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The file comprises papers relating to the Local Government Commission for Wales's work in Glamorgan including an staff structure diagram, notes of meetings held between the Commission and Glamorgan County Council, Aberdare Urban District council, Gower Rural District Council, Neath Rural District Council, Pontardawe Rural District Council, Vaynor and Penderyn Rural District Council, Ystradgynlais Rural District Council, Monmouthshire County Council, Breconshire County Council, the Board of Trade, Llandeilo Rural District Council and Carmarthenshire County Council, a report of an administrative inspection of Glamorganshire County Council, along with proposals made by a number of authorities.

Sermons largely by, and in the hand of, John Davies. Such of the sermons as are dated belong to the period 1859-1915 and were delivered at Pandy and Forest Coalpit, Pen-y-clawdd, Tredegar, Abercarn, Llanover, Pontnewynydd, Brecon, Dowlais, Pentre (Rhondda), etc. Dispersed among the sermons are several addresses and speeches by, or in the hand of, John Davies, including on 'Y Gronfa Gynhaliaethol' [Calvinistic Methodist Sustentation Fund]; 'Dewi Sant'; and at Gorwydd in Llangamarch on the occasion of the tercentenary of the death of John Penry, 29 May, 1893 (NLW MS 11356A); on the history of Llanfapley Congregational Church, delivered on 26 June, 1884, and at the centenary of the foundation, 31 August, 1910; and on the history of Castle Street Congregational Church, Abergavenny (NLW MS 11365A); a petition to [the Monmouthshire County Council], undated, to take over a length of road between Pontrilas and Pandy [railway] stations (NLW MS 11369A)); on laying the foundation stone of a new [Calvinistic Methodist] chapel at Llanbedr [Brecknockshire], 11 April, 1884; and on Thomas Charles of Bala (NLW MS 11375A); and on Howel[l] Harris [of Trevecka] (NLW MS 11376A). NLW MS 11360A contains reminiscences (6 pp.) by W[illiam] Samlet Williams of his pastorate (1876-1880) of Felindre, Llys-wen, and Felin-newydd Calvinistic Methodist churches in Brecknockshire.