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A notebook and loose notes of a biographical and bibliographical nature, undated, including references to Brut y Tywysogion, Griffith Dwnn, Charles Edwards's Hanes y Ffydd, Theophilus Evans's Drych y Prifoesoedd, the Mabinogi, the Mari Lwyd, the history of the North Wales and Chester Circuit, the Salesburys of Llewenni, Trade Companies and Guilds in Wales and Twm o'r Nant.

A notebook of 'Carmarthenshire Collections', c. 1897.

A notebook of the pedigrees of prominent Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire families copied from the manuscript of John Phillips of Dale Castle, together with two letters from the Pembrokeshire Herald Office, 1896.

A notebook relating to the Brutus legend and the Trojan settlement of Britain, undated, together with an article on the historian and philosopher David Hume from the Times Literary Supplement, 1911.

A report of a meeting of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, to promote the establishment of a Department of Law, reprinted as a pamphlet from the Cambrian News, 3 March 1899.

Agenda and notes concerning a visit to the Inter-Allied Town Planning Conference in Paris in 1919, together with papers relating to a trip to Brittany in 1921-2, including correspondence, notes, a copy of the Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Mission's Report of the Brittany Deputation, May 1921, newspaper cuttings and various souvenirs.

Correspondence, 1873-1931, mainly from the descendants of the Evans and Jenkins families [Daniel Lleufer Thomas's aunt and uncle], who emigrated to America from the Cardiganshire/Carmarthenshire area, c. 1869-70 [see also D2]. The letters recount the subsequent history of these families and the members still living in various parts of America. There are also two letters from Thomas Evans and Elinor Evans to Mr and Mrs James Rees of Aberdare, together with genealogies, photographs, a wedding card, an 'at home' card, a memorial card, obituaries and newspaper cuttings of properties in America.

Annotated typescript and proofs of Daniel Lleufer Thomas's article on Tomos Glyn Cothi entitled 'Cyfieithydd Hanes Pleidiau y Byd Crist'nogol', undated, together with newspaper cuttings, 1916-33, and a programme for Tomos Glyn Cothi's centenary celebrations at Gwernogle, 1933.

Articles by Daniel Lleufer Thomas, c. 1889-1926, including a pamphlet entitled 'A Review of Henry Owen's Gerald the Welshman', which appeared in Y Cymmrodor, c. 1889; reviews in the Athenæum, 1895, of Frederic Seebohm, Tribal System in Wales and Marie Trevelyan, From Snowden to the Sea; three copies of Daniel Lleufer Thomas's 'Memorandum on the Woollen Industries of Wales', printed privately for the Council of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, c. 1900; a series of articles on Welsh settlers in Canada, which appeared in the Western Mail in 1902, together with cuttings of other articles on Welsh emigrants, 1902-26; and reviews in the Western Mail, 1923 and 1926, of E. M. Tennison, Louise Imogen: Her Life and Works and T. P. Ellis, Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages.

Correspondence and newspaper cuttings, 1891-1929, concerning the use of Welsh in the law courts, together with Daniel Lleufer Thomas's notes on the subject and an undated reprint of his article 'Y Sessiwn yng Nghymru', which appeared in Y Geninen in 1892.

Correspondence and newspaper cuttings, 1898-1938, concerning Daniel Lleufer Thomas's legal career, including congratulations from friends and colleagues on his appointment as Stipendiary Magistrate for Pontypridd and the Rhondda in 1909 and Vice-Chairman of Glamorgan Quarter Sessions in 1929, and letters on his resignation from these positions in 1932-3. Some of the letters are addressed to Lady Lleufer Thomas. The correspondents include Elizabeth Andrews, John Herbert James, Professor T. A. Levi, J. Herbert Lewis, Ellis Lloyd, T. Alwyn Lloyd, Herbert Morgan, T. E. Morris, D. Morgan Rees, J. Bryn Roberts, Lord Justice Sankey and W. Sidney Webb. There is also a small group of letters written in 1919 by Daniel Lleufer Thomas to Thomas Jones, CH, which was transferred to the donor, Professor David Williams, in 1942.

Correspondence and notes, c. 1897-8, relating to the 'Mystery and Miracle Plays of Wales', together with a number of readers' tickets for the British Museum.