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Originally loose documents evidently deriving from Exchequer records: letters to the Lord High Treasurer relating to Welsh musters from the Privy Council and from Commissioners for Musters in the Welsh counties, 1599-1602 (pp. 3-50); receipted petition of John Norden the elder and younger for payment for surveying, 1620 (pp. 51-54); appointment of attorneys for Welsh sheriffs, etc., 1739-1774 (pp. 59-78); return of papists in diocese of St Davids, 1767 (pp. 79-82); etc.

Essay, unbound in envelope, entitled 'Hanes Bywgraffyddol a Beirniadol o Gerddorion Cymreig hyn ganol y Ganrif Bresenol', submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod, Aberdare, 1885, by 'Mab y Gân'.

Manuscript copies of settings of Psalm 22, 'Ti ydwyt un yn lloches glyd', and Psalm 39, 'Arglwydd par i mi wybod fy niwedd', printed copies of 'Mwynwen' by Thomas D. Llewelyn ('Llewelyn Alaw'), and 'Gold Bless the Prince of Wales' by Brinley Richards ('Cerddor Towy'), a letter from Evan Evans, Bangor, 14 Aug. 1857, to Lady Llanover, advising her to use caution in her coice of judges for Welsh music, and press cuttings and a letter of protest from the electors of the parish of Llanddety, 1910, concerning the way the annual parish meeting was conducted.

Copies of letters in a paper folder by J Sutcliffe Smith on Welsh music.

Subscription forms, unbound in box, for publications of the Welsh MSS Society, including J Williams ab Ithel, 'The Meddygon Myddfai', and 'Dosbarth Edeyrn Dafod Aur', together with a number of letters from subscribers.

Scrapbook containing press cuttings relating to Welsh literature and archaeology, collected by T C Evans ('Cadrawd').

Report of the Welsh Language Society, unbound in envelope, by the secretary, John Davies Brown, MA, Cardiff.

Short account of Welsh land measures based on the so-called 'Cyfraith Dyfnwal Moelmud', unbound in envelope, copied from a paper which belonged to Mr George Thomas, Ely Farm, lent by his son Mr Illtyd Thomas.

Notebook of monumental inscriptions, with some drawings, and extracts from parish registers in co. Carm. and Pemb., including St Clears, Abercywyn, Meidrym, Narberth, Minwere, Newton, Haverfordwest; on pp. 31-55, extracts from the Pleas of the Common Bench, Dublin [records destroyed in the Troubles] relating to Welsh families settled in Ireland, c. 1297.

Programmes of proceedings, unbound in envelope, of the unveiling of Welsh historical statuary at the City Hall, Cardiff, 27 Oct. 1916, with a list of officials who were to unveil the statues.

Short Welsh grammar, unbound, compiled by William Rees, Llandovery, 1832.

Small notebook containing notes by John Price, Birkenhead, on Welsh grammar.

Exercises in Welsh grammar, unbound in envelope, in six volumes, by P M Williams, Pencisely Rd, Cardiff, together with press cuttings from Welsh newspapers.

Glossary of Welsh words used in Glamorgan compiled by Cadrawd.

The words of some of the songs, loose in envelope, published by Maria Jane Williams in Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morganwg (1844), in her own hand and the hands of others, with some translations into English in her hand and that of Taliesin ab Iolo; some autograph poetry by John Jones ('Tegid').

Two volumes containing Welsh folk and dance tunes.

Transcripts of wills and other documents in the Public Record Office [now The National Archive] relating to Welsh families, together with a number of original deeds and other documents.

Transcripts by David Jones, Wallington, in two volumes, of epitaphs in Welsh in Glamorganshire.

'Copies of the manuscripts and duplicates of the Printed Documents placed in two Bottles and deposited in the Foundation of the Welsh Educational Institution, Llandovery, in 1849 and 1850'.

Series of press cuttings of articles, unbound in envelope, by the Rev. J Kilsby Jones in the South Wales Weekly Times entitled 'Sketches of Wales and Welshmen' and 'Sketches of Eminent Welsh Clergymen'.