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(I) A home-made notebook of Morris Davies of Bangor (1796-1876), author, hymnologist and musician, containing material towards a biography of the Reverend Peter Williams (1723-96) and draft resolutions of a committee of Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist Church, Bangor, 1851-2 (with a reference to the proposed erection of 'Capel Upper Bangor' i.e. Twr-gwyn Chapel). The volume is made up of a variety of printed and manuscript sheets, including an undated printed appeal for subscriptions towards the presentation of his own portrait to Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), an undated printed prospectus of E. Williams, milliner and dress maker, High Street, Bangor; a notice of a meeting of the Provisional Directors of the Rhiw Bach Slate Quarries Company, 1853; a letter from the Reverend John Hughes, Liverpool to M[orris] Davies, 1848 (enclosing books, the possible re-publication of a book of hymns); a printed prospectus of Samuel Roberts, Bangor Agency, China Tea Company, 1852; a letter from Ebenezer M. Roberts, Pwllheli to [Morris Davies], 1853 (the debt still remaining on Penymount Chapel) (with a draft reply); a printed prospectus of [J.] Russell's Menai Bathing Machines, Gored-y-Gyd, Bangor, 1853; and letters from Morris Davies to [ ], undated (an appointment), Croxon, Jones, C[o.], [bankers], Oswestry to John Jones, currier, Llanfyllin, 1838 (a payment), and Thomas Gee, Denbigh to [Morris Davies], 1850 (an allocation to the recipient from the proceeds of Y Traethodydd for 1849). (Ii) A small notebook containing a copy of a letter written in response to a letter published in Y Gwyliedydd, XI (1834), pp. 296-8, relating to the Reverend Peter Williams.

Cyfrol o nodiadau, [1903x1924], ar hanes eglwysi Methodistiaid Calfinaidd yn sir Gaernarfon, yn llaw'r Parch. William Hobley, ar gyfer ei Hanes Methodistiaeth Arfon, 6 chyfrol (Caernarfon, 1910-24). = A volume of notes, [1903x1924], on the history of Calvinistic Methodist churches in Caernarfonshire, in the hand of Rev. William Hobley, in preparation for his Hanes Methodistiaeth Arfon, 6 vols (Caernarfon, 1910-24).
Mae'r nodiadau ac adysgrifau wedi eu tynnu o nifer o ffynonellau llawysgrif a phrintiedig, mewn perthynas ag amryw o eglwysi, gan gynnwys Salem, Llanllyfni (ff. 2-35), Y Graig, Bangor (ff. 60 verso-74), a'r Tabernacl, Bangor (ff. 84-91). = The notes and transcripts are taken from various manuscript and printed sources and relate to a number of churches, including Salem, Llanllyfni (ff. 2-35), Y Graig, Bangor (ff. 60 verso-74), and Tabernacl, Bangor (ff. 84-91).