An account by Margaret Ellen James of the attempted French invasion near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire in 1797.

The series comprises letters written by Ifan ab Owen Edwards to his family, mainly his parents and sister Haf, primarily from Llanuwchllyn, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and France during the First World War. They describe his daily routine at university and whilst on active service.

Notes by David Pennant on Germany, France, and Hungary, and tables of mineral products.

Pen-and-ink drawings by Margaret Ellen James and Alec Carruthers Gould, most of them connected with the Fishguard invasion of 1797, and some being reproduced in The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797 ... .