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Powerpoint presentation for the media on the Commission's second report recommendations.

Draft of a speech given by Paul Silk to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on the work of the Independent Commission on Devolution in Wales.

Notes for a talk by Paul Silk to staff of the National Assembly for Wales in April 2015 where he discusses his role as chair of the Independent Commission on Devolution in Wales and the responses of the various political parties to the Commission and its recommendations.

Notes for a talk by Paul Silk to the Study of Parliament Group on the independent Commission on Devolution in Wales.

Powerpoint presentation to stakeholders on the Commission's first report on the Assembly's powers.

Draft of a blog on the context, role and work of the Independent Commission on Devolution in Wales for the London School of Economics.

Draft of speech given by Paul Silk to Leicester University Law Department on Wales constitutional history, devolution and relations between the constituent parts of the United Kingdom.

Draft of a speech given by Paul silk to the British Academy on the work of the Independent Commission on Devolution in Wales.

Draft of a speech given by Sir Paul Silk at Aberystwyth University in March 2016 on the Independent Commission on Devolution in Wales entitled Changing Society, Changing Law.

Speech given by Sir Paul Silk at the Hay Festival on the Independent Commission on Devolution in Wales.

Briefing paper, agenda and travel arrangements for a Commission visit to Belfast on 18-19 March 2013 to look at the Scottish model of devolution.

A talk given by Paul Silk ot the Scottish Study of Parliament Group on the work of the Independent Commission on Devolution in Wales.

Briefing paper, agenda and travel arrangements for a Commission visit to Belfast on 26-28 March 2013 to look at the Northern Ireland model of devolution.

A head and shoulders portrait in pencil and watercolour of Evan Roberts looking upwards to the top left of the picture.

Draft of a letter by Paul Silk to the Prime Minister David Cameron relating to progress on implementing the Commission's recommendations in the first report.

Full-length studio portrait of a United States Serviceman, identifiable as a Technician Fifth Grade by his insignia. The negative is inscribed 'MORRIS.'

A volume containing Welsh poetry in free and strict metres, in the hand of David Evans (Dewi Dysul), Llandysul, Cardiganshire (see W. J. Davies, Hanes Plwyf Llandyssul (Llandysul, 1896, repr. 1992), pp. 253-5), mostly written by himself and relating to local events and personalities. Also included are diary entries, 1839-1872, relating to the weather and agricultural memoranda (ff. 70-81verso, inverted text).
The volume contains a Welsh carol, 1828 (ff. 1-2), Welsh poems sent as Valentines, 1850-1851 (ff. 13, 15, 33), a poem in praise of Llanover Hall, [1860s] (f. 52 verso), a poem in praise of John Hopkins (Ioan Glan Tees), 1863 (ff. 53 recto-verso), a Welsh metrical version of Mother Shipton's Prophecy, 1873 (f. 59), a poem on the death of the son of David Davies (Glan Cunllo), 1867 (f. 55 verso), and a chart of early-nineteenth century Welsh poets compiled by John William Thomas (Arfonwyson), [c. 1840] (f. 74 verso).

Letters, press cuttings and other papers, most of them relating to The Welsh Colonising and General Trading Co. Ltd (Cwmni Ymfudol a Masnachol y Wladfa Gymreig) and to Congregational affairs in Wales, etc. The papers include a list of subscribers in the U.S.A., mainly Welshmen, for shares in the Colonising Company, and letters, 1871-1911, from [R. D. Edwards] ('Derfel'), E. Herber Evans ('Herber'), H. Tobit Evans, Thomas Gee, William Grifth (Holyhead), Walter D. Jeremy, D. Ll. Jones (Ruthin, secretary of the Colonising Company), George James Jones (Findlay, Ohio, U.S.A.), J. Spinther James ('Spinther'), Lewis Jones, Michael D. Jones, R. Gwesyn Jones (Utica, U.S.A.), Wm. S. Jones (Swyddfa Baner America, Scranton, U.S.A.), Job Miles (Aberystwyth), Thomas Nicholas, Joseph Parry (Mus. Doc.), Thomas Rees (Swansea), Daniel Rowlands (Normal College, Bangor), Edward Stephen ('Tanymarian'), John Thomas (Liverpool), Robert Thomas ('Ap Vychan'), etc.

Llawysgrifau'r Parchedig William Phillips (1861-1944), Gwalchmai, yn ymwneud â'i ymweliad i Wladfa Patagonia ym 1891. = Manuscripts of the Rev. William Phillips, (1861-1944), Gwalchmai, Congregational minister, relating to his visit to the Welsh Colony in Patagonia in 1891.