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Papers of, or collected by, George Eyre Evans, 1785-[1934], including a large amount of correspondence, extracts and transcripts from various sources, press cuttings, articles, an album of bookplates and material relating to Lampeter, to ancient monuments and to the Cambrian Archaeological Association.

Notes on Carmarthen written by George Eyre Evans as an introduction to the programme of the National Eisteddfod of Wales held in the town, 1911.

A list compiled by George Eyre Evans of the mayors, bailiffs, sergeants, petty constables, coroners, chamberlains (accountants), scavengers and bellmen of Aberystwyth, 1690-1835.

Three collecting books used for recording subscriptions received towards the formation of a 'Darllenfa', or reading-room, at Penparcau, near Aberystwyth, 1908-1909.

The disbursement account book, 1824-1828, of the firm of Jones & Morris, solicitors, [?Carmarthen].

Poems on various subjects, some of which were written circa 1833 and printed in The Age.

'A chapter from the history of John Bull, the Cloth Merchant. Shewing how John went to law with the little Corporal for the estate of Lewis Baboon and invented his ingenious plan of flying Kites' by Timothy Armstrong.

A table dealing with the commutation of tithes in Cadoxton juxta Neath, Glyncorrwg, Llangyfelach, Llantwit Lower and Bonvilston and Llancarfan in Glamorgan, together with particulars of certain tithe charges on the parish of St Peter's, Carmarthen.

Notes dealing with and extracted from the registers and other records of the parish of Llangoedmore, Cardiganshire.

An album containing press cuttings, reprints of articles in the Aberystwyth Observer, 1899-1905, posters, etc., mainly relating to Aberystwyth and Cardiganshire, and minutes of the committee of the 'Highgate Men's Club', Whitchurch, Shropshire, founded in 1889, with correspondence and other papers relating to the club.

Three albums containing copies of articles contributed during 1899-1905 by 'Philip Sidney', i.e. George Eyre Evans, to the Welsh Gazette, Aberystwyth.
The articles relate mainly to the history of Aberystwyth and other districts in Cardiganshire, as well as in Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire, and are accompanied by numerous letters to 'Philip Sidney', posters and tickets of lectures and addresses given by him, illustrations, and also reprints in booklet form of some of the articles.

An album kept by Catherine Powell Evans, sister of George Eyre Evans, containing press cuttings, portraits, poems and miscellaneous extracts, some of which are of Unitarian interest.

Material relating to the exhibition held at Aberystwyth in 1909 to celebrate the centenary of the introduction of printing into the town, comprising minutes of the exhibition committee, correspondence and press cuttings, and copies of the booklets issued and of addresses given by David Samuel. Also included are the signatures of visitors to the exhibition.

Press cuttings, manuscript notes by George Eyre Evans [?and W. Pepyat Evans], sketches, photographs, postcards, etc., relating to the visit of the Cambrian Archaeological Association to Monmouth and neighbourhood, August 1908.

A journal kept by Catherine Powell Evans, sister of George Eyre Evans, then of Birkenhead, of an expedition made in 1890 by members of the Liverpool Teachers' Guild to Venice via Rotterdam, Cologne, etc.

A copy of Enwogion Aber Dâr (Llanbedr Pont Steffan, 1910), autographed by the author, Ben Morus, with press cuttings, notes, etc. relating to him inserted in the volume.

About three hundred and fifty autograph letters and pictorial postcards, 1907-1913, written principally to George Eyre Evans by David Ivon Jones, a native of Aberystwyth and grandson of John Jones ('Ivon'), from New Zealand and South Africa, together with a few letters and picture postcards from W. M. Roberts, North East Valley, Dunedin to George Eyre Evans, and from W. Tudor Jones, Wellington to David Ivon Jones; and printed matter.

Forty-six autograph letters, 1901-1903, written to George Eyre Evans by David Ivon Jones from Aberystwyth and Lampeter.

Transcripts made by George Eyre Evans in 1903 of twenty-eight autograph letters of the family of Lloyd of Brynllefrith, parish of Llanwenog, Cardiganshire. The letters were edited by Evans in Lloyd Letters (1754-1796), being extant letters of David Lloyd, Minister of Llwynrhydowen, Posthumous Lloyd, his Brother; and Charles Lloyd, LL. D., his Son ... (Aberystwyth, 1908).
Also included are press cuttings, including extracts from the letters published by George Eyre Evans, under the pseudonym 'Philip Sidney', in The Welsh Gazette, 9 July 1903; and autograph letters, 1903, to George Eyre Evans from Lucy Theakston, Waterloo, near Liverpool, who formerly owned the original letters, Rees Jenkin Jones, Aberdare and Walter Jenkin Evans, Carmarthen.

One hundred and thirty-five autograph letters and postcards, 1896-1897, written to George Eyre Evans in connection with his appeal for subscribers to his Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897).
The names of almost all the writers appear in the published 'List of Subscribers'. The volume also contains an index of writers prepared by George Eyre Evans in January 1905.