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Holograph and autograph letters:- [Thomas] Twynog Jeffreys, Rhymney, to [John] Davies, 1904-1909 (the publication of Tannau Twynog, reminiscences of Llanddeusant), J. A. Bradney, Tal-y-coed, Monmouth, to [John] Davies, 1904-1916 (the writer's pedigree and his genealogical researches, etc.), J. Thomas Watkins, Penycae, Swansea VAlley, to J[ohn] davies, 1910 (a request for the writer's pedigree), John Davies, Pandy, to Ben Price, Sydney, 1915 (consent to the betrothal of the writer's daughter Gladys to the recipient), B. T. Jones, Neath, secretary of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, to Miss [Gladys] Davies, 1917 (condolence on the death of John Davies, the recipient's father), J. L. Wheatley, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace, City Hall, Cardiff, to James H. Parry, Pandy [1917] (the death of John Davies) (incomplete), and W. A. Townsend, Bedwelty Pits, to Mrs Ben E. Price, Sydney, 1919 (an account of a peace celebration carnival) (enclosed is a photograph of John Davies's grave); pedigrees, largely of Monmouthshire interest, compiled by John Davies and J. A. Bradney (including a chart of the latter's sixteen great-great-grandchildren); a list by John Davies of 'Twynog Jeffreys Papers'; photograph [1936] of the funeral cortege of [E. W. (Eddie) Thomas, Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, a native of Ferndale; press cuttings relating to the election of John Davies to be Moderator of the Calvinistic Methodist General Assembly, 1915-1916, and the funeral of E. W. Thomas, Katoomba, 1936; etc.

A volume containing mounted cuttings of a paper by John Davies on 'Monmouthshire Worthies', read before the Newport Cymmrodorion Society. Inset are a few extracts from Trevecca letters, 1729-1744, and transcripts in the hand of J. A. Bradney of some of the Gunter papers described in NLW MS 11420E. The volume was originally (1902) used as a mathematics exericse book.