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Six note-books containing transcripts of, or extracts from, one hundred and eighteen letters, 1804-1821 and undated, being mainly (from the actual addresses or by inference) letters to Joseph Tarn, assistant secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Other recipients include [Dr.] Geo[ rge] Gaskin [secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge] ( 1), the Reverend [John] Owen [joint home secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society], Fulham (1), L. B. Seeley, bookseller, London (1), and the Welsh bishops and the bishop of Hereford (circular). The writers include [the Reverend] Christopher Anderson [Baptist minister], Edinburgh, A. Clarke [? the Reverend Adam Clarke, Wesleyan preacher], Gabriel Davies, Bala, John Davies, Vronhaulog, near Bala or Corwen, [the Reverend] W[ illiam] Dealtry [aft. archdeacon of Surrey], Hertford, [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn'], from Wilderness Row [London], E[van] Evans, Shacklewell, [the Reverend] Timothy Evans [vicar of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys], Jos. Hughes, Ruthin, the Reverend David Johnston, Edinburgh (circular), the Reverend D[ avid] Jones, Holywell,. D. Jones, [? the Reverend David Jones, vicar of] Langan, John Jones, Bala, Owen Jones, Gelly, near Llanfair [Caereinion], [ the Reverend] Sam[ue]l Jones [of Kildimo, Limerick], from Holborn [London ], [the Reverend] Tho[ma]s Jones [C.M. minister], Denbigh, Edmund Lloyd, Cefnfaes, Maentwrog, [the Reverend] S[imon] Lloyd [Methodist cleric], Bala, Richard Owen [Caernarvon], John Parry, Chester, [the Reverend] John Roberts, [vicar of] Tremeirchion, Rob[er]t Saunderson, Bala, L. B. Seeley, Fleet Street [London], [John Shore, 1st baron] Teignmouth [president of the British and Foreign Bible Society], Portman Square [London], John Thomas, Lodge, [ the Reverend] James Trego, Boughton, Chester, and John Walker, Chester. The letters deal mainly with the publication and distribution of Welsh Bibles and Testaments by the British and Foreign Bible Society, the activities of local branches of the Society set up in some of the counties of North Wales, and the collecting of contributions from these local branches for transmitting to the parent Society in London. Other topics referred to include a religious revival in the Bala area (No. 61 of 1818), elementary education in parts of Ireland (No. 64 of 1809) and Scotland (Nos. 65-8 of 1810-1811), a memoir of the Reverend Thomas Charles being prepared by the Reverend Thomas Jones of Denbigh (Nos. 84-5 of 1815), the Bible Society's intention of setting up a stereotype printing office in Russia (No. 88 of 1814), the publishing of Welsh versions of the Reverend Legh Richmond's tracts The Negro Servant and The Dairyman's Daughter, and of his tract relating to little Jane [i.e., The Young Cottager] (No. 95 of 1821), etc. Copies of, or extracts from, many of the above letters appear in D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles . . .

Biographical sketches of, or notes on, the Reverend David Charles Davies, principal of the Calvinistic Methodist College, Trefeca; the Reverend Lewis Edwards, principal of the Calvinistic Methodist College, Bala; the Reverend Thomas Charles Edwards, principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and later of the Calvinistic Methodist College, Bala; the Reverend John Elias ['o Fôn'], Calvinistic Methodist minister; the Reverend Christmas Evans, Baptist minister; the Reverend Evan Herber Evans, principal of Bala-Bangor Congregational College, Bangor; John Thomas ('Eos Gwynedd'), of Pentrefoelas [co. Denbigh], poet; Lewis Thomas, son of the aforesaid John Thomas; and John Thomas, of Llanrwst, son of the said Lewis Thomas.

Typescript copies of an essay (13 pp.) by D. E. Jenkins entitled 'Wars and Religious Revivals', and of three undated letters addressed by D. E. Jenkins to the editor of the [Liverpool] Post and Mercury (a controversy between the writer and Mr. [ ] Jones relating to Daniel Rowland, Howel Harris, and the eighteenth century Methodist revival in general); and typewritten notes on 'Diwygiadau Crefyddol Cymru'.

A typescript, ?printer's copy of D. E. Jenkins's pamphlet Notes on the Bishop of St. Asaph's Landmarks (Chapters XII, XIII) (Denbigh, 1913), containing a critical analysis of chapters 12-13 of Alfred George Edwards [ bishop of St. Asaph, aft. archbishop of Wales]: Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church (London, 1912).

A typescript copy of an essay on the Reverend William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), Congregational minister, author, and political leader, entitled 'Cyfraniad y Parch. William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog') i Fywyd a Llên ei Gyfnod'. The work was submitted for competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Bangor, 1931, ? by D. E. Jenkins, under the pseudonym 'Mabon Egwad'. The text is followed by a list of the Reverend William Rees's publications, a bibliography, and a list of ten appendices, all of which, except No. 10 (consisting of a lengthy extract from Cymru, cyf. IV, tt. 313-14, in which some of the characteristics of Rees's style of preaching are analysed), are missing from the present copy.

A draft copy (typescript with manuscript emendations) of a thesis entitled 'A critical study of the writings of Robert Jones [Calvinistic Methodist preacher and author], Rhoslan [co. Caernarvon]', submitted by [the Reverend] William Griffiths Williams, [vicar of] Bodelwyddan [co. Flint], for the degree of M.A. of the University of Liverpool, 1937.

Miscellaneous manuscript and typewritten notes relating to Robert Jones, Rhos-lan, including a draft copy of a section of the said manuscript, extracts from D. E. Jenkins: The Life of the Rev. Thomas Charles . . ., Y Drysorfa, and other printed sources, etc.

Extracts from the minute books of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1792-1802, and from the annual reports of the said Society for 1800 and 1801, relating to the publication and disposal of Welsh editions of the Bible and New Testament.

Notes headed 'Extracts from A Short Abstract of the Minutes of the S.P.C.K ., showing the extent of the Society's operations in regard to Welsh publications from A.D. 1698 to A.D. 1804'. The extracts refer to Bibles and Testaments only.

Copious extracts from the account books of Horeb [Calvinistic Methodist] Church, Llanfairfechan [co. Caernarvon], 1820-1824, and of the [Calvinistic Methodist] Church at Treffynnon (Holywell) [co. Flint], 1837-1849; and an alphabetical list of preachers who had preached at Horeb, 1820-1824, with the dates of each engagement.

Miscellaneous data relating mainly to Calvinistic Methodist preaching activity, etc., in Abergele and elsewhere in North Wales, 1813-1824. Items relating to C.M. preachers and meetings include extracts from a minute book of church meetings ('Llyfr Cofnodau Cyfarfodydd Eglwysig') held in Abergele, 1819-1821, and from minute books of six-weekly meetings of Sunday schools ('Llyfrau Cofnodau Cyfarfodydd Ysgolion') held in the Abergele district, 1817-1824; a list, in chronological order, of preachers who had preached in Abergele and elsewhere in North Wales (including monthly or annual meetings in Bala, Dinbych, Henllan, Llanrwst, etc.), 1813-1817, with the texts of their sermons; an alphabetical list of preachers who had preached in Abergele, 1813-1817, with the dates of each engagement and the texts of the sermons; a list, under place names, of preachers who had preached in the Abergele district and elsewhere in North Wales (including Association meetings in Bala, Conwy, Dinbych, and Llanrwst), 1813-1817, with the texts of their sermons; and notes of sermons preached in Abergele, 1813-1815, including some by [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn']. Also included are short lists of Anglican, Baptist, Independent, and Wesleyan ministers or preachers who had preached in Abergele, Moelfra, etc., 1814- 1817.

A volume containing copious extracts from the account book of an unspecified church recording sums paid to visiting preachers and other sundry payments made, 1812-1835. The extracts were taken from a volume then in the possession of Edward Griffith, J.P., of Dolgellau, and the church in question may possibly be Salem Calvinistic Methodist Church in that town.

Three note-books containing transcripts of, or extracts from, eighty-two letters, 1806-1810 and undated, being mainly (as per address or by inference) letters to Thomas Smith [collector for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and secretary of the Sunday School Society], Little Moorfields, London. Other addressees include Hugh Lloyd, London, the Reverend John Owen [joint home secretary, the British and Foreign Bible Society], Fulham, the said Reverend John Owen jointly with the Reverend J[oseph] Hughes, as [joint home] secretaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society, London, L. B. Seeley, Fleet Street, London, and Henry Thornton, M.P. [for Southwark, treasurer of the Bible Society], London. The writers include Mr. Cardale, David Charles [1], Carmarthen John Charles, H[averford]west, [the Reverend] Josh[ua] Davies [vicar of Dingestowe and Tregare], Goytre Lodge, near Abergavenny, [the Reverend] David Davis, [rectors of] Llanvirnach, near [Newcastle] Emlyn, Edw[ard] Edwards, Lynn, John Elias ['o Fôn'], Llanfechell, Rob[er]t Ellis, Mold, Benjamin Evans [? Congregational minister], Trewen, near Newcastle Emlyn, Evan Evans and William Watkins, Brecon, Sarah Evans, Llanfair, Montgomeryshire, Lydia Foulkes, Machynlleth, J[oh]n Griffith, Barmouth, Geo[rge] Hodson, Robert Hughes, Bangor, Ann Jones, Wrexham, Benj[ami]n Jones, Haverfordwest, Dan[ie]l Jones, Liverpool , [the Reverend] David Jones, dissenting minister, Holywell, [the Reverend] D[avid] Jones [rector of Llangan] from Langan and Manor Owen, near Fishguard, Elias Jones, Gorswen, Jane Jones, Llanfyllin, John Jones, Machynlleth, Tho[ma]s Jones, Ruthin, Caleb Lewis, Cardigan, David Lewis, Gelly a [near Lampeter], Titus Lewis [? Baptist minister], Carmarthen, Tho[ma]s Lloyd, Bronwydd, near [Newcastle] Emlin, J[oh]n Morgan, Llandeilo, David Morris, Carmarthen, Richard Owen, Caernarvon, William Owen, Chwaen wenn, Anglesey, Rich[ar]d Phipp, Warrington, the Reverend Jonathan Powell [? Congregational minister], Anglesey, John Richard [? Baptist minister], Blaengwyddon, J[oh]n Roberts, Carnarvon, John Roberts [? Congregational minister], Llanbrynmair, John Walker, Chester, [the Reverend] John Williams, Pantycelyn, near Landovery, and William Williams, Denbigh. The letters consist almost entirely of requests to be supplied by the British and Foreign Bible Society with copies of English and Welsh Bibles and Testaments, and covering notes sent with sums of money being forwarded to the Society either as payment for Bibles and Testaments supplied or as annual subscriptions.

A fraternal letter from the delegates at the Calvinistic Methodist Association meeting at Llangeitho [co. Cardigan], 28-29 July 1801, to the members of the Welsh C.M. Societies at Wilderness Row and Detford (sic), London, referring to differences which had arisen amongst the members of the London Societies and which had been discussed by the Association. The signatories include John Evans, Bala, Thos. Grey, Robert Roberts, John Elias, John Prytherch, Wm. Lloyd, Nathl. Rowland, D. Griffith, Nevern, W. Jones, Clerk, John Williams, Lledrod, John Hughes, Langeitho, and John Williams, Pantycelyn. Also on the same sheet is a holograph note from the aforementioned J. Hughes (signatory) to David Elis stating that the Association had requested that the letter should be sent to him (Elis) and that he should read the contents to the Societies at Wilderness Row, Deptford, and Borough. The letter is addressed to David Elis, No. 66 Barbican, London.

Miscellaneous correspondence including holograph letters from W. Aldridge, London, to Rob[er]t Ellis at the College, Trevecka, 1785 (personal); G[eorge Davys, bishop of] Peterborough, to [? the Reverend Edward Morgan, vicar of Syston, co. Leicester], 1846 (the acceptance of district visitors as candidates for deacons' orders); [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn'], Fron [co. Anglesey], to the Reverend Ellis Phillips, 1840 (1 + 1 by inference) (legal action threatened against the writer and recipient ); [ ] Foulkes, Machynlleth, to Ann ?Peters, 1835 (personal) (incomplete); E. J. Hamilton, Brighton, to the Reverend J. B. Figgis, ? Brighton, 1906 (information relating to the Reverend J. Trego [? Congregational minister], and London Road [Congregational] Church, Brighton) (forwarded to [ ]); Dan[iel Jones], Wrexham, to [ ], 1837 (an abstract of a sermon) (incomplete); E. Jones, Wrexham, to his brother, 1864-1878 (2) (dates of birth of the writer, his brothers, and sisters, a school at Adwy['r Clawdd, near Wrexham] kept by Thomas Evans circa 1804, the publication of Mân Gofion [o bethau crefyddol, moesol, a diddanol . . . (Gwrecsam, 1821)] by the writer's father with Thomas Evans's name 'put to it as the author', the publication of the Reverend T[homas] Charles: Geiriadur [Ysgrythyrol . . .] in one volume, the publication of the works of the Reverend Lewis Edwards of Bala in two volumes, an address presented to the Reverend O[wen] Evans [Congregational minister] on his departure from Wrexham, books on the miracles and parables of Christ [Gwyrthiau Crist . . . (Wrexham, 1868), and Dammegion yr Arglwydd Iesu (Wrexham, 1873)] by the said Owen Evans); Ebenezer Jones, Wrexham, to ? his brother, 1843 (the founding of a society for civil and religious liberty at Ruthin, the need to reform the [Anglican] Church but from within, the improvement in the character of the clergy, a tract by the Reverend T[homas] Spencer [perpetual curate of Hinton Charterhouse] entitled Practical Suggestions on Church Reform); [the Reverend] W[illia]m Leigh, The Vicarage, Eglwysilan, to [ ], 1849 (the reopening of the rebuilt church of Llanvabon, a harvest festival at ?Eglwysilan, the ordaining of [the Reverend William] Davies as curate of Llanvabon); [the Reverend] Ed[ward] Morgan, [vicar of] Syston [co. Leicester], to Tho[ma]s Jones, Chester, undated (material relating to [?the Reverend Simon] Loyd ( sic) [Methodist cleric], a letter to St. David's College [Lampeter] on behalf of recipient, the writer's biographies of H[owel] Harris and [the Reverend Thomas] Charles, an intended work on the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists by [the Reverend John] Hughes [Methodistiaeth Cymru . . . ( Gwrecsam, 3 cyf. 1851-1856)]), and W[illia]m Jones, Wrexham, [18]45 (an intended biography of [?the Reverend John] Humphreys [C.M. minister] by recipient's friend, the writer's intention of publishing selected letters of [the Reverend John] Elias ['o Fôn']); H. Raikes to [ ] Hutton, 1854 (the writer's declining strength, his ?resignation from a committee of ?the British and Foreign Bible Society, reflections on the work of that Society ); and [the Reverend] Henry Rees [C.M. minister], Benarth, to [ ], 1867 (preaching engagements).

A scrap-book containing miscellaneous material (press cuttings, leaves extracted from periodicals, booklets, engraved portraits, manuscript items, etc.) relating mainly to nineteenth century Calvinistic Methodist personalities. The printed material includes biographical sketches or obituary notices of, or commemorative verses to, the Calvinistic Methodist ministers John Davies, Nantglyn, John Elias ['o Fôn'], John Hughes, Liverpool, John Hughes, Pontrobert, John Jones, Treffynnon, Thomas Jones, Denbigh, Richard Humphreys, Dyffryn, co. Merioneth, Edward Morgan, also of Dyffryn, Ebenezer Morris, John Parry, Chester, Moses Parry, Denbigh, John Phillips [principal of Bangor Normal College], Thomas Phillips, Hereford, Henry Rees, Liverpool, Ebenezer Richards, Tregaron, and William Roberts, Amlwch, and the Congregational minister Richard Knill of Chester; copies of two booklets entitled Dadl Bangor yn cynnwys sylwadau . . . ar Anghydffurfiaeth; neu Eglwys Loegr ac Ymneilltuaeth (Caernarfon, 1852), and Y Ddarlith ar Babyddiaeth, Eglwysyddiaeth, ac Ymneilldvaeth . . . ( Liverpool, 1850), containing the texts of two lectures delivered by the aforementioned Principal John Phillips of Bangor; and a copy of John Parry: Blodau y Balmwydden wedi eu hagor, neu fyfyrdodau ar fywyd . . . Thomas Glynne Jones, Mostyn (Treffynnon, 1865). The portraits are of [the Calvinistic Methodist ministers, etc.,] D[avid] Charles Davies [principal of the C.M. College, Trefeca], John Davies, Nantglyn, Lewis Edwards [principal of the C.M. College, Bala], Roger Edwards, David Howells, Swansea, John Hughes, Liverpool, Thomas Jones, Denbigh, John Parry, Chester, Thomas Phillips, Hereford, John Prytherch, Dyffryn (Anglesey), Henry Rees, Owen Richards (missionary), and Owen Thomas, Liverpool; and the manuscript items consist of a holograph copy (7 pp.) of his personal recollections, etc., of the Reverend Thomas Jones, Denbigh, by Daniel Jones, Wrexham, 1824, and a holograph note from the aforementioned Rich[ar]d Knill, to [ ], undated (personal).

Photostat copies of a loyal address presented by the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the borough of Denbigh to King George V and Queen Mary, 16 July 1920 [on the occasion of their visit to the district to open the sanatorium at Llangwyfan], and of the royal reply thereto. The address is in Welsh and the reply in English.

A holograph letter from Geo[rge] B[enson] Nicholson, Covington, Kentucky, U.S.A., to the Reverend R[ichard] Williams [vicar of Beddgelert, co. Caernarvon], 1894 (genealogical information relating to the writer's family, a visit by the writer to North Wales including Beddgelert, a request for further genealogical data concerning his family from the Beddgelert parish registers); and a copy of a pedigree chart compiled by the said G. B. Nicholson, 1895, tracing the descent of his family from William Williams of Hafod Yspytty, parish of Blanau (sic) Festiniog, co. Merioneth.

Miscellaneous items including manuscript and typewritten extracts [from the registers of the parish of Gyffylliog, co. Denbigh], 1661-1665, 1721-1735/6, 1739-1751/2, 1761-1769, and 1778-1779; typewritten extracts from the records of the Royal Mint relating to Joseph Harris [brother of Howel Harris, and Assay Master at the Mint]; typewritten copies of the wills of Robert John David of the parish of Trawsfynydd, co. Merioneth, 1741 (probate 1754 ), David Jones of Bala, co. Merioneth, 1742 (probate 1760), and Dows Jones of Bala, widow, 1768 (probate 1772); and a holograph letter from [the Reverend] Daniel Williams, Llangendelrne Vicarage, to [D. E. Jenkins], 1903 (a search for Charles entries in the Llangendeirne parish registers).

A holograph letter from Griffith Davies, Islington [London], to the Reverend Elis Phillips, Wrexham, 1843 (news of acquaintances and of the [Calvinistic Methodist] Society in London); and a ? holograph letter from H. Lloyd Jones, Denbigh, to Edward Peters, Caergwrley, near Mold, 1840 (enclosing a copy of a letter from [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn'], Vron [Llangefni, co. Anglesey], to J. V[aughan] Home, Denbigh, 1840, regarding a writ served on the writer subsequent to a [Calvinistic Methodist] Association meeting at Mold, and a copy of Mr. Horne's reply thereto).