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A holograph letter from Ric[hard] Cobden to [Joseph] Sturge, 1849 (the progress of the peace movement, a tribute to Henry Richard); correspondence, 1872-8, relating to the proposed publication by the Cobden Club of the letters of Richard Cobden, including holograph letters to Henry Richard from Thos. Thomasson; Mrs Catherine Anne Cobden; Thomas B. Potter; [Sir] Louis Mallet; Henry Ashworth; [Sir] Thomas Bazley; [Sir] Edward Baines; C[harles] Cobden; W. Cowper Temple; and others; and copies of correspondence between Mrs. Catherine Anne Cobden, Thos. Thomasson, Henry Richard, and others; and holograph letters to Henry Richard from John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 1878 (the writer's proposed biography of Richard Cobden; A. J. Mundella, 1882; J[ohn] Thomas, Congregational minister, Liverpool, 1887 (Samuel Morley's contribution to Congregational and other causes in Wales, the writer's proposed biography of the Reverend Thomas Rees, Swansea); and others. Bound with the letters is an offprint of an article by the donor, the Reverend H. R. Evans, M.C., M.A., on 'Henry Richard and Cobden's Letters', published in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1958, pp. 54-81.

Letters, 1808-1866 (nos. 1-97), mainly between Ebenezer Richard, Prospect House, Tregaron, and his sons, Edward, a medical student at Guys Hospital and later a London doctor, and Henry, a student at Highbury College and later minister at Malborough Independent Church, Old Kent Road, and secretary to the Peace Society.

Letters (surnames A-G) to Mr and Mrs Henry Richard, 1840-1898 (nos. 98-164). They include condolence letters to Mrs Richard on the death of her husband, 1888, and letters to Henry Richard, 1840-1888, from friends and colleagues during his time as an M.P. and a public figure for Nonconformity and Peace.
The correspondents include Lord Aberdare, 1878-1888 (nos. 98-104), John Flower, 1876-1880 (nos. 139-154), and W. E. Gladstone, 1873-1882 (nos. 159-161).

Letters (surnames H-R) to Mr and Mrs Henry Richard, 1856-1897 (nos. 165-241). They include condolence letters to Mrs Richard on the death of her husband, 1888, letters to Henry Richard, 1856-1888, from friends and colleagues during his time as an M.P. and a public figure for Nonconformity and Peace, and letters from him, 1857-1886 (nos. 228-41), mostly political.

Letters (surnames R-Z) to Mr and Mrs Henry Richard, 1854-1904 (nos. 98-291). They include condolence letters to Mrs Richard on the death of her husband, 1888, and letters to Henry Richard, 1854-1885, from friends and colleagues during his time as a M.P. for and a public figure for Nonconformity and Peace.
The correspondents include Charles Sturge, 1854-1859 (nos. 255-262), and Joseph Sturge, 1855-1856 (nos. 263-268).

A collection of family papers relating to the Richard family of Tregaron. The collection includes letters from the Reverend Ebenezer Richard addressed to members of his family, together with letters from his son, the Reverend Henry Richard, also mainly addressed to family members.
The collection also contains a table in the hand of Ebenezer Richard, dated 5 December 1816, showing dates of circuit journeys to be undertaken by Calvinistic Methodist ministers in Cardiganshire during 1817; a petition, dated [1878], addressed to W. E. Gladstone, Prime Minister, from Henry Richard and others, and enclosing papers, dated 1878, relating to the Abersychan Relief Committee; and a printed address by Henry Richard directed to the electorate of Merthyr Tydfil, Vaynor and Aberdare.

Three letters, May 1861-December 1862, from Elihu Burritt, New Britain, Connecticut, to his friend and fellow peace campaigner Henry Richard [in London]. Burritt describes the effects of the American Civil War on the peace movement in America and on Burritt's own position, and gives details of his arrangements to leave New Britain in late 1862 (ff. 7-9).
In the final letter, 1 December 1862, Burritt thanks Richard for sending £15 to pay for his passage to England. He was due to sail from New York on the 13 December 1862; he returned to Birmingham to live from 1863 to 1869 (f. 9). Also included is a letter, 9 December 1846, from Burritt, Birmingham, to 'Dear Friend Featherstone' (f. 6).

The first of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Sheldon Amos (Sydney, New South Wales), Henry Austin Bruce, first baron Aberdare, Elihu Burritt (New Britain, Conn.), Josephine E. Butler, Sydney Charles [Buxton], earl Buxton, Estlin Carpenter, Joseph Chamberlain, F. W. Chesson, J. J. Colman (Norwich), Leonard Courtney, John Stewart [Gathorne-Hardy], second earl of Cranbrook, Henry W. Crosskey, R. W. Dale, Edward Henry [Stanley], fifteenth earl of Derby, Charles W. Dilke, L. L. Dillwyn, George Dixon, Henry T. Edwards (dean of Bangor), Lewis Edwards (Bala) and Thomas Charles Edwards (Aberystwyth).

The second of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Henry Fawcett, (Mrs) M. G. Fawcett, Dudley Field, Hugh Fielden, Lord [Edmond] Fitzmaurice, W. E. Forster, W. H. Fremantle, Joseph F. B. Frith, Thomas Gee, H. M. Milner Gibson, J. H. Gladstone, W. E. Gladstone, Granville George [Leveson-Gower], second earl Granville, John Griffith (Y Gohebydd), Lord Richard Grosvenor, first baron Stalbridge, George Hadfield, John Hampden (Croydon), Sir William Harcourt, H. D. Harper (Jesus College, Oxford), Thomas Harris, Arthur Hobhouse, Alfred Illingworth, Basil M. Jones, J. Viriamu Jones and Michael D. Jones.

The third of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Leone Levi, W. F. Maitland, John Matthews (Aberystwyth), Edward Miall, Sir George Osborne Morgan, Samuel Morley, Sir Lewis Morris, William Morris (Kelmscott), A. J. Mundella, Thomas Nicholas, R. Barry O'Brien, Sir Hugh Owen, Frédéric Passy, Auguste Pierantoni, Lyon Playfair, Sir Henry Ponsonby, J. H. Puleston, Alexander Raleigh, Stuart (afterwards baron) Rendel, James H. Rigg, Sir Owen Roberts, Lady Frances Russell, G. W. E. Russell, Pietro Sparturo (Naples), John Poyntz [Spencer], fifth earl Spencer, Herbert Spencer, Edward Lyulph [Stanley], fourth baron Stanley of Alderley and fourth baron Sheffield, W. Co[w]per Temple, J[ohn] Thomas (editor of Y Tyst Cymreig), Jos[eph] Thompson, G. O. Trevelyan, Cypri[e]n Valton (Turin) and J. Carvel Williams.