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A draft catalogue by Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon') of books and manuscripts at Hengwrt.

Autograph letters, 1804-1832, of William Bingley (1774-1823), author of several Tours in Wales, Sarah Charles, Bala, W. Clement, Shrewsbury, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, bart. (1773-1851), Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon, 1752-1835) and Connop Thirlwall (1797-1875) (afterwards Bishop of St Davids).

A catalogue of the books and manuscripts at Hengwrt, being a fair copy of Richard Llwyd's catalogue.

Extracts made by Angharad Llwyd (1780-1866) from various letters and papers, including 16th and 17th cents correspondence of the Salusbury of Llewenni family; a letter from Lady Charlotte Guest (1812-1895) to the Liverpool Cambrian Society; genealogical notes by W. W. E. Wynne (1801-1880) and Richard Llwyd (1752-1835); penillion by Hugh Humphreys; miscellaneous genealogical material and notes, etc.

A manuscript containing miscellanea, relating mainly to North Wales genealogies, in the hand of Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon) (1752-1835).

Letters to Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon) from [Lady Margaret Stanley], Penrhos, 1805 [autograph cut away], G. Thomson, Edinburgh, 1817, and Ed. Pughe, Ruthin, undated; letters from Richard Llwyd to Hugh Jones (Erfyl), [1822], and Thomas Williams, Beaumaris, [1824]; and some verses in the hand of Richard Llwyd.

A copy of Henry Rowlands: Mona Antiqua Restaurata ..., 2nd ed., London, 1766, with additions by J[ohn] P[arsons] Earwaker and profuse biographical and genealogical notes by (?) Aneurin Williams; a silhouette of Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon'), with a press cutting of his 'Lines ... on seeing mr. Burt's collection of miniature portraits'; letters by James Williams, Llanfairynghornwy, 1855; notes on Capel Llansantffraid, near Holyhead; and a copy by W. O. Stanley of a drawing of Carreg y Saethau at Nant Anhafon.

Three letters, April-May 1806, from Richard Llwyd (The Bard of Snowdon), Beaumaris, to Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 2nd baronet, of Nannau, concerning Vaughan's pedigree which Llwyd was then compiling, together with drafts of the pedigree and other related notes (ff. 1-13).
The papers comprise: (i) a letter, [?mid-April 1806], discussing Vaughan's descent from the Williams family of Ystum Colwyn and enclosing a draft of the pedigree (ff. 1-4); (ii) a letter, dated 22 April 1806, enquiring as to the whereabouts of a letter sent by Llwyd a week earlier (whose contents match ff. 1-4) (f. 5); (iii) a letter, dated 14 May 1806, enclosing a revised draft of the pedigree and a list of outstanding issues to be addressed (ff. 6-8); (iv) an undated document detailing Vaughan’s descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn (ff. 9-12); and (v) a description of six inscribed Elizebethan stone tablets at Nannau (f. 13). Also included is (vi) one letter, 27 November 1818, from Llwyd, Chester, to Vaughan's brother Colonel G[riffith] H[owel] Vaughan of Rûg, Corwen, containing a transcript of a document detailing revenue from ancient escheat (or King's Rent) in Edeirnion in 1509-1510 (ff. 14-15).

Two accounts of the Fifteen Tribes of North Wales; the arms and pedigrees of Welsh families; and a letter, 1819, from Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon) to Paul Panton the Younger (p. 49a).

A manuscript containing transcripts by Angharad Llwyd (1780-1866) of pedigrees of North Wales families, inscriptions in North Wales churches, and deeds relating to the Gwersyllt estates; miscellaneous genealogical and historical notes by Richard Llwyd (1752-1835) (Bard of Snowdon); portion of a history of the early inhabitants of North Britain; copy of a poem by John Jones (Tegid) (1792-1852); etc.

A manuscript containing pedigrees transcribed by Angharad Llwyd (1780-1866); a letter, 1663, from George Griffith (1601-1666), bishop of St Asaph, to Robert Davies, Gwysaney; memoranda by Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon, 1752-1835) and correspondence between him and Sir Robert Williames Vaughan (d. 1843), 2nd bart, of Nannau, 1804-1806; letters to Richard Llwyd from Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) (1761-1849), 1803, and John Madocks, 1819; etc.