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Letter-book containing letters to either of the Joint Secretaries of the C.A.A., H. Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel), illustrating the early history of the Association, from the following: Joseph Ablett; Viscount Adare (1812-71); Egerton Alermeie (?); James Allen (1802-97); Thomas Allen (1813-92); Fredrick Anson (?-1867); William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot (1773-1856); Christopher Bethell, Bishop of Bangor (1773-1859); R. Myddleton Biddulph; A. de Blois; Thomas Brawne; Sir Richard Bulkeley (1801-75); Eccles J. Carter; C. B. Clough; Joseph Cobb (1821-97); William Caugham; William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857); Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff (1776-1849); James Henry Cotton (1780-1862); Edward Davies; J. H. Dearden; Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855); Dixon & Wordell of the Chester Bank; D. Silvan Evans (1818-1903); Sir Benjamin Hall (1802-67); Edward Harris; John Harries; Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802-65); Alexander Beresford Hope (1820-87); John Hughes (1787-1860); William Bulkley Hughes (1792-1882); George Johnstone; Edward Jones; John Jones (1786?-1863); John Jones ['Tegid'] (1792-1852); John Jones; H. Longueville Jones (1806-70); Hugh Jones; Robert Jones; Ruvdyn Jones; H. Juson (?); Henry Hey Knight (1795-1857); A. Lalvin; John Edward Lee (1808-87); David Lloyd (1805-63); Sir Edward Pryce Lloyd of Mostyn (1768-1854); H. Hamilton Lloyd; Charles John Luxmoor (1794-1854); Richard Mason (1816?-81); R. R. Parry Mealy (1801-70); S. Meyer; Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1794-1854); Richard P. Minty; Richard Newcombe (1779-1857); George Ormerod (1785-1873); G. W. Ormsby-Gore (1779-1860); Aneurin Owen (1792-1851); W. Hicks Owen; John Parker (1798-1860); R. Kyke Penson (1815-86); Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); J. Pine; W. E. Powell (1788-1854); James Pritchard; Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph (1797-1875); C. Roach Smith (1807-90); Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's (1779-1875); R. Goring Thomas; John Montgomery Traherne (1788-1860); T. Hudson Turner (1815-52); Thomas Vaughan; J. H. Vivian (?-1855); Thomas Wakeman; C. H. Waring; Lloyd V. Watkins; Albert Way (1805-74); Arthur Way; John Webb (1776-1869); C. Welling (?); Edward Weymss; David Williams (1799-1869); Evan Williams; John Williams (1792-1858); John Williams [Ab Ithel] (1811-62); Robert Williams (1810-81); Robert Williams; W. W. E. Wynne (1801-80).

Letter Book made up of 43 letters to the Secretaries of the C.A.A. from Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, bart, written when he was the first President of the Association.

File of printed matter re Annual Meetings of the Association, and correspondence re insuring Association property housed in the National Library and National Museum, and other routine matters.

File of correspondence mainly re the controversy and acrimony concerning the 'Llwyndyrus Mound' in Llechryd, co. Card., with the ensuing resignation of Sir John Lynn-Thomas, owner of the Llwyndyrus estate, from the Association. Contains reprints of Sir John's articles in the Western Mail on the 'Mound'. Correspondence also re the ruins of Strata Florida Abbey, the appointment of an Association member on the Llantrisant Town Trust, a fit of pique on the part of one member, the resignation of the General Secretary of the C.A.A. for South Wales due to financial reasons, and routine business.

File of correspondence with some reports on the progress of preservation work, excavation, etc., at Strata Florida Abbey, Haverfordwest Priory, Carmarthen bridge, etc., and some routine matters.

File of papers re Annual Meetings of the Association held at Oswestry (1923), Menai Bridge (1930), Newtown (1932), Cardiff (1933), but mainly Llangollen (1935).

File of correspondence re the threatened resignation of Canon C. F. Roberts, the Association's General Secretary; the possibility of securing a grant from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust to finance indexing Arch. Camb. vols. Also contains matters re preserving documents in local centres.