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Two holograph letters from David Robert Daniel, organising agent, North Wales Quarrymen's Union, from Fourcrosses, Chwilog, to [David] Lloyd Humphreys [of Blaenau Ffestiniog, aft. of Pwllheli], 1899 (labour relations in the North Wales slate industry), and twenty holograph letters and post cards from D. R. Daniel, Camberwell, etc., to J[ohn] Lloyd Humphreys, Dolawel, Blaenau Ffestiniog [brother of David Lloyd Humphreys, and quarry manager, etc.], 1918-1930 and undated (books, World War I, an appreciation of [J.] Glyn Davies, the writer's health, the collection of dialect terms, an appreciation of W. Llewelyn Williams, comments on [John Davies] 'Siôn Gymro', parliamentary elections and current politics, the preservation of the Welsh language, observations on [Elfennau Gwleidyddiaeth by J.] Jones Roberts, personal, news of friends, etc.).

Papers, 1974-2003, relating to Pwllfanogl including a copy of a photograph showing employees of the Britannia Slate Works, c. 1890; an undated typewritten list of buildings and dwellings at Pwllfanogl and their occupants; and a typescript list, with some additions in Kyffin Williams's hand, of birds observed at Pwllfanogl, 1974. Also included is a paper by D. C. Jones entitled 'The Pwll Fanog Slate Wreck - Industrial Archaeology under the Sea', which contains notes on the reverse in Kyffin Williams's hand in preparation for a talk on portrait painters together with a short verse.