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Notes and memoranda by Walter Davies, and fragments of letters received by him.

Letters and fragments of letters, addressed mainly to Walter Davies, Jane Davies, and John Vaughan (Penmaen Dyfi), among the correspondents being Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) and Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg); fragments of letters from Humphrey Foulks to Edward Lhuyd and from William Jones [? also to Lhuyd]; autographs of Welsh bishops; etc.

One of six volumes consisting of several hundred letters ranging in date from the late eighteenth century to about the middle of the nineteenth, and addressed mainly to Walter Davies, with some to his daughter Jane, to John Jenkins, and to John Vaughan, from numerous correspondents connected with various aspects of Welsh life and including: Owen Jones (Owain Myvyr), Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), Robert Jones (Rotherhithe), Theophilus Jones, Thomas Jones (Bardd Cloff), Thomas Jones (Esgair Ifan, Towyn), Thomas Jones (Llanrhaiadr), William Jones (Cadfan), William Jones (Brwynog), James Kearney, William Davies Leathart, Samuel Lewis (London), David Lloyd (Llanbister), John Lloyd (Wigfair), Simon Lloyd (Bala), Angharad Llwyd, Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon), and Joseph Hayes Lyon.

Letters and drafts of letters written by Walter Davies including several written to John Jenkins.

A copy, with manuscript notes by Walter Davies and others, of John David Rhys : Cambrobrytannicae Cymraecaeve linguae institutiones et rudimenta ... (London, 1592).

An interleaved copy, with numerous manuscript additions by Walter Davies, of William Owen [-Pughe] : The Cambrian Biography : or Historical Notices of Celebrated Men among The Ancient Britons (London, 1803).

An interleaved copy of Testament Newydd ... (Oxford, 1838) presented by John Jones (Tegid), who corrected this edition for the press, to Walter Davies, with a few manuscript notes by Davies.

A copy, with manuscript notes by Walter Davies, of Sir John Wynne : The History of the Gwedir Family (London, 1770).

Miscellaneous sermons

Miscellanea mainly in the hands of John Jenkins and Walter Davies and relating to the history, literature, ecclesiastical affairs, and music of Wales; a document relating to the collation of Richard Humffreys to the living of Aberhavesp, February 21, 1628 9; a fragment in the hand of Edward Lhuyd; a letter from Maudline Nanne to Robert Vaughan, May 24, 1636; etc.

Poems and fragments of poems by John Blackwell (Alun), Walter Davies, David Davies, Davidd Evans, Henry Evans, Rondle Hanmer (1677), Felicia Hemans, John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel), Evan Pugh, etc., many of them in the hand of John Jenkins; and miscellanea.

Poems by Daniel Evans ('Daniel Ddu o Geredigion'), Walter Davies, Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), Robert Evans (author of 'Cerdd y Winllan'), David Foulks ('Dun Towyll of Blwy Llanfyllin'), Morris Ismel, John Jones ('Jac Glanygors'), John Cain Jones, Ioan Jones Llywelun, Goronwy Owen, Harri Parri (Craigygath), John Rees (Llanrhaiadr), David Rowlands, William Wynn (Llangynhafal), etc.; adjudications by Walter Davies, and a copy of his 'Traethawd ar Lywodraeth a Defodau y Britaniaid' transcribed from British Museum Add. Ms. 15059; 'rhestr o enwau tonau'; etc.

A scrap book which belonged in 1843 to Emma Luxmoore, Guilsfield, and which contains sketches, gardening notes, etc.

Fourteen volumes of sermons, 1682-1815, some of them written by Walter Davies.

Eight volumes of sermons, 1801-1829, written by John Jenkins.

'Marwnad Griffith Jenkins Kilbronne (father of John Jenkins, Kerry), yr hwn a fy farw Hydref 13th 1781', by John Jenkin (Ioan Siencyn).

'Marwnad ... Mrs Mary Jenkins, Kilbronne' [mother of John Jenkins, Kerry], by Evan James.

Cash accounts of John Jenkins, 1815-1825, including prices realised at a sale of furniture and household goods, 1825; a diary kept by Walter Davies, 1846; and prayers in the hand of John Jenkins.

Two essays on regeneration and the early history of the Christian church, written (c. 1810) by Edward Davies, author of Celtic Researches.

A notebook of William Evans containing Latin-English and English-Latin phrases, the argument of Virgil's AEneid, Books 4-12, and extracts from Latin authors.