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Ten holograph and autograph (1) letters to Thomas Pennant at Downing and Hanover Square [London], from J[ohn] Aikin [physician and author], Yarmouth, [17]87 (personal, the writer's perusal of the journals of four ? local ships, including the Norfolk, Tartar, and Yarmouth, which had been on a ? whaling expedition to Greenland, a reported case of a three year pregnancy, a query by recipient concerning Sir Cha[rle]s Scarborough (Scarburgh), physician to Charles II, the writer's pleasure in reading recipient's appendix to the Arctic Zoology, his expectation of Mr. [John] Howard [philanthropist], several of whose papers relating to the plague he had been translating or abridging, the presence of Dutch fishermen 'to the number of 60 sail' at Yarmouth), [Sir] C[harles] Blagden, secretary of the Royal Society, Strand [London], 1792 (acknowledging receipt, on behalf of the Society, of a copy of recipient's Indian Zoology, 2nd ed. [(London, 1790)]), Henry Headley, undated (? a minor criticism by the writer relating to one of recipient's works), [Sir] W[illiam] Jones [judge and Orientalist], Calcutta, 1793 (personal, thanks for a gift of recipient's work Indian Zoology, a promise to send books, appreciation of 'Mr. Egerton's acquaintance'), John Latham [ornithologist], Dartford, 1794 (the death of Mr. [John Charles] Brook [Somerset Herald], who, with Mr. [Benjamin] P[ingo, York Herald], and many others, had been suffocated [in a crush at the Haymarket Theatre, February 1794], the writer's expectation of the new edition of recipient's Arctic Zoology, his pleasure on reading the introduction, which was already in print, an intended visit by recipient to the writer's home, literary matters), Gamaliel Lloyd, Bury St. Edmunds, 1796 (detailed genealogical data relating to the descendants of Richard, ? one of the three sons of [the Reverend] William Mostyn, archdeacon of Bangor, the writer being one of the said descendants), [the Reverend] John Lloyd [then rector of Nannerch, later rector of Caerwys], Caerwys, 1777 ( the building of Overton bridge, the connection between the second element in the names Powys Vadoc and Overton Madoc and Prince Madoc ap Meredydd), E. R. Owen, Bangor, 1782 (a sketch, and an account of, the traces remaining of a castle near Bangor), G[eorge] Paton [Scottish bibliographer and antiquary], Custom ho[use], Edinburgh, 1794 (personal, a reply to a query relating to Mey [estate], parish of Canesbay), and Pastor Daniel Sprunglin, Stettlen [Switzerland], 1773 (enclosing a list of all the birds of Switzerland, native and migratory, known to the writer) (in third person, letter in French, list in Latin).

Miscellaneous loose press cuttings and manuscript notes (some in the hand of Thomas and David Pennant), extracted from NLW MSS 12706-12714. The cuttings contain notes on the 'History of the sugar cane' (1832), and 'Northern herring fishing' (1827); news of an explosion at 'Mr. Eyton's Flint colliery' (1828), a meeting at Holywell in connection with a proposed petition against Catholic emancipation (1829), a suit, Sillitoe v Thomas, at Denbigh Great Sessions (1828), and the sale of an extra- illustrated copy (the Chiswell copy, consisting of eleven volumes quarto and one folio) of Thomas Pennant: A Tour in Wales, by Mr. Thorp, bookseller, of St. Martin's Lane [London], to an American buyer; obituary notices of the Reverend Thomas Maurice, assistant keeper of MSS at the British Museum (1824), and of Sir Thomas Mostyn [6th bart., of Mostyn, co. Flint] (1831); and a copy of a poem entitled 'Verses to Mr. Pennant on the writer's being apprized of his intention to make a visit into Cornwall'. The manuscript notes include 'A List of rare Plants observ'd in N. Wales nearly in the Order they were discover'd'; an 'Index to Walpole's Catalogue of Portraits at Woburn'; a list of ? portraits in various residences in England and Scotland, with a note at the top, in Thomas Pennant's hand, 'such as I have are marked thus X'; an 'Account of the Money mortified by George Heriot, Jeweller, to K. James VI, for founding his Hospital in Edinburgh'; copies of memorial inscriptions to Sion Trevor, Trevalyn, Dame Catherin, wife of Sir Richard Trevor of Trevalyn, Nicholas Pennant, Robert Pennant, Simon Yorke of Erthig, and his wife Dorothy, Elizabeth Yorke of Erthig, Sir John Williams, bart., of Bodelwyddan, and his wife, Dame Margaret, and Thomas Mostyn Edwards of Kilken Hall; notes on the Yarmouth herring fishery (1786); a rough pedigree of the Pennant family (sixteenth-eighteenth century); a list of the children of Mr. Lloyd [? the Reverend John Lloyd] of Caerwis (1794), with dates of birth; comments on [E.] Olafsen: Reise durch Island, 2 vols., 4°(Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1774); a copy of the inscription on Whitford school house; data relating to the births and deaths of various members of the Pennant family, 1637-1699; consolidated census statistics (houses and population), relating to the six counties of North Wales, with more detailed figures relating to specific parishes in co. Flint (1800), etc.

Miscellanea, including lists of illustrations for Pennant's tours in Wales and Scotland.

A folio volume lettered on the spine 'Pennant's Tour to Harrowgate', and inscribed on the title-page 'Tours in Durham, Yorkshire, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, and Buckinghamshire, by Tho[mas] Pennant'. The contents consist of accounts of three tours, (a) From Alston Moor to Harrowgate (128 pp. followed by itinerary and index), (b) From Cowes to Lyme Regis (59 pp.), and (c) Tour in Buckinghamshire (15 pp. followed by an incomplete itinerary to (b) and (c)). The first sentence of the text, which reads 'I now resume the tour which I had left unfinished at Alston Moor, p. 234 of vol. XXII of the Outlines of the Globe', appears to connect the present volume with the twenty-two manuscript volumes of Pennant's work entitled Outlines of the Globe, now in the possession of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. The account of the first tour is substantially the same as that given in the version edited and published [by David Pennant], under the title A Tour from Alston-Moor to Harrowgate and Brimham Crags; by Thomas Pennant, Esq. (London, 1804). There are occasional variations in wording and phrasing, and some variation in content, such as the omission in the published work of the manuscript account (pp. 87-93) of the visit to Newby Hall, and the list given of the paintings and sculpture to be found in that residence. The break which occurs in the narrative in the printed version (p. 111), occurs also in the manuscript account (p. 112). The first part of the tour, undertaken in 1773, was brought to an end when the traveller reached Knaresborough, and the second part of the journey, consisting of a visit to Harrowgate, and thence to Ripley Hall and Brimham Crags, in the parish of Halifax, was not undertaken until 1777. The manuscript account lists, without describing, places in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Cheshire, visited, or passed through, by the traveller on the return to Downing in 1773. This is not done in the published version. The account of tour (a) is profusely illustrated with some seventy-seven illustrations. Of these, twenty-one are original drawings, and include wash or water-colour drawings of Bradley Hall, Raby Castle (2), Rippon Minster, Fountain's Abbey (2), [one of the standing stones called the Devil's Arrows, situated west of Borough Bridge], and St. Robert's chapel [Knaresborough], all signed by Moses Griffith; wash or water-colour drawings of Brance speth Castle (Durham), Raby Castle, [two more of the Devil's Arrows previously mentioned], and [Brimham Crags], all unsigned, but probably by Moses Griffith; a water- colour drawing of Winston Bridge, signed S. Wilkinson; a sketch of an effigy of Sir William Slingsby, signed by Moses Griffith; and sketches of an effigy of William de Whitworth in Whitworth churchyard, Danish camps on Thornborough Heath, an entrenchment on Gateshill, near Knaresborough (inserted), and an inscribed pig of lead found on Kayshaw Moor (inserted). The remaining illustrations are mostly engravings, chiefly in line, and include portraits of John Egerton, bishop of Durham, Thomas [Percy], earl of Northumberland, John Hacket, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, John Cosin, bishop of Durham, Sir Henry Vane, the elder, Sir Henry Vane, the younger, John Pym, R. Hutchinson, Ralph [Hopton], lord Hopton, [Isabel], duchess of Grafton, Louis XIV, George Villiers [4th] duke of Buckingham, Basil Fielding [sic] [2nd] earl of Denbigh, Charles V, Ludovicus Requesentius, Eugene Aram (convicted at York, 1759, for the murder of Daniel Clark of Knaresborough), and Ann Allan of Blackwell Grange; and topographical illustrations of Witton Castle, the tower of Witton Castle, Bradley Hall, Brance-speth Castle, Staindrop Church, Athelstan Abbey, Eggleston Abbey, Winch Bridge over the Tees, Iron Bridge near Chooka, Caldron Snout on the Tees, Tees Force, Wycliffe Hall, Ravensworth Castle, Hack Fall (2), the Moon Pond and the Temple of Piety with part of Studley Park, Fountain's Abbey, Knaresborough Castle (2), the entrance to St. Robert's Chapel, near Knaresborough, the inside of the said chapel, Harrogate, and Brimham Crags (2). Inset are a copy of a letter from Tho[ma]s Robinson of Pickering, to Roger Gale of Scruton, 1724 (archaeological remains in part of Yorkshire), and a holograph letter from W[illia]m Burgh, from York, to Thomas Pennant, at Downing, near Holywell, 1774 (notifying recipient that he was sending him a sketch of the south- east aspect of Fountain's Abbey, suggestions as to making an engraving from the sketch) (the sketch itself is inset with the letter). The accounts of tours (b) and (c) do not appear to have been published, and neither is illustrated. As in the case of the two preceding manuscripts, NLW MSS 12706-12707E, the scribe was again possibly Thomas Jones.

Transcripts of two letters from Lord Lyttleton to his brother Charles, dean of Exeter (and afterwards bishop of Carlisle), written from Brynkir, Caernarvonshire, July 6, and Shrewsbury, July 14, 1755, giving an account of a tour in North Wales, of notes by Dr. William Wynne, Tower near Mold, on ancient religious customs in North Wales, and of observations made during a tour to Snowdon by [Anthony] Champion; and notes by Thomas Pennant.

An account of rents received by Thomas Pennant and David Pennant, and papers, including letters from Edward Jones, agent to the Downing estate.

Copies of Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards translated into English ... (London,1764) and The Love of Our Country, A Poem ... (Carmarthen, 1772), both of them by Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir'), and four letters, 1768-1787, from him to Thomas Pennant; a letter from Robert Williams (Rhydycroesau) to David Pennant; and prospectuses of printed publications by Evan Evans, Robert Williams, Thomas Lloyd Jones ('Gwenffrwd'), etc.

Seven miscellaneous holograph letters from the Rev. J[ohn] B[rickdale] Blakeway, Shrewsbury, to [David Pennant], 1823 (an enquiry concerning the seal of Thomas Mynde, abbot of Shrewsbury, which had been in [Thomas] Pennant's possession, the writer's desire to publish an engraving of the seal in his work on the history of Shrewsbury [J. B. Blakeway and Hugh Owen: A History of Shrewsbury (London, 1825)]); Rob[er]t Faulder, London, to [ ], 1795 (his inability to exchange the Indian Zoology, as he had 'none coloured' by him); Alex[ande]r Garden [botanist], Strand [London], to [Thomas Pennant], 1783 (information relating to the Gulf Stream and American ornithological matters); J[oh]n Maughan, Mostyn, to Mrs. Sheldon, Rhewl, 1827 (a request to recipient to surrender a seat in 'Sir Thomas Mostyn's part of the church' [of ], which was required for the tenant of Pentreffynnon farm); C[atherine] Pennant [London], to her brother [Thomas Pennant] [? circa 1795] (personal and family news, news of acquaintances); J. Plymley, Longnor, to [Thomas Pennant], 1794 (personal, a sketch of the arms of 'Gwin Lloyd of Gwersilt, last male heir, ob. s. p., 19 March 1774', acknowledging the receipt of prints); and Ch[arles] Williams Wynn, Salop, to [ ], 1804 (the identity of the subject of a portrait at Chester [possibly Sir William Williams, speaker of the House of Commons]).

Thomas Pennant's copy of his Outlines of the Globe. The View of Hindoostan. Vol. 1. Western Hindoostan (London, 1798), containing original hand-coloured and pen-and-ink drawings, the original water-colour headpiece by Moses Griffith, Junior, and extra illustrations not contained in the published work, including two engraved plates by Thomas Vivares. Pasted-in cuttings from other works include two woodcuts from Thomas Coryate, Greeting from the Court of the Great Mogul, 1616. Plates, drawings and engravings found loose inside the volume have, where possible, been tipped in between the relevant pages. Other items loose inside (23 ff.), mostly relating to the text, include notes by Thomas Pennant; a list of costs relating to the production of volumes I and II of the work; and letters (4) 1796-8 and n.d. to Thomas Pennant, including a letter, 1798, from Luigi Schiavonetti, and an undated note from Sir Elijah Impey.

A proof copy of Thomas Pennant, Outlines of the Globe, Vol. III. The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan (London, 1800), edited by David Pennant and containing many additions, corrections and annotations by him, none apparently incorporated in the published work. These range from the purely textual to those providing additional information gleaned from other sources. Notes and other material relating to the text found loose inside have been tipped in between the relevant pages or at the end of the volume. Included is a letter, 1785, to Thomas Pennant from the botanist William Hudson.

A copy of Thomas Pennant, Outlines of the Globe, Vol. IV. The View of the Malayan Isles, New Holland, and the Spicy Islands (London, 1800). A list by the editor of the volume, David Pennant, found loose inside has been tipped in (p. 131a).

Topographical, historical, and genealogical material relating mainly to the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, Denbigh, Merioneth, Montgomery, and Shropshire, accumulated by Thomas Pennant and including letters or other contributions from Paul Panton, Hugh Davies (botanist), E. R. Owen (Bangor), John Thomas (Llandegai and Beaumaris), John Lloyd (Caerwys), Sir John Cullum (Hardwick), Richard Thomas (Llanegryn), Thomas Bownall (London), Thomas Jones (Caernarvon), George Ashby (Cambridge), John Price (Oxford), Thomas Ford Hill (London), Foote Gower (Chelmsford), Francis Leighton (Shrewsbury), J. Plymley (junior), J. Worthington (Llanrhaiadr ym Mochnant), Thomas Addenbrooke (Buildwas), David Pennant, and Richard Gough (Enfield).

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Pennant and David Pennant. They include extracts from Thomas Dineley's manuscript of the Duke of Beaufort's 'Progress' through Wales, 1684; copies of epitaphs; lists of prints; a 'cywydd' to Lewis Morris by W. Wynne, and other poems; papers dealing with Flintshire turnpike roads, paupers, etc.; notes on minerals; papers and receipts relating to David Pennant's tour in Spain; receipts of innkeepers; a notification to Thomas Pennant of his election as Fellow of the Royal Society and of the receipt by the Society of presentation copies of some of his works; an appeal sent to Thomas Pennant, October 29, 1792, by the 'Liverpool Cymrydorion Society' for a subscription to enable Welsh services to be conducted in one of the episcopal churches of Liverpool; etc.

An interleaved copy of Henry P. Wyndham : A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales ... 1774 (London, 1775), with comments and notes by another traveller.

A list of topographical prints of English counties, and a list of gentlemen's houses in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

Papers, [16 cent.]-[early 20 cent.], mainly of Thomas Pennant and his son, David, and comprising accounts of tours in Britain and Europe; geographical, topographical and historical notes and transcripts, as well as notes on natural history; accounts of David Pennant; correspondence of Thomas and David Pennant; annotated printed works of Thomas Pennant, including copies, with manuscript and other additions and related papers, of Outlines of the Globe, a work in four volumes by Thomas Pennant published between 1798 and 1800; and papers relating to the Downing estate and to Flintshire.

An account by David Pennant of tours to the Lake District, 1789, and from London to Chester, 1792, with a list of pictures at Burleigh, a seat of the Marquis of Exeter.

Historical, topographical, and genealogical notes relating to North Wales written by Richard Thomas, curate of Llanegryn.

Historical and topographical notes on parts of France and Spain, mainly transcribed from printed sources by David Pennant, and a receipt, 14 April 1788, relating to his journey from Seville to Madrid.

Notes by Thomas Pennant on Lincoln, with a letter, 29 March 1776, to him from T. Sympson.