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Nineteen letters, 1812-1863, addressed to various members of the Richards family, mainly from relatives, comprising letters to Thomas and Jane Richards from their daughters Jane, 27 May 1812, 17 September 1812 (ff. 1-4), and [?Mary], 1 April 1817, August 1826 (ff. 13-14, 20-21); letters to Mary Richards from her brother Lewis Richards, Berriew, 18 December 1819 (ff. 18-19), and niece Elen Richards, Llangynyw, 1 December 1835 (ff. 24-25); letters to Jane Richards from her friend Margaret Gwynn, Gwastadgoed, [?18] March [?1815]-26 June 1816 (ff. 7-12), and niece Elen Richards, [early 1830s] (ff. 22-23) and (from Hackney) 13 September-9 October 1862 (ff. 28-44); a letter to E[lizabeth] Richards, Shrewsbury, from her brother Tho[ma]s Richards, Berriew, 8 June 1818 (ff. 15-16); letters to John and Lewis [Richards] from [?Mary Richards], Darowen, 1 April [?1814] (ff. 5-6), and to Richard Richards from T. Price, Darowen School, June 1819 (f. 17); and two letters to E[len] Richards from friends and acquaintances, 9 April 1852, 19 August 1863 (ff. 26-27, 45). Also included is a tune 'Difirwch Arglwyddes Owen' (ff. 46-47).

Recipe book, [late 1810s]-1876 (watermark 1816), of [?Jane Richards], containing mostly cookery recipes and recipes for fruit wines. Many leaves, containing recipes in a number of different hands, have been inserted loosely into the volume.
These may be the recipes of Jane Richards alluded to by Mary Ellis in 'Teulu Darowen (Parhad)', Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales, 4 (1954), 58-88 (p. 76).

Eleven letters, [?1842]-[?1853], from Sarah Matthews of Rudgwick, Sussex [?and formerly of Dolgellau], to her friend Mary Richards (ff. 3-8, 11-29), together with one letter, 10 November 1846, to Mary from Sarah's sister Martha [Redaway] (ff. 9-10), and one letter from Sarah Matthews to Jane Richards, [1820x1837] (ff. 1-2).
Sarah addresses Mary as 'My dear Daughter' and 'Pall Bach Anwyl'.