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An autograph album, 1831-1864, belonging to Mary Thomas, Ffridd Deg, near Beaumaris.

A commonplace book of John Price, 1800, containing copies of poems, ballads and miscellanea.

A commonplace book kept by Mary Thomas, Ffridd Deg, near Beaumaris containing poetry, anecdotes and recipes.

A file of draft letters and extracts by Hugh Davies (1739-1821), author of Welsh Botanology ... .

A file of letters addressed to Hugh Davies, naturalist, by fellow-botanists and others, mainly relating to botanical studies and to Davies's Welsh Botanology.
The correspondents include Sir Joseph Banks, William Bingley, Jane Bourne (5), Warren Bulkeley (4), Lewis Weston Dillwyn (3), James Donne (2), George Garkin (2), Samuel Goodenough (7), William Higgon, William Jones, W. Marchant (3), Walter Miche Moseley (2), T. E. Owen, William Parker, Miss Pocock (2), Messrs. Poole and Harding, William Owen[-Pughe] (5), John Prichard (2), R. Prichard, Peter Roberts, Jos. Sabine (4), George Shaw, W. Sheffield, Sir James Edward Smith (2), James Sowerby (26), Jonathan Stokes (17), David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), T. Velley (3), Michael Ward (4), Thomas Wenman, E. Williams (7), and Peter Williams, Llanbedrog.

An undertaking to provision Beaumaris castle, 1645; transcripts of Beaumaris coroners' inquisitions, 1707; autograph letters of Nicholas Bagenall, 1708, Henry Rowlands, 1717, Maurice Evans, 1718, and Cadwaladr Williams, 1719; a letter concerning Beaumaris churchwardens, 1714; a receipt by John Williams for a quarter's salary for officiating at Llangwyllog, 1738; translations of Of a noble race was Shenkin into Welsh, Latin and Greek; Welsh and Latin verses on Hugh Pugh's high jump at Oxford; notes on Owen of Trefeilir; an epitaph on Evan Rice, huntsman to Sir Thomas Mansell; an abstract of the life of John Ray; a list of alpine plants mentioned by Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709) in Gibson's Cambden; a list of plants by William Morris, with a note of a botanical expedition to Snowdon, 1741; printed miscellanea.

This collection was presented in memory of Mrs Margaret Kendrick-Jones, daughter of Thomas Owen (b. 1827), Rhuddgaer, Dwyran, Anglesey and mother of the donors. It comprises correspondence of and extracts made by Hugh Davies (1739-1821), naturalist, two commonplace books, an autograph album and miscellanea.