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Three autograph letters to the Rev[erend] H[umphrey] Jones Davies, Birmingham, from T. Davies (for the general manager, The Pacific Steam Navigation Company), Liverpool, 1934 (voyages by the R. M. S. Orduna), and Samuel Evans, Parktown, Johannesburg, 1934 (2) (personal, comment on an article by recipient entitled 'Dathliad Canmlwyddiant Neuadd [Tref Birmingham]', Y Goleuad [17 Hydref 1934]); two autograph letters from Irene [Corona, countess of ] Plymouth, Hewell Grange, Redditch, to Mr. Jones Davies [? the recipient of the three preceding letters], [1937]-1938 (inviting recipient to become a member of a committee arranging a film premiere [in Birmingham] in aid of the National Council of Social Service, thanking recipient for his help, enclosing a copy of the balance sheet); and two letters (one autograph, one holograph) from Cyril P. Cule, Bilston and Caerleon, to Mr. Davies [again ? the recipient of the preceding letters], 1929-1938 (a request to be allowed to name recipient as a referee when applying for teaching posts (1929), acknowledging the receipt of a contribution towards 'Cymdeithas Cyfeillion Gwlad y Basgiaid' [The Friends of the Basques Society], the [Basque refugee] children in South Wales, the probability of war in Europe (1938)) (enclosed with the second letter is a typescript copy of a memorandum in Welsh, explaining the aims of 'Cymdeithas Cyfeillion Gwlad y Basgiaid', viz., drawing attention to the plight of the Basques and the threat of Fascism, collecting funds for the relief of Basque refugees in Wales, more particularly the children, and opposing the demand for the repatriation of the children to Franco Spain, and appealing for moral and financial support for the society).

Letters, 1837-1932, the correspondents including E. D. Bryan, Robert Bryan, John Davies (Bontddu), Principal Ellis Edwards, Dr. Samuel Evans (Johannesburg), D. Silvan Evans, Edward Griffiths (Meifod), O. G. Owen ('Alafon'), and John Phillips (Bangor).

A holograph letter, 1896, from George Cornwallis West, from the Camp, 3rd [Batt.] [Royal] W[elsh] F[usiliers], Wrexham, to [?Sir Robert Arthur] Cunliffe [of Acton Park] (arranging a cricket match); a holograph letter, 1899, from [Sir] W. H. Preece, London, to Mrs. Sylvanus (a talk by the writer, possibly on engineering in Wales); a typescript letter, 1918, from J. Puleston Jones, Llanfair C[aereinion], to the Reverend W. M. Tudor (preaching engagements); an autograph letter, 1934, from Megan Lloyd George, Westminster, to J. Jenkyn-Richards, Handsworth (enclosing a message to be read at a meeting in Birmingham in aid of the distressed areas of South Wales) (with marginal notes); a holograph letter, 1934, from Samuel Evans (chairman and director of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg], Piccadilly, to [?H. Jones Davies] (personal); a typescript circular (undated) issued by a committee of the Welsh churches and societies of Birmingham and other Midland towns on behalf of the Social Welfare Settlement in the Rhymney Valley; a cyclostyled programme (undated) of a meeting of the Dudley Welsh Society ('Cymdeithas Cymry Dudley'); a press cutting, 1926, recording an account of a graduation ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, at which the degree of Ll.D. honoris causa was conferred upon Samuel Evans; typescript notes on 'Nervous System and its Functions' prepared for a zoology class at University College of North Wales; a national registration card, 1915, and national ration book, 1918, of Humphrey Jones Davies, Bangor; etc.

Typescript notes headed ‘Recollections of a veteran journalist. A link with General Gordon’, compiled by the Reverend H. Jones Davies, and based upon recollections of General [Charles George] Gordon, by Dr. Samuel Evans [ 1859-1935], who, during General Gordon’s mission to the Sudan, 1884-5, was private secretary to Edgar Vincent (later viscount D’Abernon), financial adviser to the Egyptian government.