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An autograph letter, 9 June 1698, from Edward Lhuyd, Pembroke, to [Humphrey Humphreys], Bishop of Bangor, relating to Lhuyd's ongoing tour of South Wales, describing the difficulties faced in corresponding, his fossil collecting and his research into Welsh manuscripts (f. 1).
Also included is an engraved portrait of Lhuyd, 1796 (f. 2).

A volume consisting mainly of letters, 17 & 18 cents, addressed to Edward Lhuyd (1660?-1709), together with miscellaneous items, including pedigrees, notes and extracts.

Miscellaneous papers consisting of drafts, sermons, copies of poems in English and Latin, Latin letters, college papers, orations, etc. The following may be specially noted: a copy of a certificate (1710) by Dr Edward Wynn that William Owen was the grandson of Sir John Owen of Clenneney (ff. 14-15); a letter from Wi[lliam] Baxter to 'Mr Edward Lhuyd, Keeper of the Museum att Oxford', 9 October 1708 (ff. 12-13); an epistle in Latin verse from Will Lloyd to Edward Wynne (ff. 10-11); two Latin letters from William Williams at St Donat's Castle to Mr Edward Wynn, A.M., Fellow of Jesus in Oxfordshire, 1706 (ff. 5-8); a copy of the beginning of the will of Dr Ralph Bathurst (f. 4), with a draft based upon it of the beginning of Dr Edward Wynne's will in Latin (f. 3); and a fragment of a personal account book, 1720-1723 (ff. 73-82).

Transcripts by Walter Davies, with notes and observations, of Edward Lhuyd's summary of answers to his 'Parochial Queries ...', and of Lhuyd's Itinerary throug [sic] Wales extracted out of Mr Lloyd of Caerwys's Copy of the Hallstone MS; and abstracts, also by Walter Davies, from some of Edward Lhuyd's correspondence.