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Eleven letters, 1854-1902, some incomplete, from Sir Llewelyn Turner (1823-1903), Parkia, Llanfair-is-gaer, co. Caernarfon, to John Breese (1830-58), town clerk of Pwllheli, and to 'Mr Wynn' [possibly Frederick George Wynn, Glynllifon, co. Caernarfon], relating mainly to the maintenance of Caernarfon Castle and harbour, and to the Royal Welsh Yacht Club.

Records of the Welsh portion of the Duchy of Cornwall estate including include ministers' accounts, 1461-1552, of various lordships, including Bromfield and Yale and the March, including its constituent lordships mainly Montgomery; chamberlain's accounts for North and South Wales, 1487, 1520; receivers' accounts, 1544-1620; accounts of receivers of fines and amercements in the Council of Wales and the Marches, 1597-1616; accounts of receivers of Queen Henrietta Maria, 1671-1672; rentals and valuations, 1391-1698, including a rental of the rhingyllship of Iscoed, Denbighshire, 1391; petitions, 1620-?1723; certificates of survey, 1618-1695; surveys of castles, 1618-1625, including Carew, Caernarfon, Brecon, Holt, Beaumaris, Ruthin, Flint and Rhuddlan castles, deeds, 1563-1723; commissions and warrants, 1637-1727; ecclesiastical papers, 1804-1895, mainly relating to a dispute between the Prince of Wales and the Lord Chancellor over the right to patronage to certain ecclesiastical livings in Wales in 1863-1865; and manuscript plans, [c 1600]-[1650], including a manuscript plan of Holt Castle.

A commonplace book containing a copy, [?1812] (watermark 1808), of a journal of a picturesque tour in Wales and Ireland, 11 July-23 August 1812, probably written by William Osmund Hammond of St. Alban's Court, Nonington, Kent, describing scenery and points of interest, the weather, towns, people, inns, food, local customs and legends (ff. 17-148 verso).
The writer travelled by carriage in the company of his brother Maximilian [Hammond, later Dalison]. Departing from London on 11 July, the itinerary included Cheltenham and Gloucester (ff. 20-27), the lower Wye Valley (ff. 28-45), Brecon (ff. 49-52), Llandovery (ff. 53-54), Lampeter (ff. 58-60), Cardigan (ff. 61-62), Aberystwyth (ff. 65-71), Dolgellau (ff. 74-75) and Caernarfon (ff. 81-87), reaching Holyhead on 28 July (f. 87). In Ireland they stayed in Dublin (ff. 93-97), then travelled through County Wicklow (ff. 97-111) to Waterford (ff. 115-122) and Cork (ff. 123-126), reaching Killarney (ff. 128-148 verso) on 20 August. Included in the volume are descriptions of boat trips on the Wye from Ross-on-Wye to Chepstow (ff. 29-42) and around the Lakes of Killarney (ff. 131 verso-148 verso), the voyage from Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire (ff. 89-92), visits to a pin factory in Gloucester (ff. 22-24) and the glass blowing factory in Waterford (ff. 121 recto-verso), Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire (ff. 30-33), Tintern Abbey (ff. 38-41), Devil's Bridge, Cardiganshire (ff. 66-70), Snowdonia (ff. 78-80, 86), Caernarfon Castle (ff. 83-85) and Glendalough, County Wicklow (ff. 101-107). The Hammonds, and their friends and neighbours the Plumptres of Fredville (see ff. 20-21, 25), were acquaintances of Jane Austen (see Jane Austen's Letters, 4th edn, ed. by Deirdre Le Faye (Oxford, 2011), pp. 530, 562).

A minute book of the Literary Society of Gerlan Calvinistic Methodist Church, Gerlan, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, covering (with some gaps) the period 1906-19. Among the entries are detailed reports of lectures by Principal [Thomas] Rees, Bangor (on 'David Livingstone'), Professor [Sir] John Morris-Jones, Bangor ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion' and 'Pantycelyn'), Thomas Shankland, Bangor ('Morgan John Rhys, y Jacobin Cymreig'), S. Maurice Jones, Caernarvon ('Olion Hen Hanes Cymru', with illustrations, by the recorder, of Caernarvon Castle, Valle Crucis Abbey, the parliament house of Owain Glyndŵr at Dolgellau, Cefn Brith, etc.), J. H. Jones ('Je Aitsh'), Liverpool ('Y Cymro trwy lygad Said'), [Lewis Davies Jones] ('Llew Tegid') ('Trioedd hen a newydd), [Robert] Gwyneddon Davies and Mrs. [Grace] Gwyneddon Davies ('Alawon Gwerin'), T. Gwynn Jones, Aberystwyth ('Pantycelyn'), etc.