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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.

Material relating to the production of Lady Charlotte Guest's English translation of the 'Mabinogion' (London, 1838-49), including facsimiles, a letter from Joseph Fisher, engraver, to Guest, 1838, a modernized (Welsh) version of the tales of 'Branwen ferch Llŷr' and 'Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed', possibly made by John Jones ('Tegid'), original sketches, proofs of illustrations, etc.

Ten letters, 1852-1881, to Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber) from various correspondents, containing mainly personal news; together with one each to her son Ivor (f. 20), her daughter Maria (f. 13), and Henry Thoby Prinsep (f. 17).

Letters (surnames Davies-Hall) addressed mostly to Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo).
The correspondents include Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), [1812]-1837 (Nos 130-135), David Davis, Neath, 1810-1841 (Nos 137-148), John Davis (Brychan), 1829-1841 (Nos 149-157), Lady Charlotte Guest, 1837-1843 (Nos 191-202), and Augusta Hall, 1834-1841 (Nos 206-250).

Miscellaneous papers, including an extract 'From the Mabinogion of Lady Guest' [cf. The Mabinogion ... translated with notes, by Lady Charlotte Guest (London, 1877), pp. 74-6], a list of early Welsh books (in the autograph of [Thomas Edward Ellis], an extract from Kinmel MS 76 [NLW MS 1576] relating to Thomas Lloyd of Penmaen, and a bibliography entitled '"Y Bardd Cwsc" by Elis Wyn o Lasynys' [cf. The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, Vol. IV, pp. 199-208]. There are also a number of blue wrappers from past issues of 'Beibl Peter Williams' (1770) and the Welsh edition of Cann's Bible (1790) with printed proposals, Trefecca, 1786, relating to the latter, and part of a notebook (eighteenth century), which belonged to David Jones of Bryn y Rhig near Dolgelly and others, containing a few 'englynion', etc.