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Nineteen holograph letters from Daniel Jones and two letters from the said Daniel Jones and his wife Lydia, from Wrexham, to their son Thomas Jones in Chester, 1833-1844 (personal and family news, the possibility of recipient emigrating to America (1833), his inclination to become a missionary (1836-1837), Daniel Jones's conversations with the Reverend Geo[rge] Cunliffe [vicar of Wrexham] and the Reverend [?John Henry Montague] Luxmoore [?rector of Marchwiel] concerning recipient's possible entry into the missionary field, mention of the Reverend [Henry] Raikes, chancellor [of Chester Cathedral, 1830-1854], in connection therewith, a Church Missionary Society meeting held at Wrexham, February 1837, figures relating to the temperance movement in North Wales (1837), comments on recipient's intention of setting up in business on his own, the title to a small estate at Croeswian, parish of Caerwys [co. Flint], the local trade in butter (1841), comments on the occupation of 'traveller ', a request to recipient to interest himself 'in aiding the errecting of an immense Building in this town [Wrexham] to educate about 600 Children', religious reflections and exhortations, advocacy of the temperance movement). (On the dorse of letter No. 19, 3 April 1844, is a note to recipient from his brother W[illiam]).

Forty-four holograph letters, 1842-1855 and undated, from [the Reverend] Edw[ ar]d Morgan [vicar of Syston, 1814-1869, and of Ratcliffe on the Wreak, 1818- 1867, both in co. Leicester], from Aberffraw (I), Bangor (I), Cheltenham (I), Pyle [co. Glamorgan] (I), and Syston. The names of the addressees are not ascertainable but the contents of the letters indicate that the majority were written to one person, possibly Thomas Jones of Chester, the recipient of the letters in NLW MS 12757C. Several of the letters contain advice to recipient with regard to preparatory studies, initial steps to be taken, etc., in connection with a desire he had expressed of offering himself as a candidate for Holy Orders. The college at St. Bees, the school at Cowbridge, the Mechanics' Institute, Liverpool, and St. David's College, Lampeter, are mentioned in this context. There are also numerous references to the biographies or selections of the letters of the Calvinistic Methodist clerics or ministers [Thomas] Charles, [John] Elias, Howell Harris, [David] Jones, Llangan, [Daniel] Rowland, and W[illia]m Williams, Pantycelyn, which the writer was preparing for publication or had already published. The letters also refer to correspondence of [the Reverend] Jo[hn] Humphreys [C.M. minister] in the writer's possession, the need to tell Mr. H. Griffith to proceed with a Welsh memoir of [John] Elias, the death of recipient's father, the possibility of recipient writing a memoir of his father and of the aforementioned [John] Humphreys, the writer's willingness to help recipient with his 'intended Periodical', Thomas Parry's account [Cofiant] of [the Reverend John] Davies [C.M. minister] of Nantglyn, contacting the Reverend E. Evans [? Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd')], 'Jones the poet at Mold' [? the Reverend Thomas Jones ('Glan Alun')], and the Reverend W[illiam] Rees ['Gwilym Hiraethog'], with regard to William Williams, Pantycelyn, an attack on the writer's edition of the letters of [John] Elias ? by [William Williams] 'Caledfrin' (sic) in the Carnarvon Herald, a seminary for young ladies kept in Chester by Mrs. Williams 'wife of a preacher there', a subscription due from Chancellor [Henry] Raikes of Chester [Cathedral] for a copy of the biography of Howel Harris, and an article on the Reverend S[imon] Lloyd [ Methodist cleric] which the writer was preparing.

Eighteen holograph letters from Thomas Glynne Jones from Mostyn [co. Flint ], to Thomas Jones (in sixteen instances identified as the writer's nephew) in Chester, 1843-1859 (personal and family affairs, the writer's ? drapery and grocery business, his loss of custom owing to the operation of the ' truck system' (1843), his difficulty in obtaining payment for goods from workers in the area, including Mr. Mostyn's estate and colliery workers, owing to the fact that they were not receiving their wages regularly, comments and suggestions with regard to recipient's inclination to take Anglican orders, mention of help given by the writer and Mr. Richards to John Blackwell ['Alun'] to enable him to enter Jesus College, Oxford, a note on Blackwell's career, mention of [the Reverend Richard] Briscoe, vicar [of Whitford, co. Flint, 1839-1865], and his Pusseyite tendencies, the setting up of a Sunday school and meetings [by the Calvinistic Methodists] at Ffynon Groyw, two miles from Mostyn, in 1848, and subsequent efforts by the writer to collect funds for the purchase of land and the erection of a chapel, schoolhouse, etc., there, an exhortation to recipient to practise family worship in his home).