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A household account book recording, month by month, sums expended on food, clothing, household utensils, servants and casual labourers' wages, local travelling, etc., during the years 1763-1775, 1777-1779, 1780 (incomplete), 1781, 1782 (incomplete), 1783 (incomplete), 1784 (incomplete), and 1785. The frequent references to turnpike tolls paid in visiting Ruthin may indicate a residence in that area. Also mentioned in connection with turnpike payments or otherwise are Bodfari, Denbigh, Derwen, Hafodunos, Llanruth, Llanrwst, Northop, Plasnewydd, Plasriffith, Rudland, Soughton, etc. The hand bears a close resemblance to that of the writer of the first two letters in NLW MS 12413C, i.e. M. [possibly Mary] Lloyd, aunt of Phoebe Lloyd and consequently of John Lloyd ('The Philosopher') of Hafodunos. At the end of the volume a loose leaf written in a different hand and recording 'Money layed out at Plascoch' in September 1786 has been inserted.

A list of items appertaining to Wales to be found in the Harleian collection of manuscripts in the British Museum. Most of the items listed contain material of a genealogical or heraldic nature. Added comments such as 'seen it but not examined', 'examine it soon', 'copied all worth my while', seem to imply that it was being used as a working list by the compiler.

A notebook containing 'An account of Lead Oar weighed off within the Lordship of Mold since Christmas 1718 at 20d per Tun Farme', giving the amounts of farm paid to the agents of the three lords of Mold respectively during the period 1718-1738.

A note book bearing on the outside upper cover the inscription 'Fees as Secretary to Chancelor of ye D[u]chy of Lancast[er]'. The contents include an account of fees received, 1706-1712, ?in connection with the office mentioned in the inscription, quotations from Seneca's two tragedies Medea and Hippolytus or Phaedra, and quotations from Juvenal's Satires, Nos. 1, 6, 8, 10 and 13.

A letter book of Rob[er]t Howard [collector of customs at Conway, co. Caernarvon], and post master there 1759-1760, containing holograph copies and abstracts of letters written at Conway during the period 1755- 1765. The outside upper cover is inscribed 'Letter Book since Feb[ruar]y 1752', but the first few pages of the volume have been torn out and the first entry is dated Jan[uar]y 1755. The addressees include Ralph Allen, Bath, 1759-1761 (6), W[illia]m Allix and Edw[ar]d Mason at the Receiv[er]s Office, Tower Hill [London], 1758, W[illia]m Allix and ? others, Esquires, 1757, Mr. Bostock, 1756, Mr. Bradney, Penn, 1756, Mr. Bridge at the furnace, 1758, W[illia]m Bridge, 1756, James Brisco [1759], Geo[rge] Brown at Sir John Wynne, M.P., in Dean Street, Soho [London], 1759, W[illia]m Brynkir, 1755-1757 (6), Ynyr Burges, East India House, 1755-1759 (7), Sir Francis Charlton, Gen[era]ll Post Office [London], 1760 (4), Mr. Cochran, London, 1763 (2), Mrs. Coytmore, Chester, 1758-[1760] (3), Griff[i]th Coytmore at St. Davies, 1763, John Cross, Chester, 1757, Brother Davies, 1763, Master Edwards, Lincolns Inn, 1755-1765 (21), Rich[ar]d Edw[ar]ds, 1759, Hugh Evans at Bodysgallen [co. Caernarvon], 1758-[?1760] (?2), Rees Foulkes at Gwern y Gron, 1755-1756 (?3), Roger Griffith, London, 1763-1764 (3), W[illia]m Holland, Lincolns Inn, 1756-1757 (7), James Forbes Jones, Dublin, [ 1761]-1762 (2), John Jones and others, miners in Holywell, 1764, Rich[ar] David Jones, attorney at ?Bewmares, 1761, Mrs. Winifred Jones, White Chapple Road, London, 1762-1763 (3), Mr. Langford, Lond[o]n, 1759, the Rev[ eren]d Mr. [Robert] Lewis, Mold, 1755-1763 (6), Mrs. Limbrey [Exeter] [1762], Matthew Limbrey, Exeter, 1760-1765 (38), ? P. Magrun, the Gen[era]ll Po[st] Office, Dublin [1759], the Mas[ter] in Chancery, 1755, J[oh]n Owen, Bodidda [co. Caernarvon], 1755, John Owen, Carnarvon, 1759-1760 (2), Mrs. Pearson, ? North Runcton, Norfolk, 1764-1765 (9), Mr. Penkett, 1757, Mr. ? Henry Perkins, Chester, 1756-1757 (8), Tho[ma]s Pit[ ], Gen[era]ll Po[st] Office [London], 1760, [the] Post Masters Gen[era]ll [London], 1760, Henry Potts, secretary at the Gen[era]ll Post Office, London, 1760 (2), the Hon[ oura]ble Lady Prendergast, Dublin, 1757-1759 (4), Mrs. Preston, Dublin, 1764, Charles Rob[er]ts, Bodnod [co. Denbigh], 1760, Tom Rob[er]ts, Plow Court, Fetter Lane, London, 1761, Jo[h]n Saw[ ]ll, the Gen[era]ll Po[st] Office [ London], 1760 (2), Thomas Seele, ? Liverpool, 1757, George Shelvock, the Gen[era]ll Post Office, London, 1759-1760 (3), John Spencer [?Bombay], 1758, Edw[ar]d Stanley, the Custom h[ouse], London, 1758, Capt[ai]n Thomas, Green Street, Grosvenour Square [London], 1762, W[illia]m Vaughan, Plas [ ]ydd, 1756, Tho[ma]s Ward, London, [1763]-1764 (2), Councillor Williams, [17]58-1760 (4), Mr. W[illia]ms, Glanrafon, 1758-1761 (3), Rob[er]t Williams, breeches maker [Chester], 1762, Cha[rle]s Wrench, attorney, Chester [1763], Edw[ar]d ?Wrench, Chester, 1763 (2), Mr. Wright, Chester, 1763, Mr. Wynn of Glyn in London, 1765, Mr. Wynn of Wern, 1761-1762 (5), Sir John Wynne [2nd bart. of Bodfean and Glynllifon, co. Caernarvon], Dean Street, Soho, London, 1757-1765 (17), Rob[er]t Wynne [of Bodysgallen, co. Caernarvon], member of parliament [for Caernarvon, 1754-1761], London, 1755-1759 (11), and W[ illia]m Young and W[illia]m Allix, the Receiv[er]s Office, Tower Hill [London], 1755. The letters deal with the personal and family affairs of the writer (health, financial transactions, legal problems, etc.), his activities as an estate agent or steward, and, to a much lesser degree, his work as a customs and post office official (mainly the rendering of accounts). Specific matters dealt with include the death of Mrs. Marg[are]t Wynne [of Bodysgallen] and the management of affairs at Bodscallen for Robert Wynne, M.P., during his absence (1755); a law suit in which the writer's right to property [?Tre Castell] at Llanglunnin [co. Caernarvon] was contested (1756-1757); the excessive price of corn, the scarcity of corn [ at Conway] market, the distress of 'the meanest sort of people', and the justices' recommendation that no grain be moved 'from this river' [at Conway] (1757); disturbances [at Conway], and a subpoena issued against the writer as one of the commissioners of the [Conway] turnpike road (1758); the writer's application for and appointment to the office of post master at Conway in succession to Hugh Holland in 1759, and his resignation of the said office in 1760; the purchase by the writer from Robert Williams of Chester of property called Hendre and the payment of annuities charged upon the said property (1762-1763); the writer's management of the Bodnod estate [in the parish of Eglwys-back, co. Denbigh] on behalf of Mr. Matthew Limbrey (1760-1765); and the writer's management of additional estates in Merionethshire (Cefn Bodig demesne and property in Bala [in the parish of Llanycil], tenements at Trawsfynydd), and Denbighshire (houses in Denbigh, property at Gwytherin) also on behalf of the said Mr. Limbrey ( 1762-1765).

A holograph letter, possibly a draft, 1664, from John Lloyde, Wickwer [Wigfair], to a kinsman in London, referring to the writer's daughter [Anne], wife of John Vaughan, a freeholder in Henllan parish, who is troubled with the 'King's Evil' and is about to take a journey to London in hopes of access to the King's presence to receive his touch. The writer names three physicians whom she has consulted, namely Mr. John Lloyd, Marchwiell, Mr. Pugh of Llanbeder, and cousin Wm. Williams. The writer also mentions his sons John and David, and solicits the recipient's assistance in securing a preferment for the latter, who is at the Court. There are references also to 'your nephew & myne' Nedd. Lloyd of Tythyn and the recipient's nephews and nieces in Caredvynyth who are sick of small pox.

A document described as 'A true Coppy of a letter found under a Stone written w[i]th Gods own hand . . . found at Meccebe near the town of Sundeme In ye year of our Lord 1603', and purporting to contain the 'ten comandm[en]ts of Jesus Christ sent by the Angel Gabriell in ye year afores[ai]d 1603'. The present copy is stated to be a 'copia vera originalis ex manuscripto Thomae Parry 1714'.

Twenty-one letters, largely in the form of drafts or transcripts, from Edw. Lloyd, from Tythin, from Kensington, etc., to John Lloyd, Pengwern, near St. Asaph, etc., Thomas Wilson, bishop of Man, Mr. [ ] Dod, James Stanley, 10th earl of Derby, Jo[hn] Williams, Capt. [ ] Stanley, Mr. [ Richard] Parry, etc., [16]82-1710 and undated (matters pertaining to the writer's estate, including financial transactions, the purchasing and leasing of properties, and the execution of legal documents, with references to the tenancy of Argoed, to Edward (Ned) Griffith, Jack Chambres, Mr. Heaton, Mr. Moyl's trustees, etc.) (with a covering note by J[ohn] Ll[oyd, Pengwern] to Edw. Griffith, [16]82).

Five holograph letters from H[ugh] R[obert] Hughes from Kinmel Park, Abergele, to Henry Howard [? Colonel Henry Richard Lloyd Howard], [18]92-1909 (notes, in reply to queries, on John Vaughan of Caergai, his wife Margaret, dr. of Hedd Lloyd of Hafodunos, whom he married in 1698, the arms and some of the descendants of the said John and Margaret, Rowland Vaughan of Caergai 'a Welsh Poet of some eminence . . . born in 1560', Edward Lloyd of Tyddyn born in 1650 and his two wives, Sir George Wynne [1st bart. of Leeswood, co. Flint] and his wife Margaret Lloyd, an ? inscription at Penucha grin, the Jones family of Penucha grin, David Lloyd of Tyddyn, brother of John Lloyd of Wygfair, [mid 17th cent.], and the Coytmore family of Coytmore; and comments on the 1909 budget).

Forty-one holograph letters, etc., 1769-1813, from John Lloyd from Oxford, Dublin, London, Bewdley, Brussells, Calais, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Worcester, and Wygfair, and on board the Courageux at Spit Head, addressed to Mr. Brittain, Chester, 1793 (instructions relating to the handling of cases containing inter alia a clock and instruments sent from London to Wygfair), Mr. Jones, Wygfair, St. Asaph, 1795-1797 (2) (description of conditions on a voyage from Holyhead to Dublin, the taking over of a gold mine [in Ireland] by the government to prevent the peasants working it, an intended visit to Mr. Mills's house at the copper mine at Cronbane, a stay with Sir Joseph Banks in London, the writer's presentation to the King and Queen, speculation as to the outcome of negotiations between the ambassadors from France and Lord Malmsbury), Mr. Nat. Jones, Wickwer, Denbigh, 1789 [? the same person as the Mr. Jones of the two previous letters] (personal, a visit to Brussells and a meeting with the Abbe Mann, a proposed trip to Paris, details as to the terms, conditions, etc., of education in the convent at St. Omers), 'Dear Nat', 1791 [? the same person as the Nat. Jones of the previous letter] (personal, news of acquaintances, plans in connection with a proposed trip to the island of Shetland with Sir Thomas Dundas in Sir Thomas's yacht to inspect land belonging to Sir Thomas for copper, the said land being adjacent to ground on which copper had already been found), Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, [writer's mother, Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1769-1784 (16) (personal, family and estate affairs, financial matters, a receipt for money received from the Rev. William Conway as one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Eliza Conway, observations made by the writer and a friend in Bewdley on the comet and his keen interest in the science of optics though not to the neglect of his business (1769), impressions of London and places and persons seen ( 1770), a visit to the Herald's office [in London] to examine the pedigree of the Lloyds of Havodunos and comments on the said pedigree (1770), the cost of a new coach and harness, a visit to Calais and thence in Mr. Shuttleworth's yacht to Amsterdam and Antwerp and some account of activities in these places (1777), plans for a proposed trip to Bruxelles (1777), a stay with Sir John Cope at Bromshill, Hants. (1778), a visit to Spit Head to witness the King's review of the fleet (1778), a Snowdon expedition (1778), the writer's belief that all were 'to be ruined in Wales by a scheme of our diabolical cursed Ministers . . . to inclose all the waste lands in Wales for the Benefit of the Crown solely' (1778), a violent gale which had struck the ships of the fleet at Spithead where the writer was on board the Courageux (1781)), Howell Lloyd [the writer's father], Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1770-1776 and undated (4) (personal, arrangements for a journey to Llangernew (1770), the price of clover and trefoil, bequests made by Sir John Wynne (1773), an account of proceedings of a commission to determine whether Mrs. S[ ] Lloyd was a lunatic and matters arising there from (1776)), the Rev. J. Conway Potter, 1801 (2) (the death of the writer's mother [Mrs. Dorothea Lloyd]), the Rev. Rice Pugh, Llysfaen, Carnarvon, 1796 (a request that recipient would deny reports that he was going to vote against Sir Robert Williams after promising to vote for him [? in the Caernarvonshire parliamentary election, though the letter is dated 8 June whilst the election date is given as 7 June in W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Wales and other returns), John Lloyd Salusbury, Galtf . . . aenan, 1813 (suggestions relating to the act for inclosing lands in the parish of St. Asaph), Sir George Shuckburgh [who later adopted the additional name of Evelyn], Margate, 1784 (a balloon ascent by [Vincenzo] Lunardi), Mr. [John] Topham [treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries], undated (the intended resignation of the writer from the Society [of Antiquaries], a complaint that he had not been receiving copies of the society's publications, mention of talks or correspondence with Mr. [William] Norris [secretary of the society], a recommendation on behalf of Dr. [? Thomas] Meredith [for membership] signed by the writer [see N.L.W. MS. 12420]) (copy?), Sir W[atkin] W[illiams] Wynne, 1795 (the stewardship of the lordship of D[enbigh]) (draft copy), the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Flint, 1796-1799 (2) (offering his services as parliamentary candidate for the county in 1796, his resignation as parliamentary representative of the county in 1799) (draft copies), the Commissioners of the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Denbigh, 1797 (the writer's resignation of his commission as a lieutenant in the supplementary militia of the county and the reasons for his action) (copy), a copy of an application by Lloyd for 'such an Office as will vacate my Seat for the county of Flint' in 1799 [? a copy of his application for the Chiltern Hundreds]), and five incomplete or fragmentary letters.

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].

Nine holograph letters, 1855-1860 and undated, from R[ichard] Trygarn Griffith from Whitland Abbey [co. Carmarthen], Carreglwyd [co. Anglesey], and Berkeley Square [London], to 'My dear Conway', undated (the cancellation of a visit to Llanwrtyd, a proposed visit to the Colby family at Fynone, Newcastle Emlyn, a dreadful flood in the vicinity of Whitland Abbey involving loss of life), Miss Howard, [18]55-1860 and undated (5) (proceedings concerning the disposal of or settling of certain estates), Susan [Lloyd, the writer's aunt], 1855 and undated (2) (personal and family news, comments on ministerial changes in the government, the earnestness of [Fox Maule, aft. Maule-Ramsay, 2nd baron] Panmure [of Brechin and Navar, later 11th earl of Dalhousie] and the trustworthiness of the Whigs, news from Balaklava, the conversion of the nephew of Dr. [Henry] Foulkes, Head of Jesus College [Oxford], to ? the Roman Catholic faith, the marriage of Miss [ ] Johnson and Mr. James Vincent in Llanfaethlu church, comments on Llysdulas near Amlwch), and the Misses Lloyd, Soughton House [Northop, the writer's aunts], undated (the writer's marriage).

Twenty-four holograph or autograph letters to and from Hugh Howard [brother of Robert Howard of Conway, the recipient of the letters contained in the previous manuscript, NLW MS 12426E]. (a) Six holograph letters, 1732-1737, bearing no addresses, from Hugh Howard in Tellicherry [India], 1. to his 'Dear Brother' [? Robert Howard of Conway], 1732 (family affairs, the writer's troubles with his superior officers in India, the possibility of his buying Griffith Williams's estate), 2. to [? Mrs. Gifford], 1733/4 (congratulations ? on her marriage, a gift of a set of china ware), 3. to his 'Dear Brother' [? Robert Howard as previously], 1733/4 (gifts sent to recipient and other persons named), 4. to his brother Rob[ert] Howard, 1737 (news of writer's acquaintances in India, recipient's intended purchase of land), 5. to Mrs. Gifford, 1737 (personal), 6. to Mrs. Howard [? his brother's wife], 1737 (personal). (b) Eighteen holograph or autograph letters to Hugh Howard, 1736-1746, most of them addressed to him in Bombay, from Ynyr Burges, East India House [London], 1746 (goods and a cask of arrack sent to England by Howard, news of events in Europe and in Britain including the crushing of the [Stuart] rebellion and the flight of the pretender's son to France, news of changes and rumoured changes affecting the personnel of the [East India] Company), Francesco Dias, Callicutt [India], 1743 (2) (personal, commercial transactions), Thomas Dorrill, Buss[orah, in the Persian Gulf], 1745 (1 + dup.) (commercial and financial), Rog[er] Kinsey, Surat [India], 1745/6 ( financial and commercial), Stephen Law, London, 1745/6 (financial), Tho[mas] Phillips, London, 1743 (military activity in Europe and the West Indies, the desertion of some two hundred soldiers of a Scotch regiment brought to London, news of friends and acquaintances), ?Domingos Rodrigues, Tellicherry [India], 1743-1746 (6 + 1 dup.) (financial and commercial [two of these letters are endorsed with English translations of the Portuguese originals]), Edward Ward, London, 1745 (personal, comments on the [Stuart] rebellion of 1745 a threatened invasion of England being prepared at Dunkirk), and M. Wynne, Bodysgallan, 1736-1737 (2) (family news, thanks for presents).

Seventy-seven holograph and other letters addressed to Edward Lloyd of Tythyn, barrister, and one of the Commissioners of the Stamp, at his chamber in Grays Inn, at the Stamp Office in Lincolns Inn, at Kensington, etc. The writers include Rich. Brook, Harden, 1699/1700 (the tenancy of the demesne of Argoed by Mold), Geo. Buckby, Lincolnes Inne, 1708 (a demand on behalf of the writer's client Mr. Chapman for payment of money due to him) (with an accompanying statement of account and a list of papers to be delivered to the recipient), Will. Byrd, 1682/3 (observations on the suitability of 'my man' for employment by the recipient), Mutton Davies, Gwyss[aney], etc., [16]79 (2) (negotiations for the purchase of the l[ordship] of M[old]), R[obert] D[avies] [Llannerch], 1707/8-1710 (4) (the receipt of a watch, a payment to Lady Rous, estate matters, a claim by Mr. Cornishe's executors, a request by Jack Chambers for writings in the recipient's custody, lack of respect to the Chief Justice shown by the Wrexham mob and the like in Montgomeryshire), Jonath. Edwards, [16]82 (the terms of a loan to the recipient's friend and kinsman) (copy), Samuel Edwards, Newport, 1681/2-1682 (6) (one copy) (negotiations for the purchase by the recipient of Mr. Kenrick Edisbury's estate, a request for assistance in settling the writer's cousin-german in London, a mortgage contract) (together with a copy by the writer of a letter, 1682, to Will. Warn, Scrivener in the Old Bailey, and a holograph letter, 1682, from Ed. Lloyd, Gray's Inne, to Mr. Warn), Hugh Foulkes, Gray's Inn, undated (the possibility of debt on the Argoed estate), Peter Foulkes, Exeter, 1708 (2) ( the receipt of monies covered by enclosed bills), Rob. Foulkes, Chester, 1692-1706/7 (5) (the renewal by the bishop of Rochester of the lease of Argoed, legal matters touching the title to properties, a request for the revision of the wording of a deputation to the writer, the succession to the bishopric of Chester, personal) (with two holograph letters, [16]92-1693, from Robert Roper to Robert Foulkes touching the Argoed lease), Ed'd Gruffith, Plass Newydd [Henllan], undated (cousin Ned's title to cousin Chambers's estate, the Captain's love for the recipient's sister, personal ), J. Haggersten, Berwick, [16]81 and undated (3) (the writer's debts), Rob't Hookes, 1683 (a request for a loan of £10), R. J., undated (an apology for his conduct towards the recipient), [Sir] Bradwardine Jackson, 1703 (a request to promote a marriage between the writer and the daughter of a Mr. Ashton who owns two quays about Billingsgate and a great estate in buildings at Hampstead), Anne Lewys, from Lleweny [1683 or 1684] (unlucky proceedings of cousin Tr. at Tythin, gifts to the poor at Penybrin, personal), [Mrs.] E. Lincolne, 1704/5 [?-1705] (2) (money matters), John Lloyd, Rossa, [16]82-1688 (2) (news from Place Chambers and Lleueny, an opportunity for the writer to acquire the redemption of lands mortgaged by the late brother of John Griffith), John Lloyd, Llannerch, 1709 (news of Mr. [Robert] Davies, a petition on behalf of the writer's unfortunate brother Tom for an appointment in the service of Mr. Diston) (with a postscript by R. D.), John Lloyd, Pengwern, etc., 1707/8-1710/11 and undated ( 24) (negotiations with the trustees for the purchase of Mr. Moyle's estate in Flintshire, surprise at the enterprise of the French and news of the two fleets being engaged, the health and the death of the writer's brother Robin, the death of Aunt Lloyd of Brynyorkin) (with one draft reply and some endorsements), Trevor Lloyd, Ruthin, [16]81/2 (a request for assistance to set up the writer's brother David in his trade) (with a copy of the recipient's reply endorsed), Jo. Twisleton, 1694 (a request for assistance to get a place for the bearer Mr. Acton, a bookseller), George Booth, 2nd earl of Warrington, from Dunham, etc., 1700-1701 (7) (the writer's love affairs, the writer's deeds to be used as a security, Sir Bradw. Jackson's affairs, a reference to Non-Jurors), John Williams, Wrexham, 1700-1708 (4) (accounts touching Mr. Moyle's estate), Jo. Wolfe, 1709 (the sealing of patents), John Wynne [Leeswood], Flint, 1707 (negotiations touching mills in a lease held by the writer), and Owen Wynne, Pengwern, 1701 (a request for a loan of £100 to pay the bishop of Bangor for the tithe of Llanrhayder farmed by the writer, a warning of constant trouble in Radnorshire until a good chapman is found for it). At the end of the volume are two bills of Owen Wynne, 1708-1709, empowering Edward Lloyd to pay monies to Robert Trygarn and to E. Whitehurst, cheesemonger at Coventry, with receipts endorsed.

Seventy-nine holograph letters from Tho. Williams [Broncoed, near Mold] to Edward Lloyd at his Chamber in Chappell Court in Greys Inn, 1677/8-1685 and undated (copious reports on legal and money matters arising from the writer's agency on behalf of the recipient, with references to Tythin, Penybryn, Argoed, etc.; references also to relatives and friends, and to such matters as the purchase of a seat in Mold Church, parliamentary elections, coalworks at Hawarden, etc.) (together with some observations added by the recipient, and enclosed letters from Ed. W [ ], Chester, to Robert Hughes, Bromfeild, 1680, [Major] Ed. Evatt [to Thomas Williams] [1680], Will. Lloyd to [Edward] Lloyd, [16]80, Edward Williams, Pont y Gwyddell to [Thomas] Williams, [16]80, Jno. Langley, Jun., London, to Tho. Williams, 1680-1682, and W. W., Chester, to Thomas Williams, [16]80/1).

Seventeen holograph letters addressed to Howell Lloyd at Hafodunos and at Soughton, near Northop. The writers include [ ] Hall (in the third person), undated (the care of Mr. Griffith's mare, personal), Peter John, Ruthin, 1776 (the financial affairs of the late Mr. Conway of Soughton, with references to chief rents and heriots in Efenechtid and Llangwifen and a debt due to the writer), Edw. Jones, Holywell, 1777 (the examination of Mrs. Susan Lloyd for lunacy, personal), John Jones, W[hi]t Church, 1775 ( an invoice for books, etc., personal, a reference to the sale at Hammer Hall), [Dr.] Trevor Jones, Soughton Grove, 1780 (a plan for the restoration of the recipient's health), David Lloyd, [vicar of] Llangernew, also from Pentre, 1770-1772 (2) (the sealing of 'every place' at Havod unos, the death of the writer's 'worthy friend', the vacant curacy of Llangernew, the writer's relationship with the recipient's family), Hedd Lloyd, Whitchurch, [17]70 (the health of their brother, must go to Ruthin and Plascoch), R. Lloyd, Hope, [17]66 and un-dated (2) (the death of Mrs. Wickham, a proposed visit to Soughton, the recipient's health, the death of their brother and of the vicar's brother-in-law), Tho. Sloughter, Chester, 1781 (thanks for a pot of char), Arn[old] Vincent, Stoke D'Abernon, 1780 (a better plan for working the mines on Mold Mountain), Bennett Williams, Chester, 1770 (news of the recipient's brother), J. Wynne, London, 1782 (a draft for £32/10/0, the writer's visit to Soughton, unhealthy weather, news of Mr. and Mrs. Bankes, the 'Dr',s engagements in the Court of Admiralty and on the Visitation of the Bishop of London), and John Wynne, Coed Coch, 1776 (3) (a godfather to an infant son John).

Sixty-four holograph letters and three formal notes from [Sir] Jos[eph] Banks, from Soho Square [London], from Spring Grove [Isleworth, co. Middlesex], from Revesby Abbey [Lincolnshire], etc., to John Lloyd at Hafodunos, at Soughton, Northop, at Wygfair, St. Asaph, etc., 1778-1814 and undated (personal and family news and news of acquaintances, and more specifically an invitation to a Royal Society club dinner (1778); Lord Mahon's book on electricity [Principles of Electricity, 1779] and his promise of another in which he would refute Mr. [Benjamin] Wilson's deductions, news of Lord Mulgrave and [Sir Charles] Blagden, and a request for a specimen of saxifraga umbrosa from Ireland (1780); a paper on new double stars to be read to the R[oyal] S[ociety] by [William] Herschel, the death of [? Dr. Solander] and a request for a specimen of Crataegus Aria from the cliffs near the top of Pen Man Mawr [co. Caernarvon] (1782); a balloon flight across the English Channel by [John] Jefferies and [François] Blanchard [this letter is dated January 1784 but this is probably a mistake for 1785, the flight having been made in January of that year], the resignation of the clerkship of the R[oyal] S[ociety] by Robertson and a contest for the post between Messrs. Coppard and Gilpin (1785); [William] Herschel's visit to Germany to take a telescope of his own making as a present to the University of Gottingen, Herschel's progress with his forty feet [telescope], the discovery of a new comet by Caroline, Herschel's sister, a 'bill intended by the manufacturers to restrain the growers of wool' and a meeting to be held in Denbighshire to consider the bill, the teaching of classics in England as compared with the continent (1786); the receipt of a box of plants from the Snowdon area, Danish and Roman antiquities found in the bed of the river Witham [co. Lincoln], the danger of wheat which was imported from America being infected by insects unknown in this country (1788); comments on Shetland sheep and a request for a specimen (1791); the political situation with comments on democrats, constitutionalists, the Whig club, etc., (1793); a visit from David Pennant, the ill treatment of recipient by a riotous mob at Denbigh, the presence of 'dangerous mobs in many counties' caused by 'the first Raising of the Militia', the price of corn, damage estimated at £ 750,000 by floods in Cambridgeshire, Lloyd's service to the country as a magistrate and the value of this office to the constitution, sheep rearing, the discovering of gold in Ireland (1795); the result of the [parliamentary] election in [co. Caernarvon] with mention of the contestants Sir Robert [Williams] and Lord Penrhyn, acknowledgement of receipt of copies of 'Shon Gwialen', the ill effects of apple insect, good wishes to recipient should he 'undertake the arduous task of becoming Knight of your shire', criticism of Thomas and David Pennant (1796); a request by Lloyd for a copy of the map which accompanied Dr. [Christopher] Packe's Ancographia sive Convallium Descriptio (1798); [Frederick] Hornemann's journey to Africa [on behalf of the African Association], the effects of prolonged drought, comments on Adam Smith's theory of 'perfect freedom in trade' (1800); the abundant crops and the price of grain (1801); the result of the [parliamentary] election in co. Kent, the West India docks in the Isle of Dogs and the Wapping Docks, the health of the members of the Royal Family whom the writer had seen at Weymouth (1802); the possibility of an invasion of England by Buonaparte (1803, 1805); Lloyd's wish to become a trustee of the [?British] Museum (1804); the death of [Alexander] Aubert at Lloyd's home, the draining and selling of land by the writer (1805); the writer's anger on seeing the spires of Lincoln minster pulled down, a request for Lloyd's help in procuring answers to a questionnaire concerning alleged damage to cathedral fabrics, comments on 'the Political Hurricane' which had taken the King out of the hands of a Whig administration, the political changes in England, wire worms, the anniversary of the Club, astronomical data (1807); the cultivation of cranberries, news of crops (1808); receipt of a Brazil coin and of tokens for his sister's [Sarah Sophia Banks] collection, Sir H. Englefield's circular letter and canvass of the Society of Antiquaries (1811)). 'Shon Gwialan' probably refers to the pamphlet entitled 'A Letter to the Right Reverend Dr. Warren on his conduct as Bishop of Bangor', published in 1796, in which the writer, 'Shon Gwialan', attacks the bishop of Bangor for alleged nepotism, etc. The identity of the writer has not been discovered.

Sixty-one holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1776-1814.
They comprise letters, etc., from Joseph Elkington, Birmingham and Wooburn, 1796 and undated (4) (personal, locations of places where the writer had undertaken the job of underdraining); Tho[ma]s Ellis, Rhosfynnach [co. ?], 1804 (the erection of a hut and beacon, a trial fire on the Bodavon mountain beacon); [Sir] Henry C[harles] Englefield, London and Cheltenham, 1782 and undated (4) (personal news, the death of his uncle Sir Ch[arles Louis] Buck, the confusion in the ministry caused by the death of Lord Rock[ingham], comments on scientific instruments); Kathe[rine] Englefield [?Lady Englefield, mother of Sir Henry aforementioned], London, 1785 (personal); J[ohn] Evans, Wynnstay, 1794 (a map which the writer was ? compiling, a request for a sketch of the park at Kinmel); [Sir] George [Augustus William] Shuckburgh Evelyn [the additional name of Evelyn having been assumed in 1793], Shuckburgh Park, [Warwickshire], Felbridge near East Grinsted, Sussex, East Bourne, Westminster, Geneva, etc., 1778-1801 and undated (31) (personal news, news of mutual acquaintances, the construction of an astronomical edifice at Havodunos (1778), a request to Lloyd to call on Walther's, the bookbinder in Castle Court, the Strand [London], sums paid to [Jesse] Ramsden in respect of an 'equatorial' cum pertinentibus [at Shuckburgh] (1789), the death of [Major] General [William] Roy and concern regarding his calculations, books, etc. (1790), peace with Spain (1790), talk of a coalition between Pitt and Fox (1790), the birth of a daughter to Lady Shuckburgh and the writer (1790), comments on barometrical observations, refraction, etc., observations of the solstice in order to determine the obliquity of the ecliptic (1791), a request for an opinion on the writer's account of the equatorial [An Account of the Equatorial Instrument. From the Philosophical Transactions, London?, 1793?], the defeat of the French (1794), the assumption by the writer of the additional name of Evelyn (1794), fine harvests (1795), the writer's intention 'to determine the length of the Pendulum in order to ascertain a fixed Standard for weights and measures' and preparations for this (1795), 'troublesome Assemblies' and a 'disposition to rio[ts]' in recipient's neighbourhood, the need for vigour and firmness to stop such conduct and the necessity of stopping 'the common people' from taking the law into their own hands (1795), riots and meetings in London to petition against the two Bills (1795) [?the Seditious Meetings Act and the Treasonable Practices Act], the writer's election (1796) [?re-election as Member of Parliament for the county of Warwick], the death of Lady Shuckburgh's uncle, Mr. Medley and his bequest of his property to Lady Shuckburgh and the writer (1796), experiments with the pendulum and the new scales from Troughton and work with regard to weights and measures (1796), the spread of 'the flame of war', the accumulation of private and public debts, the King's illness, the abandonment of the helm by ministers 'in a moment of such danger' and 'for such a miserable pretext as the Catholic question' (1801), an expedition to Mt. Saleve and barometrical and trigonometrical observations and a proposal to measure the height of Mt. Blanc 'by a suite of triangles'); Thomas Fairbairn, Spring Grove, 1812 (questions re. fruit); J. Farey, Langevny, Anglesea, 1813 (arrangements in connection with a proposed mineral survey in North Wales); Cha[rle]s Finch [later Charles Griffith-Wynne], Voylas, [1806] (levies and a fine imposed on the townships of Tre Ganol and Tre Kernioge in the parish of Tir y Abbot, [Denbighshire] in respect of road mending, mention of the Denbigh road and the Great Holyhead Turnpike); T [ ] Firminger, Greenwich Royal Observatory, 1803 (enclosing tables of the geocentric motion of the planets [ie. asteroids] Pallas and Ceres Ferdinandea); Dr. J. Fisher, Doctors' Commons, 1799-1803 (2) (personal); [John Hamilton FitzMaurice, styled viscount] Kirkwall, Denbigh, Deganwy Castle and Charles St. [London], 1812-1813 and undated (6) (personal, a quest for accommodation [in London], comments on Sir Watkin [?Williams Wynn] and his regiment [? the Denbighshire militia], the prospects of peace); [Mary FitzMaurice, suo jure countess of] Orkney, Lleweny, Bath and Charles St. [London], 1793-1814 (3) (personal, the letting or selling of Fron Yew); Ja[me]s Fox, Derby, 1812 (3) (technical details relating to water closets, drying closets, washing machines, steam engines for threshing corn, etc.); and R[ichar]d Fydell, Boston, [Lincolnshire], 1776 (thanks for news of events in America).

Seventy holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1770-1812.
They comprise letters, etc., from Cath[erine] Parry, Soughton, Llwynegrin, etc. [17]76-[?1778] (14) (detailed news of herself, the family and acquaintances, and of happenings in the neighbourhood); D[avid] Pennant, Downing, [Flintshire], 1796-1811 and undated (4) (a request for support with regard to [?the parliamentary election in the county of Flint caused by the death of Sir Roger Mostyn, bart., in July 1796], damage to some of Lloyd's scientific instruments, a quotation from one of [William] Bowles's works relating to various types of jars or vases made in parts of Spain with references to the same from other writers, viz. [Sir John Talbot] Dillon and [Henry] Swinburne); [Richard Pennant, Baron] Penrhyn, Penrhyn near Conway [Carnarvonshire], [? 1795] (a request for support at the next parliamentary election for the county of [Carnarvon]); Tho[mas] Pennant, Downing, [Flintshire], Chester, Lichfield and Gothurst, 1770-1795 and undated (11) (personal, a contract with Moses [Griffith] who was to be instructed 'that he may do justice to our Welch antiquities', a request to Lloyd to ask White, the bookseller [of Fleet Street, London], to advertise the writer's work entitled Synopsis of Quadrupeds [Chester, 1771], a collection of drawings of Welsh monuments in the possession of Mr. Astle probably living in Lambeth, enquiries concerning monuments in the church at Luton, Bedfordshire, a list of buildings, monuments, etc., noted on a journey through Bedfordshire, Buck[inghamshire], Northamptonshire, Warwicksh[ire], Staffordshire and Cheshire (1773), a request that the writer's drawings be left at Mr. White's 'for they must be soon engraven' (1773), comments on relations with America (1775), an earthquake which had shaken the writer's house [at Downing, 1775], congratulations to Lloyd on his work [?as a justice of the peace], a request for a loan of a copy of Mrs. Piozzi's Synonyms [British Synonymy or an Attempt at regulating the choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi, née Salusbury, formerly Mrs. Thrale, London, 1794], in order to check 'some pedigree remarks on the Mostyn family'); Roger Phillips, London, 1794 (the development of a cutting machine, the making of a turning lathe for Sir Joseph Banks, personal), [Constantine John Phipps, 2nd baron] Mulgrave [of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, later 1st baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, Yorkshire], Portsmouth, Bath, and [on board HMS] Courageux, 1776-1780 (5) (enquiries concerning scientific instruments, personal); W. [ ] Phipps, Mulgrave Hall near Whitby, [Yorkshire], undated (personal); Gabriel Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, 1795-1796 (3) (personal, recommending Mr. Mead as architect in connection with the proposed improvements at Wygfaur and offering timber); Mr. and Mrs. [Gabriel] Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, 1800-1804 and undated (5) (personal, invitations to dinner, etc.); Mr. and Mrs. [Gabriel] Piozzi and Miss Cecilia Thrale, undated (personal); [Mrs.] H[ester] L[ynch] Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, [1790]-1809 and undated (18) (personal, legal and business affairs, comment on the war against the French (1799) the position in France (1804) and Bonaparte in Egypt (1809), an offer of a corrected copy of the writer's work entitled Retrospection [or a review of the most striking and important events, characters . . . which the last eighteen hundred years have presented ..., London, 1801], invitations to Brynbella to meet Lady Orkney's family, the bishop of St. Asaph and others, a loan of two volumes of the works of [l’] Abbi [?Guillaume Thomas Frangois] Raynal, local news ); John Planta, Fulnec, near Leeds, 1807 (an order for two spinning wheels, descriptions of two different kinds of Reels and of a music desk); Joseph Pocklington, Carlton House near Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire, 1778 (instructions as to 'House covering with Brown Paper'); Rob[er]t Preston, Liverpool, 1793 (financial matters); R. Parry Price, Bryn y pys, [1781x1782] (his inability to attend a meeting of the Order of Druids and his fear of being expelled from the order); and R[ ] Puleston, Camp near Morpeth, Northumberland, and Glan y Môr, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, 1796-1812 (2) (the vacancy in the [parliamentary representation] of the county of Flint caused by the death of Sir Roger Mostyn and the writer's hopes of Lloyd's support in connection therewith (1796), a request for assistance in tracing the pedigree of the Puleston family from 1622 onwards on the occasion of the grant of a baronetcy to the writer (1812)).

Seventy-five holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1771-1809.
They comprise letters from L'abbé Andreii, 1777 (personal); R. P. Arden, 1786 (legal and financial); Alexander Aubert, London, 1793-1800 (2) (personal); Mrs. D [ ] Aubert, Highbury House [Islington], 1799-1803 (3) (personal and social); L[ewis Bagot, bishop of] St. Asaph, St. Asaph, Blithfield, and Oxford Street, [London], 1793-1802 and undated (17) (the war against the French and tumults near Mold (1793), the death of [?the Reverend William Stodart] and proposals for filling his vacant preferments, namely Abergele, Bettws and a [prebendal stall] (1794), the appointment of a postmaster at [St. Asaph], the wretched condition of the parish of [?St. Asaph] - allowances to the poor being in arrears, roads neglected, etc., Mr. Jackson's presentation to the living of Abergele (1794), the government's measures to meet the grain shortage (1796), the renewal of recipient's lease of [ ] from the precentor [of St. Asaph], plundering in the neighbourhood of Mostyn (1797), the conduct of Mr. Fox and his friends in Parliament and the raising of supplies for carrying on the war (1797), the need for economy in the consumption of barley, oats and potatoes, and the 'high' state of the market in spite of economies and of the importation of grain (1801), the repeal of the Brown Bread Act, the King's success in filling departments of state and law after the secession of ministers (1801), 'dangerous tampering with Lord Penrhyn's Slate Quarries and amongst the Miners both in Anglesea and Flintshire' (1801), a bill to be introduced in the House of Commons concerning the conduct of the clergy (1802), appointments to the deanery of York and the chair of Hebrew at Christ Church [Oxford] (1802), the arrival [in London] of antiquities from Egypt (1802)); Thomas Baldwin, Hool, [?Cheshire], 1771 (description of a journey in North Wales – Festiniog, Bala, Talardd, Dinas Mouthy, with ascents of Arran Ben Llyn, Cader Idris and ?Arran Mouthy, notes on stratification); M[argaret] Bankes, Old Palace Yard, [London], [?daughter of John Wynne, bishop successively of St. Asaph and Bath and Wells], 1804 (the illness and death of her brother and the disposal of his estate, other family news); Mrs. Bankes, Duke Street, undated (personal and social); Miss [Sarah Sophia] Banks, Soho Square, [London], [sister of Sir Joseph Banks], 1787-1795 (4) (personal and family news, a request for a copy of Regulations of the Society of Royal British Bowmen, and for help in procuring specimens of a Macclesfield ½[d] and a Cronebane ½[d]); J. Barff, Oswestry, 1795 (financial and legal matters); Daines Barrington, London, Beaumaris, Carnarvon, etc., 1772-1787 and undated (13) (personal news and news of acquaintances, instruments from Mr. Ramsden, a promise of Gothic and Runic alphabets and of an account of Elden Hole, [Derbyshire], proposed journeys by Mr. Banks to Iceland and by Mr. Forster to the South Pole (1772), a fire at Garden Court, London (1775), the height of Snowdon, the receiving of the two Forsters [Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster, who had accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage] by the King and Queen (1775), the preparation by Forster [senior] of a specimen narrative [in connection with his voyage] for Lord Sandwich's approbation (1775), the arrival of the Gymnotus Electricus, a letter to Mr. Panton stating that Lloyd would be glad to have copies of the correspondence between Sir John Wynne of Gwedir and Sir Hugh Myddelton, Mr. Panton's kindness in allowing the writer to peruse certain Gwedir papers, Lord Bulkeley's improvements at Baron Hill, [Anglesey], an ascent of Mont Blanc (1787), Mr. Herschel's discovery of two satellites to the Georgium Sidus [Uranus], a request for the return of 'the MS. Memoirs of Owen Glendower', the returning of books, namely Milnes Dictionary, Hill's British Herbal, Watson's Chemistry, etc., a gift of a pamphlet ?Letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, F.R.S., to William Heberden, M.D., F.R.S., giving an Account of some Experiments made in North Wales to ascertain the different Quantities of Rain which fell in the same Time at different Heights [a copy of which is attached]); [William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of] Portland, Whitehall, 1795 (representations made by Lloyd that troops should be quartered at Ruthin, the writer's suggestion to the Secretary at War that this was necessary in order to protect the county gaol where rioters were imprisoned); John ?Binnie, St. Asaph, 1809 (personal); J. Blackburn, St. James Street, [London], [1784] (personal); C[harles] Blagden, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], and [London], 1778-1796 and undated (4) (mathematical instruments at the college in Philadelphia including a very fine orrery, public lectures to be delivered in the town [of Philadelphia] (1778), the evacuation of Philadelphia by British forces and news of the war in America, letters by Mr. Mills relating to volcanic appearances in the Western Isles, the discovery of two comets by Miss [Caroline] Herschel and [Pierre Francois Andre] Mechain (1790), an acknowledgement of the receipt, on behalf of the Royal Society, of a copy of Edward Jones's The Prevention of Poverty (1796), news of electrical experiments); Lord and Lady de Blaquieres, Denbigh, 1798 and undated (2) (personal and social); Thomas Bolt, Lerwick, [Scotland], 1792 (relief of poverty caused in the area by the effects of bad crops and poor fishing, comments on the opinion held by certain people that the sun was visible for twenty four hours at the summer solstice); B. S. Booth, undated (a request for a ticket to attend debates at the House of Commons); Thomas Boydell, Trevellyn, 1794 (a lease of land on Mold mountain); Dr. William Brownrigg, Ormathwaite [?Cumberland], 1778-1780 (2) (Lloyd's trip to [Cumberland] to see the black lead mines, a request for a specimen of native lead from Anglesea); [Elizabeth Harriet Bulkeley, nee Warren,] Lady Bulkeley, Stanhope Street, [London], undated (personal); [Thomas James Bulkeley, later Warren-Bulkeley, lord] Bulkeley, Stanhope Street, Old Windsor, 1788-1801 and undated (10) (personal news, the tactics of the Opposition in parliament with regard to the issues arising out of the illness of the King [George III] (1788), [William] Pitt [the younger]'s defence of the King and his three parliamentary resolutions for meeting the constitutional crisis and creating a Regency (1788), Captain Williams's canvass of the county of Carnarvon (1790), 'adventures in Copper & Slate' on the writer's land by recipient, the assassination of the Duke of Orleans, talk of sending a fleet to the Baltic (1791), the situation in the East Indies (1791), a meeting with the Duchess of York, the imminence of a French attack upon the Electors of Treves and Mayence and the emmigrants at Coblentz [1791], the destruction of the Duke of Richmond's house at Privy Garden by fire, Sir Watkin Williams's appointment to the stewardship of the lordship of Denbigh and his appointment of Mr. Wynne of Plasnewydd as his deputy (1795), a request for support for Sir Robert Williams against Lord Penrhyn in the [parliamentary election for Carnarvonshire] (1795), the King's recovery from his illness, the writer's opinion that the King could not 'go on without either Pitt or Fox as Prime Minister', his disgust with the political manoeuvering [in parliament], the danger to the country, the unhappy state of parts of the county of Carnarvon (1801), a visit to Paris); [Peter Burrell, Baron] Gwydir [of Gwydir, Caernarvonshire], White Hall [London], 1798 (an invitation to an anniversary dinner of the Honourable Society of Ancient Britons); and Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss [Sarah] Ponsonby, Plas Newydd [Llangollen, 'The Ladies of Llangollen'], undated (social).