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Correspondence of David Thomas, 1907-1929, together with pamphlets, reports and other printed items relating mainly to socialism, the Independent Labour Party, workers' unions, agricultural wages, publication of Y Werin a'i Theyrnas, local committees in North Wales for improvement of social conditions, the Caernarfonshire parliamentary election, 1922, and miscellaneous unspecified subjects; incomplete copies of David Thomas's printed works, articles and parts of his thesis, 1928; account books, [c. 1878]-1910, belonging chiefly to John Williams, Bwlchgwyn, Denbighshire; a small notebook containing literary adjudications in connection with an eisteddfod at Tal-y-sarn, 1908, and translations of six stories from French into Welsh by Morfudd' [Miss H. Jones, Porth] andNehushtan' [N. El. Thomas, Swansea], entered at the Barry National Eisteddfod 1920.

The file consists of a minute book, June 1916 - December 1919, of the 'New, Era - Union Men's Sunday Afternoon Class', which was a class for ladies and gentlemen interested in social and industrial problems, and later became a class in industrial history. The minute book also appears to record meetings of the Abertillery branch of the ILP, and the Socialist Labour Party Abertillery branch, in which Ness Edwards was present in 1918. Matters discussed include Rhondda Socialist Society and the Rhondda Plebs League, [Abertillery] unofficial reform league, the Workers' Dreadnought edited by Sylvia Pankhurst, the miners' council, anti-parliamentarianism, the Communist Party, and the People's Russian Information Bureau.