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Folder entitled 'Early Days...'. Including Appleby, 1870s, Llandovery and Lampeter.

Letters, newspaper cuttings and manuscript notes, believed to relate to Llandovery College. Includes Testimonials in favour of The Rev. John Owen, M A ...candidate for The Wardenship of The Welsh Collegiate Institution, Llandovery (1885), and details of his time at Oxford.

Envelope containing a series of letters entitled 'Llandovery, 1885-1889'.

Letters and papers concerning tithe rent charge.

'Papers relating to Dean of St Asaph'. Includes letters, newspaper articles, note book, and a copy of Traethodydd, Nov. 1891.

Letters to his family and sister Myfanwy, together with photographs, including the wedding of Griffith to Dora Hudson of Delph.

Letters to his family, [1914]-[1968], together with photographs and biographical information compiled by D[enys] M[artin] O[wen] D[avies], 1989.

Letters from Geraint Owen, [1907], sent from Saint Andrew's School, Tenby; a letter from St Paul's School, London; and letters from Nigeria, [1920]-[1927], where he died in 1927.

Three letters, 1918-1921, including a letter, 1918, to her goddaughter Myfanwy, together with printed Christmas greetings.

Scrapbook relating to his funeral held at St Peter’s Church, Carmarthen, 9 November 1926, including the Order of Service, obituaries and tributes published in diocesan magazines and newspapers, together with a photograph of his grave at Abergwili churchyard.

Photographs of and relating to Bishop John Owen, including a post card of his home [Ysgubor Wen] in Llanengan and of the plaque erected, together with an order form for the publication The later life of John Owen [Llandysul, 1961] by his daughter Eluned E. Owen.

A photograph of John Owen when he taught mathematics at Appleby Grammar School; photographs of Appleby town where he met his future wife Amelia Longstaff and of her in later life; a family portrait, [?1896], when John Owen was Principal of St David’s College, Lampeter; and photographs of the daughters.

Two bundles of exercise books containing the memoirs of Gwenonwy Davies (1887-1981), eldest daughter of Bishop John Owen, and her husband John Thomas Davies (1881-1966), Dean of Bangor Cathedral, 1941-1955, illustrated with family photographs, together with typescript copies of their recollections.

Biographical notes on the Right Reverend Bishop John Owen (1854-1926), his sons John Peredur [Perry] Owen (1884-1958), Andrew Geraint Joseph Owen (1895-1927) and his daughter Gwenonwy (Gwen) Davies (1887-1981), prepared by Denys Martin Owen Davies, together with an introduction to 'The Owen collection of letters'.

A catalogue of the books in the library of John Owen, compiled by J. P. Owen, 1908, and containing a number of loose items.

Speeches and draft speeches on Disestablishment, The Church in Wales and Home Rule, 1891-1895. Letters to the editors of The Times, Manchester Guardian, Western Mail etc. 'The Church revival in Wales', 'Mr Asquith's speech', 'The principals of Welsh liberationists' etc.

Résumé of a meeting of the four Welsh bishops at St Asaph, 23 Nov. 1892. An exercise book containing 'Introduction to the Acts of the Apostles', by James Thomas.

Letters mainly relating to the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales, 1893, and copies of speeches given in 1893 on the Welsh Suspensory Bill.

Newspaper cuttings and copies of letters on disendowment and justice. Includes a series of six note books containing copies of letters on 'Selden and Tithe origins', to the Editor of the South Wales Daily News, 1895.

Incomplete manuscript copies of various speeches.