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A group of ecclesiastical papers, 1917-1919, of William Morgan, vicar of St. Ann's, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, including letters addressed to him, 1917, in connection with the Welsh Church Act, the Convention of the Church in Wales at Cardiff (1917), elections in the diocese of Bangor to the Representative Body and the Governing Body of the Church in Wales, etc.; manuscript, typescript, or printed balance sheets, 19171918, of the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund [in the diocese of Bangor], Bangor Diocesan Tract Society, Bangor Diocesan Church Building Society, the Church Defence and Instruction Committee [in the diocese of Bangor], Bangor Diocesan Board of Education, Bangor Clerical Education Society, Bangor Branch of the S. P. C. K., and Bangor Diocesan Church Extension Society; typescript schedules for the dioceses of St. Davids and Llandaff of incumbents with vested interests who had moved since 18 September, 1914; two printed letters by Watkin [Herbert Williams], bishop of Bangor, 1917-1919, relating to the implications of the Welsh Church Act, and the election of delegates in the diocese of Bangor for the Convention of the Church in Wales; a printed list for the Bangor Diocesan Conference, 14 November, 1917, of clerical and lay nominations for the Representative Body and the Governing Body of the Church in Wales; and manuscript and typescript notes, memoranda, and financial accounts by William Morgan.

Typescript draft reports, 1906, on the Diocese of Bangor (ff. 1-19) and diocesan societies (ff. 20-47), most of which were incorporated in the evidence presented to the Welsh Church Commission by the Rev. Watkin Herbert Williams (1845-1944), Bishop of Bangor, and Rev. Evans as Statistical Secretary.

Includes letters from J. T. Davies, H. R. Reichel (3), I. Gollancz (5), Kuno Meyer (2), Fritz Jecklin (2), W. A. Raleigh, R. Hughes, E. Walter Rees ('Gwallter Dyfi'), E. H. Goodman Roberts, E. Vincent Evans (5), William B. Halhed (13), J. G. Frazer, H. W. C. Davis, Alice B. Gomme, R. A. Stewart Macalister (5), Frederick G. Wynn (5), Horace Hart (4), Donald A. Mackenzie (3), P. M. C. Kermode (2), Robert Cochrane, Watkin H. Williams, Paul Vinogradoff (2), J. Herbert Lewis (2), Bertram C. A. Windle (4), Edward Owen, W. J. Watson (2), F. Haverfield (2), Christopher Williams, George G. T. Treherne, R. S. Conway, A. H. Sayce (4), E. C. Quiggin, Henri Gaidoz, Earnest A. Hooton, E. S. Dodgson (6), E. Lorimer Thomas, E. Sidney Hartland, Camille Jullian, O. A. Danielsson, W. Boyd Dawkins, M. R. James, Henry Owen, Gwenllian E. F. Morgan (4), Sophia Morrison, Thomas Powel, W. M. Flinders Petrie, J. P. Mahaffy (2), J. Mortimer Angus, Goddard H. Orpen, W. R. Lethaby, Patrick Lyons, Owen Edwards (3), H. J. Fleure, Alfred G. Edwards, George Curzon, George Eyre Evans, Kuno Meyer, Alexander Bugge, and T. E. Lawrence.

Letters from a number of correspondents, including R. Williams, T. Marchant Williams, V. E. Nash Williams, W. M. Williams, W. R. Williams and Watkin H. Williams.

A letter, 18 August 1915, written by W. Williams, chaplain to Watkin Herbert Williams, bishop of Bangor, 1899-1925, and signed by the bishop, to Nonconformist ministers in Anglesey relating to a request for a special day of prayer.

Letters regarding the constitution, Convention, schemes of the Governing and Representative Bodies, and commutation from Frank Morgan (11); Helen Gladstone (2 on the role of women); A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph (6); Sir John Eldon Bankes (2); Joshua Pritchard Hughes, Bishop of Llandaff (3); Watkin Herbert Williams, Bishop of Bangor (4); Gilbert Cunningham Joyce; W. P. James (4); John Owen, Bishop of St. Davids; Randall Thomas Davidson (2); the first Earl of Plymouth and others. -- Also included in the file are a 'List of Members of the First Governing Body and of the Representative Body of the Church in Wales and of Committees', 1918, 'Three Speeches delivered at the Opening meeting of the Convention of the Church in Wales', 1917, drafts, minutes, memoranda, and agendas of the Welsh Church Convention, the Governing Body, the Representative Body and the Joint Committee.

A scrap-book of D. Silvan Evans chiefly containing 'Nugae Canorae', being holographs and press cuttings of Welsh poetry by D. Silvan Evans and of Welsh translations by him of poetry by [Johann Wolfgang Von] Goethe, Anacreon, Sappho, Plato, etc.; press cuttings of reviews, 1887-97, of parts of D. Silvan Evans, Dictionary of the Welsh Language ... Geiriadur Cymraeg (Carmarthen, 1887-96); copious holographs and press cuttings by D. Silvan Evans of family memoranda (entries of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths, press cuttings of obituary notices, etc.); holograph letters to D. Silvan Evans from J[ames] C[olquhoun Campbell, bishop of] Bangor, 1888 (the offer of a non-residentiary canonry) (with a copy of the recipient's letter of acceptance), Watkin [Herbert Williams, bishop elect of] Bangor from The Deanery, St Asaph, [18]98 (an invitation to become one of the writer's chaplains), William Hughes, Llanuwchllyn Vicarage, 1888 (an appeal for a subscription to Bishop [William] Morgan's Memorial Fund), and J[ohn] Owen, The Deanery, St Asaph, [18]92 (an invitation to preach at the unveiling of the Bishop Morgan monument in the Cathedral Yard at St Asaph), and a holograph letter from D. Silvan Evans, Llanwrin to J. H. Davies, 1902 (copy sent to Spurrell); an extensive holograph list of publications by D. Silvan Evans (including contributions to periodicals published anonymously or under noms-de-plume); and (beginning at the end of the volume) additional holographs and press cuttings of poetry by D. Silvan Evans variously entitled 'Prydyddwaith', 'Telyn y Cyssegr: Sef, Odlau a Melodion, Gan Mwyaf ar Destynau Ysgrythyrol', and 'Melodion Ysgrythyrol'.

A large group of postcards and letters, 15-24 September, 1906, from incumbents of the diocese of Bangor to the bishop, Watkin Herbert Williams, acknowledging the receipt of a questionnaire and relevant papers in connection with the Royal Commission on the Welsh Church.