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Correspondents include the Pendarves family of Cornwall, Stephen Sleech, 1741-1756, and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, [1772?].

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.

Outsize volume in modern binding containing manuscript and printed poems, songs, ballads, riddles, letters, concert programmes, notices and press cuttings, 1744-1800, and the remains of an account book of labourers and haymakers working for Robert Godolphin Owen at Porkington, 1770. Among the literary material there are poems to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn upon his second birthday, 1751, and upon the Act of Union, 1800; memorials to Mr Mytton and the rector of Hordley, 1765; a personal letter in verse by Mary Owen to Margaret Godolphin [1730x1766]; letters to an unknown addressee concerning the history of Valle Crucis, 1773, to Owen Ormsby on Irish estate business, 1785 and to William [Owen?] on family relations [early 18th cent]; a list of well-wishers' contributions upon the birth of Mrs Ormsby 's daughter, 1781; a poem on the marriage of George Prince of Wales to Caroline of Brunswick, 1795; and a poem entitled A Picture of Porkington addressed to Mrs [Margaret] Ormsby, 1797.