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Miscellaneous, unrelated letters, 1822-1924, on a variety of topics. Most of the early letters are addressed to recipients at Aberystwyth (including a number written to David Edwards). A number of the later letters are addressed to Sir John Ballinger. The correspondents include: J. Gwynoro Davies, 1903, O. M. Edwards, 1895, Annie J. Ellis, 1899, Thomas Edward Ellis (2), 1895-1896, Sir E. Vincent Evans, 1922, E. W. Evans, Frondirion, Dolgellau, 1917, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, 1899, J. O. Francis, 1914, H. C. Fryer, 1892, M. H. Jones, 1915, Dr Thomas Jones CH, 1919, John Owen, Bishop of St Davids, undated, Alfred Neobard Palmer, 1897, Sir John Williams, 1915, [Professor] Mary Williams, undated, and W. Llewelyn Williams, 1918.

Correspondence and papers, 1926, relating to the arrangements for a superannuation scheme for Sir John Ballinger as Librarian of the National Library of Wales.

Bound volume containing printed reports of the Cardiganshire War Savings Committee, 1917-1918, and a letter from the donor, dated 6 September 1920, addressed to the Librarian, Sir John Ballinger.

Material collected by Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P. and Principal John Humphreys Davies in preparation for the publication, by the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, of Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd, including notes, facsimiles of the autograph of Morgan Llwyd, transcripts from printed and manuscript sources, part of the first volume (which was edited by T. E. Ellis) and letters containing bibliographical and other information, most of them written to T. E. Ellis by Sir John Ballinger, J. Glyn Davies, John Humphreys Davies, Daniel Silvan Evans, Edward Griffith (Springfield, Dolgellau), Messrs Jarvis and Foster (Bangor), Sir John Edward Lloyd, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Sir John Williams, bart, etc.

Letters, mainly to Edward Anwyl, the correspondents including J. Mortimer Angus, Sir John Ballinger, Vernon Bartlett (Oxford), Sir Joseph A. Bradney, Charles E. Breese, W. N. Bruce, O. H. Fynes-Clinton, John Daniel ('Rhabanian'), Thomas Darlington, C. Dauncey, D. H. Davies (Cenarth), R. Isgarn Davies, E. S. Dodgson, Sir Owen M. Edwards, Thomas Charles Edwards, Thomas Edward Ellis, Sir E. Vincent Evans, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, John Young Evans, Samuel J. Evans, A. M. Fairbairn, John Fisher, W. Foy (Cologne), Alfred Perceval Graves, John Griffith (Llangynwyd), W. B. Halhed (Llanrwst), James Hastings (editor of the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics), C.H. Herford, N. Marais-Hoogenhout, Paul Hook, Ivor B. John, Sir John Morris-Jones, L. D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), M. H. Jones, T. O. Neill Lane, Edward Laws, Philip H. Lawson, Sir John Herbert Lewis, Charles Lloyd (Maesycrugiau), R. Luyten (Haarlem), Jean Marx (Paris), A. Meillet (Paris), Kuno Meyer, A. W. Moore (Douglas, I.O.M.), Eluned Morgan (Patagonia), Sir James M. Murray (Oxford), E. W. B. Nicholson, Henry Owen (Poyston), A. C. Humphreys-Owen, Owen Owen (Chief Inspector, Central Welsh Board), Sir T. Isambard Owen, Julius Pokorny, Stuart (1st baron) Rendel, Sir John Rhys, T. Francis Roberts, Sir Walter Runciman, K. G. Schilling (Giessen, Germany), E. A. Sonnenschein, John E. Southall, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Ludwig Christian Stern, John Strachan, Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl'), J. Vendryes, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, Alfred T. Warren, Stanley J. Weyman, Hugh Williams (Bala), and Sir Thomas Marchant Williams.

Letters mainly addressed to David Daniel Evans by T. Mason Allen, London, 1885, William Armstrong, London, 1898, John Ballinger, Aberystwyth, 1921, C. Burden, Worcester, 1917, T. Cross, Chippenham, 1883, Lady Alfred Churchill, London, 1884, The Hon. Mrs. Walter H. James, Sandwich, 1889, Messrs. Fenn and Crosthwaite, London, 1905, W. Coleman, Norwich, 1880, David Davies, Maesycwmwr, 1884-91, Evan Davies, Lampeter, 1883, D. Davies, Odiham, 1861, John Evans, Llandysul, 1885, Jane Evans, Liverpool, 1911, Henry Fox, London, 1903, Messrs. Harvey, Alsop, Stevens, and Harvey, Liverpool, 1891, J. Cynddylan Jones, Cardiff, 1892, Charles Lloyd, Waunifor, 1895, William Ralphs, London, 1912, and others.

One of six volumes containing autograph letters, 1888-1924, mainly to Haines or to his wife, and including copies of letters sent by Haines. This volume includes letters from Sir John Ballinger [1860-1933].

Photostat facsimiles of two letters, 1864-1865, from 'Talhaiarn' to his niece Elizabeth Anne Jones, of a psalm tune composed by her with English and Welsh words by 'Talhaiarn', and of two letters, 1922, from Elizabeth Anne Jones's daughter Lilian M. Jones, Craigfechan, near Ruthin, to Sir John Ballinger, with a list of 'Talhaiarn''s material transferred to the National Library in 1922.

Letters relating to Captain Thomas James sent to Ivor James by Miller Christy, author of The Voyages of Captain L[uke] Foxe of Hull and Captain T[homas] James of Bristol ... (1894), with a draft of Ivor James's reply; together with a letter from H. Cameron Gillis of the Gaelic Society of London and letters from John A[llen] James to Sir John Ballinger relating to Ivor James's manuscripts.

Llythyrau, 1914-1933, at Ellis D. Jones, yn bennaf yn ymwneud â sefydlu Neuadd Goffa Owain Glyndŵr yng Nglyndyfrdwy, 1931-1932, y gohebwyr yn cynnwys T. E. Ellis (3), T. Gwynn Jones (3) a Syr John Edward Lloyd (2), ynghŷd â llythyrau eraill, 1936-1952, rhai ohonynt wedi'u cyfeirio at Syr Alfred Thomas Davies a'r gohebwyr yn cynnwys Syr John Ballinger (1) a W. Ambrose Bebb (3); ac eitemau amrywiol sy'n cynnwys cynllun, 1932, ar gyfer plannu planhigion ar dir Neuadd Goffa Owain Glyndŵr, llyfr lloffion yn ymwneud yn bennaf â'r Neuadd Goffa, a nodiadau yn ymwneud ag Owain Glyndŵr, ac â threfn gwasanaeth sefydlu'r Neuadd Goffa, 5 Medi 1931 = Letters, 1914-1933, to Ellis D. Jones, mainly relating to the establishment of the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall in Glyndyfrdwy, 1931-1932, the correspondents including T. E. Ellis (3), T. Gwynn Jones (3) and Sir John Edward Lloyd (2), together with other letters, 1936-1952, some of which are addressed to Sir Alfred Thomas Davies, the correspondents including Sir John Ballinger (1) and W. Ambrose Bebb (3); and miscellaneous items which include a proposed 'planting plan', 1932, for the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall grounds, a scrap book mainly relating to the Memorial Hall, and notes relating to Owain Glyndŵr, and to the order of service at the establishment of the Memorial Hall, 5 September 1931.

A letter, [1916], from Ernest Brown Bowen-Rowlands to [John] Ballinger.

Twenty-seven letters, etc., from [the Reverend] E[dward] W[ilcocks] Raby, The Rectory, Jacobstow, near Bude, 1906 (information concerning the Reverend] W[illia]m Williams, curate of St. Gennys [co. Cornwall], in 1796), [the Reverend] J[ohn] Lambert Rees, Llandowror (sic) Rectory, 1906 (a copy of the inscription on the tomb of the Rev[eren]d John Davies, minister of the Gospel at Bank-y-felin, ob. 1821, and of his wife, Barbara, ob. 1841), the Rev[erend] Bernard Reynolds, The Rectory, Queen Street, E.C., 1905 (a portrait of the Rev[erend] Watts Wilkinson [ob. 1840]), C. Morgan Richardson, Cardigan, 1907 ([Madam] Bevan's Charity), A. Foulkes-Roberts, Denbigh and Goring-on-Thames, 1913-1935 (3) (legal matters, genealogical data relating to the writer's ancestors), A. Humphreys Roberts, Manchester, 1920 (books sent to recipient), Ella [ ] Foulkes Roberts, Denbigh, 1926 (a proposal that [Denbigh] County School would buy a set of the Dictionary of National Biography from the library of the writer's father, an offer for the set made by Mr. [aft. Sir John] Ballinger [Librarian of the National Library of Wales]), Evan E. Roberts (clerk to the governors), The County School, Denbigh, 1928 (conveying the school governors' sympathy to recipient on his illness), Mary Roberts, Llangynog Rectory, Oswestry, 1905 (the inscription on the tombstone of the Rev[eren]d Evan Griffiths, rector of Llangynog, ob. 1813, and of his wife Elizabeth, ob. 1806), the Rev[erend] S. Nowell-Rostron (joint secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society), London, 1919 (the resolution of the Society's General Committee to invite recipient to become an Honorary Governor of the Society for life), [the Reverend] John Rowlands, The Vicarage, Aberdovey, 1904 (enquiries by recipient concerning the letters, etc., of the Rev[erend] Tho[ma]s Jones), E. A. Saunderson, Dublin, undated (3) (the writer's ancestors), [the Reverend] S[amuel] Cooper Scott, St. John's Rectory, Chester, 1906 (a proposed visit by recipient to examine the St. John's registers), [the Reverend] W[illiam] J[ohn] L[immer] Sheppard, St. Peter's Vic[arage], Ipswich, [19]08 (the memorial inscription on the tomb of the Rev[erend] Edward Griffin, rector of the parish of St. Stephen's, Ipswich, ob. 1833, and of his wife, Elizabeth, also ob. 1833), [the Reverend] Spencer E[dward] Simms, Charmouth Rectory, Dorset, 1906 (a negative reply to a query relating to William Daw, M.D.), F[rancis] D[anvers] Sladen, British Museum, London, 1924 (3) (material recipient wished to consult in the British Museum), [Professor] W[illiam] B[arron] Stevenson, The Theological College, Bala, [19]01 (the revision by the writer of an unspecified MS. work), [the Reverend] H[enry] H[olmes] Stewart, The Rectory, Barry, undated (information relating to [the Reverend] Hezekiah Jones, curate of the parish of Porthkerry [late 18th century]), George Stinchcombe, Bristol, 1911 (2) (the writer's desire to prove his reputed descent from [Thomas] Charles in the belief that this would strengthen his application for a post he was desirous of obtaining, his need to contact Mr. Lloyd George in connection with his application), and A. J. Sylvester, Westminster, London, 1929 (apologising, on behalf of Mr. Lloyd George, for his having mislaid a thesis belonging to recipient).

Two notebooks containing holograph 'cywyddau', 'englynion', 'hir a thoddeidiau', and 'caneuon' by Robert Williams ('Trebor Mai'). Almost the entire contents are included in 'Trebor Mai': Y Geninen (Llanrwst, 1869), and there are some marginal emendations and instructions to the compositor. Inset is an autograph letter, 1930, from John Ballinger, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, to J. T. Evans, Llanrwst, relating to the whereabouts of the two volumes and to the recipient's collection of items printed at Trefriw and Llanrwst.

Letters addressed to Evan Owen by Thomas Ayre, Rhyl, 1880; John Ballinger, Aberystwyth, 1913-1921; William C. Boulding, Liverpool, 1913-1914; Ben Davies, Ruthin, 1897-1898; D. Davies, Seacombe, 1880; John Humphreys Davies, 1914; Thomas Witton Davies, London, 1878; John Edwards, Harlech, 1898; W. Edwards, Cardiff, 1912-1914; W. Edwards, Ruabon, 1879; Hugh Evans, Liverpool, 1916; R. C. Evans, Llanuwchllyn, 1881; J. Griffiths, Llanfairfechan, 1914; William Evans Hoyle, Cardiff, 1914; Robert Hughes, London, 1882; E. K. Jones, Brymbo, 1897-1899; Humphrey Jones, chemist, Llangollen, 1877; Hugh Jones, Llangollen, 1878; J. H. Jones, Y Brython, 1907; R. T. Llwydwyn Jones, Bootle, 1898; Emily Matthews, Amlwch, 1906; J. A. Morris, Aberystwyth, 1879; John J. Morris, Nottingham, 1906; Moses Roberts, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1899; T. Salusbury, Llangerniew, 1899; Mrs S. M. Saunders, Bridgend, 1906; Thomas Shankland, Bangor, 1905-1920; W. Williams, printer, Llangollen, 1877; and others. Much of the correspondence relates to Evan Owen's activities in connection with Baptist Churches in Liverpool and with the temperance movement in Liverpool and North Wales.

A typescript copy of the autobiography of G. G. T. Treherne; notes by John Ballinger; and letters to John Ballinger by G. G. T. Treherne, 1918, and G. E. F. Goring-Thomas, 1924.

Letters addressed to G. G. T. Treherne mainly on antiquarian subjects. The correspondents include A. Hadrian Allcroft, Brighton, 1916-1922; John Ballinger, Aberystwyth, 1914-1922; W. G. Bannister, Tewkesbury; T. Treherne Barton, South Farnborough, 1918; E. Neil Baynes, London, 1919; William Bennett, Stratford-on-Avon, 1917; John Burd, Montgomery, 1916; and W. W. Brodie, Llanelly, 1918.

A tabular view of Welsh and other churches in which the name 'eglwys' is found, with questionnaires, and correspondence, including letters by John Ballinger, 1904; E. Edwardes, Caersws, 1902; H. C. Davies, Cowbridge, 1901-1902; D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh, 1904; M. H. Jones, Carmarthen, 1904; Thomas Jones, Cilcennin, 1901; W. Arthur Jones, Wrexham, 1901; Edmund McClure, 1905; Henry Morgan, Eglwysilan, 1901; and W. H. Sinnett, Crickhowell, 1905.

Photocopies of letters, 1970s-80s, including two from Major Herbert Lloyd-Johnes, and other papers, all relating to Sir John Ballinger (1860-1933), first Librarian of the National Library of Wales; together with photocopies of his letter of application, 1880, with accompanying testimonials, for the post of Librarian of Swansea Free Library (see also NLW ex 1149-50).

The file includes letters from H. H. Asquith, John Ballinger, Alfred T. Davies, W. J. Gruffydd, I. D. Hooson, John M. Howell, Aberaeron, G. Hartwell Jones (3), Henry Haydn Jones, Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon'), and A. Osmond Williams.

The file includes letters from Edward Anwyl (2), John Ballinger, Thomas Allen Glenn, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), T. Gwynn Jones, Alfred Neobard Palmer, R. Silyn Roberts, T. F. Roberts, John Rowland, A. Osmond Williams, and Mallt Williams.