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Journal of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, November 1881-October 1882, including tours in Belgium, Holland, Germany; also Canford (pp. 1-23); together with records of purchases, September-October 1882 (pp. 1-6).

Journal of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, September 1879-November 1881, including tours in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and France; also Canford, London and Margam (pp.1-106); together with records of purchases, September-October 1879, September-November 1880, September-November 1881 (pp. 1-42 at end of volume, inverted text).

Journal, April 1883-October 1885, of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, at Folkestone, the Isle of Wight, South Africa, Portugal, London and Canford.

Journal, October 1885-April 1887, of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, at London and Canford.

Journal, May 1890-February 1891, of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, at London and Canford.

Journal, November 1888-May 1890, of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, at London and Canford.

A copy of Etchings by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 1830-1834 ([s.l.], 1889).

A copy of Fans and Fan Leaves: English, collected and described by Lady Charlotte Schreiber (London, 1888) [cf. NK 4870S37 (large folio)].

Manuscripts, 1818-1853, relating to the iron and coal industries at Dowlais, Glamorgan, comprising a notebook of Sir John Guest, 1818-1841, and transcripts of reports, 1851-1853.

Notebook, 1818-1841, of Sir John Guest containing various memoranda relating mainly to the iron and coal industries, including analysis of iron ores and various technical data; notes of tonnage of iron made at Dowlais and transported by canal; record of prices of bar iron; numbers of men, boys and girls working at Dowlais, 1818; together with a few political notes, notably an estimate of 'supposed influence in Glamorgan Boroughs'.

Copies of printed works, 1888-1895, by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, comprising Etchings, 1830-1834 ([s.l.], 1889), Fans and Fan Leaves, 2 vols (London, 1888-90) and Playing Cards of Various Ages and Countries, 3 vols (London, 1892-95).

A copy of Fans and Fan Leaves: Foreign, collected and described by Lady Charlotte Schreiber (London, 1890) [cf. NK 4870S37 (large folio)].

A copy of Playing Cards of Various Ages and Countries, selected from the collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 3 vols (London, 1892-5), I (1892) [cf. GV 1235 S37 (folio)].

A copy of Playing Cards of Various Ages and Countries, selected from the collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 3 vols (London, 1892-5), II (1893) [cf. GV 1235 S37 (folio)].

A copy of Playing Cards of Various Ages and Countries, selected from the collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 3 vols (London, 1892-5), III (1895) [cf. GV 1235 S37 (folio)]. Following the death of Lady Charlotte in January 1895, the work was completed by A. Wollaston Franks.

A volume containing transcripts of reports, 1851-1853, on the Dowlais Collieries, prepared by Thomas E. Wales, Nicholas Wood, [George] Martin, [mine agent], and John Evans, [works manager], addressed to Sir J. J. Guest and later to Lady Charlotte (pp. 1-94, 155-178). Also included are details of the power of engines used at the Dowlais Works (pp. 204-206).
Loose in the volume is a manuscript statement concerning a strike at Dowlais in 1853 (9 ff.).

Journal, April 1887-November 1888, of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, at Bournemouth, London, Uffington and Canford, and in Italy.

Journal, 1 September 1853-28 December 1854, 10 April-3 June 1855, of Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber), in Canford, Dowlais, London, France and Italy.
Also included are loose notes for a journal, 1858-1860 (9 ff.).

Manuscripts and printed works, 1818-1895, of Lady Charlotte Guest (née Bertie, other married name Schreiber), comprising journals, 1824-1891 (with gaps); papers relating to the iron and coal industries at Dowlais, 1818-1853; and copies of her printed books, 1888-1895.

Journals, 1824, 1827-1859, 1869-1891, of Lady Charlotte Guest (née Bertie, other married name Schreiber).
Summaries and short extracts from journals III-XVI were published in The Diaries of Lady Charlotte Guest, ed. by the Earl of Bessborough (1950), and from volumes XVI-XXXI in Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extracts from her Journal, 1853-91, ed. by the Earl of Bessborough (1952). Extracts from volumes XI-XIII relating to the translation of the Mabinogion were published in D. Rhys Phillips, Lady Charlotte Guest and the Mabinogion (Carmarthen, 1921). Volumes XIX-XXVII were published in Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques, ed. by Montague J. Guest & Egan Mew, 2 vols (1911).