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Journal of a walking tour in Merionethshire and Caernarfonshire made in August and September 1884 by the geologist Dr Edward Greenly, later of Llandegfan, Anglesey, and described by him in his memoirs, A Hand through Time, 2 vols (London, 1938), I, 104-7. The journal includes four maps and is illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings, the one on p. 194 of the journal, entitled 'Llyn-y-Gader', being reproduced as plate XVI in A Hand Through Time. A few annotations and corrections were added by Greenly in 1935 and 1939.

Fifteen letters, 1844-9, from John Henry Cliffe (d. 1867), author of Notes and Recollections of an Angler: rambles among the mountains, valleys and solitudes of Wales ... (London, 1860), to his father W[astrell Brisco] Cliffe and brother Charles Frederick Cliffe (d. 1851), editor of the Gloucestershire Chronicle and author of The Book of North Wales ... (London, 1850), mostly describing his fishing holidays in counties Merioneth and Caernarfon; together with a letter, 1846, from Charles Frederick Cliffe to his father, and two letters from W. B. Cliffe to his sons Frederick, 1844, and Henry, 1847.

An illustrated manuscript journal, [1837x1838] (watermark 1836), by the artist George Nicholson of Liverpool, of a tour of Snowdonia on 5-18 August 1837, including nine pen and ink drawings by Nicholson, together with two watercolour paintings, apparently by his sister Isabella.
Nicholson and his two friends Edward [Priestley] and Mary Ann arrive at Bangor by ship [from Liverpool] on 5 August (f. 2). Their itinerary includes Caernarfon (f. 3), Beddgelert and Pont Aberglaslyn (f. 3 verso), Tanybwlch, Maentwrog (ff. 5-7 verso) and Ffestiniog (f. 6 recto-verso). They then return to Beddgelert for a week (ff. 8-17), before travelling via Capel Curig (ff. 17 verso-18) to Bangor (f. 18 verso) for the passage home (ff. 18 verso, 20). The group also climb Snowdon (ff. 9-10 verso). The pen and ink drawings comprise 'Llyn Colwyn' [i.e. Llyn Cwellyn?] (f. 3 verso), 'Pont Aberglasllyn [sic]' (f. 4), 'Tan-y-Bwlch Inn' [i.e. the Oakeley Arms] (f. 6), 'From the window of the Oakley [sic] Arms, Tan-y-Bwlch' (f. 7), 'Ciliart's [i.e. Gelert's] Tomb' (f. 12), 'Goat Inn' (f. 14), 'Plas Colwyn' (f. 16), and 'Trifain [i.e. Tryfan] – Foel Goch – Benglog' (f. 19). The watercolour paintings, both of which are labelled 'I. N. fecit', depict two dragonflies on heather (f. 8) and two butterflies on harebell (f. 13). Also included are copies of verses taken from visitors' books and albums during the journey (ff. 6, 7 recto-verso, 18).