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A journal of a tour throughout North Wales undertaken by Thomas Edwards, who owned an ironmongery business in Chester, 2 -21 May 1842.

Letters, 1881-1889, addressed by Thomas Edward Ellis from Cynlas, the House of Commons, and Cannes, to J. Gwynoro Davies; with holograph addresses by Thomas Edward Ellis on the occasion of the presentation to him of a national testimonial and on the Welsh Land Commission; and autograph entries by T. E. Ellis and Ellis Jones Griffith.

Letters, 25 April 1898, from Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P. (1859-1899), to David Jenkins (1848-1915), Professor of Music at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, relating to arrangements in connection with the writer's marriage.

The original manuscripts of addresses and speeches given by Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P. (1859-1899), all of them on subjects relating to Wales.

Material collected by Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P. and Principal John Humphreys Davies in preparation for the publication, by the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, of Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd, including notes, facsimiles of the autograph of Morgan Llwyd, transcripts from printed and manuscript sources, part of the first volume (which was edited by T. E. Ellis) and letters containing bibliographical and other information, most of them written to T. E. Ellis by Sir John Ballinger, J. Glyn Davies, John Humphreys Davies, Daniel Silvan Evans, Edward Griffith (Springfield, Dolgellau), Messrs Jarvis and Foster (Bangor), Sir John Edward Lloyd, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Sir John Williams, bart, etc.

Commonplace book, 1838-1839, of Thomas Edmans of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, containing poetry, temperance tracts, transcripts, etc.

Speculum Juratoris (ff. 1-129), a theological treatise in six parts on swearing, by Thomas de Wygenhale, canon of the Praemonstratensian abbey of West Dereham and vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge, fl. 1384-1406. The first quire is wanting. The treatise is also known from BL Harleian MS 148. On ff. 129-130v is a treatise on blasphemy, also attributed to Thomas de Wygenhale, which does not occur in the Harleian MS. All copied by one hand.

The King's Oracles by Thomas Coulle, alias J. Craven Thomas (d. 1927), being the manuscript, prepared for publication, with illustrations, of poems described by the author as a collection of unrecorded tales and writings for the most part attributed to King Arthur and his court, together with transcripts from 'the ruined seats of ancient British learning ... and Songs of the long silenced Bards'.

Sermons written in 1823 by Thomas Clement, Bryngroesfach, Llanelly.

Letters, 1879-1894, from Thomas Charles Edwards, Aberystwyth and Bala, to J. Gwynoro Davies, Barmouth.

'A booke of sundrye and divers noats of evidences, of tymes, and wyttnesses of Cheshire, Lancashire, Wales, etc., collectede and written by Thomas Chaloner', 1592. The first section of the book consists of abstracts, made in 1592-3, for genealogical purposes, by Thomas Chaloner of Bridge Street, Chester, 'student of the Lawe of Armes and Armory', of documents relating to the families of Gamull of Kneghton, Venables and Leighes, Vawdray, Newton, Leighton, Molyneux, Heskayth, Grosvenor, Cholmondeley, Holland, Savage, Dutton, Trevor, and others. The remainder of the book (ff. 77-181) contains an extensive collection of genealogies with arms in trick, all written in a hand of the early seventeenth century, with an index to the entire volume by the same hand.

Seventeen letters, 1788-1791, 1803-1812, from the Rev. Thomas Burgess, bishop of St David's and later of Salisbury, to the Classical scholar, the Rev. Charles Burney, mainly concerned with the publication of Greek and Latin texts (ff. 1-29); together with six letters, 1816-1818, from Burgess to the Rev. Liscombe Clarke, later Archdeacon of Salisbury, relating to the compilation of diocesan returns for the see of St David's (ff. 30-41).
Two further letters, 1826, to an unnamed correspondent, concern versions of the New Testament and academic matters (ff. 42-45). There are references to a number of writers and Classical scholars including Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (ff. 1 recto-verso, 2 verso) and Thomas Twining (ff. 4-5, 9), and to the funeral of Thomas Warton (f. 6). For three of Burney's letters to Burgess, 1788, see John S. Harford, The Life of Thomas Burgess D.D. (London, 1840), pp. 123-124, 126-129, 131-132.

A manuscript containing a translation by Alcwyn C. Evans (1828-1902) of a Latin document relating to the arbitration, 1278, of Richard de Carew, bishop of St Davids, in a dispute between the Prior of St John the Evangelist's Priory at Carmarthen and John ap Richard, perpetual vicar of St Peter's Church, Carmarthen; a letter, 21 February 1858, from Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), Keswick Hall, Norwich to Thomas Brigstocke (1809-1881), artist, inquiring his charges for painting a copy of a portrait of Dr Thomas Young by Sir Thomas Lawrence; proclamations by two Arabic potentates, 1861, granting a safe-conduct to Europeans.

The first of two manuscripts containing transcripts of records and genealogical notes relating to Cardiganshire, Radnorshire and Merionethshire collected, 1903-1915, by Thomas Allen Glenn (1864-1948).

The second of two manuscripts containing transcripts of records and genealogical notes relating to Cardiganshire, Radnorshire and Merionethshire collected, 1903-1915, by Thomas Allen Glenn (1864-1948).

The second of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

The first of two volumes of manuscripts called Genealogical notes relating to the ancestry of the people called Quakers in Wales and Early meetings of the people called the Quakers in North Wales, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1920.

The first of two volumes of copies of inscriptions on tombstones in Newmarket Church, Flintshire, with notes on the history of the parish transcribed from manuscript sources by Thomas Allen Glenn.

The second of two volumes of copies of inscriptions on tombstones in Newmarket Church, Flintshire, with notes on the history of the parish transcribed from manuscript sources by Thomas Allen Glenn.