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Seventy-one holograph letters addressed to Abraham Howell at Welshpool and Rhyl (1), by his brother Evan Howell from London, 1836-1845 and undated (personal and family matters including the writer's own career in business in London, the sending of [their sister] Ellen to school at Minsterley [co. Salop], the finding of employment for younger brothers, news in 1836 of their brother Lewis who was in America, the mental illness and the delusions suffered by [their brother] Edward in London in 1841, the birth of recipient's first child in 1841, and the physical and subsequent mental illness of [their brother] Samuel in 1843, the purchasing of books and other articles for recipient in London and arrangements for having books bound for him, the sending of newspapers from London to recipient and others including [their cousin] S[amuel] Roberts, with comments on some papers such as the Observer, Sunday Times, Bells [New Weekly Messenger], the Examiner and the Spectator (1836), the imprisonment of Jack Jones of Llanbrynmair in Newgate for theft, visits to London by the writer's cousin John Roberts in 1836 and 1841, and a sermon preached by him on the first occasion, lectures by a clergyman called Denham [? the Reverend Joshua Frederick Denham, rector of St. Mary's le Strand, London, 1839-1861] at St. Bride's, Fleet Street, in 1838, comments on the Tories in 1838 and on Sir John Conroy's friendliness with ministers and all around the court, enquiries at the Herald's Office in 1838 with regard to a grant of arms [? on behalf of recipient], the choice made by the Montgomery boroughs in the [parliamentary election of June 1841], provisions made in the will of [Charles] Maddison, father of the Rev[eren]d John George Maddison [rector of West Monkton, co. Somerset, 1825-1847], and mention of the Coalport Porcelain works in connection therewith, news of acquaintances) (the writer occasionally writes a few sentences of a letter in shorthand).

Nine letters, 1817-1834, written to members of the Howell family mainly by other members of the same family, the details being as follows: three letters, 1825-1826, from Evan Howels [sic], Minsterley [co. Salop], one to his brother, William Howels, at Mr. Hughes, Stationer &c., Church Street, Wrexham (his situation, mention of his uncle Abraham and family, W. Williams, and Evan Thomas), and two to his parents (Mr. William Howells, Bont Dolgadfan, Llanbrynmair) (his situation, mention of Mr. [?Thomas] James, the preacher, acknowledging a letter informing him of the death [of his brother, William]); four letters, 1825-1826, one with part torn away, from William Howell, Gwrecsham [sic], two to his parents (Mr. William Howells, Pont Dolgadfan, Llanbrynmair) and two to his brother, Abraham Howell, at Mr. John Jones, Grocer (Shopkeeper), Machynlleth (his plans, illness and deaths in and around Wrexham, a visit to a menagerie, reference to going to Crab tree green on Sunday afternoons with two others and to commencing to hold singing meetings there); (Rees and) Grace Morgan (endorsed 'Ebensburg . . . 1817'), to William Howel, Pont Dolgadfan, Llanbrynmair, and other relations including Richard and Mary Williams (family affairs); and Wm. Powell, 1834, to Mr. A[braham] Howell (endorsed by A[braham] H[owell] '. . . A Letter found by me in Powell's Drawer after he ran away from his employment [destination - America] and my remarks thereon').