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Share certificates in the name of William Abraham for a number of companies; The North Wales Quarries Ltd., Housing Reform Company Ltd., The London and Provincial Bank, the Automatic Free Directory Company of America and The Rhondda Leader Ltd. along with cheques and other paperwork related to companies.

A minute book of the William Abraham ('Mabon') Testimonial Fund, with relevant printed matter, 1903-1905, press cuttings, a printed list of subscribers, etc.

Letters addressed to W. J. Parry upon the subject of his evidence before the Royal Commission on Labour, 1892, by W. Abraham ('Mabon'); William Griffith, Penygroes; D. Prichard, Bethesda; William Elias Williams, Penisa'r Waun; John J. Evans, Caernarvon; John Jones, Cwm-y-Glo; Owen O. Jones, Penisa'r Waun; D. G. Williams, Ffestiniog; J. M. Jones, Coed-y-Parc; William H. Williams, Bethesda; Thomas Edwards, Talybont; Robert Pugh, Blaenau Ffestiniog; Richard Hughes, Bethesda; Thomas Burt, London; G. Griffiths, Ebenezer; L. Edwards, Tanygrisiau; Ellis E. Williams, Ebenezer; and a list of fatal accidents in Nantlle valley, 1880-1892.

The file comprises letters discussing a public meeting at Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1899 (at which O. M. Edwards and William Abraham ['Mabon'] are to speak); plans for a public memorial to Thomas Edward Ellis during 1902; the writer's proposed drafting of a biography of Thomas Edward Ellis; various academic appointments; and literary matters.

Includes letters from D. Rhys Jones, J. Viriamu Jones, Henry Owen, W. A. Craigie (6), John Lloyd Warden Page (3), A. S. Green (enclosing a letter from Lord Dillon), Augusta Herbert, Llewellyn N. V. Lloyd-Mostyn (4), J. Romilly Allen (3), E. W. B. Nicholson (6), Rudolf Thurneysen, A. M. Fairbairn, Alfred G. Edwards (4), John R. Mowbray (9), John Owen (9), Francis J. Jayne (4), William Jones (2), Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (7), Edward B. Tylor, John T. D. Llewelyn, G. O. Morgan (3), A. C. Humphreys-Owen (3), William N. Bruce, W. Tudor Howell, J. Herbert Lewis, William Abraham ('Mabon'), J. Bryn Roberts, D. Brynmor Jones (2), Edward Jenkins, Frederick York Powell, Daniel Rees (2), Betha Hills-Johnes, Watkin Williams ('Watcyn Wyn'), H. W. Williams (5), James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, E. Sidney Hartland (2), Magnus Maclean (2), Malcolm Macfarlane, A. G. Boscawen (2), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Viscount Cranborne), John Hobson Matthews, Owen Owen, J. H. Rose, F. Victor Dickins, Frederick T. Elworthy (2), Charles Roeder (4), Lewis Morris, H. Augusta Mostyn, Edward Laws, S. A. D'Arcy, P. M. C. Kermode, John Griffiths, Ellis Pierce ('Elis o'r Nant'), Eduard Wölfflin, Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (3), R. Williams, John Williams, and C. H. Firth.

General correspondence, 1907-1908, of David Lloyd George including letters from Alfred Perceval Graves (1), Marie Corelli (1), William Abraham MP ('Mabon') (1), Wilfred Laurier (1), Lord Murray of Elibank (1), Lord Tweedmouth (1), Andrew Bonar Law (1), Ellis Jones Griffith MP (1), Andrew Carnegie (3), Ellis W. Davies MP (1), and Herbert J. Gladstone MP (1). There are also six letters from a young lady friend, Gladys Gardner, 1908.

A document confirming the acceptance of William Abraham ('Mabon', 1842-1922), MP for the Rhondda and first President of the South Wales Federation of Coalminers, to the Privy Council, 4 February 1911.

Addresses and speeches on free libraries, ambulance and temperance work, language and commercial education, and a national testimonial to William Abraham ('Mabon'); letters to Richards from Evan Rees ('Dyfed') and T[homas] M[orris] Jones ('Gwenallt'); miscellanea.

Holograph manuscripts and (mostly) typescripts, corrected, of some of the published and unpublished literary works, including novels entitled 'Benny Boy', 'Thursday to Saturday', Choral Symphony (London, 1955), 'Requiem for Rags', 'The Champion's Wife, 'The Methuselahs', Come, Night; End, Day, Rhondda Roundabout, 'Shadow Show' and The Man David (London, 1944); comedies, musical plays, and dramatisations of novels, autobiographies, radio scripts, articles and reviews, 1938-1967, including 'The Leek in the Broth'; diaries, 1938-1962; notebooks on William Abraham ('Mabon'); cuttings from Merthyr Express of the 'Saran Stories'; recorded readings from the B.B.C, 1941-1964; and typescript final draft of 'A Burnt Offering' and manuscript notes on Dr William Price.