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A letter, 26 May 1837, from the Rev. John Williams, missionary, to [Henry John Temple,] Lord Palmerston, the then Foreign Secretary, sending him a copy (not present) of his book A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands (London, 1837) (ff. 1-2); together with a copy letter, in his own hand, of Lord Palmerston's reply, 22 August 1837 (ff. 3-4).
Williams discusses his forthcoming return to the South Pacific Ocean (ff. 1 verso-2); he was killed by cannibals on Erromango, Vanuatu, in November 1839.

Four autograph letters, July-October 1804, from Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, to his mother, Mary, written mainly on a tour of Wales, in the company of his friend Laurence Sulivan, describing their journey and places visited.
The letters were sent from Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, 18 July (f. 11), Bala, Merionethshire, 28 [recte 27] July (f. 12), and Shrewsbury, 1 August (f.13); with a final letter from St John's College, Cambridge, 26 October 1804 (f. 14). There are references to Sir Francis Burdett, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and William Wilberforce (f. 12 verso), and an eyewitness account of the Ladies of Llangollen (f. 13 verso); the partly constructed Pontcysyllte aqueduct is also described (f. 13 verso).