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An account of the parishes of Llandegai, Llanllechid and Aber forming part of a preparatory draft of 'A Description of Caernarvonshire' written 1809-1811 by Edmund Hyde Hall, which forms Bangor MS 908.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Paul Panton, junior, 1806-1822, including letters from Owen Jones, London [Owain Myfyr], 1806-1807, John William Prichard, Plas-y-brain (with an extract relating to Welsh Indians), 1806-1813, William Jones, Holywell, 1808, Samuel Williams, St. Asaph, Thomas Wedge, Sealand, 1809-1822, Edmund Hyde Hall, 1809-1811, David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), 1809-1820, James Ewer, 1809-1814, Richard Davies, Bangor, Edward Roscoe, 1810, H. Roberts, Holywell, 1810-1812, David Pennant, 1810-1812, Hugh Jones, Northop, 1810, Mary Jones, Coleshill Vechan, 1810, Roger Barnston, 1811, Samuel Mostyn, 1812, Abraham Moore, 1812-1814, Benjamin Hughes, Birmingham, Jonathan Taylor, Smethwick, Francis Jones, Holywell, 1812-1820, Messrs. Potts, Leche and Potts, Chester, 1812, Paul Panton (relating to the Anglesey petition against Catholic claims, 1812), Thomas Crane, Chester, 1813, Edward Bill, Mold, 1813, J. Richards, Llanerch-y-medd (excavation of Branwen's grave, 1814), Richard Sankey, Beaumaris, 1814, W. O. Poole, Pencraig, 1814-1816, Thomas Oldfield, Caerwys, 1814, Edward Jones, Wepre, 1815, Richard Yates, Oswestry, 1815, Robert Tart, Holywell, 1815-1817, Richard Owen, Geinas, 1816, John Jones, Holywell, 1816, John Maughan, Oswestry, 1820, Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1820, and Charles Hughes, Chester, 1822. The miscellaneous papers include resolutions on enclosures by freeholders of Holywell, 1810, and on a lease of minerals, 1812, by freeholders of Anglesey, 1812; a case, with opinion, touching the manor of Forden and Tempsiter, 1811; an abstract of the proprietors of land in Llangefni, Llandegfan, Pentraeth, and Cerrig Ceinwen, 1812; a note by Paul Panton of a visit with Richard Fenton to Plas-y-brain, 1813; builders' prices, 1815; a plan of allotments in Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf, 1815; a petition for a bridge at Conway, 1819; obituary notice of David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), 1822; and a survey of common land in Pentraeth.

Letters, etc. addressed mainly to John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'), the correspondents being E[benezer] Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), Clynnog to John Thomas ('Sion Wyn o Eifion'), Chwilog, 1842 (the health of the addressee's sister, mention of the Memoir) and to the Reverend Hugh Owen, Treveilir, Aberffro [sic], 1849 (re adjudicating at the Aberffro Eisteddfod (holograph copies)), D. R. Daniel, London, 1920 (submitting a short article on 'Y Clochydd', etc.), [John Daniel] 'Rhab[anian]', Rheithordy Llandudwen, 1908 (he intends to visit the addressee), ? E. L. Davies [with Archdeacon Burney], undated (personal matters, asking the addressee to write giving an account of Clynnog and N[orth] Wales generally (beginning wanting)), T. Witton Davies, Bangor, 1916 (returning the card with the handwriting of Dic Aberdaron, the writer's own researches), John Edwards ('Meiriadog'), Llanfair, [18]63 and 1883 (the earlier one possibly to [Owen Jones ('Manoethwy')], addressed here as 'Myfyr Lleyn') (items of news, he knows nothing of Angharad Lloyd, reference to his 70th birthday), D. G. Goodwin, Uffington, Shrewsbury, 1904 (the addressee's new book), T. Hopwood, Treuddyn, [19]18 (the inscription on the memorial column to the Reverend W. Williams, 'Gwilym ap Gwilym Lleyn'), E. Gurnos Jones, Newport, [18]89 (postcard), John D. Jones, Llandudno, 1914 (the manuscript 'Notes upon Carnarvonshire' by Edmund Hyde Hall), [L. D. Jones], 'Llew Tegid', Bangor, [19]20 (sending two books or booklets, 'Yr Orgraff' and a book of stories), [Owen Jones ('Manoethwy')], Llundain, 1865 (observations on the addressee's essays on the parish of Llanystumdwy (incomplete)), Owen Jones, Trefriw and Llandudno, 1875 and [18]78 (2) (he does not remember seeing the addressee's letter, a certain manuscript), R. J. Jones, Aberdare, [1921] (an expression of good wishes, his own date of birth (postcard)), T. Tudno Jones, Llandudno, 1872 (re publishing a chair awdl), W. O. Jones, Lerpwl, 1913-20 (5) (Llais Rhyddid), [? M. T. Morris], 'Meurig Wyn', undated (sending a volume for presentation to an unnamed benefactor), T. F. Roberts, Aberystwyth, 1905 (Gleanings from God's Acre, reference to the National Library), T. Shankland, Bangor, 1913 (queries concerning William Elias), Richard Williams, Glasfryn, Festiniog [sic], undated (acknowledging a letter, mention of an old book (? manuscript)), W. W., undated (genealogical matters), [ ], 'Mynyddawc', undated (Adgof Uwch Anghof), part of an elegy on [? John Jones, Llanfair Caereinion] c. 1858, by 'Teithiwr Galarus' (beginning wanting), verses and scriptural notes written on the back of two letters to Thomas Jones, 1856 and 1863, from Owen Evans, Tynycoed and Rich[ar]d Jones, Pwllheli respectively (? estate matters), 'englynion' to 'Hafan St Tudwal (St Tudwell's Roads)' by 'Seithenyn', a note by 'G-d' ['William Thomas Edwards ('Gwilym Deudraeth')] concerning D. Sion Jâms, a fragment of a letter in the autograph of [? Morris Williams ('Nicander')], 'Marwnad er Coffadwriaeth am y diweddar Milwriad Wynne Garthewyn un o Destynau Eisteddfod Llanfairtalhaiarn y dydd cyntaf o Ionawr 1855' by 'Megido', and part of an article (see also Cwrtmawr MS 932D) on 'Hugh Hughes yr Arlunydd' in the autograph of J. Spinther James.