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Includes letters from: Edward Owen (19); Henry Owen (64)

Letters, mainly to Edward Anwyl, the correspondents including J. Mortimer Angus, Sir John Ballinger, Vernon Bartlett (Oxford), Sir Joseph A. Bradney, Charles E. Breese, W. N. Bruce, O. H. Fynes-Clinton, John Daniel ('Rhabanian'), Thomas Darlington, C. Dauncey, D. H. Davies (Cenarth), R. Isgarn Davies, E. S. Dodgson, Sir Owen M. Edwards, Thomas Charles Edwards, Thomas Edward Ellis, Sir E. Vincent Evans, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, John Young Evans, Samuel J. Evans, A. M. Fairbairn, John Fisher, W. Foy (Cologne), Alfred Perceval Graves, John Griffith (Llangynwyd), W. B. Halhed (Llanrwst), James Hastings (editor of the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics), C.H. Herford, N. Marais-Hoogenhout, Paul Hook, Ivor B. John, Sir John Morris-Jones, L. D. Jones ('Llew Tegid'), M. H. Jones, T. O. Neill Lane, Edward Laws, Philip H. Lawson, Sir John Herbert Lewis, Charles Lloyd (Maesycrugiau), R. Luyten (Haarlem), Jean Marx (Paris), A. Meillet (Paris), Kuno Meyer, A. W. Moore (Douglas, I.O.M.), Eluned Morgan (Patagonia), Sir James M. Murray (Oxford), E. W. B. Nicholson, Henry Owen (Poyston), A. C. Humphreys-Owen, Owen Owen (Chief Inspector, Central Welsh Board), Sir T. Isambard Owen, Julius Pokorny, Stuart (1st baron) Rendel, Sir John Rhys, T. Francis Roberts, Sir Walter Runciman, K. G. Schilling (Giessen, Germany), E. A. Sonnenschein, John E. Southall, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Ludwig Christian Stern, John Strachan, Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl'), J. Vendryes, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, Alfred T. Warren, Stanley J. Weyman, Hugh Williams (Bala), and Sir Thomas Marchant Williams.

A scrap-book of literary and historical press cuttings, c. 1896-1900, compiled by J. H. Davies. The titles include, 'London Welsh Jottings', 'Ysgrifenydd y Cyffes Ffydd', 'A Great Welsh Soldier' [i.e. Owen Lawgoch], 'Pererindod yn Nhyddewi', 'Story of the Revolt of Llewelyn Bren', 'Cyfres yr Hen Gerddi', 'Gohebiaeth Awdwr "Cathl y Gair Mwys", 'Darganfyddiad Llenyddol yn yr Amgueddfa Brydeinig. Cywydd Anghyhoeddedig o Waith Goronwy Owen', 'Dewiniaid Dyffryn Clwyd', 'Kruger a'r Cynghorwr Sirol Cymreig', 'Ymwelydd hynod o New Zealand. Maori yn Medru Cymraeg', 'Breuddwyd Nos Wyl Dewi', 'Llenyddiaeth y Flwyddyn' (by J. H. Davies), 'Peter Williams', 'Lloffion Llenyddol', 'Bedd Dafydd ap Gwilym', 'Hen Ddewiniaid Cymru', 'Straeon Hen Gymry Llundain', 'Yn Amsang ein Tadau' and 'Old Pembroke Families' (both by Henry Owen, Poyston), 'Taith i Ardal Twm Sion Catti', 'Cywydd Coffadwriaethol i'r diweddar T. E. Ellis, As' (by [William Powell] 'Gwilym Pennant', London) 'Crogi'r Lleidr Defaid a Melldith Gwrach Dyffryn Aeron', 'Hela Owen Lawgoch', 'Gwrdd y Cymru Fyddion', 'Athrofeydd y Methodistiaid', 'Cynghorau Lleol Cymru', 'Welshmen in Patagonia', etc.

Allen's copy, with manuscript notes by him, of Old Pembroke Families in the Ancient County Palatine of Pembroke. Compiled (in part from the Foyd MSS.) [now in the National Library of Wales] by Henry Owen ... (London, 1902).

Allen's copy, with manuscript notes by him, of Henry Owen: The Administration of English Law in Wales and the Marches ... (London, 1900).

The file is an account book of subscriptions received for Gerald the Welshman by Henry Owen (London : Whiting & Co., 1889), including a list of payments received for the Cymmrodorion dinner of 1889, with a related letter. There is also a list of names and addresses of those who had ordered copies of Gerald the Welshman.

The correspondents include: Bob Owen, Croesor (2), 1918, Henry Owen (3), 1899-1909, J. Isambard Owen (5), 1898-1924, John Owen, Bishop of St Davids (2), 1919-1925, Morfydd Owen, 1916, and Alafon (Owen Griffith Owen), 1915.

Draft notes, extracts, memoranda, etc., by C. F. Egerton Allen relating to the arms of Pembrokeshire and other families. The material is based on printed sources, memorial stones and tablets, and bookplates, and among the longer items are 'Notes for Ordinary of Arms in Enderbie' (see N.L.W. MS. 12219D) and 'An attempt to trick the coats of arms blazoned in an App[endi]x to Laws 'Little England beyond Wales' pp. 424-446'. Much of the material is written on the dorse of a variety of printed sheets relating to the disarmament conference summoned by Nicholas II of Russia [1899]. Accompanying the material are holograph letters and post cards to C. F. Egerton Allen from E. Hewlett Edwards, Tenby, 1911, J. T. Evans, Stow-on- the-Wold, [19]04, Francis Green, St. Davids, 1910, Mabel Lloyd, Cresborough, Haverfordwest, etc., [19]05-1906 (together with a letter from C. F. Egerton Allen to Mabel Lloyd, [19]05), [Sir] H[enry] O[wen] [London] 1904, and D. P. S. Reid, Boulston, near Haverfordwest, [19]03.

A typescript copy of an account of the 'Awakening' in Pembrokeshire, especially in Haverfordwest, 1739-1767, compiled by Brother Nyberg; an account of religious awakenings in Pembrokeshire during the first half of the eighteenth century; an incomplete draft report of proceedings arising out of a shipping disaster at Milford; a 'pull' of a review of Henry Owen; Old Pembroke Families, 1902; a history of the Guildhall, Council Chamber, and Market at Haverfordwest; typescript extracts from Haverfordwest Town Council records, 1660-1730; copies of a minute of a meeting of the Haverfordwest Town Council, 6 December 1848, relating to Oliver Cromwell's letter and warrant for the demolition of Haverfordwest castle, correspondence relating to the same, and notes on the trusts of Haverfordwest Grammar school; notes on Haverfordwest charters; and a draft of a 'Guide to St. Davids'. The manuscripts are mainly in the hand of Thomas Lewis James.

A copy, with manuscript notes by Allen, of a bibliographical index of Pembrokeshire entitled A List of Printed Books treating of, or containing substantial references to The County of Pembroke (Solva and Fishguard, 1897) compiled by Henry Owen, 1896, and published as No. 1 in the series Cambrian Archaeological Association. Archaeological Survey of Wales.

Drafts of letters, 1918, from Allen to Sir Thomas Meyrick, bart, MP, Bush, Pembrokeshire, and to Lady Meyrick, with a reply from Lady Meyrick; correspondence with Henry Owen, Poyston, 1902; etc.

Biographical notes, by John Ballinger, on Henry Owen (1844-1919) and Sir John Williams (1840-1926).