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Fifty-three files of unbound material accumulated by Bradney during the preparation of A History of Monmouthshire and containing press and proof copies, transcripts and abstracts of, and extracts from, manuscripts, deeds and documents, holograph and autograph letters, pedigrees and genealogical notes, press cuttings, etc., generally arranged under parishes. Much of the material is in the autographs of friends and official copyists. This volume contains letters, 1879-1920; and notes relating to the family of Hopkins in Monmouthshire and elsewhere, and to the family of Bradney.

Holograph and autograph letters: [Thomas] Twynog Jeffreys, Rhymney, to [John] Davies, 1904-1909 (the publication of Tannau Twynog, reminiscences of Llanddeusant), J. A. Bradney, Tal-y-coed, Monmouth, to [John] Davies, 1904-1916 (the writer's pedigree and his genealogical researches, etc.), J. Thomas Watkins, Penycae, Swansea Valley, to J[ohn] davies, 1910 (a request for the writer's pedigree), John Davies, Pandy, to Ben Price, Sydney, 1915 (consent to the betrothal of the writer's daughter Gladys to the recipient), B. T. Jones, Neath, secretary of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, to Miss [Gladys] Davies, 1917 (condolence on the death of John Davies, the recipient's father), J. L. Wheatley, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace, City Hall, Cardiff, to James H. Parry, Pandy [1917] (the death of John Davies) (incomplete), and W. A. Townsend, Bedwelty Pits, to Mrs Ben E. Price, Sydney, 1919 (an account of a peace celebration carnival) (enclosed is a photograph of John Davies's grave); pedigrees, largely of Monmouthshire interest, compiled by John Davies and J. A. Bradney (including a chart of the latter's sixteen great-great-grandchildren); a list by John Davies of 'Twynog Jeffreys Papers'; photograph [1936] of the funeral cortege of E. W. (Eddie) Thomas, Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, a native of Ferndale; press cuttings relating to the election of John Davies to be Moderator of the Calvinistic Methodist General Assembly, 1915-1916, and the funeral of E. W. Thomas, Katoomba, 1936; etc.