Two volumes of sermons, hymns, poems, and memoranda, written in 1827-1828 and 1835-1836 by David Saunders, Baptist minister, poet, and hymn-writer, with transcripts by him of a few poems by other writers.

Original hymns and poems and some translations.

Hymns and secular poems, including some 'englynion'.

Notebook containing arithmetical problems (ff. 1-35), sketches of local views (ff. 71v, 74v, 75v, 104v), hymns in English and Welsh (ff. 112v-24, inverted text) and hymn-tunes (ff. 125v-50v, inverted text), together with an index to the tunes (ff. 151-62v, inverted text).

Tune book, compiled during the first half of the eighteenth century, containing psalm-tunes, hymn-tunes and anthems, with some accompanying words in English and Welsh. The psalm-tunes are 'White Church' (f. 3 verso), St Luke (f. 6), St Peter (7), St Michael (f. 8), St Phillip (f. 9), New Radnor (f. 10), Old Radnor (f. 11), Weobley (f. 12), All Saints (f. 19), Bath (f. 19 verso), Norwich (f. 20 recto-verso), Ewell (f. 21), St Albans (f. 22), Monmouth (f. 22 verso), Oxford (f. 23), Northampton (f. 23 verso), Southampton (f. 24), Bangor (f. 27 verso), Whitchurch (f. 30), and Ludlow (f. 33 verso). A Welsh hymn is written on a manuscript leaf pasted inside the back cover.