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Thirty-four letters, etc., from [the Reverend] J[ames] Spinther James [Baptist minister and historian], Llandudno, 1906 (3) (information concerning [the Reverend] David Jones [Baptist minister], ob. 1792, his wife Hannah, and his connection with [the Reverend] P[eter] W[illiams, Methodist cleric, ob. 1796] and the publication of the 'Beibl bach' [a Welsh edition of the 'Little Bible' of John Canne] in 1790, biographical notes on Lewis Richards of Llanbadarnfawr [co. ], who emigrated to America, and became co-founder and pastor of a Baptist church in Baltimore, 1785), [the Reverend] J[ohn] D[aniel] James, Cadoxton Vicarage, Neath, 1906 (a record of the burial at Cadoxton in 1820 of the Rev[erend] W[illia]m Williams, vicar of the parish, 1814-1820), R[obert] T[homas] Jenkins [head of the Department (aft. professor) of Welsh History], University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1936 (information required by the writer concerning the connection between [the Reverend] Peter Williams [Methodist cleric, ob. 1796] and Pibwr [Lwyd, co. Carmarthen], and concerning a supposed biography of [the Reverend] William Williams [ob. 1820, curate of St. Gennys, Cornwall, in the late 18th century], the writer's work on the Moravians in North Wales [The Moravian Brethren in North Wales, being vol. XLV of Y Cymmrodor, 1938]), Catherine Jones, Aberdovey, [19]03 (2) (information concerning the descendants of Jane Thomas of Lower Court Farm [parish of Llanfihangel Abercywyn, co. Carmarthen], sister of the Reverend Thomas Charles), Charles W. F. Jones [London] and Ipswich, 1907 (2) ( information concerning the Rev[erend] Hezekiah Jones [ob. 1833], the writer's grandfather), [the Reverend] D[avid] Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], Rhuddlan, 1911 (financial matters relating to the writer's church at Rhuddlan), E. Clwyd Jones, Rhyl, [19]26 (matters relating to recipient's superannuation benefit), [the Reverend] Edward Jones, Llangynhafal Rectory, 1906 (the date of burial of the Rev[erend] David Hughes (ob. 1817), one time rector of Llangynhafal), Eirene [Lloyd Jones, later White], St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Thanet, [19]25 (the writer's illness, books read during her illness, her opinion that 'Winston [Churchill] can write magnificently', the illness of [her brother] Elphin, the start made by her father [Dr. Thomas Jones, C. H. See below] on 'his history of Wales during the war', an invitation to her father to write 4000 words on Ll[oyd] G[eorge] in the Encyclopaedia Britannica), Eirene T[heodora] Jones [mother of the previous correspondent], St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Westminster, and Gregynog (Newtown), [19]33 (3) (the illness of the writer's husband [Dr. Thomas Jones, C.H. See below] and his stay at Ruthin Castle, their daughter Eirene's travels in the United States of America and Canada, their son Tristan's activities at Balliol [College], Oxford, a meeting of the trustees of the Elphin Memorial Scholarship, a visit by Thomas Jones to Bargoed to see the newly formed occupational centre for the unemployed, the Pilgrim Trust and its connection with the Nat[iona]l Council of Social Service, the undertaking by [Sir] Percy Watkins [Secretary, Welsh Department of the National Council of Social Service, 1933-1938] of visits to the unemployment areas previously undertaken by Thomas Jones, the appointment of new controllers of the Gregynog Press, plans for temporary expansion at Coleg Harlech to accommodate 30 to 40 additional students from amongst the unemployed to be trained as leaders of occupational centres), [the Reverend] J[ohn] Jones, Llandegla Rectory, Mold, 1905 (2) (a note on [the Reverend] Simon Lloyd, curate of Llandegla, 1783-1788), John Jones, Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth, 1930 (the illness of the writer's niece), the Rev[erend] J[ohn] D[avid] Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], Gellifor, Ruthin, 1913 (2) (plans ? in connection with church buildings), Kitty Idwal Jones, Swansea, undated (personal, the disappearance of the literary MSS. of [the Reverend] Thomas Jones [1756- 1820, Calvinistic Methodist minister]), [the Reverend] M[organ] H[ugh] Jones, Trevecca College, Talgarth, 1907 (enclosing a copy of a letter from [the Reverend] Peter Williams [Methodist cleric], from Caerfyrddyn, to Messures Roberts, Moses, & Co., Trevecca, 1789, relating to the proofs, etc. [of the edition of the Bible which the writer was preparing in conjunction with the Reverend David Jones. See letter from the Reverend James Spinther James above]) (the original Peter Williams letter is now Trevecka Letter 2760 amongst the C.M. archives in the National Library of Wales), the Rev[erend] Richard E. Jones [Calvinistic Methodist minister], from Porthcawl, [19]25 (attempts to build up a Sunday School library in the writer's church at Clydach, near Swansea, the possibility of help from the Rebecca Hussey charity, congratulations to recipient on his great biography [of the Reverend Thomas Charles]), T. Griffith Jones, Llansantffraid, [co.] Mont[gomery], 1916 (a query the writer had received concerning the diary of Richard Tibbott [1719-1798, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and Congregational minister], which he had sold to recipient), Tom Jones [Dr. Thomas Jones, C.H., Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, 1916- 1930, Secretary of the Pilgrim Trust, 1930-1945], London, 1924-1932 (4) (personal, family news, an offer to recipient of a grant from the Civil List, the distinction [degree of D.Litt.] which the University of Liverpool was about to confer upon recipient in 1932), Tom and Eirene T. Jones [Dr. Thomas Jones, as in the four preceding letters, and his wife], [London] and Sandwich, 1928-1929 (2) (personal), and W[illiam] Garmon Jones, [associate professor of History and] librarian, The University of Liverpool, 1932 (3) (recipient's application to be admitted to the degree of DLitt. of the University).

Miscellaneous items including typewritten copies of two letters from Ro[ber]t Saunderson, Bala, to [ ], October 1814 (the illness and death of [the Reverend Thomas] Charles and the death of Mrs. [Sarah] Charles); a typewritten copy of a letter from [the officers of] the Sunday school of Pall Mall [Calvinistic Methodist Church], Liverpool, to the Reverend [Thomas] Charles, Bala, 1814 (an account of the Sunday school); holograph notes by Daniel Jones, Wrexham, on a sermon he had heard, May 1837; holograph notes by [ Peters, Caergwrle], relating to his financial transactions with his brother-in-law David Ellis of London, 1812-1816, and his efforts to deal with claims against David Ellis's estate after his death, circa 1826; holograph notes, 1876, by Edw[ard] Peters, son of the aforementioned [ ] Peters, also relating to David Ellis and mentioning his books including 'valuable Puritanical Books'; notes of a sermon preached by Foulk Evans, Machynlleth, May 1858; a postcard sent to the Reverend D. E. Jenkins, Denbigh, from Aberystwyth, October 1905 [depicting the scene at the enforced sale of some of the possessions of the Reverend D. Treborth Jones, minister of Salem Calvinistic Methodist Church, Aberystwyth, for non-payment of a rate due under the provisions of the Education Act of 1902], and endorsed by the sender 'First Passive Resistance Sale in Cardiganshire, Oct- 3rd 1905'; a typewritten copy of a report and proposals presented by 'Pwyllgor Llawysgrifau Trevecka' ('The Trevecka [College] Manuscripts Committee') [to the General Assembly of the Calvinistic Methodist Connection meeting in London, 1915], together with a copy [in the hand of the secretary, the Reverend Morgan Hugh Jones] of resolutions passed at a meeting of the committee held at Bootle, 27 May 1914; and a copy of the words and music of a song entitled 'Annie Lisle'.