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Conveyance to Arthur, 2nd lord Ormathwaite by Mary Ann Thomas of p. Llanvarred, and others, of a dwelling house, shop, workshop and garden, p. Gladestry, for £353.17.8.

Conveyance to John Walsh of a fee farm rent of the man. of Southruralth [Swydd Rhiwlallt] for £16.18.0, on 2 Dec 1794. Original bundle labelled 'Deed of Conveyance No. 16 from the Crown Commissioners.

Conveyance to Sir John Walsh by John Jenkins of p.[...] of a field called Abermochnant, p. Llanddewi Ystradenni for £30. Unfit for production. Original bundle labelled 'Conveyance No. 10 ... Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 5'.

Conveyance to Sir John Walsh by John Powell of Harpton, p. Old Radnor, farmer, of a moiety in remainder expectant on the death of Mrs Elizabeth Pritchard of a farm called The Broken Bank, p. Gladestry, for £400 [cf. E 1/8]. Original bundle labelled 'Conveyance No. 6 Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 7'.

Conveyance to Sir John Walsh by Sir George Back of Gloucester Place, Portman Square, Middlesex, kt, and admiral in the Royal Navy, and others, of the reversion in two parcels of land called Wernbach and The Brook Rock (6 a.), part of a m. called The Burlingham, otherwise Hill House, p. Old Radnor, for £183.15.0, 17 Mar. 1862, together with statutory declarations on to title, 1854 (C 114/2-4). Original bundle labelled 'Conveyance No. 8 Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 7'.

Conveyance to Sir John Walsh by the co-heirs of the late John Miles of Weythill, labr, of a m. in t. Weythill, p. Old Radnor, for £60.

Conveyance to Sir John Walsh of a m. and land called Keen-lyest-dray, later called Kirking, p. Llanddewi Ystradenni, 1860 (C 105/3) together with probate of will of David Price of p. Llanbister, farmer, 1855 (C 105/1) and inland revenue succession duty papers of the same, 1855 (C 105/2). Purchased by Sir John Walsh from William Price of Dranllwynber, p. Llanbister, yeoman, for £145 on 18 May 1860. Original bundle labelled 'Title Deeds & Conveyance No. 23. Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. [6] ...'.

Conveyance to Sir John Walsh of a m. called The Lower House, p. Llanddewi Ystradenni for £90. Endorsed: '6.35' [i.e. Title Deeds & Conveyance No. 35 Tin Deed Box Radnorshire No. 6].

Conveyance to the trustees of Arthur, 2nd lord Ormathwaite, by Sir Edward Stafford Howard, K.C.B., the Commissioner of Woods in charge of the Land Revenues of the Crown in Wales, of mines and minerals and sporting rights in and upon 229 a. of land in p's Llanddewi Ystradenni and Llanbister in the man. of South Ugre for £113.10.0.

Original bundle of conveyances (drafts) of lands in p's Winkfield and Warfield, Berkshire, including Scotland Farm (23a.). Most of the deeds include plans.

Copies of his daily prayers (pp. 16-22); the unveiling of the memorial to Sir George Cornewall Lewis in New Radnor, 30 Nov. 1864 (pp. 40-1) and press cuttings of speeches at the ceremony (pp. 53-7); debates in the House, 7 Feb., 1, 3, 5, 8, 26 May, 3 July 1865 (pp. 86, 185-8, 195, 212); his speech on the U.S.A. and Canada and of the circumstances which led him to deliver it, 10 Feb. 1865 (pp. 87-92); a split in the Cabinet about mediating between the Unionists and Confederates, 26 Feb. 1865 (pp. 118-19); on M.P.s' view of Disraeli as an opposition leader, 4 Mar. 1865 (p. 121); his son's election campaign in Leominster, Herefordshire, 18 Mar. - 12 July 1865 (pp. 128-9, 160-1, 214, 216); a visit to Broadmoor asylum, 11 Apr. 1865 (p. 167) and his own election campaign in co. Rad., 12-19 July (pp. 215-22).

Copies of The Complete Pocketbook or Gentleman's and Tradesman's Daily Journal, 1816, and Kearsley's Gentleman's & Tradesman's Pocket Ledger, 1827, both containing brief financial memoranda by Sir John Walsh.

Copies of the following books published by Sir John Walsh: Chapters on Contemporary History (London, 1836) (Fg 4/1); Astronomy & Geology Compared (London, 1871, 1872) (Fg 4/2-4); and Lessons of the French Revolution (London, 2nd ed. 1873 (Fg 4/5) together with two copies of Letters To A Youth on the Providence of God Addressed To Him [Sir John Walsh] By His Mother (Privately published by Sir John Walsh in 1865) Fg 4/4-6.

Copy Deeds and Abstracts Of Title relating to the man's of Cefnllys and Busmore, m's called Sunny Bank, the Derrow, Trewern mill, p. Llanfihangel Nantmelan, Noyadd Farm, the park and two small doles, Wain Ddee and Keven Coed, p. Cefnllys, parcels of land (100 a.), p. Llangynllo, and Wyvill Farm and parcels of land (40 a.), p. Old Radnor, all of which were purchased by John Walsh from Sir Henry Hartstonge for £13,450 in 1769, including copy post-nuptial settlement of John [Hartstonge], bishop of Ossory, Ireland, and Isabella Danvers of p. St James Westminster, 1710 (C 13/1) and copy probate of will of Sir Standish Hartstonge of Bruffe, Co. Limerick, Ireland, 1746 (C 13/2). Original bundle labelled 'Abstracts of Title of Estates purchased by John Walsh of Sir Harry Hartstonge, bart. Tin Deed Box Abstracts of Title'.

Copy Letter to J. F. from Dr Johnson [published in R.W. Chapman, ed., The Letters of Samuel Johnson, vol. III (Oxford, 1952), pp. 14-16], together with annotations by his daughter Margaret, 1783 (Fb 2/1) and a letter from ? Hallam enquiring as to the whereabouts of the Benns [i.e. Margaret and her husband John Benn].

Copy Mortgages And Assignments contained in D 1/1-20, notices to prior mortgagees and a schedule of the Ormathwaite estate in co. Rad. giving acreage of properties, annual rents, name of tenants and whether held in fee simple or for life [1890s] (D 2/37).

Copy Will And Codicils of Sir Henry Strachy of Rooksnest, Surrey, bart, 1805-9, in which he appointed Sir John Benn Walsh as one of his trustees (K 2/1); account book of Sir Henry Strachey with Messrs Gosling & Sharp, 1809 (K 2/2); account book of John Benn Walsh as executor of Henry Strachy, 1810-13 (K 2/3); and draft case for, and opinion of, counsel [1811] concerning the claim of Lt Col. Henry Mason, natural son of Henry Strachy, to £2,000 under the codicil of Henry Strachy together with related correspondence, 1811-13 (K 2/4-15).

Correspondence between John Benn Walsh and John Walsh in Edinburgh, Feb.-Apr. (ff. 1-10) relating to John Walsh's Irish estate and the war between France and Spain and its possible effects on the French funds in which they and George Digby had invested heavily; letter from William Holland at Boulogne to John Benn Walsh (ff. 11-12); letters from John Benn Walsh to Margaret Walsh (ff. 13-18, 21-28) including one letter dated 1824 and wrongly filed by John Walsh; letter from George Digby from Edinburgh to John Benn Walsh (ff. 19-20) and correspondence between Elizabeth Digby and John Walsh in Edinburgh (ff. 29-41).

Correspondence between John Benn Walsh and Margaret Walsh (ff. 1-17); letters from Richard Parry to John Walsh and M. D. Parry to Margaret Walsh concerning the serious illness of John Benn Walsh (ff. 18-21); correspondence between John Benn Walsh, John Walsh and Margaret Walsh (ff. 22-97) including letters concerning attempts to purchase a seat in the House of Commons for John Walsh (ff. 4v-5, 15, 26r-v 40v passim, 61-2, 65-72, 83, 88) and references to the Cato Street Conspiracy (ff. 3r-v, 10-11, 22); the divorce of George IV and the Queen Caroline affair (ff. 3v, 86v-7), elections in Berkshire and Reading (f. 4v), Lord Sidmouth (ff. 5, 30v, 36v, 39) the Duc de Richelieu (f. 6v); proposed press censorship in France (f. 11) and the failure of Irish banks (ff. 88, 90).

Correspondence between John Walsh and his mother (ff. 1-10, 13-16, 39-48) and one letter to his father (ff. 11-12), including references to Talleyrand, 1814 (ff. 5v, 8v); events in France, 1814-15 (ff. 7-8, 10r-v, 17-19), Napoleon, 1814 (ff. 7, 10-11), Louis XVIII, 1814 (f. 7), and the actor [Edmund] Kean, 1814 (f. 9); correspondence between John Benn Walsh and his wife, 10 Feb. 1814 - 11 Sept. 1815 (ff. 17-32, 49-60) including references to Lord Aberdeen, 1814 (f. 17), victory celebrations, 1814 (ff. 21-4), Murat, Louis XVIII, Napoleon, Wellington and peace negotiations, 1815 (all in ff. 49v-52); a letter from R. Strachey from India, 1814 (ff. 33-6); a letter from the Rev. David Davies, 1814 (f. 37r-v) about his ill-health, and a letter to John Walsh from his friend George Dallas, 1815 (ff. 61-2).