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Correspondence of David Thomas, 1907-1929, together with pamphlets, reports and other printed items relating mainly to socialism, the Independent Labour Party, workers' unions, agricultural wages, publication of Y Werin a'i Theyrnas, local committees in North Wales for improvement of social conditions, the Caernarfonshire parliamentary election, 1922, and miscellaneous unspecified subjects; incomplete copies of David Thomas's printed works, articles and parts of his thesis, 1928; account books, [c. 1878]-1910, belonging chiefly to John Williams, Bwlchgwyn, Denbighshire; a small notebook containing literary adjudications in connection with an eisteddfod at Tal-y-sarn, 1908, and translations of six stories from French into Welsh by Morfudd' [Miss H. Jones, Porth] andNehushtan' [N. El. Thomas, Swansea], entered at the Barry National Eisteddfod 1920.

The Inundation. A Fragment from the Welsh, being an autograph translation, 1807, by David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) (1759-1822) of the poem beginning Seithenhin sawde allan ... in Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin, with autobiographical notes by Thomas and a note dated 9 January 1807 from him to a Mr Prett.

Record books, 1885-1912, of ship's captain David Thomas Jenkins of Aberarth, comprising a cargo book, 1885-1897, of the steamship Shakespear and an account book, 1910-1912, of the steamship Thornley, together with draft correspondence and miscellaneous memoranda.

Letters, notes, articles, drafts and other papers, 1926-1939, relating to the work later published as Animal Call-Words: a study in human migration, published in 1939; folklore material collected by some Cardiganshire schools for the Cardiganshire Schools Folklore Collection and school inspectors' reports, 1917-1926; papers relating to David Thomas's interest in the philological history of Cardiganshire, with particular reference to the Goidelic language, 1924-1936; circulars, reports and correspondence of the Cardiganshire War Savings Committee, 1916-1918; papers of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, 1910-1939; the National Library of Wales Building Fund, 1928-1930; personal papers comprising papers from his professional and academic career, 1885-1926, estate papers of his brother Daniel Jones Thomas (d. 1926), and family papers, [c. 1886]-1928; and miscellanea including manuscripts of David Thomas of Nantygwydde, 1830-1847, Mary Thomas of Pantyclochydd, 1926, Dr G. Arbour Stephens, 1912-13, J. Toriel Williams, [c. 1942-3], and J. W. Jones of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1881-1934, together with press cuttings, letters to D.T., and various notes, pamphlets and verses.

Papers of the Charles and Davies families of Brymbo, including verses, articles and notes by Daniel Davies, [c.1888]-[1920s], and scrapbooks containing material of Davies and Charles family and Brymbo area interest, 1841-[1960s].

Records of Davies Brothers, 1800-1896, and of the Cardigan branch of Swansea Old Brewery & Davies' (Cardigan) Bonded Stores Ltd., 1896-1921, including ledgers, 1872-1908, day books, 1872-1918, press letter books, 1878-1919, cash books, 1879-1912, bills, 1893-1913, order books, 1898-1921, receipts, 1904-1910, records relating to orders, 1904-1920, and letters from the company's Swansea and Pembroke branches, 1905-1920, together with a group of additional papers, [19 cent., last ¼]-[1930s], 1980. Papers of John Davies, solicitor, 1804-1883, including electoral registers for the Cardigan boroughs, 1834-1839, and papers relating to the business affairs of Daniel Davies of The Bonded Stores, Cardigan, 1878-1882.

Deeds, 1564-1865, relating to Denbighshire and Shropshire, in particular to Tregeiriog, Llangadwaladr, Denbighshire, and Whittington, Shropshire.

Many of the papers, including most of the earliest papers, consist of three small unrelated groups, relating to Tir y waun in the parish of Llansawel, 1738-1832, Cwmeinon in Caeo and Llansawel, 1793-1924, and Bryntelych in Caeo, 1782-1864. Benjamin Davies of Ffrwd-fal came into possession of Cwneinon in 1797, and his son David Davies appears to have managed Bryntelych and Cefntelych on behalf of J. Lewis of Aston Vicarage, Bristol, [1822x1835], before he came into possession of them himself in 1864, after the sale of the 'Cayo estate' in 1863. The relationship between Tir y waun and Ffrwd-fal is less clear. In 1832 David Davies was a party to a deed relating to Tir y waun, suggesting that he may have acted as agent to the Du Buisson family of Glan hir in Llandybïe, in which case the Tir y waun papers may have come into his possession as part of his agency. The archive also includes Davies of Ffrwd-fal genealogical and estate papers, 1817-1938, and letters and accounts relating to David Davies's agency of Carmarthenshire properties of David Runwa Paynter and Sophia Catherine Paynter (née Aylmer) of Dale Castle, Pembrokeshire, 1821-1859, and smaller groups of papers relating to other agency work, including rentals and other papers relating to the Rhosybedw estate, Carmarthenshire, 1839-1841, and papers relating to the executors of Mrs Margaret Jones of Gelli in the parish of Betws, Carmarthenshire, 1856-1857.

Black and white photographs of some one hundred and fifty items from the collection, including those sold at Sotheby's in 1960.

The second of two notebooks (see also NLW MS 22319B) containing a list and index compiled, 1952, by T. W. Hughes, agent to the Gregynog estate, of pictures and sculpture collected by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.
Typescript lists and rough notes found loose inside the volume have been filed separately (NLW MS 22321C).

The first of two notebooks (see also NLW MS 22320B) containing a list and index compiled, 1952, by T. W. Hughes, agent to the Gregynog estate, of pictures and sculpture collected by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire.

Typescript lists and rough notes found loose inside NLW MS 22320B.

Collection of deeds and other papers, [1310]-[1958], of Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies and Margaret Davies, including printed books, 1478-1844, papers concerning the Gregynog Press, 1922-1960, copies of books, 1923-1940, ephemera, 1927-1962, designs and drawings, n.d.; and deeds relating to properties in Montgomeryshire, 1597-1832.

Notes on the descendants of Timothy Davis of Goedtref, Llangybi, Cardiganshire, down to the year 1855, and on the Davis family of Castell Hywel.

Two copies of the pedigree chart of the Davies family of Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, co. Cardigan, compiled by Mr Peter Davies with assistance from Dr Nicola Crossley-Holland, together with a related letter, November 1996; the descendants include the Rev. David Charles, the Rev. Thomas Charles, Principal J. H. Davies, Sir O. M. Edwards and T. E. Ellis, MP.

Notes and lectures by Ceinwen H. Thomas on the folk-dances of the Nantgarw district, based on the recollections of her mother, Catherine Margretta Thomas (1880-1972). They comprise notes, c. 1953, mostly in Welsh, on performing the dances (ff. 1-27; see Dawns (1973-1974), 22-53); and lectures, 1957 and 1974, on life in Nantgarw in the early 1880s (ff. 28-43; see the Welsh Folk Dance Society News-Letter, 5 (1957), 7-11, and Roger Lee Brown, Taff's Well and Nantgarw in the 80s and beyond (Tongwynlais, 1982), pp. 2-17) and on how the dances came to be recorded (ff. 45-62; see Dawns (1973-1974), 10-22).

Photocopies of the journal for 1819 of Lady Eleanor Butler, one of the Ladies of Llangollen, and of her daybook, 1806, containing jottings of conversations and anecdotes, 1805-6.

Day book of a Llandeilo joiner. See also NLW MSS 20116-20117D. English. Vellum. Donated by Professor E. G. Bowen, Aberystwyth, July 1969.

Day book of the Rhiwbach, Bwlch y Slaters, New Welsh, Blaen y Cwm, Maenofferen and Votty and Bowydd slate quarries. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 122.) English. 1/2 leather. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.