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Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly addressed to Charles E. Breese. The correspondents include J. Romilly Allen, Charles E. Breese (to Sir Osmond Williams), the Bishop of Bristol, 1905, H. Farnham Burke, James Colquhoun Campbell, bishop of Bangor, 1880, Charles J. Clark, 1906, Lord Clwyd, 1942, Ellis W. Davies, Bethesda, 1910-1912, Jonathan Davies, Portmadoc, 1914, Vaughan Davies, 1921, A. E. Elias, 1913, Thomas E. Ellis, 1895, O. Ll. J. Evans, 1901, W. A .Foster, 1919, W. Fuller, 1921, William George, 1922, S. Baring Gould, 1903, C. M. Greaves, J. E. Griffith, 1911, Wm. B. Halhed, 1912, W. E. Scott-Hall, 1914, W. E. Harries, 1912, H. E. Hollingworth, 1904, D. T. Hughes, 1905, E. Alfred Jones, 1904, Esther Lloyd Jones, 1903, G. E. Lloyd Jones, 1923, J. J. Jones, 1922, James Jones, 1921, John Jones, 1920, J. Maurice Jones, 1911, R. I. Jones ('Alltud Eifion'), 1896, and R. T. Jones, 1895.

Material collected by Thomas Edward Ellis, M.P. and Principal John Humphreys Davies in preparation for the publication, by the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, of Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd, including notes, facsimiles of the autograph of Morgan Llwyd, transcripts from printed and manuscript sources, part of the first volume (which was edited by T. E. Ellis) and letters containing bibliographical and other information, most of them written to T. E. Ellis by Sir John Ballinger, J. Glyn Davies, John Humphreys Davies, Daniel Silvan Evans, Edward Griffith (Springfield, Dolgellau), Messrs Jarvis and Foster (Bangor), Sir John Edward Lloyd, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Sir John Williams, bart, etc.

Letters addressed to John Eiddon Jones by Thomas E. Ellis, 1883, [Sir] John Rhys, 1895, and Owen Thomas (incomplete).

Some fifty letters, 1875-1889, to Elias Hughes, Colwyn Bay, co. Denbigh. Many are replies to invitations to preach at Engedi Calvinistic Methodist church, Colwyn Bay, or to preside at local eisteddfodau but also included are two letters (ff. 14, 19) concerning the injuries sustained by Elias Hughes during the tithe disturbance near Mochdre in 1887 (see Report of an inquiry as to disturbances connected with the levying of tithe rent-charge in Wales (1887), p. 102). Correspondents include Thomas Edward Ellis (1) [1887], John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog') (1) 1883, Daniel Owen (1) 1886, Joseph Parry (1) 1884, Sarah Jane Rees ('Cranogwen') (2) 1884, 1886, and William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog') (2) 1882-1883. Also included are a letter, 1842, to the Reverend William Jones, Amlwch, from David Griffiths, missionary, relating to Madagascar (f. 77), sermon notes in Welsh by William Jones (ff. 80-4), and other miscellaneous items, 1853-1898.

Llythyrau, 1914-1933, at Ellis D. Jones, yn bennaf yn ymwneud â sefydlu Neuadd Goffa Owain Glyndŵr yng Nglyndyfrdwy, 1931-1932, y gohebwyr yn cynnwys T. E. Ellis (3), T. Gwynn Jones (3) a Syr John Edward Lloyd (2), ynghŷd â llythyrau eraill, 1936-1952, rhai ohonynt wedi'u cyfeirio at Syr Alfred Thomas Davies a'r gohebwyr yn cynnwys Syr John Ballinger (1) a W. Ambrose Bebb (3); ac eitemau amrywiol sy'n cynnwys cynllun, 1932, ar gyfer plannu planhigion ar dir Neuadd Goffa Owain Glyndŵr, llyfr lloffion yn ymwneud yn bennaf â'r Neuadd Goffa, a nodiadau yn ymwneud ag Owain Glyndŵr, ac â threfn gwasanaeth sefydlu'r Neuadd Goffa, 5 Medi 1931 = Letters, 1914-1933, to Ellis D. Jones, mainly relating to the establishment of the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall in Glyndyfrdwy, 1931-1932, the correspondents including T. E. Ellis (3), T. Gwynn Jones (3) and Sir John Edward Lloyd (2), together with other letters, 1936-1952, some of which are addressed to Sir Alfred Thomas Davies, the correspondents including Sir John Ballinger (1) and W. Ambrose Bebb (3); and miscellaneous items which include a proposed 'planting plan', 1932, for the Owain Glyndŵr Memorial Hall grounds, a scrap book mainly relating to the Memorial Hall, and notes relating to Owain Glyndŵr, and to the order of service at the establishment of the Memorial Hall, 5 September 1931.

Tri llythyr, 1886, yn Saesneg, at Vincent Evans oddi wrth T. E. Ellis, O. M. Edwards a John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog'); tair llythyr ar ddeg (un yn Saesneg) ac un cerdyn post, 1903-1918, at J. Owain Evans oddi wrth Eliseus Williams ('Eifion Wyn'), ynghyd â thoriad o'r Darian a gohebiaeth, yn Saesneg a Chymraeg, [1917], oddi wrth y Comisiwn Yswiriant Iechyd Cenedlaethol parthed Thomas Evans, tad Robert Evans ('Cybi'); deuddeg llythyr, yng Nghymraeg a Saesneg, 1912-1914, at J. Owain Evans oddi wrth Robert Roberts ('Isallt'), ynghyd â thoriad o'r Rhedegydd, 15 Chwefror 1913, sy'n dwyn llythyr oddi wrth 'Isallt', toriad parthed 'Isallt' o'r News Chronicle, d.d., a barddoniaeth Cymraeg a Saesneg, 1911-1913, yn llaw 'Isallt' = Three letters, 1886, in English, to Vincent Evans from T. E. Ellis, O. M. Edwards and John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog'); thirteen letters (one in English), and one postcard, 1903-1918, to J. Owain Evans from Eliseus Williams ('Eifion Wyn'), together with a cutting from Y Darian and correspondence, in English and Welsh, [1917], from the National Health Insurance Commission in relation to Thomas Evans, father of Robert Evans ('Cybi'); twelve letters, in Welsh and English, 1912-1914, to J. Owain Evans from Robert Roberts ('Isallt'), together with a cutting from Y Rhedegydd, 15 February 1913, which contains a letter from 'Isallt', a cutting relating to 'Isallt' from the News Chronicle, n.d., and poetry in Welsh and English, 1911-1913, in 'Isallt's hand.

Llawysgrif, wedi ei baratoi ar gyfer y wasg, o fywgraffiad T. I. Ellis o'i dad, Thomas Edward Ellis, Cofiant: Cyfrol I (1859-1886) (Lerpwl, 1944). = Manuscript, prepared for the press, of T. I. Ellis's biography of his father, Thomas Edward Ellis, Cofiant: Cyfrol I (1859-1886) (Liverpool, 1944).
Ysgrifennwyd y llawysgrif yn bennaf ar ddalennau rhydd o lyfrau ateb arholiadau. Mae cywiriadau, arnodiadau a throednodiadau wedi eu hychwanegu mewn pensil; mae nifer o frawddegau a rhai paragraffau wedi eu dileu, yn arbennig ar ff. 2, 19, 213 a 223, ac mae newidiadau ac ychwanegiadau sylweddol wedi eu darparu ar ddalennau ychwanegol. Mae'r newidiadau yma wedi eu hymgorffori yn y fersiwn cyhoeddedig. = The manuscript is written mostly on loose leaves from exam answer books. Corrections, annotations and footnotes have been added in pencil; several sentences and some whole paragraphs have been deleted, in particular on ff. 2, 19, 213 and 223, with major alterations and additions supplied on additional leaves. These alterations are incorporated in the published version.

Sixty-five holograph and autograph letters and postcards, and telegrams, 1888-1913 and undated, addressed to David Robert Daniel (1859-1931) of Fourcrosses, Chwilog, Caernarvonshire. The writers include a circular, 1904, issued by the North Wales Quarries Ltd; P[eredur] Ll. Daniel, London, his son, undated; [Robert Evans] ('Cybi'), Llangybi, undated; [E.] Vincent Evans, London, 1913?; [Henry] Harold Hughes, Bangor, 1903-06; and The North Wales Quarrymen's Union, Caernarvon, undated. Also included in the group are three holograph letters, 1888-1905, from D. R. Daniel to his wife Sara and to his mother Jane; a holograph letter, undated, from Sara [Daniel] to her mother at Llandderfel; a grand jury summons for the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Caernarvonshire, addressed to D. R. Daniel,1905; vouchers, certificates of bank credits, etc. of D. R. Daniel, 1904-13; and other holograph letters which include one to [H. J. Williams] ('Plenydd'), 1890; and a letter, 1898, containing accounts of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union; also verses in Welsh entitled 'The Memorable Temperance Supper Dec. 23rd. 1882'.
References include those to Peredur Daniel, son of D. R. Daniel; memorials and a Testimonial Fund to Thomas Edward Ellis; the illness of Daniel's father-in-law; and the Penrhyn Quarry dispute.

Lord Rosebery [Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl]: Robert Burns ... (Edinburgh, 1896), being a vellum-bound presentation copy by the author to D. R. Daniel (marked 'For the sake of Tom Ellis ...'), and a covering letter from 'Tom' [Thomas E. Ellis] to David [R. Daniel] which is bound in the volume.

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Darlington, one of his Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in Wales, including essays and articles, drafts of speeches and addresses, letters from Ellis Edwards, Tom Ellis, Beriah Gwynfe Evans, D. Silvan Evans, David Howell (Llawdden), J. Puleston Jones, Sir John Rhys, A. Neobard Palmer, and Hugh Williams, and press cuttings.

Articles by W. Llewelyn Williams, 1919-[2005], including photocopies of manuscript drafts of articles on Disestablishment and the First World War; copies of his introductions to James Anthony Froude's volumes on the Tudors; and copies of various other articles on Disestablishment, the Great War and T. E. Ellis, M.P. for Meirionethshire and Liberal Chief Whip. The file also includes the booklet 'Ballads of Wales', 1919, given as a gift to his nephew, D. Morgan Evans.

Copies and transcripts of letters by W. Llewelyn Williams to various correspondents, 1894-1922, accumulated by Neville C. Masterman, [1970]-[2005]. The file includes letters to his brother, Thomas Williams, John Morris Jones, T. E. Ellis and T. Huws Davies, concerning both personal and professional matters. Some of the Welsh letters have been translated into English. Originals of most of the letters are held at NLW, and in such cases the NLW call numbers of the original letters have been noted on the copies.

Articles, reviews, correspondence, addresses, etc., by T. I. Ellis, 1949-1959, including Welsh travel articles; radio talks on travel, with related correspondence; book reviews; addresses concerning Thomas Edward Ellis's centenary, [1959]; and some correspondence with publishers.
Also included are manuscript translations, 1940, by TIE of three poems by Walter de la Mare, submitted for competition at that year's National Eisteddfod.

A copy of the script for 'Tom Ellis - Rhaglen ar gyfer canmlwyddiant ei eni' by Frank Price Jones, transmitted 16 February 1959, which featured a contribution from T. I. Ellis. Also included is correspondence relating to the programme.

Papers of Mari Ellis, 1986-[c. 2001], relating to Thomas Edward Ellis, comprising items relating to the centenary of his election to Parliament, 1986 (ME 21/1); typescript pages, apparently from a draft of Y Golau Gwan, [?late 1990s] (ME 21/2); cuttings of reviews of Y Golau Gwan, together with letters of congratulation on the book to ME from Lord Hooson, George Noakes and others, 1999 (ME 21/3); manuscript drafts of three talks, in Welsh, by ME on T. E. Ellis's correspondence with Annie Davies, 1999-2000 (ME 21/4); notes and transcripts relating to T. E. Ellis, derived from the D. R. Daniel Papers and other sources at NLW, [c. 2001] (ME 21/5, ME 21/7); and manuscript drafts of two talks, in Welsh and English, the one entitled 'T. E. Ellis a Cheredigion', together with a pamphlet by her on the same subject, [c. 2001] (ME 21/6).
Also included is a letter, in Welsh, [1975], from W. D. [Williams], Barmouth, enclosing an original election pamphlet of T. E. Ellis, dated 28 June 1886 (ME 21/8); and a letter, in Welsh, [1985], from Rhodri Morgan, University of Wales Press, requesting her help locating photographs of T. E. Ellis (ME 21/9).

Three fragments mainly containing material in the hand of Morgan Llwyd: a) Sheets out of a notebook containing notes of sermons, one of which is said to have been delivered by 'Mr. Lloyd' [?Morgan Llwyd]. b) A copy (2 pp.) of the verses of lamentation and resolution by the Welsh saints, 1643, comprising ten out of the twenty verses printed by T. E. Ellis in Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd (Bangor, 1899), vol. I, pp. 3-6, in the following order - 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 9, 8, 7, 14, 18; a version, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, of the first nine stanzas of a 'Thanksgiving song for Wrexham delivered from pest' (Gweithiau, vol. I, pp. 12-13); notes by Morgan Llwyd, including drafts of sermons, and a list of names (Ens. Roberts, Howell Thom., Ben. Rich., Walt. Thimble., Hugh Prich.) headed by a cancelled sentence - 'who should have the booke of my verse'; twenty-two stanzas beginning 'The lord is kind and merciful ...' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, being apparently a draft of a poem or of a series of poems by him; thirteen stanzas based on Canticles, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, ten roughly corresponding to those printed in E. Lewis Evans: Morgan Llwyd (Lerpwl, 1930), pp. 176-8, stanzas 11 and 12 corresponding respectively to 4 and 5 in Ellis: Gweithiau, vol. I, p. 10, and stanza 5 being possibly the basis of stanza 3 in Gweithiau; a transcript of the Canticle verses in another hand; a draft, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, of the poem 'Hanes rhyw Gymro' (Gweithiau, vol. I, pp. 57-60); and a copy of verse xxviii in Gweithiau, p. 61. c) Draft translations of psalms by Morgan Llwyd. The translations are incomplete, and many stanzas have been cancelled. There are verses translated from Psalms 19, 37, 44-46, 121-122, and 126.

The file comprises letters in which W. Llewelyn Williams discusses his researches and historical writings, his prospective applications for posts, his editorial and journalistic work, and his political ambitions. There are many references to columns in newspapers and to articles in journals, some of them edited by O. M. Edwards. Several letters refer to the vacancies in the parliamentary representation of Merionethshire following the premature death of Thomas Edward Ellis MP in April 1899 and the subsequent decision of O. M. Edwards to retire in 1900.

The file comprises letters discussing a public meeting at Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1899 (at which O. M. Edwards and William Abraham ['Mabon'] are to speak); plans for a public memorial to Thomas Edward Ellis during 1902; the writer's proposed drafting of a biography of Thomas Edward Ellis; various academic appointments; and literary matters.

The file includes letters from Annie J. Ellis (2), John Gwili Jenkins ('Gwili'), and R. D. Rowland ('Anthropos').

The file includes letters from J. Gwynoro Davies (1), 1884, Thomas Edward Ellis (2), 1884, D. Silvan Evans, 1885, and Sir Henry Jones, 1884.