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St. David's College (Lampeter, Wales) Schools -- Wales -- Adwy'r Clawdd
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Miscellaneous correspondence,

Miscellaneous correspondence including holograph letters from W. Aldridge, London, to Rob[er]t Ellis at the College, Trevecka, 1785 (personal); G[eorge Davys, bishop of] Peterborough, to [? the Reverend Edward Morgan, vicar of Syston, co. Leicester], 1846 (the acceptance of district visitors as candidates for deacons' orders); [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn'], Fron [co. Anglesey], to the Reverend Ellis Phillips, 1840 (1 + 1 by inference) (legal action threatened against the writer and recipient ); [ ] Foulkes, Machynlleth, to Ann ?Peters, 1835 (personal) (incomplete); E. J. Hamilton, Brighton, to the Reverend J. B. Figgis, ? Brighton, 1906 (information relating to the Reverend J. Trego [? Congregational minister], and London Road [Congregational] Church, Brighton) (forwarded to [ ]); Dan[iel Jones], Wrexham, to [ ], 1837 (an abstract of a sermon) (incomplete); E. Jones, Wrexham, to his brother, 1864-1878 (2) (dates of birth of the writer, his brothers, and sisters, a school at Adwy['r Clawdd, near Wrexham] kept by Thomas Evans circa 1804, the publication of Mân Gofion [o bethau crefyddol, moesol, a diddanol . . . (Gwrecsam, 1821)] by the writer's father with Thomas Evans's name 'put to it as the author', the publication of the Reverend T[homas] Charles: Geiriadur [Ysgrythyrol . . .] in one volume, the publication of the works of the Reverend Lewis Edwards of Bala in two volumes, an address presented to the Reverend O[wen] Evans [Congregational minister] on his departure from Wrexham, books on the miracles and parables of Christ [Gwyrthiau Crist . . . (Wrexham, 1868), and Dammegion yr Arglwydd Iesu (Wrexham, 1873)] by the said Owen Evans); Ebenezer Jones, Wrexham, to ? his brother, 1843 (the founding of a society for civil and religious liberty at Ruthin, the need to reform the [Anglican] Church but from within, the improvement in the character of the clergy, a tract by the Reverend T[homas] Spencer [perpetual curate of Hinton Charterhouse] entitled Practical Suggestions on Church Reform); [the Reverend] W[illia]m Leigh, The Vicarage, Eglwysilan, to [ ], 1849 (the reopening of the rebuilt church of Llanvabon, a harvest festival at ?Eglwysilan, the ordaining of [the Reverend William] Davies as curate of Llanvabon); [the Reverend] Ed[ward] Morgan, [vicar of] Syston [co. Leicester], to Tho[ma]s Jones, Chester, undated (material relating to [?the Reverend Simon] Loyd ( sic) [Methodist cleric], a letter to St. David's College [Lampeter] on behalf of recipient, the writer's biographies of H[owel] Harris and [the Reverend Thomas] Charles, an intended work on the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists by [the Reverend John] Hughes [Methodistiaeth Cymru . . . ( Gwrecsam, 3 cyf. 1851-1856)]), and W[illia]m Jones, Wrexham, [18]45 (an intended biography of [?the Reverend John] Humphreys [C.M. minister] by recipient's friend, the writer's intention of publishing selected letters of [the Reverend John] Elias ['o Fôn']); H. Raikes to [ ] Hutton, 1854 (the writer's declining strength, his ?resignation from a committee of ?the British and Foreign Bible Society, reflections on the work of that Society ); and [the Reverend] Henry Rees [C.M. minister], Benarth, to [ ], 1867 (preaching engagements).