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Sixty-six holograph letters, 1841-1843 and undated, from [Sir Hugh] Lyon Playfair (later 1st baron Playfair of St. Andrews) to Andrew [Crombie] Ramsay. The letters relate largely to their professional interests and activities, and there are numerous references to Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, Dr. William Buckland, etc. Some of the earlier letters are addressed to the Ordnance Geological Survey at Haverfordwest, at Fishguard, and at Llandovery. At the end of the volume is a list of French adjectives 'used before and after the noun, according to their signification'.

Letters, 1896-1921, from Lady Hills-Johnes to Violet Ramsay, and one, 1896, from Richard Garnett, British Museum, to Lady Hills-Johnes.

Fourteen holograph letters, 1841?-1847, largely of a personal nature, written by E[lizabeth] Ramsay, from Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Trinity Gask, to her son A. C. Ramsay; together with three letters from And[rew] C. Ramsay, from Aberaeron, Bala, and London, to his mother, 1845-1847 (the progress of the writer's work, a description of the seashore at Aberaeron, a curacy for Stuart Williams in the neighbourhood of Oswestry, the death of Dr. Brown and of Claude Buchanan, etc.). Some of the letters of Elizabeth Ramsay are addressed to the Ordnance Geological Survey at Fishguard, at Llandovery, and at Builth, and to Dolaucothie, Carmarthenshire.

Sixty-three holograph letters, 1849 and undated, written to A. C. Ramsay. The writers include Chas. C. Benett, Lyme Regis (spring tides at Lyme Regis), Alfd. H. Browne, Lancaster (enclosing a specimen of a chiton, personal), Mrs. A. H. Browne (observations on cartoons), Charlotte A. M. Cookman, Monart House [co. Wexford] (thanks for a copy of a lecture), P. M. Grey-Egerton, Tarporley (thanks for specimens, an excursion to Stonehenge), R. Wilbraham Falconer, Bath (a request for books, personal), Jas. G. Forbes, London (personal), John Johnes, Dolaucothi (books, observations on a lecture by the recipient, a 'system of farming on chemical principles' adopted by Mr. Peel of Taliaris, news of friends), Sarah Jukes, Edgbaston ( to Lyon Playfair) (an invitation), Helen M. Keyden, Wembley (a visit to the Society of Arts), R. G. Latham [from London] (a request for the presence of the recipient at the next senate [of University College]), Robt. Mallet, Dublin (thanks for a copy of recipient's introductory lecture), John Percy, Birmingham (the writer's application for an appointment [to University College, London]) (together with an enclosure from Edward Forbes to John Percy), B. R. Perkins, vicar of Wootton Underedge (thanks for a present, personal), M. E. Playfair, Alfreton (personal), E. R[amsey?, from Edinburgh] (the writer's marriage), E. Ramsay, his mother, Glasgow, etc. (deaths from an epidemic in Glasgow, the recipient's membership of the Royal Society, news of relatives and friends), E. Ramsay, his sister [from Glasgow, etc.] (deaths in Glasgow, Sir Robert Peel's speech at the Geological Society's dinner, the writer's method of pressing plants, personal news), J. C. Ramsay, Trinidad ( observations on marriage, the writer's relations with his colleague Eccles ), W. Ramsay, Glasgow, etc. (the possibility of the writer's marriage, the writer's movements, the business affairs of J. C. Ramsay, the writer's application for an agency, personal), J. Sharpe, Glasgow (business, personal) (together with verses enclosed), Thos. Sopwith, Mus[eum of] Econ[ omi]c Geology, etc. (the flag quarries at Llantisilio, west of Llangollen), J[ohn] Sykes, Pembroke College, Cambridge (a vacant professorship at Glasgow), C. R. Weld, assistant secretary, Royal Society (the recipient's election to a Fellowship of the Society), Anna Maria Williams, Llandovery ( the illness of Steuart [Williams) and his resignation from the curacy of Selattyn, the progress of the school, news of friends), and W. R. Steuart Williams, Llandovery (the writer's illness, personal, news of friends). One letter is addressed to the Ordnance Survey, Dudley.

Nineteen holograph letters written mainly to A. C. Ramsay. The writers include J. Fred. Bateman, Westminster, 1877 (the application of the Corporation of Manchester to Parliament for power to take water from Thirlmere), Charlotte A. M. Cookman, Dolau Cothy, 1876 (personal, news of friends, the hot water system at Dolau Cothy, the publication of Bishop Thirlwall's Welsh sermons by Canon Phillips of Aberystwyth), Eliza Dymock, undated (the honour conferred on the recipient), James Geikie, Geological Survey of Scotland, from Perth, 1879 (observations on the glaciation of the gorge of the Rhone and of the Faroe Islands), Franz v. Hauer, Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna, [1]882 (a toast to the writer at the dinner of the London Geological Society), Leonard Horner [from London], undated (the meeting of the Council [of the Geological Society], the rejection of exhibits at the Museum), W. P. Jervis, Regio Museo Industriale Italiano, Turin, 1882 (the writer's publications on the geology of Italy, an offer of specimens for the Jermyn Street Museum), Cha[ rles] Lyell, Bristol, 1843 (arranging to meet the recipient (one signature cut away), J. Milne, Tokio, 1882 (the writer's experiments with artificial earthquakes) (incomplete), James Nasmyth, Penshurst, Kent, 1879 (the writer's work on casting specula for reflecting telescopes, with reference to a speculum cast for Richard Green, M.D.), J. C. Ramsay [from Demeraire] to his brother [William Ramsay], undated (the recipient's proposed Continental tour) (incomplete), M. Louisa Ramsay, Hyeres, France, to 'Willie' [son of William Ramsay], undated (a professorship at Bristol for the recipient, personal, observations on France), W. Ramsay, Glasgow, 1880 (news of family and friends), Berthold Schlesinger, M℗♭©žhr-Ostrau, 1881 (the presence of strontianite in Scotland), Ange Sismonda, Museo Mineralogico di Torino, Turin, 1878 (a request for a copy of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom), Edward Thring, The School House, Uppingham, Rutland, [18]83 (a request to place the recipient's name on the General Committee), J[ohn] Williams, Treffos, Bangor, 1867 (observations on the recipient's letter concerning St. David's horns [at Llanddewibrefi]), and E. Woodall, undated (the recipient's contemporaries at Cambridge University) (incomplete). Some of the letters are addressed to the School of Mines, Jermyn Street [London], to the Ordnance Survey, Marshfield, near Bath, and to Wooton-under-edge. At the end of the volume are two sheets of extracts relating to the 'petrified horn which hung in the church of Llanddewibrefi ' ('Matgorn yr ych bannog' or 'Matgorn ych Dewi').

Letters, 1895-1903, from Violet, Dorothea, and Ella [Eleanor] Ramsay to Charlotte Johnes.

Eighty-seven holograph letters and imperfect letters of the Ramsay family comprising (a) three letters from E. Ramsay, Glasgow, to her son Will[ia]m Ramsay at Dundee, Liverpool, etc., 1840-1841 and undated (personal, news of members of the family and of friends); (b) fifty-five letters from And[re]w C. Ramsay to his brother William ('Willie') Ramsay, 1841-1881 and undated (the writer's professional activities, brother John's letters, the possibility of an engineering appointment for the recipient, the construction of the North and South Wales Railway, the recipient's engagement, the writer's visit to Canada and the United States of America, the death of the writer's and the recipient's mother, the wedding of the writer's and the recipient's sister Eliza, the educational career of the recipient's son William and of the writer's son Allan, the writer's visit to Ireland, the Countess of Derby's reception at the Foreign Office to meet the Emperor of Russia, a musical party at Carreg Lwyd, the writer's survey of Dyffws, proposed new editions of the writer's The Geology of North Wales and The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain, 'the awful tragedy' at Dolau Cothy, the writer's knighthood, etc.); (c) six letters to Eliza Ramsay from her brother And[re]w C. Ramsay from Bromsgrove and South Kensington, 1852-1880 (the writer's marriage, the writer's professional activities, the visit of the writer's family to Hyeres), the recipient's brother J. C. Ramsay, Thomas Works, Demerara, 1858 (the death of the writer's and the recipient's mother and the recipient's arrangements for the future, the writer's health and prospects), and the recipient's sister-in-law M. Louisa Ramsay, Llanfairynghornwy, etc., 1871?-1880 (personal, the illness of the writer's father, the offer to the writer's husband of the Directorship of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland); and (d) twenty-three letters from M. Louisa Williams from [London], Beaumaris, Hyeres, Nimes, St. Moritz, Cadenabbia, and Llanfairynghornwy, largely to her sister-in-law Catherine [Ramsay] (wife of William Ramsay), [1869-1883] and undated (the wedding of Eliza Ramsay, the writer's interest in the 'Clergy orphan business', Allan's education, a legacy to the writer in Holyhead, the writer's purchase of a house, the writer's stay on the Continent, Andrew, C. Ramsay and the Directorship of the [Government] School of Mines, personal, news of friends). A number of Andrew C. Ramsay's letters to his brother, comprised in group ( b), are written from St. Davids, Aberaeron, Aberystwyth, Machynlleth, Capel Curig, Llanfairynghornwy, Portmadoc, and Beaumaris.

Thirty-nine holograph and autograph letters and incomplete holograph letters addressed almost entirely to Elizabeth, Violet, and/or Dorothy Ramsay, daughters of Sir Andrew C. Ramsay. The writers include William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1905-10 (the publication of 'Far Eastern Vignettes' by Miss Rankin, enclosing a letter by Lord Linlithgow, the death of King Edward VII, personal); Arabella B. Buckley [from London], 1881 (requesting assistance with church decorations); Charlotte A. M. Johnes, Dolaucothy, etc., 1883-1910 and undated (visitors to Llanover and deaths among Lady Llanover's staff, visits to Marie de Bunsen and others, a pendant for Mary Cookman, the employment of a district nurse, the writer's stay at Promontagno, personal, news of friends); B. [Elizabeth] H[ills] J[ohnes], Dolaucothy, etc., [18]98-1924 and undated (the recipient's picture shown in the Academy, personal, war-time activities, the death of the recipient's mother, an account of Woodstaples Hall, news of friends) (one letter with additions by Charlotte A. M. Johnes and J. Hills-Johnes); Elizabeth [ ] Dolaucothy, [19]24 (the recipient's new house, news of [Lady Elizabeth Hills-Johnes] and others); J[ohn Lloyd], bishop of Swansea, Lampeter Vicarage, 1907 (thanks for a book); J[ohn Owen], bishop of St. Davids, 1908 (thanks for a pectoral cross for the use of the see); And[re]w C. Ramsay, London, 1880-1881 (advancement of monies, personal, the death of Lamont Young in Australia); W. Ramsay [from London], 1911 (the sale of the recipient's house); O. Reichenbach [from London], [18]81 (personal); [ Baroness Bertha von Reisewitz?], Berlin, [19]06 (comments on the behaviour of Germans resident in England); and Aileen Roberts, from Portlaw, Ireland, and from Prince Town, Dartmoor, 1909 (the writer's visit to Ireland, comments on military manoeuvres, personal). Also included in the volume are two printed cards, including a prayer by [Simon] Patrick, bishop of Ely (1626-1707), and greetings in verse from J. H-J and B. H-J., Dolaucothy, 1917.

Letters, 1854-1890, addressed to Lady Ramsay by James V. Vincent, Bangor, 1872; John Rhys, Rhyl, 1872; J. W. Vivian, Treffos, 1872; Ch. Williams, 1872; Edward Hull, Dublin, 1888; Warrington Smyth, 1889; R. F. Williams, Capetown, 1889; Ralph Ch. Williams, Pretoria, 1889; William Preston, Beaumaris, 1890; and by members of the Ramsay family.

Letters, 1842-1876, from John and Elizabeth Johnes to Sir Andrew and Lady Ramsay.

Eighteen holograph letters, 1844, written to A. C. Ramsay by J[ohn] C. Ramsay, Sanfernando [Trinidad] (personal, the progress of the writer's business, photography, etc.), and W[illiam] Ramsay, Glasgow (personal, news of friends, the writer's studies, visits to Edinburgh, Trinity Gask, Haddington, etc.). Some of the letters are addressed to the Ordnance Geological Survey at Fishguard and at Builth, to Dolau Cothi, and to the Museum of Economic Geology, Charing Cross, London.

Letters, 1852-1881, from Sir Andrew C. Ramsay to Mrs Charlotte Anna Maria Cookman, who, on the death of her father, John Johnes of Dolau Cothi, Carmarthenshire, in 1876, resumed her maiden surname of Johnes.

Letters, 1859-1915, from Lady Hills-Johnes to Sir Andrew and Lady Ramsay; etc.

Letters, 1856-1889, written by various members of the Ramsay family.

Letters, 1859-1918, addressed to members of the Ramsay family by Sir James and Lady Hills Johnes, Dolau Cothi; B. Hills Johnes; Charlotte Johnes; James Williams, Treffos; E. Dymock; and Lord Derby (referring to his anxiety to appoint a bishop acquainted with the Welsh language and conversant with Welsh feelings in the event of a vacancy at Bangor, 1859).

Letters, 1852-1881, to Sir Andrew C. Ramsay from James Geikie, Robert Godwin-Austen, John Milne, Tokio, Charles Lyell, and members of the Ramsay family.

One hundred and one holograph letters, 1849-1850 and undated, written to A. C. Ramsay. The writers include John Barlow, secretary, Royal Institution (the recipient's communication relating to the geological survey of North Wales, a card of admission to Syon Gardens), Edwd. T. Bennett, Ross (the discovery of plants in Snowdonia), Wm. Bennett, Ross (plants from Symonds rocks near Ross and from Snowdonia), Amelia Browne, Wolverhampton (personal, references to friends), Alfd. H. Browne, Wolverhampton (personal), Charlotte A. M. Cookman (née Johnes), Monart House (the writer's illness, the receipt of fossils from the Palaeontographic Society), Wilbraham Falconer, Bath (personal, the recipient's health), Wm. Ferguson, Glasgow (a proposed natural history survey of Clydesdale), Emily M. Forbes (an account of Mr. Jukes's wedding, personal), William Hope, Liverpool (an invitation), Henry M. Ingram, Tyn-y-Celyn, Dolgelly (the writer's 'botanizing excursion'), Jas. F. Ireby? [from London] (the writer's paintings), Trevor E. James, Woodbank, near Caerleon (personal), John Johnes, Dolaucothi (the writer's visit to Ireland, the illness of Charlotte [Cookman], news of neighbours and friends, comments on the recipient's survey, the progress of the school at Llandovery), Augusta Jukes, from Aber, [Wolverhampton], and Merchlyn (personal, references to the geological survey of her husband [Joseph] Beete [Jukes] in North Wales), Henry Kingsmill, junior, Lincolns Inn (an examination at Grays Inn, personal), Agnes Loudon, Bayswater (an invitation), W. Macdonald (an application for an appointment 'at the Geological' [Museum]), Wm. Mathews, Edgbaston (a memorial on behalf of ironmasters), M. E. Playfair (personal), E. Ramsay, his mother, Glasgow, etc. (personal, news of friends and relatives, the recipient's studies), Eliza Ramsay, his sister, from [Glasgow], etc. (the Queen's visit to Scotland, John's appointment with the Royal Insurance Office, personal), J. C. Ramsay, Trinidad (the writer's business affairs, with references to sugar making, personal), Willm. Ramsay, Glasgow, etc. (the writer's business, family news), W. B. Rogers, London (geological studies), F. M. Selwyn, Temple (concerning an invitation, personal), J. Sharpe, Glasgow ( personal), Anna Maria Williams, Llandovery (Charlotte Cookman's health, news of Steuart, of the Johnes family, and of others, the progress of the school building), Wm. Williams, Llandovery (family news), W. R. Steuart Williams, Montgomery and Welshpool (the writer's curacies at Llandyssill in Montgomeryshire and at Welshpool, news from Carmarthenshire, a reference to the death of 'Gwallter Mechain'), and George Wilson, Edinburgh (introducing Professor Munch from Norway). Some of the letters are addressed to Capel Curig and to the Geological Museum, London.

Sixteen holograph letters from Mary Louisa Williams (aft. Lady Ramsay) to her husband A. C. Ramsay, 1851-[1869] and undated (personal, news of members of the family and of friends, lunch at Carreglwyd, services at Llanrhyddlad and [Llanfairynghornwy], the general election [of 1868], Lady Llanover is incensed at the ingratitude of John Thomas ['Pencerdd Gwalia'] in preferring the pedal harp to the triple stringed, the law respecting the burial of suicides and the removal of 'Henry's body, the progress of Allan [Ramsay] at school, a Sunday School examination by the bishop of Bangor, visits to Llyn Ogwen, etc.). The majority of the letters are written from Borthwen (Llanfaethlu), Llanfairynghornwy, Beaumaris, Glanogwen, Dolaucothy, and [London].

Seventeen holograph letters addressed to Mrs. (aft. Lady) [Mary Louisa] Ramsay. The writers include A[lfred] G[eorge Edwards], bishop of St. Asaph, 1893-1900 (Boswell Smith's letters, the recipient's leaflet, with comments on its revision and its translation into Welsh), James Geikie, Jedburgh, 1874 (the recipient's paper on the Upper Rhine Valley, the writer's visit to 'the country of Dandie Dinmont', - the head of the Rule Water), W[illiam] Basil [Tickell Jones], bishop of St. Davids, 1893 (Boswell Smith's letters, comments on the Welsh Suspensory Bill and on a meeting of Nonconformists at Amlwch), M[ary] E. Lyell [from London], 1861 (comments on Mrs. [S. M.] Hall's letter) (see NLW MS 11588D) J[ohn] Owen, St. David's College, Lampeter [aft. bishop of St. Davids], [18]95 (the recipient's letter, an attack on Anglesey clergy by the Reverend Daniel Rowlands of the Normal College, Bangor, the remark about Mr. Lloyd George's 'mendacious audacity', the recipient's comments on the Welsh clergy of sixty or seventy years ago), J[ohn] Rhys (loan Rhys), Rhosybol, Jes[us] Col[lege], Oxford, etc., 1865-1871 (thanks for offer to show the writer's papers to friends, etymology, the writer's candidature for an exhibition at Jesus College, Oxford, and his subsequent petitions to the City Companies for exhibitions, the writer's Celtic studies, comments on Scottish Lowland names, the writer's acquaintances in Oxford, the writer's choice of a profession), Lucy Tait, Lambeth Palace, on behalf of [Archibald Campbell Tait], archbishop of Canterbury, 1895 (a request by the Church Literature Committee for permission to print part of the recipient's letter to The Times), Charles Williams [Principal of Jesus College], Oxford, [18]72 (the Marquis of Bute’ s secession to the Roman Catholic faith, references to Miss De Bunsen and Miss Johnes and to the coming-of-age festivities of Mr. Herbert, grandson of Lady Llanover [aft. 1st baron Treowen], the beauties of Oban, the price of coals), W[illiam] Wynn Williams, Menaifron, Caernarvon, 1862 (the writer's visit to Cefn cave, the Madocian discovery of America, news of the family and of friends, an execution at Beaumaris, Caernarvonshire assizes) (with an enclosure entitled 'Welsh Indians' transcribed by the writer from the Cambrian Register, 1795, pp. 377-80); together with verses entitled 'Glynirvon, a lifelong memory' and signed 'Feb. 8th 1850. Montgomery'.

Ten miscellaneous holograph letters: John] L[ewis] Hampton-Lewis, A. Pontoon Troop, Royal Engineers, Natal Field Force, from Standerton, Transvaal, to his mother [Lettice Martha Lewis of Henllys, Llanfaes], to his sister Dorothy [Lettice, Lady Louth], and to his father [Col. Thomas Lewis Hampton Lewis], 1900 (personal, the writer's movements) (pressed copies); And[re]w C. Ramsay from Liverpool to his mother Mrs. [E.] Ramsay, Glasgow [1841] (personal, the writer's departure from home), and to Professor [ ], 1881 (the writer's knighthood); M. Louisa Ramsay, Beaumaris, to [her sister-in-law Catherine Ramsay] [1883] (personal), and to her mother[-in-law E. Ramsay], undated (the death of the writer's mother); Violet Ramsay to her father [Andrew C. Ramsay], undated (personal ); John] Williams, Treffos, to his brother James [Williams, rector of Llanfairynghornwy], 1867 (the meaning of the word 'caballus', the new Merchant Shipping Act); A. F. Yule, Taradale, Ross-shire, to 'dear Finiguerrina', 1906 (the loan of Penrose's book); together with an undated 'Petition' by the Ramsay family at 7 Victoria Terrace, Beaumaris, to the family of Ramsay of 10 Osborne Road, Clifton, Bristol (a request for a family gathering), and an agreement (in French) signed at Menton, 12 January, 1881, between Miss Catherine Ray and M. Jean Clericy for the lease for four months of the villa Canna situated above Castellar.