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Nineteenth century genealogical papers, (two watermarked 1830 and 1833, the remainder probably contemporary), relating to various branches of the French family of Longueville. They include pedigrees, notes and extracts from published English and French sources, showing the association of the Ducs d 'Orleans with the Comté de Longueville, marital links with the Bourbon Princes of Condé and Conti, the Ducs de Lorraine and Ducs de Guise, and through the latter to the Scottish royal family.

Letters to Elizabeth Longueville (née Owen), 1724-1743, and her husband Sir Thomas Longueville, 1735, with occasional outgoing correspondence. Items of interest include a family letter from Rev. Lewis Owen, describing the house at his new living in Barking, 1734; a legacy debt, 1724; an equity case and bill of costs relating to redemption of a mortgage and Elizabeth 's claim for interest, 1726; descriptions of French palaces and the ancestral seat of the Longuevilles, 1735; the Longuevilles' marital separation, 1735-1739; and a pedigree of Jones of Castellmarch, 1743.