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Poems and fragments of poems by John Blackwell (Alun), Walter Davies, David Davies, Davidd Evans, Henry Evans, Rondle Hanmer (1677), Felicia Hemans, John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel), Evan Pugh, etc., many of them in the hand of John Jenkins; and miscellanea.

Papers relating to the marriage, 1823, of John Jenkins, Kerry, and Elizabeth Jones, Crosswood, and to the birth of their son, John Heyward, 1824, including congratulatory poems, letters, etc., written by John Blackwell (Alun), Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn), Walter Davies, Thomas Edwards (Arfona), Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel), Dewi Hughes (Cynwyd), William Ellis Jones (Gwilym Cawrdaf), Isaac Llwyd (Gwyddon), John Athelstan Owen (Bardd Meirion), William Owen (Gwilym Glan Hafren), A. Pryse, John Roberts (Hersedd), Owen Williams (Waunfawr), William Williams (Gwalchmai), William Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog), etc.

Copies by John Jenkins of letters sent by him to Walter Davies, John Parry (Bardd Alaw), Peter Bayley Williams, John Blackwell (Alun), Pryce Buckley Williams, Taliesin Williams (Ab Iolo), and Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).

One of eight volumes consisting of several hundred letters, chiefly of the first half of the nineteenth century, written mainly to John Jenkins and his wife, to Walter Davies and his daughter Jane, and to John Vaughan (Penmaen Dyfi) and other members of his family, by numerous correspondents, including: D. Bird Allen, Thomas Beynon (archdeacon of Cardigan), C. W. Bowen (Kidwelly), J. Bowen (Bath), J. Bowen (Llechryd), Samuel Bowen (Newtown), Edward Breese, Samuel Butler (Shrewsbury), R. Myddelton Biddulph, John Blackwell (Alun), Thomas Burgess (bishop of St. Davids), Lord Carrington (chairman of the Board of Agriculture), Thomas Clarkson (philanthropist), W. Cleaver (Denbigh), Hester Maria Cotton, William Cragg (Board of Agriculture), Alfred Butler Clough, and Roger B. Clough.

One of six volumes consisting of several hundred letters ranging in date from the late eighteenth century to about the middle of the nineteenth, and addressed mainly to Walter Davies, with some to his daughter Jane, to John Jenkins, and to John Vaughan, from numerous correspondents connected with various aspects of Welsh life and including: J. P. Adams (Pembroke), Lewis Bagot (bishop of St. Asaph), Jona Barff (Shrewsbury), Thomas Beynon, R. Myddelton Biddulph, John Blackwell (Alun), J. B. Blakeway, Samuel Butler (Shrewsbury School), William Carey (bishop of St. Asaph), Nicholas Carlisle, Thomas Charles, Isaac Clarke (Ruthin), William Cleaver (bishop of St. Asaph), Lord Clive, Alfred B. Clough, Roger B. Clough, Eliza Colley, Athelstan Corbett, Edward Davies (Wrexham), Hugh Davies (Shrewsbury), John Davies (Fronheulog), Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn), W. Whitehall Davies, James Donne (Llanyblodwel), Ellis Owen Ellis ('Ellis Bryncoch'), Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), D. Silvan Evans, Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), Henry Evans (Harri Ddu o Ddyfed), R. Wynne Eyton, and Richard Fenton.

'Englynion' and other poems, some of them holograph, composed for the most part at informal meetings of bards in the house of John Jenkins, the writers including David Rowland ('Dewi o Brefi'), 'Cedewain', John Jenkins, Walter Davies, David Davies ('Dewi Fardd o Geri'), William Moses ('Gwilym Tew Glan Taf'), John Howell ('Ioan ab Hywel', alias 'Eos Glandyfroedd'), Robert Davies ('Bardd Nantglyn'), David Richards ('Dewi Silin'), Aneurin Owen, Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), Elizabeth Jenkins ('Eos y Bele'), William Ellis Jones ('Gwilym Cawrdaf'), John Jones ('wyr Dafydd Jones o Drefriw'), Hugh Jones ('Huw Erfyl'), John Hughes (author of Horae Britannicae), William Edwards ('Gwilym Padarn'), Thomas Jones ('Thomas Gwynedd', alias 'Tydain'), Daniel Evans ('Daniel Ddu o Geredigion'), Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'), Thomas Ellis ('Eos Tegeingl'), Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), William Owen ('Gwilym Glan Hafren'), John Blackwell ('Alun'), Peter Jones ('Pedr Fardd'), John Jones ('Collwyn'), and David Harris ('Kerry').