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An address on 'Welsh Castles'.

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.

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

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

Sermons largely by, and in the hand of, John Davies. Such of the sermons as are dated belong to the period 1859-1915 and were delivered at Pandy and Forest Coalpit, Pen-y-clawdd, Tredegar, Abercarn, Llanover, Pontnewynydd, Brecon, Dowlais, Pentre (Rhondda), etc. Dispersed among the sermons are several addresses and speeches by, or in the hand of, John Davies, including on 'Y Gronfa Gynhaliaethol' [Calvinistic Methodist Sustentation Fund]; 'Dewi Sant'; and at Gorwydd in Llangamarch on the occasion of the tercentenary of the death of John Penry, 29 May, 1893 (NLW MS 11356A); on the history of Llanfapley Congregational Church, delivered on 26 June, 1884, and at the centenary of the foundation, 31 August, 1910; and on the history of Castle Street Congregational Church, Abergavenny (NLW MS 11365A); a petition to [the Monmouthshire County Council], undated, to take over a length of road between Pontrilas and Pandy [railway] stations (NLW MS 11369A)); on laying the foundation stone of a new [Calvinistic Methodist] chapel at Llanbedr [Brecknockshire], 11 April, 1884; and on Thomas Charles of Bala (NLW MS 11375A); and on Howel[l] Harris [of Trevecka] (NLW MS 11376A). NLW MS 11360A contains reminiscences (6 pp.) by W[illiam] Samlet Williams of his pastorate (1876-1880) of Felindre, Llys-wen, and Felin-newydd Calvinistic Methodist churches in Brecknockshire.

A paper on 'The Romance of Foreign Missions', read [by Gladys Davies, Pandy] to the Congregational Church, Abergavenny, 1914.

An essay on the history of religion in Abergavenny.

A collection of press cuttings largely of personal, Calvinistic Methodist, and Monmouthshire interest. Also included in the group are a printed circular announcing a proposed testimonial to John Davies [1901], and a printed address to William Griffiths, J. P., Colwinstone, Newport, by the Monmouthshire [Calvinistic Methodist] Monthly Meeting, [c. 1903].

Papers, [1842x1936], of or from the library of John Davies, pastor of Pandy and Forest Coalpit Calvinistic Methodist churches, both in Monmouthshire. The collection largely comprises material of Monmouthshire and Calvinistic Methodist interest and includes autograph sermons, diaries, correspondence and miscellaneous notebooks of John Davies.

A volume originally used to record membership of the Pandy Medical Aid Society, 1887-1888. The list of members is largely in the autograph of John Davies, and is followed by an address (48 pp.), also in his hand, on 'Billy Bray' [William Bray, Cornish miner and preacher].

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.

'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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.