Press-cuttings, 1850-1886, relating to such matters as the presentation of a testimonial to the Rev. Samuel Roberts, 'S.R.', in Liverpool in March, 1868, the death and/or funeral of various persons (Mrs. [Maria] Griffiths, Llangollen, sister of 'S.R.' and 'J.R.' and mother of John Griffith, 'Y Gohebydd', 1868, the Rev. David Williams, Troed-rhiwdalar, 1874, Charles Robert Darwin, 1882, the Rev. Samuel Roberts, 'S.R.', 1885, and Mrs. [Anne] Roberts, Conwy, 1886), the Ashantee War of 1824-1826, the Maldwyn chair Eisteddfod at Llanbrynmair, 6 Sept. 1878, and Paddy's Run (Welsh settlement), Ohio, 1881, with reviews of Horace Waller, The Last Journals of Dr. Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his death (1874) and David Williams, ed., Y Gof-adail Fethodistaidd, Ail-gyfrol (1884). Bound in with the cuttings is a copy of National Religion and the Church of Wales, an address delivered by [Henry Thomas Edwards], the dean of Bangor, at the Guild Hall, Carnarvon [sic] [20 Dec. [1883]] (Bangor: North Wales Chronicle, n.d.).

Nineteen holograph letters and copies of letters addressed to David Howell at Machynlleth, etc., 1837-1887 and undated. The writers include Sam[ue]l Bakewell, Oulton [near] Stone [Staffordshire], 1845 (acknowledging receipt of money due in respect of the recipient's brother [Samuel Howell], who had been placed in the writer's care [owing to his mental illness]), John Breese, Llanbrynmair, 1887 (requesting a donation towards a prize of ten pounds and a chair worth five guineas, which were to be awarded for the best 'pryddest' submitted in memory of 'y diweddar enwog dri Brawd o Gonwy' [Samuel Roberts ('S.R.'; d. 1885), and his brothers, John (d. 1884) and Richard (d. 1883), all of whom had settled at Conway] at an eisteddfod to be held at Llanbrynmair), [the Misses] A. and M. Griffiths, Minsterley [co. Salop], 1837 (their readiness to receive [recipient's sister] into their school, a statement of their terms) (in third person), A[braham] Howell [recipient's brother], Welchpool, 1844-1845 (10) (financial and legal matters) (carbon copies, some barely legible), E[linor] H[owell], recipient's mother, 18[ ]5 and undated (3) (the condition of [recipient's brother] Samuel, the school expenses of [recipient's sister] Hannah) (one of the letters is endorsed with a note from [recipient's brother] Abraham] Howell), Geo[rge] Howell [recipient's brother], Liverpool, 1841 (2) (personal and financial), and Morris Cha[rle]s Jones, Liverpool, 1841 (arrangements for employing [recipient's brother] George ? in the writer's office in Liverpool).