A file of programmes, pamphlets, reports, etc. relating to literary societies, 'eisteddfodau', literary festivals, concerts, schoolboard reports, county council elections, etc. mainly in the Barmouth and Porthmadog districts, with specimens from other districts in North Wales and London, 1869-1908; press cuttings and transcripts; papers relating to W. H. Roberts, bookseller, London; and letters by John Richard Williams ('Tryfanwy').
A list, [September] 1795, by the artist John Malchair of Oxford, of drawings made by him on a tour of north Wales, 22 July-21 August 1785, written on returning to Oxford.
The drawings are described in chronological order, with some additional details and comments on the surroundings, people and weather. The itinerary includes Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire (f. 1), Dinas Mawddwy (f. 2 recto-verso), Barmouth (f. 3) and Harlech (f. 3 recto-verso), Merionethshire, and Beddgelert, Caernarvonshire (f. 3 verso). For a transcript of the list see Colin Harrison, John Malchair of Oxford: Artist and Musician (Oxford, 1998), pp. 150-152.
Malchair, John, 1730-1812.