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Two note-books containing transcripts of thirty-two letters, 1812-1849 and undated, all except one (as per signatures, addresses, etc., or by inference) being to or from the Reverend David Charles [David Charles I, Calvinistic Methodist minister] of Carmarthen, his son David Charles [II] also of Carmarthen, and his daughter Eliza Charles [or, subsequent to marriage, Davies]. The remaining letter, from Mary Foulks, Machynlleth, is possibly also to a member of the Charles family.

A note-book containing transcripts of letters from [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Charles, Bala, to Henry Boase, London, 1803 (2) (a proposal by recipient that 'a new, cheap impression of the Bible in the Welsh Tongue' be published, the need for such Bibles, the edition printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, at the expense of the S.P.C.K. in 1799, the edition then being printed in Chester to appear in thirty-six numbers, two editions printed in Carmarthen prior to the 1799 Oxford edition, enquiries made and suggestions put forward as to the format, price, distribution, number of copies, etc. of the new edition), his brother [the Reverend David Charles, Carmarthen, ?1814] (personal, 'our Association [meeting at Bala]', his intention of going to Llangeitho), his wife [Sarah] Charles, at Chester [1784] (personal), Mrs. [Lydia] Foulks, Machynlleth, 1811 (2) (personal, his wife's health, religious reflections), and Miss [Mary] Foulkes, Machynlleth, undated (forwarding a copy of a Welsh Bible, praise of the Bible). These seven letters have been published in D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles . . .

Five note-books the contents of which consist mainly of transcripts of, or extracts from, miscellaneous correspondence, 1786-1815, including letters to Joseph Tarn [assistant secretary, British and Foreign Bible Society], London, from Christopher Anderson, Edinburgh, 1814, [the Reverend] Tho[ma] s Charles, Bala, ?1807-1814 (?43), Sarah Charles [wife of the Reverend Thomas Charles], Bala, ?1807-1813 (4, two being appendices to her husband's letters), Tho[ma]s R[ice] Charles [son of the Reverend Thomas Charles], Bala, 1815, John Davies, Aberystwyth and Bronhaulog, near Bala and Corwen, 1813-1815 (5), [the Reverend] Ja[me]s Griffith, Machynlleth, 1813, [the Reverend] Dan[ie]l Jones, Liverpool, 1814 [recte 1815], [the Reverend] S[imon] Lloyd, Bala, 1815 (2), Rob[er]t Saunderson, Bala, 1814-1815 (2), and [ ], Shrewsbury, 1812; letters from [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Charles from Bala, Barmouth, Dublin, Hawkstone, and London, to his son T[homas] R[ ice] Charles, Liverpool, 1807, Mrs. [Lydia] Foulks, Machynlleth, 1806-1814 ( 6), Miss Mary Foulks, Machynlleth, 1814, [the Reverend John Owen, joint secretary, British and Foreign Bible Society], 1809, his nephew J[oseph] Thomas, 1799, John Williams, Tremadoc, 1812, and [ ], 1812-1814 (2); and letters from D[avid] Charles, Carmarthen, to ? Joseph Tarn, 1812, John Davies, Bronhaulog, near Bala, to Messrs. Down, Thornton, and co., 1815, Sam[ue]l Davies, ?Llanarmon in Yale, to [ ], 1813, [the Reverend] John Elias, Llanfechell, to [ ], 1812, Samuel Mills, London, to [ ], 1815 , [the Reverend] Thomas Phillips, Neuaddlwyd, to Mr. Menzies, Carmarthen, 1812, and [ ], 1812 (2), Rob[er]t Price and others, Llanfyllin, to the Bible Society, 1812, [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Reader, Taunton, to [the Reverend] Thomas Charles, Bala, 1786, Rob[er]t Saunderson, Bala, to Evan Evans, London (? for Joseph Tarn), 1814, John Thomas, Lodge, near Llanidloes, to [ ], 1813, W. Williams, Carmarthen, to [ ], 1813, and [ ], Carmarthen, to ? James Black, 1812. Most of the letters relate to the activities of the British and Foreign Bible Society in connection with Wales.