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A bundle of miscellaneous letters received by George Eyre Evans. The correspondents include J. Islan Jones, Bolton, J. C. Warren, Nottingham, R. J. Jones, Aberdare, Daniel Evans, Sheffield, J. W. Brown, Colyton, E. Basil Lupton, Leeds, Stephen Davies, Ystrad Rhondda, and Phoebe Pickard, Cardiff. The bundle also includes several letters from servicemen on active service during the First World War. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 370.

A volume of letters, post-cards, photographs, press cuttings &c. from David Ivon Jones to George Eyre Evans. Most of the letters were sent from South Africa and many relate to David Ivon Jones's involvement with the South Africa Labour Party and trade union activities. The last few letters were sent from Nice, Stockholm, Moscow and Yalta, and the volume also contains a few items relating to David Ivon Jones's death at Yalta on 24 May, and his burial at Moscow on 14 June 1924. English; Welsh. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 368. See also NLW MSS 7945-7950 and 7979.

A volume of letters of congratulation received by George Eyre Evans on his appointment as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments by the Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire. Also included at the end of the volume are three letters from Edward Owen of the said Royal Commission. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 367.

A volume of letters from Philip J. Worsley of Rodney Lodge, Clifton, to George Eyre Evans. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 365.

A volume of letters from Arthur A. Rollason of Dixon's Green, Dudley, to George Eyre Evans. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 366.

A volume containing fourteen letters from Edward Cobb of Lewes, Sussex, to George Eyre Evans. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 363.

A volume of letters, 1895-1904, with four additional loose letters dated 1905, from John Hibbert Swann, an assistant at the Free Reference Library, King Street, Manchester, to George Eyre Evans. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 364.

A collection of miscellaneous letters received by George Eyre Evans from various correspondents, concerning early Presbyterian and Unitarian meeting-houses at Wakefield, Warminster, York, Norton [?co. Radnor], Tenterden, Chowbent (Atherton), Ciliau Aeron, Ditchling, Framlingham, Dorchester, King's Lynn, Wanham, Rochdale, Belper, Boston, Bradford, Chatham, Todmorden, and Topsham. Other items include letters, 1897, relating to the recipient's volume Vestiges of Protestant Dissent . . . (Liverpool, 1897); letters, 1905, from James Phillips of Cloth Hall, St Clears, relating to the possibility of holding Unitarian meetings again at Rhyd-y-parc Chapel; notes on a lecture delivered in 1854 by the Rev. E. Talbot on 'Tenterden in the Old Time'; letters, 1904, and notes relating to Daniel Evans, 'Daniel Ddu o Geredigion' English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 356-62.

A volume of letters, post-cards &c. from George E. Warriner of White Rock, South Dakota, and later of Galveston, Texas, to George Eyre Evans, including photographs of George E. Warriner, his wife and family. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 354.

A volume of letters, post-cards &c. from Laura Hirtzel Powell (1828-1901), to George Eyre Evans, her nephew, together with her photograph. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 355.

A volume of letters entitled 'Treasured letters from many correspondents', being letters sent to George Eyre Evans from William James Lamport (to Professor D. L. Evans), Mary Ellen Beard, Robert Dunning Holt, Frances E. Crooke, Thomas Baring, Henry W. Crosskey, Richard Hughes, U. Vernon Herford, F. H. Ellington, Mrs F. A. Mottram, George H. Ellis, D. D. Braham, James Martineau, Charles Hargrove, J. Estlin Carpenter, John Page Hopps, Nicholas Jozan, R. W. Corbet, J. Kirk Pike, P. M. A. Muir, Louisa M. Myers, Frances Power Cobbe, William Blazeby, and John Ruskin. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 352.

A volume of ten letters from Ellen Higginson (née Martineau) to George Eyre Evans. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 353.

A letter book containing press copies of letters sent by George Eyre Evans during his stay at Birkenhead and Liverpool, including letters to Mr. Hawkes, R. R. Rathbone, A. W. Crawford, Miss Melly, George J. Atkinson, Sam. Holland, M.P., Mrs Holt, the Rev. Chas. Beard and Mrs Beard, E. Vandermus, J. H. Robinson, Messrs. Charles Green & Son, John Gresty, and Richard Robinson, &c. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 351.

The correspondents include Kentish Bache, Edgar Solly Anthony, J. Edwin Odgers, Philip M. Higginson, Charles J. Poynting, Alx: Gordon, Francis H. Jones, G. Vance Smith, John James Bishop, R. A. Armstrong, S. Alfred Steinthal, Charles C. Coe, Walter J. Evans, A. W. Worthington, and H. Enfield Dowson.

The correspondents include Rees J. Jones, Walter J. Evans, Philip M. Higginson, Thomas Thomas, Alx: Gordon, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, H. Gordon Palmer, G. J. Holyoake, Charles de Winton Kitcat, J. Ellis Mace, W. Blazeby, James C. Street, Alfred Amey, Richard Heape, John Kent, and J. Islan Jones.

The correspondents include Joshua Toulmin, Jos. Cornish, Gilbert Wakefield, Lord John Russell, H. E. Howse, Samuel Martin, Jerom Murch, Benjamin Mardon, John Hill, William Matthews, Titus Lloyd, Charles Beard and Mary Ellen Beard, Philip M. Higginson, Silas Farrington, Charles Travers, Russel Lant Carpenter, Richard Acland Armstrong, Edgar Solly Anthony, Alx: Gordon, S. A. Steinthal, A. N. Blatchford, Walter J. Evans, and Jeffrey Worthington. Also a sketch of a farm near Southminster, [?co. Essex], &c.

A volume of English translations of ninety Welsh letters from David Lewis Evans to his father, Esau Evans of Llanybydder, to his sisters Nani and Mary, and of one letter to David James, a friend. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 347.

Three volumes of correspondence by and concerning ministers of religion, some addressed to George Eyre Evans, together with a number of letters to the Managers of the General Baptist Academy. Each volume is indexed separately.

The correspondents include Samuel Martin, Jane Stirling, Dr. James Rowlands, H[arty] D[espencer] Kingdon, W[illia]m Arthur Jones, D[avid] L[ewis] Evans, Laura H[irtzel] Powell, Ann Mardon, Mary Carpenter, Robert W. Higgins, Tho[ma]s Colfox, Walter J[enkin] Evans, Geo[rge] Eyre Evans, James Stephens, James Taplin, Delia Powell, George [Caleb] Powell, Louis A[ugustus] Powell, Alec M. Graeme, Jane Powell, Rev. R. J. Jones, Walter D. Jeremy, Thomas V. Powell, and J. Hunton Smith. Some of the letters relate to Professor D. L. Evans's resignation from the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen. Other items include a copy will of David Davies, Ty-newydd, Pencarreg, blacksmith, 18gi; papers relating to a legal suit in the High Court of Justice involving David Lewis Evans, 1901; an engraving of Amy Robsart; poetry and notes re ships by Commander George Eyre Powell, R.N.; chess moves, apparently copied from The Sporting Magazine for March 1825; various items in the hands of Lavinia, Delia and Mrs. Catherine Powell; epitaphs copied at Dorsington and Bideford churchyards; a copy of the memorial tablet to Edward Williams, 'Iolo Morganwg', and to his son Taliesin Williams, 'Taliesin ab Iolo', at [Flimston] church; remembrance cards, 1889-1903.

Two volumes of correspondence written by George Eyre Evans and members of his family, namely the Powell family of Colyton, Devon, his mother's relatives, and his father, Professor David Lewis Evans of Carmarthen, together with some letters received from outside the family circle. Both volumes are indexed separately.