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Papers, 1745-1905, relating mainly to the Leach family of Corston and Ivy Tower, Pembrokeshire, the collection being largely composed of accounts, sale books, rentals and other details of estate management, together with material relating to family wills and personal estate. Amongst the material not directly relating to Corston and Ivy Tower are a late eighteenth century commonplace book belonging to Thomasina Smith (afterwards wife of Abraham Leach of Corston); a log book, 1864-1867, of Robert Owen Leach, commanding officer of HMS Liverpool; and army message books, 1901, kept by Captain Henry Edmund Burleigh Leach whilst serving in the South African War.

A volume containing particulars of personal and household receipts and disbursements of John Leach of Ivy Tower, Tenby, 1855-6.

Notebooks containing particulars of daily personal and household expenses of John Leach of Ivy Tower, Tenby, 1851-8. Inset in MS. 11208 is a holograph letter, 1857, from C. Douglas, Pembroke, to J. Leach, acknowledging a subscription to Pembroke National School.

Two day books containing particulars of personal, household, agricultural, and estate receipts of John Leach, Ivy Tower, Tenby, 1858-1867. At the beginning of MS. 11211 is a rental of properties in the parishes of Carew, Crunwere, St. Florence, St. Mary (Pembroke), and St. Michael (Pembroke), 1862, and inset is a nineteenth century valuation of the Ivy House estate in the parish of Saint Florence, made by Messrs. Goode & Owen, Haverfordwest.

A volume containing a particular of the goods and chattels of John Allen late of Dale Castle, Pembrokeshire, deceased, sold by public auction, 5 December, 1768, together with two copies (one inset) of a particular of such part of the estate as is on the tenement and lands of Comkow, sold by public auction on 12 December, 1768.

Two herd books of Corston, containing a list of bulls and heifers (with references to purchases, to the awards of prizes at agricultural shows, etc.), 1864-1905, and a list of cows, with dates of calving, 1864-97.

A volume lettered 'Johnson's Highway Rate Book' containing an approved assessment for the parish of Monkton, Pembrokeshire, at sixpence in the pound, made 14 August, 1847.

Two volumes of hunting diaries kept by Henry Leach, Corston, from 18 September, 1877, to 31 March, 1887. At the end of the volume are tables giving the dates of visits paid within each season to a large number of places in Pembrokeshire.

Copies of letters to Messrs. [Thomas] Coutts & Co., London, from J[ohn] Leach, Pembroke, 1801-3 (the purchase of stock, and the receipt of dividends on the property of the late Nicholas Dunn, brother of Mrs. Lettice Leach of Bullibar), and from Nic[hola]s Leach, Bullibar, near Pembroke, 1808 (the transfer of stock in the name of the writer's mother, Mrs. Lettice Leach, and the receipt of dividends); and statements of account relating to the same between Messrs. Coutts & Co., and Nic[hola]s Dunn, 1800-01, Mrs. Lett[ice] Leach and John Leach, 1803-4, and Messrs. Coutts & Co. and Nic[hola]s Leach, 1808-9.

A volume, with insets, containing particulars of monies paid and received, 1838-43, by the executors of John Leach of St. Mary, Pembroke (d. 11 August, 1837).

A volume containing statements of account of Abraham Leach [the elder] with The Right Hon. Sir Richard Philipps, Lord Milford, Maurice Morgan, Esq., Messrs. Shapland, Underwood & Riddle, Bristol, William Jones & Co., Swansea, Philip George & Co., Bristol, and (at the end) Wm. Marsden, 1784-1811. The accounts relate largely to the working by Abraham Leach for Lord Milford of the Llanvirnach and Llwynkelin lead mines in Pembrokeshire.

A ledger, with insets, 1794-1874, begun by John Leach, Pembroke, containing statements of account with Messrs. Thomas Coutts & Co., London, Abraham Leach [the elder], Pembroke, John Bart. Allen, Cresselly, Charles Tyler, Pembroke, Abraham Leach the younger, Hugh Barlow, Lawrenny, Henry Leach, Sunny Hill, Nichs. Roch, Pembroke, Willm. Davies, Cronwear, John Russell, Pembroke, Miss Ann Leach, Bullibar, Nichs. Leach, Bullibar, Mrs. Lettce. Leach, Bullibar, Miss Elizth. Leach, Pembroke, Miss Ann Maria Tyler (executrix to Elizth. Leach, deceased), Edwd. Leach, Pembroke, Messrs. R. C. Jenkins & Co., Calcutta (assignees of the estate of Messrs. Palmer & Co., bankrupts), Messrs. Ferguson & Co., Calcutta, bankrupts, Messrs. Gillanders, Arburthnot & Co., Calcutta, etc. Separte accounts at the end of the volume relate to the estate of the late John Williams of Calcutta, 1822-37, etc. The volume is indexed. The insets include copies of two letters from John Leach to Messrs. Thomas Coutts & Co., 1794-5 (the purchase of stock, the payment of bils, the receipt of dividends); holograph letters from Messrs. Thomas Coutts & Co., to John Leach, 1811 (the probate of the will of the recipient's father), R. T. Tyler, Llantrithyd, to the Reverend F. G. Leach and the Reverend Wm. Allen, 1845 (allowances towards John Leach's expenses at College, etc.), and Messrs. [Thomas] Coutts & Co., Strand, London, to John Leach at Ivy Tower, Tenby, and Stubbings House, Maidenhead, 1862-72 (the purchase of stock); and miscellaneous vouchers and draft accounts, 1812-68.

Lists of sheriffs of Pembrokeshire from 1540 to 1864, together with additions to 1878, and of mayors and sheriffs of the town and county of Haverfordwest from 1563 to 1864.

A pocket-book containing miscellaneous memoranda by J[ohn] Leach, Pembroke.

A volume of eighteenth century poetry, and some prose, transcribed by Thomasina Smith, afterwards Thomasina Leach, wife of Abraham Leach [the younger] of Corston. Among the poets represented are R. B. Sheridan, John Dryden, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith, and the titles include 'On Sir Joshua Reynolds', 'Address ... spoken by Mrs. Siddons ....', 'Written at Stratford upon Avon at the tomb of Shakespeare', 'On seeing the Prince of Wales at the Ranelagh fete, 1789', etc. The prose items include 'Resolutions form'd to promote regularity at Shanes Castle during the meeting for the play of Cymbeline'.

A volume containing a rental of properties of the Reverend Dr. Hugh Thomas and Mrs. Mary Thomas in Tenby (e.g. Scotsborough, Knightson, Cornishdown, etc.), 1765-1818, and (beginning at the end) a statement of receipts and disbursements on behalf of Hugh Thomas and Mary Thomas, 1765-1819. The later accounts were kept by Jno. Leach.

A volume containing rent accounts, 1802-43, with individual tenants in Pembroke (St. Mary and St. Michael), Narberth, Templeton, Monkton, Pembroke Ferry, Crunwear, Lawrenny, Crinow, etc., Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthen, etc., Carmarthenshire. Inset are holograph letters from J. Leach, Pembroke, to David Raymond, Crunwear, 1836 (the purchase of property), and G. Raynes to [John Leach], [18]65 (the purchase of hoops for a cooper's use).

Rentals for Lady day and for Michaelmas, 1851, of the estate of John Leach, Esq., in the parishes of Crunwear, Carew, Saint Florence, St. Mary (Pembroke), St. Michael (Pembroke), and Narberth, and of the Ivy Tower estate in the parish of Saint Florence, Pembrokeshire.

A volume containing rent accounts, 1771-1813, with individual tenants of the Corston estate in respect of properties in Lampeter [Velfrey], Pembroke, Lanpha and Portclue, Cosheston, Newton in Manorbeer, Lamaston, Pembroke ferry, Monkton (Mounton), Mat[h]ry, St. Mary (Tenby), Rudbaxton, Nash, Letterston, Narberth, Martletwy, Clyde, East Williamston, Templeton, Loveston, Lawrenny, Llawhaden, etc., Pembrokeshire, and St. Clears, Carmarthenshire, and of Cresswell Colliery in Pembrokeshire. There is an incomplete index to the first part of the volume.

A volume containing rent accounts, 1771-89, with individual tenants of the Corston estate in respect of properties in Loveston, Monkton, Mat[h]ry, Letterston, White Church [in Cemais], Tenby, Templetown, Pembroke, Crunwere, Cosheston, Bigelly, Martheltwy, etc., and of the tithes of the parish of Warren, Pembrokeshire, and of Allt Ddu near Carmarthen. At the end of the volume and on the end-papers are a rental from 1780 of an estate bought of John Rossant in Cosheston and Bigelly; memoranda of leases and payments, 1745-84; and undated valuations and measurements of properties. The volume is indexed. Insets include holograph letters from Thos. Meyler, Llangloffan, 1776, Tho. Rees, Haverfordwest, 1792, B. Allen (undated), etc., and miscellaneous vouchers and accounts, 1769-95 and undated.