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A volume containing a copy, [c. 1803] (watermark 1801), of a sketch of a tour of north Wales, as well as parts of England, undertaken on 7-30 July 1791, containing descriptions of places visited with particular emphasis on the state of the inns and the roads.
The sketch was written by an individual identified only as 'A.B.', travelling on horseback with his companion 'W.D.' (p. 1). Beginning in London, the journey to Wales took in Worcester, Bridgnorth, Coalbrookdale and Shrewsbury (pp. 2-24). In Wales their itinerary included Welshpool, Llangollen, Llanrwst, Conwy, Caernarfon, Beddgelert, Harlech, Barmouth, Dolgellau, Tywyn, Aberystwyth, Machynlleth, Newtown and Montgomery (pp. 24-76). They returned to London via Ludlow, Hereford and Gloucester (pp. 76-90). The volume includes accounts of the industrial works at Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge (pp. 13-18), the House of Industry [workhouse] at Shrewsbury (pp. 20-24), Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen (pp. 30-31), Cernioge Mawr, Denbighshire (pp. 32-34), Aber[gwyngregyn], Caernarfonshire (pp. 39-45), the dilapidated state of Harlech and its castle (pp. 56-60), and Tal-y-llyn, Merioneth (pp. 67-69).

The first of two volumes of a journal of a tour in North Wales made in August and September 1837 by an unidentified traveller from Harrogate, Yorkshire, the second volume not being present but the itinerary summarised on pp. 64-65.

Journal of a tour in North Wales and the Borders by Samuel Linder of London and his wife, Susannah, in August and September 1859, illustrated with engravings and lithographs, 1842-[1850s], and including pressed flowers and ferns collected on the tour.

Two volumes of diaries and journals of tours in North and South Wales kept by Walter Davies at various times between 1797 and 1817. They contain special references to agriculture and other industries, and most of them appear to have been used by him in the compilation of General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of ... Wales (London, 1810-1815).

A manuscript account of an excursion to North Wales and Cheshire, 3-[6] September 1829, by Elizabeth Bower, [of Broxholme House, Doncaster], travelling with her husband John Seddon Bower (f. 1-19).
The couple left Crosby on 3 September and boarded the Prince Llewelyn steam packet at Liverpool (f. 1 verso), sailing along the North Wales coast (ff. 2-5) to Beaumaris (ff. 5-6 verso). They crossed the Menai Bridge (ff. 7-9) and proceeded to Bangor (ff. 9-10 verso), Conway (ff. 12-13 verso) and Chester (ff. 14 verso-18), returning to Liverpool and then Crosby on the [6] September (f. 19). Included are descriptions of Penrhyn Castle, Bangor (f. 11 recto-verso), and Eaton Hall, Chester (ff. 16-18).

A volume containing an account of a tour in North Wales in the form of transcripts, [18 cent., last ¼], of four letters, dated 20-28 September 1776, sent from Caernarfon (pp. 1-25), Tan-y-Bwlch, Merioneth (pp. 27-49), Denbigh (pp. 50-74) and 'Rhyd Dyn' [Rhyddyn], Flintshire (pp. 75-95), commenting mainly on Welsh history and castles.
The transcripts have been heavily corrected and emended in a different hand. The author, who appears to have resided at Rhyddyn, is not named but may be the Rev. William Warrington. His correspondents are identified as a Mr Eyton (p. 1) and a Dr Jeffries (p. 49). Also included are a preface (ff. v-vii) and several versions of a passage, in the same hand as the emendations, relating an encounter with some Irishmen (f. i verso).

The first part of a journal, 1795-1796, written by Henry Eyre, of a tour "through North Wales and part of Ireland in Dec. 1795 ... with my friend G. E.", the tour ending 27th February 1796. With NLW MS 63B.

Seventy holograph letters, 1844 and undated, largely relating to geological studies in Wales and elsewhere, written to A. C. Ramsay by Sir H[enry] Thomas] de la Beche from London, Aberystwyth, Tregaron, etc., W. Talbot Aveline, Ludlow, H. W. B[ristow], Presteigne, etc., Edward Forbes, Geol[ogical] Society], J. P. Nichol [from Dowanhill Observatory], John Phillips, T[rinity] C[ollege], Dublin, etc., Lyon Playfair, from Manchester, etc., Warington W. Smyth, Bedford, Chelsea, Llandegley, Manchester, etc. (ref. to sulphurous waters at Llandegley), Trenham Reeks, Museum [of Economic Geology], James Sharpe and John Sharpe, Glasgow, etc., W. R. Steuart Williams, Llandovery, etc., and John Wilson, Haddington and Aberystwyth; together with thirteen holograph letters, 1844, and undated, largely of a personal nature, written to A. C. Ramsay by William H. Baily from [London], John H. Barry, Liverpool, his cousin John Crombie, Edinburgh, his cousin J. Crombie, from [Glasgow], T. Evans, Eleanor Howden , [Edinburgh] and Bangor (an account of a tour of North Wales), G. McGlure, Helensburgh, Thomas Nimmo, Berbice [British Guiana], T. Todrick, Haddington, and W. Walton, Bath, a copy of a letter, 1844, from George Jones of the British and Foreign Institute to 'Mr. Punch', and a letter, 1839, from And[rew] C. Ramsay, Glasgow, to 'Robin' [Howie] (personal) ( found in the portable desk of Dr. Howie and re-addressed to the writer from Glasgow, 1844). Some of the letters are addressed to the Geological Museum, Charing Cross, London, and to the Ordnance Geological Survey at Dolau Cothi, Builth, and Rheadir Gwy.