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Papers from the collection of William Roberts which include correspondence; sermons; miscellaneous notes and accounts; volume four of an essay in five volumes on the poets and writers of Gwent and Glamorgan; and reports and accounts relating to collieries and iron-works in South Wales.

A copy of the ballad 'Ymddiddan rhwng hen wr dall a'r Angau', followed by a religious poem beginning 'O pwy fel fi syn yn y byd yn amme ac yn credu o hyd ...'. The volume belonged to Edmund Lewis in 1763.

Eleven printed diaries (Poor Robin, Merlinus Liberatus, Merlinus Anglicus junior, The Coelestial Atlas, Tymhorol ac Wybrenawl Newyddion) for the years 1729, 1731, 1732, 1739, 1768, 1770, 1773 (2), 1778, 1780, and 1789 kept by Edmund Jones (1702-1793), of The Tranch, Pontypool, Independent minister; the entries include texts of sermons, names of places at which sermons were preached, lists of persons received into communion, sums given to charity, 'benevolences' received, horoscopic diagrams, details of books bought or lent, 'sayings and doings of erroneous men', accounts relating to the printing of the diarist's A Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the Principality of Wales, published in 1780, references to Miles Harry, Howell Harris, and William Williams, Pantycelyn, and to the followers of Daniel Rowland, Llangeitho, etc.

Miscellaneous papers of Daniel Jones (1788-1862), Baptist Minister at Liverpool, Cowbridge, Felinfoel, Tongwynlais, etc., father-in law of 'Nefydd'. They include 'Trwydded Farddonawl Daniel Jones Cwmsarnddu gerllaw Llanymddyfri; o Eisteddfod Mon, Awst 15, 1815 ...', 'Hanes C[hristmas] Evans yn Merthyr', 'Cadwraeth yr Iaith Gymraeg, trwy ddylanwad yr Ysgol Sabothol', 'Ffiniau neu Derfynau Plwyf y Blaenau neu Aberystrwyth', obituary notices of Robert Edwards (Dinas), Dafydd Bowen, etc., a note headed 'Cydunwyd fel y canlyn gan ychidig frodyr a gyfarfu yn Addoldy Heol Emwnt ar nos wener y 300 o fawrth 1821', sermon notes, etc.

'Copy of the Catalogue of the library of the late Carnhuanawc' (i.e., Thomas Price), Sunday School collection accounts, etc.

'Catalogue of Book Lots Preparatory for the Sale', compiled by W. R. R. - probably a catalogue of the library of 'Nefydd'.

Miscellaneous papers, including 'A New Plan for me at school Llansilin 1834' signed 'Wm Roberts', 'Ysgolion Cymru a Chyfroddion y Llywodraeth', 'Ansefydlogrwydd serch tuag at weinidogion yr Efengyl', a copy of a printed circular - The Advantages of Government Inspection of Schools - by W. Roberts, Agent for the British [and] Foreign School Society for South Wales, Blaina, April 17, 1855, 'Terms of Union To be subscribed by parties desirous of uniting their schools with the National Society', 'The spread of Baptist principles in Wales', etc.

Sermons written by 'Nefydd' in 1833.

Essays, etc., on various subjects, as follows: 'Traethawd ar Gyfaddasrwydd y Sefydliad Iforaidd i genedl y Cymry ... Eisteddfod Iforaidd Pontardawe 1870', 'Traethawd ar y Cymhwysderau mewn Athraw Ysgol Sabbothol. I Cyfarfod Llenyddol Ysgolion Sabbothol Blaenaugwent a Salem Blaenau', 'Traethawd ar y Daioni y mae y Beibl wedi ei wneud i ddyn fel bod moesol' and another on the same subject, two essays on 'Rhwymedigaethau Cristionogion i daenu yr Ysgrythyrau Sanctaidd trwy yr holl fyd ...', 'Traethawd ar y lles y mae Dadguddiad Dwyfol wedi ei wneuthir i ddyn Fel bod Cymdeithasol ... Eisteddfod Bryn Hyfryd, Glyn Ebwy', 'Traethawd "ar gyfaddasrwydd Crist'nogaeth i gyfarfod a dyn fel bod moesol" ... Eisteddfod Soar, Maesteg, 1857', 'Traethawd "Ar Ogoniant y Grefydd Gristnogol." Testyn rhoddedig gan Gyfrinfa Caradog Cwmfelin i Eisteddfod Llanelli ... 1856', 'Traethawd ar Yr Apostol Paul ... Eisteddfod Hermon Nantyglo ...', 'Traethawd ar y Lles y mae Datguddiad Dwyfol wedi wneyd i ddyn fel bod cymdeithasol ... Eisteddfod Brynhyfryd, 1854', 'History of Moses, Tredegar Eisteddfod', 'Traethawd ar "Athrawiaeth yr Efengyl a'i Hordinhadau"'; addresses, etc., including 'Anerchiad Mathetes i fyfyrwir Athrofa Hwlffordd ... 1865'; etc.

A notebook containing copies of poems by Goronwy Owen and others, and notes on religious and other subjects, all written [c. 1843]-1858, by D. E. Davies [?Blaenaugwent].

Notes of sermons; 'Testynau Eisteddfod Ysgol Sabbothol Salem Blaenau Gwent yn nechreu y flwyddyn 1859'; etc.

A notebook which belonged to Samuel Evans and which contains sermons.

A notebook containing sermons written by Richard Richards, Gelligaer, 'yr hwn a anwyd 20 o awst 1835'.

Two volumes of sermons.

A sermon on St. John, 25, verses 18, 19, preached at Erbistock at various times between 1788 and 1803.

Account books relating to the estates of Morgan Walters and George Thomas.

A notebook used [c. 1873] in connection with the Sunday School at Salem, Blaenau.

The original manuscript of 'Ymgais at roddi crynodeb o "Hanes dechreuad Mary Lwyd, neu y Pen Ceffyl a ddygir yn gyffredin yn amser Nadolig mewn llawer rhan o'r Dywysogaeth ..." ' by, and in the autograph of, 'Nefydd' and published as part of his Crefydd yr Oesoedd Tywyll ... (Carmarthen, 1852).

'"On Christian Activity". The Circular Letter From the ministers and Messengers of the Several Baptist Churches of the Old Welsh Association', in the autograph of 'Nefydd', 1845.

Miscellaneous essays: 'Rhwymedigaethau Cristnogion i daenu yr ysgrythyrau Santaidd' by David Marks Jones ('Perthegwenin Castellnewydd yn Emlyn'), 1854, 'Gogoniant y Grefydd Gristnogol' by Daniel Jones, 1856, 'Hanes Helwriaethau y Cymry o'r dechreuad hyd yn awr', by 'Deio y Cynydd', i.e., Daniel Davies, Dowlais, and a portion of an essay entitled 'Ieithyddiaeth'.