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An address on 'The Vale of Usk, and its Historic Associations', delivered at Llanvihangel nigh Usk.

A volume containing mounted cuttings of a paper by John Davies on 'Monmouthshire Worthies', read before the Newport Cymmrodorion Society. Inset are a few extracts from Trevecca letters, 1729-1744, and transcripts in the hand of J. A. Bradney of some of the Gunter papers described in NLW MS 11420E. The volume was originally (1902) used as a mathematics exericse book.

Y Dyddiadur Methodistaidd, 1866, 1898-1899, 1901, 1904, The Diary of the Calvinistic Methodists, 1875-1876, 1905, 1907-1908, 1910, 1912, 1914-1915, A Diary of Sundays for 20 Years, 1886-1906, Pettitt's Handy Diary, 1916, and Year Book of the Council of the County of Monmouth, 1895 (lettered 'Alderman John Davies'), 1900-1901 (lettered 'Alderman Davies'), with manuscript entries by John Davies, Pandy.

A notebook containing minutes of the committee of the Abergavenny District of the Welsh Nonconformist Council, 1891-1897, the secretary of the committee being John Davies; draft reports (undated) of South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association meetings; particulars of receipts and disbursements on behalf of Forest British School, 1903-1904; extracts from memorial inscriptions at the churches of Llanfihangel Nant Brân, Brecknockshire, and Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, transcribed during the period 1908-1909; and an address entitled 'The First Chapter in the History of Nonconformity of the [Abergavenny] District', delivered at Mozerah [Calvinistic Methodist Church, Llanfihangel nigh Usk], in 1911.

Notes on the doctrine and the rite of baptism and on philosophy; a paper on Sir John Oldcastle, styled Lord Cobham (d. 1417), read to the Cambrian Archaeological Association at Abergavenny, [18] August 1876; notes from Edmund Jones: ... Account of the Parish of Aberystruth (Trevecca, 1779); notes of visits to Gloucestershire and to Bala, 1882-1883; etc.

An incomplete essay on 'Monmouthshire Worthies'. The list of subjects begins with Geoffrey of Monmouth and ends with Sir Thomas Phillips, barrister, of Newport.

Notes on Monmouthshire and other antiquities; letters to John Davies, Pandy, from W. Howells, Trevecca, 1886 (Trevecca College examinations), H. C. Moore, Hereford, 1891 (W[oolhope] C[lub] luncheon), D. Davies, Babel, Llandovery ['Davies y Tutor'], 1905 (the recipient's schooling by the writer), and J. D. Jones, Gellifor, Ruthin, 1910 (comments on Richard Bennett: Blynyddoedd Cyntaf Methodistiaeth); notes on English literature taken by Gladys Davies [daughter of John Davies, Pandy] at University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, 1905; etc.

A group of papers relating to Hermon Calvinistic Methodist Church, Dunraven Street, Tonypandy, Glamorgan. They include typescript copies of a case, and of the opinion, 11 June, 1906, of Ellis Jones Griffith, Temple, touching the admission of the church to membership of the Connexion; a report, in the hand of John Davies, Pandy, 27 August, 1908, of a sub-committee [of the South Wales C. M. Association] appointed to examine the state of the church; a typescript report by W. R. James, F.A.I. [of Llangadog, Carmarthenshire], 27 August, 1908, on the value of the chapel site and vestry, together with a holograph letter, 4 September, 1908, to the valuer from D. W. Davies [J.P.], Tonypandy; and a typescript letter [1908] from the church (signed by six members) to representatives of the Association on the question of union with Bethania C. M. Church, Llwynpia.