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Miscellaneous autograph letters, the correspondents including John Barrow (Prince Edward Island), Francis Buckland, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Philip Burne-Jones, John 3rd Marquis of Bute, William Benjamin Carpenter, David Charles (the younger, Carmarthen), Frances Power Cobbe, Griffith Davies, F.R.S., John Cadvan Davies (Cadvan), W. Cadwaladr Davies, G. A. Denison (archdeacon of Taunton), J. P. Earwaker, Edward Edwards (Llanuwchllyn), Sir Owen M. Edwards, John Gwenogvryn Evans, Lewis Edwards, Thomas Charles Edwards, Robert Ellis (Cynddelw), Thomas Edward Ellis, Max Förster (Munich), Thomas Frewen, W. E. Gladstone, Laurence Housman, Father Ignatius (Llanthony), John Banks Jenkinson (bishop of St. Davids), L. D. Jones (Llew Tegid), W. Basil Jones (bishop of St. Davids), Joseph Loth (Rennes), H. E. Manning, Sir Lewis Morris, J. H. Newman, Kate Norgate, James Gordon Oswald, C. T. Owen (Hampstead), Sir Richard Owen, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Joseph Parry, John Cowper Powys, J. Roland Phillips, Evan Rees (Dyfed), William Rees (Llandovery), Henry Richard, Brinley Richards, Sir John Rhys, Jeremy Taylor (a modern transcript), Connop Thirlwall (bishop of St. Davids), Brandon Thomas, William Thomas (Islwyn), Sir John Williams (first President of the National Library of Wales), Samuel Wilberforce (bishop of Oxford), and E. Llywelyn Williams (New York).

Letters, 1855-1904, of miscellaneous provenance, including letters, 1871-1894, to and from Welsh emigrants to Australia and the United States of America (ff. 11-24, 49-50, 69-70, 108-123); a letter, 1855, from the artist Penry Williams relating to a proposed visit by Lady Charlotte Guest to the Vatican; and a letter, 1857, from the Rev. Calvert Richard Jones, photographic pioneer, to his friend Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam, written from Nice. Other correspondents include Owen M. Edwards (1) 1891, Thomas E. Ellis (1) 1892, David Lloyd George (5) 1879-1892, William E. Gladstone (3) 1857-1875, Sir Lewis Morris (2) 1890-1895, Daniel Owen (1) 1885 and John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) (4) 1891-1904.

Miscellaneous papers, including an extract 'From the Mabinogion of Lady Guest' [cf. The Mabinogion ... translated with notes, by Lady Charlotte Guest (London, 1877), pp. 74-6], a list of early Welsh books (in the autograph of [Thomas Edward Ellis], an extract from Kinmel MS 76 [NLW MS 1576] relating to Thomas Lloyd of Penmaen, and a bibliography entitled '"Y Bardd Cwsc" by Elis Wyn o Lasynys' [cf. The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, Vol. IV, pp. 199-208]. There are also a number of blue wrappers from past issues of 'Beibl Peter Williams' (1770) and the Welsh edition of Cann's Bible (1790) with printed proposals, Trefecca, 1786, relating to the latter, and part of a notebook (eighteenth century), which belonged to David Jones of Bryn y Rhig near Dolgelly and others, containing a few 'englynion', etc.

Letters, 1919-1920, from 'Mair' to T. I. Ellis, an exercise book, [c. 1920], containing Greek and Latin exercises by T. I. Ellis, and papers, 1925-1940, relating to the administration of the Welsh Schoolboys' Camp Movement.

Llawysgrif, wedi ei baratoi ar gyfer y wasg, o fywgraffiad T. I. Ellis o'i dad, Thomas Edward Ellis, Cofiant: Cyfrol I (1859-1886) (Lerpwl, 1944). = Manuscript, prepared for the press, of T. I. Ellis's biography of his father, Thomas Edward Ellis, Cofiant: Cyfrol I (1859-1886) (Liverpool, 1944).
Ysgrifennwyd y llawysgrif yn bennaf ar ddalennau rhydd o lyfrau ateb arholiadau. Mae cywiriadau, arnodiadau a throednodiadau wedi eu hychwanegu mewn pensil; mae nifer o frawddegau a rhai paragraffau wedi eu dileu, yn arbennig ar ff. 2, 19, 213 a 223, ac mae newidiadau ac ychwanegiadau sylweddol wedi eu darparu ar ddalennau ychwanegol. Mae'r newidiadau yma wedi eu hymgorffori yn y fersiwn cyhoeddedig. = The manuscript is written mostly on loose leaves from exam answer books. Corrections, annotations and footnotes have been added in pencil; several sentences and some whole paragraphs have been deleted, in particular on ff. 2, 19, 213 and 223, with major alterations and additions supplied on additional leaves. These alterations are incorporated in the published version.

Papurau Undeb Cymru Fydd, yn cynnwys cofnodion, 1939-1966, gohebiaeth, 1944-1955, a chofnodion eraill y Cyngor, 1945-1963; papurau'n ymwneud â Phwyllgor Amddiffyn Diwylliant Cymru a ffurfio Undeb Cymru Fydd, 1939-1942; cofnodion a phapurau'r Pwyllgor Gwaith, 1943-1969; cofnodion ariannol, 1939-1970, yn cynnwys papurau'r Pwyllgor Ariannol, 1957-1966; cofnodion yn ymwneud â Phwyllgor Cronfeydd Deddf yr Eglwys yng Nghymru, 1953-1970; papurau'n ymwneud â'r Pwyllgor Llyfrau a chyhoeddiadau gan gynnwys Yr Athro a' calendr, 1944-1970; papurau Pwyllgor y Merched a Llythyr Ceridwen, 1955-1969; cofnodion amrywiol ganghenau, 1940-1956; papurau'n ymwneud â'r cynadleddau blynyddol, 1939-1964; papurau a gohebiaeth gyffredinol o'r brif swyddfa, 1941-1970; papurau, 1942-1948, a chofnodion, 1943-1947, Cyd Bwyllgor Undeb Cymru Fydd a'r Eglwysi; torion o'r wasg, 1939-1952; atebion i holiadur 'Ymchwil Undeb Cymru Fydd i Gyflwr Bywyd Cymdeithasol Cymru', 1943; papurau'n ymwneud ag ymgyrch Senedd i Gymru, 1950-1957; papurau'n ymwneud â materion ynglŷn â'r cyfryngau ac ymgyrchoedd, 1945-1963; papurau ynglŷn â'r iaith Gymraeg, yn enwedig mewn perthynas ag addysg, 1947-1964; papurau'r Pwyllgor Addysg, 1944-1963; papurau'n ymwneud ag Eisteddfodau Cenedlaethol, 1947-1968; papurau'n ymwneud â meddiannu tir gan y llywodraeth (Mynydd Epynt, Tryweryn, a thiroedd eraill) ac ynghylch dŵr, 1940-1958; copïau o Cofion Cymru, 1941-1946; copi llawysgrif y gyfrol Undeb Cymru Fydd 1939-1960 (1960) gan T. I. Ellis; a llythyrau at Ymddiriedolaeth Undeb Cymru Fydd. = Papers of Undeb Cymru Fydd, including minutes, 1939-1966, correspondence, 1944-1955, and other records, 1945-1963, of the Council; papers relating to Pwyllgor Amddiffyn Diwylliant Cymru and the formation of Undeb Cymru Fydd, 1939-1942; minutes and papers of the Executive Committee, 1943-1969; financial records, 1939-1970, including papers of the Financial Committee, 1957-1966; records relating to the Welsh Church Act Funds Committee, 1953-1970; papers relating to the Books Committee and publications including Yr Athro and the calendar, 1944-1970; papers of the Women's Committee and Llythyr Ceridwen, 1955-1969; records of various branches, 1940-1956; papers relating to the annual conferences, 1939-1964; general papers and correspondence from the main office, 1941-1970; papers, 1942-1948, and minutes, 1943-1947, of the Joint Committee of Undeb Cymru Fydd and the Churches; press cuttings, 1939-1952; replies to the questionnaire 'Ymchwil Undeb Cymru Fydd i Gyflwr Bywyd Cymdeithasol Cymru' (Survey of the condition of social life in Wales), 1943; papers relating to the Parliament for Wales campaign, 1950-1957; papers relating to media issues and campaigns, 1945-1963; papers concerning the Welsh language, particularly in relation to education, 1947-1964; papers of the Education Committee, 1944-1963; papers relating to the National Eisteddfodau, 1947-1968; papers relating to government requisition of land (Mynydd Epynt, Tryweryn, and other land) and water issues, 1940-1958; copies of Cofion Cymru, 1941-1946; manuscript of the volume Undeb Cymru Fydd 1939-1960 (1960) by T. I. Ellis; and letters to the Undeb Cymru Fydd Trust, 1967-1991.

The letters, 1905-1925, give family and domestic news. Some were written during travels on the Continent.

Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: T. I. Ellis; Emlyn Hooson; E. D. Jones; Jim Prior; Eirene White; Dafydd Wigley (2); Gordon Wilson.

Twenty-six autograph letters and cards, 1886-1898, from Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899), M.P. for Merioneth, to Thomas Jones, Brynmelyn, Llandderfel, and three letters, 1904, from David Robert Daniel (1859-1931) to Thomas Jones.

An autograph album belonging to Lizzie Rowlands (née Jones), Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, containing entries, 1860-1911, by R. J. Derfel, Thomas E. Ellis, William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd') and others including a number of prominent Calvinistic Methodist ministers; together with pasted-in photographs of some of the above and family memoranda. The album was originally owned by Lizzie Jones's father Evan Jones, London House, Bala (f. iv) and includes notes taken by him from sermons heard at Calvinistic Methodist Association and other meetings, 1847-1849 (ff. 1-6 verso). Items found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (NLW MS 22010iiE): a letter from Lizzie Rowlands, 1885, and from Thomas Charles Edwards, Bala, 1896, relating to Lizzie Rowlands's association with Mary Jones, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, and an address by Mrs Rowlands, 1904, containing an account of the walk to Bala to purchase a Bible as recounted by Mary Jones herself.

Letters, 25 April 1898, from Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P. (1859-1899), to David Jenkins (1848-1915), Professor of Music at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, relating to arrangements in connection with the writer's marriage.

The file comprises a number of brief notes congratulating O. M. Edwards upon his various academic successes, referring to his writing and his academic work at Oxford, sympathising on the death of Owen ab Owen and on the illness of Mrs Ellen Edwards, and discussing T. E. Ellis's writings and activities.

Comments and criticisms made by Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899) on the original draft of the introduction to Ivor Bowen: The Statutes of Wales (London, 1908).

A collection of letters addressed to various persons by Thomas Edward Ellis, Westminster, 1886, enclosing a short political address, also letters by John Castell Evans, Devonport, 1867, Evan Jones, Tredegar ('Ieuan Gwynedd'), 1845, J. R. Jones, Y Garreg Fawr, 1808, John Mills, London, 1851, Robert Owen, Aberystwyth, 1876, J. R. Prys ('Golyddan'), 1858-1860, William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), Chester, 1879, Edward Roberts ('Iorwerth Glan Aled'), Rhyl, 1851, Robert Roberts, 1835, Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), 1850, Owen Williams, Waunfawr, 1864, R. J. Williams, Aberystwyth, 1885; a letter by 'A Subscriber to the Aberffraw Eisteddfod', 1849, and a letter by Jane Edwards, Barmouth, 1909, relating to Athrawiaeth i Ddysgu Ysgrifenu, 1683.

Appeal containing approximately 6,500 petitions of signatures received by the women of Wales during the 1923 Wales Peace Petition, organised by the Welsh League of Nations Union in April-May 1923.

Most of the letters, 1896-1899, are short, giving family and personal news intermingled with reports of political life at London and other news. There are also several references to their research work on Morgan Llwyd. A few of the letters have enclosures from other correspondents.

A bilingual letter, 1895, from T. E. Ellis 'To the Electors of Merioneth'.