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A group of sixteen letter books of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 1807-1813, 1825-1831, containing carbon copies of private and professional letters, the correspondents including his brothers Watkin Williams Wynn and Henry Watkin Williams Wynn, Robert Southey, Edward Herbert, 1st earl of Powis, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, William Wyndham Grenville, baron Grenville, Sir Charles Grey, Lord Chief Justice of Bengal, Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta, and Daniel Corrie, bishop of Madras. Among the subjects of Welsh interest discussed are the parliamentary elections for Montgomeryshire and Flint, 1807, and the Montgomeryshire Local Militia.

Autograph letters, 1784-1885, including letters to Frances (Fanny) Williams Wynn from her mother, her brothers Charles and Henry, her sisters Henrietta and Charlotte, Hester Cotton and Mary Cunliffe, to Jonathan Shipley (bishop of St Asaph) from William Henry Cavendish Bentinck (third duke of Portland), and to William Davies Shipley (dean of St Asaph) from Philip Yorke and William Cleaver (bishop of St Asaph); papers relating to the private theatre at Wynnstay; a note in the autograph of Sarah Ponsonby, one of the 'ladies of Llangollen'; etc.

Three volumes of letters, 1820-1853, to Henry Williams Wynn, mainly from Charles Williams Wynn.

Estate and family records of Baker and Browne of Sweeney Hall, Oswestry, Leighton of Loton Park, Shropshire, Parker of Whitehouse, Worcestershire, and Charlton of Ludford, Herefordshire, including title deeds, 1563-1854, a volume of important papers relating to Major-General Thomas Mytton (1608-56), who served the Parliamentary cause in north Wales during the civil war; papers of Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, [c. 1660]-1681; account books of the estates of the Charlton family of Park, Shropshire, 18 cent., letter-books of Sir Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn (1783-1856), British Ambassador to Denmark, 1831-1851, and a bundle of papers and notebooks relating to the estate of Miss Fanny Williams-Wynn who died in 1857.