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Lecture notes and one letter, 1940, relating to the history of Llanrwst and Denbighshire, particularly in the context of J. Lloyd Williams's own life. A card advertising his lecture entitled 'Reminiscences of an old Denbighshire Town', for the Denbighshire Society in London, February 1938, is also included.

Plays and sketches written by J. Lloyd Williams and other family members, apparently for the use of literary societies in the Cricieth area.

Manuscript or typescript copies and press cuttings of short stories and essays, written under various pseudonyms but probably by J. Lloyd Williams himself. The majority were published in the Western Mail and Y Faner. Some items included relate to Welsh music or botany.

The correspondents include Llew Owain (2), Thomas Parry (6), Iorwerth Peate (6), D. Rhys Phillips (5), Evan Roberts, Llandderfel (17), R. E. Vaughan Roberts (8), R. Gwylfa Roberts (2), Robert Roberts ('Isallt') (5), Arthur Somervell (2), Mansel Thomas (1), and Undeb Cymanfaoedd Canu Alawon Gwerin Cymru (12).

Numerous collections of folk songs and hymn tunes accumulated by J. Lloyd Williams before and during his period as Editor of the Journal of the Welsh Folk-Song Society, including material which he himself had recorded and items submitted to him by others. Indexes, lists, related notes and press cuttings are also included.

Manuscript volumes, previously in the possession of musicians, collectors or precentors, and accumulated by Dr J. Lloyd Williams. Many were evidently acquired by him from J. H. Davies, Cwrt-mawr, and contain mainly folk songs and hymn tunes, recorded in eighteenth and nineteenth century Wales.

Hymn tunes collected, [mid-19 cent.], by John Harris of Llechryd, Cardiganshire, and John Thomas of Llanrug. A poem by 'Ebeneser Clynog' (possibly Eben Fardd) appears on the inside back cover.

Mainly hymn tunes.

Hymn tunes.

A volume of hymn tunes.

A volume of hymn tunes and anthems.

A volume of traditional Welsh airs, [c. 1830]x[1853], which came into the possession of Mary Richards, Darowen, c. 1853. Two Breton airs, with verses, are also included (ff. 65v and 66r).

A composite volume containing two treatises in Welsh on angling and musical theory, three lists of tune titles, and a large collection of tunes, compiled by John Thomas for the violin, some from printed sources and others written down from oral tradition. The tunes have been published, with related notes, in Cass Meurig (ed.), Alawon John Thomas: a fiddler's tune-book from eighteenth-century Wales (Aberystwyth, 2004).

A composite volume comprising a manuscript copy of an English text-book entitled 'An introduction to Psalmody, of Tuning the Voice, with several Graces necessary to Harmony'; extracts from a book on the 'Keyed Bugle'; a Welsh treatise on music; and a few Welsh and English airs.

A volume of traditional Welsh airs belonging to William Peate, Llanbrynmair.

A large number of hymn tunes from the collection of Ellis Williams ('Ylltyr Eryri'), Dolgellau, transcribed [1850x1900].

A volume of mainly Welsh and English airs and songs collected by Evan Jones ('Ifan y Gorlan'), harpist, of Gorlan, near Llanrwst. A list of contents in J. Lloyd Williams's hand is included.

A volume of Welsh and English airs, songs, hymn tunes, anthems and psalms. Harp lessons are also included.

A small volume of miscellaneous English and some Welsh musical pieces, mostly without words.