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A volume containing miscellaneous accounts and memoranda for the period 1688-1711 with additional later entries for the years 1756-1758. The financial entries for the period 1688-1711 record, inter alia, sums received in respect of the sale of oats, barley, and livestock, payments made in respect of servants' wages and work done by ? labourers and craftsmen, rents received and rents still in arrears, and sums of money borrowed, and the memoranda for the same period refer to the movement of cattle to and from the mountain (the name Pant Tywyll occurs frequently in this context), the number of sheep and lambs shorn (the phrase 'at the Castle' occurs frequently in connection with shearing), etc. There is also an account of 'talladges' received from the overseers of five hamlets [in the parish of Merthyr Tudful, co. Glamorgan] in 1693 towards the repair of a highway, an account of money received and expended in respect of Merther Bridge in 1699, and a valuation of the parish of Merther Tydvill as divided into five hamlets in 1702. Place-names which occur in various entries in addition to that of Merthyr are Aberdare, Bedwellty, Carphilly, Eglwys ilan, Kellygare, Mynyth yslwyn and Vaynor. The entries for 1756-1758 include an account of money received from various individuals towards the 'minstery' in 1756 in the hamlet of Garth [? in the aforesaid parish of Merthyr] and for the same purpose in 1757 in an unspecified place.

The file contains letters to J. E. Powell from Thomas Gee, A. C. Humphreys-Owen, John Eiddon Jones and Harry Reichel; a letter regarding an article written by Thomas Gee (enclosed) and a request by John Humphreys, journalist for the Liverpool Daily Post, 1896, requesting an article in response. It also includes drafts of speeches; invitations to the opening of the new Aberdare Hall, 1895; the installation of H. R. H. Prince of Wales in Aberystwyth, 1896, and the opening of a new building at the Bangor County School for Girls, 1897; a draft of the Intermediate Education Wales Bill; together with a scheme for Intermediate Education Constitution and Powers of Education Commissioners Finance.

Essays, etc., on various subjects, most of them submitted for competition by various writers, as follows: 'Traithawd ar Effeithiau Niweidiawl Penboethni a Phleidiaeth Grefyddawl &c. &c... . Eisteddfod Iforaidd Cendle ...', 'Traethawd ar ragoriaeth y Bibl fel llyfr yr Ysgol Sabbothol ... Eisteddfod Aberdare', 'Y Prif Wyliau Iuddewig ... Eisteddfod Pontardawe ... 1870', 'Traithawd ar Onestrwydd ... Buddugol yn Nghyfarfod Llenyddol Tredegar, 1865', 'Traithawd ar "Y moddion mwyaf effeithiol i ddyrchafu cysur y gweithiwr" ... Eisteddfod Brynhyfryd ... 1853', 'Traithawd ar Fuddioldeb Gwybodaeth, yn enwedig i'r Bobl Weithgar ... Cyfrinfa Odyddawl Llaneurwg, 1850', 'Traithawd ar yr Ysgol Sabbothol ... Cymdeithas Iforaidd Casbach ... 1852', 'Aberdulais Eisteddfod ... 1860 ... An Essay on "The Advantages of Education to the Working Classes"', 'The Antiquity of the House of Tredegar or the Descendants of Ivor Hael' [? for a Newport eisteddfod], and 'The Inconsistency of Affection towards Christian Pastors'.

The file comprises material relating to the 1966 General Election, with election leaflets of Alistair Wilson (Aberdare), Jim David (Neath), Julian Tudor Hart (Aberavon), Arthur True (Rhondda West), Bill Jones (Swansea East), Eddie Jones (Pontypool), Annie Powell (Rhondda East), and Bob Hitchon (Llanelli), and other papers relating to their campaigns.