Notes, extracts, etc., by E. R. Horsfall Turner from various printed sources including [A. H.] Dodd: The Industrial Revolution in North Wales [( Cardiff, 1933)]; [Edward] Hamer [:A Brief Account of the] Chartist Outbreak [at Llanidloes in the year 1839 (Llanidloes, 1867)]; [J. L. and B.] Hammond: The Age of the Chartists, 1832-54 [(London, 1930)]; History of the Chartists and the Bloodless Wars of Montgomeryshire (Welshpool, N.D.); various numbers of the Shrewsbury Chronicle and Salopian journal for the year 1839, etc. The material was probably collected in the course of research work on Chartism in co. Montgomery.

Deeds and documents (1668-1882) relating to properties mainly in in co. Flint (Axton, Bistre, Caergwrle, Coleshill, Cwm, Cwm Uwchglan, Diserth, Estyn or Hope, Hawarden, Holywell, Hope, Hope Owen, Huriathicke, Kilken, Kinnerton, Mould, Newmarket, Northop, St Asaph, Shordley, Skeiviog, and Whitford), but also in cos Denbigh (Denbigh, Henllan, Llanrwst and Lleweny), Chester (Chester and Dodleston), Brecknock (Devynnock), Anglesey (Amlwch, Coedana, Llanerchymedd, Llanbadrug, Llanddyfnan, Llanfechell and Llanfihangel Tre'r Beurdd), Montgomery (Berth Lloyd) and Pembroke (Amroth). The main families were Mostyn of Mostyn Hall and Hope of Broughton and Hope.

A volume containing 'Rousseau's Dream' by J. B. Cramer; Swiss airs and a Swiss dance; a quadrille; waltzes by Carl Maria von Weber, Balduci [sic, for Boildieu?], Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johan Nepomuka Hummel, etc.; a German drinking song; Gaelic, Tyrolese (one by Joseph Kuffner), Irish, French, Danish and German airs; marches; a pastorale by Franҫois Adrien Boildieu; a harp air; gallopades; a polonaise; Hungarian melody; preludes for the harp by P. M. Meyer ('Not to be copied'); hymn-tunes (to words by Thomas Kelly, William Cowper, John Newton, Joseph Addison, Reginald Heber, etc.); Scotch airs (to words by Miss --- Drinkwater); chants by Sir J. Stepenson; a psalm-tune; a Portuguese song ('modinha'); etc.

A minute-book, 1869-1878, of the Montgomeryshire and Salop Presbytery (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church), with statistics for the years 1870-1871, 1873-1876.

Reprints of articles by G. T. Clark and notes by him upon earthworks, castles, moated mounds, etc., in England and Wales.

Miscellaneous prose pieces by Idris Davies, [1930s]-[1940s], comprising an essay entitled 'Teify Side' (ff. 1-3); drafts of a memoir entitled 'A Schoolboy During the Great War' (ff. 4-17); 'Portrait of an Old Welsh Miner' (ff. 18-29); fragment of a novel or short story (ff. 30-4) and draft of the beginning of a novel (ff. 35-9); five brief, surrealistic prose pieces (ff. 40-51); letter to the News Chronicle about a Fascist demonstration in Trafalgar Square, 1937 (ff. 52-7); Holiday in a Mining Valley (ff. 58-73); a Welsh version of 'A Schoolboy During the Great War' (ff. 74-84); and copies of two prose pieces published in Comment, 19 September 1936 and 23 January 1937 (ff. 85-6).

The series consists of papers relating to exhibitions of 'Pictures, Water Colour Drawings and Sketches by Mr. H. Clarence Whaite', at Willis's Rooms, London, 12 January 1911, and 'Exhibition of Pictures by H. Clarence Whaite', at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 28 January - 11 February 1911, together with numerous invitations to take part in art exhibitions and invitations to private views of exhibitions, 1865-1912.

Deeds and documents, [1600]-[1810], mainly relating to the counties of Northampton, Hertford and Surrey, together with an account book, 1786-1793, relating to the Franklen estate in South Wales.

Scrap-book compiled by Madame Barbier's husband, Professor André Barbier, containing newspaper cuttings and programmes relating to the French concerts organised by her in Manchester, 1907-1909.

An account book of David Jameson, maltster, of Bailey Street, Oswestry, 1800-1825, to which have been added a single entry for 1844 and accounts of goods (tea, coffee, sugar, etc.) received in 1871. The volume was subsequently used as an album for cuttings from Bye-Gones.

A list of trading vessels from 1837 onwards which were built on the river Dee, the material including the towns of Rhyl, Flint, Connah's Quay, Queensferry and Chester.

Some eighty letters, 1971-1976 (including some transcripts and copies) from John Barnard Jenkins to various correspondents, including Sarah Erskine and Ned Thomas (25), Robat Gruffudd and Elwyn Ioan (14) and Cyril Hodges (27). The letters were written during his imprisonment for offences including the possession of explosives and causing explosions and some were published in Williams, Rhodri (ed.): John Jenkins, Prison Letters (Tal-y-bont, 1981).

Letter, 2 January [1682], from John Edwards to [Henry] Herbert concerning the holding of courts at Dud[le]ston, and asking whether it is a manor or a hundred.

Legal precedents written in several hands and based largely on legal records of the early years of the reign of George II. Several of the documents recorded in the volume are of interest to co. Middlesex.

Journey notes and observations, 1766-1787, including notes from visits to London and Birmingham in 1766 concerning the manufacture of pig and bar iron. The notes contain the names and addresses of businessmen and details of their work, and notes on lead imports and exports in London. Also included are notes on forge processes at a foundry in Bristol, 1787, and observations on water wheels.

An interleaved copy, with manuscript additions, of John Worrall's Bibliotheca Legum ... (London, 1732).

Documents collected by Col. Sir John Conway Lloyd, including over a thousand deeds, 1323-1870, relating to properties in the counties of Brecon, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Radnor, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Gloucester, and London; together with various documents, including letters and papers relating to the Lloyd family and other estates. In addition, the archive consists of deeds and documents, 1588-1864, mainly of industrial interest accumulated by John Lloyd (1833-1915), pertaining to the New Weare ironworks, Goodrich, Hereford; the Hirwaun ironworks; the Beaufort Iron Company, the Clydach ironworks; the Dowlais Iron Company; and the Bute Works. A substantial group of Dinas Estate records has been transferred to the Maybery Collection.