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Miscellanea from the collection of Hugh Jones ('Erfyl'), consisting of poems by him and in his own hand, among them being 'Emyn y Tymmorau' translated from James Thomson's The Seasons and awarded a prize at the Tegeingl Eisteddfod, 1829, and 'Englynion i Fab ac Etifedd Syr W. W. Wynn, 1820, composed in a field near Wrexham; transcripts by 'Erfyl', including the 'Substance of a Sermon preached at the Baptist Chapel in Oswestry, on Sunday, August 13th, 1815. By the Revd. J. Palmer of Shrewsb[ur]y', a translation (copied at Whittington, 1814) of a petition to Governor [Warren] Hastings by the wife of Almas-ali-can 'who was seized upon and put to death for political purposes in India', and extracts from printed sources relating to Bangor, Tegeingl, etc.; a draft in the hand of Richard Llwyd, 'Bard of Snowdon', relating to the slave trade; a short-title list of Welsh periodicals ('Rhwydd Restr o Gyhoeddiadau Cym[r]aeg a Chymreig Amseriadol') in the hand of Robert Davies, Llansannan; and holograph poetry by Robert Ellis ('Cynddelw'), John Jones ('Myllin'), Thomas Edwards ('Caerfallwch'), and John Owen, Liverpool (1835) (awarded the prize at the Holywell Eisteddfod, 1834), etc.

Letters, 1801-1849, of miscellaneous provenance, including three letters, with sketches, 1804-1805, from the architect John Nash and his assistant to Sir George Cornewall relating to construction work at Moccas Court, Herefordshire; three letters, 1801-1808, to William Clayfield, Bristol, from James Watt and his sons Gregory Watt and James Watt; and three letters, 1824-1826, from the artist George Perfect Harding to David Pennant of Downing, Flintshire, together with related notes by the latter. Among the other correspondents are James Everett (1) 1825, Sir Francis Freeling (1) 1833, Felicia Hemans (1) n.d., Dorothea Jordan (2) 1813 and n.d., Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis (1) n.d., Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon') (1) 1812, John Parry ('Bardd Alaw') (2) 1831 and n.d., Sir Thomas Picton (2) 1810-1813, Henry Richard (1) 1849 and Isaac Williams (1) [1842].