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'Remarks on the unfair manner Mr Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus's Itinerary has quoted and treated the British history which goes under the Name of Galfridus Monemuthensis. By Lewis Morris'.

'Englynion' and other poems, some of them holograph, composed for the most part at informal meetings of bards in the house of John Jenkins, the writers including David Rowland ('Dewi o Brefi'), 'Cedewain', John Jenkins, Walter Davies, David Davies ('Dewi Fardd o Geri'), William Moses ('Gwilym Tew Glan Taf'), John Howell ('Ioan ab Hywel', alias 'Eos Glandyfroedd'), Robert Davies ('Bardd Nantglyn'), David Richards ('Dewi Silin'), Aneurin Owen, Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), Elizabeth Jenkins ('Eos y Bele'), William Ellis Jones ('Gwilym Cawrdaf'), John Jones ('wyr Dafydd Jones o Drefriw'), Hugh Jones ('Huw Erfyl'), John Hughes (author of Horae Britannicae), William Edwards ('Gwilym Padarn'), Thomas Jones ('Thomas Gwynedd', alias 'Tydain'), Daniel Evans ('Daniel Ddu o Geredigion'), Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'), Thomas Ellis ('Eos Tegeingl'), Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), William Owen ('Gwilym Glan Hafren'), John Blackwell ('Alun'), Peter Jones ('Pedr Fardd'), John Jones ('Collwyn'), and David Harris ('Kerry').

Copies, in the hand of Joseph Morris (Shrewsbury), of pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families.

A transcript made in 1828 by John Jenkins of 'The Manafon Manuscript of [Welsh] Pedigrees ... belonging to ... Walter Davies ...'.

Pedigrees of Welsh families, with additions in the hands of John Davies, Rhiwlas, Llansilin, and Walter Davies; memoranda relating to members of the family of Foulkes, Penygraig, Llansilin; englynion and other poems by Elin Foulkes, Richard Foulkes, Huw Morus, Elis Cadwaladr, Sion Morus, Mathew Owen, Morys Dafydd, Sion Cadwaladr Owen, Richard Parry (Athraw ysgol yn Roe Newbrough yn Sir Fon), Huw Llwyd Cynfal, Ellis Roberts (Elis y Cowper), Hari Howel, and Robert Humphreys (Robin Rhagad); and Pymtheg Llwyth Gwynedd.

'Llyfr Silin yn cynnwys Achau amryw Deuluoedd yn Ngwynedd, Powys, &c.', being a transcript by John Jenkins of the pedigrees contained in MS. 1666.

A treatise on central and local government in Britain, including ecclesiastical and parochial administration.

Material collected by Walter Davies and relating mainly to the parish and church of Manafon, including Manafon tithes, the enclosure of common lands, pews in Manafon church, Queen Anne's Bounty, and the British and Foreign Bible Society; prayers and sermons; a fragment of an address on reading the scriptures [? in the hand of Lewis Bagot, bishop of St. Asaph]; papers relating to the orthography of the Welsh Bible; an essay written by Efrydydd for an Amlwch eisteddfod, 1866, on Cysondeb Daiareg â'r bennod gyntaf o Genesis; a letter, April 1, 1826, from the deacons and elders of The Church of Christ meeting at the old Chapel Llanbrynmair, inviting Samuel Roberts (S.R.) to accept their unanimous call to become co-pastor of the church and assistant to his father at Llanbrynmair; etc.

'Marwnad Griffith Jenkins Kilbronne (father of John Jenkins, Kerry), yr hwn a fy farw Hydref 13th 1781', by John Jenkin (Ioan Siencyn).

An elegy on John Vaughan, Penmaen Dyfi, Merioneth, written by Merfin Dyfi for the national eisteddfod held at Aberystwyth, 1865.

'Marwnad ... Mrs Mary Jenkins, Kilbronne' [mother of John Jenkins, Kerry], by Evan James.

Three volumes of elegies by 'Y Bardd Hiraethlon', 'Cynddylan ap Callawg', and 'Gwladgarwr' on the death of John Vaughan, Penmaen Dyfi, Merioneth, probably submitted for competition at the national eisteddfod at Aberystwyth, 1865.

A statement, 1793, submitted by Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fôn) and Owen Jones (Owain Myvyr) to Cymdeithas y Cymmrodorion vindicating their adjudication upon elegies written on the death of Richard Morris (1779), with transcripts of the elegies submitted for competition by Guttun Gwrecsam [i.e. John Edwards, Siôn Ceiriog] and Richard Jones (o Drefdraeth ym Môn).

Five volumes of miscellanea by Walter Davies, including notes written when he was making a survey of North Wales, extracts from poems, Latin and Greek vocabularies, a calendar of saints' days, lists of place-names, etc.

Miscellanea, including extracts by Walter Davies from Joshua Thomas : Hanes y Bedyddwyr ... (Carmarthen, 1778).

Transcripts by Walter Davies of pedigrees of North Wales and Shropshire families, geographical notes, lists of technical words, and poems by Gwylim ap Sefnyn, Lewis Mon, Rhys Goch Glyndyfrdwy, Tudur Aled, Hywel Swrdwal, Dafydd Cilan, and Lewis Morganwg.

Two volumes of miscellaneous notes and extracts on a variety of subjects, mainly in the autograph of Walter Davies.

Miscellaneous notes by Walter Davies relating mainly to Welsh literature, history, and archaeology.

Poems by Morgan Evans (Cynllo Maesyfed), William Owen (Gwilym Glan Hafren), John Jenkins, William Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog), John Roberts (Hersedd), and John Jones (Myllin); an account of premiums and gratuities given to bards, essayists, singers, and harpists at the Powys eisteddfod, 1824; and a broadside, Byrr ystyr a gyfiaithwyd or Saisneg, ar y cymmun, ar rhwymedigaethau yr ym ni oll danynt megis dilynwyr Crist iw dderbyn (Mwythig, 1788).