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Lectures on 'A System of Christian Ethics: or Essays on Moral Philosophy' transcribed by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') 'from an old volume of manuscripts bound together, and which had been bought in London, by the late Rev. D. Davies, Baptist minister, of Wauntreoda, Whitchurch, in the neighbourhood of Cardiff. Author unknown, and nothing to indicate whose they were originally . . . The manuscript was very old . . . but the handwriting was excellent, and it seemed in a fit state for the press'. The transcript was completed at Whitchurch, 16 January, 1864.

'Various papers and manuscripts of Rev. J. Davies, Glandwr, collected and put together by J. Lloyd James, Sep. 12, 1898'. The collection includes articles by John Davies on 'Tylodi y Cymry', 'Addysg Teuluaidd' (press cuttings from Seren Cymru), 'Gweddio ar Eistedd' (printed by B. R. Rees, Llanelli), 'Gwybodaeth', 'Cerddoriaeth yr Hen Destament'; draft title page and preface to Y Proffwydi Byrion, 1881, and chronological tables; letters from J[ohn] T. Williams, 1834, and Thomas Briscoe, 1876; an account of books bought from Baynes &c. for John Davies, 9 July 1835; and a letter from Hermon [Baptist] Church [Llanfyrnach] to [Siloh Congregational] church at Glandwr, 19 July 1828.

A volume of transcripts by John Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') of the compositions of John Davies in prose and verse, hymns composed by his father, David Davies of Castell-y-Geifr, Llanarth and others, and miscellaneous material from the manuscripts of John Davies.

'Some poetical pieces of the late J. G. Davies, son of the Rev. J. Davies, Ietwen, rescued and put together by his early and intimate friend, J. Lloyd James, Nov. 1896'. John Griffith Davies was lost at sea from the ship Hibernia in March 1861. Sewn into the manuscript is an offprint of an article entitled 'Llesoldeb ac Anllesoldeb Gwydraid o Wirod' by 'Ruffus'.

Lists compiled by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') from the manuscripts of John Phillips, Glandwr-isaf, parish of Llanfyrnach, co. Pembroke, of sermons preached largely at Hebron Congregational Chapel, 1826-1879, and of Roger Grifiths, Kile (Cilau)-isaf; parish of Llandysilio East, co. Carmarthen, of sermons preached at Nebo Congregational Chapel, 1883-1887. At the end are particulars, also from a notebook of Roger Griffiths, of collections and disbursements at Nebo, 1883-1886. The lists have been recorded partly on the dorse or blank spaces of a printed National Memorial to the Right Hon. The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., Premier, 'for arresting the growth of European armaments' [c. 1894-1895], returns of March School Board, 1897, forms of Statistical Returns of the Sunday School Union, 1900-1901, and a printed notice of meetings of Marsh and Chatteris Federation of the Evangelical Free Churches, 1903.

An extensive register in the hand of J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') containing an annotated list of members of Hebron Congregational Church from 2 November, 1850, when Simon Evans accepted the pastorate, to 1902, and similar lists of baptisms, admissions, admissions by transfer, dismissions, exclusions, restorations, marriages, burials, etc., by Simon Evans during his pastorates of the Congregational churches of Pen-y-groes (1844-1856), Hebron (1850-1885), and Nebo (1850-1885). The volume was completed at March, co. Cambridge, 17 April, 1903. The lists are written on the dorse of a printed parliamentary voters' register for the parish of Merthyr Tydfil, 1872.

An inventory of the sermons of John Davies compiled by John Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro').

'Special sermons of the late Rev. John Davies, congregational minister of the Welsh Churches at Glandwr and Moriah, in the Pembrokeshire Association of Churches. These sermons were preached on special occasions, and were selected out of his manuscripts by the Rev. J. Lloyd James, once a private pupil of the author, and to whom he was indebted, in early life, for lessons in Greek and Latin; hence the interest he took in his manuscripts, and copied all he could with a view to their preservation. March, Cambs. Feb. 13, 1898. J. Lloyd James'.

Selected early and general sermons of John Davies transcribed by John Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro').

A scrap-book inferentially compiled by John Lloyd Jones ('Clwydwenfro'; 1835-1919) containing press cuttings and a few manuscript items. Some of the cuttings are dated within the 1850s-1870s and among the more interesting titles are 'Hynodion Cwm Rhondda .... Testyn Cystadleuol Eisteddfod y Porth, Nadolig, 1861'; 'Collegiate and University Education in Wales'; 'Llythyr oddiwrth y Parch. Morris Phillips, Cenhadwr i India'; 'Teyrnged i Goffadwriaeth Ioan Pedr'; 'Beirniadaeth ar Gyfansoddiadau Barddonol Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Aberdar, Awst 1861'; 'Llangollen Great National Eisteddfod' [1858]; 'Y Ffrwydriad yn Abercarn'; 'Sketches of Cardiff Preachers'; etc. The manuscript material comprises a tale entitled 'The Bride of Santa Croce', 19 November 1856, described in an annotation by J. Ll. James as 'the composition of the late John Griffith Davies (son of the Rev. J. Davies ['Siôn Gymro'], Glandwr, Pembrokeshire) who wrote it and sent it to John Lloyd James, then a student at Carmarthen College, that he might fill up the outline', and verses entitled 'Y Messiah', etc. addressed to John Ll. James, Berllandawel, Llanglwydwen and annotated in the latter's hand 'J. G. Davies, Yetwen, pan yn Narberth', etc. The outer upper cover is inscribed, in the hand of J. H. Davies, 'Articles and poetry from Cyfaill y Werin and other papers'.

'The Welshman's Candle', being a holograph 'free and correct' translation, with an introduction, by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') of 'An Exhortation to hear and read The Word of God' from Rhys Prichard: Canwyll y Cymru . . . (London, 1646).

Holograph 'specimens of translation' by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') of the 'Exhortation' contained in MS. 11692B. There are considerable verbal variations between the two texts.

'The Welshman's Candle', being holograph translations by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') from Rhys Prichard: Canwyll y Cymru . . . (London, 1646). Some of the translations are signed at March during the period 1883-1887, and are written on the dorse or blank spaces of printed circulars, etc., of the National Education League, 1873 and undated, the Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday, 1882, and the London Missionary Society, undated, a printed appeal on behalf of a New Congregational College for Wales, 1862, a printed programme of a competitive literary meeting at Beulah [Congregational Chapel], Whitchurch, near Cardiff, 1867, a printed leaflet of hymns to be sung at the anniversary of Ivor Chapel Sabbath School [at Dowlais], 1870, a printed prospectus of Thomas Nicholas: The Pedigree of the English People (5th ed., 187[ ]), a printed undated appeal on behalf of a testimonial to the Reverend Thomas Rees, D.D., Swansea, etc.

Transcripts in the hand of J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') from Y Diwygiwr, July, 1854.

Letters, circulars, etc., 1806-1918, mainly to John James, Gellionnen, John Jones, Aberdare and Rees Jenkin Jones, the correspondents including J[ohn] Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro'), Isaac Thomas Williams, Aberdulais, Thomas L. Marshall, Sidmouth, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Tower Hill, Chicago, Rees and Margaret Richard, Frackville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., John Braham, Bristol, David Evans, Lampeter, John Thomas, Llandysul, Rees Rees, father-in-law of John Jones, Aberdare, and other members of the Rees family, David Evans, Alltyplaca, Ben[jamin] Evans, Newcastle Emlyn, Rees Jones ('Amnon'), brother of John Jones, Aberdare, David Owen ('Brutus'), Thomas Rees, Gellionnen and London, James Yates, London, Richard Evans, Swansea, John Davies, Cilygell, David Jenkin Rees, Lloydjack, David Davis, Castell Hywel and David Davis, Neath, and the reminiscences of Jenkin William [?minister at Panteg].