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A notebook of Edward Lhuyd, written 1698 (see pp. 10, 52), containing details of monumental inscriptions in Llanboidy (p. 6), Defynnog (p. 7), Llanfihangel (Mongomeryshire) (p. 17), Trawsfynydd (p. 31), Llangadog (p. 53), Herefordshire (pp. 58, 72), Llanllywenfel (p. 75), Llanafan Fawr (p. 77) and Llandanwg (p. 89); sketches of stone crosses (pp. 59-61, 73), stone circles (pp. 27, 44, 94, 99, 100) and further stones (pp. 2, 9, 42-3, 56), lime pit fossils (pp. 14, 44, 54, 62, 84-5, 145), a window (p. 3), Llangorse lake (p. 36), and the shore by Barry Island (pp. 37-8); and details of tombstones and their epitaphs (pp. 4, 11, 13, 39, 47, 63, 69, 81). The volume also includes notes relating to manuscripts and their owners (pp. 65-74), etc. An autograph note on p. 120 states: 'Mr. Edward Lhwyd was born at Lappiton parish, his nurse is now [?1698] living at Krew green (where he was nurs'd) 9 yre of her at Mrs. Judith Cowfield at Lappiton / his nurse says he is 41 years old 3 days before Michaelmas last according to Catherine Bowen his nurse to ye best of her memory'.

An autograph letter, 9 June 1698, from Edward Lhuyd, Pembroke, to [Humphrey Humphreys], Bishop of Bangor, relating to Lhuyd's ongoing tour of South Wales, describing the difficulties faced in corresponding, his fossil collecting and his research into Welsh manuscripts (f. 1).
Also included is an engraved portrait of Lhuyd, 1796 (f. 2).

A volume consisting mainly of letters, 17 & 18 cents, addressed to Edward Lhuyd (1660?-1709), together with miscellaneous items, including pedigrees, notes and extracts.

Microfilm copy of Edward Lhuyd 'Lithopylacii Britannici Ichnographia' (London, 1699), given by the author to Arthur Charlett of University College Oxford in 1699 (Phillipps MS 34888).

Miscellaneous papers consisting of drafts, sermons, copies of poems in English and Latin, Latin letters, college papers, orations, etc. The following may be specially noted: a copy of a certificate (1710) by Dr Edward Wynn that William Owen was the grandson of Sir John Owen of Clenneney (ff. 14-15); a letter from Wi[lliam] Baxter to 'Mr Edward Lhuyd, Keeper of the Museum att Oxford', 9 October 1708 (ff. 12-13); an epistle in Latin verse from Will Lloyd to Edward Wynne (ff. 10-11); two Latin letters from William Williams at St Donat's Castle to Mr Edward Wynn, A.M., Fellow of Jesus in Oxfordshire, 1706 (ff. 5-8); a copy of the beginning of the will of Dr Ralph Bathurst (f. 4), with a draft based upon it of the beginning of Dr Edward Wynne's will in Latin (f. 3); and a fragment of a personal account book, 1720-1723 (ff. 73-82).

Accounts of mysterious fires and the deaths of cattle and other farm animals in Merionethshire from an unknown disease [c. 1693]; a copy of Edward Lhuyd 's Parochial Queries [c. 1697]; notes on how the plague spread to Britain [18 cent., first quarter]; and a list of mountains and hills in North Wales and Shropshire, showing their heights in feet [19 cent., first half].

Field notebook in the hand of Edward Lhuyd, probably compiled during a tour in preparation for his proposed work on the topography and natural history of Wales, 1698-1699. The contents form an itinerary, starting at Kidwelly [sic] and recording the orientation and distance between each of the places visited, from Carmarthenshire through Cardiganshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Merioneth, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, back to Conwy and then Anglesey. There are occasional brief remarks on the landscape, weather, and Welsh names for the last three days of March and the first of April. On the penultimate page is a sketch of a starfish found near Harlech.

Transcripts by Walter Davies, with notes and observations, of Edward Lhuyd's summary of answers to his 'Parochial Queries ...', and of Lhuyd's Itinerary throug [sic] Wales extracted out of Mr Lloyd of Caerwys's Copy of the Hallstone MS; and abstracts, also by Walter Davies, from some of Edward Lhuyd's correspondence.