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Papers of, or accumulated by, [1700x1915], D. Lleufer Thomas, comprising material relating to the Welsh Land Commission, miscellaneous prose and verse, correspondence and other papers.

Returns from railway companies, corporations, tenants who had purchased their farms, etc.

Returns from North Wales landowners.

Letters, memoranda, maps and plans and other material submitted as evidence to the Welsh Land Commission by landowners, tenants and others, including notes of the evidence of Thomas E. Ellis, M.P., together with the rent receipt books, 1852-1879, of David Evans, tenant of farms on the estate of H[ugh] Powell Williams.

Tables prepared for the Welsh Land Commission showing acreage and rents of farms on the Glanllyn estate, Merioneth, the property of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart, Wynnstay.

Two lists of Welsh families in Hughesofka, Russia, sent in 1896 to Daniel Lleufer Thomas, secretary of the Welsh Land Commission, the one supplied by John J. Hughes, son of John Hughes, founder of the settlement and of the metallurgical industry established there, and the other by the Russian Embassy, together with correspondence.

Details concerning the military service of Colonel William Vaughan, Jacobite, of Courtfield, Herefordshire, extracted from the archives of the War Office, Simancas, Spain.

'Englynion' by 'Ogwenydd' [? John R. Jones, otherwise John A. Jones ('Athan Fardd')].

Original poetry, essays, etc. by John A[thanasius] Jones ('Athan Fardd'), many of them written for 'eisteddfodau' in Wales and America, together with a biographical and bibliographical note on the author by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.

An account book containing a tradesman's accounts, 1787-1789, an account of rents paid, 1803-1832, to John Hopkins, maltster, Llantrisant, Glamorgan, etc.

A copy of an address on the history of the church and parish of Saint Mellons, Monmouthshire given to the parishioners, c. 1875, by J. W. Evans, vicar of the parish from 1865 to 1894.

Letters, 1884-1911, to Daniel Lleufer Thomas, mainly containing replies to queries sent by him when preparing biographies of Welshmen for the Dictionary of National Biography. The correspondents include W[illiam] Bright, Oxford, Ellen S. Bury, Ellesmere, John Williams Cunliffe, Thomas Darlington, Griffith Evans, Brynkynallt, A. F. L. Ferry, Alex[ander] James Fenton, R. Foulkes Griffith, David Howell ('Llawdden'), C. C. James, Dept of Agriculture, Ontario, H. K. Vaughan Johnson, Gwenllian E[lizabeth] F[anny] Morgan, Brecon, C[harles] E[dward] Morris, Carmarthen, Llywarch Reynolds, J[ohn] Bryn Roberts, I[saac] Gregory Smith, Philip H[enry] Wicksteed and Eleanor M. Williams, Great Malvern.

Letters, 1896-1902, to Daniel Lleufer Thomas from Sir Owen M[organ] Edwards, Thomas Edward Ellis, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, W. Thomas, Mining Offices, Bryn-Awel, Aberdare, and W[illiam] Llewelyn Williams.

Letters to Daniel Lleufer Thomas, 1897-1899, and other papers from or relating to former masters and pupils of Llandovery School, formerly called 'The Welsh Collegiate Institution', also poetry by Llewelyn Thomas, afterwards Vice-Principal of Jesus College, Oxford. The correspondents include James W. Browne (to Llywarch Reynolds), W[illiam] Cadwaladr Davies, James Gordon, Edinburgh, H. A. James, Rugby, Evan Jenkins, Preston, T. Wolseley Lewis, N. J. Mackenzie, Edinburgh, Rupert H[ugh] Morris, T. G. Mortimer, R[ichard] Trevor Owen, E. Tryphena Phillips, Dewsbury, Llywarch Reynolds, J. E. Rogers, Abermeurig, Cardiganshire, David Samuel, Aberystwyth, William Scott, Haverfordwest, P[eter] G[uthrie] Tait, Edinburgh, D. Thomas, Garsington Rectory, near Oxford, Watkin M. Watkins and W. P. Whittington, Ruthin.

A copy of Telyn Haran. Sef, Detholiad o Weithiau Barddonol Dewi Haran ... (Pontypridd, 1878) and letters, 1876-1884, to David Evans ('Dewi Haran'), Pontypridd.

Autograph letters, 1922-1924, from William Jenkyn Jones, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist missionary in Brittany, to Daniel Lleufer Thomas, together with copies of Telen ar C'hristen: Canticou Spirituel ... (Kemper, 1895), Telen ar C'hristen (An Eil-Rann) ... (Kemper, 1910) and Canticou tennet euz Telen ar C'hristen (Kemper, n.d. [probably 1895]), all with annotations and manuscript additions by William Jenkyn Jones.

Six autograph letters, 1896-1899, from William Cadwaladr Davies, barrister-at-law, to Daniel Lleufer Thomas, and a printed copy of a memorial address to William Cadwaladr Davies delivered by Professor W[illiam] Lewis Jones at Bangor, 3 December 1905.

Original papers, letters and printed and manuscript statements submitted by landowners, tenants and others to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales, of which Daniel Lleufer Thomas was secretary, and which issued its report in 1896.

Correspondence, 1896, between Daniel Lleufer Thomas and certain Government departments in London concerning the translation into Welsh of Government and official publications.

Evidence submitted to the Welsh Church Commission, 1906-1907, dealing mainly with Nonconformity in South Wales.