A manuscript containing a history of Abergele; miscellaneous notes and press cuttings relating to Abergele and to the ruined castles of North Wales; transcripts by J. P. Earwaker relating to Flintshire; etc.

A scrap-album compiled, [1930s], by R. D. Roberts, containing press cuttings, bookplates and other printed items, [late 18 cent.]-1939, relating mostly to Abergele, with notes added by the compiler, pasted or tipped in on two copies, bound together, of Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics (London, 1888). The press cuttings consist mainly of a series of articles entitled 'After many years' by Thomas Jesse Jones, rector of Gelli-gaer, Glamorganshire, published in the Abergele and Pensarn Visitor, October 1928-March 1929, and which had previously been published in the same newspaper, 1924-1925. A letter, 1931, to R. D. Roberts from Sarah Elizabeth Jones, Llwyn, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, concerning the content of the articles, is tipped in on p. 92.

Papers of William Roberts including letters to him, 1850-1886, and notebooks containing drafts and copies of letters from him, 1869-1878; sermons and sermon notes; notes and notebooks on genealogy and local history, 1867-1885, and papers relating to his work as minister and evangelist, 1861-1884; material relating to the Denbighshire Monthly Meeting (Presbytery) of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, [c. 1868]-1870; literary compositions including poems and essays, 1863-1881; newspaper cuttings, 1870-1889; family papers including biographical material of William Roberts compiled by Charles Williams, [c. 1916]; letters, especially to Charles Williams and Mrs Edward Thomas, 1874-1954; a diary of a sea voyage, [1892?]; and sermons of Rev. John Bevan Roberts, [1930s]-[1940s].

Notes on Abergele, Colwyn Bay, Rhual, Mold and Bodfari, including 'Copy of an Inventory of Things in Bodfari Church sent to [the] Representative Body [of the Church in Wales] Aug. 1921', and a memoir of Robert Griffiths, inventor, born at Lleweny farm.