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A notebook containing minutes of the committee of managers of Forest B[ritish] School, parish of Llantilio Pertholey, 1888-1906. Almost the entire volume is in the hand of John Davies, who was originally correspondent and subsequently became chairman of the committee. On the inside upper cover is a note by John Davies, dated 22 March 1907, that by order of the Board of Education the school was henceforth to be called 'Llantillio Pertholey Forest Undenominational School'.

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.

An essay, with appendices, written [c. 1870], on 'Methodistiaeth Cymru Hyd 1811' [the history of Calvinistic Methodism to the Ordination of 1811]. At the end of the volume are some accounts of purchases for the house (food, etc.) and payments of taxes made by John Davies during the period 1877-1879.

A notebook containing notes on logic; Latin exercises; a commentary on portions of the Greek text of chapters 6-7 of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans; and notes on Roman history.

A notebook containing notes on forms of church government, philosophy, the early history of Capel-y-ffin Baptist Church, border antiquities (Ewyas Harold, Kilpeck, Kenderchurch, Rowlstone, Michael Church, Patricio, Craswall, etc.), characteristics of early architecture, the 'arrangement' of Llanthony Abbey, etc., together with some statistics of a Bible class at Pandy, 1873.

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.

A notebook originally used as a subscription book for the [Llanfihangel Crucorney?] Whit-Monday athletic sports, [c. 1878]. It was subsequently used by John Davies to record house, hay, coal, maids' wages, and other accounts, 1879-1916; accounts with Pandy C. M. Church, 1883-1916; accounts of a Dairy School at Pandy, 1899; and notes on Monmouthshire genealogies and antiquities.

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 paper on 'The Origin of Sunday Schools in Crickhowell and District', read at a centenary meeting at Crickhowell, 17 June, 1885.

An essay on 'Cymreigyddion y Fenni and its work'.

An essay on the history of religion in Abergavenny.

A transcript of the trust deed, 26 June, 1866, of a school to be erected at Cae Plockin, parish of Llantillio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, for the education of the children and adults, or children only, of the labouring, manufacturing and other classes in the several parishes of Llantillio Pertholey, Monmouthshire, Foothog, Herefordshire, Partrishow and Llanbeder, Brecknockshire, and Llanwenarth and Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, and to be conducted upon the principles of the British and Foreign School Society. The transcript is written on the dorse of an incomplete Scripture examination script of Philip Francis, Graig, Abercanaid, Merthyr.

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

Annotated lists of students admitted to Trevecca Calvinistic Methodist college from its opening in 1842 until its closure in 1862 and from its re-opening in 1865 until 1899. The two lists, arranged in chronological order of admission, contain respectively seventy-nine and three hundred and twenty six names, and give in each case also the date of departure.

'Notes of old Papers found under the Floor of the Attic at the Parrot Inn, Cross Street, Abergavenny, January, 1908'. They include writs of praecipe to the sheriff of Monmouthshire, 1666/7?-1673/4; letters from William Morgan from Lansoare, Langattocke iuxta Carlyon, to Mr. [Thomas?] Gunter at Carlyon, 1 May, [16]68, from Piers Butler to Mr. Thomas Gunter, attorney-at-law, Abergavenny, 16 May, [16]74, from Tho. Pim?, London, to Mrs. Katherin Williams of Abergaveni, 16 April, 1697, etc.; an order of the Committee for Compounding the estates of Recusants and Malignants in respect of the estate of Thomas Gunter of Abergavenny, recusant, in the parishes of Penrhos and Abergavenny, c. 1650; receipts to members of the Gunter family and others, 1688-1720; fragments of seventeenth and early eighteenth century letters, legal papers, accounts, music, and poetry; and references to letters addressed to Mrs. Bellamy who 'apparently lived in this house in the early forties'. The notes are written on the dorse of examination scripts of the Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools Union, 1902. Also included in the manuscript is a note on the preaching of Daniel Rowland, Methodist cleric, of Llangeitho, Cardiganshire.

An essay on 'Enwogion Gwent'. The essay corresponds largely to NLW MS 11418E, but contains additional biographies of Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan of Newport, and William Thomas ('Islwyn').

An address on 'Welsh Castles'.

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

Holograph and autograph letters:- [Thomas] Twynog Jeffreys, Rhymney, to [John] Davies, 1904-1909 (the publication of Tannau Twynog, reminiscences of Llanddeusant), J. A. Bradney, Tal-y-coed, Monmouth, to [John] Davies, 1904-1916 (the writer's pedigree and his genealogical researches, etc.), J. Thomas Watkins, Penycae, Swansea VAlley, to J[ohn] davies, 1910 (a request for the writer's pedigree), John Davies, Pandy, to Ben Price, Sydney, 1915 (consent to the betrothal of the writer's daughter Gladys to the recipient), B. T. Jones, Neath, secretary of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, to Miss [Gladys] Davies, 1917 (condolence on the death of John Davies, the recipient's father), J. L. Wheatley, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace, City Hall, Cardiff, to James H. Parry, Pandy [1917] (the death of John Davies) (incomplete), and W. A. Townsend, Bedwelty Pits, to Mrs Ben E. Price, Sydney, 1919 (an account of a peace celebration carnival) (enclosed is a photograph of John Davies's grave); pedigrees, largely of Monmouthshire interest, compiled by John Davies and J. A. Bradney (including a chart of the latter's sixteen great-great-grandchildren); a list by John Davies of 'Twynog Jeffreys Papers'; photograph [1936] of the funeral cortege of [E. W. (Eddie) Thomas, Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, a native of Ferndale; press cuttings relating to the election of John Davies to be Moderator of the Calvinistic Methodist General Assembly, 1915-1916, and the funeral of E. W. Thomas, Katoomba, 1936; 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.