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A glossary of Welsh common, personal, and place-names, purporting to trace their derivation from Greek.

'Llyfr Newydd Cyfochraeth ... Enwau, Ymadroddion, Traddodiad, Chwedloniaeth, a Llên, Groeg-Cymraeg, wedi eu Taflennu'n Gyfochrol, a'u hegluro ag enghreifftiau o'r clasuron. Y Gyferbyniaeth yn ol Arddull Deheubarth Cymru. Gan Gerwyn Wyn', being a glossary, with index, purporting to trace from Greek the derivation of Welsh (especially Carmarthenshire) common, personal, and place names. The volume was submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Caernarvon, 1935.

A file of loose sheets containing an essay, written in September 1933, on the eastern affinities of the Welsh Arthurian romances, entitled 'Cyfochraeth Rhamant Arthur A Chwedlau Dwyreiniol. Gyda Dyfyniadau Helaeth Eglurhaol ar y Chwedlau Cymreig'.

A file of loose sheets containing summaries, with notes, of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi; and an essay on the Greek and other affinities of the tales, written in 1929 and entitled 'Ystyriaethau Ar y Mabinogion Cymraeg. Cais I'w Dehongli Drwy Gyferbyniaeth Gyfochrol Y Chwedlonau Groegaidd a Rhai Gwledydd Eraill'.

A file of loose sheets containing notes ('nodiadau cofion') on the history of Llanelly; and abstracts, 1864-1893, from a register of Maescanner Baptist Church recording payments to the minister, the Rev. Phillip Phillips, and to visiting preachers and lecturers.

A file of loose sheets containing reminiscences, biographies, and other notes relating to the history of Dafen, near Llanelly, and compiled during the period 1927-1933.

An essay on old members of Maescanner Baptist Church, Dafen.

A volume entitled 'Hen Gymeriadau', written circa 1890 and containing reminiscences of residents of Dafen and especially of early members of Maescanner Baptist Church. There are also reminiscences of John Rhys Morgan, 'Lleurwg', minister of Zion Baptist Church, Llanelly. The volume contains two pages of notes on Welsh grammar, and may have been originally intended for that purpose.

Notes by T. Eurwedd Williams on his early life at Dafen ('Nodiadau Personol. Math o Hunangofiant'); together with a note on the place-name Dafen, the names of emigrants from Dafen to the United States of America and Australia, a biographical note on John Rees, pastor of the English Baptist Church, Pontrhydyrynn, notes on the associations with Dafen of Principal Silas Morris of the Baptist College, Bangor, John Jenkins (Gwili), and Gwilym Evans, colliery proprietor and eminent chemist, of Llanelly, and lists of eminent natives of Dafen and of members of the Dafen Brass Band. The autobiography contains copious references to the writer's early education and to the development of Dafen Tin Works.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol II. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period 2 January 1924-27 April 1935. The majority of the entries consist of observations on domestic and international politics. There are also references to some of the literary awards made at the National Eisteddfod held at Pontypool in 1924. Inset are miscellaneous press cuttings.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol III. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period May 1925-April 1926. The entries relate to domestic and international politics, the writer's removal to Chester, the writer's donation of nearly one thousand books to Llanelly Public Library, the death of the Rev. J. Towyn Jones, M.P., and of Arthur Mee, Welsh place-names, Welsh grammar, the works of Xenophon and Aristotle, numerals used by Cumberland shepherds, etc. Also included in the volume are lists of dialect words from the Llanelly district and of Welsh land measurements.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol IV. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period April 1926-December 1927. The entries relate to the writer's removal to Whitchurch in Salop, the general strike, domestic and international politics, the opening of Llanelly Public Library, the study and teaching of Welsh, the eclipse of the sun, the death of the Rev. Charles Davies, Cardiff, and of Thomas Williams (Brynfab), etc.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol V. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period January-27 September 1928. The entries relate to domestic and international politics, Welsh orthography, the death of Thomas Hardy and of Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, emigration to Australia, the National Eisteddfod held at Treorchy, reminiscences of persons who played a prominent part in the public life of Llanelly, etc.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol VI. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period 2 October 1928-3 January 1930. The entries relate to domestic and international politics, Welsh orthography, the decline of the Welsh language, the bilingual problem in Wales, the forthcoming National Eisteddfod at Llanelly, the death of Sir John Morris-Jones and of J. B. Rees (Morleisfab), Llangennech, the general election, cancer research, etc. Inset are a few miscellaneous press cuttings.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol VII. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period January 1930-4 March 1931, and relating to domestic and international politics, the death of Dr. J. Gwenogvryn Evans, the National Eisteddfod at Llanelly in 1930, the absence of adult Welsh classes in the Llanelly area, etc. Inset are miscellaneous press cuttings and notes.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol VIII. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period 18 March 1931-3 July 1932, and relating to domestic and international politics, the balance sheet of the Llanelly National Eisteddfod (1930), Welsh orthography, the writer's visit to Llanwrtyd, the publication of a history of Zion Baptist Church, Llanelly, the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and of Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, etc.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol IX. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period 6 July 1932-14 January 1934, and relating to domestic and international politics, the death of the Rev. J. O. Williams (Pedrog), a proposed edition of a biography of the Rev. Daniel Davies (Y Dyn Dall), Welsh inn names, etc. Inset are a few miscellaneous press cuttings.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol X. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period 17 January 1934-14 February 1936, and relating to domestic and international politics, the last publication of the South Wales Press printed at Llanelly, the writer's mother's recollections of the Merthyr riots of 1830, 'penny readings' held at Dafen during the writer's childhood, the death of Sir Edward Elgar, etc. Inset are a few miscellaneous press cuttings.

A volume entitled 'Llopion Llên', compiled during the period 1930-1934, containing press cuttings of Welsh literary and antiquarian interest ('Welsh Sidelights', 'Llên Gwerin Morgannwg', etc.).

An interlinear translation into Welsh by Thomas Eurwedd Williams of the Greek text of sections 34-45 ('Croesus ac Adrastus'), 84-88 ('Croesus a Cyrus'), and 108-122 ('Cyrus, Astyages a Harpagus'), of the first book of the Histories of Herodotus, with short Greek-Welsh vocabularies at the end of each section; and a short Greek-Welsh vocabulary based upon Sophocles's Antigone.