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'An Essay on the evils arising from killing salmon out of season and when full of spawn', written for a competition organised at Merthyr Tydfil by Thomas Hennay, 1844, together with a Welsh translation, the rules relating to the competition and a copy of an Act relating to salmon fisheries passed by Parliament in May 1843.

A draft essay on 'The Neo-Bardic Theosophy', with notes, correspondence and press cuttings.

An essay entitled 'Iestyn ap Gwrgant', which was awarded a prize at the Liverpool eisteddfod, 1840.

An essay entitled 'On the Question whether the Druids sacrificed human beings', written for a Cymreigyddion meeting at Swansea, 1841.

'An Essay on the Etymology and Early History of Caerphilly Castle', awarded a prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1848, with additional notes, press cuttings and extracts from printed works by G. T. Clark, G. G. Francis, etc.

A copy, with marginal notes by Stephens, of Robert Williams: Enwogion Cymru, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (Llandovery, 1852); manuscript notes; press cuttings; a copy of Daniel Williams: Memoirs and Sketches of one hundred and eleven Eminent Men, Natives of the County of Cardigan ..., 1874.

Miscellaneous material relating to eisteddfodau, including an 'englyn' to 'Carnhuanawc' (Thomas Price), a prize poem by 'Talhaiarn' (John Jones) entitled 'Sali Smith', extracts from speeches at Carmarthen eisteddfod, 1823, and Cardiff eisteddfod, 1834, and adjudications by Stephens on essays submitted at eisteddfodau held at Aberafan and Aberdare.

A draft essay on druids and druidic literature, together with notes on Taliesin, Aneirin and Llywarch Hen.

A draft essay entitled 'Wales, its aspects and prospects'.

Extracts, mainly by Stephens, from printed sources, such as The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales and works by John David Rhys, Humphrey Lhuyd and Edward Jones ('Bardd y Brenin'); transcripts from Welsh pedigrees in British Museum Harleian MS 3859; and material relating to the alleged existence of the Welsh or White Indians - 'Y Madogwys'.

'Traethawd yn cynnwys Hanes ymbleidiadau pendefigion Cymru yn y Rhyfeloedd cartrefol rhwng teuluoedd York a Lancaster'.

'Traethawd ar Gyflwr moesol a llenyddol Cenedl y Cymry yn y Deheubarth, ynghyd a sylwadau ar y cyfnewidiadau a gymerasant le yn y ganrif ddiweddaf', awarded a prize at the Cardiff temperance eisteddfod, 1858.

Breton verses, in the form of a dialogue between Breton people and Welsh people, sung at a meeting of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society by Count Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué [1815-1895], with a Welsh translation by Stephens.

Transcripts of Breton poems published by Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué in Barzaz-Breiz, Chants Populaires de la Bretagne ..., with notes and translations into French.

Transcripts, [c. 1850] (watermark 1848), of poems by Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, printed in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, I (London, 1801).

'Traethawd ar Farddoniaeth Arwyddfeirddiol Cymru', awarded a prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod, 1845.

Miscellaneous notes and papers mainly relating to archaeological matters in Wales and Ireland.

'Anerchiad ar y lles a ddeillia i blant y dosbarthau gweithiol oddiwrth ddyfal ofaliad am eu haddysgiadau crefyddol ...' .

A transcript of an Irish grammar by James Lynch, with additional notes and extracts in Irish, Gaelic and Manx.

An address on the antiquities of Merthyr Tydfil and neighbourhood, with a note on Arthen, son of Brychan Brycheiniog.