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Seven letters with related papers, 1764-[c. 1835], addressed to Thomas Pennant (ff. 3-10), his son David Pennant (ff. 13-17, 19) and David's wife, Louisa (ff. 11-12, 18) of Downing, Flintshire, on subjects including ornithology, zoology and wildlife drawings.
The correspondents are W[illiam] Myddelton, 2 March 1775, enclosing a note of hand of Thomas Pennant, 22 July 1774 (signature cut), donating £100 to a Welsh charity school in Gray's Inn Road (ff. 3-5); the Rev. Edward Williams, 24 August [?1795] (watermark 1794), including a watercolour drawing of a half-timbered house in Shrewsbury, and 26 September [1797] (watermark 1795), concerning the death of Mrs Emma-Elizabeth Corbet of Sundorne Castle (ff. 6-10); Katherine Plymley, Longnor, 18 January 1811 (ff. 11-12); Hugh Davies, Beaumaris, 5 November 1816, enclosing three pencil drawings of puffins (ff. 13-17); Margaret Roscoe, [12] August 1829 (f. 18); and [Canon] William Williams, Ysceifiog Rectory, 1 March [?1835], concerning the dilapidated state of the church at Ysceifiog (f. 19). Also included are financial accounts, 1764-1765, of the artist Peter Paillou relating to drawings purchased by Thomas Pennant (ff. 1-2).

A file of letters addressed to Hugh Davies, naturalist, by fellow-botanists and others, mainly relating to botanical studies and to Davies's Welsh Botanology.
The correspondents include Sir Joseph Banks, William Bingley, Jane Bourne (5), Warren Bulkeley (4), Lewis Weston Dillwyn (3), James Donne (2), George Garkin (2), Samuel Goodenough (7), William Higgon, William Jones, W. Marchant (3), Walter Miche Moseley (2), T. E. Owen, William Parker, Miss Pocock (2), Messrs. Poole and Harding, William Owen[-Pughe] (5), John Prichard (2), R. Prichard, Peter Roberts, Jos. Sabine (4), George Shaw, W. Sheffield, Sir James Edward Smith (2), James Sowerby (26), Jonathan Stokes (17), David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), T. Velley (3), Michael Ward (4), Thomas Wenman, E. Williams (7), and Peter Williams, Llanbedrog.