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Two stanzas (hir a thoddaid) for an epitaph for Thomas Stephens, Merthyr, written for the Caernarvon eisteddfod, 1877; a list of students who entered the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1884; a list of missing history books in the library of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1927-9; a manuscript magazine entitled 'The "D"'; and copies of title-pages of books.

Miscellaneous papers of Owen Jones (1833-99) comprising a notebook containing a Welsh translation by [Owen Jones] of 'Antigone', dated 12 Jan. 1866 (cf. Y Traethodydd XXI (1866), pp. 176-202) and some items of verse, 1869-75; a list of book titles, 1841-90, also by Owen Jones, with some notes in pencil probably by Charles Ashton; a notebook in an earlier hand containing hymn stanzas and other items of verse in Welsh, with receipts, 1854-5, from Thomas Jones, Vrongain [Llidiardau near Bala] to various persons for rents in the Llidiardau district, 'Coste wrth adeiladu Ty'r ffridd, 1859', etc.; and other items including 'Cwrs y Byd', gan un a'i lygad yn ei ben, Llythyr viii', a letter from Owen Jones to [?the Reverend John Davies, Bontddu] (beginning wanting), a copy of a reply, 1861, from Owen Jones to Dr Edwards concerning Llanuwchllyn, some Bala College examination results [1866], 'Dau Hir a Thoddaid, Beddargraph Thomas Stephens, Merthyr (Eisteddfod Caernarfon 1877)' by 'Dyfrid Beneurog', Alban Hefin 1877, extracts from printed sources including Y Drysorfa and one or two printed items ('Cyfarfod Misol Trefaldwyn Uchaf. Rheolau Sefydlog'), etc.

Press cuttings containing obituary notices of Stephens.

A number of miscellaneous press cuttings, including one or two book reviews. Among the subjects discussed are Thomas Stephens, Merthyr (obituary notice, etc.), 'Percy Bysshe Shelley - his life in Wales and Lynmouth', the diary of Morgan Williams, Tynycoed [NLW MS 14874], Theophilus Evans, The Welsh vocabulary of the Bangor district [Oxford, 1913] by O. H. Fynes-Clinton (review by 'Jmj'), and 'Cyhoeddiadau cyfnodol y Methodistiaid' (two articles by 'Ab Risiart').