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Manuscripts and papers, [1725x1939], from the library of the Rev. H. Jones Davies, although most of the material is not in his hand. The collection includes correspondence of Humphrey Jones Davies and others; material of or relating to Sir Henry Lewis and the Rev. John Phillips, Bangor, and notebooks and sermons of the Rev. Christmas Evans; Welsh poetry transcribed by Isaac Foulkes; deeds, documents and correspondence of mainly Denbighshire and Merioneth interest; and notes, sermons, essays, etc.

Notes relating to primary, secondary, and university education, with several references to education in Wales, copied from various sources between 1903 and 1923 by Sir Henry Lewis, Bangor.

Notes written by Sir Henry Lewis after seeing Professor Sir Henry Jones at Abersoch.

Papers relating to a visit paid in 1882 by Thomas Palestina Lewis, M.P., father of Sir Henry Lewis, to the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist mission field in North East India. They include messages from members of the Presbyterian Church in Shillong to members of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, and 'Anerchiad' in verse 'i Thomas Lewis Esqr. o Langefni, Môn, ar ei ymweliad a Khassia 1882', written by Robert Evans, and 'Rhestr o'r pethau a anfonwyd i Mr. Lewis o Shangpoong, ynghyd a sylw byr ar bob un', this also written by Robert Evans.

Two letters, 1882, from T. Jerman Jones, Calvinistic Methodist missionary in Shillong, India, to Thomas Palestina Lewis after the visit paid by the latter to the mission field, together with notes, in another hand, on certain Khasi rites and customs.

A transcript, mainly in the hand of H. Jones Davies, of autobiographical notes written by Sir Henry Lewis.

Sermons by John Phillips, Bangor.

Sermons, preceded by a list of Welsh and English theological works.

Sermons and lectures written by Evan Herber Evans, Congregational minister, and principal of the Congregational College, Bangor.

A copy of The New Testament ... (Cambridge, 1881), with several manuscript additions written by John B. Allanson, Caernarvon, who instituted there a new church known as 'The Ark of the Covenant or the Church of the Son of Man in Carnarvon'.

Letters, 1837-1932, the correspondents including E. D. Bryan, Robert Bryan, John Davies (Bontddu), Principal Ellis Edwards, Dr. Samuel Evans (Johannesburg), D. Silvan Evans, Edward Griffiths (Meifod), O. G. Owen ('Alafon'), and John Phillips (Bangor).

An anonymous poem, 'Bywyd a Marwolaeth Yr Hen Berson', probably written before the passing of the Welsh Church Act of 1914.

A holograph letter addressed to the Rev[erend] W[illiam] M[orris] Tudor [Calvinistic Methodist minister, Crewe], at the Royal Infirmary, Chester, by G. Parry Williams, Mold, 1926 (personal, the quest for a manse by recipient's church in Crewe, scriptural exhortations to recipient to be of good cheer in his illness); four holograph or autograph letters to 'Dear Mr. Tudor', 'My Dear Tudor', and 'My Dear Tu' [all, by inference, to the recipient of the preceding letter], from J. Young Evans, Aberystwyth, [19]22 (good wishes for a successful year at Oxford [University], a preaching engagement by recipient in the neighbourhood of Aberystwyth), 'Moi' and E. H. [by inference the same person], Sylhet, Assam, and Darjeeling, 1924-1925 ( 2) (personal, the writer's continuous low fever, the terrific heat in Calcutta, the writer's study of Bengali, a request for information re new publications, a stay in Kuala Lumpur, mention of a contemporary, J. R. Williams, in India, the writer's engagement to Miss Maud Jones of Sylhet, a wonderful sunrise at Darjeeling, a visit by Gandhi to the language school [at Darjeeling]), and A. C. Underwood, Yeadon, Leeds, 1920 ( recipient's proposed research thesis, ? on the Welsh revival from the standpoint of religious psychology, the writer's work on conversion in all religions, suggested reading for recipient's researches); and three holograph letters to Mrs. [ ] Tudor [mother of the recipient of the preceding letters], from John Davies, Llanymddyfri, the Rev[erend] Owen Ellis, Llanuwchllyn, and R. R. Williams, Chester, 1926 (condolences on the death of her son, the aforementioned Reverend W. M. Tudor).

Typescript copies of three addresses to children based upon phrases from Scripture - 'An army with banners' (Song of Solomon [6, 4]), 'Endure hardness' (2 Tim[othy, 2, 3]), and 'They shall mount up' (Is[aiah], 40, 31 ). Two of the addresses bear the signature of Watcyn M. Price.

A poster announcing an eisteddfod to be held on board the R.M.S. Orduna, 23 August 1934.

A copy of 'Awdl er coffadwriaeth am y diweddar Goronwy Owain' composed by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), with a letter from J. O. WIlliams ('Pedrog'), Liverpool, to G. J. Williams, Birmingham.

A notebook kept by Christmas Evans, Baptist minister. Among the contents are sermons and other notes, lists of places to which he journeyed to preach, and accounts, including 'Yn 1820 Count y Casgliad at Ty Cyfarfod Llangefni yn Sir Fon at draul o tri chant a hanner o bynau glas a choch ...'

Papers relating to the career and ancestry of Sir Henry Lewis, including a copy of the will of Henry Hughes, rector of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, proved July 16, 1828.

Dated entries relating to Bangor, compiled and written by Sir Henry Lewis.

A letter, 1880, from Sir Henry Lewis, at Cincinnati, to his parents; letters, 1881-1889, to Thomas Palestina Lewis from Josiah Thomas, Liverpool, secretary of the Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Missionary Society, and Griffith Griffiths, Shillong, India; and letters, 1903-1932, to Sir Henry Lewis from Thomas Owen, Aberystwyth, (Mrs.) M. C. Hughes, Bangor, D. O'Brien Owen, Caernarvon, Evan Jones, Caernarvon, W. Prydderch Williams, London, J. Matthews, Amlwch, and William Richards, Llandegfan.