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Material relating to the history of Diserth, particularly of the castle and parish church. Among them are extracts from the parish register, 1623-36; extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Royal and Historical Letters, Domesday Book, etc.), Peniarth and Harleian manuscripts, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; a note by T. Allen Glenn on an inscription in the churchyard; transcripts of letters of Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1910, and H. B. Thompson, Blundellsands, 1910; and a pedigree of the family of Hughes of Kinmel, compiled by Philip H. Lawson, Chester, 1914.

Letters and postcards addressed to Thomas Edwards. The correspondents include Sir John Herbert Lewis, Caerwys, 1912; Sir John Edward Lloyd, Bangor, 1911; Charles S. Mainwaring, Galltfaenan, Trefnant, 1904-14 and undated; Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn, 3rd baron Mosyn, 1912; Alfed Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1911; D. Rhys Phillips, Swansea, 1906; Sir John Rhys, Oxford, 1911; Ethel Stokes, Chancery Lane, London, 1915; and John Thomas ('Eifionydd'), 1905-?6.
Among the subjects discussed in NLW MSS 9002E, 9003-9004C are ancient monuments in Flintshire; the history of Prestatyn Castle; the activities of Dyserth Field Club and 'Cymdeithas Cymry Caer'; measures of the Gop, Newmarket; the friar preachers of Rhuddlan; the pedigrees of Ellis Gruffydd, 'a soldier of Calais', of Hughes of Kinmel, and of Wynne of Copa'rlenni, and of the recipient; the works of 'Talhaiarn'; and the biography of Hugh Jones ('Erfyl').