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Some nineteen letters, 1868-1899, sent to members of the Davies family of Cwrtmawr, mainly from other family members. They include five letters from Eliza Davies (1798-1876) to her son R. J. Davies, 1868-1874, and two to her daughter-in-law Frances Davies, 1869; one letter, together with an empty envelope, from D. C. Davies, Chicago, to his mother Frances Davies, 1890, 1893; and a letter from R. J. Davies to his daughter Mary Elizabeth Davies on her 21st birthday, [1890]. A letter from T. C. Edwards, 1881, is presumably intended for R. J. Davies.
Also included are miscellaneous items relating to the Davies family (and the Ellis family), 1887-1928, including two press cuttings, a photograph, and the title page of R. J. Davies's copy of the Bible.

Twenty-one letters, 1885-1889, from F[rances] Davies, Cwrtmawr, to her son J. H. Davies, together with one each from JHD to his mother and father, 1883.

The correspondents include: Robert Joseph Davies, father of J. H. Davies (22), 1885-1892, T. Huws Davies (10), 1909-1914, M. L. Vaughan Davies (2), undated, Walford Davies (39), 1919-1926 and undated, Sir William Llewelyn Davies, 1925, and H. W. C. Davis, 1924.

A Diary of Sundays for 20 Years, 1886-1906 (Treherbert, [1886]) ostensibly used by R. J. Davies of Cwrt Mawr to record [?preachers]; the diary however continues to be used until 1896, after Davies's death in 1892.

Records, 1822-1892, relating to, or collected by, Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892), father of J. H. Davies. They comprise letters addressed to R. J. Davies, 1853-1892, his pocket diaries, 1873-1886, business and financial papers, 1876-1881, papers relating to building work on the Cwrt Mawr estate, 1850-1861, papers concerning R. J. Davies's work for the Calvinistic Methodist connexion, 1855-1890, miscellaneous, stray items collected by R. J. Davies, 1822-1866, and various notebooks, [1853]-[1892], kept by R. J. Davies.