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An album or commonplace book originally kept at the New Inn, Llanberis. It contains a short sketch of the history of Llanberis, a note on John Closs, who died of exposure on Snowdon in 1805, with lines composed on the occasion by P[eter] B[ailey] W[illiams]; a 'Sonnet to Snowdon' by Miss Locke; odes to Snowdon, 1819; a 'Sketch of Snowdon for the benefit of sojourners at Llanberis' by Colonel Bell; a note on Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir') with an elegy by R. Williams of Vron near Mold, 1790; a sonnet by Kirke White; particulars of ashes carted, 1823-1827; and notes of visitors to the Inn, 1819.

An address presented to Alderman W. P. Williams at the annual meeting of the Town Council of Caernarvon, 9 November 1898, by the mayor, aldermen and burgesses, on the occasion of his retirement from office.

An album, begun by Sarah Wilson, 1827, containing copies of English poetry by James Montgomery, Felicia Hemans, T. K. Harvey, M. A. Browne, George Crabbe, and others. In 1883, the album was used by Padarn Davies, who copied into it the text of 'y sidg o Droea' with the following colophon: 'Gwallter Archiagon Rhydychain a droes y darn hwn o'r cronicl o Lading i Gymraeg. Ac Edward Kyffin ei ail ysgrifenodd fo i Siôn Trefor Trefalyn ysgwier pan oedd oed Crist 1577. A Dewi Siôn o Dref y rhyw yw'r trydydd ysgrifenydd yn oed ein Iachawdwr 1761, Mai-hafhing 9d. A John Prichard o Lanrwst yw'r Pedwerydd ysgrifenydd yn oed ein Iachawdwr 1775 Hydref y 9d. dydd. A Padarn Davies yw'r pymed ysgrifenydd ac ai ysgrifenodd i Gwilym Cowlyd (y ddau o Lanrwst) yn y dydd olaf or flwyddyn o oed ein Iachawdwr 1883 - Rhag. 31ain. Câr bob cywirdeb medd John Trevor Trefalyn'.

A collection of annotated Acts of Parliament relating to the following railway projects - from the River Tees at Stockton to Witton Park Colliery, and several branches therefrom, 1821; to enable the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company to vary and alter the Line, 1823, to authorize the Company of Proprietors of the Stockton and Darlington Railway to relinquish one of their Branch Railways and make another, 1824; to enable the Company to make a branch to Linthorpe, 1828; a railway from the River Tees to Heighington, 1828; to enable the Clarence Railway Company to vary and alter the Line, 1829; to amend and extend the powers of the Clarence Railway Acts, 1832; to enable the Clarence Railway Company to make Branch Railways, 1833; to extend the Clarence Railway, 1833; a declaration of the motives of the promoters of the Clarence Railway Company, 1836; plans of the Stockton and Darlington, the Clarence and the proposed Durham South West Junction Railways, and of the Coal District in the county of Durham; with press cuttings and notes on Roman antiquities mainly in Caernarvonshire.

A holograph elegy by John Rhydderch on the death of Ellis Wynne of Lasynys, 1734.

A small collection of vaticinatory prose and verse attributed to Gronw Ddu, Taliesin, Merddin Wyllt, Rhys Fardd, Iolo Goch, Davydd Llwyd, Robin Ddu, and Edward ap Rhys.

'Llyfr Amruwawg-cerdd sef Godidogol Prydyddion Cymry o gasgliad Wm. Jones, dydd pured. Mair, flwyddyn 1767' - a collection of poems and carols, including 'Carol gwyl Fair' by John Efan, 1740; 'Carol Cadair' by William Evans, 1762; 'Ymddiddan o farwnad rhwng y Byw a'r Marw, sef Wm. Cadwaladr o Llwynbigeilydd a'i wraig, un Jonet Roberts, yr hwn a gladdwyd yn Llanysdyndwy . . . 1765' by W[illia]m Evans; 'Carol Plygain, 1767', 'Carol Tan Bared', and 'Carol Cadair ar nos wyl Fair', 1768, by Dafydd Jones o'r Penrhyn ('Dafydd Siôn Siams'); 'Carol Gwyliau' (unsigned); and a series of unsigned 'carolau yn drws'; followed by 'Hen Garol Gwyl Fair' by W[illia]m Johns, 1768; 'Carol Cadair' by W[illia]m Evans; 'Cyfarchiad Mair' and 'Caniad Gwyl Fair' by Robert Owen; 'Carolau Plugain 1770-1772' by John Hughes o Garnarfon; 'Dau bennill' by Evan James; 'Ychydig o Benillion . . . Ar ddull y prydydd yn anfon ei Ddatgeiniaid y gwyliau i annerch y Mr. D. Jones o Gefn y Coed ym mhlwyf Llanfaglen gyda'i gwynfan am Dano ef, ei symud o Lanwnda i'r Rhagddwydedig Blwyf', and other poems by William Evans; 'Carol Gwyl Fair' by Siôn ap Siôn; and a fragment of a poem by 'Mr. Jones, Cefn-y-Coed'.

'Atteb vn o farn y Presbyteriaid i'r llythyr a ddanfonodd Gweinidog o Eglwys Loegr at vn o'i blwyfolion ynghylch ei fod yn neilltuo oddiwrth yr Eglwys; yn dangos 1. Mor rhydd ydyw i'r Presbyteriaid neulltuo oddiwrth yr Eglwys, a elwir Eglwys Loegr. 2. Mor wann yw'r rhesymmau am vno gyda hi, ac mor gadarn ac yscrythyrol ydyw rhesymmau y Dissenters am neulltuo oddiwrthi. 3. Mor anghywir ydyw teuru fod barn a gweithredoedd y Dissenters yn anghyttuno, a'u bod yn cyttuno A'r Papistiaid; Ac yn dangos fod mwy cyttundeb rhwng Eglwys Loegr a'r Papistiaid nac sy' rhwng y Dissenters a'r Papistiaid. . .', with 'englynion Mawl i'r Llyfr' by Jenkin Thomas of the parish of Bryngwyn, Cardiganshire. The book was written for publication in answer to a Welsh translation by G[riffith] J[ones] - Llythyr oddiwrth Weinidog o Eglwys Loegr at un o'i blwyfolion - of Edward Wells's A Letter from a Minister of the Church of England to a dissenting parishioner of the Presbyterian persuasion, 1706. In a short preface to the 'Atteb' the author refers to an English reply by Mr. James Pierse (i.e. James Peirce: Remarks on Dr. Wells his Letter to a dissenting parishioner, 1706).

Transcripts by W. J. Roberts from a manuscript by Foulk Wynn of Nantglyn ( NLW Add. MS 263B), manuscripts in the possession of Evan Evans and David Evans, Llanrwst, a list of contents (with extracts) of a manuscript in the possession of J. W. Griffith, solicitor, Llanrwst (NLW MS 6209E ); a sheet from a manuscript written by Angharad Llwyd ('englynion coffadwriaeth Ann Shearer, mamaeth teulu Mostyn' by Robert Davies, Nantglyn, 'englyn ar Gastell Conwy', 1823, by Samuel Evans, Welsh verses exchanged between Miss Cotton and Mrs R. Eyton, and a Celtic-Latin-Saxon vocabulary); and an extract from Peniarth MS 40, with variant readings from Welsh laws (?by Aneurin Owen).

Transcripts of poems submitted for competition at 'Arwest Farddonol Glan Geirionydd' held in 1895 and 1896.

Manuscripts and papers from the collection of Hobley Griffith, much of which are of literary or historical interest, and include poetry, transcripts and miscellanea by W. J. Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including transcripts and translations of sermons of his uncle, Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), together with correspondence of 'Gwilym Cowlyd' and 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'; eisteddfod adjudications by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), Ellis Roberts ('Elis Wyn o Wyrfai') and others; volumes of (mainly Welsh) transcripted poetry, including a seventeenth century volume which once belonged to and is annotated by Lewis Morris (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn'); seven manuscript volumes written by William Hobley in the preparation of his Hanes Methodistiaeth Arfon (1910-1924), together with correspondence of William Hobley; volumes of eighteenth and nineteenth century sermons, two of which contain notes by William Hobley; an eighteenth century tract relating to the disestablishment of the Welsh Dissenters from the Church of England; an elegy by John Roderick (Siôn Rhydderch) on the death of Ellis Wynne of Lasynys; autobiographical notes by Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'); annotated nineteenth century Acts of Parliament relating to British railways; a commonplace book of Llanberis interest; etc.