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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.

A bill for vesting the real Estate, late of Elihu Yale, Esq.; deceased, in Trustees, with a pedigree, by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, of the descendants of Elihu Yale, and a copy of the will of Lewis ap Griffith ap Ieuan of Llewenny, 1565.

A printed sale catalogue, August 1932, of Glynllivon Park, Llanwnda, Caernarvonshire, with marginal notes by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, and press cuttings.

A copy of Hanes fy Mywyd a'm Gwaith by W. J. Parry, Coetmor Hall, Bethesda, reprinted from Y Cronicl, 1908- , with an 'In memoriam' leaflet for Mary Parry, his wife, manuscript notes by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda and printed matter.

Miscellanea, including incomplete adjudications by Owen Jones on essays on the antiquities of the vale of Conway ('Henafiaethau Dyffryn Conway'), the foundation of Maenan Abbey ('Sefydliad Mynachlog Maenan'), etc.; the Elementary Certificate of the Tonic Sol-fa College awarded to William Rowland Williams, 1889 (the signatures include that of David Jenkins, examiner); a typescript copy of a poem in Welsh on the secession of Edward Stephen ('Tanymarian') to the Tory Party in 1874, with an accompanying note by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, to the effect that the verses were printed on the back of a postcard addressed to W. J. Parry, Bethesda, in 1877; mounted cuttings from The North Wales Chronicle, 19 October, 1934, of a report by R. D. Roberts on 'Two Gold Half Nobles of Richard II ... found in Caernarvonshire' [the one at Llanfairfechan and the other at Gerlan, Bethesda], together with manuscript notes by the author; and a typescript copy of verses by A. S. Hamilton, Union Bay, British Columbia, entitled 'Little Dyvie' [i.e. David Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.], printed in a Canadian newspaper during the Great War (1914-1918).

An elaborately bound volume lettered 'Trade Tokens (XVII century) Wales', containing a copy of George C. Williamson: Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in [Wales] by Corporations, Merchants, Tradesmen, Etc. [1889], together with marginal and interleaved annotations and copious additions in the hand of R. D. Roberts, Bethesda. Bound into the volume are a holograph letter, [19]03, from James W. Lloyd, Kington, to R. D. Roberts, and a note [1914] in the hand of John Ward, F.S.A., National Museum of Wales, both documents relating to a Holyhead token.