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Transcripts of letters dealing with Welsh orthography, the correspondents including Walter Davies, John Jones, ('Tegid'), Rowland Williams, William Carey (bishop of St. Asaph), Thomas Charles, David Hughes, and Joseph Tarn, with a copy of a letter to Walter Davies from Peter Bayley Willliams.

'Helps towards a more copious Cambrian Biography' containing 'A List [the surnames alphabetically arranged] of Welshmen who attained the Episcopal Dignity, from the year 1558 ... to 1714'. At the beginning is an extract from a letter, dated October 7, 1825, from John Jenkins ('Ifor Ceri', 1770-1829) to Thomas Beynon, archdeacon of Cardigan.

A commonplace book containing notes on sources of early British history and a few Welsh proverbs with translations, a commentary, and etymological notes in Latin.

Transcripts by Walter Davies, with notes and observations, of Edward Lhuyd's summary of answers to his 'Parochial Queries ...', and of Lhuyd's Itinerary throug [sic] Wales extracted out of Mr Lloyd of Caerwys's Copy of the Hallstone MS; and abstracts, also by Walter Davies, from some of Edward Lhuyd's correspondence.

A book of legal precedents compiled by Philip Holland, Neath.

Notes by Walter Davies on inscriptions, etc.; extracts by him from John Pinkerton: An Inquiry into the History of Scotland ... (London, 1789); a letter, 1864, from William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn); etc.

Transcripts by Walter Davies of 'Y Gododdin' and other Welsh poems, and extracts from T. R. Malthus : An Essay on the Principle of Population.

An index, prepared by Walter Davies, of proper names, mainly Welsh personal and place-names; englynion and other poems; and miscellaneous notes.

Miscellaneous notes by Walter Davies.

'The Mabus Manuscript containing the Pedigrees of the Gentry of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire .... carefully transcribed from the Copy of David Rowlands Esqr. of Chatham by J[ohn] J[enkins] Kerry, 1829'. The transcript was completed in 1830 by D. Davies, junior.

A transcript made in 1828 by John Jenkins of 'The Manafon Manuscript of [Welsh] Pedigrees ... belonging to ... Walter Davies ...'.

Copies, in the hand of Joseph Morris (Shrewsbury), of pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families.

Transcripts by Walter Davies of part of a text of Brut y Brenhinoedd, of cywyddau from Llyfr Ystrad Alun (now MS. 7191), and of portions of William Boutcher: A Treatise on Forest Trees ... (Edinburgh, 1775).

Notes made by Walter Davies on a journey undertaken on behalf of the Board of Agriculture through Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, and Glamorgan [1811], and dealing particularly with the geology of the counties and with their agriculture and other industries.

'The British Chronologist', containing a brief account of the major events in the history of Britain, 55 B.C.-1272 A.D.

Welsh and English versions of a history of Cadwgan, prince of Powys, and the Welsh chieftains, compiled by John Evans (Maelor), 1841, and dedicated to John Vaughan, Penmaen Dyfi, Merioneth.

An incomplete transcript (A-Brigh) of a Cornish-English vocabulary, An Lhadymer ay Kernou - The Interpreter of Cornwall, by William Hals.

Transcripts by Walter Davies, from manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum, of letters to Edward Lhuyd from William Nicolson, William Price, Nic. Roberts, W. Rowlands, Jo. Maddocks, Edward Thomas, T. Davies, Thomas Hamorne, Maurice Jones, William Gambold, Erasmus Saunders, J[ohn] Ll[oyd], Robert Humphreys, and Humphrey Foulkes.

An interleaved copy of Dictionarium Poeticum, Historicum, & Geographicum, Nomina Propria exhibens, with additional notes and memoranda by Walter Davies and extracts by him from John Pinkerton: An Inquiry into the History of Scotland ... (London, 1789).