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Newspaper cuttings and other papers, mostly 1935-1945, including relating to grass drying, including a report on Llwyn estate farms and hill land, by the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth, with special reference to pasture improvement and grass drying, 1935, and tickets for a demonstration of grass drying equipment at Llwyn, 1948.

Manuscript history and topography of the hundred of Llanfyllin, by "Mechain".

Files of notes and other papers relating to aspects of Llanfyllin history, including education, including the British, National, Board and Intermediate schools, the Llanfyllin & District Horticultural Society, Lake Vyrnwy, the railways, notes for a chronology, and Llanfyllin as a military centre. Most of the letters are dated 1913-1916. Also typescript 'history of the parish of Llanfyllin from 1862 to 1913, by J. Marshall Dugdale of Llwyn', and a disbound copy (pp. 1-128) of the article as printed in Mont. Coll, retitled '1861 to 1915'.

Commonplace book relating to Irish home rule, including precises of speeches by Max O'Rell, Justin McCarthy MP, S. C. Buxton MP; the heads of the Government of Ireland Bill; newspaper cuttings; the platform of the first meeting of the Home Rule Party, May 1870; and poems.

Endorsed 'Letters written for J. M. Dugdale & Bro's, 1883'. Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

Original bundle of papers relating to the trusteeship of the estate of James Dugdale of Wroxall Abbey, co. Warw., dec., including printed particulars and conditions of sale of the Maesmynan Hall estate (1,200a.) in p's Caerwys, Bodfari and Ysgeifiog, 1885 and 1888, accounts, 1887-1891, agendas and minutes of trustees' meetings, 1887-1891.

(i) Volume of copies of letters written by John Dugdale, several with the additional note 'original in safe at Llwyn'), 1874-1881, with an additional letter at the rear of the volume,1885. Includes an index of recipients at the front of the volume. (ii) Letters found loose in the volume, 1876-1894, many marked 'copy'. Also letters, 1874 and 1882, relating to the sale of chief rents to the Manchester & County Bank.

Personal papers of J.E.M. Dugdale and his wife, including order of service for confirmation at Eton College chapel, 1935, and two letters from Clement Davies MP, 1947 and 1959.

Personal papers of John Marshall Dugdale (1851-1918), comprising university certificates that Johannes Marshall Dugdale satisfied the requirements of the examiners in various subjects, 1870-1873, marriage service of J.M.D. to I.H., 1876, and newspaper obituaries, 1918.

Drafts of J. M. Dugdale's letters, mainly sent from The Hermitage, Holmes Chapel, co. Ches., July 1876-Sept. 1879, plus one letter dated July 1882. Index at the front of the volume. Characters and terms of employment of servants at the back of the volume.

Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

Press copies of J. Marshall Dugdale's personal and business letters, some signed by L. Ryle, his private secretary. Paper label endorsed 'II. May 1901 to October 1903'. Index at the front of the volume.

Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

Volume of mainly estate and business letters, some signed by Lucy Ryle, his private secretary. Paper label endorsed 'I. 1898 to May 1901'. Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

The spine is entitled 'JMD, General'. Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

Press letter book of copy letters from J. Marshall Dugdale, entitled 'Montgomeryshire Conservative Association, 1881-1884'. Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

Letters and papers relating to T. M. and Clara Colmore trust. Clara, the second daughter of John Dugdale of Llwyn, married Thomas Milnes Colmore (1845-1916) of The Warren, Knowle, co. Wark., in 1878.

Letters relating to John Dugdale's daughter's trust fund, probably Mary Fenwick, wife of Thomas F. Fenwick of Burrow Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale, co. Lancs.