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Letters, 1837-1932, the correspondents including E. D. Bryan, Robert Bryan, John Davies (Bontddu), Principal Ellis Edwards, Dr. Samuel Evans (Johannesburg), D. Silvan Evans, Edward Griffiths (Meifod), O. G. Owen ('Alafon'), and John Phillips (Bangor).

A letter, 1880, from Sir Henry Lewis, at Cincinnati, to his parents; letters, 1881-1889, to Thomas Palestina Lewis from Josiah Thomas, Liverpool, secretary of the Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Missionary Society, and Griffith Griffiths, Shillong, India; and letters, 1903-1932, to Sir Henry Lewis from Thomas Owen, Aberystwyth, (Mrs.) M. C. Hughes, Bangor, D. O'Brien Owen, Caernarvon, Evan Jones, Caernarvon, W. Prydderch Williams, London, J. Matthews, Amlwch, and William Richards, Llandegfan.

A holograph letter, 1896, from George Cornwallis West, from the Camp, 3rd [Batt.] [Royal] W[elsh] F[usiliers], Wrexham, to [?Sir Robert Arthur] Cunliffe [of Acton Park] (arranging a cricket match); a holograph letter, 1899, from [Sir] W. H. Preece, London, to Mrs. Sylvanus (a talk by the writer, possibly on engineering in Wales); a typescript letter, 1918, from J. Puleston Jones, Llanfair C[aereinion], to the Reverend W. M. Tudor (preaching engagements); an autograph letter, 1934, from Megan Lloyd George, Westminster, to J. Jenkyn-Richards, Handsworth (enclosing a message to be read at a meeting in Birmingham in aid of the distressed areas of South Wales) (with marginal notes); a holograph letter, 1934, from Samuel Evans (chairman and director of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg], Piccadilly, to [?H. Jones Davies] (personal); a typescript circular (undated) issued by a committee of the Welsh churches and societies of Birmingham and other Midland towns on behalf of the Social Welfare Settlement in the Rhymney Valley; a cyclostyled programme (undated) of a meeting of the Dudley Welsh Society ('Cymdeithas Cymry Dudley'); a press cutting, 1926, recording an account of a graduation ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, at which the degree of Ll.D. honoris causa was conferred upon Samuel Evans; typescript notes on 'Nervous System and its Functions' prepared for a zoology class at University College of North Wales; a national registration card, 1915, and national ration book, 1918, of Humphrey Jones Davies, Bangor; etc.

An album of engravings used for the insertion of press cuttings entitled 'Atgofion Llew Llwyfo' (i.e., Lewis William Lewis).

A holograph letter from [the Reverend] John Elias, Fron [ Llangefni], to Mrs. Williams, Lower Gate, Conway, 1835 (condolences on the death of recipient's husband).

Holograph and autograph letters:- John Parry, Chester, to Richard Newell, Manafon, 1828 (the engagement of the recipient's son to fill a vacancy in the writer's office in Chester); James Jones, Gwaenysgor Rectory, to Miss [ ] Edwards, 1879 (an examination of the parish registers, personal and parochial affairs); Lewis Ellis, Llandrindod Wells, to Mr. [ ] Newell, Llanymynech, 1913 (the writer's health); and to Humphrey Jones Davies from Robert Bryan, Wrexham, [18]98 (an article by the recipient to Cymru), Ellis Edwards, Bala, [19]04 (meetings at Llanrwst, personal), E[dward] Edwards, Highgate [London], 1933 (personal, an engagement in London ), Peter Hughes Griffiths, Golder's Hill [London], 1924 (an article in Y Goleuad), M. H. Jones, Ton Pentre, 1921 (publications of the C. M. Historical Society), R. W. Jones, Holyhead, 1935 (a member of the writer's church working at West Bromwich), W. G. Jones, editor of Y Goleuad, Caernarvon, 1929 (the recipient's contributions to Y Goleuad, personal), W. H. Roberts, Leamington Spa, 1934 (a service by the Leamington and District Welsh Society), and Edwd. Thomas, Old Colwyn, [19]23 (the recipient's article in Y Goleuad, personal).

An essay on 'Caniadaeth y Cyssegr'; notes of a sermon by Thomas Lloyd, Colwyn Bay; two letters, 1910, from Griffith Griffiths, Barry, to [Sir] Henry Lewis; and a typescript poem 'Beddau'r Milwyr' by Sam Jones, Campello, Massachusetts.

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.

Incomplete notes of a sermon on the text, Exodus 33, 18, ? preached 1725-1729.

Notes relating to primary, secondary, and university education, with several references to education in Wales, copied from various sources between 1903 and 1923 by Sir Henry Lewis, Bangor.

Typescript notes headed ‘Recollections of a veteran journalist. A link with General Gordon’, compiled by the Reverend H. Jones Davies, and based upon recollections of General [Charles George] Gordon, by Dr. Samuel Evans [ 1859-1935], who, during General Gordon’s mission to the Sudan, 1884-5, was private secretary to Edgar Vincent (later viscount D’Abernon), financial adviser to the Egyptian government.

A note-book containing brief notes on the Reverend John Phillips [Calvinistic Methodist minister, and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor], including references from Y Drysorfa, Rhagfyr 1867, and [Thomas Charles Edwards: Bywyd a Llythyrau . . . Lewis Edwards (Liverpool, 1901)].

'Peryglon Gwareiddiad' - an essay written by 'Sylwedydd' for 'Eisteddfod Cymry Birmingham', 1916.

Sermon.

Sermons, preceded by a list of Welsh and English theological works.

Sermons.

A school exercise book containing the notes of five Welsh sermons. The first sermon is attributed to 'y Parch Hugh Jones (W), Tregarth' [the Reverend Hugh Jones, Wesleyan minister, who ministered at Tre- garth, co. Caernarvon, during three separate periods between 1866 and 1896].

An imperfect account and memoranda book ? of William Williams, relieving officer, Carrog G.D., Corwen, for the half year ending September 1860.

Notes of a sermon, [19]05, by the Rev[erend] D. D. Williams, M.A. [ minister of Oswald Road Presbyterian Church, Oswestry, 1896-1907].

Sermons, one of them preached at Waunarlwydd in 1896, and short essays.