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Letters to Emily Charlotte Ormsby-Gore (née Seymour), second Lady Harlech, 1844-1876, from her husband, William Richard Ormsby-Gore, and children, 1853-1874, other relatives and friends, including Lady Clinton, [1844], Mary Jane Ormsby-Gore [c. 1869], the Duchess of Grafton, 1860, Lady Georgiana de Ros, [1860], her father, Sir George Francis Seymour, 1857-1869, her cousin, Lady Spencer, 1857-1870, and other members of the Seymour family, 1850-1876. Particular topics are: her husband 's experiences in the Crimean War, 1853-1854; charitable works, estate business and court duties in Ireland; elections in Shropshire and Roscommon, 1859; the Franco-Prussian War, 1870; Sir George F. Seymour 's involvement with the 68th regiment and recollections of the Walcheren expedition in 1809; the marriage of Laura Wilhelmina Seymour to Prince Victor Gleichen, 1860; and events in Canada during the American Civil War, 1862. The file also includes a single family letter to her daughter, Mary.

Correspondents include Rev. Hugh T. Owen on the excavations at Valle Crucis Abbey, 1899, Lord Penryn, 1893, Jonathan Pim, 1873, Francis Seymour, 1855-1862, George Francis Seymour, 1850-1865; William Henry Smith on the Tithe Bill, 1887, with a draft reply describing opposition by the public and the Welsh language press; and Charles Seymour reporting the death of Owen Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 1852.