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A collection of family papers relating to the Richard family of Tregaron. The collection includes letters from the Reverend Ebenezer Richard addressed to members of his family, together with letters from his son, the Reverend Henry Richard, also mainly addressed to family members.
The collection also contains a table in the hand of Ebenezer Richard, dated 5 December 1816, showing dates of circuit journeys to be undertaken by Calvinistic Methodist ministers in Cardiganshire during 1817; a petition, dated [1878], addressed to W. E. Gladstone, Prime Minister, from Henry Richard and others, and enclosing papers, dated 1878, relating to the Abersychan Relief Committee; and a printed address by Henry Richard directed to the electorate of Merthyr Tydfil, Vaynor and Aberdare.

A volume containing a holograph translation made in 1810 by the Reverend Ebenezer Richard (1781-1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Tregaron, etc., of an unknown Welsh treatise written in support of the Ordination movement. The title-page reads: 'The Complaint of the Calvinistic Methodists in Wales On account of their being destitute of the Ordinances of Christ in his Churches, viz. Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Translated from the Ancient British 1810'. According to the dedicatory letter, the translation was undertaken at the request of Ebenezer Richard's friend and patron, Captain James Bowen of Cardigan and subsequently of Llwyn-gwair, Pembrokeshire.