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Pamphlets and papers on miscellaneous subjects, including An Account of the Visit of ... The Prince Regent ... The Emperor of Russia and The King of Prussia to the University of Oxford in June 1814 (Oxford. 1815); A Letter to ... The Earl of Sandwich from George Forster ... (London,1778) with an engraving entitled 'The German Doctor with his Family on his Travels ...', and an autograph letter, February 28, 1778, from the Earl of Sandwich to Daines Barrington; The Depositions ... in the Cause of the Church-Wardens of Trefdraeth ... Anglesea, against Dr. Bowles; ... to which is prefixed An Address ... . by the Society of Cymmrodorion (London, 1773); A Charge given at the Visitations of the Archdeaconry of Salop ... by Joseph Plymley ... (Shrewsbury, 1796); Thomas Lloyd: An Essay on the Literary Beauties of the Scriptures (Chester, 1784); Peter Williams: A Sermon (Oxford, 1791); Samuel [Horsley], bishop of St. Asaph: A Sermon (London, 1806); Catalogue of the Third Exhibition of Pictures ... illustrative of the British Poets and the Bible (London, 1790); Henry Fuseli: A Catalogue of the First Series of Pictures and Sketches from the Poetic Works of John Milton (London, c. 1800); A Description of ... Paintings ... at Cowdray in Sussex ...; Treadway Nash: Observations on ... the Death and ... Burial of Queen Katharine Parr (1787); Resolutions at a meeting ... holden at Ruthin ... for ... promoting a Subscription for the internal Defence of the Country (1794), with a list of subscriptions and minutes of five further committee meetings; William Boys: An Account of the loss of the Luxborough Galley by fire ... in the year 1727 (London, 1787); Richard Gough: A Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and England (London, 1777); J. B. Droubille: On the Formation of British Lancers ... (London, 1813); Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Eighteen hundred and eleven. A Poem (London, 1812); and William Pitt: A Comparative Statement of the food production from arable and grass land ... (London, 1812).

Seven miscellaneous holograph letters from the Rev. J[ohn] B[rickdale] Blakeway, Shrewsbury, to [David Pennant], 1823 (an enquiry concerning the seal of Thomas Mynde, abbot of Shrewsbury, which had been in [Thomas] Pennant's possession, the writer's desire to publish an engraving of the seal in his work on the history of Shrewsbury [J. B. Blakeway and Hugh Owen: A History of Shrewsbury (London, 1825)]); Rob[er]t Faulder, London, to [ ], 1795 (his inability to exchange the Indian Zoology, as he had 'none coloured' by him); Alex[ande]r Garden [botanist], Strand [London], to [Thomas Pennant], 1783 (information relating to the Gulf Stream and American ornithological matters); J[oh]n Maughan, Mostyn, to Mrs. Sheldon, Rhewl, 1827 (a request to recipient to surrender a seat in 'Sir Thomas Mostyn's part of the church' [of ], which was required for the tenant of Pentreffynnon farm); C[atherine] Pennant [London], to her brother [Thomas Pennant] [? circa 1795] (personal and family news, news of acquaintances); J. Plymley, Longnor, to [Thomas Pennant], 1794 (personal, a sketch of the arms of 'Gwin Lloyd of Gwersilt, last male heir, ob. s. p., 19 March 1774', acknowledging the receipt of prints); and Ch[arles] Williams Wynn, Salop, to [ ], 1804 (the identity of the subject of a portrait at Chester [possibly Sir William Williams, speaker of the House of Commons]).

Miscellanea, including lists of illustrations for Pennant's tours in Wales and Scotland.

Miscellaneous loose press cuttings and manuscript notes (some in the hand of Thomas and David Pennant), extracted from NLW MSS 12706-12714. The cuttings contain notes on the 'History of the sugar cane' (1832), and 'Northern herring fishing' (1827); news of an explosion at 'Mr. Eyton's Flint colliery' (1828), a meeting at Holywell in connection with a proposed petition against Catholic emancipation (1829), a suit, Sillitoe v Thomas, at Denbigh Great Sessions (1828), and the sale of an extra- illustrated copy (the Chiswell copy, consisting of eleven volumes quarto and one folio) of Thomas Pennant: A Tour in Wales, by Mr. Thorp, bookseller, of St. Martin's Lane [London], to an American buyer; obituary notices of the Reverend Thomas Maurice, assistant keeper of MSS at the British Museum (1824), and of Sir Thomas Mostyn [6th bart., of Mostyn, co. Flint] (1831); and a copy of a poem entitled 'Verses to Mr. Pennant on the writer's being apprized of his intention to make a visit into Cornwall'. The manuscript notes include 'A List of rare Plants observ'd in N. Wales nearly in the Order they were discover'd'; an 'Index to Walpole's Catalogue of Portraits at Woburn'; a list of ? portraits in various residences in England and Scotland, with a note at the top, in Thomas Pennant's hand, 'such as I have are marked thus X'; an 'Account of the Money mortified by George Heriot, Jeweller, to K. James VI, for founding his Hospital in Edinburgh'; copies of memorial inscriptions to Sion Trevor, Trevalyn, Dame Catherin, wife of Sir Richard Trevor of Trevalyn, Nicholas Pennant, Robert Pennant, Simon Yorke of Erthig, and his wife Dorothy, Elizabeth Yorke of Erthig, Sir John Williams, bart., of Bodelwyddan, and his wife, Dame Margaret, and Thomas Mostyn Edwards of Kilken Hall; notes on the Yarmouth herring fishery (1786); a rough pedigree of the Pennant family (sixteenth-eighteenth century); a list of the children of Mr. Lloyd [? the Reverend John Lloyd] of Caerwis (1794), with dates of birth; comments on [E.] Olafsen: Reise durch Island, 2 vols., 4°(Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1774); a copy of the inscription on Whitford school house; data relating to the births and deaths of various members of the Pennant family, 1637-1699; consolidated census statistics (houses and population), relating to the six counties of North Wales, with more detailed figures relating to specific parishes in co. Flint (1800), etc.

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Pennant, David Pennant, and David Pennant, junior. They include personalia, estate and parochial papers, 'The Account of David Pennant with the Poor of Whitford', 1798-1834, a note on Owen Glyn Dŵr, a priced list of illustrations for A Tour in Wales, a circular letter relating to the Talacre Coal and Iron Company, a poem written on the coming of age of David Pennant, junior, January 22, 1817, etc.

Sixteen miscellaneous manuscript items extracted from NLW MS 12706E, including three separate sheets each containing an English poem (the third entitled 'Gun Powder Treason'), and each one endorsed, in the same hand, '(verses) wrote by my son', 1740, 1741, and 1742 respectively; an English verse translation of Horace: Odes, Book 1, Ode XXII, endorsed 'June 1743'; a draft copy of a loyal address by the gentlemen, freeholders, and mine adventurers of the county of Flint, to [George III] on his accession to the throne [1760]; a certificate of election of Thomas Pennant as a member of the American Philosophical Society, 9 May 1791, signed by Dav[i]d Rittenhouse, president, and John Ewing, William Smith, and Th[omas] Jefferson, vice-presidents; an elegy by W[illia]m Henry Groves entitled ' Lines wrote on the lamented death of Thomas Pennant, Esqr'. [1798]; an eight-line stanza, ? in the hand of David Pennant, headed 'Verses written by the late Mrs. Piozzi, on the report of my Father's death in 1797 or 1798'; a holograph letter from Th[omas] Mostyn, from Bodysgallan, to ? David Pennant, undated (the death of Mrs. Pennant, ? Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th bart., of Mostyn, 2nd wife of Thomas Pennant); a note from Sir Edw[ard] Mostyn, Will[iam] Stanley, Hen[ry] Blundell, and Phil[ip] Jones, from Talacre, to Tho[ma]s Penant [sic], at Downing, 14 June [ ] (informing recipient that the three first named would 'attend him to Dublin', and desiring the favour of his company at Talacre the day prior to setting out); copies (undated) of 'A Prologue Spoke by one of the Scholars att Wrexham, at ye Acting of ye Siege of Damascus', and of an epilogue spoken on the same, or a similar, occasion; and copies or drafts of four items already noted as part of the manuscript content of NLW MS 12706E, viz., the memorial inscription to John Norman, in Newmarket church, the oration delivered by Sam[uel] Forster, when presenting Thomas Pennant for the honorary degree of LL.D., at Oxford, 11 May 1771, the letter by 'Laicus' referring to the state of the clergy (the present copy is dated April 15th, 1785), and the note of the death at Bychton, ? 13 November 1796, of Mr. Williams, tide waiter.

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Pennant and David Pennant. They include extracts from Thomas Dineley's manuscript of the Duke of Beaufort's 'Progress' through Wales, 1684; copies of epitaphs; lists of prints; a 'cywydd' to Lewis Morris by W. Wynne, and other poems; papers dealing with Flintshire turnpike roads, paupers, etc.; notes on minerals; papers and receipts relating to David Pennant's tour in Spain; receipts of innkeepers; a notification to Thomas Pennant of his election as Fellow of the Royal Society and of the receipt by the Society of presentation copies of some of his works; an appeal sent to Thomas Pennant, October 29, 1792, by the 'Liverpool Cymrydorion Society' for a subscription to enable Welsh services to be conducted in one of the episcopal churches of Liverpool; etc.

Miscellanea, including notes on the history of Cheshire, and a copy of Canterbury Notes. Information concerning the ... Settlement of Canterbury, New Zealand (London, 1850) with a letter, April 2, 1850, from James Edward Fitzgerald.

Advice and instructions to a person about to visit Germany to study mineralogy, and lists showing what minerals are found in different parts of the country.

A play entitled 'Micio's House', 'Played when I was at School in Fulham. T[homas] P[ennant].'

Translations of medical works in Latin by Thomas Willis, M.D., published at the Hague, 1659, medical prescriptions, and a discourse on Philippians, ii, 12-13.

Lists of portraits in a large number of English county country houses and two letters, 1811 and 1820, to David Pennant from G. P. Harding, portrait painter and copyist, enclosing similar lists.

Letters, 1763-1837, most of them addressed to David Pennant, and mainly dealing with local affairs (Board of Guardians, Flint Enclosure Bill, etc.).

Letters, mainly to Thomas and David Pennant, the correspondents including Lewis Bagot, (bishop of St. Asaph), J. Drinkwater (Gibraltar), G. P. Harding, Samuel Hearne, Edward Jones (agent to the Downing estate), Richard Jones (printer, Dolgelley), John Latham, John Lightfoot, Thomas Maurice (London), Robert Norris (Richmond), Henry Parry (Llanasa), George Shaw (British Museum), Richard Sillitoe (Bodfari), Joseph Strutt (London), Joseph Cooper Walker (Dublin), and Benjamin White (London).

Ten holograph and autograph (1) letters to Thomas Pennant at Downing and Hanover Square [London], from J[ohn] Aikin [physician and author], Yarmouth, [17]87 (personal, the writer's perusal of the journals of four ? local ships, including the Norfolk, Tartar, and Yarmouth, which had been on a ? whaling expedition to Greenland, a reported case of a three year pregnancy, a query by recipient concerning Sir Cha[rle]s Scarborough (Scarburgh), physician to Charles II, the writer's pleasure in reading recipient's appendix to the Arctic Zoology, his expectation of Mr. [John] Howard [philanthropist], several of whose papers relating to the plague he had been translating or abridging, the presence of Dutch fishermen 'to the number of 60 sail' at Yarmouth), [Sir] C[harles] Blagden, secretary of the Royal Society, Strand [London], 1792 (acknowledging receipt, on behalf of the Society, of a copy of recipient's Indian Zoology, 2nd ed. [(London, 1790)]), Henry Headley, undated (? a minor criticism by the writer relating to one of recipient's works), [Sir] W[illiam] Jones [judge and Orientalist], Calcutta, 1793 (personal, thanks for a gift of recipient's work Indian Zoology, a promise to send books, appreciation of 'Mr. Egerton's acquaintance'), John Latham [ornithologist], Dartford, 1794 (the death of Mr. [John Charles] Brook [Somerset Herald], who, with Mr. [Benjamin] P[ingo, York Herald], and many others, had been suffocated [in a crush at the Haymarket Theatre, February 1794], the writer's expectation of the new edition of recipient's Arctic Zoology, his pleasure on reading the introduction, which was already in print, an intended visit by recipient to the writer's home, literary matters), Gamaliel Lloyd, Bury St. Edmunds, 1796 (detailed genealogical data relating to the descendants of Richard, ? one of the three sons of [the Reverend] William Mostyn, archdeacon of Bangor, the writer being one of the said descendants), [the Reverend] John Lloyd [then rector of Nannerch, later rector of Caerwys], Caerwys, 1777 ( the building of Overton bridge, the connection between the second element in the names Powys Vadoc and Overton Madoc and Prince Madoc ap Meredydd), E. R. Owen, Bangor, 1782 (a sketch, and an account of, the traces remaining of a castle near Bangor), G[eorge] Paton [Scottish bibliographer and antiquary], Custom ho[use], Edinburgh, 1794 (personal, a reply to a query relating to Mey [estate], parish of Canesbay), and Pastor Daniel Sprunglin, Stettlen [Switzerland], 1773 (enclosing a list of all the birds of Switzerland, native and migratory, known to the writer) (in third person, letter in French, list in Latin).

Eight holograph letters to David Pennant [son of Thomas Pennant], at Downing, from [the Reverend] T[homas] D[udley] Fosbroke, Walford, near Ross, 1823 (2) (personal, enquiring whether there was a plan of Tre'r caeri in Caernarvonshire amongst the papers of the late Mr. [Thomas] Pennant, the writer being in need of one for his encyclopaedia [? Encyclopedia of Antiquities . . . (London, 1825)], information concerning the Weston family, who held the earldom of Portland [1633-1688], support for the proposed encyclopaedia, thanks to recipient for his promise of a new sketch of Tre'r Caeri), G[eorge] P[erfect] Harding, Strand [London], 1812 (a visit by the writer to the Savoy Chapel, a brief description of some of the monuments there, including those of Sir Robert Douglas, Lady Dalhousie, and ? a countess of Nottingham, and of the brasses in memory of William Chatterby and Thomas Halsey, the raising of the floor of the Savoy Chapel in 1801, an intended visit to St. Stephen's Chapel, portraits copied by the writer during the previous summer, including those of Sir F[rancis] Bacon, Thomas, earl of Cleveland, and Queen Elizabeth (by [Nicholas] Hilliard), at Gorhambury, and of Algernon, earl of Northumberland ('a very fine picture by Vandyke'), and Lady Jersey at Cashiobury), [the Reverend] J[ohn] Jones, the Vicarage, Holywell, 1819 and undated (2) (unrest amongst the colliers, threats to use violence against Mr. Clarke and Mr. Storey, and to destroy the Bagillt coal works, the writer's orders to innkeepers not to provide the Bagillt colliers with beer, his belief that parish relief could not be provided, and that it was necessary to summon military aid), Messrs. Longman & Co., London, [18]18 ( a reply to recipient's enquiry concerning his father's Tour in Scotland), Henry Parry, undated (a reply to a query relating to the sheriffs of cos. Denbigh and Flint, sixteenth and first half seventeenth cent., giving occasional biographical detail), and N. Roberts, clerk of the peace [for co. Flint], Mold, 1823 (enclosing a copy of a letter the writer had received from the Rev[eren]d Whitehall Whitehall Davies, from Broughton, 1823, in which he tendered his resignation as chairman of the magistrates, owing to the state of his health); and a holograph letter from [the Reverend] R[obert] W[ynne] Eyton, Llangollen Vicarage, to ? Mr. or Mrs. Pennant, 1824 ( personal, requesting recipient's assistance in finding a person to be responsible for the cleanliness of [St. Winifred's] well at Holywell, money for the purpose having been given by Mrs. Coutts).

A list of patients, mainly children, inoculated at Downing against small-pox, 1800, 1802, and 1819.

Indexes to some of Thomas Pennant's works on natural history.

An index by Thomas Pennant to his account of Africa and notes by him on European reptiles not found in Great Britain.

Notes by David Pennant on fishes.