A notebook of the Reverend J. M. Griffiths (1870-1918), Calvinistic Methodist minister, Goginan, Cardiganshire containing an account of the opening of Dyffryn Chapel, Goginan transcribed from Y Drysorfa, 1843, pp. 244-5; and verses beginning 'Beth yw'r goedwig yn y gauaf' by J. M. Griffiths, 1917. Inset are a brief history of Dyffryn Church; a holograph letter from J. J. Morgan, Mold to [ ] Griffiths, n.d. (inability to trace a photograph), and two letters from Edward Jenkins, Llandrindod Wells to Mr [ ] Morris, 1916 (the possibility of identifying the father of William Morris Hughes, the Australian Prime Minister, with a native of Goginan).
A letter from the Reverend Professor John Young Evans, Aberystwyth to J. H. Davies enclosing printed copies ('"Pembroke County Guardian", Hwlffordd') of 'Awdl i J. H. Davies ... gan Ieuan Mynyw' [i.e. J. Young Evans], originally published in the Pembroke County Guardian, 18 November 1910.
Miscellaneous Welsh poetry by William Roberts ('Clochydd Llannor'), Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'), John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd') and others; and a report on the Sunday schools of Penygroes.
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.
A volume containing autograph poetry by Catherine Jane Prichard (Buddug), daughter of Gweirydd ap Rhys and author of Caniadau Buddug (Caernarfon, 1911); and transcripts of her poems by her husband, Owen Prichard (Cybi Velyn).
Notebook, 1971-9, in Welsh and English, comprising poetry by Kate Davies and other local country poets, including her uncle Thomas Jacob Thomas ('Sarnicol', 1873-1945), together with penillion calennig and penillion telyn, puzzles and proverbs, and references to folk customs and local traditions. Related papers, found loose inside the volume, have been filed separately (MS 23117iiD).
A miscellaneous collection of poetry including an incomplete 'pryddest' on the story of Kulhwch and Olwen written on the backs of sheets of a Birkenhead list of voters, 1876; a carol by D[avid] Lewis ('Ap Ceredigion'); a poem entitled 'Sion fy Nhaid' and a hymn by Henry Rowlands ('Henri Myllin'); a poem entitled 'Trefaldwyn' by J. R. Williams ('Tryfanwy'); poems entitled 'Gwlaw Sdiniog' and 'Cyfrinach y Tannau' by Robert Roberts ('Isallt'); an elegy on the death of Evan E. Owen, Assheton House, Ebenezer, 1883; a fragment of a song entitled 'Priodas yr Oen'; 'englynion' on Pont y Benglog taken from Tywysog Cymru, 15 Tach. 1832; English poems entitled 'The Burial of Abel', 'America', and 'Go Forward'; and selections from the writings of Rhys J. Huws written on the back of circulars relating to his Testimonial Fund, 1917.
Llyfrau nodiadau Menna Elfyn yn cynnwys ymdrechion barddoni cynnar a drafftiau o gerddi, rhai ohonynt a gynhwyswyd yn ddiweddarach ar ffurf cyflawn mewn gweithiau cyhoeddiedig megis Mwyara (1976), 'Stafelloedd Aros (1978) a Tro'r Haul Arno (1982), ynghyd â barddoniaeth gan feirdd eraill ac amrywiol ddyfyniadau.