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A bundle of miscellaneous papers comprising an English translation of 'ye Memorial presented in Latin to the King of Great Brittain by Monsieur Le Baron de Palm the Imperial Resident upon ye speech made by His Majesty to the two Houses of Parliament on the 17/28 of January 1726/7' (No. 1); a printed programme for a musical concert at Penbedw, 24 March 1772 (No. 2); a pedigree of the Scudamore family certified at the College of Arms, 21 March 1821 (No. 3); booksellers' bills and receipts, 19 January-5 May 1827, for books and manuscripts purchased by W. W. E. Wynne (Nos 4-7); lines composed by John Roberts on Penbedw rent day, 22 January 1829 (No. 8); a transcript by W. W. E. Wynne of 'Kywydd barddnad Lewis ab Owen' by Owain Gwynedd (No. 9); and a description by W. W. E. Wynne of the Mordaunt family vault in Twivey Church, Bedfordshire, 1832 (No. 10).

Prose, poetry, ballads, essays, letters, speeches (some parliamentary), broadsides, press articles, material copied from printed works, and notes, both satirical and non-satirical, relating to British politics from the second Civil War to the accession of Victoria, including relations with European powers. They display a variety of political sympathies concerning George I, James Stuart (the 'Old Pretender'), Queen Mary, Queen Anne, the Duke of Marlborough, and other figures in British politics, as well as Robert Myddelton's election to Parliament in 1722. Many of them are mostly undated, but most of them appear to have been composed between the 'Glorious Revolution' and the Hanoverian succession, which are the main topics. Also included are a printed volume detailing the royal houses of Europe, a copy of a letter from an Austrian ambassador, accounts of military engagements at sea and in the Low Countries, and a few writings on religious and ecclesiastical subjects.

A small group of holograph letters of the family of Williams Wynn of Wynnstay:- a letter, 16 January, 1717/18, from Wat[kin] Williams (aft. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 3rd bart.), from Westminster, to his father Sir William Williams, 2nd bart., at Wynnstay (the writer's visit to Baron Price about 'our Denbigh business', Baron Price's son is to have the lordship of Denbigh, the writer's decision not to send his coach horses down, a request to hasten 'Ned Wynn' with money, news of the King and the Prince, Sir Thomas Hanmer is the greatest man in England with the Prince); a letter, 21 June, 1747, from [Sir] Watkin Williams Wynn, 3rd bart., from Wynnstay, to Mr. Griffiths, apothecary, in Bedford Street near Covent Garden, London (support for Sir Thomas Clargies and Sir John Philips in the Westminster election); a letter, 21 October, ----, from [Sir] Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th bart., to John Evans, Esq., at Wynnstay (Mr. Wyatt's allocation, the writer's return to Wynnstay, etc.); a letter, 26 May, 1789, from Charlotte Williams Wyn, wife of the 4th bart., from Richmond, to John Evans, Esq., at Wynnstay (glass for new rooms, a flood-board to new cascade, money matters, a new malt room, Sir Watkin's health); and the blank dorse of a letter addressed 'To The Members of the Cycle'.