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'Salmau yr Eglwys yn yr Anialwch (Cyfrol II)...'. In the note, dated 7 August 1826, in NLW MS 21339A Iolo Morganwg refers to this volume thus: 'Gweler ym mhrifddarpar yr ail gyfrol 74' [i.e. Salmau]. The collection is similar to, but not identical with, the first pages of the second volume published by Taliesin Williams in 1834: there are some hymns in the MS which are not in the printed volume, and vice versa. There is also a draft of the beginning of a preface (to be found elsewhere).

The manuscript of Salmau yr Eglwys yn yr Anialwch, Cyfrol I (Merthyr Tydfil, 1812). The printed volume contains 204 hymns: the last in the manuscript collection is numbered CC. The preface appears to correspond to the printed copy except that the last paragraph but one is wanting here: there is also another draft of a preface dated 'Trefflemin, neu fal ai gelwid gynt Llanfihangel y Twyn, gerllaw'r Bont faen ym Morganwg Alban Hefin 1811' (found elsewhere among the papers). The index which appears to be a draft is to the printed volume and not to the manuscript.

'Salmau Iolo Morganwg, Rhann I, yn adgyweiriedig, sef y rhai na chymmerwyd i'r Llyfr Argraphedig [i.e., Salmau yr Eglwys yn yr Anialwch, Cyfrol I (Merthyr Tydfil, 1812)], Hyd Rif [CXXX].' This volume was apparently meant to replace Part I in the series numbered 48-57 (NLW MSS 21336-45A) (see note inside front cover). The numbers on a slip of paper in the autograph of Taliesin Williams, continued inside the back cover, refer to the Salmau from this volume which were included in Cyfrol II (1834).

Hymns by Iolo Morganwg, most of them copied from NLW MSS 21336-45A and 21353A, and from the printed volume (1812).

A collection of hymns by, and in the autograph of, Iolo Morganwg, in ten parts. Part I is dated 1800. The 'Salmau' are numbered consecutively from I-MXCI [i.e. 1-1091], and those with a stroke through them have been copied either into No. 60, 'Y Brasnadd Bach' (NLW MS 21348A) or into Nos 64-65 (NLW MSS 21352-3A). A number such as '70. 2' refers to No. 65. A note dated Aug. 7, 1826, found inside Part IV (NLW MS 21339A), gives the total number of 'Salmau' composed by Iolo Morganwg, with the number in each volume.
The 'Salmau' are arranged as follows: Nos 1-60 (21336A), 61-141 (21337A), 142-227 (21338A), 228-304 (21339A), 305-390 (21340A), 391-486 (21341A), 487-644 (21342A), 645-811 (21343A), 812-948 (21344A), and 949-1091 (21345A).

Hymns composed or copied by Iolo Morganwg to the end of his life. The main volume, 'Casledydd Byrr Bach', contains 19 hymns.

Collections of hymns by Iolo Morganwg designated by him as follows: 'Y Brasnadd Mawr' - 255 hymns (NLW MS 21347A); 'Y Brasnadd bach' - 112 hymns; at the end is the following note: 'Diwedd y Brasnadd bach, Mawrth 21fed, 1817, Dydd Gwyl yr Alban Eilir, cyfenw (cyfamser) a Dydd genedigaeth Iolo Morganwg' (NLW MS 21348A); 'Arwyreiniau' - 330 items (NLW MS 21349A); 'Casgliad Merthyr. 1821.' - 70 hymns (NLW MS 21350A); 'Casgledydd garw. 1820' - 62 hymns (NLW MS 21351A).

Hymns by Iolo Morganwg, most of them belonging to a fairly early period.

A collection of eighty-six hymns entitled 'Salmau. Casgliad Trefflemin. 1824', by Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg).

A bundle of loose sheets (E4/1) and five small booklets (E4/2) containing various drafts of introductions and glossaries for Iolo's hymns, or 'salmau', presumably intended for the two volumes of his Salmau'r Eglwys yn yr Anialwch (1812, 1834); together with two bundles containing drafts and fragments of Iolo's salmau (E4/3-4).

Three paper rolls, on rollers, containing four cywyddau by Iolo Morganwg, dated 1799-1810 (E10/1), Welsh poetry by Iolo, including over 100 englynion and forty-two dyrïau, dated 1778-1816 (E10/2) and Iolo's bardic alphabet, [c. 1817] (watermark 1815) (E10/3); together with another blank roll and an empty roller (E10/4-5). Also in the box is a bundle of papers containing a 'Survey for Mr Davies Pantysgallog', [1824] (E10/6); a few miscellaneous maps and drawings (E10/7); and three scraps of parchment, one containing a miniature painting of some goats (E10/8-10).

Three incomplete manuscripts in the autograph of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt: (a) An alphabetical list of Welsh personal names and place-names, A-C, with some identifications. Opposite the entry 'Asser mab Efrog cadarn brenhin ynys Brydain', Iolo Morganwg has written 'Wonderful ignorance, in Mr Vaughan of Hengwrt' (22 ff., mutilated); (b) A Chronology of British History from Vortigern to Cadwaladr, followed by what Robert Vaughan terms a 'digression' repairing some errors and explaining some obscure points in the same. In it he refers to a copy of Gildas' Epistle De excidio Britanniae seen by his 'cousin Jon. Jones an antiquary of our countrey' with Sir Robert Cotton, kt and bart. There are also references to 'Coch Asaph'. This essay appears to be a draft and there is a break at p. [18], (17 ff., of which the last two are blank; unnumbered except after the break referred to); (c) A chronicle of Welsh history from 972 to 993 (incomplete). This also appears to be a draft (8 ff., of which the last three are blank).

(a) A notebook inscribed 'Rd Morris Navy Office London, 22d Sept. 1769' (see NLWJ ,9 (1955-56), 109); (b) Memoranda relating to the 1746 edition of the Welsh Bible, etc. Iolo Morganwg has supplied a list of contents and has added a note on the Welsh word 'crwth'; (c) A sheet containing a list of Welsh words with their meanings, etc. On the reverse side in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg are some sayings subscribed 'Ths Lln Regoes'.

A notebook, or notebooks, containing receipts from various persons to Rees Roberts, 1759-1771, entries by Edward William, senior, concerning work done, 1787-1789, and 'a whimsical song' by Iolo Morganwg, etc. A loose sheet containing an account of money received of esq. Jones, ?1773-1775, partly in the autograph of Edward William, senior, and partly in that of Iolo Morganwg. Endorsed by EW: 'My fathers old Account Book to 1790.'

Book lists and material relating to reading societies in the hand of Iolo Morganwg.

Correspondence and other papers broadly relating to various aspects of Taliesin's public life and work in Merthyr Tydfil and elsewhere. The file contains: some fifty-four draft and copy letters, or parts of letters, written by Taliesin Williams, including many letters to newspapers, 1831-1845, some twenty-seven letters and envelopes addressed to Taliesin and others, 1808-1843, and miscellaneous calling cards and addresses (T10/1); miscellaneous papers relating to his work as a schoolmaster in Neath and Merthyr Tydfil (T10/2); papers relating mostly to various aspects of public life in Merthyr Tydfil, including papers apparently relating to his service as special constable, various petitions to the Crown, the Marquess of Bute and others, and a few items relating to the Merthyr Tydfil Sympathetic Society, 1831-1839 (T10/3); and various papers relating to his activities with groups such as Cymreigyddion y Fenni and Cymreigyddion yr Alarch, being mainly lists of competition subjects, entries and adjudications by him (T10/4).
Of particular note is the beginning (2 pp.) of a draft, in Taliesin's hand, of a petition sent by the people of Merthyr Tydfil to Lord Melbourne, the Home Secretary, in July 1831 pleading for clemency for Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr) and Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) (the final petition is apparently lost, see Gwyn A. Williams, The Merthyr Rising (Cardiff, 1988), p. 184) (in T10/3).

A volume of 'Prophecys and Promises which are written in the Old Testament which the Lord gave unto the holy Patriarks and Prophets, and to all Saints which were in the Time of the Old Testament Church which Prophecys and Promises were concerning our Lord Jesus Christ', &c. There is no indication of authorship or date, but the name of 'John Holland' occurs inside the front cover. The volume as it stands contains 90pp., numbered, but some may have been lost at the end.

E12/1: Printed sheet music, including ballads and psalms, [17 cent., second ½]-[late 18 cent.], collected by Iolo Morganwg; together with leaves from unidentified editions of The Dancing Master, [17 cent., second ½], and The Voice of Melody, [after 1748].
E12/2: Copies of newspapers, 1772-1815, comprising [The Bristol Gazette] and Public Advertiser, 10 December 1772, The Cambridge Intelligencer, 3 April and 22 May 1802, and six editions of Seren Gomer, February 1814-March 1815.
E12/3: A single leaf from an unidentified edition, [16 cent., second ½], of Thomas Sternhold, The Whole Booke of Psalms, Collected into English Meter (the text corresponding to pp. 29-32 of the 1565 edition (STC2434)).
E12/4: A printed copy, [?1816], of a Welsh translation of William Cobbett's address 'To the Journeymen and Labourers of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland…', entitled 'Annerch Mr. William Cobbett, i'w Gyd Wladwyr yng Nghymru, Lloegr, Scotland, ac Iwerddon'.