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An album of 'memoranda, made to the year 1857', together with copious annotations and an index, by Richard Rees (born 1781) of Alltycham, Pontardawe, seventh child by the second marriage of Josiah Rees (1744-1804), Unitarian minister, of Gellionnen, parish of Llan-giwg (Llanguicke), Glamorgan. The volume consists largely of holograph letters addressed for the most part to Richard Rees, the writers including Josiah Rees, 1802-3 (relating partly to the church at Gellionnen); William Wyndham Grenville, baron Grenville, 1818 (a description of the writer's home at Dropmore, information concerning Neath Abbey); George Owen Rees, Guy's Hospital, London, 1846 (biographical notes on the writer's father, Josiah Rees); C[hristopher] R[ice] M[ansel] T[albot], London, 1848; C[onnop Thirlwall], bishop of St. Davids, 1848; Geo. Rice Trevor, aft. 4th baron Dynevor, 1838 (concerning Neath Abbey); John M. Traherne, Coedriglan, Cardiff, 1848; [Edward Copleston, bishop of Llandaff, 1848]; [Sir Thomas Phillipps, Middle Hill, 1848]; H[enry] Hussey Vivian, London, 1855 (the death of John Henry Vivian); etc. The miscellaneous documents contained in the volume include material towards a pedigree of the family of Rees of Gelligron; the certificate of ordination of Josiah Rees at Gellionnen, 6 August, 1767; poetry and ballads, including an epigram by Thomas Rees, fifth child of Josiah Rees by his second marriage and an 'englyn' to Richard Rees; newspaper cuttings, including obituary notices of Josiah Rees, 1804, Mary Rees, his widow, 1829, Owen Rees of Gelligron, 1837, and Sarah Rees, daughter of Josiah Rees, 1851; copies of letters of Richard Rees, 1846; etc.
Amongst the references are those to the election and admission of Richard Rees for Morden College, Blackheath; the Smith family of Castellau, Glamorgan; the Penllergaer estate, Swansea; and the experiences of an emigrant to Australia, 1843.

A file of the correspondence of John Davies for the year 1832, including reciprocal correspondence between him and J[ohn] T. Williams, Berriew and Bullock Smithy, and letters to him from H[enry] R. Thomas, Narberth, David James, Pontygafel and T[homas] Lewis, Builth (with a letter of introduction to Dr Thomas Rees, London).

A volume of transcripts and extracts relating to the murder, 8 January 1770, of William Powell of Glanareth, co. Carmarthen. The greater part of the volume (100 pp.) consists of a transcript of the account of the trial published under the title An Authentic Trial of William Spiggot . . ., John Spiggot . . ., William Morris, William Thomas . . ., David Morgan . . ., William Walter Evan, Charles David Morgan, William Charles, and David Llewellin, who were tried on Wednesday, the 28th of March, 1770, at Hereford. . . for the inhuman murder of William Powell . . . [(Hereford, 1770)]. Included also are a further account of the episode (? transcribed from a printed source), entitled 'A Narrative of the unexampled cases of William Spiggott, William Morris, David Morgan, William Walter Evan, Charles David Morgan, and David Llewellin, who were executed at Hereford . . . for murdering William Powell . . .'; a transcript of a broadsheet offering an award for the apprehension of two of the murderers, viz. William Williams and William Morris; and extracts from printed sources, including T[homas] Rees: The Beauties of [England and Wales . . .], South Wales, The Merthyr Guardian, 9 Sept. 1848, etc.