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Copies of Westminster Chapel (Congregational)'s annual letters (with 1950, 1951 and 1966 missing), written by the pastor, Dr Lloyd-Jones and addressed to members of the chapel. Included is a letter, dated 30 May 1968, explaining the reasons for his retirement from the ministry at Westminster.

Five letters (three of which are photocopies), and one postcard, sent by Dr Lloyd-Jones to various correspondents. The letters also include typescript copies of a correspondence between him and Mr Budgen (Rochdale) in 1974 and 1977.

Dr Lloyd-Jones's sermons, comprising seven typewritten sermons, 1946-1965; twenty-one complete manuscript sermons, c.1927-1945; numerous skeleton sermon notes, c.1940s-1970s; and miscellaneous undated sermon notes.

A collection of seventeen full-length addresses or lectures by Dr Lloyd-Jones (including two which are published, the rest being typescripts) given at meetings of the Christian Medical Fellowship, Westminster Fellowship Fraternal, Fuller Summer Seminary (Winona Lake, Indiana, USA), etc. There is one BBC radio address, in Welsh, on the subject 'Crefydd a Nodweddion Cenedlaethol' ('Religion and National Characteristics').

Dr Lloyd-Jones's financial papers (including some items belonging to his wife, Bethan Lloyd-Jones) comprising stocks and shares certificates, national savings certificate books, insurance certificates, a bank account book, will of John Hugh Edwards, records of transactions relating to W. J. Clark & Sons (Builders), Harrow, and various financial notes; royalty agreements and payments relating to his publications The plight of man and the power of God; truth unchanged, unchanging; Why does God allow war?; together with letters of appreciation from various correspondents, 1939-51.

Letters to Bethan Lloyd-Jones from various friends and other correspondents, mainly comprising letters of good wishes during her husband's illness and hospital treatment in 1968, and letters of sympathy (including cards and telegram messages) following her husband's death in March 1981. Correspondents include Felix Konotey-Ahulu (63/29-31); Mervyn T. Barter, The Banner of Truth Trust (63/40-1); Elizabeth Braund (63/46); G. N. M. Collins, Free Church of Scotland College (63/66); Aneirin Talfan Davies (63/84); Brian Freer, The Westminster Conference (63/103); Donald C. Graham, Pensacola Theological Institute, Florida (64/7-8); R. Geraint Gruffydd, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (64/10); Erroll Hulse (64/31-2); E. Wyn James, Mudiad Efengylaidd Cymru (64/34-6); Douglas Johnson (64/43); Elwyn Jones, BBC Cymru (64/48); I. J. Macdonald, The Girl Crusaders' Union (65/3); and Iain H. Murray (65/14-21).

A manuscript history of the cause at Sandfields entitled ‘A brief outline of Sandfield [sic] Church and its Ministry from 1897 to 1938’ by Robert Lady.

The 2016 donation comprises of copies of typescript reports of sermons preached at Westminster Chapel, London, 1948-1952 and 1961-1964, by the Revd Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, on the Epistle to the Hebrews, with manuscript emendations in preparation for the sermons to be published.

Three letters of appreciation written during a preaching tour of the USA, in response to radio broadcasts of Dr Lloyd-Jones's evening sermons at Park Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts.

Five letters sent from the Christian Medical Fellowship, including his notes of addresses (given at Cmf meetings?), together with a full address published in the Cmf newsletter, and a discussion paper ('A Memorandum on Faith Healing').

Four letters, 1970 and 1978, to Dr Lloyd-Jones relating to his BBC television appearances, and a script of an interview with him for a Welsh BBC television programme, 'Dylanwadau' ('Influences'), broadcast in March 1962, together with some relevant cuttings from the Radio Times and some newspapers.

Letters to his wife, Bethan Lloyd-Jones, comprising seven letters written while preaching in the USA (May-June 1937), Scotland (April 1939), and Cambridge (June 1939), and thirty-three letters written while his wife was staying in Llanelli, describing the chaotic conditions during the air-raids on London, Sept.-Oct. 1939, and the difficulty of maintaining regular Sunday services at Westminster Chapel.

Sixty-four diaries of Dr Lloyd-Jones, mainly recording preaching engagements in various places, together with names of contacts. The diaries cover his two pastorates at Aberavon, 1927-38, and at Westminster Chapel, 1938-68, as well as the following years of itinerant preaching.

Reviews of books written by Dr Lloyd-Jones and books written about him, from Christian newspapers, magazines and periodicals, including The Basis of Christian Unity; Studies in the Sermon on the Mount; Spiritual Depression; Faith on Trial; The Supernatural in Medicine; Preaching and Preachers, the various expository volumes on the epistle to the Romans, and the epistle to the Ephesians, Evangelistic Sermons at Aberavon; The Doctor Himself and the Human Condition; photocopies of reviews and extracts from other books by Dr Lloyd-Jones, Joy Unspeakable; Prove all Things; and The Cross: God's Way of Salvation; reviews or photocopies of reviews relating to the biography D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years (by Iain Murray), Memories of Sandfields 1927-1938 (by Bethan Lloyd-Jones), and Five Evangelical Leaders (by Christopher Catherwood).

Reports of Dr Lloyd-Jones's preaching meetings or addresses published in various Christian periodicals, 1943-79; also included is an article on him by Donald Macleod, 'Dr Lloyd-Jones and Christian Unity', The Outlook, July-Aug. 1984.

Tributes to Dr Lloyd-Jones after his death on 1 March 1981, mostly from Christian magazines and periodicals such as Evangelical Times, The Banner of Truth, The Evangelical Magazine of Wales, and Y Cylchgrawn Efengylaidd, and including one tribute written before his death by Peter De Jong in The Outlook (1980); further tributes from newspapers and periodicals (some in Welsh), March-May 1981.

Photocopies of Bethan Lloyd-Jones's manuscript translations (from Welsh to English) of a selection of her husband's letters to her and the children, Elizabeth and Ann. The letters mainly describe Dr Lloyd-Jones's preaching tour of the USA in May-June 1937, and the period of great testing at the outbreak of the Second World War (Sept.-Nov. 1939) in London when Dr Lloyd-Jones was trying, with the help of Dr G. Campbell Morgan, to maintain a regular ministry at Westminster Chapel whilst Bethan Lloyd-Jones and the children were staying in Llanelli (many of the original letters can be seen in no. 29).