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A group of holograph letters and postcards from the collection of, and mainly addressed to, John Jones, J.P., bookseller, Bethesda. The writers include J. N. Crowther ('Glanceri'), 1906-1922; [Richard Davies] ('Mynyddog'), undated; Owen Evans, Liscard, 1913; Dame M[argaret] Lloyd George, Criccieth, to H. E. Jones, Bethesda [1935]; H[ugh] D[erfel] Hughes, 1864; Rhys J. Huws, Staylittle, 1906; [John Jones] ('Mathetes'), Llangollen, 1858; L. D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), Bangor, 1904-1917; [Sir] Hugh Owen, London, 1878; W. J. Parry, Bethesda, etc., 1898-1899; John H. Roberts, Liverpool; [Samuel Roberts] ('S.R.'), Conway, 1882; [John Thomas] ('Eifionydd'), 1904; and Henry J. Wilson, House of Commons, 1904. Also included in the group are an English translation of a letter from John Jones to his mother, 1864, and an incomplete address by W. Jones on Sunday School instruction, 1858.

Holograph manuscript of an address by W. J. Parry on 'Egwyddorion Llwyddiant Llafur', 1908.

The file includes letters from D. R. Daniel, A. W. Wade-Evans, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), W. Goscombe John, W. J. Parry (2), and Ernest Rhys.

The file includes letters from John Ballinger, Alfred T. Davies, J. Glyn Davies, J. Kelt Edwards, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, J. Towyn Jones, Bishop John Owen (2), Owen Griffith Owen ('Alafon'), W. J. Parry, J. F. Rees (3), J. Machreth Rees, J. Herbert Roberts, Lord Clwyd (2), and Walter Runciman.

The file includes letters from Edward Anwyl, Bishop A. G. Edwards, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog') (3), Timothy Lewis, Henry G. Maurice, W. J. Parry, J. F. Rees, and Percy E. Watkins.

The file includes letters from T. A. Archer, John Ballinger, Thomas E. Brigstocke, J. Glyn Davies (2), E. Vincent Evans, J. Spinther James, John Edward Lloyd (3), W. J. Parry, R. Silyn Roberts, Sir John Williams Bart, and Mallt Williams.

A copy of Hanes fy Mywyd a'm Gwaith by W. J. Parry, Coetmor Hall, Bethesda, reprinted from Y Cronicl, 1908- , with an 'In memoriam' leaflet for Mary Parry, his wife, manuscript notes by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda and printed matter.

The correspondents include: Alfred Neobard Palmer (23), 1896-1912, W. J. Parry (2), 1911-1924, Iorwerth C. Peate (2), 1923-1925, D. Rhys Phillips (3), 1912-1913, Lord Pontypridd (Alfred Thomas), 1919, Thomas Powel, Cardiff (9), 1906-1915, and J. Arthur Price (3), 1891-1895.

Miscellanea, including incomplete adjudications by Owen Jones on essays on the antiquities of the vale of Conway ('Henafiaethau Dyffryn Conway'), the foundation of Maenan Abbey ('Sefydliad Mynachlog Maenan'), etc.; the Elementary Certificate of the Tonic Sol-fa College awarded to William Rowland Williams, 1889 (the signatures include that of David Jenkins, examiner); a typescript copy of a poem in Welsh on the secession of Edward Stephen ('Tanymarian') to the Tory Party in 1874, with an accompanying note by R. D. Roberts, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, to the effect that the verses were printed on the back of a postcard addressed to W. J. Parry, Bethesda, in 1877; mounted cuttings from The North Wales Chronicle, 19 October, 1934, of a report by R. D. Roberts on 'Two Gold Half Nobles of Richard II ... found in Caernarvonshire' [the one at Llanfairfechan and the other at Gerlan, Bethesda], together with manuscript notes by the author; and a typescript copy of verses by A. S. Hamilton, Union Bay, British Columbia, entitled 'Little Dyvie' [i.e. David Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.], printed in a Canadian newspaper during the Great War (1914-1918).

Includes letters from: Alfred Neobard Palmer (5); W[illiam] J[ohn] Parry (5); E[gerton Grenville Bagot] P[hillimore] (4)

Papers from the collection of John Jones, J.P., Bethesda, including holograph and typescript poetry by J. N. Crowther ('Glanceri'), 1914-1922; a typescript hymn by W. J. Parry, Bethesda, 1912; poetry by Robert Thomas, Llidiartau [sic], Bala, and Thomas Jones, J.P. ('Treforydd'), Wrexham; an elegy to the Reverend Morris Jones, Jerusalem, Llanllechid, by John [D]. Griffith ('Ioan Arfon'), Caernarvon; a hymn-tune, 'Addfwynder', the words by J. Jones, Bethesda, and the music by G. Jones, A.C. ('Gutyn Mawrth'); 'There's only one England' ('Nid oes ond un Gwalia'), being a song composed to words by 'Glanceri'; a paper (incomplete) on 'Rhwymedigaeth Proffeswyr Crefydd i fod yn aelodau o'r Ysgol Sabbothol' by John Jones, Bethesda; a paper (incomplete) entitled 'Sylwadau erbyn cyfarfod ysgol'; a balance-sheet of the Cefnfaes (Bethesda) School Bazaar, October, 1893; etc.