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Sub-fonds contains printed material from the Gregynog Press for events held at Gregynong including the Gregynog Festival, conferences and religious services.

Files contain Orders of Services for religious services held at Gregynog as part of conferences and meetings.

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).

Forty-five holograph and autograph letters, 1931-1938 and undated, addressed to A[rthur] Stanley Davies at Welshpool, at Llanidloes, and [in Nigeria]. The writers include Richard S. Biddle, Columbus, Ohio [U.S.A.], 1937 (2) (a genealogical query concerning the writer's ancestors who were from the parish of Carno, co. Montgomery), M. E. Bull, the Cathedral Library, Hereford, 1934 (books from Cwm [Jesuit 'college'] in Hereford Cathedral Library), Frank G[eorge] G[riffith] Carr, House of Lords Library, 1936 (a reply to a query by recipient concerning enclosure acts, noting four such acts relating to cos. Merioneth and Montgomery, 1761-1816, and giving an estimate of the cost of providing copies), [Messrs.] Churchill, Clapham, and Co., London, 1938 (?the binding of Collections . . . relating to Montgomeryshire), L. E. Dales, Plas Hafod, Llansantffraid, [co.] Mont[ gomery], [19]36 (the location of the 'Howells family Bible'), Ellis W[ illiam] Davies [Member of Parliament for South Caernarvonshire, 1906-1918, and for Denbigh, 1923-1929], Caernarvon, 1937 (?problems relating to publishing, mention of the Cymmrodorion, the National Eisteddfod Society, and the Gregynog Press), J. Breese Davies, Dinas Mawddwy, 1933 (the Talglannau palstaves [see John Ward: 'The Bronze Age in Montgomeryshire', Collections... relating to Montgomeryshire..., Vol. XLIII, pp. 110- 65]), [The Reverend] Lewis Davies (acting rector of Llandysilio), Llandysilio, Oswestry, 1937 (a promise to check the parish registers), Llywarch P[eredur] C[aenog] Dodd, the County School, Portmadoc, 1938 (back numbers of Min y Traeth [the school magazine]), T[homas] P[eter] Ellis [Dolgellau], [1935] (a reply to recipient's query concerning a [Catholic] priest named [Philip] Parry [referred to in Calendar of State Papers Domestic, July 1 to September 30, 1683, pp. 12-13]), [The Reverend] Llewelyn Grey, The Vicarage, Llandinam, [19]37 (a promise to examine the churchwardens' accounts for items of interest), W[illiam] A[rthur] Griffiths, Malta Dockyard [Malta], 1937 (the writer's transcripts of the earlier Guilsfield and first extant Llandrinio [parish] registers, suggestions that the Montgomeryshire marriage licences at St. Asaph and the Montgomeryshire Quarter Session Books should be indexed, queries re Window Tax lists), C. F. C. Hawkes (Honorary Secretary), Royal Archaeological Institute, St. James's [London], 1934 (an offer of twenty- four volumes of back numbers of the Archaeological Journal at special rates if the Powysland Museum were enrolled as a subscribing member of the Institute), Hillside Mining Company, London, 1938 (a refusal to grant permission to visit the gold mine at Bontddu [co. Merioneth]), James Hornell, St. Leonards on Sea, 1935-1937 (3) (the writer's researches in Wales and Ireland on coracles and curraghs, and papers read or published thereon, a request for information about canoe making in Nigeria [where recipient was at the time], other subjects of research), [The Reverend] Alfred Ivett, Aberhafesp Rectory, Newtown, 1937 (the bells of the parish church), J[ohn] Charles Jones, The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, London, 1936 (forwarding a parcel of books from a friend of the Powysland Museum), Katie Griffith Jones, Llansantffraid, [19]38 (acknowledging condolences, her husband's papers and Welsh books), [Robert William Jones] 'Erfyl Fychan', Llanerfyl, Welshpool, [19]36 (a reply to a query concerning harp makers and harpists mentioning Thomas Peters of Llangynog (fl. circa 1820), harp maker, Griffith James of Dolgelley (fl. circa 1820), harp maker, Ellis Roberts ('Eos Meirion'), harpist, a note by Carnhuanawc [Thomas Price] on 'Y Delyn Fach', the making of harps by Sackville Gwynne of Glanbran Park, near Llandovery, and their presentation to wandering harpists, the presentation of a harp to John Roberts ('Telynor Cymru') by Lady Llanover), T. Griffiths Jones, Llansantffraid, [co.] Mont[gomery], [19]36 (a [family] bible with entries re the Howell family), Nest Lloyd, Cynghordy, Llandovery, 1934 (3) (the writer's interest in objects, buildings, etc., with Stuart and Jacobite associations), J. B. Oldham, Shrewsbury, 1937 (forwarding four deeds relating to Montgomeryshire), Bryan H. St. J. O'Neil, H. M. Office of Works, Westminster, 1931-1938 (5) (replies to queries concerning a wig curler, clay pipes, and the handle of a jug or pitcher, local bridges, Newtown churchyard, the demolition of Wrexham old town hall), Maureen O'Reilly, University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, 1934-1937 (3) (a proposed exchange of a stone axe found near Montford Bridge, Shropshire, for a Cambridgeshire stone axe, a cast of the former), N. Bennett Owen, Llanidloes, [19]37 (a photograph of John Roberts [? 'Telynor Cymru'] in the possession of Nicholas Bennett [of Glanyrafon, co. Montgomery, 1823-1899 ], ? Roberts's harp, the disposal of Bennett's library), Arthur Ll. Phillips, The Robert Owen Museum, Newtown, 1936 (newspaper cuttings exhibited in the museum), Ivor Powell, London, 1935 (2) (a query about the writer's grandmother), [Walter FitzUryan Rhys, 7th baron] Dynevor [London], 1934 (his inability to present to the Powysland Museum a copy of his book [Trees at Dynevor Castle. A summary list with notes, Carmarthen, 1934]), D. C. Roberts, Welshpool County School, [19]37 (the writer's interest in a survey of Oswestry, 1577-1602), Mary E. Savage, Penstrowed, Caersws, 1937 (acknowledging condolences), F. R. Thomas, Llanfair, Welshpool, undated ( the location of a notebook in which Samuel Roberts, clockmaker, of Pant Tanhouse [Llanfair Caereinion], made a list of the clocks he made [1755-1774 ]) (for a photostat copy of the notebook see NLW MS 4519A), and Ivor Thomas, Adelphi [London], 1937 (2) (enquiring whether the Abraham Howell papers in recipient's possession contained material relating to David Davies [of Llandinam], whose biography the writer was compiling [Top Sawyer. A Biography of David Davies of Llandinam, London, 1938]).

Gohebiaeth, teipysgrifau a phapurau eraill, 1994-1998, Ned Thomas, fel Cyfarwyddwr Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, mewn perthynas â Places / Y Man a'r Lle, cyfres o ddeuddeg cyfrol fer (chwech yn Gymraeg a chwech yn Saesneg) a gyhoeddwyd gan Wasg Gregynog. = Correspondence, typescripts and other papers, 1994-1998, of Ned Thomas, as Director of the University of Wales Press, relating to Places / Y Man a'r Lle, a series of twelve short volumes (six in Welsh and six in English) published by Gregynog Press.
Ceir gohebiaeth gydag un ar ddeg o'r deuddeg awdur, Ruth Bidgood, Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans, Nigel Jenkins, Robin Llywelyn, Christopher Meredith, Twm Morys, Myrddin ap Dafydd, Ioan Bowen Rees a Wiliam Owen Roberts, yn ogystal â David Esslemont o Wasg Gregynog. Ceir hefyd ddrafftiau o ysgrifau'r awduron yma, heblaw am Christine Evans and Twm Morys; nid yw'r awdur arall, John Barnie, wedi ei gynrhychioli yn y ffeil. = The correspondents include eleven of the twelve contributors, Ruth Bidgood, Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans, Nigel Jenkins, Robin Llywelyn, Christopher Meredith, Twm Morys, Myrddin ap Dafydd, Ioan Bowen Rees and Wiliam Owen Roberts, as well as David Esslemont of Gregynog Press. Drafts of of each author's contributions are included, with the exception of Christine Evans and Twm Morys; the remaining contributor, John Barnie, is not represented in the file.