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Miscellanea relating mainly to Calvinistic Methodist affairs in Llanidloes and Dolgellau, with autograph letters from Lewis Edwards, Bala, and Richard Bennett.

Letters, 1916-1925, from Richard Bennett to D. C. Lloyd-Owen, mainly relating to genealogical matters.

Some forty-eight letters, some incomplete, 1920-1925, to D. C. Lloyd-Owen from Richard Bennett, Bangor and Caersws, concerning mostly Montgomeryshire genealogy (ff. 1-91), together with related genealogical papers (ff. 92-150).
The papers include a list of wills and administrations for 1703-1710 from the Deaneries of Estimaner [and Tal-y-bont], Merionethshire (ff. 92-94); typescript and manuscript extracts from, and notes on, Montgomeryshire wills, 1570-1730 (ff. 95-115, 118-125, 136-138), and Merionethshire wills, 1746-1756 (ff. 148-150); manuscript extracts from Chancery proceedings, (temp. Elizabeth I) (ff. 133-135); and a list of Montgomeryshire wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1680-1708 (ff. 139-142). The letters include references to notable Montgomeryshire families (ff. 1-6, 9-11, 23, 33, 43, 46, 55-58, 66-69, 129-131) and to the Peniarth (ff. 18, 25, 39, 81, 83, 127-128), Rhiwgriafol (f. 79) and Cwmcarnedd (f. 87) deeds.

Llythyrau Richard Bennett (1860-1937) at y Parch. J. D. Jones, Gellifor (1868-1929); ynghyd â chopïau o ddau lyfr gan Bennett ar Fethodistiaeth, a chyfrol goffa iddo.

Tri llythyr, 1928-1932, oddi wrth Richard Bennett, Caersws, at Ifor Ceredig Jones, Aberystwyth, yn trafod materion personol yn bennaf. = Three letters, 1928-1932, from Richard Bennett, Caersws, to Ifor Ceredig Jones, Aberystwyth, mainly concerning personal matters.
Mae'r llythyrau yn cyfeirio at farwolaeth y Parch. J. D. Jones, Gellifor, tad I. C. Jones (f. 53), a'r gradd MA a roddwyd i Bennett gan Brifysgol Cymru ym 1932 (f. 54). = The letters refer to the death of the Rev. J. D. Jones, Gellifor, I. C. Jones's father (f. 53), and to the honorary MA awarded to Bennett by the University of Wales in 1932 (f. 54).

Four letters in the hand of Richard Bennett, 1918-1928, together with one in the hand of his father Edward Bennett, 1 January 1863, and a letter to Alun Jones Hughes from Cecil Vaughan Owen, 1981; together with photocopies of some six further letters from Richard Bennett, dated 1908-1932.
Additional papers (2023 donation) comprise three letters, 1933 and 1935, from Richard Bennett, two of which were sent to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Hughes, together with a notebook containing an address by him, 1934, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Melinbyrhedyn Chapel.

Some eighty letters in Welsh, 1914-1937, from Richard Bennett (1860-1937) to David Wigley, Darowen and Llanbryn-mair, containing local and personal news, with references to his work as copyist and historian; together with verses by Richard Bennett on the death of Thomas Wigley, brother of David Wigley, 1910, and other related papers.

Gohebiaeth, 1908-1935, yr hanesydd Richard Bennett, Hendre, Pennant, Llanbryn-mair, yn bennaf gyda'i gefnder Richard Jones, Pertheirin, Caersws, a llythyrau at Bennett oddi wrth aelodau eraill o'r teulu; ynghyd â dyddiadur Laura Pryce, Castellfawr, [Rhoslefain], 1872.