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Letters to Elizabeth Longueville (née Owen), 1724-1743, and her husband Sir Thomas Longueville, 1735, with occasional outgoing correspondence. Items of interest include a family letter from Rev. Lewis Owen, describing the house at his new living in Barking, 1734; a legacy debt, 1724; an equity case and bill of costs relating to redemption of a mortgage and Elizabeth 's claim for interest, 1726; descriptions of French palaces and the ancestral seat of the Longuevilles, 1735; the Longuevilles' marital separation, 1735-1739; and a pedigree of Jones of Castellmarch, 1743.

Correspondents are almost exclusively family members; of interest are Lewis Owen describing a disinterment and Farinelli 's popularity [1734x1746]; and Robert Godolphin Owen, 1751-1752, on the execution of Mary Blandy and life at Oxford University, describing in detail a commemoration ceremony celebrated with a performance of Handel, 1752.