File NLW MS 12819D. - Scrap-book,

An imperfect scrap-book containing miscellaneous material mainly of Calvinistic Methodist interest including press cuttings, pages extracted from periodicals, manuscript notes, etc., 1854-1868 and undated, relating to the activities of the Calvinistic Methodist Presbytery of Cheshire, Lancashire, and parts of Denbighshire and Flintshire, and to the activities and history of individual churches within the said presbytery; imperfect copies of a few numbers of The Monthly Herald for the period 1858-1860; pages extracted from various numbers of The Treasury, 1868-1876, containing biographical sketches or obituaries of [the Calvinistic Methodist] ministers Richard Baxter of Peniel, near Newtown, John Jones of Wrexham, Owen Jones of Gelly, co. Montgomery, and Ebenezer Powell of Chester; pages extracted from The Monthly Herald, May 1860, containing an obituary of the Reverend William Smith, C.M. minister, Rossett; a booklet containing the published version of the Memorial Sermon on the occasion of the death of the Rev. Ebenezer Powell, Chester, . . . by the Rev. John Williams . . ., June 18th 1876; two holograph letters from [the Reverend] W[illia]m Evans [C.M. minister], Hoylake, to Tho[ma]s Jones, [18]77 (sums collected by the writer for church building, etc., [during his pastorates] at Chester and Hoylake), and [ ], undated (enclosing answers to a questionnaire relating to his career, his pastorate at Chester, etc.); manuscript notes on the Reverend Phillip Oliver of Chester, and the church he founded at Boughton; etc.