A notebook, completed 20 October 1873, containing transcripts and extracts, from another manuscript, of sermons and sermon notes by Robert Thomas (1796-1866) of Llidiardau, Merioneth, Calvinistic Methodist preacher and 'character'. Some of the sermons are dated within the period 1823-72 and there are occasional annotations such as 'old', 'see cofiant' [i.e. Owen Jones, Hanes Bywyd Robert Tomos, Llidiardau (Wrexham, 1869)], 'good', 'later', etc. There are references to 'Cyfarfod Bibliau y Bala' (p. 74), 1847, 'Amser gwneyd Bethesda [i.e. Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Blaenau Ffestiniog] (p. 122), and to Cynll[w]yd [in Llanuwchllyn] and to Cwmtirmynach and Penmaen [in Llanfor] (p. 145). At the beginning of the volume is an index of texts which is almost complete.

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.