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Miscellaneous correspondence including holograph letters from J[ames] C[olquhoun Campbell, bishop of] Bangor, from Bangor, to the Reverend W. J. [? William John] Beamont [? fellow of Trinity College and vicar of the parish of St. Michael's, Cambridge], 1861-1862 (2) (the writer's willingness to advocate the cause of the Additional Curates Society at Cambridge, the appropriate allowance for a pensioner at Cambridge University), and Chief Justice [by inference, Sir William Bovill], 1869 (social); J[ohn] B[anks Jenkinson, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwilly, to [ ], 1827 ( personal postal matters); W[illiam] Basil [Tickell Jones, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwili Palace, to [ ], 1876 (personal); Alfred Ollivant [professor of Divinity], Trinity College [Cambridge, aft. bishop of Llandaff], to [ ], 1844 (instructions re studies); Tho[ma]s V[owler Short, bishop of] St. Asaph, from St. Asaph, to [Henry Montagu Villiers], bishop of Carlisle, 1859 (? an accident to the writer); and C[onnop Thirlwall, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwili Palace, to the Reverend Dr. [? John William] Donaldson, 1858 (doubts as to his ability to attend at the election of the classical examiner, his belief that no candidate would be equal to recipient).

Papers of Lewis Jones, Bodegryn, Rhyl, first sub-editor of Y Llan (c. 1881). The collection includes a note by Lewis Jones referring to instructions sent to him by Henry Thomas Edwards (1837-1884), dean of Bangor, when Y Dywysogaeth ceased publication and Y Llan was first issued as a Church (of England) in Wales newspaper; the original manuscript of the leading article in the first number of Y Llan, in the autograph of dean Edwards; letters, 1881, to Lewis Jones from the dean; a printed report, 1879, of a committee representing the four Welsh dioceses, dealing with the Welsh Church press; a letter, 1862, from Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872), bishop of St Asaph, relating to Rhyl Church; a letter, 1892, from John Owen (1854-1926), dean of St Asaph (afterwards bishop of St Davids) to Lewis Jones; etc.