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Includes letters from Cynan, Henry Neville Gladstone, Sir Thomas Artemus Jones and Professor Charles Webster, Aberystwyth (2 letters).

Includes letters to and from Dr Ernst Jackh, Gareth Vaughan Jones, Gwilym R. Jones and Sir Thomas Artemus Jones.

Some of the correspondents congratulate David Davies upon the receipt of a peerage. Includes letters from Major Charles E. Breese, J. Davies Bryan, Clement Davies MP, Rev. Gwilym Davies, Henry Neville Gladstone, Hawarden Castle, F. E. Hamer (2 letters), J. Tywi Jones, Y Darian, Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, Principal J. F. Rees, Sir John Herbert Roberts, Lord Clwyd, and Wickham Steed. There is also a draft or a copy of a letter, 5 June 1932, from Lord Davies to Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, expressing gratitude for the receipt of the earldom.

Includes copies of letters to the following recipients: Lord Addison (3 letters), Brendan Bracken, Lord Colwyn (2 letters), Rev. Gwilym Davies, Joseph E. Davies, Sir William Llewelyn Davies (3 letters), Garbett Edwards (numerous letters), Will John MP, Sir Thomas Artemus Jones (3 letters), George Lerry, Wrexham, Lord Lothian, Kingsley Martin, Lord Melchett, Herbert Morrison (3 letters), Malcolm MacDonald (2 letters), Lord Reith (2 letters), Sir Archibald Sinclair, Thomas Waterhouse (2 letters) and Sir Robert Webber, the Western Mail (2 letters).

Correspondence, 1937, between Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, K.C., H.A.C. Sturgess, Librarian of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, London, and Messrs Hardy and Reckitt, Lincoln's Inn, London (formerly Messrs Hardy and Page), regarding the translation of transcripts relating to the 'Scrope v Grosvenor controversy' (one of the earliest heraldic law cases brought in England, concerning two different families using the same undifferenced coat of arms. Owain Glyndŵr was one of the witnesses in the case held in 1389 before a military court); together with transcripts in modern English from Privy Council of England, Proceedings and Ordinances (1386-1542), edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, vol. 5, pp. 46-49 (Record Commission, 1835), document dated 1437.

Miscellaneous papers, 1856-1939, with annotations in the hand of Owain Llewelyn Owain, mostly relating to Caernarvonshire, including a letterbook, 1856, pertaining to Bryn Hafod y Wern slate quarry, Bethesda; a tribute, 1876, to Hugh Owens, Tal-y-sarn, musician, and father of Owain Llewelyn Owain; typescript copies, with manuscript emendations, of two speeches by David Lloyd George, the first delivered at Caernarfon in June 1930, and the second at Bangor, 17 January 1935; and a draft of a speech by Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, chariman of the North Wales Tribunal of Conscientious Objectors, delivered at Caernarfon Town Hall in November 1939.