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Miscellaneous letters, [17 cent.]-[18 cent.], from various correspondents, including Thomas Pennant, William Morris and Edward Lhuyd.

A ballad relating to a foxhunt in Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire.

A manuscript, partly in the hand of Owen Gruffydd, Llanystumdwy, from the library at Madryn, Caernarvonshire, containing cywyddau, etc., by Owen Gruffydd and by William Elias, Sion Phylip, Edmwnd Prys and others.

Two letters, 1799, from Hester Lynch Piozzi to Joseph Cooper Walker, Irish historian and writer.

A manuscript containing a cywydd, an awdl dychan and an englyn by Rhys Jones, Y Blaenau, Llanfachreth, near Dolgellau.

A volume containing a fair copy, [?1799] (watermarks 1794, 1796, 1798), of a journal of a tour through parts of England and Wales, August-September 1797, describing in particular country houses and other sites visited, road conditions and scenery.
Departing from London on 17 August, the itinerary included Oxford (ff. 8 verso-28 verso), Cheltenham, Gloucester and Worcester (ff. 37-51), Coalbrookdale (ff. 56 verso-58 verso), Shrewsbury (ff. 60-65), Welshpool (ff. 65 verso-69), Llangollen (ff. 73 verso-80), Corwen, Bala, Dolgellau and Barmouth (ff. 80 verso-89 verso), Aberystwyth and the vicinity (ff. 90-95 verso), Kington (f. 98 verso), Herefordshire (ff. 99-103), the lower Wye Valley from Hereford to Chepstow (ff. 103-113), and various houses in Wiltshire (ff. 114-134 verso). Included in the journal are descriptions of William Herschel's telescope at Slough (ff. 6-7 verso), various Oxford Colleges (ff. 9-27 verso), Chirk Castle (ff. 70 verso-72), Valle Crucis Abbey (ff. 78-79 verso) and the Hafod Estate, Cardiganshire (ff. 92-94 verso). The descriptions of Blenheim Palace (ff. 30-35 verso), Attingham House, Shropshire (ff. 63-64 verso), Stourhead (ff. 114 verso-120 verso), Fonthill (ff. 120 verso-124), Wardour Castle (ff. 124-127 verso) and Longford Castle (ff. 128-131), all Wiltshire, include lists of the paintings housed there. A note and partial list of contents, April 1872, by Ev[elyn] Ph[ilip] Shirley is on f. i.

Copi o Jonathan Hughes, Bardd, a Byrddau Amryw, Seigiau; neu, Gasgliad o Gynghanedd sef Carolau a Cherddi a Chywyddau (Amwythig: Stafford Prys, 1778; ESTC T140501, Libri Walliae 2526), gyda cherddi wedi eu hychwanegu mewn llawysgrif tu mewn i'r clawr blaen ac ar y dail rhwymo (tt. i-vi, 376-382), yn bennaf yn llaw William Samuel, [18 gan., hwyr]. = A copy of Jonathan Hughes, Bardd, a Byrddau Amryw, Seigiau; neu, Gasgliad o Gynghanedd sef Carolau a Cherddi a Chywyddau (Shrewsbury: Stafford Prys, 1778; ESTC T140501, Libri Walliae 2526), with Welsh poetry added in manuscript inside the front cover and on the fly-leaves (pp. i-vi, 376-382), mostly in the hand of William Samuel, [late 18 cent.].
Ymysg y tair cerdd ar ddeg a ychwanegwyd, mae dwy bennill gan William Samuel (tt. v, vi), ['Cerdd y Pren Almon'] gan Owen Griffith, [Llanystumdwy] (tt. 376-381), englyn gan Rhys Jones o'r Blaenau (t. 381) a phennill cyntaf cerdd [gan Dafydd Williams] (t. 382). Ceir mân gywiriadau ac arnodiadau ar tt. 5, 27, 111, 150, 182, 184, 202, 286, 358, 360, 367 a 369. Mae toriad papur newydd, 17 Ebrill 1928, ynglŷn â Jonathan Hughes wedi ei phastio i mewn ar. t. viii. = Amongst the thirteen additional poems are two verses by William Samuel (pp. v. vi), ['Cerdd y Pren Almon'] by Owen Griffith, [Llanystumdwy] (pp. 376-381), an englyn by Rhys Jones, Blaenau (t. 381) and the first verso only of a poem [by Dafydd Williams] (t. 382). There are minor corrections and annotations on pp. 5, 27, 111, 150, 182, 184, 202, 286, 358, 360, 367 and 369. A newspaper cutting, 17 April 1928, relating to Jonathan Hughes is pasted in on p. viii.

Dwy gerdd gan Rhys Jones o'r Blaenau, [18 gan., hwyr], wedi eu hysgrifennu mewn dwy law debyg iawn o ddiwedd y ddeunawfed ganrif, ar dwy ddalen rydd. = Two poems by Rhys Jones, Blaenau, [late 18 cent.], written in very similar late eighteenth-century hands on two separate leaves.
Cyhoeddwyd y cerddi, 'Cywydd a wnaeth Rees Jones yn y Werddon' (f. 1) ac 'Englynion y Gisd Goch…1766' (f. 2), yn W. Leslie Richards, 'Dwy gerdd o'r ddeunawfed ganrif', Llên Cymru, 15 (1984-8), 355-359; ceir y ddwy, yn llaw y bardd ei hun, yn NLW MS 3059D (Mostyn MS 163), tt. 189 a 202. = Both poems, 'Cywydd a wnaeth Rees Jones yn y Werddon' (f. 1) and 'Englynion y Gisd Goch…1766' (f. 2), were published in W. Leslie Richards, 'Dwy gerdd o'r ddeunawfed ganrif', Llên Cymru, 15 (1984-8), 355-359; both may be found, in the poet's own hand, in NLW MS 3059D (Mostyn MS 163), pp. 189 and 202.

An illustrated copy of The Litterary Life of Thomas Pennant, Esqr. Copy of the Original MS ... signed by Pennant, 1 March 1790, being possibly the actual copy offered by Pennant to Richard Bull in a letter dated 29 May 1790 (see NLW MS 5500C). It is followed by printed copies of some of the appendices to The Literary Life of the late [sic] Thomas Pennant, Esq. ... (published 1793), including A Letter from a Welch Freeholder to his Representative (Chester, 1784), Of the Patagonians (Darlington, 1788), Flintshire Petition (1779) and A Letter to a Member of Parliament on Mail Coaches (London, 1792); a copy of American Annals; or Hints and Queries, for Parliament Men, 1775-8; broadsheets, 1792, 1798, etc.

A manuscript containing lectures on anatomy, surgery, 'physicke', etc., taken down by Charles George Ireland, together with a letter, 24 May 1798, from William Morgan, Actuary, Equitable Assurance Office, London.

Cywyddau, englynion, etc., gan Rhys [Rice] Jones o'r Blaenau. (Gynt A. E. Jones, Y Goppa MS) Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan Mrs A. E. Jones, Trawsfynydd, 1959-1961.

A notebook, containing geographical memoranda, bearing the names of Abigail Powell, 1726, and Eliza Maria Lewis, 1755.

A collection, accumulated by the Lloyd family of Plas Power, comprising an unpublished sixteenth-century treatise; annotated copies of works by Moses Williams (1685-1742) and John Worrall (d. 1771); an English-Welsh dictionary and material for a Welsh dictionary; transcripts of Welsh poetry, of an essay by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (1592?-1666), and of George Ripley's (d. c. 1490) 'The compound of alchymy', 1471; treatises, vocabularies and other texts in Latin and Greek; genealogies of Welsh families; sixteenth-century rental accounts relating to North Wales; an account of proceedings in Parliament for the year 1620; a translation of Christopher Sutton's (c. 1565-1629) Disce mori ...; a version of Piers Plowman; and other items.

A booklet containing transcripts, [18 cent, last ¼], of two letters, dated 6 July 1755 [sic] at Bryn Kyr [Brynkir], Caernarvonshire (ff. 1-10), and 14 July 1755 [sic] at Shrewsury (ff. 10 verso-16), from George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, ostensibly to his brother [Charles], describing a tour through parts of Shropshire and North Wales.
The text, with some differences, was published in The Works of George Lord Lyttelton…, pub. by George Edward Ayscough, Esq. (London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1774, ESTC T79264), pp. 736-751; in print, however, the letters are addressed to 'Mr [Archibald] Bower' and are dated 1756.

A volume containing an account of a tour in North Wales in the form of transcripts, [18 cent., last ¼], of four letters, dated 20-28 September 1776, sent from Caernarfon (pp. 1-25), Tan-y-Bwlch, Merioneth (pp. 27-49), Denbigh (pp. 50-74) and 'Rhyd Dyn' [Rhyddyn], Flintshire (pp. 75-95), commenting mainly on Welsh history and castles.
The transcripts have been heavily corrected and emended in a different hand. The author, who appears to have resided at Rhyddyn, is not named but may be the Rev. William Warrington. His correspondents are identified as a Mr Eyton (p. 1) and a Dr Jeffries (p. 49). Also included are a preface (ff. v-vii) and several versions of a passage, in the same hand as the emendations, relating an encounter with some Irishmen (f. i verso).

A copy of Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards translated into English ... (London, 1764, ESTC T145881), bound with Rhys Jones, Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru ... (Shrewsbury, 1773, ESTC T116041). On blank leaves added to the volume and on the margins of printed pages David Samwell (1751-1798) has transcribed poems by himself and by other writers and there are also obituary notices of Welsh poets and others by Samwell, as well as press cuttings and a printed copy of Ode for the First of March, 1791, St. David's Day. Inscribed to the Gwyneddigion Society of London, by Dafydd Ddu Feddyg ([?London], 1791, ESTC T231564). Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) (1747-1826) has added some notes on Glamorgan bards.

Transcripts by David Samwell (1751-1798) of poetry and of letters from Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) to Lewis Morris (1701-1765) and William Elias (1708-1787), Plas y Glyn, Anglesey; also included in the volume is a stipple-engraved portrait of Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fôn) (fl. 1793).

A commonplace book containing prognostications, weather lore, chronology, calendars, a table of Easter dates for 1600-1701 compiled by Rice Jones in 1598, an account of the English alphabet, historical 'englynion', and miscellaneous verse. The volume belonged in the eighteenth century to David Jones, Trefriw, who copied into it extracts from William Salesbury: A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe ... and from the almanacks of Thomas Jones, and some genealogical memoranda.

A volume, 1800-1801, in the hand of Hugh Maurice (1775-1825) containing the laws of Hywel Dda in the Demetian Code, copied from Cardiff MS 2.7 (a copy of BL Cotton MS Titus D ix), together with an extract relating to Hywel Dda from the Myvyrian Archaiology text of Brut y Tywysogion (pp. 242-3).