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One of four volumes containing a collection of nearly two hundred letters addressed to Thomas Powel. They relate to matters to Welsh education, bibliography, philology and Celtic subjects. The principal correspondents are Edward Arber, Birmingham (to Llywarch Reynolds), 1884; George Duckett Barber Beaumont, Stoke Poges (to John [sic] [i.e. Thomas] Stephens, Merthyr [Tydfil]), 1855, enclosing a copy of his Ancient Oral Records of the Cimri and referring to other Welsh poems the meaning of which could be recovered by his method of literal translation into the Aramitic [Aramaic] language; Walter Bezant [Lowe], 1878-1880; John S[utherland] Black, Edinburgh, resident editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1886-1887; G[eorge] G[ranville] Bradley, Westminster, 1889; J[ohn] Collingwood Bruce, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1886; J. Bryce, Lincoln's Inn; Charles J. Clark, printer, 1896; E[dward] B[yles] Cowell, Cambridge, 1882-1883; D[avid] Charles Davies, Trefecca, 1890; John Davies, Hampstead, 1884; John Davies, Pandy, 1896; T[homas] Witton Davies, Haverfordwest, 1890; Lewis Davi[e]s, Ferndale, 1886; W[illiam] Boyd Dawkins, Manchester, 1882; Arthur de la Borderie, 1883; J. R. Dore, Huddersfield, 1878-1889; John Duncan, Cardiff, 1890; Charles [Isaac] Elton, London, 1884; D[aniel] Silvan Evans, 1879-1883; E[van] W[illiam] Evans, Dolgelley, 1917; T[homas] C[hristopher] Evans ('Cadrawd'), 1906.

The file includes letters from Edward Anwyl, O. H. Fynes-Clinton (2), Alfred T. Davies, Ellis W. Davies, David de Lloyd, Bishop A. G. Edwards, Francis Edwards, J. Kelt Edwards (2), E. W. Evans, Frondirion, Alfred Perceval Graves, J. Spinther James, Henry Haydn Jones (5), John Morris-Jones, T. E. Nicholas, Ernest Rhys, J. Herbert Roberts, afterwards Lord Clwyd (3), T. J. Thomas ('Sarnicol'), and W. Llewelyn Williams.

The file includes letters from J. Mortimer Angus, D. R. Daniel, J. Kelt Edwards, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, E. W. Evans, Frondirion, Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, John M. Howell, Aberaeron, Professor David Jenkins, Aberystwyth, J. Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), G. Hartwell Jones, J. Ifano Jones, John Edward Lloyd, Bishop John Owen, Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon'), R. Silyn Roberts, T. F. Roberts, John Rowland, David Samuel, Aberystwyth (3), Mallt Williams, and W. Llewelyn Williams.

The correspondents include: A. W. Wade-Evans (11), 1904-1926, Beriah Gwynfe Evans (2), 1898-1924, together with papers relating to a Welsh national testimonial to Beriah Gwynfe Evans, 1920, D. Emrys Evans, 1923, D. L. Evans, the Public Record Office, London, 1923, D. Silvan Evans (4), 1897, E. Herber Evans (2), 1897, Captain Ernest Evans (4), 1907-1925, E. W. Evans, Frondirion, Dolgellau (6), 1899-1917, George Eyre Evans (4), 1900-1907, and R. Evans ('Cybi') (2), 1923 and undated.

Miscellaneous, unrelated letters, 1822-1924, on a variety of topics. Most of the early letters are addressed to recipients at Aberystwyth (including a number written to David Edwards). A number of the later letters are addressed to Sir John Ballinger. The correspondents include: J. Gwynoro Davies, 1903, O. M. Edwards, 1895, Annie J. Ellis, 1899, Thomas Edward Ellis (2), 1895-1896, Sir E. Vincent Evans, 1922, E. W. Evans, Frondirion, Dolgellau, 1917, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, 1899, J. O. Francis, 1914, H. C. Fryer, 1892, M. H. Jones, 1915, Dr Thomas Jones CH, 1919, John Owen, Bishop of St Davids, undated, Alfred Neobard Palmer, 1897, Sir John Williams, 1915, [Professor] Mary Williams, undated, and W. Llewelyn Williams, 1918.