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Correspondents are almost exclusively family members; of interest are Lewis Owen describing a disinterment and Farinelli 's popularity [1734x1746]; and Robert Godolphin Owen, 1751-1752, on the execution of Mary Blandy and life at Oxford University, describing in detail a commemoration ceremony celebrated with a performance of Handel, 1752.

Correspondents include Bulkeley Hatchett on the Whittington enclosure bill, other estate matters and legal business.

Letters to Robert Godolphin Owen, 1770-1790, mainly concerning parliamentary elections in Montgomeryshire, Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire from Francis Owen, Henry William Paget, John Parry of Wernfawr and Anne Shakerley, 1774-1790; and condolences on the death of Francis Owen, 1774.

A volume containing accounts of payments, 1786-1792, to labourers working for Robert Godolphin Owen, Brogyntyn, naming individual workers, the number of days worked, their rates of pay and the nature of their employment.