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Forty-eight holograph letters, 1783-1815 and undated, from John Lloyd at Wygfair, in London, etc., to his sisters, of whom there were four (see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, p. 215), viz. Susanna and Phoebe, both of whom died unmarried, Dorothea, who married the Rev. Thomas Clough, and Mary [or Elizabeth], who married the Rev. J. C. Potter (later J. C. Conway). Some of the present letters are addressed to Miss Phoebe Lloyd or Miss S[usanna] Lloyd individually, some to the Misses Lloyd (beginning 'My dear sisters'), some to Miss Lloyd (but beginning 'My dear sisters') and some to Miss Lloyd (beginning 'My dear sister') but not specifying which. Most are addressed to Mold. They contain a considerable amount of personal news, news of friends and acquaintances, and accounts of social and other activities in London and at Wigfair, and refer more specifically to the illness of the writer's mother [Mrs. Dorothea Lloyd], the activities of London personalities (1783), the death and burial of the writer's mother [between whom and the writer there appears to have been an estrangement] (1801), a fever at Mold (1801), a hurricane which had blown down a large number of trees at Garthewin, Wigfair, etc., unroofed Henllan church and damaged [the churches] at Denbigh, Whitchurch and Bodfarry (1802), the illness of Miss Phoebe Lloyd (1802), detailed advice as to fumigation to counteract fever in the Mold area (1802), a visit in company with Sir Joseph Banks to Mr. [Thomas William] Coke [later viscount Coke and earl of Leicester of Holkham] at his 'noble Palace, Holkham in Norfolk', with remarks on the grandeur of the place and the munificence of the entertaining (1803), intelligence that the Brest fleet was putting to sea and that Lord Gardener [Alan Gardner, baron Gardner of Uttoxeter (Ireland), later baron Gardner of Uttoxeter, co. Stafford, who commanded the channel fleet at the time] was preparing to meet it (May 1805), the death of [? Alexander Aubert] at Wygfair (1805), a lecture by [ ] Crouch at the Royal Institution [in London] on early church music, and a performance of the Forty Thieves about which 'The Town is mad' (1806), the writer's relationship to the Wynnes of Coedcoch, bequests in the will of Mrs. Williams of Deganwyn, a claim by Robert Jones that he had discovered ore at ? Waenlas (1809), 'violent doings at the Election' and the creation of twenty seven burgesses by 'the Popish Party with noisy Griffith of Garn' at Denbigh (1812), the writer's 'grand day in the Temple Hall' as reader and presiding at the head of the Benchers' table (1813), and the illness of his sister (1814) [? Dorothea, who died in that year].

Twenty-five holograph letters to Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, wife of Howel Lloyd, at Havodunos, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Eriviatt, 1796-1797 (3) (proposed visits to the recipient, the health of the Bishop [of St. Asaph], personal), John Collingridge, Theobald's Road, 1792 (enclosing an account for the coach and harness), Marg. Dod, undated (thanks for Deboray), Holl[an]d Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1788 and undated (2) (the late Mrs. Wickham's will, personal, busy with trees, news of relatives and friends), Catharine Hughes, London, 1788 (the writer's share of the £60 left to her by her uncle Jno. Conway of Efenechtyd), Edw. Jones, Ruthin, 1779 (requiring attestation of the handwriting of the recipient's brother, in connection with an inventory of papers relating to the wardenship of the Hospital), S. Leche, Emral, undated (thanks for a nurse, the writer's health, the death of Mrs. Pugh, 'Die's marriage, references to Whitchurch Races), Dorothea Lloyd [recipient's daughter], Lower Grosvenor Street, 1771 (personal, references to Mrs. Burdet, Miss Meredith, etc.), M[ary] Lloyd, Whitchurch, [17]89 (a proposed visit to the recipient), Phoe[be] Lloyd [niece of the recipient], 1785 (the death of 'poor Hedd'), Cath. Potter ['sister' of the recipient], 1768 (the illness and death of the writer's children, references to relatives), Catharine Potter [niece of the recipient], Barkely, 1775 (2) (the health of the writer's and the recipient's family) (with one addition by [Mrs. Catherine Potter]), M. E. Potter (daughter of the recipient], South H. Street [1797] (the settlement of the recipient's legal business with Mr. Philpott, news of relatives and friends, a reference to the new coinage), Edward Smedley, 1789 (the death of Jane, daughter of the writer's brother and sister[-in-law] (together with a draft or copy of a letter of condolence by the recipient to 'Cousin Smedley'), J. Smedley, College Street [London, 1788] (thanks for a present, the writer's health, news of the writer's family), T. Smedley, Smith Street, Westminster (in the third person), 1782 (thanks for kindness to the writer's family during their separation from the writer, the writer's improving prospects), D. Wickham, Horsington, 1764 (health matters, news of relatives), Mary Wickham, Frome, 1775 (2) (the health of sister Potter), and Wm. Wicksteed, Mount and Soughton, 1790 and undated (2) (legacies left by Aunt Lloyd to her husband's relations, thanks for riotous week).

Forty-three holograph letters from Eliza Griffith, Carreglwyd, etc., to Phoebe Lloyd at Soughton, at Hafodunos, etc., [17]82-1804 and undated (copious news of relatives and friends, accounts of visits to and from Carreglwyd, the vacant living of Aber, the loss of a vessel opposite Trevadog, the prevalence of ague in Anglesey, an accident to a mail coach on the bridge by Holyhead, the death of 'Shone Pedrog', Malltraeth enclosure (1788-1789), Mr. [Holland] Griffith's attendance at a Druid meeting, a riot at Beaumaris, parliamentary election (1796), a recent dreadful duelling in the writer's area, a reference to Barmouth as a fashionable bathing place (1796), a warrant issued against Sir John Bulkeley of Presaddved, a tax of 3/- in the £, Paul Panton's health and reported arrest for £7,000, the enrolment of the Anglesey militia, a shortage of water, comments on the Irish revolt (1798), the death of Mrs. [Mary] Griffith of Berw, the sad situation of the Fleet (1800), the draining of the mine, the prospect of a bad winter as the result of the farmers' refusal to sell their stock at home (1800), the removal of Mr. Sparrow from the Custom House at Beaumaris, current high prices, shocking perjury at the Anglesey Assizes, rumours of a French invasion, a visit to Puffing [sic] Island, a visit from the famous harper Will Edwards, a meeting at Berw about the embankment) (together with an addition by C[atharine] Lloyd).

Fifty-eight holograph letters addressed to Susan(na) Lloyd at Hafodunos, Mold, at Soughton House (upper Soughton), Northop, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Thakeham Place, 1797 (a proposed visit by the writer's children, news of family and friends), D[orothea] Clough [the recipient's sister], Denbigh, [1805] and undated (2) (legacies bequeathed by the wills of aunt E. Conway and aunt Wickham) (with one draft reply), Richd. Garnons [Colomendy], undated (2) (pleasantries), Eliza Griffith, Carreg-lwyd, etc., [1801]-1803 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a meeting at Llangefni in connection with a proposed testimonial to Mr. Sparrow for his services in the Customs, disturbances in the Paris mines, the arrival of troopers in Caernarvonshire for fear of a rising by the poor, the discovery of copper at Ynysygwyddal, the birth of an heir at Leweney and a reference to Mrs. Piozzi, the progress of the harvest, comments on a visit to Bath), Holland Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1838 (amusement afforded the recipient by the writer's Welsh paper, hopes that electioneering differences are fast dying away in Flintshire, a visit to the writer by a multitude of Teetotalists, the letting of the writer's colliery at Berw), Richd. Howard, Denbigh and Beaumaris, c. 1817-1843 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a visit to Bangor Deanery, serious proceedings arising from old Panton's will, a change in the agency of the Marquis of Anglesey, satisfaction with the writer's curate, the probable departure of Thomas Davies from Jesus College, Oxford, a new statute in the University, the rejection of three Anglesey young men for scholarships, observations on the projected division of Soughton Common, a legal action touching a mortgage of the Hafodunos estate (together with a receipt, 1815, from Richd. Howard to Susan Lloyd for a sum of £6/10/0 paid by the former on the latter's behalf to Bevan, the timber merchant, on account of Coedycra Mill), the writer's departure from Beaumaris and subsequent movements, income from minerals received for the recipient, dissension in the National Church) (one incomplete), Catha[rine] Lloyd, from Carreglwyd, from Bath, etc., [17]94-1820 and undated (26) (copious news of relatives and friends, references to threats of French invasion and to the defenceless state of the Kingdom (1795-1804), accounts of visits to the theatre and to parties and to Ireland and Bath, etc., Colonel William Shipley's success in the Flintshire parliamentary election of 1807, references to the mine at Ynnisygwyddle), J[ohn] Ll[oyd], Dublin Bay, 1801 (an account of the voyage from Holyhead and the arrival at Dublin), M. Lloyd, Bagillt, etc., [17]81-1790 and undated (9) (personal, the writer's health, news of relatives and friends, the death of the recipient's brother Ben), M. Lloyd, London, etc., 1803-1809 and undated (5) (news of relatives and friends, the health of the writer's husband, a reference to the most excellent shore at Llandidno Bay, the progress of the harvest, the writer's removal to London, visits to the 'Ladies of Llangollen' and to Cheltenham, the recipient's trouble about the writer's chaise), Phoe[be] Lloyd, from Plascoch, undated (the health of the writer's aunt), M. E. Potter, Soughton, [17]91 (personal, business matters on behalf of the writer's mother, news of the writer's mother) (with additions by M. E. Potter to Mr. Potter, touching 'home matters', with references to stock, and from C[atharine] Lloyd to Susanna Lloyd, touching armorial colours for a piece of plate), and Sarah Potter, undated (thanks for the loan of Aunt Lloyd's letter, requires a supply of ale).

An account of the rents received annually from the tenants of the Wickwer [sic] estate, and of other incidental sums received on behalf of John Lloyd during the period 1728-1742 by his mother [Phoebe Lloyd of Hafodunos and Wigfair]. At the end of the account is a note dated 9 November 1751, whereby John Lloyd grants his mother a discharge in respect of the sums received on his behalf.