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A volume, 1830-1847 (watermark 1830), containing fair copies of verse composed between 1829 and 1847 by H. W. Mortimer of Islington, later of St Mary Church, Devon, and of Fersfield, Norfolk, a Unitarian and follower of the social reformer, Robert Owen. Much of the work, 1830-1832, is in praise of Owen and his communitarian ideals, but it also includes satires on some sections of the English clergy, as well as verse dedicated to family and friends.
Subjects of some of the verses include Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, 1829 (pp. 1-3), William Johnson Fox, Unitarian preacher and writer, 1829 (pp. 21-25), the Rev. Thomas Belsham, Unitarian minister, 1829 (pp. 21-25), John Howard, the philanthropist, 1830 (pp. 35-37), the London Female Penitentiary, 1830 (p. 44), Mary Leman Grimstone, novelist, 1832 (pp. 137-139), Marianne Prowse, poet, 1834 (pp. 225-227), the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, priest and theological writer, 1835 (p. 231), and the Rev. Richard Cobbold, Wortham, novelist, 1845 (p. 263).

A typescript list (71 pp., 1303 items) of letters and documents included in the Robert Owen Correspondence in the possession of the Co-operative Union Limited, Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester.

The file comprises printed and manuscript items concerning the Robert Owen Memorial Museum, Newtown. Many of the papers relate to the meetings and proceedings of the Museum's Council of Management, and there are several published items about Robert Owen and his legacy.

Correspondence and papers, 1926-29, relating to the unveiling of a bust of Robert Owen at the Powys National Eisteddfod, Newtown, August 1926, the administration of the Robert Owen Memorial Fund and the affairs of the Robert Owen Memorial Museum, and the unveiling of a bust of Owen at the International Labour Office at Geneva, 11 March 1929. The file includes a number of letters from the Revd. Gwilym Davies.

A portfolio of letters, press cuttings, portraits, photographs and prints relating to the life and work of Robert Owen (1771-1858), social reformer.

A manuscript containing a list, compiled by Richard Roberts (1874-1945), author of Robert Owen (Caernarfon, 1907), of some publications by or relating to Robert Owen (1771-1858), social reformer.