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Copies of letters from the Reverend Thomas Jones, Denbigh, etc.,

Typewritten copies of letters from the Reverend Tho[ma]s Jones (Calvinistic Methodist minister), Denbigh, to Joseph Tarn (assistant secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society), Spa Fields, London, 1813-1815 (5 + 2 by inference) (local branches of the Bible Society in Denbighshire, the supplying of Bibles and Testaments by the parent Society, problems relating to the price of Bibles, a proposed memoir of the Reverend [Thomas] Charles in English, the writer's progress with his 'Life' of Thomas Charles in Welsh [Cofiant neu Hanes Bywyd a Marwolaeth y Parch. Thomas Charles . . . wedi ei gyfieithu a'i gasglu gan y Parchedig Thomas Jones . . . (Bala, 1816)]); an obituary article on the Reverend Thomas Jones, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Carmarthen, extracted from Yr Efangylydd . . ., 1831, tt. 133-7; a letter from E[van] Evans from Shacklewell [London], to the aforementioned J[oseph] Tarn, London, 1814 (the establishing of local branches [of the Bible Society] in different parts of London, the illness of Mr. [Thomas] Charles, the writer' s experience of stereotype printing, his application to go to Russia with an acquaintance named Alexander Smith, under the patronage of the Bible Society, to set up a stereotype printing office); and a letter from John Roberts [Calvinistic Methodist preacher] from London, to his son Michael Roberts [also C.M. preacher] in Liverpool, 1803 (the writer's visit to London, matters relating to C.M. churches in London).

Letters from Daniel Jones, Wrexham,

Five holograph letters from Daniel Jones from Flint and Wrexham, to Mrs. Jones, 1841 (personal, religious reflections, the writer and [John Phillips] 'Tegidon' had read and copied 'Ychydig hanes y Parch. T. Jones ' [? the Reverend Thomas Jones of Denbigh], 'Tegidon' would like to see the works of Charles [the Reverend Thomas Charles of Bala] and ' Jones o Ddinbych' [the aforementioned Reverend Thomas Jones] republished in parts to appear every two months), his wife and family, 1842-1844 (2) ( personal), and [Mr. Parry], 1845 (2) (personal, arranging preaching engagements for recipient, religious sentiments).

Jones, Daniel, 1780-1845

Letters to Daniel Jones, Wrexham,

Eleven holograph letters, 1808-1841 and undated, addressed to Daniel Jones (at Mr. Painter's Printing Office, High Street, at Bridge Street, at Mr. R. Hughes, Church Street, etc.), Wrexham. The writers include Rob[er]t Davies , ? Llansannan, undated (instructions re a book, etc., a request for information to be sent by means of invisible ink), R. Humphreys, seaman on board H.M.S. Ulysses, Jersey, 1811 (personal), Dan[ie]l. Jones, Liverpool, 1811 (his return to Liverpool after a visit to Wales), Mary Jones [? widow of the Reverend Thomas Jones, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Denbigh], from Denbigh, 1841 and undated (2) (personal, religious reflections, her wish to dispose of the copyright of [her husband's] martyrology [Diwygwyr, Merthyron, a Chyffeswyr Eglwys Loegr . . . (Dinbych, 1813)], a suggestion that the sections of the work dealing with 'Popish persecution' be published in instalments 'as popery is so much on the increase both in England and Wales'), [the Reverend] Tho[mas Jones [husband of the aforesaid Mary Jones], Syrior and Liverpool, 1816-1817 (2) (personal, preaching engagements, differences of opinion relating to the doctrine of redemption), ? Geo[rge] Philips, Caemynydd, 1827 (requesting recipient to check a letter ? relating to the Welsh language written for publication in Y Gwyliedydd, a suggestion that the writer should translate into Welsh and publish in Y Gwyliedydd [Thomas Tregenna] Biddulph's [published] lectures on the liturgy of the Church of England, the writer's return to Oxford [ University]), Ellis Phillips, Rhos, 1831 (preaching engagements), J[ohn] Phillips ('Tegidon'), Caerlleon, [18]40 (the writer's contributions to Y Drysorfa including letters relating to [an advertised Biblical] concordance [Mynegair Ysgrythyrawl . . . wedi ei helaethu a'i orphen allan o waith . . . T. Charles, B.A., gan D. Charles, B.A., Bala (Caerlleon, 1840- , published in parts, incomplete)], a ? promised letter from recipient relating to the concordance), and Rice Price, Llanelwy, 1808 (personal, a request to recipient to ask William Jones to come to St. Asaph to keep a school).

Letters to the Reverend D. E. Jenkins,

Thirty-four letters, etc., from [the Reverend] J[ames] Spinther James [Baptist minister and historian], Llandudno, 1906 (3) (information concerning [the Reverend] David Jones [Baptist minister], ob. 1792, his wife Hannah, and his connection with [the Reverend] P[eter] W[illiams, Methodist cleric, ob. 1796] and the publication of the 'Beibl bach' [a Welsh edition of the 'Little Bible' of John Canne] in 1790, biographical notes on Lewis Richards of Llanbadarnfawr [co. ], who emigrated to America, and became co-founder and pastor of a Baptist church in Baltimore, 1785), [the Reverend] J[ohn] D[aniel] James, Cadoxton Vicarage, Neath, 1906 (a record of the burial at Cadoxton in 1820 of the Rev[erend] W[illia]m Williams, vicar of the parish, 1814-1820), R[obert] T[homas] Jenkins [head of the Department (aft. professor) of Welsh History], University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1936 (information required by the writer concerning the connection between [the Reverend] Peter Williams [Methodist cleric, ob. 1796] and Pibwr [Lwyd, co. Carmarthen], and concerning a supposed biography of [the Reverend] William Williams [ob. 1820, curate of St. Gennys, Cornwall, in the late 18th century], the writer's work on the Moravians in North Wales [The Moravian Brethren in North Wales, being vol. XLV of Y Cymmrodor, 1938]), Catherine Jones, Aberdovey, [19]03 (2) (information concerning the descendants of Jane Thomas of Lower Court Farm [parish of Llanfihangel Abercywyn, co. Carmarthen], sister of the Reverend Thomas Charles), Charles W. F. Jones [London] and Ipswich, 1907 (2) ( information concerning the Rev[erend] Hezekiah Jones [ob. 1833], the writer's grandfather), [the Reverend] D[avid] Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], Rhuddlan, 1911 (financial matters relating to the writer's church at Rhuddlan), E. Clwyd Jones, Rhyl, [19]26 (matters relating to recipient's superannuation benefit), [the Reverend] Edward Jones, Llangynhafal Rectory, 1906 (the date of burial of the Rev[erend] David Hughes (ob. 1817), one time rector of Llangynhafal), Eirene [Lloyd Jones, later White], St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Thanet, [19]25 (the writer's illness, books read during her illness, her opinion that 'Winston [Churchill] can write magnificently', the illness of [her brother] Elphin, the start made by her father [Dr. Thomas Jones, C. H. See below] on 'his history of Wales during the war', an invitation to her father to write 4000 words on Ll[oyd] G[eorge] in the Encyclopaedia Britannica), Eirene T[heodora] Jones [mother of the previous correspondent], St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Westminster, and Gregynog (Newtown), [19]33 (3) (the illness of the writer's husband [Dr. Thomas Jones, C.H. See below] and his stay at Ruthin Castle, their daughter Eirene's travels in the United States of America and Canada, their son Tristan's activities at Balliol [College], Oxford, a meeting of the trustees of the Elphin Memorial Scholarship, a visit by Thomas Jones to Bargoed to see the newly formed occupational centre for the unemployed, the Pilgrim Trust and its connection with the Nat[iona]l Council of Social Service, the undertaking by [Sir] Percy Watkins [Secretary, Welsh Department of the National Council of Social Service, 1933-1938] of visits to the unemployment areas previously undertaken by Thomas Jones, the appointment of new controllers of the Gregynog Press, plans for temporary expansion at Coleg Harlech to accommodate 30 to 40 additional students from amongst the unemployed to be trained as leaders of occupational centres), [the Reverend] J[ohn] Jones, Llandegla Rectory, Mold, 1905 (2) (a note on [the Reverend] Simon Lloyd, curate of Llandegla, 1783-1788), John Jones, Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth, 1930 (the illness of the writer's niece), the Rev[erend] J[ohn] D[avid] Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], Gellifor, Ruthin, 1913 (2) (plans ? in connection with church buildings), Kitty Idwal Jones, Swansea, undated (personal, the disappearance of the literary MSS. of [the Reverend] Thomas Jones [1756- 1820, Calvinistic Methodist minister]), [the Reverend] M[organ] H[ugh] Jones, Trevecca College, Talgarth, 1907 (enclosing a copy of a letter from [the Reverend] Peter Williams [Methodist cleric], from Caerfyrddyn, to Messures Roberts, Moses, & Co., Trevecca, 1789, relating to the proofs, etc. [of the edition of the Bible which the writer was preparing in conjunction with the Reverend David Jones. See letter from the Reverend James Spinther James above]) (the original Peter Williams letter is now Trevecka Letter 2760 amongst the C.M. archives in the National Library of Wales), the Rev[erend] Richard E. Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], from Porthcawl, [19]25 (attempts to build up a Sunday School library in the writer's church at Clydach, near Swansea, the possibility of help from the Rebecca Hussey charity, congratulations to recipient on his great biography [of the Reverend Thomas Charles]), T. Griffith Jones, Llansantffraid, [co.] Mont[gomery], 1916 (a query the writer had received concerning the diary of Richard Tibbott [1719-1798, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and Congregational minister], which he had sold to recipient), Tom Jones [Dr. Thomas Jones, C.H., Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, 1916- 1930, Secretary of the Pilgrim Trust, 1930-1945], London, 1924-1932 (4) (personal, family news, an offer to recipient of a grant from the Civil List, the distinction [degree of D.Litt.] which the University of Liverpool was about to confer upon recipient in 1932), Tom and Eirene T. Jones [Dr. Thomas Jones, as in the four preceding letters, and his wife], [London] and Sandwich, 1928-1929 (2) (personal), and W[illiam] Garmon Jones, [associate professor of History and] librarian, The University of Liverpool, 1932 (3) (recipient's application to be admitted to the degree of DLitt. of the University).

Scrap-book,

A scrap-book containing miscellaneous material (press cuttings, leaves extracted from periodicals, booklets, engraved portraits, manuscript items, etc.) relating mainly to nineteenth century Calvinistic Methodist personalities. The printed material includes biographical sketches or obituary notices of, or commemorative verses to, the Calvinistic Methodist ministers John Davies, Nantglyn, John Elias ['o Fôn'], John Hughes, Liverpool, John Hughes, Pontrobert, John Jones, Treffynnon, Thomas Jones, Denbigh, Richard Humphreys, Dyffryn, co. Merioneth, Edward Morgan, also of Dyffryn, Ebenezer Morris, John Parry, Chester, Moses Parry, Denbigh, John Phillips [principal of Bangor Normal College], Thomas Phillips, Hereford, Henry Rees, Liverpool, Ebenezer Richards, Tregaron, and William Roberts, Amlwch, and the Congregational minister Richard Knill of Chester; copies of two booklets entitled Dadl Bangor yn cynnwys sylwadau . . . ar Anghydffurfiaeth; neu Eglwys Loegr ac Ymneilltuaeth (Caernarfon, 1852), and Y Ddarlith ar Babyddiaeth, Eglwysyddiaeth, ac Ymneilldvaeth . . . ( Liverpool, 1850), containing the texts of two lectures delivered by the aforementioned Principal John Phillips of Bangor; and a copy of John Parry: Blodau y Balmwydden wedi eu hagor, neu fyfyrdodau ar fywyd . . . Thomas Glynne Jones, Mostyn (Treffynnon, 1865). The portraits are of [the Calvinistic Methodist ministers, etc.,] D[avid] Charles Davies [principal of the C.M. College, Trefeca], John Davies, Nantglyn, Lewis Edwards [principal of the C.M. College, Bala], Roger Edwards, David Howells, Swansea, John Hughes, Liverpool, Thomas Jones, Denbigh, John Parry, Chester, Thomas Phillips, Hereford, John Prytherch, Dyffryn (Anglesey), Henry Rees, Owen Richards (missionary), and Owen Thomas, Liverpool; and the manuscript items consist of a holograph copy (7 pp.) of his personal recollections, etc., of the Reverend Thomas Jones, Denbigh, by Daniel Jones, Wrexham, 1824, and a holograph note from the aforementioned Rich[ar]d Knill, to [ ], undated (personal).

Transcripts of letters from the Reverend Thomas Charles and his wife,

An exercise book containing transcripts of letters from [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Charles, Bala, to the Reverend Walter Davies ['Gwallter Mechain'], 1805 (1 + 1 by inference) (forwarding, with comments, the copy of the Welsh Bible which the writer and Tho[ma]s Jones, Ruthin, had corrected at the request of the British and Foreign Bible Society in preparation for a new edition, requesting the return of same);and Sarah Charles [wife of Thomas Charles], Bala, to Mr. Edwards, 1810 (personal).

Transcripts of letters to Joseph Tarn, etc.,

Six note-books containing transcripts of, or extracts from, one hundred and eighteen letters, 1804-1821 and undated, being mainly (from the actual addresses or by inference) letters to Joseph Tarn, assistant secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Other recipients include [Dr.] Geo[ rge] Gaskin [secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge] ( 1), the Reverend [John] Owen [joint home secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society], Fulham (1), L. B. Seeley, bookseller, London (1), and the Welsh bishops and the bishop of Hereford (circular). The writers include [the Reverend] Christopher Anderson [Baptist minister], Edinburgh, A. Clarke [? the Reverend Adam Clarke, Wesleyan preacher], Gabriel Davies, Bala, John Davies, Vronhaulog, near Bala or Corwen, [the Reverend] W[ illiam] Dealtry [aft. archdeacon of Surrey], Hertford, [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn'], from Wilderness Row [London], E[van] Evans, Shacklewell, [the Reverend] Timothy Evans [vicar of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys], Jos. Hughes, Ruthin, the Reverend David Johnston, Edinburgh (circular), the Reverend D[ avid] Jones, Holywell,. D. Jones, [? the Reverend David Jones, vicar of] Langan, John Jones, Bala, Owen Jones, Gelly, near Llanfair [Caereinion], [ the Reverend] Sam[ue]l Jones [of Kildimo, Limerick], from Holborn [London ], [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Jones [C.M. minister], Denbigh, Edmund Lloyd, Cefnfaes, Maentwrog, [the Reverend] S[imon] Lloyd [Methodist cleric], Bala, Richard Owen [Caernarvon], John Parry, Chester, [the Reverend] John Roberts, [vicar of] Tremeirchion, Rob[er]t Saunderson, Bala, L. B. Seeley, Fleet Street [London], [John Shore, 1st baron] Teignmouth [president of the British and Foreign Bible Society], Portman Square [London], John Thomas, Lodge, [ the Reverend] James Trego, Boughton, Chester, and John Walker, Chester. The letters deal mainly with the publication and distribution of Welsh Bibles and Testaments by the British and Foreign Bible Society, the activities of local branches of the Society set up in some of the counties of North Wales, and the collecting of contributions from these local branches for transmitting to the parent Society in London. Other topics referred to include a religious revival in the Bala area (No. 61 of 1818), elementary education in parts of Ireland (No. 64 of 1809) and Scotland (Nos. 65-8 of 1810-1811), a memoir of the Reverend Thomas Charles being prepared by the Reverend Thomas Jones of Denbigh (Nos. 84-5 of 1815), the Bible Society's intention of setting up a stereotype printing office in Russia (No. 88 of 1814), the publishing of Welsh versions of the Reverend Legh Richmond's tracts The Negro Servant and The Dairyman's Daughter, and of his tract relating to little Jane [i.e., The Young Cottager] (No. 95 of 1821), etc. Copies of, or extracts from, many of the above letters appear in D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles . . .