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A report of visitors to Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools in the Dolgellau District ('Dosbarth Dolgellau'), 1874.

Two small notebooks containing measurements of timber and accounts of the carriage of timber [by David Owens] in the Dolgellau district, 1826-1828; accounts with Richard Williams, Hengwrt, in respect of the carriage of timber, ferns, slates, from Aberllyfeni, etc., 1828; coffin and other accounts, 1823-1849; and a voucher, from Richard Pryce, draper, etc., Dolgellau, 1845.

Essays on 'Dyddiau Boreu Thomas Edward Ellis' by R. Roberts, Penrhyn, and on his associations with Y Goleuad by [E. W. Evans], and press cuttings relating to Thomas E. Ellis and to the matter of H. J. Ellis Nanney and his Merioneth tenants, 1888.

An exercise book containing texts of sermons preached at Sunday, monthly, anniversary, and Association meetings at Salem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Dolgellau, 5 January 1873-30 December 1883.

A diagrammatic survey of the town of Dolgellau, 1853, and an incomplete survey of lands in the parish of Tywyn, Merionethshire.

A rent receipt book in respect of property in the town of Ruthin, Denbighshire, 1858-1902.

A folder of loose leaves containing an 'Album of Eminent Welsh Preachers' or 'Pregethwyr Hen Gymanfaoedd Cymru' prepared for the press by Lewis Jones (Rhuddenfab), Ruthin, 1 July 1888. It includes articles on four denominational Association meetings, in the form of cuttings from Y Genedl, June, 1877, with some others taken from Y Dysgedydd and others in manuscript form, and short biographies of, and summaries of a sermon each by, the following forty-four preachers: William Williams, Wern; Christmas Evans; John Elias (o Fôn); Edward Jones, Bathafarn; D[avid] Morgan, Llanfyllin; John Williams, Newtown; David Charles [I], Carmarthen; Samuel Davies (Y Cyntaf); William Williams (Caledfryn); David Evans, Ffynnonhenri; Ebenezer Richard, Tregaron; Edward Anwyl; William Ambrose (Emrys); Thomas Rhys Davies, Glanwydden; John Jones, Tal-sarn; William Owen; Ishmael Jones, Rhos (from Y Dysgedydd, Tachwedd 1897, pp. 455-456); William Morgan, D.D., Holyhead; John Hughes, Liverpool; Rowland Hughes; Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan); John Prichard, D.D., Llangollen; Evan Harries, Merthyr; David Williams; William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog); Robert Ellis (Cynddelw); Henry Rees, Liverpool; Thomas Aubrey; John Roberts (J.R.), Conway; Daniel Davies (Y Dyn Dall), Swansea; Thomas Phillips, Hereford; Richard Bonnor; Thomas Rees, D.D., Swansea (manuscript, and from Y Dysgedydd, Mawrth 1897 pp. 125-128); John Jones (Mathetes); Edward Morgan, Dyffryn Ardudwy; William Davies, D.D.; Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) (manuscript, and from Y Dysgedydd, Ebrill 1897, pp. 166-167); Benjamin Williams, Maesberllan; Roger Edwards, Mold; W. Powell; Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Llanbryn-mair; Hugh Jones, D.D., Llangollen; Lewis Edwards, D.D., Bala; and Owen Owen. At the end are four verses entitled 'Y Tadau, Ple maent hwy?'. At the end is the following note: 'Sent the 11 Annibynwyr to Dr. Herber Evans Nov. 30th 1896 for Dysgedydd to be returned after publication. Complete for the Press'.

A notebook kept, [c. 1836], by a farmer or farm labourer in the Pontrhydfendigaid district of Cardiganshire to record sums of money paid or due to him for hedging and ditching and other work, and to record items of personal expenditure.

Pedigrees of the Vaughans of Hengwrt, near Dolgellau, and other families, some of the tables being in the hand of T. Mordaf Pierce.

A notebook of David Owens recording vestry accounts and payments of poor relief and allowances in the parish of [?Llanfachreth], 1826-1828, and accounts in respect of sheep and the carriage of timber, slates, lime, etc., in the Dolgellau district, 1829-1832.

Notes relating to the social and religious history of Dolgellau copied from various sources by T. Mordaf Pierce.

An agreement, 23 February, 1846, for the lease by Griffith Howell Vaughan, esq., of Rug, Merioneth, to Griffith Owen, of Vaner, parish of Llanelltyd; an indenture, 1 May, 1848, of apprenticeship for five years of Joseph Roberts of Rose Street, Ruthin, as master in Ruthin British School (Edward Jones of Brynhyfryd, esq., James Maurice of Well Street, esq., and John Jones of Market Place, Ruthin, managers, and John Edmunds of Ruthin, master) (a printed appendix contains extracts from minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, 21 December, 1846, and endorsed is an assignment of the original indenture to James Cromwell, successor to John Edmunds, 27 November, 1850); an unexecuted agreement for the lease from Hugh John Ellis Nanney of Gwynfryn, parish of Llanstymddwy, Caernarvonshire, esq., to David Evans of Cae Einion, Dolgelley, Merioneth, from year to year, commencing 25 March, 1887, of the farm called Cae Einion; a declaration signed by thirty-two students of Trevecca College, 11 November, 1889, denying statements made in Yr Haul 'concerning the intended secession of any student to the Church of England'; a galley proof of an article entitled 'Mr. Lloyd George, M.P., and the Goleuad', relating to Disestablishment and the bearing of Mr. Lloyd George's political action on Welsh Liberal policy, together with manuscript observations by Sir E. J. Reed, M.P. for Cardiff; a pedigree of the family of Jones of Llanio, Cardiganshire; miscelaneous poetry of Dolgelley interest (e.g. verses on the occasion of the marriage of Joseph Roberts, C.M., British School, and Miss Annie Jones, Penbryn, Dolgellau, 1860); a receipt for poor rate for the parish of Dolgelley, 1846; press cuttings, 1888, relating to the case of H. J. Ellis Nanney and his Merioneth tenants; Morris Charles Jones: Valle Crucis Abbey ... (London, 1866), bearing the name of R[ichard] Williams [Celynog, Newtown], 20 October, 1866; and 'Etholiad Cyffredinol 1900. Miss Meirion: Hanes ei Charwriaeth, ei Gwaeledd, ei Thranc, a'i Chynhebrwng. Gan Tudur Llwyd' (3rd edition).

Memorandum book, 1844-1857, of Griffith Owen, Vaner, Llanelltyd, near Dolgellau, containing miscellaneous memoranda, poetry, etc.

Lists of texts of sermons preached by T. Mordaf Pierce at China Street and Glanynant, Llanidloes, and elsewhere, 1894-1910; the names of persons baptised at Llanidloes, 1895-1910, and at Dolgellau, 1910; the names of persons received into full membership of China Street Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church, Llanidloes, 1895-1910, and of Salem Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church, Dolgellau, 1910.

Letters, 1913-1914, to T. Mordaf Pierce from Sir Thomas Marchant Williams, Edward Griffith, Dolgellau, Thomas Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth, and Edward D. Snyder, Harvard University, relating to Pierce’s essay on William Owen[-Pughe] (see NLW MS 6184D).

Account book, 1842-1843, kept by Griffith Owen, Vaner, Llanelltyd, near Dolgellau, recording details of haulage and agricultural work, including sums owing to him for cartage of hay, gravel, timber, etc., for ploughing and other work, and for the sale of agricultural stock and produce, and disbursements made by him.

'Llyfr Miss Catherine Jones Post Office Clynnog 1861', being a notebook containing a pedigree showing the descendants of Gruffydd Humphrey, Llangybi, Caernarvonshire, one of them being Evan Owen, who was a Calvinistic Methodist preacher at Talysarn in 1861, together with miscellaneous poems by Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd).

Notebooks containing particulars of annual rents paid, with receipts, in respect of Faner, Llanelltyd, 1813-1853, Derwas, Dolgellau, 1858-1878, Ty'n Twll, [?Dolgellau], 1847-1858, and Moelisbri, Llanelltyd, 1853-1877.

Letters to Griffith Owen, Vaner, Llanelltyd, near Dolgellau, E. W. Evans, and others in the Dolgellau district, from John and Margred Owen, Baraboo, Wisconsin, 1847; William and Margaret Bebb and William G. Bebb, Vanwert, Ohio, 1850; Edward [?], Miliken’s Bend, Louisiana, 1863; J. F. Williams, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1877; T. Ll. Williams, Racine, 1907; and John Gwylym Owen, Portage, 1907; together with photographs of the Caledonia Welsh church and Caledonia home-coming, 1907, etc.

An essay entitled 'Hanes "Millsiaid Llanidloes" cyn dechrau y ganrif bresennol', written by T. Mordaf Pierce for an eisteddfod at Llanidloes, 1899.