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A 'Book of Quotations and General Remarks' or 'Cyfeiriadau Clasurol (Detholion)', containing extracts from, and notes on, classical and other sources, e.g. Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Virgil, Dante, John Milton, etc. The volume was originally used as a contributions book of a Workmen's Association, and some accounts for the period 1881 are preserved on the inside lower cover.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol 1. Nodion Cyffredinol' containing journal entries, personal reminiscences, and autobiographical notes by T. Eurwedd Williams for the periods 4 November 1906-6 March 1908, 25 January-24 April 1914, 13 March 1917-22 October 1919, and 8 February-29 December 1923. There are copious references to the writer's business as bookseller and stationer in Market Street, Llanelly, religious meetings at Zion Baptist Church, Llanelly, the progress of World War I, and the writer's employment in an ordnance factory at Penbre. Inset are press cuttings relating to political affairs, poetry by T. Eurwedd Williams, a post card from John Jenkins (Gwili), 1917, and aerial photographs of Llanelly. The volume used by the writer is a dummy of The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, Vol. I, A-Boë.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of the Llanelly Bank Holiday Eisteddfod, of which T. Eurwedd Williams and J. Rees Hopkins were joint secretaries, from 23 April to 30 July 1901. The remainder of the volume, beginning from the end, was used during the period 1915-1920 to record orders by T. Eurwedd Williams, on behalf of customers, for books and periodicals.

A biographical essay ('Traethawd Bywgraffyddol') on Samuel Williams, 'Sam y Gof', of Felinfoel, which was awarded the first prize by the adjudicator, the Rev. J. R. Morgan, 'Lleurwg', at an eisteddfod held at Adulam Baptist Chapel, Felin-foel, in 1890. Inset is a sheet of biographical notes, in English, in a different hand.

A list of lines of defective 'cynghanedd' compiled in 1921 from the 1873 edition by Robert Ellis ('Cynddelw') of the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym. The volume was originally (1884) used as a trigonometry exercise book, and also contains quotations from Sophocles (Oxford Classics edition). Inset is a letter, 31 October 1891, from Sir Lewis Morris, Penbryn, Carmarthen, to Thomas Williams ('Eurwedd'), Dafen, relating to the writer's nomination for Parliament.