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An account of travels in France by Thomas Hanmer [of Fenns Hall], c. 1728, together with some draft and holograph letters, miscellaneous notes, etc., 1725/6-1731 and undated. The correspondents include M. Bernége, Turin, Jean Escher, Zurich, T[homas] Stephens, C[orpus] C[hristi] C[ollege], C[ambridge], and A. Bosatty, Bologna.

Journal, 1815-1821, written in equal parts French and English, by Philip Davies Cooke of Gwysaney, Flintshire, of tours through North Wales and France in the company of David Pennant of Downing, Flintshire.
The entries comprise a tour of North Wales from Downing to Chirk, Denbighshire, July-[August] 1815 (English, pp. 341-368); a tour through France via Orleans, the Loire Valley, Brittany, Aunis and Saintonge, Aquitaine, Pyrenees, Languedoc, Provence, Dauphine and Lyon, May-July 1818 (English, pp.1-156); from Sheffield to Holywell, October 1819 (English, pp. 335-340); and from Paris to Champagne, Piedmont, Genoa, Provence and Nice, Monaco and Burgundy, travelling mainly by boat, October 1820-January 1821 (French, pp. 158-335). The entries emphasise the history, antiquities and culture of the places visited. The main entries are written on the versos with addenda on the rectos opposite.

Journal kept by Philip Davies Cooke of a tour through parts of France and Italy, February-May 1824.

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).

Journals of Joan Denny describing a tour in Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy, August-October 1878 (MS 23404A, pp. 1-80; MS 23405A, pp. 1-130), and a visit to Vienna, Munich and Nuremberg, May 1880 (MS 23405A, pp. 131-154).

Forty-six manuscript and typescript letters, [c. 1890]-[c. 1934], from Berta Ruck, mostly to her father, Col Arthur Ashley Ruck, [1920s]-[c. 1934], containing mainly personal and family news.
Also included are two letters to her grandmother Mary Anne Ruck, [c. 1890] (ff. 1-4), and a carbon copy letter to her sister-in-law, Georgina Ruck, 15 July 1932 (ff. 86-91). Most of the letters were written either from home or while on holiday in Austria, France, Germany and Sweden. There are references to Oliver Onions (ff. 6-100 passim), Geoffrey Moss (f. 6), Sir Ray Lankester (ff. 9 verso, 10 verso-11, 12, 31, 32, 66), Ménie Muriel FitzGerald (ff. 13-17, 18, 29, 46-47, 56, 59), Alec Waugh (ff. 26, 35-36) and Vita Sackville West (f. 46); she also describes her car accident on 14 July 1932 (ff. 88-91). There are ink drawings by Ruck on f. 2 recto-verso.

Fragments of notebooks of Berta Ruck, 1914-1926, containing impressions of travels in England and Merioneth, Wales, 1914-1916 (ff. 1-11), New York, [22]-23 September 1919 (ff. 12-16), Vienna, Austria, 1926 (ff. 17-30 verso), and France, 1926 (ff. 31-36), together with a few notes for fiction. Ephemera (in German) and nine letters, postcards and telegrams, mainly from family, July-August 1926, have been pasted in.
There are references to the First World War, [1914] (f. 2 recto-verso), 1916 (ff. 5 verso, 7 recto-verso), including a description of a Red Cross auction in Corris, Merioneth, 3 June 1916 (f. 7 recto-verso). Ink drawings by Ruck are on ff. 2 verso, 12. A photograph, [1926], of Ruck with her son, Arthur, is on f. 36 verso.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, March 1921-June 1924, containing diary entries, ideas for fiction, comments on the progress of her work and impressions of holidays in Vichy, Brittany and Haute Savoie, France; a few extracts were later incorporated in her autobiographical volume A Story-teller tells the Truth (London, 1935).
Letters and papers, 1921-1933, found loose inside have been filed separately (NLW MS 23569iiC).

Notebook of Berta Ruck, December 1922-January 1923, containing a journal of a visit to the south of France and Corsica (ff. 1-21).
The journal records her car journey from Paris to Cannes, in the company of Ménie Muriel FitzGerald, December 1922 (ff. 1 verso-5), her stay at Cannes, including visits to Nice and Monte Carlo, December 1922 (ff. 5-11) and her visit to Corsica, December 1922-January 1923 (ff. 11 verso-21). There are also fragments of journal entries from September 1921 (f. 49) and October 1921 (f. 50 recto-verso). A letter from Dr George Williamson to a Mrs Hueffer, 6 June 1923, possibly about Ruck, is f. 22a. A leaf containing cartoons and jottings is f. 52a.

A notebook containing a diary by Raymond Garlick, 24 July-17 August 1950, recording his pilgrimage with his wife Elin from Wales to Rome, via France and Italy, during the Holy Year of 1950 (ff. 3-31, rectos only). The couple travelled mainly by hitch-hiking.
Garlick also collected stamps and signatures from various religious houses and churches on the route for an 'Ecclesiastical Passport' (ff. 86-90 verso, inverted text). Pasted into the volume are letters of introduction from the Bishop of Menevia and the Garlicks' parish priest in Pembroke Dock (inside front and back covers). Also included is a draft of Garlick's editorial for Dock Leaves, No. 3 (Michaelmas 1950), 1-5, drawing on his travels to give his impressions of France and Italy (ff. 43-51). Miscellaneous items of ephemera found loose in the volume have been tipped in on empty leaves (ff. 32-38); these relate to the pilgrimage, except for two receipts from a visit to Spain in August 1951 (ff. 37-38).

A journal of John Thomas for the period 3 November 1853-8 April 1854, his first season in Paris, including entries of visits made and received, and performances given at concerts and soirées.

A journal of Henry Richard's visits to France, April-May 1849, July-August [?1849], March-April 1856, and April 1861.

Notes on a tour through parts of Belgium, northern France, and southern England, and memoranda.

The journal, 11 November 1671-1673, of [Henry] Herbert during his tour of military duty in France, including three poems (one by Vavasor Powell) on the late king Charles [I].

Copy, [1610x1624], of ‘Observations of France’, by Sir George Carew, ambassador to France before 1610, together with a typescript review of the document, [1965xc.1990], by John Butler of the University of Manitoba.

Journal, 1770, of [?Henry Arthur Herbert], kept during a tour through France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, together with an account of glaciers.

Nineteen holograph letters written mainly to A. C. Ramsay. The writers include J. Fred. Bateman, Westminster, 1877 (the application of the Corporation of Manchester to Parliament for power to take water from Thirlmere), Charlotte A. M. Cookman, Dolau Cothy, 1876 (personal, news of friends, the hot water system at Dolau Cothy, the publication of Bishop Thirlwall's Welsh sermons by Canon Phillips of Aberystwyth), Eliza Dymock, undated (the honour conferred on the recipient), James Geikie, Geological Survey of Scotland, from Perth, 1879 (observations on the glaciation of the gorge of the Rhone and of the Faroe Islands), Franz v. Hauer, Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna, [1]882 (a toast to the writer at the dinner of the London Geological Society), Leonard Horner [from London], undated (the meeting of the Council [of the Geological Society], the rejection of exhibits at the Museum), W. P. Jervis, Regio Museo Industriale Italiano, Turin, 1882 (the writer's publications on the geology of Italy, an offer of specimens for the Jermyn Street Museum), Cha[ rles] Lyell, Bristol, 1843 (arranging to meet the recipient (one signature cut away), J. Milne, Tokio, 1882 (the writer's experiments with artificial earthquakes) (incomplete), James Nasmyth, Penshurst, Kent, 1879 (the writer's work on casting specula for reflecting telescopes, with reference to a speculum cast for Richard Green, M.D.), J. C. Ramsay [from Demeraire] to his brother [William Ramsay], undated (the recipient's proposed Continental tour) (incomplete), M. Louisa Ramsay, Hyeres, France, to 'Willie' [son of William Ramsay], undated (a professorship at Bristol for the recipient, personal, observations on France), W. Ramsay, Glasgow, 1880 (news of family and friends), Berthold Schlesinger, M℗♭©žhr-Ostrau, 1881 (the presence of strontianite in Scotland), Ange Sismonda, Museo Mineralogico di Torino, Turin, 1878 (a request for a copy of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom), Edward Thring, The School House, Uppingham, Rutland, [18]83 (a request to place the recipient's name on the General Committee), J[ohn] Williams, Treffos, Bangor, 1867 (observations on the recipient's letter concerning St. David's horns [at Llanddewibrefi]), and E. Woodall, undated (the recipient's contemporaries at Cambridge University) (incomplete). Some of the letters are addressed to the School of Mines, Jermyn Street [London], to the Ordnance Survey, Marshfield, near Bath, and to Wooton-under-edge. At the end of the volume are two sheets of extracts relating to the 'petrified horn which hung in the church of Llanddewibrefi ' ('Matgorn yr ych bannog' or 'Matgorn ych Dewi').

A brief account of a tour to Calais, Lille, Brussels, etc., 1870.

Journals of Henry Richard's visit to Berlin, June-July 1878, and a tour of France and Switzerland, August-September 1882.