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A collection consisting mainly of essays and literary extracts by Stephens. Some of the works were submitted as competitive pieces at eisteddfodau.

The original manuscript of Stephens's Welsh version and English translation of 'Y Gododin' of Aneurin Gwawdrydd [6th century], with an introduction and explanatory notes, as submitted for competition at the Cymreigyddion y Fenni eisteddfod held at Abergavenny, 1853, together with adjudications and emendations in the hand of Dr Meyer; 'englynion'; letters; and press cuttings.

'An Essay on the Etymology and Early History of Caerphilly Castle', awarded a prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1848, with additional notes, press cuttings and extracts from printed works by G. T. Clark, G. G. Francis, etc.

'An Essay on the Advantages of Resident Gentry', awarded a prize at the Rhuddlan royal eisteddfod, 1850.

'An Essay on the Origin of the English Nation', submitted for competition at the Chester national eisteddfod, 1866, together with a copy of a Report of the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Chester, September, 1866.

Problems and examples relating to mechanics and mathematics.

'An account of Druids, Druidic Customs, Druidic Symbols and Alphabet'.

Breton verses, in the form of a dialogue between Breton people and Welsh people, sung at a meeting of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society by Count Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué [1815-1895], with a Welsh translation by Stephens.

A draft essay entitled 'Wales, its aspects and prospects'.

An essay entitled 'On the Question whether the Druids sacrificed human beings', written for a Cymreigyddion meeting at Swansea, 1841.

Three essays written in 1840 entitled 'Y buddioldeb i ddyn o arferiad ei reswm ...', 'The history of human civilisation', and 'Hanes gwareiddiad dynolryw'.

A transcript of an Irish grammar by James Lynch, with additional notes and extracts in Irish, Gaelic and Manx.

'An essay on the Anguinium Ovum - the Oak Mistletoe &c. with a History of the Druids, their customs, &c., and an account of the Druidic Alphabet'.

'An Essay on the evils arising from killing salmon out of season and when full of spawn', written for a competition organised at Merthyr Tydfil by Thomas Hennay, 1844, together with a Welsh translation, the rules relating to the competition and a copy of an Act relating to salmon fisheries passed by Parliament in May 1843.

Notes, mainly relating to the Welsh language, its relation to other European languages, and its grammar and orthography, together with a printed letter by [Robert John Pryse] ('Gweirydd ap Rhys') and Stephens 'Att y Llenorion appwyntiedig yn Llangollen i drefnu Orgraph y Gymraeg', etc.

An essay entitled 'Dyfodiad Fitzhamon i Forgannwg'.

An essay entitled 'Traethawd ar y Sefyllfa yr hon a berchenoga y Iaith Gymraeg yn mhlith y Ieithoedd o'r hanniad Celtaidd ...'

'Anerchiad ar y lles a ddeillia i blant y dosbarthau gweithiol oddiwrth ddyfal ofaliad am eu haddysgiadau crefyddol ...' .

Extracts, mainly by Stephens, from printed sources, such as The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales and works by John David Rhys, Humphrey Lhuyd and Edward Jones ('Bardd y Brenin'); transcripts from Welsh pedigrees in British Museum Harleian MS 3859; and material relating to the alleged existence of the Welsh or White Indians - 'Y Madogwys'.

Notes on [Johann Kaspar] Zeuss: Grammatica Celtica (Leipzig, 1853).