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Letters and papers from the library of Ellis William Jones of Plasteg, Bala, largely relating to agricultural co-operation in Wales, and with particular reference to the Welsh Agricultural Organisation Society Limited, Stapleton-Cotton House Limited, etc. Among them are addresses and notes; a notebok containing the names and postal addresses of officers and committee members of agricultural co-operative societies in Wales; letters from J. Nugent Harris, secretary to the Agricultural Society, 1909, Charles O. Hughes, Menai Bridge, 1925, George Florance Irby, 6th baron Boston, 1925, and R. Parry, Bangor, secretary to the Stapleton-Cotton House Ltd, 1925, with some typescript and draft replies; typescript copies of testimonials to E. W. Jones from Lord Boston, Major-General A. E. Sandbach, C.B., D.S.O., Bwlchycibau, Colonel the Hon. R. Stapleton-Cotton [of Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, etc.], R. J. Lloyd Price, Rhiwlas, Bala, 1911, D. D. Williams, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1911, and J. E. Jones, vicar of Rhosygwaliau, Bala, 1911; and cyclostyled copies of addresses delivered at the Liberal Speakers' School at Oxford and at the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge, 1925.

A group of miscellaneous deeds and documents, including a bond, 1748/9, from Edward Jones of Llwyn malli, parish of Llangwm, Denbighshire, to Roger Thomas of Henvache, parish of Llanrhaiadr yn Mochnant, for the payment of £61 7s. 0d.; a bond, 1760, from Edward Jones of Rhosynwst, parish of Llantysilio, Denbighshire, and Maurice Jones, his eldest son and heir apparent, to Edward Frank of Crumpwell, Salop, for the payment of £320; a settled statement of account, 1767-1774, between Maurice Jones and Mr. Edward Frank, touching the payment of a principal of £650 and interest; bills of costs, 1800-1827, due from Morris Edwards and Robert Jones for the conveyance of properties in Bala, etc.; notices of tithe audits for the parish of Llantisilio, Denbighshire, 1847-1863, addressed to Godfrey Tudor and John Tudor of Pentredwr, Llantisilio, and receipts for the payment of poor rate and general district rate in respect of Bache Farm, parish of Llangollen, 1859-1862; a receipt, 1855, from Thomas Edwards, Llangollen, to John Tudor, on behalf of the congregation of the Methodist chapel of Pentre'r dwr, for the payment of £3 10s. 0d. for an eight-day spring piece; vouchers, 1859-1860, to John Tudor, Pentredwfr, from the Llangollen Slab & Slate Co. Ltd., and William Clarke, general furnishing ironmonger, Llangollen; a lease, in Welsh, 1876, from Richard John Lloyd Price of Rhiwlas, Merioneth, to Margaret and Catherine Edwards of Penybont fawr, Merioneth, of properties called Penybont fawr, Penybont bach, etc., in the parishes of Llanfor, Llangower, and Llanycil, Merioneth; a voucher, 1876-1877, to Miss Edwards of Penybont from Robert Humphreys, stater, in respect of repairs to houses in Bala; undated [after 1922] typescript memoranda by Dr. Bradley Hughes, Penrhyn Quarry Hospital, Bethesda, N[orth] Wales, on the effect of slate dust on the toxins of microbes; and a typescript copy of a letter, 1926, from John Gill, c[ivil] e[ngineer], Bangor, to the Chairman and Members of the Ogwen Rural District Council, Bangor, regarding the water supply of the districts of Tregarth and St. Anns.