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Poetry transcribed by Robert Oliver Rees.

Transcripts by Robert Oliver Rees of two letters, 1848, by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd') relating to the reports of the Commissioners on the state of education in Wales.

Material relating to the life and work of Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd') collected by Robert Oliver Rees and afterwards included in Williams, W.: Cofiant a Gweithiau Barddonol a Rhyddieithol Ieuan Gwynedd (Wrexham, [1880?]).

Miscellaneous papers of Edward Griffith and Robert Oliver Rees dealing with education, religion (particularly Salem Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Dolgelley) and local affairs in Dolgelley and district; notes of sermons; hymns and poetry; a letter, 1848, from Rowland Owen, Utica to Morgan Davis ('Clochydd Llanelltud'); press cuttings; etc.

Transcripts by Robert Oliver Rees of poetical works by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd').

Transcripts by Robert Oliver Rees of some prose works by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd').

Transcripts by Robert Oliver Rees of poetry by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd').

A Hebrew-English vocabulary written, 1835, by Robert Oliver Rees.

Biographical collections by Robert Oliver Rees relating to Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'), including extracts from his diaries, 1837-1852 and from his correspondence, 1837-1851, together with a list of his prose works.

Notes on John Calvin and Michael Servetus by Robert Oliver Rees.

Miscellaneous correspondence, including letters from Lewis Williams, Llanfachreth to William Williams, schoolmaster, Towyn and to 'Cymdeithasfa fisol y Methodistiaid yn y Bala', from Robert Roberts, Cynfal Bach, Maentwrog 'at flaunoriaid y Capel Methodistiaid Tanygrisiau', from W[illiam] W[atkin] E[dward] Wynne to Angharad Llwyd, from Lewis Edwards, Bala to William Williams, Dolgelley, from Rachel Jones (widow of 'Ieuan Gwynedd'), Ellis Owen (Cefnymeusydd), John Owen (Thrussington), Robert Owen (Pennal), John Price (Oxford) and W[illiam] W[atkin] E[dward] Wynne to Robert Oliver Rees, from Thomas Edward Ellis, Edward Hughes (Wrexham), T[homas] M[orris] Jones ('Gwenallt'), Joseph Latchmore, R. Owen (Oxford), Daniel Pickard and John Vaughan (Nannau) to Edward Griffith, etc.

Letters, including a draft or copy of a letter, 1844, from Robert Oliver Rees to Mrs William Lewis, wife of a Calvinistic Methodist missionary at Cherrapoonjee, India, and an incomplete letter, 1871, from [? Hugh Roberts] a missionary on the Khasia Hills, India to Robert Oliver Rees, in which he refers to Thomas Jones.

Papers relating to Mary Jones, Llanfihangel y Pennant, Merionethshire and her journey on foot to Bala in 1800 to obtain a Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles, who was afterwards one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society. They include the original manuscript and draft copies of Robert Oliver Rees: Mary Jones, y Gymraes fechan heb yr un Beibl, a sefydliad y Feibl Gymdeithas ... (Dolgellau, 1879), press cuttings containing reviews and correspondence relating to the work and to the truth of the story, a short biographical note on Mary Jones, and letters, including two from D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh to Edward Griffith, 1909.

Miscellaneous papers of Robert Oliver Rees, including papers relating to the visit of the Cambrian Archaeological Association to Dolgellau, 1850, fragments in Breton, etc.

Papers of Lewis Williams, Llanfachreth, one of Thomas Charles's itinerant schoolmasters. They include lists of pupils attending his school at Dolgelley, 1815 and 1817, a copy of the rules and regulations of a school which he kept at Dolgelley, 1822, and lists of books supplied for these and other Sunday and day schools in Merionethshire; letters to Lewis Williams from Joshua Bywater (Barmouth), 1812, and Edward Pugh (Dolgelley), 1821, and to Edward Griffith from D. Charles Evans (Menai Bridge), 1886; notes by Robert Oliver Rees; papers relating to Evan Owen, Pant Phillip, including his certificate of ordination, 1720; etc.

A short story on the subject of temperance entitled 'I gael cartref', written by Robert Oliver Rees.

Essays and notes on scriptural and religious subjects, mainly by Robert Oliver Rees.