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Includes letters from P. M. C. Kermode (3), Alexander MacBain, Frederic Seebohm (3), J. E. Rogers (2), J. H. Davies, John Young Evans (3), John Hobson Matthews, William C. Borlase (3), J. Fisher (3, enclosing 3 letters from Watcyn Wyn), Howel Walters, Betha Hills-Johnes (3), D. Long Price (2), Thomas Davies (2), Alan Stepney-Gulston, Henry Austin Bruce, G. O. Morgan (2), James R. Thursfield, John Owen (4), D. B. Monro, Emilia F. S. Dilke, E. B. Cowell, Isaac Foulkes ('Llyfrbryf'), E. K. Jones (2), G. Hartwell Jones, Augusta Hall (dictated), W. P. Ker, J. Hugh Edwards, Francis J. Jayne (3), Alfred G. Edwards (4), Charles Plummer, John Jones ('Ivon'), Thomas Powel, Watkin Williams ('Watcyn Wyn') (3), Thomas Levi, John Owen (3), W. A. Craigie (3), W. R. Morfill (2), J. W. Mackail, J. Romilly Allen (3, enclosing a letter from Edward Owen), Malcolm MacFarlane, George Kenyon, Henry Owen (2), J. Herbert Lewis, Samuel Smith, J. Lloyd Morgan, W. Rathbone, J. Herbert Roberts, A. C. Humphreys-Owen, D. A. Thomas, J. Bryn Roberts, D. R. Thomas, Alexander Hugh Bruce, T. K. Cheyne, John Lloyd Warden Page, D. Rhys Jones (3), Edward Laws (4), Arthur J. Evans, William Jones (2), H. W. Williams (6), G. Bowen Jones (2), H. Morse Stephens, Charles Roeder (2), A. W. Moore, Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke), Edward Stanley (3), W. Cadwaladr Davies, H. R. Reichel (2), Frank Harris, Llewellyn Thomas, John Beddoe, Theodor Mommsen (2), Rudolf Thurneysen, A. H. D. Acland, Elias Owen (2), Hugh Williams (2), Ivor James, J. Viriamu Jones, Llywarch Reynolds, and Isaac Taylor.

Twenty-nine letters, April-May 1896, discussing the proposed establishment of a Welsh (or Cymric) Institute as a meeting place for the Welsh in London. The letters are addressed to T. J. Evans as editor of the London Kelt (Celt Llundain), in which some were subsequently published.
The correspondents (listed on f. 59) include A. C. Humphreys-Owen (ff. 26-27), J. E. Morris (ff. 32-33), Sir Lewis Morris (ff. 34-35), Isambard Owen (ff. 36-37), J. Bryn Roberts (ff. 48-49), J. Herbert Roberts (f. 50), Sir John Williams (f. 55), W. Llewelyn Williams (ff. 56-58) and other prominent London Welshmen and Welsh MPs.

Letters by Lord Clwyd, 1943; Timothy Rees, Bishop of Llandaff, 1943; T. Halliwell (2), 1943; A. W. Parry, 1943; C. A. H. Green, Archbishop of Wales (5), 1941-1943; Sir J. E. Bankes (3), 1940-1943; David Lewis Prosser, Bishop of St David's (4), 1941; Alfred Edwin Monohan, Bishop of Monmouth, 1943; and others, 1936-1943, regarding the following papers: Report of the Findings of the Special Provincial Court of the Church in Wales in the matter of the Petition by Mrs Ethel Macnaghten and the Bishop of Monmouth, 1942; typescript copy of 'The Courts of the Church in Wales: A Plea for Reform', by the Rev. Prof. A. E. Morris, and letters from the same, 1942; notes relating to Chapters XI and XIII of the Constitution; papers relating to Trinity College, Carmarthen, and St Mary's College, Bangor, 1943.

The fourth of seven volumes of about six hundred letters mainly addressed to Thomas Gee and relating to a variety of subjects particularly in the fields of education, temperance reform, religious movements, and political questions. -- The principal correspondents are W. Rathbone, 1883-8; William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), 1866; Andrew Reid, 1890; Stuart Rendel, afterwards Baron Rendel, 1884-94; John Rhys, 1887; Henry Richard, 1865-86; Evan M. Richards, 1869-74; John Roberts, Liverpool and Abergele, 1869-72; J. Bryn Roberts, 1885; J. Herbert Roberts, 1891-8; H. Sandwith, 1865-77; A. Simner, 1883-9; and Thomas Stephens, Merthyr, 1887.

Some of the correspondents congratulate David Davies upon the receipt of a peerage. Includes letters from Major Charles E. Breese, J. Davies Bryan, Clement Davies MP, Rev. Gwilym Davies, Henry Neville Gladstone, Hawarden Castle, F. E. Hamer (2 letters), J. Tywi Jones, Y Darian, Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, Principal J. F. Rees, Sir John Herbert Roberts, Lord Clwyd, and Wickham Steed. There is also a draft or a copy of a letter, 5 June 1932, from Lord Davies to Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, expressing gratitude for the receipt of the earldom.