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Ninety-nine miscellaneous holograph and other letters:- Daines Barrington, London, to John Strange in Venice [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Lloyd of Hafodunos, F.R.S., stones at Towen and on top of Caderydris, Lloyd's knowledge of North Wales as a fossilist); Godfrey Bingley to Lady Jackson, London, undated (two bonds for £50 apiece); [George Booth, 2nd earl of] Warrington, Dunham [Massey, co. Chester], to . . ., 1700-1708/9 (2) (a request for certain deeds, comments relating to the king of France, a deed relating to the advowson of [the church of] Thornton [co. ]); R. [Byerley] to Lady Jackson, London, undated (financial and legal matters); John Calvert, London, to ? Tho[ma]s Kyffin, 1774 (instruments ordered by squire Jones, an account for the same, a request for specimens of ? moths from the Snowdon area, recipient's possible election to ? the Aurelian Society); Walt[er] Clopton, [ ]nant, to . . ., 1686/7 (points concerning a lease); Joseph Duke, Chester, to John Lloyd, Havedunos [sic], 1767 (an account for goods bought) (endorsed with receipts); Will[ia]m Eccles, Manchester, to Hugh Roberts, Mold, [18]22 (legal matters) (copy); R. Edwards, London, to . . ., 1748-1750 (3) (business and financial transactions, mention of ships from India and of the African Company); Samuel Edwards, Newport, to Mr. Warne, 1682 (financial matters); [Sir] G[eorge] Shuckburgh Evelyn [6th bart.], Shuckburgh Park [co. Warwick], to Nath[anie]l Jones, Wygfair, 1795 (enquiries about J[ohn] Lloyd of Wygfair who had gone to Ireland to see newly discovered gold mines); J[oh]n Foulkes, Wrexham, to the Rev[eren]d B. C. Conway, Lower Soughton, Northop, 1832 (enclosing a copy of an opinion by John Jervis of the Middle Temple dated 1832, and of a letter by the present writer to the Rev[eren]d Dr. Howard relating to a case ?concerning an obstruction on Soughton highway); T[homas] Gaisford, [dean of] Ch[rist] Ch[urch, Oxford], to the Rev[eren]d Archdeacon Jones, 1832 (the examination of Mr. Howard ? for admission to Christ Church) (addressed to Reverend Dr. Howard, Mold); John Garnons, Rhiwgoch, to Miss Gwynne [the writer's grand-daughter] at Havodunos, 1780 ( personal); Rob[er]t F[ ] Greville, Great Cumberland Street [ ], to . . ., 1803 (the work being done by Sir R[ichar]d [Colt] Hoare [2nd bart.] on a translation of Giraldus Cambrensis [The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales . . . by Giraldus de Barri. Trans . . . by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, London, 1806], attempts to identify places such as Hilcuria, Castrum Isabelis, etc., mentioned by Giraldus, queries re copper works near the summit of Snowdon, news of acquaintances); Ralph Griffith, Chester, to Charles Owen, Toke's Court, London, 1760-1762 (2) (legal matters including the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above]), and to Mr. Pardoe, 1767 (bills relating to the Mold cause) (draft); Will[ ia]m Griffith to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Rich[ar]d Griffith, Carnarvon, 1751-1752 (3) (financial matters in connection with a legacy to the writer from his mother); J. Haggersten, Berwick, to Edward Burdet, Holborne, London, [ ] 82 (personal and financial matters); Mr. Hay, St. Asaph, to Mr. Lloyd [ early 19th cent.] (a list of tokens the writer wished to collect) (in third person); J. Holland to . . ., 1810 (recommending a tenant for Havodynnos); R. W. Howard, Eton College, to his mother, undated (the writer's activities at Eton); Richard Howard, Llanrhaiadr, to Arthur Roberts, Mold, solicitor, 1847 (legal matters) (copy); Ow[en] Hughes, Bewmares, to Dr. Andrew Birch at Gwyder, 1679 (purchasers for lands in Merionythshire, Penmachno and Treflan); John Humffreys to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergay at Havodynnos, 1706/7 (financial matters); John Humffreys, Llanvyllin, to Mrs. Vaughan of Caergai at Eyarth, near Llanver, 1737/8 (an interview with Mr. Mainwaring concerning Caergai); Dauid Jones, Sallop, to . . ., 1637/8 (personal); Jos. Jones, Mold, to Mr. Griffiths, 1761 ( losses suffered owing to the [Mold mountain] dispute) (copy); Richard Jones, Carnarvon, to . . ., 1758 (business affairs); S[amuel] Jones, Kilken, to Watkin Williams, Penbedw, 1770 (a protest concerning the toll gate at the west end of the town of Mold) (endorsed with a reply from Will[iam] Lloyd, Maesmynan) (?both copies); W[illia]m Jones, Llan-fihangel, to Mr. Goodman, attorney, Anglesea, 1779-1784 (2) (a dispute with Mr. Howard concerning lands and rents, land at Trefriw); J[oh]n Langley, junior, London, to Jns. Williams, attorney, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning the estate of Sir Richard Langley, deceased, in Mould), and to Thomas Williams, Mould, 1680 (queries concerning ?the same estate as in the previous letter ); C. Lloyd, Wellow [near Bath], to the Rev[eren]d Ben[jamin] Conway Potter, Soughton, Northop, 1819 (the death of Dr. Griffith, news of acquaintances, activities in Frome); Dauid Lloyd, Southwark, to John Lloyd of Wickwer, 1673 (a journey by Sir Euan Lloyd, the captain of the writer's company, into Wales, to recruit forty men, a projected crossing into Holland with 15,000 foot men) (endorsed with a note by J. Ll. who had opened the letter by mistake); Eliza. Lloyd, Rhu . . ., to . . ., undated (enquiries concerning the Vaughan family); Ellis Lloyd, Pen Lan, to. . ., 1687/8 (legal affairs); Robert Lloyd to [Richard Nanney], 1609 (arrangements for a meeting and the delivery of a letter from Captain Salisbury) (endorsed with recipient's reply); M. Lockhart to . . ., undated (recommending Mr. Pauling); Geo[rge] Lowe, Chester, to Mr. Howard, 1756 (legal matters); H. M., to . . ., 1737 (personal); [Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st earl of] Seaforth [Ireland], Calais, to [Daniel Charles Solander], 1777 (a request that Mr. Lloyd should have any of the writer's books which were in recipient's custody); Edw[ard] Mainwaring, Wrexham, to John Edwards at Pen y Lan, 1680/1 (financial matters); M. Mainwaring, Whitmore, to Mrs. Vaughan at Eyarth, 1737 (the ? secret marriage of recipient's daughter); W. Manley, Temple, to Messrs. Phillips and Ellis, attorneys, Ruthin, 1796 (legal matters); T. Trevor Mather, Pentreholn [? Pentre-hobin ], to Mr. Richards, Holywell, 1803 (the fencing of an allotment on Mold mountain) (continued)

J. Montagu to . . ., 1706 (the taxing of vaults taken out of streets); Arth[ur] Newcomen to Tho[mas] Williams, Bronkoed, near Mould, [16]99 and undated (2) (dilapidations at Argitt, orders from Lord Derby [? William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl of Derby] re letting Argit, a request for a rent roll); C. Owen, Took's (Toke's) Court [London], to Tho[ma]s Owen, attorney, Mold, 1754 (legal matters), to Ralp[h] Griffith, attorney, Chester, 1756 (enclosing a copy of an order for viewing the area in dispute in the Grosvenor v. Swymmer suit [See NLW MSS 12438-12439E above ]), to Mrs. Trevor in Berkeley Square [ ], 1761 (arranging a meeting, non-payment of a bill by Ralph Griffith), and to . . ., 1762 (legal matters relating ?to the Grosvenor v. Vincent suit) (copy); Robert Pardoe, Lincoln's Inn, to Mr. Boydell, 1763 (the expenses in the [Grosvenor v. Vincent suit]); Tho[ma]s W. Partington to Mr. Griffith, 1756 (notification that the Grosvenor v. Swymmer case would be tried in Michaelmas term ); [ ] Paynter, Chelsea, to . . ., 1744 (the death of Cad[walad]r W[ illia]ms, who had served on board the ships Shrewsbury and Suffolk, in 1743, and pay due to him); Thomas Pennant, Downing [co. Flint], to the Hon. Daines Barrington, 1773 (the measuring ? of mountains in Snowdonia by ? [Jean André] De Luc, whom Pennant had met in Geneva, a request for goatskins, a letter from [ ] Forster, Pennant's intention of writing to [Charles] Linnaeus, a proposed journey) (endorsed with a note from D[aines] Barrington forwarding the letter to ?John Lloyd with a request for the Gwyder pedigree); Henry Perkins, Chester, to Mrs. Eliz. Jones at Trecastell, 1750 (financial); Prof[essor] M[arc] A[uguste] Pictet, professor of nat[ural] phil[osophy] at Geneva, to [Sir Joseph Banks], 1805 (the application of [John] Hadley's sextant for observing the meridian transit of the celestial bodies); W[illiam] Pitt, Downing Street [London], to. . ., 1799 (the decision to assemble parliament in order to propose a bill re the militia volunteers); John Price to . . ., undated (personal); M. Price, London, to Mr. Ing . . .y, senior, at Fearn, near Holywell, to . . ., and to Mr. Jones of Mold Mountain, 1763 (requests for payment of bills due in respect of the Mold cause); J[oh]n Roberts, Denbigh, to . . ., undated (legal matters); Domingos Rodrigues, Tellichery [India], to . . ., 1743 (commercial matters); Robert Roper to Robert Foulks, Chester, [1]703 (the letting of ? Argoed on behalf of the representatives of the late earl of Derby [William George Richard Stanley, 18th earl]); [Hew Sempill, 12th baron] Sempill, Lyons, to Mons[ieu]r Vaughan at Montpellier, 1736/7 (personal); Rob[er]t Sherbrooke to Lady Jackson, Lincoln Inn feilds, London , [16]93 (personal); Rich[ar]d R. Short, Lichf[iel]d, to Mrs. Margarett Griffith of Caraglwydd, at Carnarvon, 1774 (personal); Arch[ibald] Spark, London, to Mrs. Kathrine Lewys at her house near Northop, 1683/4 (personal ); John Tho[ma]s Stanley, Penrhos, to . . ., 1816 (the death of the writer's mother, Lady Stanley); Henry Swymmer, Bristol, to Mrs. Margit Owen, Mold, 1761 (arrangements in connection with a court leet); Henry Swymmer and Edw[ ar]d Lloyd, Mold, to Sir Rich[ar]d Grosvenor [7th bart., created baron Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, 1761, and viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and earl Grosvenor, 1784] at Eaton, 1756 (informing recipient that Mr. Swymmer (not the writer) would not take advantage of his privilege if the case [Grosvenor v. Swymmer] proceeded to trial); H. T. to . . ., 1683/4 (personal); Rob[er]t Tamberlain, Flint, to John Williams, Lincoln's Inn, London, 1763 (? legal matters); Maurice Trygarn, London, to . . ., 1669 (legal points relating to the outlawry of John Foulkes and others); H. Ussher to the Rev[eren]d Dr. W. Richardson, Portrush, near Coleraine [late 18th cent.] (introducing Mr. [John] Loyd of the Royal Society who was 'going to the Causeway in pursuit of natural history, thence to Ila and Staffa'); A. Vaughan to Miss Vaughan at Kensington, 1736 (personal); Evan Vaughan to John Vaughan, high sheriff of the county of Merioneth, 1670 ( legal); [? M.] Vaughan to [? Lady Mainwaring], undated (? the secret marriage of the writer's daughter); L. W., to Henry Lloyd near Bedford Row, London, 1745/6 (personal, soldiers quartered in the village and at Bromley ); W. Wake and John Spencer, Bombay [India], to Richard Edwards and Robert Nanny, 1747 (2) (the death of Hugh Howard and matters relating to the settling of his estate in India); John Wilkin, Office of Woods and Forests [London], to T. T. Mathew [? Mather], Pentrehobbin, Mold, 1830 (the purchase by Mr. Conway of encroachments on Soughton common, the sale of the tolls of Northop and the crown rents on the Wigfair estate); E. Bulk[ eley] Will[ia]ms, Baronhill [Anglesey], to Miss Griffiths at Carnarvon, undated (personal); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [3rd bart. after 1740], Downing Street [ ], to Hedd Lloyd at Havod ynos, 1738 (the loan of a chair to recipient who was suffering from gout), and to John Lloyd at Havodynos, 1743/4 (an approach to [Peregrine Bertie, 3rd] duke of Ancaster , ? on behalf of recipient, strained relations between the writer and the Ancaster family owing to his having inherited Wynnstay, concern about recipient's brother How[ar]d, the possibility of purchasing a commission ? for Howard, the writer's lack of influence with people in power since the success of the Denbigh petition, the advisability of deferring [the question of the commission] until they saw which of the competitors Lord [John] Carteret [2nd baron Carteret of Hawnes, co. Bedford, and later 2nd viscount Carteret and earl Granville] or Mr. [Henry] Pelham prevailed); [Sir] Wat[kin] W[illia]ms Wynn [4th bart.], Wynnstay, to . . ., 1774 (the writer's inability to visit the Vale owing to the dissolution of parliament, the decision of Sir Lynch [Salusbury] Cotton [4th bart. of Combermere, co. Chester, and Llewenny, co. Denbigh] not to offer himself for election [as member of parliament for the county of Denbigh] in the forthcoming election, the writer's hopes of securing 'the voice of this county', a request for support on election day 19 October); [Sir] W[atkin] W[illia]ms Wynn [? 5th bart.], to . . ., undated (2) (news of acquaintances, expectations of an heir at Coed Coch, hopes that Garthewin would follow suit, visits with Lord Darnley [? John Bligh, 4th earl of Darnley, co. Meath] to the tower on Cyrn y Brain, angles taken and observations made by ? Col[onel] [ ] Madge from the site of the tower, mention of Sir J[oseph] Banks, a report of a water spout above Rhiwedog); and Robert] Wynne, St. Asaph, to Hedd Lloyd at Havodunos [late 17th cent.] (enclosing a copy of the will of Catherine Vaughan of Hirdrevaig, co. Anglisey, dated 23 November 1691).

A note book containing miscellaneous notes entitled 'An Acc[oun]t of some Customs among the Jews particularly them in Barbary', 'Those doctrines & practices [which] are publickly declared in ye Church of Rome & are by ye authority thereof established which are highly derogatory to ye dignity of our Saviour', 'An Illustration of severall difficult texts of Scripture', 'Of Oaths', 'De Baptismati', and 'De Conciliis generalibus' (on the first four general councils of the church); a list of 'The Subscribers to Ruthin Race' [? c. 1730] containing the names of, inter alios, Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton [3rd bart. of Combermere, co. Chester, and Llewenny, co. Denbigh], Sir Walter Wagstaff Baggot [5th bart. of Blithfield, co. Stafford], Sir William Williams [? 2nd bart. of Llanforda, co. Salop], and Watkin Williams Wynn [? son of Sir William Williams aforesaid and later 3rd bart. of Wynnstay]; sermons or sermon notes in English and Welsh; extracts from Latin authors including Horace; and other miscellaneous entries.

Memoranda and accounts for the period 1671-1694, which appear to have been compiled by ?John Lloyd as agent or steward of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd bart. of Eaton, co. Chester. A large number of the entries record receipts from the sale of lead [from the Grosvenor lead mines]. Included also is a memorandum of an agreement, 16 October 1682, between John Lloyd, on behalf of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, and Thomas Wade of co. Northumberland, miner, authorising the second party to work, dress and smelt into lead the wastes, deads and 'buddle smythome' behind the lead mills near Mould, and a memorandum of an agreement, 30 September 1682, between Sir Thomas Grosvenor and Roger Mostyn of Brymboe [co. Denbigh], authorising the latter to dig for coal at Coed poeth [co. Denbigh].

An undated holograph letter from John Tudr [Siôn Tudur, poet, ob. 1602] to his kinsman and friend Ieuan ap Rys ap Davydd, touching a pew (endorsement : 'forme') [in St. Asaph parish church].

Forty-seven holograph letters and copies of letters to or from various members of the Howard family, 1729-1848 and undated, consisting of the following groups: (a) Eight letters or copies of letters from the [Reverend] Rich[ard] Howard [rector of Denbigh, etc., the recipient in NLW MSS 12428-12429C and 12430D above] from Mold, Bettws, Wygfair, and Llan[rhaiadr, co. Denbigh], to Captain Belches, military secretary, Gibralter, 1810 (enquiries concerning the baggage and regimental financial affairs of the writer's brother, Major [Thomas] Howard of the 4th regiment of foot, who had died on a voyage home from Gibralter to England) (also a draft copy of the same), the Rev[eren]d B[enjamin] C[onway] Conway, 1847 (negotiations for the sale of a field adjacent to the Chester-Holyhead railway line) (copy), Mrs. [ Barbara] Howard [the writer's mother], Conway, [1813] (written to accompany and comment on a letter the writer had received from his brother R[obert] Howard from Verdun [France] requesting financial aid), Miss [Dora] Howard [the writer's daughter], Mold, undated (personal), Mrs. [Dorothea] Howard [the writer's wife], the Vicarage, Mold, undated (a visit ?to Hafodunos to attend a burial, comments on the house and on the family vault), L[ieutenan]t Gen[era]l Manners, 1810 (a request for information concerning financial transactions entered into by the writer's brother [the aforementioned Major Thomas Howard] with fellow officers) (copy), and [ ] Sargent, Somerset House, London, 1810 (financial transactions involving the aforementioned Major Thomas Howard and recipient's son) (copy); and a letter from S. Edwards, Denbigh, to the Rev[eren]d Dr. Howard at the Vicarage, Llanrhaiadr (co. Denbigh], 1848 (negotiations for the sale of land, of which the recipient was joint owner, to the [Chester- Holyhead] railway company). (b) Two letters from Thomas Howard [the Major Thomas Howard mentioned in groups (a) above] from London and Epping, to Rowland Will[iams], Beau[maris], 1799 (acknowledging receipt of bills for fifty pounds and twenty pounds and enclosing an order for the payment of arrears of his military pay to Williams), and Colonel Wynch, Woodstock, Oxon. [readdressed to London], 1810 (the march of the second battalion to Epping and their proposed route to Gosport, a request to be allowed to stay abroad with the battalion); and three letters to Major Howard from J. Dewes, Gib[raltar], 1810 (financial matters), and Charles Fitz Roy, Windsor, 1807 and undated ( 2) (the appointment of recipient's brother [the Reverend Richard Howard] as chaplain to [His Royal Highness, Prince Augustus Frederick] duke of Sussex). (c) Five letters to Richard Howard [? father of the Reverend Richard Howard and Major Thomas Howard of groups (a) and (b) above] at Carnarvon, from W[illia]m Jones, Llanfihangel, 1779 (the possession of Trefriw lands), W[illia]m Peacocke, Fort Caesar [Anglesey], 1789 (Peggy [? Short's] marriage to ?Mr. Burton and the settlement made on the marriage, details of Mr. Burton's estate), and Row[land] Williams, Llanrwst, 1789 (3) (? negotiations with Sir Peter Burrell [2nd bart., of Langley, co. Kent, later 1st baron Gwydir of Gwydir, co. Caernarvon] about [Trefriw meadows], the sale of recipient's timber); and copies of five letters from Rich[ar]d Howard [? the same as the recipient of the five preceding letters], Carnarvon, to Col[one]1 Peacocke, Fort Cesar, Anglesey, 1789 (a reply to the letter concerning Mrs. [Peggy] Burton mentioned above), and Rowland Williams, Llanrwst, 1788-1789 (4) (the sale of meadows near Trefriw and houses in the village of Trefriw to Sir Peter Burrel [see above], the sale of the writer's timber). (d) Three letters from Alfred B[utter] Clough, Jesus College [Oxford], to Miss [Dora] Howard, Chester, 1835 (news of acquaintances and of Dick [Richard Henry Howard, the recipient of the two letters following]), and Richard H[enry] Howard [son of the Reverend Richard Howard of group (a)], Northop and Beaumaris, 1835-1837 (2) (personal, news of relatives and of acquaintances at Oxford, the disposal of a desk, books, etc., belonging to recipient, the intended marriage between Miss Georgina [ ] and Mr. Rob[er]t Lowe, the defeat of the Conservatives in the parliamentary election in Anglesea in 1837 and hopes that [Owen John Augustus Fuller] Meyrick [of Bodorgan, the defeated candidate] would 'eventually establish himself in that seat'). (e) Two letters to Heph[zibah] E[mma] Howard ['Hessie', daughter of the Reverend Richard Howard of group (a)] from Alfred B[utler] Clough [the writer in group (d)], Belan, 1837 (personal), and B[arbara] Howard [recipient's grandmother, 1827] (personal). (f) Copies of seven letters from Rob[er]t Howard [? the recipient of the letters in NLW MS 12426E above], Conway, to [ ] Jones, Ddole near St. Asaph, 1750 (the writer's wish to buy houses [? at Conway] from recipient), Rob[ert] Went [the writer's nephew in India], 1751 (3) (personal, news of the writer's family, efforts to influence people [? the directors of the East India Company] on behalf of recipient, unfavourable reports on recipient's conduct), Cadwalader Williams, mariner on board HMS Shrewsbury in the Downs, 1742 (recipient's estate, financial matters, mention of recipient's sister who kept a little school at Llansannan), and ? Rob[er]t Williams, Wrexham, 1738 (2) (financial and legal matters, enclosing a copy of a letter from James Conway, Cotton Hall, 1737/8). (g) Miscellaneous letters from M. I. Burton [Bangor], to Mrs. Howard, Conway [1804] (personal) (incomplete); Mary Casson, Chester, to Mrs. Howard, Denbigh [1821] (Mr. Casson's inability to receive Mrs. Howard's little boy at Christmas); J. Goodman, Buxton, to Rich[ar]d Howard, 1787 ( an agreement with Mr. Griffith to work mines in recipient's lands at Tre Castell in partnership with the Pwllycochion Company, proposals for an agreement between the writer and recipient relating thereto); Sidney Greene to Mrs. Howard, undated (accepting an invitation to dine); Doro[thea] Lloyd Howard to Mrs. Howard [the writer's mother], Denbigh, 1824 (personal); ? J[ane, countess of] Uxbridge, to [Mrs. Howard], undated (2) (news of Mr. Howard and Captain Howard [? the same person] serving with the army abroad); Stephen Law, Callicutt [India], to Hugh Howard, merchant, at Tellicherry [India], 1729 (personal, comments on acquaintances); Rich[ard] R. Short, Newport, to Mrs. [Barbara] Howard, Carnarvon, 1784 (enclosing a copy of a letter from [Mrs.] E. Peacocke, Llanedwen, Anglesea, and of the writer's reply thereto, both relating to Peggy Short, the writer's daughter); R. Williams, Beaumaris, to Mrs. Howard, Carnarvon, 1801 (a sale of houses at Conway); and R[ichar]d Williamson, Deans Y[ar]d [Westminster], to the Rev[eren]d [ ] Howard, [19]31 (a report on recipient's son [at school at Westminster]).

Two groups of correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1812-1858, relating mainly to mining matters. (a) Twenty-four holograph and autograph letters addressed to the Reverend Doctor [Richard] Howard at Northop, Beaumaris, Denbigh, Mould and Llanrhaidr, [co.] Denbigh. The writers include Rich[ard] Dawson, Liverpool, 1838 (notification of the formation of the United Gwernymyn[u]dd Lead Mine Company and suggestions as to the scale of royalties), David Hughes, Mold, 1838 (4) (acknowledging receipt of sums of money received on behalf of Mrs. Clough in respect of certain mines), John Jones, Oswestry, 1838-1839 (4) (enclosing the dividend due to the estate of John Lloyd, deceased, from the Snailbeach [lead] mines and copies of the accounts of the said mines company), Richard Jones, Wrexham, 1826 (mining activities undertaken by the writer at Trecastell near Conway), William Jones and Rob[er]t Thomas, Conway, 1812 (notification of the formation of a company to work the mine at Trecastell and a request for a tack note), H. Roberts, Temple [London] and Mold, 1826-1839 (4) (financial and legal matters relating to the Cemmaes estate and stock, a boundary dispute involving the lords of Mold, the Mold mining company, and Joshua Price's company), Cha[rle]s B[layney] Trevor Roper, Plas Teg [Mold], 1838 (2) (the appointment of a new agent to act for the lords of Mold), W. White, manager of the North and South Wales bank, Holywell, 1838 (acknowledging receipt of two hundred pounds to be credited to Howard's account), and Rob[er]t Williams, Mold, 1838-1845 (6) (the writer's appointment as mining agent in respect of royalties in the lordship of Mold, problems relating to the Fawnog mines and to the Fron Fawnog and Mold mines companies, comments on the progress made by the Gwern y mynudd company and at Coed Talwrn, comments on the price of [lead] ore and of iron (1838), notification of meetings of the lords of Mold (1838-1840), the refusal by Mr. Mostyn to sanction the use of the mineral raised in the lords' land in the Leeswood furnaces (1839), the winding up of the affairs of the Douglas Smalley & Co. Bank in 1840) (enclosed is a copy of a letter received from Edward Oakeley relating to the renewal of the Coed Talon lease in 1845). (b) Miscellaneous letters and papers including Edw[ar]d Jones's account with the lords of Mold in respect of lead ore and royalties from the Nantmawr colliery and the Coed Talon colliery and iron works in 1825; a letter from John Maughan, Birmingham, to [ ], 1830 (an agreement with the lords of Mold concerning minerals) (copy); proposals put by Mr. Oakeley and Mr. Wells to the lords of Mold with regard to a new lease of [ Coed Talwrn] coal and iron works (copy); a letter from J. Boydell, Trevallyn Hall, to [ ], 1829 (mineral matters in the manor of Mold) (copy); a letter from Edward Oakeley, Coed Talon, to Edward Jones, Spon Green, 1832 (enclosing an account of royalties due to the lords of Mold in respect of Coed Talon iron and coal works, 1830-1831); a letter from Rob[er]t Williams, Mold, to Col[onel] Howard, Brook Park, Northop, 1840 (the winding up of the affairs of the Douglas and Smalley [Bank]); proposals by Mr. Oakeley to the lords of Mold for extending or renewing the leases of the Coed Talon and Leeswood mining properties, 1844-1845; a letter from Cha[rle]s B[layney] Trevor Roper, Dudley, to Rob[er]t Williams, Mold, 1845 (a renewal of a lease to Mr. Oakley) (addressed to Rev[eren]d Doctor Howard, Llanrhaiadr, Denbigh) (copy); and accounts of royalties due in respect of minerals in the lordship of Mold in 1845 and 1858.

Fifty-two holograph letters, 1807-1838 and undated, addressed to the Reverend Richard Howard [D.D., rector of Denbigh, 1818-1843, rector of Llandegfan with Beaumaris, 1826-1843, etc.] at Mold, Denbigh, Conway, Beaumaris, and Soughton [near] Northop. The writers include J. Belshes, Gibralter [sic], 1810 (condolences on the death of Major [Thomas] Howard [recipient's brother] and information concerning his financial affairs), Captain Henry Brereton, 4th reg[imen]t [of foot], Colchester, 1814 (a debt owed by recipient's deceased brother, Major Howard, to Quarter Master Richards of the 4th regiment), J[oh]n Bullocke, Falmouth, 1811 (enclosing an account for erecting a tombstone over the grave of recipient's brother [Major Thomas Howard] and engraving the same), F. Casson, Chester, 1821 (a reply to recipient's request for a place for his son with the writer [? for schooling]), D. Croasdaile [London], 1810 (transactions relating to an annuity), Geo[rge] Doubt, Falmouth, 1810-1811 (4) (orders relating to a gravestone [to be erected over the grave of recipient's brother Major Thomas Howard]), [General] Charles Fitz-Roy, Windsor, 1807 (forwarding a warrant and appointment as chaplain to [H.R.H. Prince Augustus Frederick], duke of Sussex), Richard Grant, Deans Yard, Westminster, 1830-1831 (3) (holiday arrangements at [Westminster] school in 1830, financial matters, information concerning recipient's sons ?at school at Westminster), Messrs. Greenwood, Cox and Company, London, 1810 (enclosing a copy of a letter from Captain J. Bullock of His Majesty's Packet Express, containing notification of the death of Major Thomas Howard of the 4th regiment of foot whilst on a voyage home from Gibraltar to England, and of his burial at Falmouth), E. G[riffith] [? Elizabeth, née Potter, wife of Holland Griffith of Carreglwyd, Anglesey. See Holland Griffith below], Florence, 1819 (sorrow at the death of Dr. Griffith [? Dr. Richard Griffith, rector of Llanaber, co. Caernarvon, the writer's brother-in-law], celebrations in Rome which had been visited by the Emperor and Empress of Austria during 'Holy Week', impressions of Naples and of [Mount Vesuvius], the party's accommodation, etc., in Florence, plans for the remainder of their stay in Italy), H[olland] G[riffith], Carreglwyd [Anglesey], 1824 ( enclosing a letter from J. Anssell, Charterhouse, addressed to the writer, giving particulars concerning the terms of admission of a boy to Charterhouse either as a boarder or on the foundation, comments by Griffith thereon and on Eaton [sic] and Westminster schools) (attached is a personal note from [his wife] E[lizabeth] G[riffith]), Holland Griffith [the same as in the preceding letter], Rome, Florence, Carreglwyd, [Bath] and Clifton, 1819-[1832] (5) (personal and family news, the death of the writer's brother in 1819 [probably the Reverend Dr. Richard Griffith. See above under E. Griffith], the writer's proposed itinerary in Italy after leaving Rome, celebrations in Rome on the occasion of the visit of the Emperor of Austria in 1819 [see again under E. Griffith above], news of meetings that disturbed 'the peace of old England' in 1819 and the writer's hopes that 'ministers will guard against a revolution', the favourable climate and the productive soil around Florence, [Anglican] services conducted by Dr. Trevor in his own house in Florence (1819), a subscription to wall in the Protestant burying ground in Rome, the engagement of a butler [at Carreglwyd] in 1821, condolences on the death of recipient's daughter in 1821, the writer's opposition o the Reform Bill [of 1832], a probable change of political allegiance [in 1832] by [Thomas John Wynn, 2nd baron] Newbro), R. T. Griffith, Clifton [1828] (the death of the writer's mother), R[ichar]d Griffith [Bath and Chester, 1819] (2) (personal), R. Howard [?Colonel Robert Howard, recipient's brother], Brook Park, 1838 (2) (personal and family news), [Major] Tho[ma]s Howard [brother of recipient], Portsmouth and Colchester, 1807-1809 (2) (a letter from General [Charles] Fitz Roy [? in connection with the Reverend Richard Howard's appointment as chaplain to the duke of Sussex. See above under Charles Fitz-Roy], personal and family matters including the marriage of Emma [? their sister Emma, who married John Chambers Jones in 1809]), E. C. Jones, Bryn steddfod, 1833 (personal, acknowledging receipt of fifty pounds), William Jones, Conway, 1813 (a meeting concerning lead works at Trecastell, suggestions as to the payment of royalties), Ed[ward] Lloyd, ? 1823 (personal, apologies for his inability to attend a meeting), E[dward] Ll[oyd, Cefn, St. Asaph, 1823] (forwarding a letter from George Griffiths, Wrexham, addressed to Lloyd concerning a meeting), M. Lloyd, Bodfach, undated (condolences), W. Manley, Board of Excise, 1812 (the birth of a daughter to recipient, other personal news), R. Manners, Gros[veno]r Sq[uare] and St. James's [London], Windsor, and Bloxholm [?co. Lincoln], 1810-1816 (6) (the loss of Major [Thomas] Howard [recipient's brother], financial transactions between Major Howard and Captain Sergant, lack of news of recipient's younger brother [? Robert Howard] who was a prisoner in France, a request by Howard that the writer would approach [Bowyer Edward Sparke], bishop of Chester, on his behalf and a promise by the said bishop that the vicarage of Carnarvan [sic] [of which the bishop was patron] would be 'at his service' (1811), further efforts by the writer on Howard's behalf [in the matter of patronage] (1815-1816), congratulations to recipient on 'the Event' which the bishop had announced in 1816 [? Howard's collation to Betws yn Rhos]), [the Reverend] Henry Moore, the Vicarage, Eccleshall [co. Stafford], 1837 (acceptance of Howard's son into the writer's house to prepare him for [holy] orders), [Sir] Geo[rge] B[eeston] Prescott [2nd bart.], Bedford Square [London], 1811 (a request by the writer, as high sheriff of the county of Flint, that recipient would preach before the judges at the assizes), Divie Robertson, London, 1811-1812 (5) (financial matters relating to recipient's deceased brother [Major Thomas Howard] including his share of the prize money for the Walcheren expedition, personal and family news, description and price of a gig as requested by Howard), John Sargent [London, 1811] (the conduct of the writer's son) (fragment), R. Williamson, Deans Y[ar]d [Westminster], [18]30 (a report on recipient's two sons at [Westminster] school), and Colonel J. Wynch of the 4th reg[imen]t, Colchester, 1810 (3) (the illness and death of recipient's brother [Major Thomas Howard], the deceased's financial transactions with Colonel Wynch and Captain Sargent).

Thirty holograph letters from Alfred B[utler] Clough [Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 1817-1839, and rector of Braunston, co. Northampton, 1838- 1870] from Jesus College (27), from Chester (1) and from Minydon [Colwyn, co. Denbigh] (2), to the Reverend [Richard] Howard [D.D., rector of Denbigh, 1818-1843, rector of Llandegfan with Beaumaris, 1826-1843, etc.] at Beaumaris, 1832-1839 (the writer's opinion of a former student, Evan Pughe [? of Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn, co. Cardigan, vicar of Llanidloes, 1837-1850] (1832); the intention of the Conservatives at Oxford [University] to propose [Arthur Wellesley, 1st] duke of Wellington, as candidate for the chancellorship, his election to the said office unopposed, comments on his character, etc., the writer's inclination to leave Oxford, comments on the conduct and suitability for orders of W[ ] Ll[ ] Williams (1834); the winning of the English essay prize at Rugby school by Arthur [Hugh Clough, 1819-1861, the poet], visits to and the progress being made by Dick [? Richard Henry Howard, recipient's son, then a student at Oxford] who had broken his leg, visits by the patient's friends, the cost of medical attention and other expenses incurred in connection with the accident, comments on the parliamentary situation (1835); a rumour that Sir Robert [? Williames Vaughan of Nannau, 2nd bart.] intended resigning his seat as member of parliament for the county [of Merioneth] and that his son had refused the nomination, a fire at Baron Hill [co. Anglesey], a visit to town by Dick [see above] to see the University boat race (1836); attempts to find a place for Manners [? Robert Manners Howard, recipient's son, ob. 1839] at Oxford, his admission to Oriel College and news of him subsequent to his admission, the writer's activities whilst on a visit to North Wales including stays at Hengwrt and Nannau, a flattering account of Arthur [Hugh Clough] by Dr. [Thomas] Arnold [headmaster of Rugby school], comments on some of the candidates for vacancies at All Souls [College, Oxford], arrangements for appointing to the curacy of Beaumaris and comments on some possible candidates including [ ] Davies, schoolmaster at Denbigh, [the Reverend] Robert Jones who had a church at Golftyn [co. Flint], and David Roberts, nephew of [the incumbent of] Whitford, the writer's correspondence with the Welsh bishops regarding a new edition of the Welsh Folio Bible and Prayer Book and the setting up by the [Oxford] Delegates of a subcommittee to estimate the expense and to discuss arrangements, a meeting of convocation at Oxford to consider the revision of the statutes of the University, the possibility of obtaining the curacy of Gresford [co. Denbigh], vacant by the preferment of [the Reverend] Matthew Hughes to Llandyssilio [co. Denbigh], for Dick [see above] (1837)). The letters also contain throughout a considerable amount of news of the writer's social and other activities at Oxford, and news of and enquiries concerning relatives and mutual friends or acquaintances.

Twenty-seven holograph letters, 1739-1756 and undated, from R[ichard] Hurd [later bishop successively of Lichfield and Coventry, 1775-1781, and of Worcester, 1781-1808] from [Emmanuel College] Camb[ridge], Hatton Grange [Shropshire], and Reymerston [co. Norfolk], to the Reverend [? John] Potter at Doddington near Marshfield in Gloucestershire (1), and Batcombe near Brewton (23), Shepton Mallet (1), and Axbridge near Wells (1) in Somersetshire. Some of these letters are fairly lengthy without containing much factual information, being written in a philosophic and discursive vein, with a fondness for quotations from or allusions to classical authors. The two men appear to have been fond of writing poetry, and in the present letters Hurd comments on poems received from Potter and sends him examples of his own work including poems entitled 'Zelinda' (a maiden gazing at her reflection in a stream laments the transient nature of personal beauty), ' A View of the beauties of the country particularly those of Hatton Grange in Shropshire', 'A Soliloquy' (composed when travelling through Northamptonshire and reflecting upon the contrast between the miserable condition of shepherds the writer had seen and their idyllic existence in poetry), 'Verses wrote in a Pope's Essay on Man' (? composed by Hurd or discovered by him), and 'Ode on the Peace' (in 1748), a poem written whilst ruminating on Norton gardens, and a poem reflecting on aspects of rural life. Topics referred to more specifically in these letters include the writer's change of residence to Hatton Grange in Shropshire, the delightful nature of that neighbourhood, the writer's delight in reading Virgil, the loan of a speech to deliver at Emman[uel College, Cambridge] on 5 November, the style of recipient's letters, the mental image conjured up in the writer's mind by a description sent to him by Potter of his home and its neighbourhood (1739); the lack of letters from [William] Gould, an old friend, with comments on waning friendships, the connection between physical deformities or ugliness and an evil disposition, verses on Dr . [ ] Bowden written by recipient's brother (1740); the writer's attendance at a concert held at the Tons [in Cambridge] and a meeting with Will[iam] Gould, the appearance of Mr. [Christopher] Pitt's translation of Virgil's Aeneid in 4to volumes and the expectation of a 12° edition, Mr. Pitt's translation of 'Vida's Art of Poetry' [the De Arte Poetica of Marcus Hieronymus Vida, first published in Paris in 1534 and translated by Pitt in 1725], the content and style of Dr. [Conyers] Middleton's [life of] Cicero [The History of the Life of M. Tullius Cicero, London, 1741], a comparison of recipient's verses with those of [Matthew] Prior and comments on Prior's work, a letter received by recipient's brother in answer to a poem he had sent Mr. Pitt to compliment him upon his translation, 'Dr. [Patrick] Delany's life of David' [An Historical Account of the Life and Reign of David, King of Israel, published 1740-1742], affairs at Cambridge, a visit by Bob Hudson who had come to Cambridge to be ordained priest, a concert at Trinity College Hall [Cambridge] for the benefit of Signor Caporalli 'the famous Bass Violist' [? Andrea Caporale] with Signor Pasqualli [? Niccolo Pasquali] playing the first fiddle, the writer's interest 'in drawing up a treatise on Pastoral Poetry' (1741); an offer to the writer of a living in Norfolk worth about £70 or £80 a year and an arrangement with Bob Hudson that Hudson would hold the living for him until he was qualified to hold it himself, a visit to the patron [of the living] who had an excellent collection of manuscripts, medals and paintings, the appearance of 'the new Dunciad. It is believ'd to be, and certainly is, Mr. Pope's' [Alexander Pope: The New Dunciad . . ., consisting of a fourth book of the Dunciad, 1742], the writer's ordination in St. Paul's [London] by [Joseph Butler], bishop of Bristol, on letters dimissory from [Thomas Gooch, bishop of] Norwich, visits to 'the curiosities of the Town' including Vaux Hall and Ranelagh, an offer of a fellowship [at Emmanuel College, Cambridge] vacated by [Nathaniel] Smalley, further praise for the writer's patron 'the most general Scholar I have convers'd with' who had provided him with a curacy as well as the living [? of Reymerston], a fortnight spent with Dr. [Cox] Macro who had shown the writer his manuscripts including a 'paraphrase of his upon the Revelations connected all along with & expland from History', a loan of sermons which the writer promised not to preach anywhere except in his own two parishes of Reymerston and Gaverston, hopes of obtaining the opinion of Dr. Macro and the recipient on the Life . . . of David [see above], the writer's intention of 'looking a little into Italian' with Dr. [Macro] as his instructor, queries with regard to passages from Lucretius (1742); the writer's election as a fellow [of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1742], the election of Dr. [William] George as provost of King's [College, Cambridge] and the disputing of the validity of the election by [Richard Reynolds], bishop of Lincoln, who was visitor of the college, the controversy between [Conyers] Middleton and the 'new made' public orator at Cambridge [James Tunstall who had been elected in October 1741] concerning the former's book on the life of Cicero [see above], recipient's remarks on 'Dr. Young's Night Thoughts' [Edward Young: The Complaint or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, 1742-], 'Whitehead's paltry Epistle from Ann Boleyn' [William Whitehead: Ann Boleyn to Henry the Eighth, An Heroic Epistle (versified), 1743], a French novel called Marianne [? Claude Francois Lambert: La Nouvelle Marianne, or Pierre Marivaux: La Vie de Marianne], the first epistle in the writer's proposed work on pastoral poetry to be entitled 'Thoughts on Pastoral Poetry in ten Letters on the Eclogues of Virgil', Mr. [Christopher] Hand's new living at Aller in Somersetshire worth 'near 300 pounds' a year, the recipient's new curacy [? at Shepton Mallet], [William] Gould's ordination as priest and institution to the vicarage of Hoxen in Suffolk (1743); a legacy bequeathed to recipient by his aunt, the election of [Thomas Pelham-Holles formerly Pelham, 4th] d[uke] of Newcastle [upon Tyne, later 1st duke of Newcastle under Line and baron Pelham of Stanmer, co. Sussex] to succeed [Charles Seymour, 10th] d[uke] of Somerset, as chancellor [of the University of Cambridge], the death of the professor of divinity [at Cambridge] who was also master of P[eter] House [John Whalley, regius professor of divinity, 1742-1748, and master of Peterhouse, 1733-1748], the appointment of Dr. [Edmund] Keene [later bishop successively of Chester, 1752-1771, and of Ely, 1771-1781] to the vacant mastership, the expectation that the professorship of divinity would be given to Mr. Green of St. John's [College, Cambridge] [John Green, who was appointed and later became bishop of Lincoln, 1761] (1748); and the writer's presentation to the [Emmanuel] College living of Thurcaston near Leicester, a rectory worth 'between two and three hundred pounds a year' (1756). The letters also contain frequent references to the recipient's love affair and to his brother, who appears to have been a student at Cambridge and then ? curate of Reymerston.

Fifty-eight holograph letters addressed to the Reverend John Conway Potter at Hafodunos, at Em[m]anuel College, Cambridge, and at Soughton or Soughton Grove, Northop, by [the Reverend] R[obert] Potter [schoolmaster at Scarning, co. Norfolk, 1761-1789, canon of Norwich cathedral, 1788-1804, vicar of Lowestoft, 1789-1804] from Scarning, Norwich, and Lowestoft, 1778-1801 (progress made by the writer with his 'new Edition of Aeschylus' which was to be published the following February [The Tragedies of Aeschylus. Translated, Norwich, 4to edition, 1777. Another edition, London, 8vo, in 1779], the notes [on the tragedies of Aeschylus] which had been sent to Mr. Mountain and were being published by the [Cambridge] University Press, an eight day stay in London with visits to Vaux Hall, the Haymarket Theatre, and Kensington Gardens, and rambles from painter to painter, the painting of Jack's [? John Potter, the writer's son] picture by Mr. [William] Doughty described as 'a very pretty young man at Sir Joshua Reynolds', a head of the writer [painted] by [George] Romney, Romney's wish to exhibit this picture in his gallery, an intended 'attack on Euripides', the recipient's visit to Dublin, advice to recipient to pursue his studies (1778); a legal action in which the writer was involved ? relating to the rectory of Badgworth, trouble at Scarning [? school] 'from little and great Masters and their Papas and Mammas', the deaths of five of the seven trustees [? of Scarning school] and a request by 'Mr. Lombe, our new Lord' that the trust be renewed, news from Mr. Hopkins of Tenby concerning a legacy due to ? recipient and his sisters, expectations of being moved from Scarning, work on Euripides the first volume of which was advertised in December [The Tragedies of Euripides. Translated, 1781], an accident to the writer when his horses shied and his chaise overturned (1779); the death of 'a great man' from whom the writer had hopes of preferment, ? sarcastic comments on recipient's lack of opportunity to hunt and his presence at Chester races, legacies bequeathed by the writer's sister-in-law, the death of the writer's sister at Frome and his visit to Frome ? in connection with the estate, the Puddimore estates (1780); Dr. [ ] Parr's civility to recipient, affairs at Puddimore, the bishop's [? Philip Young, bishop of Norwich] recovery, the writer's hopes that he would be able to fix his son in curacies near himself, the young man's ordination at Norwich [probably the son] and his acceptance of a curacy at Southwold on the Suffolk coast, the death of Lady L'Estrange [? Lady Mary, widow of Sir Henry L'Estrange, 6th bart. of Hunstanton, co. Norfolk] (1781); the recipient's intention of taking orders, expenses in connection with ?the Puddimore estate, comments on the ancestors of the Lloyd family of Havodynos, the institution of [the Reverend] John Crofts to the vicarage of Bradenham [co. Norfolk], a law suit between Mr. Crofts and [Mr.] Betts at Thetford [co. Norfolk] assizes ( 1782); the marriage of the writer's cousin Eliza, reflections on the attitudes of bishops who had tender consciences when a young man omitted 'any trifling and insignificant circumstance', but who were themselves in the habit of being absent from their dioceses in town in the winter and at some watering place in summer, estates held by Mrs. Daltera 'of the rectory of Badgworth', a proposed valuation of estates held by the writer and recipient at Puddimore (1783); electioneering activity in co. Norfolk, involving Sir John Wodehouse [6th bart. of Kimberley, co. Norfolk, later 1st baron Wodehouse of Kimberley, co. Norfolk] and Sir Ed[ward] Astley [4th bart. of Melton Constable, co. Norfolk], who were elected as members for the county, and Mr. [? Thomas William] Coke [of Holkham, co. Norfolk, successful candidate in 1780], who withdrew from the contest, the death of the writer's daughter, benefices obtained by John Crofts and [ ] Paley, the marriage of the writer's son to 'his Mrs. Sheldrake' (1784); a visit by the writer to London to try to get some of the money due for Euripides on which occasion he had seen [Francois] Blanchard ascend in his balloon, Mrs. [Sarah] Siddons playing Rosalind [in 'As You Like It'], and Sir Joshua [Reynolds's] painting of Venus, a reference to the writer's work entitled An Inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets . . . which he had published two years previously, comments on Dr. Johnson's character and his critical ability, the publishing of the writer's two odes The Oracle concerning Babylon [and the Song of Exultation, 1785 ], congratulations on the birth of recipient's child (1785) (continued)

the death of the writer's wife, a visit to Southwold, changes in the writer's household ( 1786); the writer's 'labours in the Athenian Theatre', Mrs. Punchard's transfer of the school to Sarah [ ], the completion of the writer's [ translation of] Sophocles [The Tragedies of Sophocles. Translated, 1788] which he had undertaken at the request of a countess who had advanced the money for publication [? Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer, to whom the work is dedicated], thoughts of a visit to the recipient at Soughton Grove with the proposed route, the knighting of Mr. Fenn for publishing two 'Vols. of old Letters' [Sir John Fenn, the first two volumes of whose work Original Letters written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III . . ., which included letters of the Paston family, were published in 1787] (1787); the loss of recipient's son, relations with parishioners at Badgworth and occasional thoughts of going to reside there, a visit by Mr. [ ] Rash and his daughter to Ireland and an inclination on their part to visit Wales, the progress through the press of the writer's [translation of] Sophocles, an offer to the writer by the Lord Chancellor [Edward Thurlow, 1st baron Thurlow of Ashfield, co. Suffolk, later 1st baron Thurlow of Thurlow, co. Suffolk] of a vacant prebend in Norwich [cathedral] and his installation into that dignity 'worth more than 300 £ a year', the writer's taking of his M.A., degree at Cambridge 'necessary on this occasion' [i.e., his installation as canon], and the offer of a doctorate which he had declined, the two months residence at Norwich [cathedral] in June and July, the appearance of Mrs. [Sarah] Siddons on the stage at Norwich for ten nights in September, a visit to the same city in the same month by the singer Madam [Gertrud Elisabeth] Mara [née Schmeling], oratorios and concerts at St. Peter's church and St. Andrew's hall, Norwich, on this occasion (1788); the death of Mrs. Daltera which gave Mrs. Griffith possession of the two estates at Badgworth, the conditions of the lease of the said estates showing the interest the writer's son had therein, the possibility that the late bishop [Jonathan Shipley of St. Asaph] would be succeeded by Dr. Watson known as 'B[isho]p Bluster' [? Dr. Richard Watson, bishop of Llandaff], Mr. Griffith's attitude towards the lease of the Badgworth estate, the loss of recipient's son, the writer's collation [by Lewis Bagot, bishop of Norwich] to the livings of Lowestoft and Kessingland 'the united Vicarages are at present worth 470 £ a year and increasing under an Act of Inclosure', comments on the town of Lowestoft and plans for buying a house and settling there in the following spring, the writer's joy in being rid of Badgworth which had been bestowed upon [the Reverend William] Wainhouse, a claim by [John Warren] bishop of Bangor that he had helped in obtaining the prebend [at Norwich] for the writer (1789); the move from Scarning and the furnishing of houses at Norwich and Lowestoft, the situation of the house at Lowestoft, letters from Mr. Wainhouse, the writer's successor at Badgworth [ see above], about dilapidations, the election of a successor to the writer at Scarning [? as schoolmaster], the new bishop [of St. Asaph, Lewis Bagot translated from Norwich in 1790] (1790); the death of the writer's son, a draft for twenty five guineas sent by Mr. Griffith to the writer's deceased son for his interest in the rectorial estates at Badgworth, a visit from [Charles Manners Sutton, bishop of Norwich], comments on improvements and bathing activity at Lowestoft, the appointment of a neighbour [the Reverend] Hugh Hill as rector of Southampton (1792); [George] Romney's portrait of the writer's son, rumours of the writer's marriage spread by, inter alios, Harry Hobart 'Member [of Parliament] for the City' [of Norwich], an invitation from the mayor [of Norwich] to the writer to preach the Fast Sermon and a request by the court of mayoralty that the sermon be published [A Sermon preached before the . . . Mayor of Norwich and the Corporation . . . the day appointed . . . as a General Fast, Norwich, 1793], ships and visitors at Lowestoft, the visitors including earls, barons, and [Charles Manners Sutton], bishop of Norwich, and Mrs. Sutton, a sermon preached at Lowestoft by the bishop, the enlargement of the churchyard at Lowestoft and the consecration of the additional area (1793); a visit to Norwich by [Lewis Bagot], bishop of St. Asaph, and Mrs. Bagot, a meeting of the county called at Norwich by [George Townshend, 1st] marquess Townshend [of Raynham, co. Norfolk], the gathering by the democrats of 'a numerous Mob together of the lowest of the people', the deaths of Samuel Rash and Sir John Fenn, changes in the appearance of Lowestoft, structural alterations adjacent to and affecting the writer's house (1794); the election of members of parliament for the city [of Norwich], the violent contest against Mr. [William] Wyndham [one of the two members returned] and the defeat of the 'Democratic Quakers', the election of members [of parliament] for the county [of Norfolk] and the return of the former members Sir John Wodehouse [see above] and [Thomas William] Coke 'without opposition for want of time only', flooding in the Norfolk area, Miss Kitty Potter's marriage [? the writer's daughter], Mr. [John] Lloyd's candidature for the parliamentary representation of recipient's county [of Flint], the death of the two members of parliament for Yarmouth since the general election [of May 1796] and the election of two new members on 26 October, the efforts of the Presbyterian Democrats to secure one of the seats (1796); the writer's belief that there would be no invasion at Lowestoft, the protecting of the coast by Admiral [Adam] Duncan [later 1st baron Duncan of Lundie, co. Perth, and viscount Duncan of Camperdown], with fourteen ships of the line and six frigates (April 1797); chapter meetings at [Norwich] (1800); throughout the letters there is copious news of the state of the writer's health, news of the health and activities of various members of the writer's family, news of mutual friends and acquaintances, and enquiries after and comments on news concerning recipient's family).

Twenty-two holograph letters, 1788-[1831] and undated, addressed to the above as the Reverend John Conway Potter and the Reverend John Conway Conway at Soughton, Northop, etc. [the surname Conway having been adopted in lieu of Potter circa 1825. See NLW MS. 12435E section (b)]. The writers include [Lewis Bagot], bishop of St. Asaph, and Mrs. Bagot, St. Asaph, 1797 (personal) (in third person), [the Reverend] L[uke] Booker, vicar of Dudley, 1825 (enclosing a poem entitled 'Votive Lines . . . on contemplating the Tomb of . . . Bishop [Richard] Hurd [bishop successively of Lichfield and Coventry, 1775-1781, and of Worcester, 1781-1808] in Hartlebury Church Yard') (in third person), T[homas] H[ugh] Clough, Hope, 1826 (the refusal of the writer's uncle Griffith to sign a conveyance of Cemmaes in favour of the writer), Will[ia]m Eccles, Manchester, 1822 (2) (legal matters), R. Howard, Cefn [1831] (advice concerning a wood, a road being constructed ?near Wygfair mansion), L. Hughes, Bronwhilfa, 1788 (a note to accompany a copy of the will of John Lloyd of Hafodunos, deceased), Rich[ard] Humphreys, Rose Hill, 1826 (payment of recipient's quota in respect of the Rhuddlan marsh embankment), G. W. Kenrick, Woor Hall, 1801 (condolences on the death of Mrs. Lloyd [? Dorothea, wife of Howel Lloyd of Hafodunos]), David Pennant, Downing [co. Flint], undated (2) (a request to recipient to go to Flint as a justice to examine Hugh Roberts, a rumour that the Halkin and other miners planned to liberate a prisoner from Flint gaol by force), Tho[mas] Pennant, Downing and Hanover Square [London], 1790-1792 (4) (roads in ?recipient's neighbourhood), Sarah Potter, Lowestoft, 1799-1803 (3) (family news especially the state of her father's health, mention of Napoleon), Mr. Roberts, Mold, 1826 (legal matters) (in third person), F. Roberts, Ty mawr, 1796 (legal matters), Mr. [ ] Stodart, St. Asaph [1816] (the purchase by Mr. [Henry] Foss at the sale [of the library of John Lloyd, deceased] held at Wygfair, of The Life of King Arthur for £320 [see the annotated sale catalogue in NLW MS 12500B], the sale of the 'Manuscripts for ab.t £50 principally purchased for Col. Vaughan') (in third person), and R. Waring, Leeswood [17]92 (the engaging of a gardener).

Forty-one holograph and other letters, 1722-1835 and undated, in two groups. (a) Fifteen letters, 1722-1745 and undated, to the Reverend Benjamin Conway [vicar of Northop, 1717-1748, and warden of Ruthin hospital, ?1713-1748] at Soughton and Northop, from Edward Edwards, Carnarvon, 17[ ] (the academic exercises to be undertaken to obtain a degree ?at Oxford), Hen[ry] Fane, 1744/5-1745 (2) (the death of the writer's wife [Mary or Anne, daughter of John Wynne, bishop of St. Asaph, 1715-1727, and of Bath and Wells, 1727-1743] and arrangements for the burial [at Northop]), Edward Griffiths, Mould, 1727 (a request for a warrant against Edward Jones of Mould who had taken the writer's horse) (endorsed with a recipe for a 'drink for Cattell'), Fr[ancis Hare, bishop of St.] Asaph, 1729 (bishop Goodman's charity), Tho[mas] Lewis, St. Asaph, 1722 (legal matters), Tho[mas] Lloyd, Chester, 1734/5 (financial matters), J. Meres, London, 1735 (transactions relating to the sale of an estate), John Tamberlain, Ruthyn, 1731 and undated (2) (a request by recipient's mother for medicine, the writer's duties? as tutor, an earthquake at Dolgelley, the coming parliamentary elections in [Merionethshire and ? Flintshire]), A[nne] Wynne [widow of bishop John Wynne, the writer of the three following letters], 1744/5 (the death of the writer's daughter Fane [Mary or Anne Fane. See letter from Henry Fane above] and arrangements for the burial [at Northop]), J[ohn Wynne, bishop of St.] Asaph [1715-1727] and of Bath and Wells [1727-1743], St. Asaph and Wells, 1726-1740 (3) (Mr. [ ] Myddelton's tenure of the cure of Flint (1726), the valuation of an estate the writer proposed to buy ? from the recipient (1734), a lease ? of minerals), and Robert Wynne, Ruthin, 1730/1 (the writer's ? financial misfortunes). (b) Twenty-six miscellaneous letters, 1743-1835 and undated:- G[eorge] F[rederick] Beltz, Lanc[aster Herald], Herald's College, to the Rev[eren]d B[ enjamin] C[onway] Conway, Soughton, Northope, 1825 (to accompany a royal licence authorising Mr. and Mrs. [John Conway] Potter and the issue of their marriage to take the surname of Conway) (endorsed with genealogical notes on Catherine of Beren and her descendants); James Conway, Flint, to the Rev[eren]d C[onway] Conway, Soughton, Northop, 1835 (personal); J[ohn] Conway Conway, Soughton, to the Rev[eren]d Francis Owen, Rectory House, Efenechtyd, 1835 (proposals relating to buildings and lands lately held by recipient's predecessor Mr. [Edward] Thelwall); Marg[are]t Conway, Cotton Hall, to Mrs. Hughes, Sughton Ucha, near Northop, undated (a recipe for an ointment); Price Davies, York River, Virginia, and York River at the Glebe in Blisland, to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Conway at Soughton, near Northop, 1763- 1765 (2) (the writer's arrival in America, his acceptance of the ministry of the parish of Blisland, the method of appointing ministers, a description of the neighbourhood and its inhabitants, a request for a copy of the scheme setting forth the subscriptions raised for clergymen's widows in the diocese of St. Asaph (1763), the writer's activities, his health, marriage, house and glebe lands, salary of '16000 pounds of Tobacco', etc., the arrival of John Pugh, curate of Llandoget, in America and his acceptance of a parish called St. James in the county of Mecklenburg [North Carolina]); Edward Potter Griffith to his wife Dorothea, undated (to accompany a parcel of pens); [Richard Grosvenor, 1st baron] Grosvenor [of Eaton, co. Chester, later 1st viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and 1st earl Grosvenor], Eaton, to the Rev[eren]d W[illia]m Conway, 1765 (a gift of a mare with information as to her pedigree); Tho[mas] Hughes, [rector of] Llanfwrog, to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1771 (an application for a right of way ?for the writer's cattle through recipient's field); C. Lloyd, Gay St[reet, ], to Miss [Benedicta] Conway, Soughton, Northop, 1831 (2) (a tenant for the writer's property at Upper Soughton and the state of the property, news of acquaintances); B[enjamin] C[onway] Potter [Oxford], to his mother, Mrs. Potter, Soughton Grove, Northop [1810] (? a degree ceremony at Oxford when degrees were conferred upon [George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st] marquess of Buckingham, [Montagu Bertie, 5th earl of] Abingdon, and Mr. [ ] Tierney, a concert [held at Oxford] in which [? John] Braham, [? Samuel] Harrison, Mrs. [ ] Dickenson and [? Angelica] Catalini [sic] had taken part); Cath[erine] Potter to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1771 (the death of the writer's husband [the Reverend John Potter, rector of Badgworth, co. Somerset]); John Potter, Shepton Malet, to . . ., 1754 (a proposed marriage between the writer and Miss Kitty); John Potter [as in the previous letter], Frome, to . . ., 1767 (personal, an abstract of the will of Mrs. Wickham which required that the Upper Soughton estates be sold, proposals concerning the said estates); J[ohn] C[onway] Potter, Soughton, to. . ., 1822 (legal matters) (copy); E. Roberts, Inglefield Green, to Mrs. Conway, Upper Soughton, near Northop, [17]67 (personal, news of acquaintances); E. Spencer, Horsington, to Mrs. Conway, Soughton, near Northope, 1768 (news of the writer's family and of acquaintances); Hugh Totty to [Mr. Conway], undated (legal matters); Ant[ ] Wickham, Doulting [co. Somerset], to . . ., undated (the death of recipient's father, recipient's application for the vicarage of Northope, moves and suggested moves in support of the application); Ja[me]s Wickham, Frome, to Miss Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1767 (2) (a deed empowering recipient's 'Cosen Wickham to dispose of the Estate' [? the Upper Soughton estate. See under John Potter above], Mr. [John] Potter's intention of coming to view the property, the valuation of and title to the estate, news of the writer's family and of acquaintances), to the Rev[eren]d Mr. Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1770 (legal matters), and to Mrs. Potter, Chester, 1772 (financial matters, the taking by the commissioners of the Frome turnpike roads of part of the court in front of recipient's house); Mary Wickham to Mrs. Conway near Northorp [sic], undated (personal); and A[nne] Wynne [widow of bishop John Wynne. See above in section (a)] to Mrs. Conway, Soughton, near Northop, 1743 (personal, references to the writer's 'Tryal' and 'Affliction', probably the death of her husband which had taken place in the previous month).

Eleven holograph letters or formal notes, 1801-1840 and undated, addressed to the Misses Lloyd at Mold, at Soughton near Northop, and at Berw, Anglesea. The writers include Dorothea [Clough], 1811 (personal), Mr., Mrs. and Miss Foulkes, Castle, undated (condolences), Richard Howard, Conway, 1808 (his happiness on ? becoming engaged to Miss Clough), C. Lloyd, 1822 ( non payment of an annuity), Eliza Roberts, Llanrhydd, 1801 (condolences on the death of Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd), Eliz[abe]th Roberts, Efenechtid, 1810 ( the funeral of the writer's mother), Sam[uel] Sandbach, Woodlands near Liverpool, 1840 (the implementation of the Tithe Amendment Act of 1840 in the parish of Llangerniw, co. Denbigh, enclosing a copy of a letter from the Tithe Commissioners' Office, 1840), Dr. Totty, undated (legal matters), and Mr. Williams, Conway, 1801-1802 (2) (financial matters).

Fifty-eight holograph letters addressed to Susan(na) Lloyd at Hafodunos, Mold, at Soughton House (upper Soughton), Northop, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Thakeham Place, 1797 (a proposed visit by the writer's children, news of family and friends), D[orothea] Clough [the recipient's sister], Denbigh, [1805] and undated (2) (legacies bequeathed by the wills of aunt E. Conway and aunt Wickham) (with one draft reply), Richd. Garnons [Colomendy], undated (2) (pleasantries), Eliza Griffith, Carreg-lwyd, etc., [1801]-1803 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a meeting at Llangefni in connection with a proposed testimonial to Mr. Sparrow for his services in the Customs, disturbances in the Paris mines, the arrival of troopers in Caernarvonshire for fear of a rising by the poor, the discovery of copper at Ynysygwyddal, the birth of an heir at Leweney and a reference to Mrs. Piozzi, the progress of the harvest, comments on a visit to Bath), Holland Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1838 (amusement afforded the recipient by the writer's Welsh paper, hopes that electioneering differences are fast dying away in Flintshire, a visit to the writer by a multitude of Teetotalists, the letting of the writer's colliery at Berw), Richd. Howard, Denbigh and Beaumaris, c. 1817-1843 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a visit to Bangor Deanery, serious proceedings arising from old Panton's will, a change in the agency of the Marquis of Anglesey, satisfaction with the writer's curate, the probable departure of Thomas Davies from Jesus College, Oxford, a new statute in the University, the rejection of three Anglesey young men for scholarships, observations on the projected division of Soughton Common, a legal action touching a mortgage of the Hafodunos estate (together with a receipt, 1815, from Richd. Howard to Susan Lloyd for a sum of £6/10/0 paid by the former on the latter's behalf to Bevan, the timber merchant, on account of Coedycra Mill), the writer's departure from Beaumaris and subsequent movements, income from minerals received for the recipient, dissension in the National Church) (one incomplete), Catha[rine] Lloyd, from Carreglwyd, from Bath, etc., [17]94-1820 and undated (26) (copious news of relatives and friends, references to threats of French invasion and to the defenceless state of the Kingdom (1795-1804), accounts of visits to the theatre and to parties and to Ireland and Bath, etc., Colonel William Shipley's success in the Flintshire parliamentary election of 1807, references to the mine at Ynnisygwyddle), J[ohn] Ll[oyd], Dublin Bay, 1801 (an account of the voyage from Holyhead and the arrival at Dublin), M. Lloyd, Bagillt, etc., [17]81-1790 and undated (9) (personal, the writer's health, news of relatives and friends, the death of the recipient's brother Ben), M. Lloyd, London, etc., 1803-1809 and undated (5) (news of relatives and friends, the health of the writer's husband, a reference to the most excellent shore at Llandidno Bay, the progress of the harvest, the writer's removal to London, visits to the 'Ladies of Llangollen' and to Cheltenham, the recipient's trouble about the writer's chaise), Phoe[be] Lloyd, from Plascoch, undated (the health of the writer's aunt), M. E. Potter, Soughton, [17]91 (personal, business matters on behalf of the writer's mother, news of the writer's mother) (with additions by M. E. Potter to Mr. Potter, touching 'home matters', with references to stock, and from C[atharine] Lloyd to Susanna Lloyd, touching armorial colours for a piece of plate), and Sarah Potter, undated (thanks for the loan of Aunt Lloyd's letter, requires a supply of ale).

Forty-seven holograph letters, etc., 1735-1775, addressed to Robert Howard, Collector of His Majesty's Customs at Conway, co. Carnarvon. The writers include Rob[er]t Carrey, Carn[arvo]n, 1753 (a request to recipient to prevail upon J. Ellis, who was incapacitated through illness, to allow someone to examine his books so that his account with Sir J[oh]n Wynn could be settled), John Cross, Chester, 1757 (the execution by Mr. Perkins of a bond which would secure recipient against claims by Mr. Lloyd on a certain estate), [ ] Davies, Caerhun, 1758 (enclosing interest due), Tho[mas] Edwards, Pwllheli, 1751 (a bill drawn by his brother on the writer to pay Howard £150 [endorsed with recipient's answer]), Thomas Evans, Llanrwst, 1735 (sending 'Silver Spurrs and Stockins' and an account of money due to the writer from Cadwallader Williams), W[illiam] Holland, Lincolns Inn, 1756 (5) (legal proceedings), John Hookes of Gaunts, co. Dorsett, 1741 (letters of attorney appointing Robert Howard collector of the rents of the grantor's estates in the county of Carnarvon), H[ugh] Howard [recipient's brother], Bombay, 1746 (the writer's indisposition and his wishes with regard to the disposing of Mr. Hoar's money), Sam[ue]l Jennions, Holywell, 1753 (a request that he be considered if the recipient decided to let certain lands which he had bought 'to Venture for Ore' [ endorsed with a copy of Howard's reply]), W[illia]m Jones, Llanfihangel, 1775 (a lease of lands in Trefriw), T. Kyffin, Maynan, 1756 (personal, legal), [ ] Paynter, Chelsea, 1744 (personal, information from the Admiralty re Cad[waladr] W[illia]ms who had 'entered on board the Shrewsbury' and died in 1742), Z[achar]y [Pearce, bishop of] Bangor, 1752 ( a proposed visit to Bangor and Conway), John Penkett, Ches[te]r, 1753-1756 (4 ) (financial and legal matters, mention of Flintshire miners and the finding of ore and the possibility of recipient becoming 'a Great Mine Adventurer'), Henry Perkins, Chester, 1750-1757 (5) (legal and financial matters, the Trecastell estate), Anne Prendergast, Dublin, 1757 (parcels and chairs carried in the Catherine of Conway and their liability for duty), Rich[ar]d R. Short, Newport, 1772 (personal), John Spencer and W. Wake, Bombay [India], 1746/7-1750 (3 + 1 dup.) (the death of recipient's brother, Hugh Howard, and arrangements for the disposal of his estate), J[ohn] Spencer, Bombay [India], 1752-1753 (3 + 1 dup.) (matters relating further to the estate of recipient's deceased brother Hugh Howard, the death of recipient's nephew Mr. [Robert] Went), M. Went [sister of recipient], London, 1744/5 (personal, a request that her son Robert should be sent to London immediately as she had hopes of a post for him, plans with regard to Robert), Cadwallader Williams on board H.M.S. Shrewsbury in the Downs, 1742 (personal, a request to recipient to collect money due to him), ?R. Williams, 1756 (a law suit in which recipient was involved), W[illia]m Williams, 1758 (personal, legal matters), J. Wynn [1742-1743] (2) (the intention of the recipient's brother [Hugh Howard] to go to India and the signing of a bond in connection therewith), J. Wynn [London], 1758 (legal matters), and Sidney Wynne, Glynn, 1744 and undated (3 and a fragment) ( personal, domestic and farm news).

Holograph and other letters, 1756-1767 and undated, addressed to Ralph GriffIth(s), attorney at law, at Chester, London, Mold, and Ruthin. 12438E. Sixty letters from Tho[mas] Boydell, Chester, Hawarden, Trevellin, etc., 1761-1763 (6), 'Busybody', undated, Thomas Ellis, Avon Wen, Flintshire, 1761, H. Hall, London, 1761, Edw[ar]d Hughes, Mold, 1762-1763 (2), Tho[ma]s Hughes, Mold, 1763, Eliz. Johnson, Mold, 1762, W. Jones, Mo[1]d Mountain, 1763, Rob[er]t Lewis, Mold, 1761 and undated (2), E. Lloyd, Wrexham, 1761-1763 (3), C. Owen, Toke's Court [London], 1761-1764 (39), Marg[are]t Owen, Mold, 1763, and Cha[rles] Owens, 1762. 12439E. Eighty-three letters from Robert Pardoe, Lincoln's Inn [London], Ludlow, Oxford, Salop, and Worcester, 1761-1767 (24), H. Price, 1763, [ ] Price, London, 1763, Anth[ony] Pye, London, 1761, Dan[ie]l Seaman, Flint, 1761, Henry Swymmer, Bristol, London, and Mold, 1756-1766 (42), Arabella Vincent, London, 1761, J. Williams, Brecon, 1761, John Williams, Mold, [17]61, W. Wynne, Tower, undated (4), and Will[iam] Wynne, Mold, 1762-1763 and undated (6). These letters deal almost exclusively with points of procedure, financial matters, etc., in connection with law suits in which the recipient appears to have been engaged in a professional capacity. The majority of the letters seem to refer to the suit between [Sir Richard] Grosvenor [7th bart., created baron Grosvenor of Eaton, co. Chester, in 1761, and viscount Belgrave, co. Chester, and earl Grosvenor in 1784, plaintiff] and [Anthony Langley] Swymmer [and others, defendants, concerning lead mines on Mold mountain involving the defining of the boundary between the lordship of Mold and the lordship of Bromfield and Yale], and [the continuation of the suit, after the death of Mr. Swymmer, between Lord] Grosvenor [as plaintiff] and [Sir Francis] Vincent [7th bart., and Dame Arabella Vincent, his wife, widow of Anthony Swymmer, and others, defendants.

Forty-three holograph letters from Eliza Griffith, Carreglwyd, etc., to Phoebe Lloyd at Soughton, at Hafodunos, etc., [17]82-1804 and undated (copious news of relatives and friends, accounts of visits to and from Carreglwyd, the vacant living of Aber, the loss of a vessel opposite Trevadog, the prevalence of ague in Anglesey, an accident to a mail coach on the bridge by Holyhead, the death of 'Shone Pedrog', Malltraeth enclosure (1788-1789), Mr. [Holland] Griffith's attendance at a Druid meeting, a riot at Beaumaris, parliamentary election (1796), a recent dreadful duelling in the writer's area, a reference to Barmouth as a fashionable bathing place (1796), a warrant issued against Sir John Bulkeley of Presaddved, a tax of 3/- in the £, Paul Panton's health and reported arrest for £7,000, the enrolment of the Anglesey militia, a shortage of water, comments on the Irish revolt (1798), the death of Mrs. [Mary] Griffith of Berw, the sad situation of the Fleet (1800), the draining of the mine, the prospect of a bad winter as the result of the farmers' refusal to sell their stock at home (1800), the removal of Mr. Sparrow from the Custom House at Beaumaris, current high prices, shocking perjury at the Anglesey Assizes, rumours of a French invasion, a visit to Puffing [sic] Island, a visit from the famous harper Will Edwards, a meeting at Berw about the embankment) (together with an addition by C[atharine] Lloyd).

Eighty-eight holograph letters to Phoebe Lloyd at Soughton, near Northop, at Havodunos, near Mold, etc. The writers include Messrs. Barker & Porter, Chester, 1837 (3) (the purchase by the recipient of the Tyn y Caea estate in the parish of Cloecaenog) (together with a receipt for the payment of a deposit of £125), D[orothea] Clough, Buxton Hall, etc., 1778-1797 (2) ( personal, visitors to Buxton, Mr. [Thomas] Clough's choice of the living of Denbigh), Roger B. Clough, 1799 (the payment of interest, personal), A. M. Crew, Mold, [17]91 (personal, news of relatives and friends) (together with an addition by M. E. Potter), Thomas Evans, Mold, 1841-1842 (3) (a claim for money expended by the writer on the recipient's property), Holland Griffith, Carreglwyd, etc., 1815 and undated (2) (condolence, personal, anxiety about the safety of the Tremadoc Embankment), Richard Griffith, Beaumaris, 1810 (thanks for condolence, news of friends at Carreglwyd, a casual meeting with [Euseby Cleaver] archbishop of Dublin), S. Holland, 1804 (condolence to Mrs. Parry on the death of her husband), R. Howard, undated (personal, visits to Cerrigllwydion and Lluesog, news of friends), E. B. Howard and ?Jane Howard, Beaumares, undated (birthday greetings, cholera at Denbigh, personal) (children's letter), Edw. Jones, Wepre Hall, undated (2) (the recipient's promise to be godmother to the writer's daughter), Richd. Jones, Chester, undated (presents of ear-rings and necklaces), Catha[rine] Lloyd (nee Potter), Carreglwyd, etc., [17]83-1792 and undated (20) (a description of Carreglwyd, copious news of relatives and friends, electioneering in Anglesey (1794), accounts of visits to Dublin and Nantwich), E. Lloyd, Rhagatt, etc., 1810-1821 (3) (personal, offer of a calf, the tenancy of Ddolfechlas, the death of the writer's niece Margaret Price of Rhiwlas), M[argaret] Lloyd, Ruthin, [17]84 and undated (2) (personal), Margt. Lloyd, London, etc., [17]96-1803 and undated (14) (personal, family news, news of friends, an account of a visit to Scotland, business matters), M. Lloyd, Bodfach, etc., 1811-1817 and undated (6) (personal, visits to Rhiwlas and elsewhere, business matters, Ruthin Hunt), M. Lloyd, undated (personal, hops at the County Hall at Ruthin, news of friends), M. E. Lloyd, Carreglwyd, [17]83-1787 and undated (6 ) (personal, family news, a service at Halkin Church, an oratorio at Northop, an accident to the writer), S. Lloyd, [17]85-1787 and undated (3) (news of relatives and friends, money matters), F. B. Potter, Wygfair, undated (personal, the discovery of bank-notes in a clock at Wygfair, news of relatives and friends) (with an addition by M. E. Potter, touching the sale of plate, the living of Halkin, etc.), F[rances] Price, Rhiwlas, 1817 and undated (5) (personal, news of relatives and friends, the miseries of the poor, the children's schooling, the unfortunate business of the Denbigh Bank, the marriage of Sir Watkin [Williams-Wynn, 5th bart.], the contrast between the families of Wynnstay and Powis Castle, visits to Rhagatt, the apprehension at Trawsfynydd of a forger of notes and the presence of a large gang of forgers with a rendezvous at Holyhead), C. Roberts, Oakland, 1810 (condolence, personal), J. Smedley, Llanrhydd, 1794-1795 (2) (the illness of the writer's sister Maria, news of relatives and friends), Jane Taylor, Lymm Hall, [1824] (thanks for congratulations to Bessey), J. Trulock, Black heath, Coleraine, 1801 (personal, the purchase of a chaise, family news), E. Wynne, Garthewin, [17]99 (a proposed visit, Sir John Williams's accident, melancholy weather), [ ], undated (personal, news of relatives and friends) (with a draft or copy letter by Phoe. Ll[oyd] touching a nurse for her friend), etc.

Forty-seven holograph letters, 1769-1816 and undated, written to Mrs. [? Hephzibah] Williams [?wife of William Williams, king's attorney for North Wales] at Conway, etc. The writers include Hill. Collicott, Bristol, 1775 ( a request for a copy of a deed), ?T. Goodman, Llanidan, 1779 (financial matters), B[?arbara] Howard [? mother of the Reverend Richard Howard, the recipient of the letters contained in NLW MSS 12428-12430 above], [1797]- 1801 and undated (11) (personal and family news, news of acquaintances, financial matters, the health of bishop [John Warren of Bangor] and persecution suffered by him, hopes that the bishop would give the living of Cairun to Mr. Griffith [? the Reverend Hugh Davies Griffith who was instituted to Llanbedr with Caerhun in February 1798], the French landing in Pembrokeshire, fears of a similar landing in North Wales, criticism of the navy, the unprepared state of North Wales should there be an invasion) (some of these letters are incomplete and one contains a copy of a letter sent by Mrs. Howard to [John Warren, bishop of Bangor] requesting his support in obtaining financial aid from Dr. Lewis's charity [? the charitable trust set up under the terms of the will of Dr. William Lewis, D.D., rector of Allhallows the Wall, London, dated 25 August 1681. See Bangor diocesan records in NLW] in order to send her son Richard to Oxford University), Rich[ar]d Howard [brother of recipient], Carnarvon, 1788-1789 (2) (personal, business transactions), Am. Lewis, Ystymllyn, 1777 ( 2) (payment of a mortgage), Edward Mason, Stroud, 1816 (enclosing a draft to discharge legacies), Row[ ] Williams, Carnarvon and Beaumaris, [17] 93-1801 (3) (efforts to obtain financial aid in order to secure a commission for Mr. Thomas Howard in the army (1793), enquiries concerning houses in Conway in Mrs. [Barbara] Howard's jointure), and Tho[mas] Williams, Llanidan, Ruthland, etc., 1769-1777 (26) (legal and financial business transacted on behalf of recipient). Also a copy of the account of [Mrs.] Hephzibah Williams, widow, as administratrix of the goods of her husband, William Williams, deceased, and of the account of Tho[mas] Williams with Mrs. Hephzibah Williams as administratrix aforesaid, 1774.

Eighteen holograph letters from [Mrs.] D[ ] Wickham from Horsington [co. Somerset], to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Conway at Soughton or Upper Soughton, near Northope, 1764-1766 (personal, the state of the writer's health and that of her husband, news of and enquiries concerning relatives and friends, the death of the writer's sister [? in the neighbourhood of Northop] and arrangements relating to the effects of the deceased, financial matters, repairs to a house and dealings with tenants [? in the Northop area]).