The file comprises letters by Robert Griffith, 1801-1815, to his father, mother, grandmother and brother, Edward, on schooldays at Oswestry, the headmaster, Mr Donne, as mayor of Oswestry, activities of volunteer troops, including his father's march to Caernarfon as Major in the Denbighshire Volunteers, illness of Mrs S. Price, 1804, death of [Owen] Ormsby of Porkington, 1804, and an intended marriage between his daughter and Lord Kirkwall, Oswestry races, shooting, Nelson's victory, 1805, visits to Bangor, Donnington and Bath, Lord Bulkeley's birthday celebrations, 1807, university life at Oxford, misbehaviour of Charles Wynne, effects of recent wars in Europe, 1815.