Ffeil NLW MS 12930C. - Letters to William Porter,

Holograph letters to William Porter including:- (a) Eleven letters, 1907-1909, from [the Reverend] E[dward] O[wen] Davies, y Bala, Principal Ellis Edwards, The Theological College, Bala, J. C. Evans, The Grammar School, Bala, [the Reverend] J. T. Alun Jones, registrar, The Theological College, Bala, [Professor] A[rchibald] R[obert] S[tirling] Kennedy, Edinburgh and Ford, Dalkeith (3), James Kennedy, Edinburgh, the Reverend John Owen, secretary, The Theological College, Bala, from Liverpool, [Professor] John Owen Thomas [of the Theological College, Bala] from Liverpool, and Evan Williams, Flint, all relating mainly to the recipient's appointment as lecturer in, and subsequently professor of, Hebrew at the Theological College, Bala. (b) Twenty-eight letters from [Professor] F[rancis] C[rawford] Burkitt, Cambridge, [19]06-1907 (4) (recipient's [doctorate] dissertation (see NLW MS 12920E above), the possibility of publishing the work, the degree of D.D. conferred on the writer, a comment on Robert H[atch] Kennett: In Our Tongues . . . (London, 1907)), [Professor] Marcus Dods, Edinburgh, 1902 and undated (2) (advice with regard to preaching), [Professor] E[rnest] Norman Jones [of the Theological College, Aberystwyth] from Three Cocks, Breconshire, and Swansea, [19]26 (8) (personal, college business, grants to students, the death of J[ohn] H[umphreys] Davies [principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth], speculation as to whether [Dr.] Tom Jones [Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, 1916-1930] would succeed him), [Professor] T[homas] Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth, [19]29 (personal, thanks for a copy of Scotsman, the writer's proposed book on Welsh folk-lore), [the Very Reverend] J[oseph] Armitage Robinson, The Deanery, Westminster, 1906 (publication of recipient's [doctorate] thesis), [Professor] W[illiam] B[arron] Stevenson, The University, Glasgow, and The British Museum, 1907-1918 (3) (comments on the town of Bala, suggestions as to the syllabus recipient could follow on taking up his appointment [as the writer's successor at the Theological College, Bala], suggestions as to the classifying and cataloguing of the books in Bala College library, possible means of extending library accommodation at Bala College), and [the Reverend] J[ohn] O[wen] Thomas [previously professor at the Theological College, Aberystwyth] from Barry, Bala, and Abergele, 1926-1928 (9) (personal, recipient's move to the chair of New Testament studies [at the Theological College, Aberystwyth], references to ministerial and academic colleagues).