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Business account books of John Jones ('Pyll Glan Conwy'), 1819-1852, relating to the printing, distribution, and sale of publications, the purchase of paper, etc. Among the insets are an agreement, 1835, between Robert Roberts, printer, Holyhead, and John Jones, printer, Llanrwst, for the publication of an Almanac for 1836; and a statement of account to John Jones for the schooling of his children, 1833-1836.

Papers, 1837-1848, of John Jones, draper, Llanuwchllyn, containing catechisms and notes of sermons and addresses on temperance and theological subjects, a list of subscriptions in the Pandy district towards the Temperance Society and the cost of a new banner, 1838, minutes of a delegate meeting at 'Yr Hen Gapel', 1 December 1837, and a printed address from the Montgomeryshire Association of Temperance Societies, 1838.

One hundred and thirty holograph letters and imperfect letters, 1845-1864 and undated, written by J[ohn] Jones ('Pyll Glan Conwy'), together with some additions by his wife [Jane Jones]. The majority of the letters are written to his son Evan, printer, Portmadoc, but a few are addressed to others of his children, namely Catherine, Edward, Jane, Owen E[van(s)], and Eliza[beth Margaret]. Among the topics discussed by the writer are printing processes and the purchase of equipment; printing estimates; publications by the writer and by his son Evan; news of relatives and friends; money matters, with copious references to negotiations for loans; an invitation to Dublin Exhibition (1853); the purchase of writing slates; travelling booksellers; the exchange of publications with other publishers; an address by Kossuth; a legal action against Evan Jones; the revival of the Rifle Corps at Llanrwst; a lecture on Garibaldi by W[illiam] Rees ['Gwilym Hiraethog']; the writer's decision to discontinue the publication of books; the writer's health; the writer's gardening and farming activities; the boy Hartwell [i.e., Griffith Hartwell Jones, rector of Nutfield, Surrey]; etc. Also included in the volume are a holograph letter from D. O. D., Baptist Printing Office, Llangollen, from Bala, to [ ], 1852 (the writer's career as a printer, a recommendation for the bearer as a printer's apprentice); a holograph letter from O. Evans, Bethesda, to O. E. Jones, Llanrwst, [18]56 (personal); a holograph letter from Robert [ ], Llanrwst, to [Evan] Jones, Porthmad[o]c, undated (Llanrwst eisteddfod, the clearing of the office, personal); and a series of five 'englynion' [? to Evan Jones].

The petition [1656] of John Jones, Esquire, M.P., for such a proportion of lands in Ireland as may give him satisfaction for former services, which he had lost due to his absence on service in Ireland from 1650 (read 17 February, 1656/7); a list, 17 October (emended to February), 1656, of the members of the Committee appointed to consider the petition (mutilated); and the report, 18 March, 1656/7, of the Committee to whom the consideration of Coll. John Jones's petition was referred (mutilated), together with a copy of the same.