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A letterbook of Messrs Gee and Son Ltd, being a volume of carbon copies of letters written by [Sir] D. S. Davies, director of the company. They may be classified as follows: (a) Letters to writers who had agreed to contribute to the second [or New Testament] volume of Beibl y Teulu, some of whom appear not to have fulfilled their contracts (correspondents include Rev. T. Alun Jones, Chwilog; T. E. Jones, Cwmyglo; J. M. Jones, Bala; R. J. Rees, Aberystwyth; G. H. Havard, Rhyl; J. Owen Jones, Bala; Ernest Jones, Ruthin; Prof. David Williams, Aberystwyth); (b) Letters relating to Cofiant Thomas Gee (correspondents include T. Gwyn Jones; Rev. Griffith Ellis, Bootle); (c) Letters relating to a proposed Welsh National Hymnal (correspondents include Prof. David Evans, Cardiff; Rt Hon. D. Lloyd George); (d) Business letters (correspondents include H. Seymour Berry, Merthyr; E. J. Davies, Liverpool; The East Lancs Paper Mill Co.; J. Hargreaves, Chester; James McMillard, Manchester; Norwich Union Fire Insurance; J. R. Prichard and Co; Rev. R. Roberts; Rev. R. D. Rowlands; J. H. Seighton and Co.; Surveyor of Taxes, Rhyl; Victory Machine Company, Liverpool); (e) Letters relating to articles printed in Baner ac Amserau Cymru (correspondents include J. Hughes Davies, Hammersmith; A. E. Harrison, Cardiff; The Rt Hon. J. Herbert Lewis; G. H. Peate).

D. Egryn Jones, London, to Mr T. Gee, Denbigh. Relating to chapels in Australia, listing those in each state as well as the names of some ministers. Thanks for copy of 'Gray's Anatomy'.

John Jones (formerly from Maesteg), Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Messrs Gee and Son, Denbigh. Relating to payment of a Baner account, which had once been paid to Buenos Aires bank but returned. A second payment through another channel is then said to have been made.

Cost sheet of work in Progress on Dec. 31 1922.

Three job cost books, 1928, 1928-1929, 1929-1930.

A ledger of purchases, 1920-1934.

Two wages books, 1918-1922, 1922-1925.

Two postage books, 1912-1913, 1934-1937.

A collection of Factory Act records, relating almost entirely to the employment of young persons. They include holograph letters to Messrs. Gee & Son and to Thomas Gee, Denbigh, from R. Humphreys Roberts, clerk, School Board of the Borough of Denbigh, [18]84, E. M. Rae, H. M. Inspector of Factories, Liverpool, [18]82-1883, H. S. Richmond, H. M. Inspector of Factories, Liverpool, [18]84, A. Davies [Love Lane Girls' Board School, Denbigh, 1886], and Chas. Grimsley, clerk to Guardians, etc., St. Asaph, [18]82; certificates of age of pupils signed by Denbigh schoolmasters, 1882-1886; Abstract of Factory Acts, 1874; Registers and Certificates of young persons to be employed in the factory of the Clwydian Office, Denbigh, 1868-1878; certified copies, 1881-1886, of birth certificates, 1868-1873; Register for Young Persons, 1868-1878; etc.

Messages from Saunders Lewis, D. J. Williams and Lewis Valentine to the Welsh Nationalist Party newspaper Y Ddraig Goch, September 1937, following their release from prison after serving a sentence for the arson attack at the bombing-school at Penyberth; together with a note from Lewis Valentine to Morris T. Williams and his wife, Kate Roberts.

Miscellaneous papers, 1936-1965, relating to the printing and publishing business of Messrs Gee and Son Ltd including an agreement, 1938, between them and Cambrian News (Aberystwyth) Ltd for the purchase of Baner ac Amserau Cymru and an inventory and valuation of the press, 1956, and of the property, 1965.

Papurau a gynhyrchwyd gan Robert Williams (1840-1916), prif glerc Cwmni Gee a'i Fab yn Ninbych, a gyflogwyd hefyd fel trafaeliwr i hyrwyddo gwerthiant llyfrau; yn cynnwys ffurflenni parod, 1906-1909, yn dynodi nifer yr archebion a'r symiau o arian a dderbyniwyd, a llythyrau a anfonwyd at aelodau staff Gwasg Gee; ynghyd â gwahanlith o erthygl Philip Henry Jones "'Business is Awful Bad in these Parts': New Evidence for the Pre-1914 Decline of the Welsh-Language Book Trade", a gyhoeddwyd yn Peter Isaac a Barry McKay (golygyddion), The Mighty Engine. The Printing Press and its Impact (Delaware, 2000)

Lettered K. Contains private accounts. Transfers from Ledger J (C3). Transfers to Ledger J (C3). Transfers to Ledger A (B3), Trade Ledger K (B2), and General Ledger [not NLW].