Two notebooks containing holograph 'cywyddau', 'englynion', 'hir a thoddeidiau', and 'caneuon' by Robert Williams ('Trebor Mai'). Almost the entire contents are included in 'Trebor Mai': Y Geninen (Llanrwst, 1869), and there are some marginal emendations and instructions to the compositor. Inset is an autograph letter, 1930, from John Ballinger, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, to J. T. Evans, Llanrwst, relating to the whereabouts of the two volumes and to the recipient's collection of items printed at Trefriw and Llanrwst.
Poems by Jonathan Hughes (1721-1805), with a few by D.E. Arthur Jones, John Jones (Llandynan), and David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri). Most of the poems by Jonathan Hughes are printed either in Bardd a Byrddau ... (Mwythig, 1778) or in Gemwaith Awen Beirdd Collen ... (Croesoswallt, 1806).
Drafts of articles relating to Welsh literature and history and to Celtic institutions; lists of Welsh words derived from English and of words common to both branches of the Celtic family; and a poem entitled 'Rhiangerdd Gwenfalwy o Gastell Caerphili' by 'Idwal Trefor', 1874.
Original poetry, essays, etc. by John A[thanasius] Jones ('Athan Fardd'), many of them written for 'eisteddfodau' in Wales and America, together with a biographical and bibliographical note on the author by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.
A copy of Telyn Haran. Sef, Detholiad o Weithiau Barddonol Dewi Haran ... (Pontypridd, 1878) and letters, 1876-1884, to David Evans ('Dewi Haran'), Pontypridd.
A volume of holograph sermons and poems by Robert Ellis, including drafts of 'Awdl ar yr Atgyfodiad', 1849; 'Gwaredigaeth Israel o'r Aipht, yn nghyd a Dinystr Pharaoh a'i lu'; 'Awdl Farwnad i'r diweddar Barch John [P.] Davies o Dredegar; 'Marwnad Gwallter Mechain'; 'Dewi Wyn yn ei gystudd', 1839; 'Galareb ar ôl Morgan Rhys', 1850; 'Cyfieithiad o Childe Harold'; and minor poems and 'englynion'.
Holograph sermon notes, poems: 'marwnad y Parch. Stephen Edwards'; 'Galargoffa am Mari Siôn o'r Ty'nrhos, Llanuwchllyn'; 'Maes Bosworth'; 'Dyfalgerdd - Cymru'; Awdl Farwnad ar ôl y Parch. E. Jones ('Gwrwst'); 'Mordaith Bywyd'; 'Marwolaeth Havelock'; 'Duchangerdd'; 'Awdl ar y Môr'; 'Beddargraffiadau', a draft autobiography, lectures, and notes by Robert Ellis.
A copy of 'Awdl er coffadwriaeth am y diweddar Goronwy Owain' composed by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), with a letter from J. O. WIlliams ('Pedrog'), Liverpool, to G. J. Williams, Birmingham.
A miscellaneous collection of hymn-tunes, anthems and a few traditional and popular tunes from Wales and elsewhere, perhaps compiled in the mid-nineteenth century and comprising various quires, bifolia and single sheets in a number of hands of the first half of the century, and bearing watermarks between 1817 (ff. 10, 24) and 1845 (f. 93). It includes works attributed to John Williams (f. 13), David Harries, Carno (ff. 14-16, 25 recto-verso, 28 verso-30, 55 verso-8, 62-6 verso) and David Richards ('Dewi Silin') (ff. 17-19 verso, inverted text). Accompanying words, where present, are mainly in Welsh. Also included are memoranda and verse in Welsh (ff. 26 verso-8) and a few annotations by Mair Richards, Darowen (f. 16a).
Two nineteenth-century tune books now joined together as one volume, the first bearing the dates 1816 and 1866 (inside covers) in the hand of Mair Richards of Darowen, and the second 1850 (inside front cover); the first part contains popular and traditional Welsh song and dance tunes, the second, English waltzes, marches and quicksteps with a few traditional Welsh tunes and hymn-tunes. Also included are an englyn attributed to M[air] R[ichards], but signed below in red by David Richards ('Dewi Silin'; 1783-1826), who may have been the first owner (part one, f. 1).
A collection, compiled c. 1911, of religious and secular verse in Welsh by Griffith Phillips ('Briwlyn'), composed c. 1880-1911, with a list of contents on ff. i-iiv. Poems found loose inside NLW MS 22755iB have been filed separately as MS 22755iiE.
