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Bundle of letters, mainly to Sir Charles Philipps, but also to Lady Philipps and H. L. Lowe, including relating to Slebech School, bird protection literature from the Humanitarian League, the Pembrokeshire Fox Hunt, the Pembrokeshire County Club, the Pembroke Hunt Steeplechase and the Land-Owners' Association of South Wales and Monmouthshire. Also appeals for subscriptions to church restoration funds for Llanwrda, Martletwy and Llanfyrnach, Lamphrey vicarage, and augmenting the benefice at Llangynllo. Also a personal appeal from the missioner at Troedrhiwfuwch, co. Mon., an anonymous letter about the feeling against the Conservatives at Haverfordwest, and Sir Charles Philipp's optician's prescription.

Printed items, comprising catalogue of the furniture and other effects at Llwyn to be sold by auction, 1854 (one copy plus loose pages from another copy, both annotated); 'The land question in Wales : being a survey of the evidence collected in view of the appointment of a Royal Commission and suggestions for the collection of further evidence; together with a review of some of the main aspects of the question, issued by The North Wales Property Defence Association', 1892; draft Charity Commission scheme to constitute the Vaughan and Strangways Foundation out of the charities of Mary Vaughan (1720) and Mary Strangways (1726) for p's Llanfyllin and Llanfihangel, co. Mont., 1893; catalogue of W. H. Smith & Co., iron hurdle and fencing manufacturers, Whitchurch, 1894; Cambrian Railways Act 1896; 'Index of archæological papers published in 1904', 1905; Montgomeryshire Agricultural Show dinner card, 1927; 'Montgomeryshire County Music Festival, 1938, eighteenth year'; 'The sixth festival of music and poetry at Gregynog, 1-3rd July 1938' (Gregynog Press, July 1938); 'In memory of Henry Walford Davies, 6 September 1869-11 March 1941 ; an order of service to be used at Gregynog on Saturday 19 April 1941' (Gregynog Press, April 1941); 'A letter as might have been written today by the fourth earl of Chesterfield to his son', an advertising pamphlet (14 pp.) by Lambert & Butler cigar manufacturers, [post 1951]. Also local flyers, programmes and orders of service, 1923-1950.

Original bundle of papers relating to the trusteeship of the estate of James Dugdale of Wroxall Abbey, co. Warw., dec., including printed particulars and conditions of sale of the Maesmynan Hall estate (1,200a.) in p's Caerwys, Bodfari and Ysgeifiog, 1885 and 1888, accounts, 1887-1891, agendas and minutes of trustees' meetings, 1887-1891.

Newspaper cuttings extracted from a scrapbook, including 'The March retreat: full text of Sir Douglas Haig's dispatch', The Times supplement, 22 Oct. 1918; the marriage of Hugh Salusbury Kynaston Mainwaring and Diana Dugdale, 1935; the laying of the foundation stone of Llanfyllin bi-lateral school by Ruth Dugdale, chair of the Montgomeryshire education committee, 1952; obituaries and funeral of Major William Dugdale, 1952.

Bundles of draft deeds, letters and other papers related to the purchase and sale of properties, all in the village or parish of Llanfyllin, comprising Llanfyllin rural automatic telephone exchange site, 1931; parcels of land in Derlwyn Lane, 1936, 1949 and 1951; the sale of Llwyn (48a.) to Montgomeryshire Education Authority, 1946-1947; allotment gardens at Penbryn, 1949; property in Brook Street, 1951; 15 Penbryn, 1951; Dane Cottage, 1951-1952; Domgay (12a.), 1953; and Pendre Mill weir and millrace and the land between the millrace and the Afon Cain, 1955.

Personal papers of J.E.M. Dugdale and his wife, including order of service for confirmation at Eton College chapel, 1935, and two letters from Clement Davies MP, 1947 and 1959.

File of correspondence relating to the sale of Llanfyllin Mill and yard by Major J.E.M. Dugdale to Ifor & John Williams of Llanfyllin, and Pendref Weir to Llanfyllin Town Council.

Letters relating to John Dugdale's daughter's trust fund, probably Mary Fenwick, wife of Thomas F. Fenwick of Burrow Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale, co. Lancs.

Includes a letter from Daniel Adamson relating to the Manchester Ship Canal provisional committee.

Index of recipients at the front of the volume.

Press copies of J. Marshall Dugdale's personal and business letters, some signed by L. Ryle, his private secretary. Paper label endorsed 'II. May 1901 to October 1903'. Index at the front of the volume.