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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.

Transcripts, extracts, and notes, [c. 1921], by E. Alfred Jones, M.A., F.S.A., London, relating to the formation and development of Volunteer Companies in Wales during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including Caernarvon and Bangor Volunteer Infantry, Loyal Newborough Volunteer Infantry, Snowdon Rangers Riflemen Volunteer Infantry, Conway Volunteers, Loyal Eifionydd Volunteer Infantry, Royal Welch Volunteers, Swansea Gentlemen Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry, Pembrokeshire Yeomanry Cavalry, etc. (see also NLW MS 11557D).
Among the papers are holograph letters, 1921 and undated, from C. E. Breese, Portmadoc; Hugh Edwardes, 6th baron Kensington; R. L. Harmsworth [1st bart.], London; J. E. Jones, Rhosygwaliau Vicarage, Bala; Ll. Wynne Jones, The Deanery, St. Asaph; Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th baron Kenyon; John T. D. Llewelyn [1st bart., of Penlle'r-gaer]; Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Mostyn, 3rd baron Mostyn; Walter FitzUryan Rhys, 7th baron Dynevor; E. C. Stevens, Wynnstay, Ruabon, for Sir [Herbert Lloyd] Watkin Williams-Wynn, 7th bart.; Bertha Turnorm, for her niece, Joan Emily Mary Campbell, Countess Cawdor; Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th earl of Lisburne; Griffith Williams, the Rectory, Llanrwst; Fred[erick] G. Wynn, Glynllivon, Llanwnda; and T. A. Wynne Edwards, Plas Nantglyn, Denbigh.