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An album of 'memoranda, made to the year 1857', together with copious annotations and an index, by Richard Rees (born 1781) of Alltycham, Pontardawe, seventh child by the second marriage of Josiah Rees (1744-1804), Unitarian minister, of Gellionnen, parish of Llan-giwg (Llanguicke), Glamorgan. The volume consists largely of holograph letters addressed for the most part to Richard Rees, the writers including Josiah Rees, 1802-3 (relating partly to the church at Gellionnen); William Wyndham Grenville, baron Grenville, 1818 (a description of the writer's home at Dropmore, information concerning Neath Abbey); George Owen Rees, Guy's Hospital, London, 1846 (biographical notes on the writer's father, Josiah Rees); C[hristopher] R[ice] M[ansel] T[albot], London, 1848; C[onnop Thirlwall], bishop of St. Davids, 1848; Geo. Rice Trevor, aft. 4th baron Dynevor, 1838 (concerning Neath Abbey); John M. Traherne, Coedriglan, Cardiff, 1848; [Edward Copleston, bishop of Llandaff, 1848]; [Sir Thomas Phillipps, Middle Hill, 1848]; H[enry] Hussey Vivian, London, 1855 (the death of John Henry Vivian); etc. The miscellaneous documents contained in the volume include material towards a pedigree of the family of Rees of Gelligron; the certificate of ordination of Josiah Rees at Gellionnen, 6 August, 1767; poetry and ballads, including an epigram by Thomas Rees, fifth child of Josiah Rees by his second marriage and an 'englyn' to Richard Rees; newspaper cuttings, including obituary notices of Josiah Rees, 1804, Mary Rees, his widow, 1829, Owen Rees of Gelligron, 1837, and Sarah Rees, daughter of Josiah Rees, 1851; copies of letters of Richard Rees, 1846; etc.
Amongst the references are those to the election and admission of Richard Rees for Morden College, Blackheath; the Smith family of Castellau, Glamorgan; the Penllergaer estate, Swansea; and the experiences of an emigrant to Australia, 1843.

Letters, 1691-1909, of miscellaneous provenance, to and from bishops, mostly of Welsh dioceses, and other dignitaries relating mainly to social, personal and church matters. Among the correspondents are John Randolph, bishop of Bangor (1) [c. 1807]; Edward Copleston (1) 1844, Joshua Pritchard Hughes (1) 1909, Richard Lewis (1) 1901, Alfred Ollivant (4) 1849-1858, and John Shipley (1) 1769, bishops of Llandaf; John Owen (3) 1897-1899, and Connop Thirlwall (7) 1845-1871, bishops of St Davids; Edmund Gibson, bishop of London (2) 1731; Samuel Butler, headmaster of Shrewsbury School, later bishop of Lichfield (2) 1834; and Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, archbishop of Westminster (3) 1886-1893. Also included is a letter, 1790, from Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon.

Miscellaneous correspondence including holograph letters from J[ames] C[olquhoun Campbell, bishop of] Bangor, from Bangor, to the Reverend W. J. [? William John] Beamont [? fellow of Trinity College and vicar of the parish of St. Michael's, Cambridge], 1861-1862 (2) (the writer's willingness to advocate the cause of the Additional Curates Society at Cambridge, the appropriate allowance for a pensioner at Cambridge University), and Chief Justice [by inference, Sir William Bovill], 1869 (social); J[ohn] B[anks Jenkinson, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwilly, to [ ], 1827 ( personal postal matters); W[illiam] Basil [Tickell Jones, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwili Palace, to [ ], 1876 (personal); Alfred Ollivant [professor of Divinity], Trinity College [Cambridge, aft. bishop of Llandaff], to [ ], 1844 (instructions re studies); Tho[ma]s V[owler Short, bishop of] St. Asaph, from St. Asaph, to [Henry Montagu Villiers], bishop of Carlisle, 1859 (? an accident to the writer); and C[onnop Thirlwall, bishop of] St. Davids, from Abergwili Palace, to the Reverend Dr. [? John William] Donaldson, 1858 (doubts as to his ability to attend at the election of the classical examiner, his belief that no candidate would be equal to recipient).

Mounted press cuttings, mainly from The Cambria Daily Leader, The Carmarthen Chronicle, The Carmarthen Journal, The Carmarthen Weekly Reporter, The Times, and The Welshman, consisting of reports on, and copies of correspondence relating to, the National Eisteddfod of Wales, held at Carmarthen, 2-6 September 1867, and copies of two letters, October 1867, addressed to the editor of the Welshman, relating to opinions, alleged by reviewers to have been expressed in Matthew Arnold: On the Study of Celtic Literature [(London, 1867)], p. 11, concerning the attitude of [Connop Thirlwall], bishop of St. David's, towards the Welsh language.