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Two letters from Brian Slyfield, 1971-2, to Margaret Brunt Roberts, concerning his research work on their family; together with a photocopy of his article 'Fighting the good fight 100 years ago' concerning the Rev. Hugh Roberts, extracted from the Country Quest, March 1977; and an undated typescript account by Brian Slyfield, 1974, entitled 'Robert Roberts and his family', father of the Rev. Hugh Roberts, including a pedigree chart.

The Treasury, April 1959, including an article entitled 'The Reverend Hugh Roberts, the Missionary, and his wife', from Glad Tidings (Missionary Record of the Presbyterian Church of Wales), together with a photocopy of the Welsh version of the article published earlier in Y Cenhadwr, January 1959.

Short note, undated, about the family written by Margaret Brunt Roberts; together with the business card of John Brunt, 'Corn Factor', Wrexham.

The archive consists of various stray letters, 1913-1972, to members of the family of Rev. Hugh Roberts; and other miscellaneous family papers, 1877-1949.

Press cuttings including the announcement of the forthcoming marriage of the Rev. Hugh Roberts and Mary Brunt at Wrexham; an obituary of her father Richard Brunt, 1883; an undated account of her mother's funeral; and articles on Morgan Llwyd's part in the Civil War; and his Bible which the Rev. Hugh Roberts took with him to India and Brittany (see no. 5).

Postcard, 1946, from Sir W. Ll. Davies, Librarian at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, to Margaret Brunt-Roberts (grand-daughter of the Rev. Hugh Roberts) acknowledging the Latin Bible of Morgan Llwyd (now known as NLW MS 2080A) classed as a manuscript because of his autograph and other notes in his hand.

Photocopies of papers in the possession of Gwyneth Saunders Roberts, wife of Hugh Iorwerth Roberts, grandson of the Rev. Hugh Roberts, relating to the family, including a a declaration, 1895, by the Rev. Hugh Roberts, Llanerchymor near Holywell, concerning his son Hugh Lloyd Daniel Roberts, a teacher; a page from 'The family register of Hugh and Elizabeth Roberts of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Missionary Society'; a poem, 1911, 'My Wish and To My Best Friend', written by him; a letter, 1914, to his son Hugh Lloyd Daniel Roberts; genealogical notes on Morgan Llwyd (1619-59) who was an ancestor of the Rev. Hugh Roberts on his mother's side; and of a photograph of Hugh Roberts, 1877, and of his father Robert Roberts, undated.

Page taken from a family Bible listing some births from 1849, presumed to be the family of Sarah Jones (1884-1953) who married Richard Brunt Roberts (1883-1978), son of the Rev. Hugh Roberts.

Letter, 1923, in French, from H. Cozic, ?Quimper, together with two postcards, one from a Mr Humphrey to John Brunt, 1911, and the other to Miss M. B. Roberts (daughter of the Rev. Hugh Roberts) with no message.

Letter, 1918, from Sir John Ballinger, Librarian at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, to John Brunt (brother-in-law of the Rev. Hugh Roberts), following a visit to Holywell to examine the Rev. Hugh Roberts's books and to purchase some books from his collection; together with an undated incomplete page written by a son of the Rev. Hugh Roberts referring to the whereabouts of his father's books.

Letter, 1917, from John Brunt to 'Maggie' (Margaret Brunt Roberts, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Roberts) concerning the disposal of her father's books.