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The Programme of a Concert of Sacred Music to be given on June 4 1817, at Castle-Street Meeting-House, Swansea, for the benefit of the Swansea Dispensary.

'Remarks on the Advantages of the Savings Bank'. The names of the Treasurer and Trustees are given in a footnote. (Swansea: T. Jenkins).

A Notice concerning a course of 'Lectures & Recitals' to be delivered at the Bush Inn Merthyr Tydfil, on November 24-26 1824, by Mr William Simm, Teacher of Elocution.

'The Garden of Wales. Gardd Cymru' by 'Ieuan ap Iolo', Cowbridge, Aug. 12 1823. (English and Welsh verses side by side).

Verses entitled 'Britannia's Tri(umph)' beginning 'Hark, from the trump of fame!'. In the margin Iolo Morganwg has written 'God save the King. Oxford Edition'.

Verses entitled 'The Learned Hogs'. [The following Song was written by a Gentleman of Merthyr, in consequence of an illiberal and unprovoked disturbance made at the Theatre of that Place, on Friday, the 28th of May 1819, by several Travellers, who went there with the intention (as previously expressed by them) of annoying the audience with a Bugle, &c. & c. prepared for the purpose'].

(?) Part of a wrapper endorsed '(Copy of a) Certificate of the House of E. Wiliams, Cefn Cribwr as a place of Unitarian Worship, May 13th 1817'.

A Catalogue (printed) of books distributed by the Society of Unitarian Christians addressed to Mr Edward Wiliams, Cowbridge, with a reminder that he is four years in arrears with his subscription to the Society and a request that he would transmit the sum of £2.2.0 when returning his list.

Da. Davies, Castle Howel, To Revd Mr Estlin. He has lately been informed that the addressee is entrusted with the distribution of certain donations to dissenting ministers in South Wales, and that Mr Edwd Wiliams the Bard was pleased to recommend him as a worthy object of the charity. His circumstances. Draft or copy. On the dorse are 'Proposals for printing by subscription a new edition with additions [sic] of Poems Lyric and pastoral by Edwd Wiliams the Welsh Journeyman Mason'.

A Fragment (pp. 11, 14) endorsed 'Lindsey's exhortation to Aberthinians'. (Not in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg except for the endorsement).

Part of a draft of a letter from E. W. to ... -- (a Unitarian). It contains the following sentence: 'I was last summer at Brechfa with Mr Thomas Evans I made a small tablet of stone for his New meeting house ...'. Mention of Dr Disney and Dr Priestley. Crossed out.

Draft of a letter from E. W. to the Rev. ...-- (a Unitarian). If not too late, asking him to send the following books: it was a £1 note that he sent per Mr Estlin as his subscription but with respect to the amount of books he will always leave it to the discretion of those who manage the affairs of the Society.

An Extract copied or summarized from the Monthly Repository for October 1817 giving a short account of the life of Dr Estlin (1747-1817). At the end is the following note: '(I E.W. have read several of his Lecture [sic] in MS) on moral Philosophy)'.

A similar list, 'Ministers - Unitarian Socy. 1814', at Merthyr Tidvil, with the names of the members of the Committee and the Preachers.

His pleasure at hearing through his brother that the third sheet of the Cyfrinach was printed off, etc., and that the whole was expected to be in a forward state for publication about Christmas. He lost no time in communicating the above particulars to Mr Walter Davies. His letter to the addressee's son. A meeting to be held by the Gentry of Brecon on Dec. 5.

Fragment of a letter (end only).

Sending as Secretary a copy of the resolution of the Committee of the Cymmrodorion Society in Powys held at Newtown that day that a gratuity of £10 be transmitted to the addressee who is engaged in writing a History of Wales, in consideration of his great services in the cause of Welsh Literature and on account of his eminent qualifications for his important undertaking. On the dorse is a note concerning the will of Mary Basset of Lantrissent, 1720. This letter seems to have been sent to the addressee with the compliments of John Jenkins, Vicar of Kerry, co. Mont. (Franked by C. W. Williams Wynn and addressed to Mr Edward Williams, Miss Margaret Williams, Milliner, Bridgend, Glamorgan).

Sending the personal satire ('Cân i ddyn gwaeth na Diawl' [i.e. EW]) which was sent him by post from Wales in March last. He supposes the author to be the Du. 'Defend yourself like a man & it shall be put in the Welsh magazine.' He and his wife are going off for North Wales tomorrow via Liverpool &c. The Welsh Magazine is in the press. Endorsed: 'Sèn Dafydd Ddu.'

[David Samwell], 'Dafydd ddu Feddyg' to 'Iorwerth Morganwg Saer Maen Yn Nhy Gwilym Owain, ysw., No. 22 Penton Place, Pentonville'. He did not recollect that Thursday is the anniversary dinner in commemoration of the French Revolution. Engaging the addressee and Rannie, and Will Owen if he will come, to dine with him in Fetter Lane on Saturday - i.e. if he is alive, for they say troops are collecting to put them all to death. Reference to his heroic poem, the Padouca Hunt.