Dr Hugh Jones Manuscripts A collection of 142 items, including, some of the basic material used by him in writing his four volume 'Hanes Wesleyaeth Gymreig' (1911-1913), in the form of brief histories of, and notes on, the origins and development of Welsh Wesleyan Methodism in various localities including Aberystwyth, Abergynolwyn, Bangor, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Caernarfon, Cefn Mawr, Deiniolen, Denbigh, Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Llangefni, Llangelynnin (Merioneth), Liverpool, Manchester, Prestatyn, Rhosllannerchrugog, Tregarth, etc.; short biographies of Wesleyan ministers (mainly by the Rev William Evans (1779-1854)); a volume containing chapel buildings accounts, 1800-1847; a ledger containing contributions of Liverpool Wesleyans to church funds, 1822-1853; autobiographies of the Revs John Bartley, R. Prichard and Lewis Jones; sermon notebooks of the Rev. David Rogers (d.1824) and Dr. Thomas Jones; and letters to Dr Hugh Jones from D. Delta Davies, the Rev. Richard Roberts, London; Rev. John Evans, Eglwysbach; Rev. John Roberts, Chester; and others. Among the personalia are several bundles of addresses, sermons and notes of sermons delivered by Dr Hugh Jones; a copy of his marriage certificate and various photographs of him. A few papers in the collection relate to the 'Wesle Bach' controversy, mainly in 1831. 1807-1919