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'Extract out of Mr. Serce's [?Sass's] Journall the Govr to Sr Rowland Wynne [?fourth baronet, of Nostell, Yorkshire, 1706-65, descended from a cadet of Gwydir] with relation to his Tour of Germany' [?circa 1726-9].

Transcripts of articles by Gareth Vaughan Jones including 'The world in 1931: a retrospect of the banking cris', published in the Western Mail, 21 December 1931, and others on Germany and Russia.

The diary, 1839-1841, of Sarah Pahud (née Walker), daughter of a Dolgellau family and wife of Henri Pahud, a Swiss born Paris businessman. The diary is written in English and French.
Pahud describes her honeymoon tour with her husband through France (English, pp. 1-8), Italy (French, pp. 8-30), Switzerland (French, pp. 31-46) and Germany (French, pp. 46-51), April-June 1839; a journey from Paris to Manchester via Dover and London, October 1839 (French, pp. 52-56); and a visit to her family in Dolgellau, travelling via Paris, London and Chester and returning via Birmingham and London, June-September 1841 (English, pp. 56-96). She also visits friends in Barmouth (pp. 75-79) and Ruthin (pp. 80-87) and describes the consecration service of St David's Chapel, Denbigh, 27 August 1841 (pp. 84-85). There are references to Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, with an eyewitness account of Chopin's perceived state of health, 3 May 1839 (pp. 7-8). There are also a few further miscellaneous memoranda, [1858] (ff. 114, 184).

Diaries of Mary Caroline Evans Williams of Bryntirion Hall, Rhaeadr, Radnorshire, 1861-1906, and of her daughter, Elizabeth Alice Evans Williams, later E. A. Lewis Lloyd, 1889-1903. Most of the entries are brief, apart from those detailing vacations in Germany, 1861-1862, and Belguim, 1897 and 1906.

The file is composed of correspondence and papers deriving from various trips abroad, among them Germany, 1929, a tour of the United States of America, 1958, Hungary, 1972, India, 1972, and the United States, 1986. The correspondence relating to Eirene Jones's visit to Germany in 1929 includes letters exchanged between her and her father Dr Thomas Jones.

Estate records, including deeds and documents, 1304-1887, relating to the estates of the Glynnes in Flintshire and elsewhere. The first three centuries covered by the deeds relate largely to the Ravenscroft family, their property, and their legal transactions. A large body of the documents relate to the period when Sir John Glynne, 6th bart., was the occupier of the estate. Other estate records include accounts, rentals, estate, household, and personal accounts, inventories, election expenses, colliery accounts, lists of charities distributed, estate maps, plans, surveys, bills, vouchers, etc., 1690-1872, including rentals of the lordship of Hawarden, 1686-1886. -- Amongst the personal papers are the diaries and account books of Sir John Glynne, 1753-1757, the diaries of the Rev. Stephen Glynne, 1798-1824, Mary Glynne, afterwards Lady Lyttelton, 1824-1831, Stephen Richard Glynne, 1825-1874, and W. H. Gladstone whilst at Eton College, 1856-1857; travel journals through North Wales, 1824, South Wales, 1824, Scotland, 1839, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Belguim, Greece and Austria, 1834-1866, Turkey, 1848, Egypt, 1850, and Palestine, 1850. -- The archive also includes election papers such as lists of voters, canvass returns, accounts, relating to Flintshire elections, 1727-1837, letters written by and to members of the Glynne family and to Gladstone; notes on history, genealogy and ecclesiology; ships' log-books, 1727-1730 and 1734-1739. -- A separate group of legal papers which belonged to a lawyer named Dovey, relate mainly to bankrupts, and their immediate relevance to the Glynne family is not very obvious.

Journal, 29 March 1841-23 June 1844, of Lady Charlotte Guest, at Dowlais, London and Sully, with tours in Belgium and Germany.
Papers loose inside the volume include engraved views of Wesel, [Germany]; a poster, 1830, relating to the 'Swing riots' in Northamptonshire, sent to her stepfather, Rev. Peter W. Pegus; and notes and rough sketches of architectural details, a hand mangle and a domestic iron (10 ff.).

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).

Exercise book containing Vernon Watkins's journal of travels in Belgium and Germany in 1931, together with draft poems, 1931-1936, all apparently unpublished.

Journal of Maria Elizabeth Thomas, describing a tour in Holland, Germany, Bohemia, and Belgium, 1820s, including a list of places visited (ff. 81-82) and a list of hotels (f. 87 recto-verso), with typescript satirical verses addressed to 'O.B.J.' pasted inside the back cover.

A journal of a tour of Holland, Germany and France undertaken between 16 July and 17 November 1837. The tour began at Rotterdam and included visits to Scheveringen, Katwig [Katwijk], La Haye [The Hague], Leyden [Leiden], Haarlem, Amsterdam, Broek, Utrecht, Arnheim [Arnhem], Cleves, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Andernach, Coblenz [Koblenz], St Goar, Bingen, Rhudesheim [Rudesheim], Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Francfurt [Frankfurt], Fulda, Eisenach, Gotha, Weimar, Leipsig [Leipzig], Meissen, Dresden, Chemnitz, Reichenbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg [Nurnberg], Ratisbonne [Ratisbon], Landshut, Munchen (Munich), Augsbourg [Augsburg], Ulm, Stutgard [Stutgart], Carlsruhe [Karlsruhe], Baden Baden, Strasbourg, Sarrebourg, Nancy, St Desier, Rheims, Château Thierry and Paris. Among the persons mentioned in the text are Lord and Lady Cawdor, Lord Emlyn and Lady Caroline. At the end of the volume are a few pencil illustrations and an index of places (p. 267).

Two volumes bound in parchment containing a detailed journal by David Pennant, Downing of a tour of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. The recorded tour began at Dover on 5 July 1819 and ended at Brussels on 16 June 1820. At the end of each volume are daily weather observations and other memoranda.

A volume of mounted cuttings from The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, 31 August - 28 December, 1861, together with copious manuscript additions and corrections, containing a 'Diary of my second Continental Tour', undertaken by D. J. E. from B[ristol] between 9 June and 4 August, 1860. The tour comprised parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

A journal kept by Frances (Fanny) Williams Wynn during a tour in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, 1817.

Journal, July-October 1788, of Thomas Ellis Owen, then a student at Christ Church, Oxford, later rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, describing a tour of Germany, from London to Weimar.
The journal includes descriptions of Hamburg (ff. 2-3), Hanover (ff. 4 verso-6), Wolfenbüttel (8 recto-verso), the silver mines at Goslar (ff. 9 verso-11 verso), Göttingen (ff. 13-14), Münden (ff. 14-15), Cassel (ff. 15-19), and Weimar and its environs (ff. 21-28). The volume includes an anecdote relating to Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (ff. 18-19), and an account of a conversation with Goethe. (ff. 27 verso-28 verso).

A journal of a tour in Germany, August-September 1936, undertaken by Geraint Dyfnallt Owen and his parents.