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Receipts, bills etc. for the purchase of furniture, books, paintings etc. for Dolforgan Hall.

Correspondence with Mrs M. L. Willans relating to the settlement of the estate of her late husband, J. W. Willans, 1894-1908, and correspondence relating to the settlement on the death of Francis Nicholson, 1925-1926 (no's 111-121).

Correspondence, 1889-1893, relating to the dispute between John W. Willans and his brother-in-law, Albert Nicholson, together with a letter, 19 May 1914 (no. 34) from the latter to the former's son, John Bancroft Willans, explaining the affair.

Cast statements and schedules of payments for the two six months ending 30 June and 31 Dec. 1920, and an account [?of proposed improvements], [c.1950].

Letters, estimates, invoices, receipts etc., mainly addressed to Mr Proudfoot, Dolforgan agent, and including repairs or improvements at Cloddiau and Ty Cornel, and drinking fountains.

A copy of Walter Keble and Jane Herbert's marriage entry (dated 1704) in the Llanmeurig marriage register, with covering letter, 1942; a copy of the will (dated 1889) of Dorothy Nicholson of Much Woolton, co. Lancs, spinster, with a memorandum enclosed as to the contingent reversionary interests of Mary Louisa Willans; notes for John William Willans's will, 1893; a letter from Mary Louisa Willans to her son John Bancroft Willans, that she desires him to give all her indoor servants a gift at her death of £1 for every year of their service, 1909; a copy of the will (dated 1902) and codicils (dated 1905 and 1906) of Mary Louisa Willans, [post 1909]; and a letter regarding Rev. J. A. Cheese, 1942.

Papers relating to the sale of timber, and applications to the Forestry Commission for afforestation grants, 1913 and 1925-1931.

Letters and papers relating to insurance policies and claims.

Two items of the contents of the various rooms of [?Dolforgan], dated 1932 and 1939.

Invoices and receipts for goods and services bought by John Bancroft and W. L. Willans, including sanitary, hot water and electrical work at Dolforgan, 1894, and life memberships of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the League of Nations Union, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1924, the Windmill Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Worcestershire Archæological Society, 1944, the British Records Association, the National Trust and the Radnorshire Society, 1945, and the British Scool at Athens and the Montgomeryshire Society, 1947. Many of the other invoices are for books, paintings and furniture.

Letters to J. B. Willans, mainly from Roger B. Mellard, his solicitor, and from his cousin Russell in Cradley near Malvern.

A list of materials, emphasising the quality required, [n.d.]; a memorandum of some points likely to arise in discussion with the Dock Board, [n.d.]; and the claim of John William Willans of Manchester, co. Lancs, engineer & public works contractor, defendant, relating to a contract dated 24 Aug. 1889 with the Liverpool Overhead Railway Co. for the erection of all the wrought and cast iron work and steel and other work in connection with the railway, [1893 watermark].

Mrs Willans's letters, including a copy letter from Mrs Willans offering a drinking fountain for the village of Ceri to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee, 1897; and letters from George H. Hankinson of Manchester, solicitor, 1895-1902, and from Darbishire, Tatham, Worthington & Co. of Manchester, solicitors, 1904-1905, to Mrs Willans relating to Mr and Mrs Robert Nicholson's marriage settlement of 1840, the will of the late Robert Nicholson, her parents' marriage settlement of 1881, her father's will trust, the executors of the lateMargaret Nicholson, her own marriage settlement, 'Thomas's mortgage', and investments; and John Bancroft Willans's accounts relating to his mother's death duties, 1913.

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, including the exemption of J. B. Willans from jury service, 1910, 1944-1947 (no's 189-199).

Papers relating to the Montgomery county infirmary, 1941-1943, including a list of cases for consideration, Jan. 1941; a printed note from the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows, Loyal Dolforgan Lodge (no. 6683) (State Section), [?pre-1948]; a printed note of the attendance at Newtown schools, 1949; and typescript notes on Ceri church, The Forest and Penaran farm, [n.d.]

Papers, 1873, 1893, relating to the purchase by John William Willans of burial plots in the New Burial Ground in the borough of Middlesbrough, co. Yorks.

Papers relating to John Bancroft Willans of Dolforgan's purchase of cottages and gardens known as 18 and 19 Kerry Village, lots 88 and 89 in the private sale of the Brynllywarch estate at Ceri, July 1919.

Correspondence relating to the Red House Farm, p. Ceri.

Deeds and documents relating to the Willans family and the Dolforgan estate, Ceri, co. Mont.