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Miscellaneous notes on botany, zoology, topography, etc., mainly by Thomas Pennant.

An English-Welsh dictionary, with a portion of a botanology.

The file comprises letters by by John Wynne Griffith, 1783-1832, to his mother, Jane, his wife, Jane, son, George, and various acquaintances, on the subjects of social contact with Miss Wynne (presumably Jane), processions in London for proclamation of peace, 1783, botany and introduction to Sir Joseph Banks, 1783, 1806, fortifications at Portsmouth, request for a letter of introduction for his son, Thomas, outings to the theatre in London, 1807, enclosure and encroachments, 1807, [1818]- 1822, trusteeship of Plasnewydd estate, 1822-1823, financial burdens on his own estate, 1822, riotous elections, 1826, spa treatment for ill health; and a letter by John Griffith to an Oswestry lawyer, 1799, on financial problems.

An undertaking to provision Beaumaris castle, 1645; transcripts of Beaumaris coroners' inquisitions, 1707; autograph letters of Nicholas Bagenall, 1708, Henry Rowlands, 1717, Maurice Evans, 1718, and Cadwaladr Williams, 1719; a letter concerning Beaumaris churchwardens, 1714; a receipt by John Williams for a quarter's salary for officiating at Llangwyllog, 1738; translations of Of a noble race was Shenkin into Welsh, Latin and Greek; Welsh and Latin verses on Hugh Pugh's high jump at Oxford; notes on Owen of Trefeilir; an epitaph on Evan Rice, huntsman to Sir Thomas Mansell; an abstract of the life of John Ray; a list of alpine plants mentioned by Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709) in Gibson's Cambden; a list of plants by William Morris, with a note of a botanical expedition to Snowdon, 1741; printed miscellanea.