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Circulars, business cards, price lists and other promotional items.

Notices, copies of letters, and copies of some minutes of AGM, 1921-1929, plans for a bungalow at Gilfach, Efailwen, 1932, letters 1920-1934, memorandum in reference to Gilfach Ddofn Farm, 1925, and various production figures, 1920 and 1930.

Accounts of slate sold to Davies Bros.

Printed directors' report, balance sheet and statement of accounts submitted at the Annual General Meeting for years ending 1922, 1926, 1928-1930.

Papers relating to the government scheme to increase and improve British housing stock. The particular view of Davies Bros. was that foreign materials were of an inferior quality.

Ministry of Munitions Government Housing Scheme, 1919, with comments on the conditions of tender, the condition of the slate industry, and correspondence, 1914-1919, totals of imports of slate, 1901-1903, [c. 1919] with a list of the quarries worked in North Wales during the thirty years ending 1919.

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.

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.

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.

Minutes of a Slate Conference, 5 April 1940, at Abbey House, Westminster, to discuss the position of the UK slate industry. Includes related letters.

Papers relating to the personal life of Jonathan Davies, 1875-1957, and friends and family members, 1853-1955. Personal papers of Jonathan Davies mainly reflect his political and religious interests. The friends and family papers comprise mainly items compiled by his father and son.

Letters and circulars to Jonathan Davies relating to cultural, political, and religious matters, including Golan CM Chapel, near Pencaenewydd, the accounts of the North and South Wales Newspaper Co., Ltd, UCNW, Bangor, Permanent Buildings Fund, and the Cape Town Eisteddfod. Includes a small number of copy letters sent by Jonathan Davies.

Papers, mainly from the Aberglaslyn Angling Association, relating to fishing rights, stocking, and statistics. The papers date from around the period of the founding of the club by Jonathan Davies and others, until the time of deposit by his son, Ithel Davies, Chairman, in 1957.

Details of returns of leases and trustees of churches in the Eifionydd Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Wales.

History of the Methodists, from its beginning to 1774, based on the work of the Rev. John Hughes, Liverpool (1827-1893). Includes a timeline of events relating to Methodism in Wales to 1774.

Notes of a meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, Llanelli, 11-13 June 1909.

Address presented by the [North Wales] Association of the Presbyterian Church of Wales to Jonathan Davies on his retirement as Secretary to the Sustentation Fund ('Y Drysorfa Gynorthwyol').

'Anerchiad ymadawol y Llywydd yng Nghymdeithasfa Y Tabernacl, Môn', 9 April 1924, and list of venues for meetings for the next twenty years, 1925-1944.

Plans and elevations, with costs for the proposed garage at Bryn-Eirian, Porthmadog, home of Jonathan Davies.