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A typescript copy of a genealogical chart headed 'Disgynyddion Teulu Bodgarad, Rhostryfan, Llanwnda, ger Caernarfon', compiled by W. Roberts, [19]28.

Correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to the distribution of Bibles amongst army and navy personnel including twenty-four holograph or autograph letters, 1780-1794 and undated, addressed variously to The Committee of the Bible Society, The President of the Humane Society, Messrs. Audinet & Co., Mr. Tho[ma]s Dobson, the Reverend Mr. Foster, Mr. Keysall, Mr. W[illia]m Rogers, Mr. W[illia]m Surgey, and Mr. Thackray, all in London, by J. Cartwright, major in the Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, Dorking, J. Catermole [Portsmouth], Luis Delvin, J. Doting, Spithead, Portsmouth, W[illia]m Fallowfield [?Newgate Prison] (2), F. Harrison, Chat[ha]m Dock (enclosing a letter from Thomas Turnbull and W[illia]m Savage, privates in the Goth Regiment), J[oh]n Hey [Warwickshire Militia], Tiptree Camp, B. Hudson, captain and adjutant, East York Militia, Dartford Camp, Rob[er]t Hudson, Haslar, [ ] Jones, captain, commandant of the Anglesea Regiment [of] Militia, Dartford, R. Langton, Cornhill, J. Lewis, Plymouth Dock, [ ] Middleton, W[illia]m Palmer, Chatham, Tho[ma] s Rankin, Rob[er]t Reynol[ds], Chat[ha]m, ?J. Saunders, Derbyshire Militia, Barnet, Samp[son] Stanniforth, Greenwich, W. Wallis, surgeon, H.M.S. Minerva, Portsmouth, Mrs. Wesley, Mary bone [London], John Wingrove, Freshford, Richard Worsley, Stratford Place, and W[illia]m Young (requests for Bibles for distribution amongst army units, crews of naval vessels, military prisoners in Newgate prison, etc., acknowledgements of receipt of Bibles, matters relating to the work of distribution); a draft of an undated circular letter written by W[illia]m Surgey, as secretary of the society founded in 1780 for distributing Bibles to the army and navy, inviting recipients to assist with the work of distribution; a 'List of Subscribers for Purchasing Bibles to be distributed among ye Army and Navy . . .' (undated); a letter from J. and J. Merrill to William Surgey, London, undated (supplies of Bibles [to the society of which recipient was secretary]); three miscellaneous vouchers, 1789-1790 and undated; an English translation of a petition from 'that Part of the Welsh Militia, Viz. the Anglesey & Caerna[r]von & the Montgomry Shires, now Encamped on Dartford Common, Kent, Sepr. 21, 1780, To the Committee of the Humane Soci[ety] for Distributing Bibles for the Use of the Fleets & Army of Great Britain & Ireland', requesting a supply of Bibles in the Welsh language; an English translation of a letter addressed by 'the Montgomry Rigm[en]t of Militia at the Camp, Sepr. 21, 1780 (Dartford Common)', to the committee of the same society expressing their thanks for the fact that Bibles, ? in the Welsh language, were being distributed (this and the preceding item had been translated [from Welsh] by Rob[er]t Rowland, Cumberland Street, London); and a copy of the Report of the Proceedings of the Naval and Military Bible Society . . . for the year ending May 1841.

Six holograph letters, some imperfect, from [the Reverend] John Parry [Calvinistic Methodist minister and author] from Chester, to Daniel Jones, Wrexham, 1813-1842 (personal, preaching engagements, the dissolution of parliament and the pending parliamentary election (1840, the writer's opinion that the High Church party were in a mood to persecute the various religious denominations, the peaceful state of the country under the previous ministry, hopes that recipient would vote for a 'liberal' candidate in the Denbighshire contest).

Two holograph letters from W[illia]m Williams, Landigige [near St. David's, co. Pembroke], undated, and Ebenezer Richard, Trefin [co. Pembroke], 1804, to George Williams at New Castle Emlyn and Carmarthen (personal, religious reflections); and two holograph letters from [the Reverend] George Williams [Calvinistic Methodist minister, son of the aforementioned George Williams] from Llys Brân, Clarbeston Road, to [D. E.] Jenkins, 1907 ( forwarding the two preceding letters, information relating to William Williams, Llandigige).

Nineteen note-books containing transcripts [by D. E. Jenkins] of one hundred and five letters, 1779-1811 and undated, from the Reverend Thomas Charles from Bala, Birmingham, Dolgelley, Limerick, Llanymowddwy, Milborne Port, Oxford, Pwllhely, Queen Camel, near Sherborne, Shawbury, Shrewsbury, Spa Fields, etc., to his brother David Charles, Carmarthen (4), his son T[homas] R[ice] Charles, London, [Thomas] Foulks, Bala (2), [Sarah] Jones ( also as [Sarah] Charles, his wife), Bala, Chester, etc. (87), M[ary] Stringer, Abbey Green, Chester, J[ohn] Walker, junior, Chester (?9), and Miss Wright, Tarvin, co. Chester. The originals of one hundred and one of the letters transcribed are now in the Thomas Charles Edwards Collection of manuscripts and documents amongst the C.M. archives in the National Library of Wales. The originals of the other four form part of NLW MS 4797C.

Seven note-books containing transcripts of sixty-one letters to the Reverend Thomas Charles at Llangann, Llangeitho, Llanymowddy (sic), Milborne Port, Salop, Shawbury, Trawsfynydd, etc., from Sally (Sarah) Jones or Charles [subsequent to their marriage in 1783], from Bala, 1780- 1787. The originals of fifty-seven of these letters are now with the correspondence in the Thomas Charles Edwards Collection of manuscripts and documents amongst the C.M. archives in the National Library of Wales. The remaining four originals form part of N.L.W. MSS. 4797-8.

Two note-books containing transcripts of thirty-two letters, 1812-1849 and undated, all except one (as per signatures, addresses, etc., or by inference) being to or from the Reverend David Charles [David Charles I, Calvinistic Methodist minister] of Carmarthen, his son David Charles [II] also of Carmarthen, and his daughter Eliza Charles [or, subsequent to marriage, Davies]. The remaining letter, from Mary Foulks, Machynlleth, is possibly also to a member of the Charles family.

Forty-four holograph letters, 1842-1855 and undated, from [the Reverend] Edw[ ar]d Morgan [vicar of Syston, 1814-1869, and of Ratcliffe on the Wreak, 1818- 1867, both in co. Leicester], from Aberffraw (I), Bangor (I), Cheltenham (I), Pyle [co. Glamorgan] (I), and Syston. The names of the addressees are not ascertainable but the contents of the letters indicate that the majority were written to one person, possibly Thomas Jones of Chester, the recipient of the letters in NLW MS 12757C. Several of the letters contain advice to recipient with regard to preparatory studies, initial steps to be taken, etc., in connection with a desire he had expressed of offering himself as a candidate for Holy Orders. The college at St. Bees, the school at Cowbridge, the Mechanics' Institute, Liverpool, and St. David's College, Lampeter, are mentioned in this context. There are also numerous references to the biographies or selections of the letters of the Calvinistic Methodist clerics or ministers [Thomas] Charles, [John] Elias, Howell Harris, [David] Jones, Llangan, [Daniel] Rowland, and W[illia]m Williams, Pantycelyn, which the writer was preparing for publication or had already published. The letters also refer to correspondence of [the Reverend] Jo[hn] Humphreys [C.M. minister] in the writer's possession, the need to tell Mr. H. Griffith to proceed with a Welsh memoir of [John] Elias, the death of recipient's father, the possibility of recipient writing a memoir of his father and of the aforementioned [John] Humphreys, the writer's willingness to help recipient with his 'intended Periodical', Thomas Parry's account [Cofiant] of [the Reverend John] Davies [C.M. minister] of Nantglyn, contacting the Reverend E. Evans [? Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd')], 'Jones the poet at Mold' [? the Reverend Thomas Jones ('Glan Alun')], and the Reverend W[illiam] Rees ['Gwilym Hiraethog'], with regard to William Williams, Pantycelyn, an attack on the writer's edition of the letters of [John] Elias ? by [William Williams] 'Caledfrin' (sic) in the Carnarvon Herald, a seminary for young ladies kept in Chester by Mrs. Williams 'wife of a preacher there', a subscription due from Chancellor [Henry] Raikes of Chester [Cathedral] for a copy of the biography of Howel Harris, and an article on the Reverend S[imon] Lloyd [ Methodist cleric] which the writer was preparing.

Essays or papers ? by D. E. Jenkins on 'Oliver Wendell Holmes' (52 pp.), 'Henry David Thoreau' (44 pp.), and 'Lessons from the life of John Penry to the Nonconformists of the present day' (18 pp.).

An incomplete, typescript copy of an essay on 'Ratiocination in Welsh Literature, 1789-1840', ? by D. E. Jenkins.

Typewritten copies of letters from the Reverend Tho[ma]s Jones (Calvinistic Methodist minister), Denbigh, to Joseph Tarn (assistant secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society), Spa Fields, London, 1813-1815 (5 + 2 by inference) (local branches of the Bible Society in Denbighshire, the supplying of Bibles and Testaments by the parent Society, problems relating to the price of Bibles, a proposed memoir of the Reverend [Thomas] Charles in English, the writer's progress with his 'Life' of Thomas Charles in Welsh [Cofiant neu Hanes Bywyd a Marwolaeth y Parch. Thomas Charles . . . wedi ei gyfieithu a'i gasglu gan y Parchedig Thomas Jones . . . (Bala, 1816)]); an obituary article on the Reverend Thomas Jones, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Carmarthen, extracted from Yr Efangylydd . . ., 1831, tt. 133-7; a letter from E[van] Evans from Shacklewell [London], to the aforementioned J[oseph] Tarn, London, 1814 (the establishing of local branches [of the Bible Society] in different parts of London, the illness of Mr. [Thomas] Charles, the writer' s experience of stereotype printing, his application to go to Russia with an acquaintance named Alexander Smith, under the patronage of the Bible Society, to set up a stereotype printing office); and a letter from John Roberts [Calvinistic Methodist preacher] from London, to his son Michael Roberts [also C.M. preacher] in Liverpool, 1803 (the writer's visit to London, matters relating to C.M. churches in London).

An alphabetical list, compiled on the reverse side of copies of the handbill noted in NLW MS 12799B above, of preachers who had preached [to the Calvinistic Methodist society or church meeting] at Caergeiliog [parish of Bodedern, co. Anglesey], 1782-1801, with the dates of each visit.

Four note-books containing a transcript in the hand of D. E. Jenkins of pp. 17-123 of [the Reverend Thomas Ellis Owen:] Methodism Unmasked [or the Progress of Puritanism from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century . . . (London, 1802)].

Typescript copies of English versions of letters contributed to the correspondence column of Y Goleuad, September 1910 - January 1911, by D. E. Jenkins and 'Nodwr', setting forth their conflicting views in a controversy relating to the journey made by Mary Jones [of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, co. Merioneth] to Bala in 1800 to obtain a Welsh Bible from the Reverend Thomas Charles, and the alleged connection between this episode and the subsequent foundation of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The controversy relates more particularly to the account of the Mary Jones story given in Robert Oliver Rees [:Mary Jones, y Gymraes Fechan heb yr un Beibl, a Sefydliad y Feibl-Gymdeithas (Wrexham, ?1879)].

A note-book inscribed on the upper cover 'Plowden MSS', and containing transcripts of letters and other documents, 1755-1778, relating to the property of the Plowden family of Plowden Hall, near Bishop's Castle, co. Salop, in the parish of Llanfihangel Abercywyn, co. Carmarthen. The property consisted of the farms called Foxhole, Lower Court, Trefenti, and Pant Dwfwn, the last named of which, during the period 1755-1778, was occupied by Rees Charles [father of the Reverend Thomas Charles, Bala]. The items transcribed include letters from John Phillipps, junior [?as agent], from Carmarthen, to Edmond Plowden (1 to Plowden Hall), 1755 (2); letters from John Phillipps [?as agent] from Llandilo, to Edmond Plowden [son of the first - mentioned Edmond] at Plowden Hall, 1778 (3 + 2 by inference); accounts rendered in respect of the farms, 1755, 1756 and 1778; a surrender, 9 April 1778, by Rees Charles, of his rights under an agreement of 20 October 1777 whereby Edmond Plowden [II] had granted him an option of a lease of the messuages called Foxhole, Pant Dovan, and Treventi, for a period of twenty-one years; and a surrender, 13 April 1778, by Rees Charles to Edmund Plowden [II] of the messuage called Pant Dovan then held by him as tenant.

A holograph copy of an introduction written by D. E. Jenkins for a proposed new edition of Edward Charles: Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry ( Llundain, 1797), which he intended publishing in 1905.

A typescript copy of a memorandum [by D. E. Jenkins] on 'The Records of the Established Church in Wales and their Disposal by Disestablishment', in which it is proposed that, in the bill being prepared for the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Wales [1912], provision should be made for (1) the retention of the diocesan and parochial records of that church 'as the property of the Nation', (2) the conversion of existing diocesan registries into national repositories with a salaried official in charge, (3) making the records available to holders of research permits, and (4) the granting of Treasury subsidies for the publication of parish registers, etc. Also a typewritten copy of a letter from [D. E. Jenkins] from Denbigh, to T. Huws Davies, Home Office, Whitehall, January 1912 (requesting recipient to bring an enclosed copy of the above mentioned memorandum to the notice of the Home Secretary).

A typescript copy of a paper on 'Yr Ysgol Sul' ('The Sunday School') by Sir Owen M[organ] Edwards read by the Reverend W. O. Evans, Wesleyan minister, at the North Wales Free Church Conference held at Portmadoc, April 1917.

Typescript copies of eight short stories or tales entitled 'Gold for Gold ', 'The Hunchbacks of Lavan Sands', 'The Minstrel's Timely Return', 'The Origin of Bala Lake', 'Manleth of Cwm Brochan', 'The Parish Stocks', 'The Mystery Man of the Lost Land', and 'The Bell of Llanpennar'. Also a typescript copy of a letter from Llewelyn Jenkins ? from Liverpool, to [ ], [19]21, drawing recipient's attention to these stories which are said to be the work of the writer's friend and to be 'based on Welsh Traditions and History'. Three of the stories, more particularly 'The Minstrel's Timely Return', which is based upon an episode in the career of Sir John Owen of Clenennau, co. Caernarvon, during the Civil War, have a Welsh historical background, whilst the others partake more of the nature of Welsh traditional or folk tales.

A photostat facsimile of a probate copy of the will of the Reverend Edward Morgan [vicar of Syston, 1814-1869, and of Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreak, 1818-1867, both in co. Leicester]. The will, 27 July 1860, with two codicils, 11 March 1861 and 6 June 1864, was proved 30 June 1869.