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Envelope entitled, 'Some letters and papers of interest mentioned in the memorandum of 1901'. The letters relate to the Education Bill, Church defence, and appointment as a member of the Theological Board of the University of Wales, 1900-1901.

Welsh Church Act (1914) Amendment (November 1914); Suspensory Act (1914); Amendment (January 1915); two copies of the Welsh Church (Postponement) Bill, (March 1915).

Biographical notes on the Right Reverend Bishop John Owen (1854-1926), his sons John Peredur [Perry] Owen (1884-1958), Andrew Geraint Joseph Owen (1895-1927) and his daughter Gwenonwy (Gwen) Davies (1887-1981), prepared by Denys Martin Owen Davies, together with an introduction to 'The Owen collection of letters'.

Photographs of and relating to Bishop John Owen, including a post card of his home [Ysgubor Wen] in Llanengan and of the plaque erected, together with an order form for the publication The later life of John Owen [Llandysul, 1961] by his daughter Eluned E. Owen.

The collection comprises John Owen's diaries, 1889-1926; notebooks containing press cuttings, accounts, extracts from the Bible and historical notes; and an address book (box 1); the memoirs of John Owen entitled 'College Friends', letters, 1872-1894, including many letters concerning the tithe rent charge, papers on the 1889 Welsh Intermediate Education Bill (box 2); a catalogue of the books in the library of Bishop John Owen, 1908, speeches, draft speeches and sermons, letters and papers relating to the disestablishment and disendowment of the church in Wales, papers concerning educational matters, 1891-1895 (box 3); letters, 1893-1897, many on religious matters, including issues of church reform, some of family interest, some congratulating John Owen as Bishop of St Davids in 1897 (box 4); an incomplete manuscript, the final printers' copy and the typescript text of 'The Early Life of Bishop Owen' (box 5); letters, 1898-1905, some relating to sermons and prayers following the death of Gladstone, the 1902 Education Bill, church defence, the fire at the Bishop's Palace at Abergwili in 1903, the new Bishop of Llandaff in 1905, and matters of diocesan interest, and there are also papers, 1904-1905, concerning education, Lloyd George and the Western Mail (box 6); letters, 1897-1914, some relating to the proceedings of the Welsh Church Commission, diocesan matters, church defence etc. (box 7); correspondence and papers, 1914-1917, many relating to the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales, the Welsh Church Act, 1914, and related matters (box 8); letters, 1906-1915, some relating to the role of the church in politics, education, church defence, the Welsh Church Bill etc. (box 9); correspondence and printed material, 1914-1919, concerning disestablishment, the Welsh Church Act, the Postponement Bill and the war, the tithe and disendowment (box 10); letters and papers, 1910-1926, concerning the tithe and the Welsh Church Bill, the Welsh Church Act, the Church Commissioners, matters relating to the diocese of St Davids (box 11); bundles of letters, 1922-1926, relating to church and diocesan matters, disestablishment and finance (box 12); correspondence and papers, 1914-1926, relating to disendowment, the government of the Church in Wales, the constitutions of the Governing Body and the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, drafts, notes and correspondence concerning 'The Later Life of Bishop Owen' (box 13); papers, 1907-1918, concerning Bishop Owen's life and work, including the typescript draft of 'The Early Life of Bishop Owen' (box 14); typescript drafts of 'The early Life of Bishop Owen' (box 15); manuscript texts of 'The Later Life of Bishop Owen', and miscellaneous source materials relating to Bishop Owen's life and work (box 16); papers concerning church matters, 1889-1925, including material relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, the 'Diocesan Board of Finance', the 'Million Pound Fund' appeal, commutation capital, the St Davids Board of Finance etc., together with the correspondence of Miss Eluned Owen, 1954-1965 (box 17); papers relating to voluntary and parochial contributions, 1905-1908, together with an extensive collection of press cuttings (box 18).
Additional papers (boxes 19-21) comprising the letters of Bishop John Owen, his wife Amelia Owen and their family, together with the recollections of their daughter, Gwenonwy Davies, and of her husband the Very Reverend J. T. Davies, Dean of Bangor, were received in August 2017.

Talk by Rev. W. Moelwyn Merchant., for transmission 16 Sept. 1958.

The files include letters from the Earl of Jersey (1), Sir Lawrence Jenkins (1), Major Price (5), G. E. Owen (19), Lord Dynevor (2) and Thomas Jones (2). These files contain very few letters.

Various subjects including the Governing Body, the Million Pounds Fund, diocesan matters, and some memoirs of John Owen at Oxford.

(I) An essay on the Church in Wales and its convention, by the Bishop of St Davids [1917] (2 copies); (ii) The tribunals of the Church in Wales [1917]; (iii) Further chapters of a proposed constitution for the Church in Wales (1918); (iv) An explanation of the concordat proposals, by Rev. Canon Parry, Carmarthen [1923]; (v) The chronicle of convocation, being a record of the proceedings of the convocation of Canterbury (1913); and (vi) Parliamentary debates - House of Lords, 21 Nov. 1918, vol. 32, no. 86.

Caldey Island, 1897-1911; Strata Florida, 1898; Llanthony Abbey, 1898, 1908-1909.

Official report of the proceedings of the convention of the Church in Wales held at Cardiff, Oct. 1917, together with the constitutions of the Governing Body and of the Representative Body, published by the Western Mail, Cardiff.

Carmarthen Journal, 3 and 10 Sept. 1954.

Correspondence concerning church defence, Swansea Church Congress, and the Diocesan Chancellor.

Correspondence and papers including a group of letters from Dean John Owen and Mrs Owen to Mrs Tout, 1890-1891, memories of Lampeter, and biographical notes, 1885-1954.