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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).

Five note-books containing transcripts of, or extracts from, miscellaneous letters and other items including:- (a) Letters from [the Reverend] John Elias from Llanfechell, to David Ellis, London, 1801-1817 (11), [ ], 1810 (2) (possibly also to David Ellis), and the Calvinistic Methodist Church meeting in London, 1808. (b) Letters from the said John Elias from Fron [Llangefni], to the Reverend Ellis Phillips, 1840 (1 + 1 by inference); and a letter from H. Lloyd Jones, Denbigh, to Edward Peters, Caergurley, near Mold, enclosing copies of a letter from John Elias to J. V[aughan] Horne, Denbigh, and of Mr. Horne's reply thereto, 1840. (c) Letters from [the Reverend] D[avid] Charles [1], Carmarthen, to the Reverend D[avid] Griffiths [vicar of Nevern], 1812, and Miss P[hilli]ps [ Haverfordwest], 1791; [Lady] A[nn] A[gnes] Erskine, Spa-Fields [London], to the Reverend [Thomas] Charles, Bala, 1801; [the Reverend] D[avid] Griffith, [vicar of] Nevern, to [the aforesaid Reverend David Charles, Carmarthen], 1813; [the Reverend] Peter Williams, Gelly [Lednais, parish of Llandyfaelog], to his son the Reverend Eliezer Williams in Scotland, 1791; and [the Reverend] W[illiam] Williams, Pantycelyn, to Sally [Jones, Bala], 1776, and his son [? William Williams], 1786. The originals of the letters in this section are now with the correspondence in the Bala College Group of manuscripts and documents amongst the C.M. archives in the National Library of Wales. (d) Letters from [the Reverend] Rowl[an]d Hill, Wotton Underedge, to the Reverend D[avid] Charles [1], Carmarthen, 1817; Tho[ma]s Jones, Mold, to the Reverend [Thomas] Charles, Bala, 1801; Matthew Lewis, Carmarthen, to Howel Harris, Trevecka, near Talgarth, 1739; and [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Scott to the Reverend Thomas Charles, Bala, 1789. The originals of these four letters also are to be found in the aforementioned Bala College Group of manuscripts and documents. (e) The certificate issued to David Edwards of Bala, 17 January 1800, on his subscribing to the oaths denoted in the 'Act for the further relief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers . . .', a draft copy of the proposals for ordaining Calvinistic Methodist ministers [in 1811], and a copy of the questions put to candidates nominated for ordination. The original certificate and the copies of the ordination proposals and questions from which the present transcripts were made are in the aforementioned Bala College Group of documents. Copies of, or extracts from, many of the above letters (English translations in the case of Welsh originals) appear in D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles. . .