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Account books containing draft statements of Abraham Howell's accounts with [his employers] Messrs. [Hugh] Owen and [Joseph] Jones [solicitors, Machynlleth], 1829-1832. The partnership between Messrs. Owen and Jones was dissolved in September 1831, but payments and receipts by Abraham Howell on behalf of the firm until June 1832 are recorded.

Correspondence (nineteen letters) and notes, November-December 1840, relating to proposals for establishing fox hunting in co. Montgomery. The correspondence includes letters from J. Robinson Jones, Welshpool, to R[ichar]d Griffiths Parry, W[elsh] Pool (soliciting recipient's company at a meeting to be held at Welshpool, 9 November, to consider proposals relating to fox hunting in the county) (autograph), and [Edward Herbert, 7th earl of] Powis (enclosing a copy of the resolutions passed at the aforementioned meeting held 9 November, viz., that a subscription be 'set on foot in aid of the intended establishment of The Montgomeryshire Fox Hounds', that a committee be formed in connection therewith, that the committee should solicit the support of the earl of Powis and other landed proprietors in the county, that John Buckley Williams be appointed master of the fox hounds, that Tho[ma]s Bowen and Alfred Meredith be treasurer and secretary respectively, etc.) (holograph draft); a letter from John Vaughan, Crosswood, to J. Robinson Jones, Welsh Pool (an offer by the writer to lend his hounds to the gentlemen of the county for the remainder of the season) (holograph); a copy of a circular letter addressed by the aforesaid Alfred Meredith (as secretary), from Welch-Pool [to landed proprietors in the county] (informing recipients of the meeting held 9 November, soliciting subscriptions, requesting permission to draw recipients' coverts); and fifteen holograph letters, eight of which are addressed to Alfred Meredith, and the remainder of which were also, by inference, intended for him, from Fra[nci]s Allen, Pool, P. Devereux, Llanfair, Tho[ma]s Edgworth, Wrexham (on behalf of the Rev[eren]d N. Roberts, Cefn Park, near Wrexham), John Edmunds, Edderton, the Rev[erend] G[eorge] A[rthur] Evors, Newtown, J[ohn] R[alph] Ormsby Gore [aft. 1st baron Harlech], Porkington, the Rev[eren]d J[ohn] A[rthur] Herbert, Glan Hafren, Rob[ert] Lightbody, Pant, R[obert] M[aurice] Bonnor Maurice, Preston, Cirencester, W[illia]m Morris, Pentre pant, R[ichard] H[erbert] Mytton, The Derwin, J. M. Severne, Wallop Hall (2), Sir R[obert] W [illiames] Vaughan [2nd bart. of] Nannau, and J. B. Williames, Pennant (replies to the circular sent out by recipient). The notes, dated ?26 December 1840, are in the hand of the earl of Powis, and give the substance of a conversation between the writer and representatives of the hunt committee, concerning the drawing of coverts on the Powis estate.

A note-book containing 'An Account of Money expended in the Repairs of the Embankments, Bridges, Sluices, Brooks, drains, &c., in the Manors [of] Streetmarshal (Ystrad Marchell), Tlrymynech, and Deyther [co. Montgomery], by John Jones, Surveyor', 1823-1825, with an attested statement, 25 Nov[ember] 1825, by David Pugh, esq., of Llanerchydol, one of the Justices of the Peace for co. Montgomery, that he had examined the said John Jones in respect of the sums expended, and allowed the account. At the reverse end of the volume is a 'Schedule of Debts of the late Mr. John Jones of Pool Quay in the Parish of Guildsfield [co. Montgomery]. Died Feb[ruar]y 26 1850'.

Holograph letters addressed to Abraham Howell at Welshpool and very occasionally elsewhere, by his brother David Howell mainly from Machynlleth. 12558D. Seventy-seven letters, 1833-1837 (financial and legal matters [relating to the professional activities of the two brothers in the solicitors' offices in which they were working in Welshpool and Machynlleth respectively], personal and family affairs including the writer's efforts to improve his education, his inclination to seek a post in Manchester so that he could study at the Mechanics' Institution, his prospects in his law career at Machynlleth, his attempts to become an articled clerk, the problem of deciding upon a career for [their brother] George, the sending of [their sister] Elinor to school at Minsterley [co. Salop], and the health of their brother Edward, the possibility of a new bank being opened at Machynlleth, the certificates of registration of a chapel at Mallwyd and of Hebron chapel at Aberangell (1836), mention of Llanbrynmair and Diosg schools, the presenting of the rules of the Darowen Friendly Society to the [Quarter] Sessions (1836), a fire at [Machynlleth] (1836), mention of the Mer[ioneth] election (1836), a public dinner and ? firework display to be organised [at Machynlleth] to celebrate the coming of age of Princess Victoria) (one of the letters contains an abstract of the contents of a letter sent by another brother, Lewis Howell, from Lake Providence, Louiziana, to his father and mother, January 1837, in which he comments on wages, land transactions, cotton growing, etc., in that state). 12559D. Seventy-two letters, 1838-1840 (the financial and legal activities of the two brothers, personal and family news, the writer's career prospects in the solicitor's office in which he was employed at Machynlleth, [their sister] Ellen's schooling at Minsterley, the writer's impressions of James Rees Jones ['Kilsby'] the prospective minister of Capel y Graig [Independent Church at Machynlleth], the members who had separated from Capel y Graig, trouble concerning possession of the said chapel and the advisability of having it registered, a plan to invest in property in London (the letter referring to this topic is accompanied by a copy of a letter from David Howell to his brother Evan in London giving more details of the plan), the tenancy of a factory [? at Llanbryn- mair] (the letter referring to this point is on the dorse of a lengthy letter to Abraham Howell from [Elinor Howell] his mother, from Llanbrynmair, 27 November 1838, containing local news including details of a fatal shooting accident near Diosk [farm, Llanbryn-mair], news of [the recipient's brother] Lewis in America, moral exhortations to the recipient and his brothers and sisters in the form of verse, and a long poem advocating the cause of temperance), an attack by Hugh Thomas, clerk to the Board of Guardians [of the Machynlleth Union], on Captain Thruston [? chairman of the board] at [his home in] Talgarth, the election of the writer as clerk to the aforementioned Board of Guardians as successor to Thomas (some of the letters dealing with this election are dated January 1838, but this is a mistake for 1839 as the election was held in January of that year), a query with regard to the registration of a Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Aberangell in 1836, a subscription by the writer towards six copies of the Rev[eren]David W[illiam] Williams ['Caledfryn']: Drych Barddonol [neu Draethawd ar Farddoniaeth . . ., Caernarfon, 1839], a meeting to discuss enclosing 'the Park and other Commons', possible proposals for enclosures in the manor of Cyfeiliog) the letters contain occasional references to Samuel Roberts and John Roberts, the writer's cousins). 12560D. Eighty letters, 1841-1845 (personal and family news, legal and financial transactions by the writer and recipient, the commutation of Machynlleth tithes, a query concerning the legal venue for the parliamentary election for the county of Montgomery (1841), doubts as to 'whether the Conservative voters at Newtown will be allowed by the mob to vote' [? in the election for the borough seat], a post for [their brother] George in Liverpool, the moving of the Dovey bridge toll gate and the building of a road by Sir John Edwards, owner of Ffrydd, in order to evade paying toll at the new gate, the birth of recipient's son, mention of the certificate of registration of Capel y Graig [Independent Chapel at Machynlleth], [their sister] Hannah's schooling, the mental illness of [ their brother] Samuel, a request for advice in connection with the commutation of Darowen tithes).

Printed material, manuscript and typescript notes, and correspondence, relating mainly to navigation and trade on the river Severn, including two sets of pages (fourteen and eleven respectively) extracted from Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire . . . (i.e., Vol. XLIII, pp. 33-46 and Vol. XLIV, pp. 46-56), the first fourteen pages containing the first part of an article by A. Stanley Davies on 'The River Trade of Montgomeryshire and Its Borders', and the remaining eleven pages a continuation of the same article, under the slightly different title 'The River Trade and Craft of Montgomeryshire and its Borders'; cuttings [from the Shrewsbury Chronicle, 23, 30 March 1934], giving the text of a paper on 'The Navigation of the Upper Severn', read by A. Stanley Davies at a meeting of the Caradoc [and Severn Valley] Field Club, 8 March [1934], [from the same newspaper, 20, 27 April 1934], giving the text of a paper on 'The Port of Bridgnorth', read by Dr. W. Watkins- Pitchford [at a meeting of the same club], 13 April [1934], and from the Timber Trades Journal & Saw Mill Advertiser, January 7, 1933, the [Daily Sketch, 20 April 1932], and the [Birmingham Evening Despatch, 4 February 1933], all relating to the river Severn; typescript lists, ?compiled in 1934, of 'Severn Trows still rigged and trading', 'Severn Trows still afloat as barges, houseboats, etc.', and 'Severn Trows still afloat'; eleven holograph or autograph letters and one holograph postcard to A[rthur] Stanley Davies at Welshpool, from Frank G[eorge] G[riffith] Carr, House of Lords Library, 1936 (a reply to a query regarding photographs of trows), Grahame E[dgar] Farr, Redland, Bristol, 1934-1936 (5 + 1 postcard) (information relating to Severn and other trows, barges, etc.), E[dwyn] Jervoise, The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London, 1934 (3) (bridges in which the writer was interested in connection with the preparation of his book [The Ancient Bridges of Wales and Western England (London, 1936)]), Griff. Phillips, Kinnerley, Oswestry, [19]36 (thanks for a book received), and Fred C. Poyser, Nautical Photo Agency, London, 1934 (forwarding photographs of Severn trows); and miscellaneous notes consisting mainly of extracts from, and references to, printed and manuscript sources relating to the Severn. The papers on 'The Navigation of the Upper Severn', and 'The Port of Bridgnorth', read by A. Stanley Davies and Dr. W. Watkins-Pitchford, were also published in the Transactions of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club, Vol. IX, pp. 198-211, and pp. 216-33.

Extracts, [c. 1935], in typescript and manuscript, from minutes of the Montgomeryshire Court of Quarter Sessions for 1707-1719, copied by A. Stanley Davies, Welshpool, from the original order book (now Llandrindod, Powys Record Office, M/Q/SO/1).
The extracts relate mostly to bridges in the county (ff. 2-3, 4, 5-8) and to nonconformist and Quaker meeting houses (ff. 9-11).