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Correspondence mainly of Paul Panton, senior, and Paul Panton, junior, 1779-1799, the correspondents including John Bruce, Edinburgh, 1779, S. Pellet, Richard Thomas, Jesus College (to Evan Evans), J. Parry, 1780-1781, Henry Baker, Peter Grosvenor, W. Wynne, Mold, 1782, Watkin Williams, Penbedw, Paul Panton (to Mr. Howlett concerning the population of Anglesey), J. Mander, Roger Ellis, Cornist, 1785, Edward Jones, Wepre, 1785-1794, Evan Evans, Gynhawdref, 1787, Paul Panton (to Evan Evans), John Wilkins, Bersham, 1789, Thomas Parry, Chester, Thomas Williams, Holywell, William Owen, Pentonville (relating to the Padoucas, 1791, Welsh Archæology, emended by Paul Panton to Archaiology, 1798), S. Small, Holywell, 1792-1795, Thomas Hughes, Nant y moch, 1792, William Shackfield, Denbigh, 1793, L. Hansard (instructions for Paul Panton's printing press, 1794), Benjamin Hughes, Birmingham, 1795, William Jennings, Covent Garden, David Thomas, Amlwch (to John Williams, Plas-y-brain), John Williams, Plas-y-brain, 1796, and J. Williams, Treffos, 1798. Also included are draft letters of Morgan Jones, Mold, 1698; correspondence between Evan Williams, the Strand, Thomas Percy, bishop of Dromore, and Paul Panton, 1798; correspondence and papers relating to protests against the appointment of John Probert, 1779, heads of a speech by Lord Powis, and an abstract of Edmund Burke's bill, 1780; papers relating to lawsuits over Talar Goch and Disserth mill, 1777; an account of Paul Panton's journey to Glyder Fawr and Glyder Fach, 1780; a list of works by Richard Wilson at Clemendu, 1786; a document relating to coal works at Coleshill, 1787; estimates for a fire engine, 1787; a translation of 'Marwnad Lleucu Llwyd', 1790; papers relating to Penmynydd almshouses, 1792-1793; a report by the keeper of the Common Gaol of Flintshire, 1794; copies of letters between Col. Richard Bulkeley and Capt. Stephen Rich, 1646; and a declaration in ejectment touching property in Holywell, 39 Geo. III.

Material relating to the parish of Diserth, comprising notes on the parish registers; extracts from the vestry books, 1721-1836; transcripts, etc., of terriers, 1749, 1841, 1856; abstract of the deed of endowment of the National School, 1863; extracts from printed reports on public records, etc., relating to the mill; extracts and transcripts from Bodrhyddan mumiments containing an inventory of the machinery of the mill taken by Charles Howard, millwright, 1775, reports on Talargoch Lead Mines by John Richardson of Llanerchymor, 1775, and Thos. Slaughter, Chester, 1782, and a writ of the Court of Quarter Sessions to levy on the parish a fine of £30 for not repairing a part of the highway, 1820; and notes on the church and the castle, and on flowers growing on the castle hill.