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A group of holograph letters and postcards from the collection of, and mainly addressed to, John Jones, J.P., bookseller, Bethesda. The writers include J. N. Crowther ('Glanceri'), 1906-1922; [Richard Davies] ('Mynyddog'), undated; Owen Evans, Liscard, 1913; Dame M[argaret] Lloyd George, Criccieth, to H. E. Jones, Bethesda [1935]; H[ugh] D[erfel] Hughes, 1864; Rhys J. Huws, Staylittle, 1906; [John Jones] ('Mathetes'), Llangollen, 1858; L. D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), Bangor, 1904-1917; [Sir] Hugh Owen, London, 1878; W. J. Parry, Bethesda, etc., 1898-1899; John H. Roberts, Liverpool; [Samuel Roberts] ('S.R.'), Conway, 1882; [John Thomas] ('Eifionydd'), 1904; and Henry J. Wilson, House of Commons, 1904. Also included in the group are an English translation of a letter from John Jones to his mother, 1864, and an incomplete address by W. Jones on Sunday School instruction, 1858.

Papers from the collection of John Jones, J.P., Bethesda, including holograph and typescript poetry by J. N. Crowther ('Glanceri'), 1914-1922; a typescript hymn by W. J. Parry, Bethesda, 1912; poetry by Robert Thomas, Llidiartau [sic], Bala, and Thomas Jones, J.P. ('Treforydd'), Wrexham; an elegy to the Reverend Morris Jones, Jerusalem, Llanllechid, by John [D]. Griffith ('Ioan Arfon'), Caernarvon; a hymn-tune, 'Addfwynder', the words by J. Jones, Bethesda, and the music by G. Jones, A.C. ('Gutyn Mawrth'); 'There's only one England' ('Nid oes ond un Gwalia'), being a song composed to words by 'Glanceri'; a paper (incomplete) on 'Rhwymedigaeth Proffeswyr Crefydd i fod yn aelodau o'r Ysgol Sabbothol' by John Jones, Bethesda; a paper (incomplete) entitled 'Sylwadau erbyn cyfarfod ysgol'; a balance-sheet of the Cefnfaes (Bethesda) School Bazaar, October, 1893; etc.