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Typewritten copies of thirteen letters described in an accompanying typescript note as 'Sypyn o hen lythyrau a gafwyd ymysg papyrau y Parch. John Foulkes, Ruthyn (1802-1881)'. They include eight letters addressed to the said Reverend John Foulkes [Calvinistic Methodist minister] at Abergele, Bettws Abergele, Liverpool, and Ruthin, by [the Reverend] James Hughes, Deptford, 1832 (negotiations with Messrs. Westley and Davis, London, with regard to the publishing in Y Drysorfa of portraits of Calvinistic Methodist ministers which had appeared in the Evangelical Magazine, the writer's expository edition of the [New] Testament), [the Reverend] Rich[ard] Humphreys, Dyffryn, 1849 (the collecting of names of subscribers for recipient's [forthcoming] book [? Cyfarwyddwr Teuluaidd . . . (Aberystwyth, 1850), being a translation of the Reverend John Angell James: Family Monitor]), Thomas Jones, Amlwch, 1833 (religious and moral reflections, the usefulness of secular learning to preachers), [the Reverend] John Parry, Caerlleon, 1845 (personal), [the Reverend] Moses Parry, Dinbych, 1833 (personal, religious reflections, C.M. denominational activity), [the Reverend] H[enry] Rees, Liverpool, [18]34 (advice to recipient on the achieving of happiness in married life), [the Reverend] W[ illiam] Rees ['Gwilym Hiraethog'], Liverpool, [18]74 (acknowledging receipt of a letter of condolence ? on the death of his wife), and [the Reverend] Ebenezer Richard, Tregaron, 1837 (an unspecified matter to be referred to the Spring [C.M.] Association meetings at Denbigh and Aberystwyth); a letter from [the Reverend] Henry Rees [Liverpool], by inference to the said John Foulkes, 1867 (personal, preaching engagements); and letters from [the Reverend] John Elias, Fron [Llangefni], to [ ], 1833 (personal, religious exhortations), [the Reverend] Richard Lloyd, Beaumaris, to [ ], 1832 (testimony as to the character and church membership of William Roberts), [the Reverend] W[illiam] Morris, Ty Ddewi, to [ ], 1844 (preaching engagements), and [the Reverend Henry Rees] to [ ], [1848] (the death of Thomas Lloyd).

Sixteen holograph letters, some imperfect, 1802-1815, to or from persons connected with the Calvinistic Methodist movement in the early nineteenth century. They deal mainly with Methodist activities (monthly meetings, Association meetings, etc.), and include letters from [the Reverend] John Davies, Nantglun [co. Denbigh], to Mr. Ellis, Cloth Fair, London, 1806 ( personal, religious reflections, general comments on the state of the [ Calvinistic Methodist] movement), and D. Ellis, Wood Street, London (?the same as the recipient of the preceding letter), 1814 (personal, arrangements for the writer to visit London, religious activity in the writer’s own and neighbouring counties); John Elias [‘o Fôn’, as in the preceding manuscript] to the Calvinistic Methodist Church, London, 1808 ( the results of discussions at the Association meeting held at Machynlleth concerning cases where circumstances kept husbands apart from their wives for extensive periods), and [ ],1810 (2) (personal, arrangements for the writer to visit London, matters discussed at Association meetings); Dafydd Ellis, London, to J[oh]n Ellis, 1802 (religious reflections, troubles affecting the London [C.M.] Society), and Edw[ar]d and D. Peters of Caergwrley, at Mr. Rich[ar]d Jones, Wrexham, 1803 (religious reflections); John Hughes, Pont Robert ap Oliver [co. Montgomery], to ‘ Anwyl gyfeillion’ (personal, discussions at C.M. monthly meetings in Montgomeryshire regarding the attitude of parents towards their children in the matter of church membership and baptism), and Mr. Ellis (personal, a request for news, exhortations) (both these letters are on the same double sheet addressed, October 1808, to Mr. Ellis, London); Mary Hughes, Sarn, to her husband James Hughes, at Mr. David Ellis, London, 1809 ( personal, a monthly meeting held at Llithfaen, another to be held at Llanberis, local news) (Also on the same sheet is a note from J[oh]n Jones, Pen y bryn, Edeyrn, to recipient. This appears to be in the same hand as Mary Hughes’s letter); Robert Hughes, Llanfwrog [co. Anglesey], to Rice Jones, at Mr. Elis, London, 1811 (advising recipient to return from London, news of local people, the [C.M.] chapel being built at Llanfwrog, a request for books); Dan[ie]l Jones, Liverpool, to James Hughes, at Mr. David Ellis, London, 1809 (the favourable news of the [C.M.] cause in London, an account of the services and meetings being held every week in the [C.M.] chapels in Liverpool) (on the same sheet is an exhortation to recipient to beware of slanderers); Thomas Jones, Caerfyrddin, to Mr. Ellis, London, 1810-11 (3) (personal, details of proceedings at the Association meeting at Llangeitho in 1810, incorporating reports to the brethren of the [C.M.] churches or societies at Wilderness Row, Y Borrough, Deptford, and Woolwich, on the Association meetings at Swansea in November 1810 and at Llandilo in August 1811, including an account of the ordination of ministers at the latter); and [the Reverend] Eben[eze]r Morrice, Blanywern [co. Cardigan], to David Ellis, London, 1815 (personal, arrangements for sending a minister to London, a suggestion that someone from the London church be ordained, an account of an Association meeting [ at Llangeitho]), and W[illia]m Howells, London, 1812 (personal, ? arrangements for a visit to London).

Miscellaneous data relating mainly to Calvinistic Methodist preaching activity, etc., in Abergele and elsewhere in North Wales, 1813-1824. Items relating to C.M. preachers and meetings include extracts from a minute book of church meetings ('Llyfr Cofnodau Cyfarfodydd Eglwysig') held in Abergele, 1819-1821, and from minute books of six-weekly meetings of Sunday schools ('Llyfrau Cofnodau Cyfarfodydd Ysgolion') held in the Abergele district, 1817-1824; a list, in chronological order, of preachers who had preached in Abergele and elsewhere in North Wales (including monthly or annual meetings in Bala, Dinbych, Henllan, Llanrwst, etc.), 1813-1817, with the texts of their sermons; an alphabetical list of preachers who had preached in Abergele, 1813-1817, with the dates of each engagement and the texts of the sermons; a list, under place names, of preachers who had preached in the Abergele district and elsewhere in North Wales (including Association meetings in Bala, Conwy, Dinbych, and Llanrwst), 1813-1817, with the texts of their sermons; and notes of sermons preached in Abergele, 1813-1815, including some by [the Reverend] John Elias ['o Fôn']. Also included are short lists of Anglican, Baptist, Independent, and Wesleyan ministers or preachers who had preached in Abergele, Moelfra, etc., 1814- 1817.