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Letters, 1691-1909, of miscellaneous provenance, to and from bishops, mostly of Welsh dioceses, and other dignitaries relating mainly to social, personal and church matters. Among the correspondents are John Randolph, bishop of Bangor (1) [c. 1807]; Edward Copleston (1) 1844, Joshua Pritchard Hughes (1) 1909, Richard Lewis (1) 1901, Alfred Ollivant (4) 1849-1858, and John Shipley (1) 1769, bishops of Llandaf; John Owen (3) 1897-1899, and Connop Thirlwall (7) 1845-1871, bishops of St Davids; Edmund Gibson, bishop of London (2) 1731; Samuel Butler, headmaster of Shrewsbury School, later bishop of Lichfield (2) 1834; and Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, archbishop of Westminster (3) 1886-1893. Also included is a letter, 1790, from Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon.

Miscellaneous correspondence including holograph letters from J[ames] C[olquhoun Campbell, bishop of] Bangor, from Bangor, to the Reverend W. J. [? William John] Beamont [? fellow of Trinity College and vicar of the parish of St. Michael's, Cambridge], 1861-1862 (2) (the writer's willingness to advocate the cause of the Additional Curates Society at Cambridge, the appropriate allowance for a pensioner at Cambridge University), and Chief Justice [by inference, Sir William Bovill], 1869 (social); J[ohn] B[anks Jenkinson, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwilly, to [ ], 1827 ( personal postal matters); W[illiam] Basil [Tickell Jones, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwili Palace, to [ ], 1876 (personal); Alfred Ollivant [professor of Divinity], Trinity College [Cambridge, aft. bishop of Llandaff], to [ ], 1844 (instructions re studies); Tho[ma]s V[owler Short, bishop of] St. Asaph, from St. Asaph, to [Henry Montagu Villiers], bishop of Carlisle, 1859 (? an accident to the writer); and C[onnop Thirlwall, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwili Palace, to the Reverend Dr. [? John William] Donaldson, 1858 (doubts as to his ability to attend at the election of the classical examiner, his belief that no candidate would be equal to recipient).

A notebook written by John Jones, Cefnfaes, Rhayader, containing copies of documents relating to various charities - extracts from the will of John Davies, Clerkenwell, 1662, the Rhayader and Disserth Inclosure Award, 1829, the Disserth Inclosure Award, 1815, and the wills of the Reverend Charles Price, 1719, the Reverend Henry Williams, 1813, and David Morgan of Coedglasson, Nantmel, 1720, all relating to charity schools and lectures at Rhayader; a direction by the Charity Commission in the matter of the collegiate school at Llandovery called Thomas Phillips's Foundation, 1860; a scheme for the Foundation drawn up by the Reverend Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc'), with observations by John Jones, Cefnfaes, and Dr Alfred Ollivant, 1847; and a short biographical sketch of Thomas Phillips.