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A minute book of the Literary Society of Gerlan Calvinistic Methodist Church, Gerlan, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, covering (with some gaps) the period 1906-19. Among the entries are detailed reports of lectures by Principal [Thomas] Rees, Bangor (on 'David Livingstone'), Professor [Sir] John Morris-Jones, Bangor ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion' and 'Pantycelyn'), Thomas Shankland, Bangor ('Morgan John Rhys, y Jacobin Cymreig'), S. Maurice Jones, Caernarvon ('Olion Hen Hanes Cymru', with illustrations, by the recorder, of Caernarvon Castle, Valle Crucis Abbey, the parliament house of Owain Glyndŵr at Dolgellau, Cefn Brith, etc.), J. H. Jones ('Je Aitsh'), Liverpool ('Y Cymro trwy lygad Said'), [Lewis Davies Jones] ('Llew Tegid') ('Trioedd hen a newydd), [Robert] Gwyneddon Davies and Mrs. [Grace] Gwyneddon Davies ('Alawon Gwerin'), T. Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth ('Pantycelyn'), etc.

A lithographic copy of a report, dated 9 December 1875, by A. B. Phipson, architect, on the 'Old Parliament House, Dolgelly', describing the condition of the building and making recommendations for its restoration.
It includes plans (ff. 1 verso, 5-6), drawings illustrating the suggested restorations (ff. 1, 7-8) and sketches of particular features (f. 1 verso). A transcript was published in Hugh J. Owen, 'Owen Glyn Dŵr's Old Parliament House at Dolgelley', Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, 2 (1954), 81-88 (pp. 83-85). A covering letter from the donor, 11 June 1954, is included (f. i).