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Data relating to the slate exported, 1902-1914, and foreign slate imported, 1903-1914, 1929, 1934.

Rules of the North Wales Quarry Association, [c.1931]; correspondence relating to wages agreements, 1933-1934; and a letter, 1930 in Welsh from the Transport and General Workers' Union regarding work conditions.

Extract from the Herald Gymraeg, of statistics relating to the number of houses built in Great Britain with grant aid, 1924-1930 and the figures for British and foreign slates imported during the same period.

Printed agreement between Ffestiniog District Slate Quarry Proprietors' Association, the Council of the National Association of Slate Merchants and Slaters, and slate merchants not members of the National Association, for a term of three years not to supply slates or slabs to businesses north of a line through Chester, Stratford, Bletchley, Haverhill to Lowestoft, as delineated on the map.

Ffestiniog District Slate Quarry Proprietors’ Association balance sheets, 1910-1911, and associated particulars and properties of Portmadoc slates in English and French, including a list of members.

Draft of a proposed report by the Standing Committee, on Mr Frederick Walker's pooling scheme designed to protect those companies trading in genuine Porthmadog slate.

Copy letter to the Association, from Richard Bowton, and copy of a report of a meeting with Irish local officials concerning the use of French slate ahead of the approved Portmadoc slates, for use in Ireland under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts 1883 to 1906.

Letters and copy minutes of an emergency meeting of the Association, 1912, to discuss opening a slate trade with Canada. Includes a report on possible business ties following a tour of Canada by E. Andrews, with list of Canadian merchants and architects.

Letters relating to the adoption of an apprenticeship system for wharf loaders and quarrymen.

General papers relating to the North Wales slate industry.

Copy of the prize essay at the Ffestiniog Eisteddfod, by Llenor Ieuanc [Jonathan Davies, Fourcrosses] entitled Hanes Chwarelau Ffestiniog o'r dechreuad hyd yn awr, yng nghyd a'r rhagolygon am eu dadblygiad yn y dyfodol', together with drafts of the same and research material, mainly Welsh, some English. Also includes Traethawd ar Lechfaeni Nant Nantllef, by Chwarelwr.

Statistics of shipments and dues, correspondence, etc., with notes in support of Porthmadog as opposed to Deganwy as the port of shipment of Ffestiniog slate, and a paper read by Jonathan Davies at a public meeting at Portmadoc, 1886, supporting the development of a proposed Cambrian Railway branch line to the slate wharves. Papers include postal arrangements for different North Wales towns, population, number of deliveries, times of collections and deliveries from stations.

Copy of the Bill together with correspondence between Ellis W. Davies, M.P., H. Haydn Jones, M.P., Jonathan Davies, and Edward Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1913-1914, concerning the depression in the slate trade, newspaper cuttings, and a printed deputation to Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1914.

Document intended for submission to Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, concerning the North Wales slate industry. Comprises a privately circulated version (February) and a revised final proof (April) of the submitted document.

Statement of the suitability and availability of North Wales slate as roofing material, 1917, compiled for members of the Committee on Building Construction, with related documents including prices and particulars, 1919.