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Letters to India from Clive mainly at Berkeley Square,London, similar to those in CR6/1 but including two letters of advice to Warren Hastings following his appointment as governor of Bengal.

A group of holograph letters:- one from Jos[eph] Stennett (1663-1713; Seventh-Day Baptist) from London, to [his daughter-in-law?], 29 July, 1707; one from Jo[hn] Evans (c. 1680-1730; Congregational minister at Wrexham, etc.) from London, to ----, 28 August, [1]707; two from Jos[eph] Stennett (1692-1748; Baptist minister), the one from Exeter to [the Reverend] Thomas Holder, Leominster, 25 September, 1721 (the writer's ordination at Exeter), and the other from Fetter Lane [London] to Daniel Booth in Devonshire Square, 8 February, 1748/9; one from Samuel Stennett (1728-95; Baptist minister) from London, to the Reverend Benj[amin] Francis at Horsley, near Hampton, Gloucestershire, 9 August, 1768 (a 'call' to Goodman's Fields church, etc.); and eleven from [Sir] W[illiam] Jones (1746-94; orientalist) from Calcutta, etc., largely to Richard Johnson, 1773-90 and undated (the impeachment of Warren Hastings, etc.).

Miscellanea from the collection of Hugh Jones ('Erfyl'), consisting of poems by him and in his own hand, among them being 'Emyn y Tymmorau' translated from James Thomson's The Seasons and awarded a prize at the Tegeingl Eisteddfod, 1829, and 'Englynion i Fab ac Etifedd Syr W. W. Wynn, 1820, composed in a field near Wrexham; transcripts by 'Erfyl', including the 'Substance of a Sermon preached at the Baptist Chapel in Oswestry, on Sunday, August 13th, 1815. By the Revd. J. Palmer of Shrewsb[ur]y', a translation (copied at Whittington, 1814) of a petition to Governor [Warren] Hastings by the wife of Almas-ali-can 'who was seized upon and put to death for political purposes in India', and extracts from printed sources relating to Bangor, Tegeingl, etc.; a draft in the hand of Richard Llwyd, 'Bard of Snowdon', relating to the slave trade; a short-title list of Welsh periodicals ('Rhwydd Restr o Gyhoeddiadau Cym[r]aeg a Chymreig Amseriadol') in the hand of Robert Davies, Llansannan; and holograph poetry by Robert Ellis ('Cynddelw'), John Jones ('Myllin'), Thomas Edwards ('Caerfallwch'), and John Owen, Liverpool (1835) (awarded the prize at the Holywell Eisteddfod, 1834), etc.