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Miscellaneous deeds and documents, and other stray items, 1830-[c. 1920], mainly of Aberystwyth interest.

A volume recording insurance payments, 1830-1864, on properties and the lives of persons mainly in the Aberystwyth area, details of policies etc.

Richards's Universal Daily Remembrancer for 1858 kept by W. H. Thomas of Aberystwyth and bearing full entries for most days of the year containing details of business and commercial transactions.

Miscellaneous, stray letters, 1867-1903, relating mainly to legal matters and cases.

Miscellaneous papers of Flintshire interest, 1658-1877, letters to Gwilym Cowlyd, 1859-1907, various poems, 1857-1902, many submitted for various eisteddfodic competitions, eisteddfodic adjudications by Gwilym Cowlyd, 1877-1898, and his pocket notebooks, 1874-1901.

Miscellaneous papers mainly of Flintshire interest, 1658-1877. They include a notice announcing the choice of churchwardens for the parish of Ysceifiog for the year 1658; 'Sayings & Depositions of Witnesses', taken July 1759 at Whitford in a case pending in the ecclesiastical court of St Asaph; a waggon and cart licence, November 1784, issued to a resident of the parish of Whitford; resolutions reached at a meeting of the Commissioners of the Land Tax acting for the hundred of Coleshill, held at the Red Inn, Northop, October 1803; an administration, 1805, of the will of a testator from Garthgelynnen Fawr, Pennant, county Montgomeryshire; a list, January 1813, of the old men and old women of the parish of Llanasa who each received a donation of one shilling; deeds, 1877, relating to property at Llanrwst, county Denbighshire; and an undated notice issued by the Committee of the County of Flint that they 'have no factions or seditious objects in view' etc.

A notebook endorsed 'Moulsdale Grammar School, Llanrwst, March 14, [18]59' and with entries for the period 1852 to 1880 and containing mathematical equations, poetry, transcripts from the old account book of Owain Gethin Jones and other accounts etc.

Adjudications, 1877-1895, many undated, by Gwilym Cowlyd for various eisteddfodau, together with copies of some of the poems and a few related letters and press cuttings.

Miscellaneous cards and tickets, 1889-1924 and undated, collected by J. H. Davies. They include calling cards, readers' tickets, invitations and admission cards, menus and toasts, and annual membership cards. They relate to events at, among other institutions, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the University of Wales, the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, the National Library of Wales, the National Eisteddfod and the Welsh Bibliographical Society.

Sermon notes, in a large number of different hands, in both Welsh and English.

Most of the cuttings are taken from Y Goleuad, Celt Llundain, and the Western Mail.

Various Christmas cards sent to the Davies family.

Miscellaneous notes, [?1890]-[1926], on a very wide range of subjects and issues, mainly in the hand of J. H. Davies.

The correspondents include: Herbert M. Vaughan (10), 1914-1925, T. J. Waddingham, Plas Hafod (2), 1922, Morgan Watkin (10), 1915-1925, Percy E. Watkins, 1916, Charles Webster (9), 1922-1926, Dame Olive Wheeler (2), 1925 and undated, and Professor A. E. Zimmern (7), 1919-1920 and undated.

Miscellaneous, unrelated letters, 1822-1924, on a variety of topics. Most of the early letters are addressed to recipients at Aberystwyth (including a number written to David Edwards). A number of the later letters are addressed to Sir John Ballinger. The correspondents include: J. Gwynoro Davies, 1903, O. M. Edwards, 1895, Annie J. Ellis, 1899, Thomas Edward Ellis (2), 1895-1896, Sir E. Vincent Evans, 1922, E. W. Evans, Frondirion, Dolgellau, 1917, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, 1899, J. O. Francis, 1914, H. C. Fryer, 1892, M. H. Jones, 1915, Dr Thomas Jones CH, 1919, John Owen, Bishop of St Davids, undated, Alfred Neobard Palmer, 1897, Sir John Williams, 1915, [Professor] Mary Williams, undated, and W. Llewelyn Williams, 1918.