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A copy of a certificate relating to the ordination, 1688, of Daniel Phillips, who 'was educated for the ministry with Mr. Stephen Hughes an ancient minister liveing in the towne of Swanzey ... who dyed in the year 1687'; a letter, 2 September 1715, from 'Dan. Phillipes', endorsed 'a Letter of Mr. Dan Phillips Minister in Carnarvonshire'; letters to John Phillips, Kingsley, Cheshire, son of Daniel Phillips, from Timothy Quarrell, Llanfyllin, 1755, his mother, Anne Thomas, his father-in-law, John Thomas, Gwynfrin, Caernarvonshire, and his sister Dorothy; notes by Thomas Rees, Swansea on the families of Phillips and Thomas; a note relating to Lewis Phillips, Cilrhyd, and his wife, Margaret; and a copy of a sheet, probably printed in 1820, relating to the 'Case of the Protestant Dissenting Church at Pwllheli ...'.

Glamorgan collectanea of William Davies, Cringell, near Neath, classical scholar and historian (see The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, Vol. II, July 1916). The material includes Queries proposed [by William Davies] to the nobility gentry and clergy of Glamorganshire, with a view to illustrate the history of that county; two draft proposals for publishing the history of Glamorganshire, the second of them printed at Swansea in 1803, together with a prospectus and request for subscribers dated 19 July 1810; two letters, 20 September 1823 and 25 October 1823, from David Davis, Unitarian minister, Neath (son of David Davis, Castell Hywel) to John Montgomery Traherne giving the writer's reason for buying the manuscripts of William Davies and informing Traherne that if Thomas Rees would not prepare the material for publication Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') would be asked to do so.

Letters, mainly to J. T. Jones about his various publications, the correspondents including H. P. Bowen (Brentwood), E. W. Davies (Fort Yale), John Davies (Mynyddbach), Titus Davies (Newark, Ohio), Edward Edwards ('Pencerdd Ceredigion'), Richard Ffoulkes Edwards ('Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd'), Christmas Evans, James Evans (Newcastle, New South Wales), Griffith Harris (Carmarthen), David Howell (Newcastle, New South Wales), David Lloyd Isaac, John James (Welsh School, Gray's Inn Road, London), J. R. Jenkins (Pittsburgh, U.S.A.), Benjamin Jones (Pwllheli), Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'), John Jones ('Humilis'), John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), Thomas Jones (music master, Nannerch), William Ellis Jones ('Cawrdaf'), Lewis William Lewis ('Llew Llwyfo'), Jonathan Morgan (Hong Kong), Alfred Ollivant (bishop of Llandaff), Sir Hugh Owen, Lewis Powell (Cardiff), Thomas Rees (Swansea), Henry Richard, John Roberts ('J. R.'), Elijah Waring and Owen Williams (Waunfawr); drafts of letters by J. T. Jones; family correspondence, including letters to and from his wife and from members of her family; etc.

A holograph letter from Ric[hard] Cobden to [Joseph] Sturge, 1849 (the progress of the peace movement, a tribute to Henry Richard); correspondence, 1872-8, relating to the proposed publication by the Cobden Club of the letters of Richard Cobden, including holograph letters to Henry Richard from Thos. Thomasson; Mrs Catherine Anne Cobden; Thomas B. Potter; [Sir] Louis Mallet; Henry Ashworth; [Sir] Thomas Bazley; [Sir] Edward Baines; C[harles] Cobden; W. Cowper Temple; and others; and copies of correspondence between Mrs. Catherine Anne Cobden, Thos. Thomasson, Henry Richard, and others; and holograph letters to Henry Richard from John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 1878 (the writer's proposed biography of Richard Cobden; A. J. Mundella, 1882; J[ohn] Thomas, Congregational minister, Liverpool, 1887 (Samuel Morley's contribution to Congregational and other causes in Wales, the writer's proposed biography of the Reverend Thomas Rees, Swansea); and others. Bound with the letters is an offprint of an article by the donor, the Reverend H. R. Evans, M.C., M.A., on 'Henry Richard and Cobden's Letters', published in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1958, pp. 54-81.

Fifty-five holograph and autograph letters and postcards (surnames P-W), 1879-1938, addressed to the Rev. C. Tawelfryn Thomas. Frequent references to the Rev. Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd) in the correspondence relate mostly to Thomas's biography, Cofiant Darluniadol Mewn Rhyddiaeth a Chân i'r Diweddar Barch. Evan Jones... (Dolgellau, 1909).
The correspondents are [the Rev.] B[enjamin] Phillips, Temple Bar, Talsarn, [18]98 (information re the Rev. M[oses] Rees [1796-1856, Congregational minister]); Tho[ma]s Price, Ffaldybrenin, Llandeilo, 1886 (the MSS. of Mr. Hughes, Groeswen); [the Rev. Evan Rees] (Dyfed), Cardiff, 1881-[19]15 (3) (a preaching engagement, an enquiry re verses by [the Rev. William Williams] 'yr hen Bantycelyn', the death of [William Williams] (Ap Caledfryn) in 1915); [the Rev. Jonathan] Machreth [Rees], Penygroes and London, 1889-1903 (3) (personal, a meeting at Rhyl ? relating to the Independent College, Bala (1889), preaching engagements, an offer to lecture at Y Groeswen, mention of ? ministerial acquaintances); [Sarah Jane Rees] (Cranogwen), Llangranog, [19]08 (personal); [the Rev.] Thomas Rees, Abertawy, 1882 (statistics of membership of [Congregational] churches in Wales); [Principal] T[homas] Rees, Bala-Bangor Independent College, Bangor, 1912-15 (2) (collections for the college); [the Rev.] J. Alun Roberts, Carnarvon and Trefriw, 1882 (4) (preaching engagements); J[oh]n H. Roberts, Casnewydd ar Wysg, [19]07 (a lecture by recipient); [the Rev.] Ll[oyd] B[ryniog] Roberts, Caernarfon, 1888 (personal, news of acquaintances); [the Rev. Richard] Gwylfa [Roberts], Porthdinorwic, 1896 (personal, preaching engagements); Principal T[homas] F[rancis] Roberts, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1906-07 (2) (personal); [Robert David Rowland] (Anthropos), Caernarfon, 1880 (personal); [the Rev.] E[dward] Stephen [Tanymarian], [18]82-4 (3) (preaching engagements, enclosing an englyn, comments on an unspecified book, the publication of sermons, etc.); Alfred Thomas, London, 1908 (2) (a search for copies of the periodicals The Standard of Freedom and The Pathway, an article or chapter (in English) the writer was contributing to recipient's proposed biography of Ieuan Gwynedd); Alfred Thomas [MP for East Glamorganshire, aft. baron Pontypridd], London, 1901 (wishing recipient luck in a School Board election, recipient's aid to the writer in his first parliamentary election); [Sir] D[aniel] Lleufer Thomas, Whitchurch and Swansea, 1932-5 (2) (personal, material given by recipient to the [National] Library [of Wales], suggestions re more such material); Dewi Thomas, Torquay, [19]32 (personal, forwarding a copy of [James] Rendel Harris, The Guiding Hand of God); [Edward Thomas] (Cochfarf), [undated] (extracts from George Eyre Evans, Cardiganshire… its Antiquities… [(Aberystwyth, 1903)] relating to Zoar Congregational Church, Llanbadarn, and [the Rev.] Azariah Shadrach [1774-1844, Congregational minister]); [the Rev.] John Thomas, Merthyr, 1890 (preaching engagements); [the Rev.] J[ohn] Evelyn Thomas, Bournemouth, [190]9 (personal, recipient's book on Ieuan Gwynedd, reference to 'the Disestab[lishment] question'); Tho[ma]s Thomas, Pontypridd, 1879 (3) (preparations for ordaining recipient as minister [of Groes Wen and associated Congregational Churches], news of the churches, comments on the controversy relating to the Independent College, Bala); Thomas Thomas [?the same as in the preceding letters], Trecynon, 1904-05 (3) (personal, the religious revival in Trecynon, a proposed visit to Groes Wen by revivalists from Trecynon); D. J. Williams, County School, Bethesda, [19]38 (the writer's attempt to compile a list of former students of Bala-Bangor [Independent College]); [Eliseus Williams] (Eifion Wyn), Porthmadog, [18]97-[19]08 and [undated] (7) (personal, preaching engagements, enclosing a draft of six stanzas in memory of Ieuan [Gwynedd]); [the Rev.] J[ohn] J[ames] Williams, Pentre, [undated] (enclosing englynion [relating to Ieuan Gwynedd]); [the Rev. John Owen Williams] (Pedrog), Liverpool, 1894 (inclination not to accept a call to Tabernacle [Congregational] Church, Ynysybwl); [the Rev. Rowland Williams] (Hwfa Môn), Bryn Hwfa, 1885 (a ?lecturing engagement at Y Groeswen); [the Rev. Watkin Hezekiah Williams] (Watcyn Wyn), Ammanford, 1896-1904 (2) (personal, a preaching engagement, enclosing englynion to the graveyard at Groes Wen (1896), and four stanzas (missing) composed in seeing a certain portrait of Ieuan Gwynedd); W[illiam] Williams, Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council, Cardiff, 1908 (information relating to Ieuan Gwynedd); and J. Wilson [London], 1893 (Joseph Chamberlain's attitude to the [Welsh Church] Suspensory Bill).

A composite volume containing a transcript, with copious annotations, by William Thomas, Congregational minister, Bwlchnewydd, near Carmarthen, of the register of Pant-teg Congregational Church, Abergwili, 1690-1813. The transcript was completed on 3 October 1860. The volume also includes a letter from Wm. Thomas, Bwlchnewydd, to the Reverend T[homas] Rees, Ind[ependent] minister, Beaufort [aft. of Swansea, author of History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales, etc.], 1860 (enclosing the transcript with comments, references to James Owen's books on baptism and to the Cilgwyn church register); transcripts, made 21-24 November 1871, of a lease of the chapel, 1751, and of articles of agreement, 1728, relating to the estate of Thomas Bowen of the parish of Newchurch, a trustee of the church; and extracts, 1764-1782, taken in 1875 from the parish register of Llanegwad (burials of Christmas Samuel, minister of Pant-teg, 1764, and David Richards, curate of Llanegwad, 1782). At the end, in the hand of Alcwyn C. Evans, are a brief list of contents of, and an index to, the Golden Grove Books of Pedigrees.

Papers and letters relating to the Henllan manuscripts, which includes information about their previous history. They include two letters, 1860, from John Morris, Brecon to Mrs Gentle Brown, Seaforth, grand-daughter of Thomas Morgan; two letters, 1869, from Thomas Rees, Swansea to W[alter] D[avid] Jeremy, London; a letter, 1900, from Mrs G. L. Nussey, Ilkeley, great-grand-daughter of Thomas Morgan, to Walter J[enkin] Evans, Carmarthen; and extracts from and notes on the Thomas Morgan manuscripts made by Walter J[enkin] Evans in 1901 when they were in his possession.

'The Welshman's Candle', being holograph translations by J. Lloyd James ('Clwydwenfro') from Rhys Prichard: Canwyll y Cymru . . . (London, 1646). Some of the translations are signed at March during the period 1883-1887, and are written on the dorse or blank spaces of printed circulars, etc., of the National Education League, 1873 and undated, the Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday, 1882, and the London Missionary Society, undated, a printed appeal on behalf of a New Congregational College for Wales, 1862, a printed programme of a competitive literary meeting at Beulah [Congregational Chapel], Whitchurch, near Cardiff, 1867, a printed leaflet of hymns to be sung at the anniversary of Ivor Chapel Sabbath School [at Dowlais], 1870, a printed prospectus of Thomas Nicholas: The Pedigree of the English People (5th ed., 187[ ]), a printed undated appeal on behalf of a testimonial to the Reverend Thomas Rees, D.D., Swansea, etc.