Daniel Davies, Ton, Manuscripts,

Manuscripts of Daniel Davies (1840-1916), including correspondence of, and miscellaneous papers acquired by him.

Daniel Davies (1840-1916) was born at Tregaron, Ceredigion. From 1965 he worked as a cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Rhondda. He took an active part in the life of Jerusalem C. M. chapel, Ton, and regularly contributed to the Welsh periodical press, particularly to Calvinistic Methodist papers and to Y Brython, 1861-3, Y Genhinen and Cymru. He also published a number of pamphlets and edited the sermons of Islwyn (William Thomas Williams, 1832-1878) and wrote an introductory biographical note to Gwaith Barddonol Islwyn, 1897.

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 3191-3198.

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Daniel Davies (1840-1916) was born at Tregaron, Ceredigion. From 1965 he worked as a cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Rhondda. He took an active part in the life of Jerusalem C. M. chapel, Ton, and regularly contributed to the Welsh periodical press, particularly to Calvinistic Methodist papers and to Y Brython, 1861-3, Y Genhinen and Cymru. He also published a number of pamphlets and edited the sermons of Islwyn (William Thomas Williams, 1832-1878) and wrote an introductory biographical note to Gwaith Barddonol Islwyn, 1897.

The descriptions are also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943).

October 2005.

This description was compiled by Si©Øn Medi Davies for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following sources were used for the compliation of this description: Handlist of NLW MSS, Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959);

Most of Daniel Davies's papers are NLW, Calvinistic Methodist Archives 862-3369

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