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An exercise book containing a copy of a biographical essay on Griffith Davies, F.R.S., mathematician and actuary ('Memoir of the late Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S .') by his nephew, Thomas Barlow, of the Metropolitan Life Assurance Society.

A note-book containing copies of baptismal entries relating to Griffith Davies, F.R.S., mathematician and actuary, and some of his brothers and sisters.

A volume of miscellaneous material relating to Griffith Davies, F.R.S., mathematician and actuary, including an abstract of an essay entitled 'Griffith Davies, F.R.S., the Actuary', [?by Miss Dew Roberts]; biographical notes extracted from Y Traethodydd, 1855, and from Cymru, 8 (1895) and 15 (1898); a copy of a letter from S. H. Jarvis (assistant secretary), the Institute of Actuaries, Holborn, to Miss Grace Ellis (librarian), Old College, Bangor, 1925 (information concerning material relating to Griffith Davies); and (inset) a holograph letter and postcard from Grace Ellis, the Library, University College of North Wales, Bangor, to G. J. Williams, Bangor, 1925 (replies to requests for information relating to Griffith Davies). Included also in this volume are notes on Benjamin Gompertz, extracted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. XV.

Miscellaneous material relating to Griffith Davies, F.R.S., mathematician and actuary, comprising rough draft notes of an intended article on Griffith Davies [?by G. J. Williams, Coed Menai, Bangor]; genealogical data relating to Griffith Davies; and a photostat copy of his certificate of election as an honorary member of La Société Francaise de Statistique Universelle, July 1833.

Four note-books containing a transcript in the hand of D. E. Jenkins of pp. 17-123 of [the Reverend Thomas Ellis Owen:] Methodism Unmasked [or the Progress of Puritanism from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century . . . (London, 1802)].

An exercise book containing extensive extracts from, amounting almost to complete transcripts of, (a) an account of the origin and growth of the Calvinistic Methodist cause in the Nanmor district of the parish of Beddgelert [co. Caernarvon], and (b) an account of the establishing of the [C.M.] Church at Peniel in the said district of Nanmor with notes on some of the early members of the church, both ? compiled by John Jones of Nanmor, probably circa 1880. The volume also contains a transcript of, or extracts from, notes on 'The History of Nant Gwynan, county of Carnarvon' by James Wyatt of Bryngwynant.

Photographic copies of a letter from Sarah Charles [wife of the Reverend Thomas Charles], Bala, to [? the Stringer family, Chester], 1805 (personal ); a letter from Robert Saunderson, Bala, to [John Walker, Bersham, near Wrexham], 1803 (the writer was now 'brought to Bala', they expected to commence printing in about a fortnight, the type had arrived from London, Mr. Charles wished the press to be called 'the Lord's Press', the writer's loss in not being able to understand the Welsh language); the will, 12 February 1790, of Jael Charles of the county borough of Carmarthen [mother of the Reverend Thomas Charles]; and the 'bishop's transcript' of the register of the parish of Llanddowror [co. Carmarthen] for the year ending March 1724/5.

Typescript copies of an essay (13 pp.) by D. E. Jenkins entitled 'Wars and Religious Revivals', and of three undated letters addressed by D. E. Jenkins to the editor of the [Liverpool] Post and Mercury (a controversy between the writer and Mr. [ ] Jones relating to Daniel Rowland, Howel Harris, and the eighteenth century Methodist revival in general); and typewritten notes on 'Diwygiadau Crefyddol Cymru'.

Miscellaneous items including manuscript and typewritten extracts [from the registers of the parish of Gyffylliog, co. Denbigh], 1661-1665, 1721-1735/6, 1739-1751/2, 1761-1769, and 1778-1779; typewritten extracts from the records of the Royal Mint relating to Joseph Harris [brother of Howel Harris, and Assay Master at the Mint]; typewritten copies of the wills of Robert John David of the parish of Trawsfynydd, co. Merioneth, 1741 (probate 1754 ), David Jones of Bala, co. Merioneth, 1742 (probate 1760), and Dows Jones of Bala, widow, 1768 (probate 1772); and a holograph letter from [the Reverend] Daniel Williams, Llangendelrne Vicarage, to [D. E. Jenkins], 1903 (a search for Charles entries in the Llangendeirne parish registers).

Miscellaneous items including typewritten copies of two letters from Ro[ber]t Saunderson, Bala, to [ ], October 1814 (the illness and death of [the Reverend Thomas] Charles and the death of Mrs. [Sarah] Charles); a typewritten copy of a letter from [the officers of] the Sunday school of Pall Mall [Calvinistic Methodist Church], Liverpool, to the Reverend [Thomas] Charles, Bala, 1814 (an account of the Sunday school); holograph notes by Daniel Jones, Wrexham, on a sermon he had heard, May 1837; holograph notes by [ Peters, Caergwrle], relating to his financial transactions with his brother-in-law David Ellis of London, 1812-1816, and his efforts to deal with claims against David Ellis's estate after his death, circa 1826; holograph notes, 1876, by Edw[ard] Peters, son of the aforementioned [ ] Peters, also relating to David Ellis and mentioning his books including 'valuable Puritanical Books'; notes of a sermon preached by Foulk Evans, Machynlleth, May 1858; a postcard sent to the Reverend D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh, from Aberystwyth, October 1905 [depicting the scene at the enforced sale of some of the possessions of the Reverend D. Treborth Jones, minister of Salem Calvinistic Methodist Church, Aberystwyth, for non-payment of a rate due under the provisions of the Education Act of 1902], and endorsed by the sender 'First Passive Resistance Sale in Cardiganshire, Oct- 3rd 1905'; a typewritten copy of a report and proposals presented by 'Pwyllgor Llawysgrifau Trevecka' ('The Trevecka [College] Manuscripts Committee') [to the General Assembly of the Calvinistic Methodist Connection meeting in London, 1915], together with a copy [in the hand of the secretary, the Reverend Morgan Hugh Jones] of resolutions passed at a meeting of the committee held at Bootle, 27 May 1914; and a copy of the words and music of a song entitled 'Annie Lisle'.

Miscellaneous correspondence including holograph letters from W. Aldridge, London, to Rob[er]t Ellis at the College, Trevecka, 1785 (personal); G[eorge Davys, bishop of] Peterborough, to [? the Reverend Edward Morgan, vicar of Syston, co. Leicester], 1846 (the acceptance of district visitors as candidates for deacons' orders); [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn'], Fron [co. Anglesey], to the Reverend Ellis Phillips, 1840 (1 + 1 by inference) (legal action threatened against the writer and recipient ); [ ] Foulkes, Machynlleth, to Ann ?Peters, 1835 (personal) (incomplete); E. J. Hamilton, Brighton, to the Reverend J. B. Figgis, ? Brighton, 1906 (information relating to the Reverend J. Trego [? Congregational minister], and London Road [Congregational] Church, Brighton) (forwarded to [ ]); Dan[iel Jones], Wrexham, to [ ], 1837 (an abstract of a sermon) (incomplete); E. Jones, Wrexham, to his brother, 1864-1878 (2) (dates of birth of the writer, his brothers, and sisters, a school at Adwy['r Clawdd, near Wrexham] kept by Thomas Evans circa 1804, the publication of Mân Gofion [o bethau crefyddol, moesol, a diddanol . . . (Gwrecsam, 1821)] by the writer's father with Thomas Evans's name 'put to it as the author', the publication of the Reverend T[homas] Charles: Geiriadur [Ysgrythyrol . . .] in one volume, the publication of the works of the Reverend Lewis Edwards of Bala in two volumes, an address presented to the Reverend O[wen] Evans [Congregational minister] on his departure from Wrexham, books on the miracles and parables of Christ [Gwyrthiau Crist . . . (Wrexham, 1868), and Dammegion yr Arglwydd Iesu (Wrexham, 1873)] by the said Owen Evans); Ebenezer Jones, Wrexham, to ? his brother, 1843 (the founding of a society for civil and religious liberty at Ruthin, the need to reform the [Anglican] Church but from within, the improvement in the character of the clergy, a tract by the Reverend T[homas] Spencer [perpetual curate of Hinton Charterhouse] entitled Practical Suggestions on Church Reform); [the Reverend] W[illia]m Leigh, The Vicarage, Eglwysilan, to [ ], 1849 (the reopening of the rebuilt church of Llanvabon, a harvest festival at ?Eglwysilan, the ordaining of [the Reverend William] Davies as curate of Llanvabon); [the Reverend] Ed[ward] Morgan, [vicar of] Syston [co. Leicester], to Tho[ma]s Jones, Chester, undated (material relating to [?the Reverend Simon] Loyd ( sic) [Methodist cleric], a letter to St. David's College [Lampeter] on behalf of recipient, the writer's biographies of H[owel] Harris and [the Reverend Thomas] Charles, an intended work on the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists by [the Reverend John] Hughes [Methodistiaeth Cymru . . . ( Gwrecsam, 3 cyf. 1851-1856)]), and W[illia]m Jones, Wrexham, [18]45 (an intended biography of [?the Reverend John] Humphreys [C.M. minister] by recipient's friend, the writer's intention of publishing selected letters of [the Reverend John] Elias ['o Fôn']); H. Raikes to [ ] Hutton, 1854 (the writer's declining strength, his ?resignation from a committee of ?the British and Foreign Bible Society, reflections on the work of that Society ); and [the Reverend] Henry Rees [C.M. minister], Benarth, to [ ], 1867 (preaching engagements).

Typescript and manuscript copies of essays and addresses ? by D. E. Jenkins on the following subjects - 'Oliver Wendell Holmes' (33 pp.), 'Is Trade Unionism conducive to the Interest of Industry' (13 pp.), 'The Gospel of Some Novels' (38 pp.), 'Efengyl Rhai Nofelau' (13 pp.), 'Cyflwr Crefyddol Cymru cyn y Diwygiad Methodistaidd' (14 pp.) (two copies), and 'Welsh Bibliographical Activities' (11 pp.).

Seven note-books containing miscellaneous extracts, transcripts, etc., including extracts, 1798-1808, from the diary of David Jones, [? rector of] Llangan; extracts, 1792-1807, ? from the minute books of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge relating mainly to preparations for publishing successive editions of the Welsh Bible; a transcript of a letter from [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Charles, Bala, to [John] Walker, Chester, 1801 (personal, religious reflections, the church [established by the Reverend Phillip Oliver] at Boughton); a transcript of a report, 1903, by William Weir of Abingdon on Llanfihangel Abercowin church; a transcript of an indenture, 21 July 1800, appointing the Reverend Thomas Charles, Jonathan Wilcoxon of Chester, and John Walker, also of Chester, trustees of the aforementioned Phillip Oliver's church at Boughton; transcripts of the title-pages and prefaces of Thomas Charles: A Short Evangelical Catechism . . . (2nd ed., Bala, 1804) and (3rd ed., Bala, 1808), and of the same author's An Exposition on the Ten Commandments . . . (Bala, 1805), and of Sir Richard Hill's testimonial in favour of, and Thomas Charles's post-script to, the third edition of the Catechism; an abridged version of an account of the life and career of Griffith Davies, actuary , ? taken from The Assurance Magazine and Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, vol. V, pp. 337-48; an incomplete copy of a Welsh translation of a letter from [the Reverend] Thomas Charles to [Mary Hughes, Liverpool, 1812] (see Goleuad Cymru, 1823, Llyfr III, tt. 225-7); extracts from the reports of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1805-1815, relating mainly to the publication by the Society of Welsh Bibles and Testaments; and extracts containing an account of disbursements in respect of Northampton Chapel, Spa Fields, Clerkenwell, London, 1780-1816.

Two sets of typewritten notes headed 'Mass Intelligence - Wales, 1789-1840', and 'The Cessation of Novelty'.

Typewritten notes on 'Emigration from Wales, 1760-1868', 'Chartism in Wales', 'Poor Law', 'Denbigh Priory', and 'Canmlwyddiant Y Drysorfa'; and typewritten extracts from reviews or appreciations of D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles . . .

A note-book containing sermon notes; transcripts of two letters from Rob[er]t Saunderson from Bala, to a friend, 1814 (an account of the last illness and death of the Reverend [Thomas] Charles, and of the death of his wife [Sarah] Charles); and other miscellanea.

A typescript, ?printer's copy of D. E. Jenkins's pamphlet Notes on the Bishop of St. Asaph's Landmarks (Chapters XII, XIII) (Denbigh, 1913), containing a critical analysis of chapters 12-13 of Alfred George Edwards [ bishop of St. Asaph, aft. archbishop of Wales]: Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church (London, 1912).

Typewritten notes on the town of Laugharne (Lacharn), co. Carmarthen.

An exercise book containing material [?collected by D. E. Jenkins for his book Bedd Gelert, its Facts, Fairies, and Folk-Lore (Portmadoc, 1899)], including extracts from the vestry book of the parish of Beddgelert [co. Caernarvon], 1804-1884, from [William] Williams: Observations on the Snowdon Mountains . . . (1802), and from [E. L. Barnwell:] 'Beudy Newydd, Nantmor [co. Caernarvon], Roman halting-place', Arch[aeologia] Camb[rensis], 1878; notes on an ancient Roman fort found near the pass of Aberglaslyn; a transcript of the words of the song 'Bugeiles y Wyddfa' [by John Jones ('Eos Bradwen')], with an English translation; and an English version, under the title 'The Shepherd of Cwm Dyli and his sweetheart', [of the Reverend Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd')'s poem 'Rhiangerdd Bugail Cwmdyli']. Also included is an extract from, or a transcript of, a letter from the Reverend W. J. Dawson to James Bowden, London, [18]99 (informing recipient that D. E. Jenkins wished to approach him with regard to publishing his book on Beddgelert, a comment on the work).

A holograph letter from Geo[rge] B[enson] Nicholson, Covington, Kentucky, U.S.A., to the Reverend R[ichard] Williams [vicar of Beddgelert, co. Caernarvon], 1894 (genealogical information relating to the writer's family, a visit by the writer to North Wales including Beddgelert, a request for further genealogical data concerning his family from the Beddgelert parish registers); and a copy of a pedigree chart compiled by the said G. B. Nicholson, 1895, tracing the descent of his family from William Williams of Hafod Yspytty, parish of Blanau (sic) Festiniog, co. Merioneth.