A transcript of the following correspondence: five letters exchanged between Geo[rge] Meares, Dollys [near Llanidloes], and Thomas Edmund Marsh, Llanidloes, 1844-1845, relating to Mr. Meares's inability to support Mr. Marsh [in an election] owing to a prior promise to Mr. Slyman, and the canvassing of Mr. Meares's tenants on behalf of Mr. Slyman in the said contest; and a letter from Thomas Edmund Marsh to Geo[rge] Meares, 1845, and five letters exchanged between Thomas Edmund Marsh and the Rev[eren]d J. A. Herbert, Glanhafren, Newtown, 1845, concerning the attempted removal of Mr. Marsh from the office of clerk to the magistrates acting for the upper division of the hundred of Llanidloes, and differences about the calling of meetings of the said magistrates. Supplementary notes relating to the incidents referred to in the letters have been inserted. The whole transcript is possibly in the hand of D[avi]d Davies, clerk to the aforesaid Mr. Marsh.

Papers of D. Caradog Jones, [c.1940]-1978, comprising records relating to the Labour Party and Welsh rural areas, 1951-1959; general correspondence, 1951-1978; and papers and press cuttings, [1940x1959], concerning D. Caradog Jones and Montgomeryshire politics, 1940s-1950s.

The file contains papers relating to local government and parliamentary elections. They include addresses by Gwyn M. Evans (Labour), 1964, and Dr Carl Clowes (Plaid Cymru), 1979, as parliamentary candidates for Montgomeryshire.

Letters of various individuals connected to the families of Maurice, Owen, Ormsby-Gore and Godolphin through marriage, friendship or business and a small number of items where neither the author nor the recipient can be identified, 1582-1933.
They comprise letters to, from or about the Wynn family of Glyn, 1596-1690 (whose correspondents include Hugh Pennant, [c. 1663]), Anne Jones of Clenennau, 1679-1695, Rowlands of Nant, [1680s], Glynne of Eleirnion, [1680s]-1703, Humphrey Humphreys, 1700, Waller [of Castletown], 1706-1710, James Brynker, 1724, John Egerton, 1756, Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, 1680, the Seymour family, 1831-1868, Frank Weston, 1914, and others, 1582-1933. Topics include threats of invasions by the Spanish 1596, and the French, 1743; genealogies of Glynne of Glynllifon, [1605] and Gore, 1912; collection of the ship mise in Merionethshire, 1618; Sir Robert Owen 's dispute with Col. William Price of Rhiwlas over land in Gest, 1679-[c. 1694]; estate business of Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch, 1729; claims on the estates of Richard Clayton, 1735, and of Robert Godolphin Owen, 1793; church administration in Llanyblodwel and elsewhere, [1730s?], 1756, 1868, 1914; parliamentary elections in Montgomeryshire, 1774 and Leitrim, 1874; the compulsory purchase of Oswestry Corporation property for improving access to London Bridge, 1831; complaints about the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, 1854; the Crimean War, 1855; First World War action against the Turks, 1918; and other items of national and international news. - - - The Stuart correspondence (mainly copies) includes James I to Sir George Calvert on the priveleges of the House of Commons, 1621; the Covenanters to the Earl of Essex, 1639; Sir William Temple to the Countess of Essex on the death of her daughter, [pre-1699]; and others, on the Oath of Allegiance, [1606], the rebellion and conquest of Ireland, 1649-1652, and the character of Sir George Jeffreys, 1680.

Minute books, 1895-1971, of the Llandysilio Liberal Association, 1895-1909 and Montgomeryshire Liberal Association, 1920-1970; financial records; 1934-1989; administrative correspondence and papers, 1961-1984; files relating to the Liberal campaign in Montgomeryshire in the parliamentary elections, 1955-1983; constituency papers of Clement Davies, 1945-1962, and Emlyn Hooson, 1967-1979; press cuttings, 1962-1987; bound electoral registers for the parliamentary constituency of Montgomery, 1953-1983; papers relating to the Welsh Liberal Party, 1973-1979, the Montgomery in Europe Group, 1975, Young Liberals, 1970-1980, Liberal Party organization, 1977-1983, Supper Clubs, 1980-1983, Montgomeryshire Liberal Association Annual General Meetings, 1980-1985, Liberal Party Annual Conferences, 1980-1985, and the Welsh Campaign for Fair Votes, 1983-1984; printed materials, 1959-1987; Liberal party materials, 1963-1985; typescript draft policy statements, 1972-1974; Newsletters of the Montgomeryshire Liberal Association, 1978-1984; Association of Liberal Councillors, 1979-1984, and Focus, 1980-1982.

An additional group of records, 1904-1939, were received per Dr David Steeds comprising extensive files of correspondence, the minutes of the Association and its various committees and sub-committees, financial material, press cuttings and printed material. There are also many files deriving from the parliamentary general elections campaigns of the period 1906-29 in Montgomeryshire. There are also papers relating to the North Wales Liberal Federation, 1940-46, and the Liberal Federation of Wales, 1943-45. The records cover the period when David Davies, Llandinam (1880-1944) was the Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, 1906-29, and the early years of its representation by his successor E. Clement Davies (1884-1962). This group remains uncatalogued.

Miscellaneous papers, [c. 1770]-1893, relating to Montgomeryshire, including a petition, [c. 1772], to repair the market-house at Newtown (f. 2); petitions, 1772, for and against the proposed turnpike road from Oswestry, co. Salop, to Welshpool (ff. 4-7); abstract of rentals of the Powis Castle estate, [c. 1773] (ff. 8-15); printed poll book for the borough of Welshpool, 1847 (ff. 23-8); and printed election address of Frederick Hanbury Tracy in the Montgomery boroughs election of 1877 (f. 38).

Scrap book, 1766-1799, of manuscript and printed songs, verses, press cuttings, entertainment programmes and a published speech addressed by the chairman of the Sessions of the Peace at Westminster to the Grand Jury. This speech and several of the other literary compositions are concerned with the threat posed to the British constitution by the French Revolution, 1794-1799; the latter include a song celebrating the Oswestry Rangers, commanded by Major Ormsby. Further verses include celebrations of the coming of age of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 1770; a copy of the School for Scandal by R. B. Sheridan and On her Brother 's Violin by Mrs Sheridan; a Parody on the Anacreontic Song about a quarrel involving the Bishop of Bangor; a poem mourning the deaths of the Edgell children of Egham [post-1787]; and voting for 'Carlo Khan' [Charles James Fox], 1784. The press cuttings concern, among other subjects, a proposed new charter for the Borough of Helston and Montgomeryshire elections.

Papurau gwleidyddol E. G. Millward, 1959-1976, yn cynnwys deunydd yn ymwneud â'r economi Gymreig, 1966-1969; etholiadau cyffredinol, 1959-1974; gohebiaeth Grŵp Ymchwil Plaid Cymru ar Amaethyddiaeth, 1966-1970; papurau'n ymwneud ag Etholiad Cyffredinol 1970; cofnodion yn ymwneud â chyhoeddiadau Plaid Cymru, 1966-1970; papurau a thorion papur newydd yn ymwneud â'r economi a swyddi yng Nghymru, 1959-1976; papurau'n ymwneud â'r iaith Gymraeg, 1967-1981; a gohebiaeth a phapurau cyffredinol, 1969-1976 = Political papers of E. G. Millward, 1959-1976, including papers relating to the Welsh economy, 1966-1969; general elections, 1959-1974; correspondence of the Plaid Cymru Research Group relating to farming, 1966-1970; papers relating to the General Election 1970; records relating to Plaid Cymru publications, 1966-1970; papers and newspaper cuttings relating to the economy and to employment in Wales, 1959-1976; papers relating to the Welsh language and education, 1967-1981; and correspondence and general papers, 1969-1976.