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Letters and circulars, 1886-1900, relating to 'Cymdeithas y Brythonwys' ('The Cambro-Briton Society'), London, most of them being addressed to John Burrell. Among the numerous correspondents are Judge Ivor Bowen [d. 1934], Morgan Davies, W[illiam] Cadwaladr Davies [1849-1905], Sir Owen M[organ] Edwards [1858-1920], T[homas] E[dward] Ellis [1859-1899], Sir E. Vincent Evans [1851-1934], Sir Ellis Jones Griffith [1860-1926], J. Elias Hughes, Sir Lewis Morris [1833-1907], Sir T. Isambard Owen, T. Woodward Owen, Sir John H. Puleston [1829-1908], Lewis W. Roberts, R[obert] D[avies] Roberts [1874-1940], T[homas] F[rancis] Roberts [1860-1919], Sir W. Bowen Rowlands, D[avid] A[lfred] Thomas (afterwards viscount Rhondda) [1856-1918], W[illiam] ['Glanffrwd'] Thomas [1843-1890] and Sir Thomas Marchant Williams [1845-1914]. There is also a group of letters dealing with inquiries from the Reverend John Owen, Mold and others relating to the number of Welsh people resident in London who were or were not associated with places of worship.

The correspondents include: Dyfed (3), 1914-1921, Harry Rees, Lampeter,(4), 1913-1918, T. Mardy Rees, 1907, Sir Harry R. Reichel (6), 1921-1924, Ernest Rhys (9), 1900-1926, E. Prosser Rhys, 1923, Sir John Rhys (17), 1891-1909, Dr Thomas Richards, Maesteg (5), 1911-1924, John Rowland/Rowlands, 1907, and W. Bowen Rowlands MP, 1892.

A collection of some fifty-seven miscellaneous autograph letters, 1686/7-1930, mostly of Welsh interest, brought together by the dealer and collector Edward Hall, Surbiton.
Eighteen of the letters are correspondence of the barrister J. W. Buck, his wife Sophia (née Brigstoke, of Blaenpant, Cardiganshire), his sister Mrs Sarah Whittaker and their respective families, 1792-1825 (ff. 5-8, 10-43). Twelve letters, 1851, from various Welsh boroughs to H. W. R. Davey, Mayor of Beccles, Suffolk, relate to requests for copies of their borough seals (ff. 48-62). The remaining correspondents include Captain John Giles and Charles Hughes, Chepstow Castle, 26 January 1686/7 (ff. 1-2), Herbert Mackworth (to his wife), 1763 (ff. 3-4), [the Rev.] J[osiah] Rees, 1794 (f. 9), Wm Oldnall Russell, 1824, 1825 (ff. 40-43), [the 4th Duke of] Newcastle, Hafod [Uchtryd], 1835 (ff. 44-45), Hugh Miller, 1839 (f. 46), [Lord] Mostyn, 1855 (ff. 63-64), John C[ole] Nicholl, Merthyr Mawr, 1856-1859 (ff. 65-66, 69-70), Richard Cobden, 1856 (ff. 67-68), Thomas Purnell, [1860s] (ff. 71-76), [Henry] Brinley Richards, [?1870] (f. 77), J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, 1882 (ff. 79-80), Watkin Williams, Dol-friog, Beddgelert, 1884 (f. 81), J. F. Stephen, 1884 (f. 82), E. Lynn Linton (to Andrew Chatto), [1888] (ff. 83-84), W. Bowen Rowlands (to Sir George Lewis), [c. 1893] (f. 85), C[harles] Vaughan, dean of Llandaff, (to [?Otto] Goldschmidt), [?1890s] (ff. 87-88), [Sir] Theodore Martin (to Goldschmidt), 1896 (f. 89), F[lora] A[nnie] Steel, 1905 (f. 91), H[arold] Greenwood, Llanelly, 1919 (f. 95), Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, 1930 (f. 98), and letters sent on behalf of the Princess (ff. 93-94) and Prince (ff. 96-97) of Wales, 1909, 1921. A price list, 18 January 1956, from Edward Hall provides valuable background information on those items purchased as part of the second group (ff. i-iv).