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The file comprises an album kept by O. M. Edwards while he was an undergraduate student at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. It contains a large number of autographs, poems and cuttings, various notes, and several letters addressed to Edwards. The correspondents include J. Mortimer Angus, Lewis Edwards, Y Bala, Thomas Charles Edwards (2), Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, John Edward Lloyd and John H. Puleston. There is also a stray letter written by O. M. Edwards.

Letters and circulars, 1886-1900, relating to 'Cymdeithas y Brythonwys' ('The Cambro-Briton Society'), London, most of them being addressed to John Burrell. Among the numerous correspondents are Judge Ivor Bowen [d. 1934], Morgan Davies, W[illiam] Cadwaladr Davies [1849-1905], Sir Owen M[organ] Edwards [1858-1920], T[homas] E[dward] Ellis [1859-1899], Sir E. Vincent Evans [1851-1934], Sir Ellis Jones Griffith [1860-1926], J. Elias Hughes, Sir Lewis Morris [1833-1907], Sir T. Isambard Owen, T. Woodward Owen, Sir John H. Puleston [1829-1908], Lewis W. Roberts, R[obert] D[avies] Roberts [1874-1940], T[homas] F[rancis] Roberts [1860-1919], Sir W. Bowen Rowlands, D[avid] A[lfred] Thomas (afterwards viscount Rhondda) [1856-1918], W[illiam] ['Glanffrwd'] Thomas [1843-1890] and Sir Thomas Marchant Williams [1845-1914]. There is also a group of letters dealing with inquiries from the Reverend John Owen, Mold and others relating to the number of Welsh people resident in London who were or were not associated with places of worship.

Includes letters from Llewellyn Thomas (2), Gilbert Goudie, Henry Matthews (to Lord Balfour), Frederick York Powell, James W. Lowther, William C. Borlase (3), John Lloyd Warden Page (2, one letter to Charles Elton), Charles Elton (3), Stanley Leighton, John H. Puleston (3), Frederick A. V. Campbell (Viscount Emlyn), Stuart Rendel (11), Kuno Meyer, J. Romilly Allen (3), Thomas Gee, W. A. Craigie, John Jones ('Ivon'), H. L. D. Ward, G. F Browne, Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, Alexander Hugh Bruce, and Paul Meyer.

Includes letters from James A. H. Murray, Edward Owen, Thomas Powel, William Iago (2), Edward Anwyl (4), Thomas Owen, John R. Mowbray, A. G. Boscawen (2), Charles Roeder (2), Hugh E. Seebohm, D. R. Thomas, D. Brynmor Jones (2), T. H. Thomas (2), D. P. Alford, H. Furneaux, Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (5), John Owen, A. C. Humphreys-Owen (2), Charles Elton, Augusta Herbert, F. G. Kenyon (2), John L. Myers, Henry Owen (4), E. Sidney Hartland (2), David R. Hughes, H. W. Williams (7), Wentworth Webster, John H. Puleston (2), Hugh Williams, G. Hartwell Jones, George Coffey, Robert Cochrane (2), Richard J. Kelly, Charles Owen O'Conor (3), Reginald Bence-Jones, A. S. Napier, Alfred Holder, Douglas Hyde, W. J. Lewis, J. Edwin Odgers, George St John Colthurst, Arthur Guinness (Baron Ardilaun), Bernard Mallet, Robert Welch (2), Bernard FitzPatrick (Baron Castletown), W. A. Craigie, J. Romilly Allen (2), S. Baring-Gould (3), John Hobson Matthews, F. Haverfield, E. Vincent Evans, William Keith Leask, Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (2), Robert Burnard (2), John Garstang, J. Anderson (5), Alfred Neobard Palmer, C. E. G. Philipps, Norman Moore, E. S. Dodgson (2), Lewis Morris, H. Augusta Mostyn, Charles Mills Gayley, N. MacColl, John Edward Lloyd, Osborn J. Bergin (2), D. Hay Fleming, A. S. Green, C. A. Buckler, R. A. Stewart Macalister, Alexander Carmichael (2), Hugo Schuchardt, Edward Clodd (3), and Alexander B. Grosart.

The file includes letters from A. G. Bradley (2), D. R. Daniel, Ellis Edwards, Henry Tobit Evans, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), Major Edgar Jones MP, J. Towyn Jones, Thomas Levi, Aberystwyth, H. Elvet Lewis ('Elfed'), Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon'), Sir John Puleston, Evan Rees ('Dyfed'), Ernest Rhys, T. F. Roberts, David Samuel, Aberystwyth (2), and W. Llewelyn Williams

The file includes letters from Emrys ap Iwan, James Bryce, D. R. Daniel (2), Annie J. Ellis, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), Thomas Jones, Brynmelyn, J. Herbert Lewis, Sir John H. Puleston, A. Osmond Williams (2) and H. Cernyw Williams.

The third of seven volumes of about six hundred letters mainly addressed to Thomas Gee and relating to a variety of subjects particularly in the fields of education, temperance reform, religious movements, and political questions. -- The principal correspondents are J. Herbert Lewis, 1891; H. G. Liddell, 1866; Morgan Lloyd, 1868-85; G. Osborne Morgan, 1868-86; John Morley, 1889-94; A. J. Mundella, 1883-93; Hugh Owen, 1878-86; John Owen (afterwards Bishop of St. Davids), 1890; John Phillips, Bangor, 1865; L. P. Pugh, 1883; and J. H. Puleston, 1886.

The third of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Leone Levi, W. F. Maitland, John Matthews (Aberystwyth), Edward Miall, Sir George Osborne Morgan, Samuel Morley, Sir Lewis Morris, William Morris (Kelmscott), A. J. Mundella, Thomas Nicholas, R. Barry O'Brien, Sir Hugh Owen, Frédéric Passy, Auguste Pierantoni, Lyon Playfair, Sir Henry Ponsonby, J. H. Puleston, Alexander Raleigh, Stuart (afterwards baron) Rendel, James H. Rigg, Sir Owen Roberts, Lady Frances Russell, G. W. E. Russell, Pietro Sparturo (Naples), John Poyntz [Spencer], fifth earl Spencer, Herbert Spencer, Edward Lyulph [Stanley], fourth baron Stanley of Alderley and fourth baron Sheffield, W. Co[w]per Temple, J[ohn] Thomas (editor of Y Tyst Cymreig), Jos[eph] Thompson, G. O. Trevelyan, Cypri[e]n Valton (Turin) and J. Carvel Williams.

Letters, 1808-1885, from persons interested in social reforms, politics, and education, including John Bright, Richard Cobden, Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'), John Griffiths ('Gohebydd'), Walter D. Jerermy, Morgan Lloyd, Sir Theodore Martin, J. H. Puleston, Henry Richard, G. O. Trevelyan, Rowland Williams ('Hwfa Môn'), Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and C. W. Williams Wynn, to Samuel Roberts ('S.R.'), with drafts of replies to some of them; from 'S.R.' to his father, his brother John, and others; from John Roberts ('J.R.') to George Roberts and others; from Humphrey Gwalchmai to John Hughes; from A. Rees to J. Holden; from C. W. Williams Wynn to the electors of Montgomeryshire; and a letter of introduction to friends in America given to 'S.R.' by William Henry Channing. There are also pamphlets relating to postal and other reforms.

The last of seven volumes of about six hundred letters mainly addressed to Thomas Gee and relating to a variety of subjects particularly in the fields of education, temperance reform, religious movements, and political questions. -- The principal correspondents are Mary Jones, Denbigh, 1837; Thomas Gwynn Jones, 1911-13; Morgan Lloyd, 1884; Sir G. Osborne Morgan, 1897; William Morris, 1837; Sir J. H. Puleston, 1882; Henry Rees, 1866; William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), 1866; Lord Rendel, 1909; J. Bryn Roberts, 1898; G. W. Taylor, 1887-9; N. Walters, Mayfair, 1834; R. G. White, Dublin, 1837; Henry Williams, 1837; and J. Carvell Williams, 1869-72.

Letters and press cuttings relating to the presentation made to Joseph Parry in London on 24 July 1871 (see Dulais Rhys, Joseph Parry: Bachgen Bach o Ferthyr (Cardiff, 1998),pp. 34-36). Most of the letters are addressed to John Griffith (Gohebydd) and the correspondents include Sir Thomas D. Lloyd, Bart., Bronwydd; E. M. Richards; Robert Jones, Old Bailey; Brinley Richards; George Osborne Morgan; John Griffith, Merthyr Tydvil; Morgan Lloyd, Dolgelley; Love Jones Parry; Henry Austin Bruce; Henry Richard [signature cut away]; William Jones (Gwrgant); Manuel Garcia, Royal Academy of Music; John Griffiths, Neath; [Sir] Hugh Owen; Richard Davies, M.P.; Watkin Williams, M.P.; J. H. Puleston, London; and J. Cynddylan Jones, Barnsburgh.

A scrap-book of transcripts and a few newspaper cuttings containing 'Dywediadau Dillyn (O'r Ffrangcaeg)'; 'Diarhebion amaethyddol'; 'Hen Ddiarhebion Cymreig'; 'Diarhebion Cymreig'; a letter of Canon T. W. Farrar to Mr (aft. Sir) [John Henry] Puleston, MP, 1884 (the death by suicide of Dean Edwards of Bangor); obituary notices, 1884, of H[enry] T[homas] Edwards, dean of Bangor; 'Christmas Sayings'; miscellaneous poetry (e.g. 'A Welsh Classic' by H. H. Ballard, 'Epitaph on the Marquis of Anglesey's Leg, which had been lost at the Battle of Waterloo' by [George] Canning, 'Poem ... on Dean Stanley' [i.e. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, dean of Westminster] by H. E. O. Edwards, 'Speech Day' 1881, 'Esgob [Joshua] Hughes, Llanelwy', 1884, 'A Hymn, composed by Dean [David] Howell ['Llawdden'] of St David's and sung at his Funeral in the Cathedral Jan. 21 1903'); etc. Among the insets are 'Gweddi Brdynhawnol' [sic], a fragment of a draft topographical dictionary (comprising Mallwyd, Llan y Mawddwy, [Llang]ynyw, and Meifod), printed hymns, etc. The volume was originally a blank Catalogue and Register of a Parochial Lending Library under the sanction of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.