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Pocket notebooks kept between c. 1874 and c. 1901, many undated, containing adjudications by Gwilym Cowlyd on bardic competitions at various eisteddfodau, miscellaneous accounts, minutes of various committees, copies of poems and prose works, and a volume endorsed, 'Cymmrodoriaeth Barddas Glan Geirionydd. Gwilym Cowlyd's Book' and containing copious notes, poems and accounts for the years 1896 until 1901 on 'Arwest Geirionydd'.

Pocket diaries kept by J. H. Davies for the following years: 1883, 1893-1894, 1921 and 1924. They are mostly blank, containing only brief notes of appointments and commitments.

Pocket diaries kept by R. J. Davies for the years 1873, 1875, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883. They contain only brief notes of appointments and addresses.

Letters, 1903, from Lloyd George and George, solicitors, Criccieth, and related notes relating mainly to Plas Pennant (Pennant Hall).

Various personalia, 1871-1920, relating to John Humphreys Davies. They include a copy of his birth certificate, various academic certificates from school and university, and his warrant of appointment as sheriff of the county of Cardigan in 1912.

Correspondence and documents, 1901, relating to legal matters concerning the Penrhyn quarry. The correspondents include David Lloyd George, and William George (4).

Correspondence, notes and papers, 1901-1920, relating to the pedigrees and ancestry of various individuals and families including Thomas Charles y Bala, Stephen Hughes and Daniel Rowland. The correspondents include H. Tobit Evans (2), 1901.

Papers, correspondence and printed items, 1872-1926, relating to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. They include copies of the college's early registers, 1872-1877, copies of the conveyance of the college and its hereditaments, 1875, copies of the deed of settlement of the college, and of the charter of incorporation and statutes, both dated 1892, papers concerning the administration of the college's restoration fund, the revised constitution of the college, and the old students' scholarship fund. Other matters include the charter of the federal University of Wales in 1893, the college's building fund, Alexandra Hall, the finance and general purposes committee, the estate of Sir John Williams, the proposed revision of the college's charter and statutes, and museum grants for Wales. The correspondents include Thomas Charles Edwards (3), 1885-1886, Lewis Morris, 1886, and Stuart Rendel, 1889.

Papers and correspondence, 1658-1907, acquired by J. H. Davies, relating to other individuals, namely Gwilym Cowlyd, 1658-1907, William Davies, 1822-1855, John Rees, 1844-1867, the Richards family of Darowen, [?1818]-[?1848], and the Rev William Thomas, 1869-1877.

Papers, 1872-1926, relating to J. H. Davies's professional activities and interests. These include the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1872-1926, the Church in Wales, 1890-1926, the Calvinistic Methodist Association, 1892-1897, his literary and academic interests, 1893-1926, the Royal Commission on the Welsh Church, 1906-1918, and the Welsh Bibliographical Society, 1908-1924. There are also records, 1900-1910, relating to the establishment and running of the Welsh Hospital set up in South Africa at the time of the Boer War.

Various papers and photographs, 1809-1926, collected by Dr T. I. Ellis while researching the life of his uncle J. H. Davies, Cwrt Mawr (1871-1926) in preparation for his biography, together with further research notes.

Booklet entitled A Short Account of the Origin and Work of the Welsh Hospital for South Africa to October 1900

Most of the letters, 1892-1916, are devoted to the writer's researches, writings and editing of Wales, Y Llenor, Heddyw and Cymru for which he solicits contributions from the pen of J. H. Davies. Several letters refer to the death of Thomas Edward Ellis in April 1899, the preparation of his biography and the erection of a memorial statue at Bala. Others relate to J. H. Davies's application for the position of Registrar of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and some to Edwards's duties as Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales.

Two notebooks, 1889-1890, kept by Annie J. Davies containing miscellaneous notes.

Notebooks, [1853]-[1892], kept by R. J. Davies containing mainly notes and records of various financial transactions relating to the Cwrt Mawr estate. There are also two notebooks containing notes taken while at school and University College, London.

A notebook endorsed 'Moulsdale Grammar School, Llanrwst, March 14, [18]59' and with entries for the period 1852 to 1880 and containing mathematical equations, poetry, transcripts from the old account book of Owain Gethin Jones and other accounts etc.

Miscellanea, 1793-1862, comprising a plan, June 1793, of the slate quarry of the Rt Hon. Lord Penrhyn in the parish of Llandegai, county of Caernarfon, prepared by W. Jones of Bangor; a copy of a booklet entitled Crown Lands in North Wales, undated, containing a leading article published in The Times, 10 August 1849, related letters published in the paper during August and September 1949, and a Report by the deputy ranger of the Forest of Snowdon on the Management and Appropriation of Crown Property in North Wales; and a lease, 1862, from the Honourable Edward Gordon Douglas Pennant of land in the parish of Llandegai, co. Caerns.

Fragments, c. 1604, from the court roll of the hundred of Newtown, Montgomeryshire.

Printed items on a wide range of subjects and issues many of them concerning educational matters, the National Library of Wales and the Calvinistic Methodist denomination.

Miscellaneous documents, 1820-1851, of Montgomeryshire interest, including a notice, February 1851, issued at Llanerfyl to innkeepers in relation to the local incidence of drunkenness, and the draft of an undated document concerning the Llangyniew Association for the Prosecution of Felons.