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Sermon notes by J. Gwynoro Davies.

Sermons largely by R[ichard] A[bbott] Jones, Baptist minister successively at Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, and Swansea. The majority of the sermons are dated within the period 1851-1875.

Sermon notes by Titus Lewis and Hugh William Jones ('Yr Utgorn Arian'), Baptist ministers at Carmarthen.

Seven home-made booklets containing sermon notes in the hand of David Rees [Calvinistic Methodist preacher, of Bronnant, co. Cardigan]. Each note-book contains the notes of one sermon; four are dated 1861, 1871, 1873, and 1887, respectively.

A volume of sermons lettered 'Pregethau Cymraeg 8'. The sermons were preached at Caerleon, 1765-1773, Malpas, 1761-1771, Llanhennock, 1761-1772, St Woollos, 1761-1773, and Tredynnock, 1772. All except two are in the same hand, probably that of Thomas Evans. The last two sermons are in different hands, one dated 1727, and the other, undated, in a slightly earlier hand.

A volume of sermons preached during the period 1723-1731 by R. E.? at places in Anglesey and possibly in Caernarvonshire, e.g. Penrh[os], Penm[o]n and Llanfaes. Some of the sermons were preached also during the period 1793-1803.

Notebooks containing sermons in Welsh, ca. 1866-1869. There is a draft letter from William Owen (see 561, below) to officers of Llanddona chapel on p. 144 of MS 23144.

Six notebooks containing notes of sermons. Five are in the hand of Timothy Evans (d. 1837), vicar of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin, Cardiganshire, and contain sermons which were preached during the period 1797-1812 at Llanb[adarn Trefeglwys] and Kilk[ennin], Llandewi [Aberarth], Llandinol, Llansantffraed, and Kiliau [Aeron]. The sixth notebook contains a sermon in another hand which was preached at Llanbadarn Trefeglwys and Cilcennin on 8 July, 1787, and which bears the inscription 'By V. Davies'.

A volume containing nine autograph sermons by the Reverend Hugh Davies ('Hywel Ddu o Arfon', d. 1909), curate of Glasinfryn, co. Caernarfon, 1876-83, afterwards serving with the South American Missionary Society at Chubut, Patagonia, with details of the date and place of delivery, 1871-9 and 1906-8, together with an index of texts (f. i verso).

A manuscript containing sermons preached at Llandrillo, Llanddeiniolen, Llansantffraid, Llanllechid, Clynnog, etc., 1813-1833, possibly by J. Hughes, together with a few hymns, one of them by Evan Jones.

A volume of early nineteenth-century sermons in Welsh by the Reverend James Davies (1767?-1860, DWB), Baptist minister of Ffynnonhenri and Horeb, Rhydargaeau, co. Carmarthen.

A file of press cuttings kept by W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), including reports of 'eisteddfodau' held at Llanrwst, 1876-1904.

A volume containing press cuttings, 1887-1898, relating mainly to the Tithe War in Wales, including an index at the front of the volume.

Thirty deeds and documents, 1657-1914, relating to properties in Broad Street and Scotland Street, Presteigne, Radnorshire, with copies of two wills of inhabitants of Presteigne, Radnorshire, 1764 and 1823, and a letter of administration, 1824.

Printed material, leaflets, newsletters and circular correspondence relating to trade unions, pressure groups and left-wing organizations, c 1970s-80s, including the Communist Party Welsh Congress, 1972; the Welsh Committee Against Racialism, 1977; Defence of Trade Unions Committee, 1977; the Wales for the Assembly Campaign, 1977-9; Llafur: the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, 1978-9; Gwynedd CND, 1981; the National Left, 1982; and the National Union of Mineworkers, 1984-5; together with a pamphlet by the British and Irish Communist Organization entitled Is Wales a Nation?, 1972; three issues of Mirror on Rural Scotland, 1982-3; an issue of The Communist, undated; and a pamphlet by Plaid Gwerin Cymru entitled Capitalist Socialism, Capitalist Nationalism and Socialist Nationalism, undated.

Atgofion teipysgrif David Morris Lewis yn dwyn y teitl 'From Prison to Prison', yn ymwneud â'i yrfa yng ngharchardai Wakefield, Wandsworth, Amwythig, Abertawe, Dartmoor, Caerloyw, Canolfan Gadw Brynbuga ac Albany, Ynys Wyth, 1937-1971. / Typescript recollections of David Morris Lewis entitled 'From Prison to Prison', relating to his career in the prison service at Wakefield, Wandsworth, Shrewsbury, Swansea, Dartmoor, Gloucester, Usk Detention Centre and Albany, Isle of Wight, 1937-1971.

A copy of the publication given to James Ifano Jones by its author William Williams, Keeper of Printed Books at the National Library of Wales, and annotated by the recipient who was a Welsh Librarian at Cardiff City Library.

An extract from the proceedings of the Epiphany Quarter Sessions for Cardiganshire, 1826, signed by the Clerk of the Peace, presenting Rees Jones, Nantremenin, Llandysul 'as a fit person to serve the office of chief constable for the lower Division of the Hundred of Moyddyn for the year ensuing in the Room of John David Jones ...'.

The fonds comprises research material relating to drovers and drove roads in Wales, and in other parts of Britain and Ireland, reflecting R. G. Avent's interest in the subject. The papers include manuscript notes, notebooks and offprints from journals and magazines, together with some related publications. Also included is a card index containing references to relevant printed sources, some of which are cross-referenced with the notes.

A manuscript by R. J. Edwards entitled Incidents of the Great War which burst out in Europe in 1914, as seen at Ruthin. The narrative is continued until July 1921.