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A volume (watermark 1832), containing transcripts, [1832x1845], in an unknown hand, of correspondence, 1763-1774, of Evan Lloyd, the poet and satirist of Frondderw, Bala.
The transcripts include twelve letters from Lloyd to a number of correspondents, including his father John, 1763-1769 (ff. 9 recto-verso, 14 verso-18 verso, 21-24, 28 verso-29), his brother Robert, 1763-1768 (ff. 10 verso-12, 27 recto-verso), William Price, Rhiwlas, 1768 (ff. 25-26), and David Garrick, [1770x1774] (ff. 54 verso-56 verso), together with thirteen letters addressed to Lloyd from Garrick, [1764]-1774 (ff. 13 recto-verso, 36 verso-37, 46-47 verso), Sir John Fielding, 1769-[1771] (ff. 30, 35-36), William Vaughan, Corsygedol, 1770 (ff. 33 verso-34), J[ohn] Curre [of Itton Court], [?1766]-[?1773] (ff. 38-39 verso, 50-53 verso), and others. Also included are transcripts of poems by Lloyd (ff. 40-44), an epitaph by Garrick for William Hogarth (f. 37) and a 1784 letter from Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, to a Mr Evans (f. 45). The letters are not amongst those reproduced in Cecil Price, 'The Unpublished Letters of Evan Lloyd', National Library of Wales Journal, 8 (1953-54), 264-305, 426-448. Each letter bears a note stating that the transcript was 'copied from the original in the possession of Wm Roberts Esqr Surgeon Carnarvon', and each bears the signature of 'O. Jones' (probably Owen Jones, general agent, who was town steward of Caernarfon, 1835-1850).

A volume of transcripts, made in 1836, of letters, 1751-1773, addressed to his father, sister, and brother, by Evan Lloyd of Vron Dderw, Bala, curate of St. Mary's, Redriff; with copies of a letter each by David Garrick and G. L. Reed.

Includes letters from the Kynaston family, 1720-1748, and the Duke of Newcastle, 1745; description of a fire at Oswestry (Matthew Jenkin), 1743, and of the London theatre (Evan Lloyd ), 1762.

Twenty-nine holograph letters from Evan Lloyd, Jesus College, Oxford, etc., [cleric and author, aft. absentee vicar of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd] to his father John Lloyd and to his brother Robert Lloyd, Vron [Dderw], near Bala, co. Merioneth, 1751-1773; a holograph letter from Robt. Lloyd, Vron, to Evan Lloyd, Temple Bar, London, 1768; a holograph letter from E[lizabeth] Baker to Miss Lloyd, Vron, 1783; and the blank sheet of a letter to John Lloyd, Vron, franked by J. Dunning.

Correspondence and papers relating to the Montgomeryshire election (Watkin Williams v Mostyn Owen), 1774; miscellaneous transcripts, partly by Mrs Elizabeth Baker, including letters and poems of the Reverend Evan Lloyd of Fron, 1761-1768; letters of Anthony Thomas, Hendre; letters of Elizabeth Chudleigh, afterwards known as the Duchess of Kingston, 1767-1788, with notes and extracts relating to the same by Mrs Baker; and transcripts of the Lords' Protests for the session 1722-1723.

A file of miscellaneous papers including letters addressed to Evan Lloyd by John Carne, Cowbridge, 1771, and J. Curre; an incomplete letter by E. Lloyd; a letter by J. Davies to Miss Lloyd at Vrondderw, Bala, with an account of Prince Eugene and a verse 'on seeing Mr. Vaughan and his retinue in their way to Nanney'; a letter by Richard Fenton, 1817, to John Watton, Shrewsbury, with copies of letters by Evan Lloyd to Pugh 'the jeweller in Cockspur Street', 1774, to David Garrick, 1772, and to Roger Jones, Cefn Rug, 1774; verses entitled 'Address written for Mrs. ----- Benefit', beginning 'As some lone miser, visiting his store'; an incomplete typescript of George Cumberland: An Attempt to describe Hafod', 1796; abstracts of Shrewsbury charity accounts, 1756, and papers relating to a lawsuit touching the administration of certain charities by the Mayor and burgesses of Shrewsbury.