). Included are pp. 1-22, miscellaneous extracts allegedly from a manuscript in the hand of Siôn Bradford (extracts - single words or lines, couplets, stanzas, etc. - from the works of Welsh bards, occasional annotations by Siôn Bradford, an anecdote relating to a bard named Ieuan ap y Diwlith, notes relating to fifteen strict poetic metres in a system described by Antoni Pywel, 'englynion' attributed to Siôn Bradford himself ); 38, a brief note on the colour of bardic robes; 39, lists of 'graddau cenhedlaeth hyd y nawfed ach'; 41-4, notes relating to the introduction of 'a new musical system or theory into Wales' possibly from Ireland in the time of Gruffudd ap Cynan including a comment to the effect that no musical instrument was mentioned by Welsh bards circa 1080-1280; 45-6, 181- 4, 247-51, notes on the word 'Cimmeri' and its variants as a national appelative and the formation of the language of the said people; 51-2, brief notes on steel making; 53-4, notes ? relating to the Glamorgan system of Welsh metrics; 55-6, a list of bards headed 'Llyma enwau Beirdd Cadeirogion Tir Iarll amser yr ymryson a fu ryngddynt am farwnad Ieuan a Hywel Swrdwal', and a note relating to 'Cadair Tir Iarll'; 59, a note relating to Gruff. ap Cynan's flight to, and return from, Ireland; 60, triads relating to 'cerdd deuluaidd' or 'cerdd arwest'; 61-3, notes on an 'eisteddfod' organised by Gruff. ab Nicolas at Carmarthen [circa 1450], the part played by D[afydd] ab Edmwnd, the reluctance of the bards of Morgannwg to accept the rules, etc., devised by Dafydd ab Edmwnd, the research undertaken by the said bards into the bardic system, rules, etc.; 66-9, statistics relating to the population of Wales (N.D.) with comments on the English element in Pembrokeshire and Gower, co. Glamorgan, and the English influence on the Welsh border; 70-71, a note on the 'Scaldic School' of poets in Wales; 81 + 93, notes on the words 'Llysdanc' i.e. ' juridical peace', and 'cyfallwy'; 97, a note on Rhobert, iarll Caerloyw (earl of Gloucester), his acquisition of Tir Iarll, and his organising of the bardic order, with mention of the poets Rhys Goch ap Rhiccert (temp. Robert), Ieuan fawr ap y Diwlith, and Trahaearn Brydydd mawr; 101-03, notes on Davydd ap Gwilym more particularly chronological; 105-07, notes relating to an 'eisteddfod' held at Glynn Achlach in Ireland [temp. Gruffudd ap Cynan], an opinion on the alleged connection between the said Gruffudd, Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, Rhys ap Tewdwr, and Gruffudd ap Rhys successively and the formulating of regulations for the Welsh bardic order, and a comment on the probability of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn 'having instituted some Regulations respecting Pedigrees and Land rights' and of Gruffudd ap Cynan having 'introduced Irish or Scaldic music and rules of good order amongst Musicians into North Wales'; 111, a list of place-names containing the element Bangor; 138-9, notes relating to 'Cadeiriau ag Eisteddfodau wrth gerdd dafod' ('Cadair Tir Iarll', 'cadair ym Marchwiail', 'eisteddfodau' at Caerfyrddin and Caerwys, 13th-16th cent.); 140, a note on the poet Gwilym Tew; 141-8, notes on 'eisteddfodau' held at Caerfyrddin in 1451 and N.D., and decisions taken relating to the bardic order and 'cerdd dafawd'; 149-51, genealogical data relating to Iestin ab Gwrgan, lord of Morgannwg; 152 + 157, a brief chronicle of historical and pseudo- historical events in Britain, 1300 B.C. - 230 A.D.; 156, an anecdote relating to Gwaithfoed, lord of Cibion and Ceredigion, and the Saxon king Edgar; 158-9, notes relating to Welsh strict metres referring to 'Cwlm Cadair Caerfyrddin' based upon metrical systems arranged by Gwilym Tew, Dafydd ap Edmwnd, and Llawdden; 165, transcripts of five 'englynion' attributed to Dafydd Benwyn; 167, notes on Owain ap Cadwgan and his son Einion, temp. Henry I; 171-2, notes on Thomas Jones of Tregaron ('Twm Siôn Catti'); 178-9, an anecdote relating to the bard Siôn Cent; 185, notes headed 'Origin of letters in Britain'; 187, a note relating to derivative and compound words in Welsh; 188, a list of fourteen ? rules under the heading 'Theophilanthropists of Wales or Berean Society'; 189, a note on an 'eisteddfod' held by Rys ap Tewdwr at Castell Nedd in 1080; 213, a short list of Glam[organ] proverbs and idioms; 230, a note on 'Hopcin ap Thomas ap Einion Hen a elwir Einion Offeiriad' and the said 'Einion Hen'; 233-41, extracts from [Joseph Robertson:] An Essay on Punctuation (1785); 243-6, transcripts of seven stanzas of English religious verse, an English prayer, and the music of two psalm tunes; 253, an extract from a 'cywydd' attributed to R[hys] G[och] Eryri, and a list of words headed 'Geiriau Gofram yr Alban Eilir, 1815'; 254-61, lists of words and other extracts from Henry Perri [: Eglvryn Phraethineb sebh dosparth ar] Retoreg [ Lhundain, 1595], and other poetic extracts; 262-3, a copy of a 'Sonnet on the prospect of Vaucluse from Petrarch' and an epitaph on an infant by Edwd. Williams, and a list of 'Places to enquire where they are'; 269-74, miscellaneous poetic extracts to illustrate specific words such as 'barddas', 'gwyddfa', etc., and lists headed 'Pumwydd Celfyddyd' and 'Naw Cynneddf Doethineb'; 275, a brief note on the practice of planting trees at crossroads in Glamorganshire; 277-9, a description of the method of swearing the bardic oath; 281-2, a list of the names by which God is known in Welsh with English definitions; 284-5, brief notes relating to the poet Llywelyn Llogell Rhison and his two brothers of Marchwiail [co. Denbigh], and the poet Mab Claf ab Llywarch, with a reference to the attribution of 'Englynion Eiry Mynydd' to the said Llywelyn and Mab Claf; 286, notes on the written version of the tale 'Hanes Taliesin'; 291-2, a list of 'Prif gyfoethau Gwlad Gymru', (continued)

298-300, an extract from the Saxon Chronicle with an English translation; 302, a comment on adverse opinions concerning the antiquity of 'Glam[organ] bardism and its concommitant literature'; 303, notes relating to the bardic 'chair of Glamorgan in Tir Iarll', 'Cadair Taliesin', and 'Cadair Urien'; 304-06, notes headed 'Llyma ddosparth yr awgrym' with lists of numerals headed 'Llyma lafariaith awgrym herwydd a'i dangosir dan a[r]wyddon rhif sathredig y cenedloedd . . .' (see J. Williams ab Ithel: Barddas . . ., vol. I, pp. 98-103); 309, a copy of the civil marriage vow of the time of Oliver Cromwell in Welsh; 311-12, a note on Gruffudd ap Cynan's institution of ? triennial 'eisteddfodau' at Aberffraw and of rules for the bardic fraternity; 316, a biographical note on the Bradford family of Tir Iarll or Bettws [co. Glamorgan]; 319, a note on 'cynghanedd' prior to the time of Gruffudd ap Cynan; 324, a transcript of an 'englyn' attributed to Lewys Mon; 325-6, three triads headed 'Bardic Theology'; 329-30, eight triads headed 'Trioedd amrafaelion'; 335-6, a transcript of six stanzas of Welsh verse attributed to Rhobert, tywysog Norddmandi; 340, notes on the means adopted by Welsh bards to earn a living, circa 1500-1680; 341, six triads headed 'Trioedd Iaith ag Ymadrodd'; 344-8, notes on the development of alliteration in Welsh poetry and the 'rules of . . . the Scaldic School of Welsh versification'; 357-8, a few bardic triads; 374-5, notes relating to various bardic 'chairs'; 379, questions and answers relating to 'Pair Ogrwen', 'Cariadwen', and 'Pair Dadeni'; 387, a short list of four triads; 390-91, notes relating to 'chware hud a Iledrith' of Math ap Mathonwy; 397-9, 402-03, lists of proverbial or idiomatic expressions in Welsh; 407-11, a list of thirty triads headed 'Llyma'r Trioedd a ddatcanodd Iolo Morganwg yng Ngorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain ar Frynn Dinorweg yn Arfon, Alban Elfed 1799'; 411-20, notes relating to ? bardic ceremonial and the duties of bards, and seven triads headed 'Llyma Drioedd cynghlo Cadair a Gorsedd'; 421-2, a list of Welsh phrases with English equivalents headed 'Address of letters - salutations in Glamorgan'; 442-3, a list of rules headed 'Rules to know when two languages have had the same word from remote antiquity which may claim it as originally its own'; 445-6, brief notes relating to the early bishops of Bangor, and Ylldud farchog and Eilifri, his mother; 447, transcripts of two 'englynion' attributed to Huw Cornwy and Huw Llwyd Cynfel; 447-8, notes on a ruin called Myrddin Taliesin on the banks of Llynn Geirionydd [co. Caernarvon]; 449, notes headed 'Pedwar Cerddawr Graddawl'; 450-51, an anecdote relating how [Edward Williams] 'Iolo Morganwg' nearly lost his life through sleeping near a lime kiln at Llanelltyd [co. Merioneth] in June 1799; 452-7, transcripts of 'englynion' attributed to Siôn Philip, Edmund Prys, Huw Ednyfed, Lewis Môn, Tudur Aled, Owain Ifan, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Rhys Tyganwy, Huw Llwyd Cynfel, and Gruffudd Philip, and other poetic extracts; 472 + 475, transcripts of 'englynion' attributed to Richard Philip and Gruff. Hiraethog; 479, notes headed 'Edward Williams's idea of Public worship or Religious instruction rather'; 481-5, notes referring to Welsh literature in the late medieval period after the Edwardian conquest and, in connection therewith, the development of alliteration, the production of triplet verse and prose triads, the triads and verses of Llewelyn Llogell Rhison of Marchwiail, and the works of Hopcin Thomas ap Einion in South Wales, references to the existence of 'triades, triplet verses, etc., of very great antiquity', and to Druidic, Scaldic, Norman, Roman, and Saxon influences ? on literature, and a note on the lasting effects of the Edwardian conquest on political and religious attitudes in North Wales; 506, lists of 'flowering shrubs', 'native flowers rare', and 'evergreens' in Glamorgan; etc. Interspersed amongst the above items throughout the volume are lists or groups of Welsh words, notes on Welsh words, etymological notes, genealogical data, miscellaneous extracts from a variety of printed sources, and other miscellaneous items.

Miscellaneous letters and notes including two holograph letters from Evan Anwyl, Towyn [co. Merioneth], to [ ], undated (aspects of local history in the parish of Pennal [co. Merioneth], in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, concerning which the writer could contribute an article [to the local press]), and J. M. Howells [Aberdovey], undated (the writer's opinion that some of his articles were worthy of publication, as illustrating life in a parish such as Pennal in the early nineteenth century, forwarding to recipient data relating to Pennal in the first half of the nineteenth century, and original correspondence of the early nineteenth century); six holograph letters from [James Richard Atkin, baron] Atkin [of Aberdovey], London, to Martin [Rees, Aberdovey] 1935-1938 (a united church service [held at Aberdovey, 6 May 1935, to celebrate the King's Silver Jubilee], the writer's views on relations between denominations, comments on the doctrine of the Apostolic Succession in connection therewith, a promise to 'take the chair' at a carnival concert [to be held in Aberdovey], August 1937, points relating to the provision of a motor car for the [Aberdovey] district nurse, 1937-1938); a holograph letter from D. Thomas, Blackstone, Australia, to M[artin] Rees, 1937 (the writer's emigration from Aberdyfi to Australia in 1883, the Welsh church in Blackstone, Welsh churches or 'causes' in Ballarat, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney, news received of the [National] Eisteddfod [held at Machynlleth, 1937], reference to the resignation of some of the adjudicators, memories of a singing festival the writer had attended in Capel y Graig, Machynlleth); holograph notes compiled by Richard R[ice] Lewis of Aberdovey, containing reminiscences relating to shipbuilding activity at Ynys Las, co. Cardigan, including the building of the brigantine Hand Maid, the schooner Cambrian, and the smack Lerry, all for local owners, the employment of carpenters, etc., from Aberdovey and Borth in the shipyard, the platform [erected in the Dovey estuary] known as 'the Refuge on the Penrhyn', an epidemic of scarlet fever in Aberdovey in 1852, a chemist's shop kept by the writer's mother in Aberdovey, the building of Aberdovey [ ] school in 1854 and its opening in 1855 under its master Mr. Edsel of Chichister [sic], 'a Good Sharp Master and used to teach Navigation to Young Sailors and grown ups also', the use of the 'Welsh Note (Not)' in this school, schools in four different locations in Aberdovey, ? which the writer had attended, prior to the opening of the above school, and two schoolmasters, viz., Mr. Roberts from Harlech and Thomas Close Jones of Carnarvon; biographical notes on the above mentioned Richard Rice Lewis and his family, by Idris Lumley of Aber-dovey; and further notes on the aforementioned 'Refuge', also by Idris Lumley.

Typewritten notes on 'Emigration from Wales, 1760-1868', 'Chartism in Wales', 'Poor Law', 'Denbigh Priory', and 'Canmlwyddiant Y Drysorfa'; and typewritten extracts from reviews or appreciations of D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles . . .

A notebook containing abstracts of sermons preached at [Congregational] Association meetings at Tal y Bont, Cardiganshire, 5-6 June 1816, and at Dolgelley, 24-25 September 1817, etc.; a notebook recording the names of those who preached at Rhes-y-cae, Waendymarch, Holywell, and Salem between 9 August 1829 and 7 November 1830, together with the texts of their sermons, and also containing abstracts of sermons preached at Rhes-y-cae, 10-11 July 1833; Dyddiadur; neu, Gydymaith i'r Almanac, 1833, with entries by Owen Owens, largely relating to preaching engagements; ten holograph letters to Owen Owens, including from his sister Elizabeth Owens, Dolgelly, 1834, and from Sarah Lloyd, Lake Cottage [near Oshkosh, Wisconsin], 1852-1853 (emigrant's experiences, inquiries after friends). Written on the dorse of some of the letters are notes of sermons by the recipient and others (e.g. at the Sunday School assembly at Holywell, 1836), and the following statement by Owen Owens, dated 31 January 1841: 'I propose to publish, soon should my life be spared, a Treatise or a Sermon, on the Duties of Xtn. Congregational Churches, towards the children baptized by their Ministers ...'; etc.

Portions of the manuscripts of three published works by D. S. Davies relating to the Welsh colony in Patagonia.