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Notes describing a proposed route from Llanrwst to Bangor, with suggestions as to various points of interest, such as Carnedh Llewellin, Carnedh David, Llanberis, the vale of Llanberis, and the summit of Snowdon, which could be visited in the Snowdon area. Also outlined is a proposed route from Abergavenny through Lan y hangel, Lantony, Capel y fine, the Hay, and Bealt to Raeadr. These notes appear to have been compiled for the benefit of a friend or acquaintance who intended travelling in these areas.

Two volumes of diaries and journals of tours in North and South Wales kept by Walter Davies at various times between 1797 and 1817. They contain special references to agriculture and other industries, and most of them appear to have been used by him in the compilation of General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of ... Wales (London, 1810-1815).

Seventy holograph letters, 1844 and undated, largely relating to geological studies in Wales and elsewhere, written to A. C. Ramsay by Sir H[enry] Thomas] de la Beche from London, Aberystwyth, Tregaron, etc., W. Talbot Aveline, Ludlow, H. W. B[ristow], Presteigne, etc., Edward Forbes, Geol[ogical] Society], J. P. Nichol [from Dowanhill Observatory], John Phillips, T[rinity] C[ollege], Dublin, etc., Lyon Playfair, from Manchester, etc., Warington W. Smyth, Bedford, Chelsea, Llandegley, Manchester, etc. (ref. to sulphurous waters at Llandegley), Trenham Reeks, Museum [of Economic Geology], James Sharpe and John Sharpe, Glasgow, etc., W. R. Steuart Williams, Llandovery, etc., and John Wilson, Haddington and Aberystwyth; together with thirteen holograph letters, 1844, and undated, largely of a personal nature, written to A. C. Ramsay by William H. Baily from [London], John H. Barry, Liverpool, his cousin John Crombie, Edinburgh, his cousin J. Crombie, from [Glasgow], T. Evans, Eleanor Howden , [Edinburgh] and Bangor (an account of a tour of North Wales), G. McGlure, Helensburgh, Thomas Nimmo, Berbice [British Guiana], T. Todrick, Haddington, and W. Walton, Bath, a copy of a letter, 1844, from George Jones of the British and Foreign Institute to 'Mr. Punch', and a letter, 1839, from And[rew] C. Ramsay, Glasgow, to 'Robin' [Howie] (personal) ( found in the portable desk of Dr. Howie and re-addressed to the writer from Glasgow, 1844). Some of the letters are addressed to the Geological Museum, Charing Cross, London, and to the Ordnance Geological Survey at Dolau Cothi, Builth, and Rheadir Gwy.

A journal, 1877-1898, of tours in Yorkshire, Westmorland and North Wales written by Theodora, Mabel and Edgar Billson, and illustrated with many photographs.

A copy of Cyfarchiad Gostyngedig at Grist'nogion Cymru o bob Enw oddiwrth Gymdeithas Llundain; Yr hon a sefydlwyd yn Mawrth 1, 1810 i'r dyben i ddwyn yn mlaen Grist'nogaeth yn mysg yr Iddewon ... (London [1811]), including particulars of Joseph Samuel C[hristian] F[rederick] Frey's [1773-1850] preaching engagements on his tour through North Wales, 7 July - 4 August 1811. There are manuscript additions in the form of 'englynion' and other verses.

Miscellaneous notes and memoranda by William Pamplin, including brief notes on tours in various parts of North Wales, 1852-1855, and sketches of Llanberis, Llanfor and Pennant (Montgomeryshire) churches.

'Notes of a tour among the scenery of North Wales in the summer of the year 1849. By Edwin Lees, F.L.S., in company with two ladies', illustrated with prints and original sketches.

Journal, 1915-16, of the Reverend John Islan Jones, Cribyn, containing an account of a tour of Switzerland and France, 1914, and visits to the Lake District and North Wales, 1908-15.

A journal describing a tour in North Wales, preceded by a visit to London and Oxford, 18 August - 30 September 1860, by an unidentified lady, a resident of Boughspring, Tidenham, co. Gloucester; the journal is illustrated with engravings and pressed plants.

The journal of Charles Brodie Sewell, London, medical practitioner, describing a tour in North Wales and counties Pembroke and Devon, 24 August - 19 October 1889, accompanied by his daughter Annie Graham Sewell, with photographic illustrations.

Journal of a tour of North and Central Wales from July to September 1810 by the Reverend Corbet Hue (ca. 1770-1838), Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, illustrated with ink drawings and rough pencil sketches and including a map showing his itinerary.

A typescript journal, dated 1 February 1906, of a tour in North Wales in June 1905 by Fred T. Sissons of North Ferriby, Yorkshire, including photomechanical prints, newspaper cuttings and maps.

An account of a tour of North Wales, about 1850, with steel engravings, lithographs, and press cuttings bound up in a quarto album. The manuscript account runs from Chester via Gresford, Wrexham, Ruabon, Llangollen, Chirk, Oswestry, Welshpool, Llanidloes, Llangurig, Devil's Bridge, Aberystwyth, Machynlleth, Dolgelley, Barmouth, Harlech, Tremadoc, Beddgelert, Capel Curig, Llanberis, Caernarvon, Beaumaris, Conway, St. Asaph, Caerwys, Holywell, Flint, and Northop to Hawarden. The tourists included a Mr. and Mrs. Stamp.

Journal of Gertrude J. Stratton describing a tour of Chester and North Wales, August-September 1865, illustrated with contemporary engravings.

Journal of Charles H. New, Norwich, describing a tour of North Wales, August-September 1871, illustrated with contemporary engravings, photographs, one original pencil sketch (f. 40 verso), pressed plants and route map.

A journal of a tour through the counties of Denbigh, Merioneth, Cardigan, and Caernarvon, and the island of Anglesea in 1793. The author lived in Bridgnorth, Salop.

A journal, with sketches, of a walking tour from Kington to Aberystwyth and through parts of North Wales, 1828.

Some three hundred and fifty letters, 1945-1969, from Gilbert Turner to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, which include references to the novelist Elena Puw Morgan, Welsh language and literature, visits to North Wales, the writer's procurement of library books for the recipients and the preparation of typescript copies of Powys's Dostoievsky (1947) and Rabelais (1948). Turner continued corresponding with Phyllis Playter after John Cowper Powys's death in 1963.

Diaries and journals of tours in North and South Wales kept by Walter Davies at various times from 1797 to 1822, and containing references to agriculture and other industries.

A list, [September] 1795, by the artist John Malchair of Oxford, of drawings made by him on a tour of north Wales, 22 July-21 August 1785, written on returning to Oxford.
The drawings are described in chronological order, with some additional details and comments on the surroundings, people and weather. The itinerary includes Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire (f. 1), Dinas Mawddwy (f. 2 recto-verso), Barmouth (f. 3) and Harlech (f. 3 recto-verso), Merionethshire, and Beddgelert, Caernarvonshire (f. 3 verso). For a transcript of the list see Colin Harrison, John Malchair of Oxford: Artist and Musician (Oxford, 1998), pp. 150-152.