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The file includes letters from Henry Austin Bruce (Lord Aberdare) (2), Michael D. Jones, John Edward Lloyd, H. R. Reichel, T. F. Roberts (2), David Samuel, Aberystwyth, T. F. Tout, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Wynnstay.

The correspondents include Prof. David Jenkins (4), D. A. Jones (25), J. Morris Jones (1), Owen Bryngwyn (3), Ioan Brothen (2), Llew Tegid (5), T. Gwynn Jones (10), Frank Kidson (1), D. Morgan Lewis (1), Ruth Lewis (18), J. E. Lloyd (1), Alun Llywelyn-Williams (1), J. Chas. MacLean (4), Myfanwy Morris (5), and Haydn Morris (1).

Includes letters from: E. A. Lewis (10); Henry Lewis (4); J. Herbert Lewis (4); W. Thomas Lewis (6); Sir John T. D. Llewelyn (5); John Edward Lloyd (12)

The file comprises tributes, both typescript and manuscript, to O. M. Edwards following his death in 1920. Among those paying tribute are Sir Alfred T. Davies, Sir E. Vincent Evans, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, H. A. L. Fisher, D. Lloyd George, Sir Henry Haydn Jones, Sir John Morris-Jones, J. Puleston Jones and Sir John Edward Lloyd.

Letters, 1893-1945, addressed to Myvanwy Rhys from her sister, Olwen, 1911-1945 (mostly 1945), and various correspondents. Some letters are addressed to both sisters, and a few may have been sent solely to Olwen Rhys. Many relate to the proposed biography of John Rhŷs. Included are letters from A. E. Bayly, Helen Gladstone, Margaret M. Verney, James A. H. Murray, Richard Jones, A. H. Sayce (22), P. M. C. Kermode, Margaret Lloyd George (3), A. O. Vaughan (Owen Rhoscomyl), Richard Ellis, Rupert H. Morris, Edward Clodd, Donald A. Mackenzie, John Edward Lloyd, Henry Owen, J. Fisher (2), D. Brynmor Jones, J. H. Davies, W. J. Lewis, John Morris-Jones, N. V. Sidgwick, John Fraser, D. S. Margoliouth (6), J. L. C. Cecil-Williams, Goronwy Edwards, J. C. Collins, Paul Meyer (2), and James Darmesteter. The file also contains one letter, 1881, from Myvanwy Rhys to her father.

Llythyrau, 1890-1933, at George H. Peate, yn eu plith rhai gan David Adams; Richard Bennett (6); Beriah Gwynfe Evans; D. Emlyn Evans; Owen Evans (9); Thomas Gee (2, mae un yn lythyr cydymdeimlad ar achlysur marwolaeth David Peate); W. Goscombe John (3); J. R. Jones (Lima, Ohio); Thomas H. Jones (Lima, Ohio) (9); J. E. Lloyd (2); T. Talwyn Phillips (11); Eifionydd (5); a Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn). Yn ogystal, mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys toriad o deyrnged i George H. Peate, cerdyn yn diolch i bobl ar ran y teulu am eu cydymdeimlad, 1938, a rhestr deipysgrif o'r rhai i anfon atynt.

Stray letters to Gareth Jones. The correspondents include Sir John Herbert Lewis, 1933 (relating to Gareth Jones's articles on the Five Year plan published in The Times), and Sir John Edward Lloyd, 1930 (2 letters) (relating to the Archaelological Committee). There are also copies of a reference about Gareth Jones, October 1934, written by Sir Bernard Pares of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London, giving important information about Gareth Jones's career.

Copy agreement between University College of North Wales, Bangor, and Messrs Davies Brothers, 1907, for the supply of Precelly slates for the new college building. Includes correspondence, 1907-1911, many concerning objections to their use, and accounts relating to their cartage. Writers include Sir John Edward Lloyd, L. D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), Henry T. Hare, Architect, R. B. Hogg, Surveyor, and J. Stanford, clerk of the works. Printed booklets ‘University College of North Wales, Bangor’, 1907, containing details of the proposed buildings, and souvenir publication of the opening by H.M. King George V, 14 July 1911.

Forty letters, etc., from Henry Lambert (for the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office), Downing Street, 1914 (a reply to a query relating to Samuel Shute [1662-1742], Governor of New England), Audrey S. Lee, Kew Gardens, undated (personal, thanks for a book about Wales), [the Reverend] Robert M[cClellan] L[auriston] Lee, Yetminster Vicarage, Sherborne, 1906 (2) (information relating to [the Reverend] Edward and [the Reverend] Blakely Cooper, father and son, successively vicars of Yetminster, and a copy of a memorial inscription to the former, ob. 1810), C[harles] Leudesdorf (registrar), University Registry, Oxford, 1923 (extracts from University records relating to four persons named Thomas Beynon, who had been members of the University), [the Reverend] J[ohn] Morgan Lewis, Llanddeiniol, 1906 (searches in the Llanddeiniol parish registers), [the Reverend] J[ohn] T[imothy] Lewis, The Rectory, Llanfyrnach, 1906 (an extract from the Llanfyrnach parish register recording the burial of the Rev[eren]d David Davies, rector of the parish, 1820, and a copy of the inscription on his tombstone), [the Reverend] W[illiam] R[ichardson] Linton, Shirley Vicarage, Derby, 1906 (2) (information relating to [the Reverend] W[alter] Shirley, ob. 1859, and [the Reverend] W[alter] A[ugustus] Shirley, ob. 1847 [father and son], both former vicars of Shirley), [the Reverend] E[van] D[avid] Lloyd, Mallwyd Rectory, 1906 (the Rev[erend] Thomas Morgan's curacy at Mallwyd, 1783-1800 ), John Edward Lloyd (professor of History, University College of North Wales), Bangor, 1915 (enclosing a testimonial in support of recipient's application for a teaching post), [the Reverend] J[ohn] S[mith] Longdon, The Rectory, Cadoxton - Barry, [19]60 (a list of the rectors of Cadoxton, 1626-1902), the Rev[erend] A. Macdonald (pastor of the Congregational church), Milborne Port, 1904 (the pastors of the church, 1754-1785, an appeal for a financial contribution towards the church), Arthur J. Mackey (diocesan registrar), Diocesan Registry, Exeter, 1905 (information relating to the Rev[erend] W[illia]m Williams, curate of St. Gennys [co. Cornwall], circa 1794), John E[yton] B[ickersteth] Mayor, [Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of] Cambridge, 1904 (information regarding the Rev[erend] John Mayor, vicar of Shawbury, ob. 1826, ? the writer's grandfather, the writer's opinion that Mr. [Thomas] Charles's letters, ? to the Reverend John Mayor, must have been destroyed years ago in a great holocaust at Cossington parsonage, drawing recipient's attention to an analysis of the story of Mary Jones and her Bible in W[illia]m Canton: [A] Hist[ory] of the [British and Foreign] Bible Soc[iety (London, 1904)], vol. I, appendix i), K. A. Mayor, ? sister of the previous writer, [London], undated (enclosing sketches of Shawbury church and village (missing), and extracts from letters sent by the Rev[eren]d John Mayor, from Shawbury, to his son, William Henry Mayor, in Bermuda, 1825 (personal and family news), by Lieut[ enant] John Mayor, R.N. [son of the aforementioned Reverend John Mayor], from Shawbury, to [his brother] W. H. Mayor, 1826 (the death of their father), and by the Rev[eren]d Robert Mayor [another son of the said Reverend John Mayor] to his brother, W. H. Mayor, at Madeley, 1829 (the writer's return from Ceylon, personal and family affairs, the settlement of the Catholic emancipation question)), [the Reverend] Cha[rle]s Morgan, Rhoscrowther Rectory, 1904 (a record in the Rhoscrowther parish register of the marriage of John Charles and Alice Gwyther, 1811), [the Reverend] Dan[ie]l Morgan, Llantrisant Rectory, Anglesey, 1907 (a copy of a memorial inscription to John Jones of Bodynolwyn wen, parish of Llantrisant, ob. 1813), Evan E[dward] Morgan, Brecon, 1914-1915 (6) (information relating to members of the Cook or Coke family having connections with the Brecon and Llanfrynach areas, mention of Joseph Harris [1704-1764, brother of Howel Harris], his book on optics [A Treatise on Optics (London, 1775)], his astronomical observations at Trevecka 'which he proposed to read before the Royal Society in London', his essay on money [An Essay Upon Money and Coins (1757)], and his mission to the West Indies, references to 'Poole's History of Breconshire' [Edwin Poole: The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire (Brecknock,1886)], an elderly resident of Brecon (circa 1902-1904), who had seen Eliz[abeth] Prichard, née Harris [daughter of Howel Harris], the doubts about publishing the 'Historical Magazine' [Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, the first part of which appeared in March 1916], a list of the shareholders of the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal in 1840 which included the name of Prichard Howell Harries, extracts from [Edwin] Poole [:History . . . of Brecknockshire] relating to T[homas] J[effery] Llewelyn Prichard, author of [The Adventures and Vagaries of] Twm Shon Catti [(Aberystwyth, 1828)], the possibility that Prichard was 'of the Harris breed', thanks for a copy of Bishop [aft. Archbishop Alfred George] Edwards: Landmarks [in the History of the Welsh Church (London, 1912)], with comments on the work), W. Morgan, Ilford, [19]20 (property transactions), A. Morris, Newport, [co.] Mon[mouth], [19]15 (the writer's intended work on Methodism in Monmouthshire), Lewis Morris, Carmarthen, [19]06 (the writer's grandmother, Mary Anne Morris, née Reynolds, ob. 1839), A[ndrew] Munro (bursar), Queen' s College, Cambridge, [19]32 (information relating to Robert Humphreys, B. A., of Queen's College, 1805, and Robert Humphreys, B.A., of the same college, 1843), F[rederick] J[ohn] North, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 1937 (a query concerning the brothers Hugh and Robert Owen, who were connected with the publication of the maps of Humphrey Lhuyd [1527-1568, physician and antiquary. See F. J. North: Humphrey Lhuyd's Maps of England and of Wales (Cardiff, 1937), pp. 11-12]), W. T. Ottewill, India Office, Whitehall, 1935 (a note on the Reverend Josiah Woodward who had been appointed 'to the Chapel of Poplar' by the East India Company in 1690) ( attached is a copy of a letter addressed by Josiah Woodward to the secretary of the said Company, 1710), Owen J. Owen, West Kirby, 1918 (the writer's interest in any source-material relating to Thomas Charles and the Methodist cause in Liverpool), Frederick Pane, Abergele, [19]11 (inviting recipient to deliver an address to a class of young men), A. Parnell, Littlehampton, 1907 (the writer's great-uncle, Thomas Parnell), [the Reverend] David Phillips, Radyr Rectory, Cardiff, 1907 (2) (the Rev[erend] Daniel Jones, curate of Radyr, circa 1787-1821, the communion plate presented to the parish in 1784), Andrew Picken (secretary), Queen's University, Belfast, 1932 (recipient's request to be admitted as a candidate for a doctor's degree, and his gift of three books to the University), K[enneth] Povey (librarian), Queen's University, Belfast, 1932 (acknowledging receipt of a copy of recipient's biography of Thomas Charles), and A[rthur] Ivor Pryce (diocesan registrar), Diocesan Registry, Bangor, 1905-1907 (3) (searches in the diocesan records on behalf of recipient, recipient's book on Beddgelert, good wishes for the success of recipient's magnum opus [on Thomas Charles], general comments on church restoration, the writing of biography, the 18th century church's policy of moderating enthusiasm, and the wisdom of the steps taken by [Thomas] Charles and his friends).

Typescript copies of an application by D. E. Jenkins for a post as temporary master in Denbigh County School [1915], and of supporting testimonials from Professors C[harles] H[arold] Herford, University of Manchester, John Edward Lloyd, University College of North Wales, Bangor, and John Owen Thomas, The Theological College, Bala.

Llythyrau, 1914-1933, at Ellis D. Jones, yn bennaf yn ymwneud â sefydlu Neuadd Goffa Owain Glyndŵr yng Nglyndyfrdwy, 1931-1932, y gohebwyr yn cynnwys T. E. Ellis (3), T. Gwynn Jones (3) a Syr John Edward Lloyd (2), ynghŷd â llythyrau eraill, 1936-1952, rhai ohonynt wedi'u cyfeirio at Syr Alfred Thomas Davies a'r gohebwyr yn cynnwys Syr John Ballinger (1) a W. Ambrose Bebb (3); ac eitemau amrywiol sy'n cynnwys cynllun, 1932, ar gyfer plannu planhigion ar dir Neuadd Goffa Owain Glyndŵr, llyfr lloffion yn ymwneud yn bennaf â'r Neuadd Goffa, a nodiadau yn ymwneud ag Owain Glyndŵr, ac â threfn gwasanaeth sefydlu'r Neuadd Goffa, 5 Medi 1931 = Letters, 1914-1933, to Ellis D. Jones, mainly relating to the establishment of the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall in Glyndyfrdwy, 1931-1932, the correspondents including T. E. Ellis (3), T. Gwynn Jones (3) and Sir John Edward Lloyd (2), together with other letters, 1936-1952, some of which are addressed to Sir Alfred Thomas Davies, the correspondents including Sir John Ballinger (1) and W. Ambrose Bebb (3); and miscellaneous items which include a proposed 'planting plan', 1932, for the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall grounds, a scrap book mainly relating to the Memorial Hall, and notes relating to Owain Glyndŵr, and to the order of service at the establishment of the Memorial Hall, 5 September 1931.

Letters, 1920-77, to Geraint Dyfnallt Owen from various correspondents including Édouard Bachellery (2) 1934-5, W. Ambrose Bebb (1) 1935, Aneirin Talfan Davies (7) 1939-77, Roparz Hemon (1) 1937, T. Gwynn Jones (3) 1937-44, Sir J. E. Lloyd (3) 1936-7, Bob Owen, Croesor (1) 1932, and Alun Llywelyn-Williams (19) 1940-5.

General correspondence, 1906-8, of David Lloyd George, including letters to him from Sir Edward Anwyl (1), Sydney Buxton (2), Sir John Edward Lloyd (1), Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd baron Tweedmouth (1), Daniel Lleufer Thomas (2), Sir William George Tyrrell (1), and Sir John Williams (1).

Papers relating to the estate of William Owen Thomas of Australia, 1904-1908; the Walter Thomas Steamship Company, 1901-1902; and letters, receipts and agreements relating to the Welsh National Press Company Ltd, 1893-1904, including letters by William Hughes ('Alaw Manod'), Ffestiniog and John Henry, Liverpool, receipts by L[ewis] J[ones] Roberts, Rhyl and John Owen ('Ap Glaslyn'), and agreements concerning copyright of 'Can Genedlaethol Cymru' (R[ichard] S[amuel] Hughes), 'Ta-ta' and 'I Godi'r Hen Wlad yn ei Hol' ('Ap Glaslyn') and school history books by John Edward Lloyd, 1893-1900; and a draft agreement between the Welsh National Newspaper Company Ltd and D. W. Davies, Caernarvon, printer, 1891.

Letters addressed to Daniel Lleufer Thomas by David Davies, Dinas Powis, 1911, Cadwaladr Davies, Kensington, 1899, W. J. Evans, Carmarthen, 1894, William C. Howe, Cardiff, D. Morgan Jones, Brisbane, 1931, E. Pan Jones, Mostyn, 1902, John Herbert James, Vaynor, 1932, M. H. Jones, Aberystwyth, 1926, John Edward Lloyd, 1899, John T. Lloyd, London, 1924, Abraham Morris, Llantarnam, 1925, D. L. [Prosser, bishop of] St. Davids, Sam. Roberts, London, 1903, R. E. Williams, Aberdare, 1900, and others; and a printed description by Walter D. Jeremy of Dr. Williams's Trust, 1864.

Letters addressed to Edward Edwards and others by T. K. Brighouse, W. Cadwaladr Davies, 1892; Timothy Davies, 1890; Owen M. Edwards, 1892; J. C. Evans, Bala, 1892; Samuel Evans, 1889; H. S. Foxwell, 1892; J. Mortimer Green, 1892; Maurice Griffiths, 1920; Hubert Hall; Roger Hughes, 1892; Cecil Jane, 1920; J. Morris Jones; T. D. Jones, 1929; R. Kenrick; John Edward Lloyd, 1901; J. S. Mackenzie, 1892; H. R. Reichel, 1892; H. Sidgwick, 1892; Geo. H. Peacock, 1921; C. P. Tremain, 1923; James Ward, 1902; and Hugh Williams.

A mimeographed copy of a list of books and manuscripts from the Crosswood Library at the Welsh Library of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and draft bibliographies on general British history by John Edward Lloyd, on Welsh history, 1282-1500, by Dr. William Rees, and on political thought in Wales in the nineteenth century by Thomas Evans.

Reports by John Edward Lloyd and John Morris-Jones on an edition of the De Invectionibus of Giraldus Cambrensis, edited by W. S. Davies, 1921.

Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly addressed to Charles E. Breese, by the Kellow Rock Drill Syndicate, Ltd., Croesor, 1909, A. B. Kempe, 1917, John Edward Lloyd, 1911. W. H. More, 1922, D. C. Lloyd Owen, 1922-1923; D. Rhys Phillips, 1912, John Rhys, Llanberis, 1879, Edward Roberts, Caernarvon, 1903, Sidney Robinson, 1912, W. H. Seager, 1922, Stanley Smith, 1920, Ronald Temple, 1921, D. R. Thomas, 1914, David Thomas, 1927, Thomas Walters, 1911, Maurice Williams, 1911, John Williams, Llanfair P. G., 1913, Sir Osmond Williams, 1922, W. W. E. Wynne, 1872-1879, and W. R. M. Wynne, 1900.

Material collected by Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P. and Principal John Humphreys Davies in preparation for the publication, by the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, of Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd, including notes, facsimiles of the autograph of Morgan Llwyd, transcripts from printed and manuscript sources, part of the first volume (which was edited by T. E. Ellis) and letters containing bibliographical and other information, most of them written to T. E. Ellis by Sir John Ballinger, J. Glyn Davies, John Humphreys Davies, Daniel Silvan Evans, Edward Griffith (Springfield, Dolgellau), Messrs Jarvis and Foster (Bangor), Sir John Edward Lloyd, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Sir John Williams, bart, etc.