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A file of miscellaneous papers comprising a list of vessels from Amlwch belonging to the ore trade, 1793; a memorandum by Joseph Mills on the comparative costs of carrying coal by river and by canal from London to Maidenhead; memoranda relating to the nursing of Emilia, daughter of David Williams, 1774-1775; a list of articles belonging to David Williams removed from Brompton Row to Gerrard Street; a policy issued by the Sun Fire-Office on the wearing apparel of Frances Martyn at the dwelling house of David Williams (28, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury), 12 August 1788; canvas lists of doubtful freeholders in the hundreds of Uchaf and Isaf, Caernarvonshire, ?1796; a manuscript prospectus of 'The Practical Annuitant', by William Yates; a statement proposing the institution of a society of friends of the liberty of the press; a statement entitled ' Defence of the Country' signed by the Earl of Chichester; 'a concise sketch of a plan for completely and permanently recruiting the army'; notes on John Locke's philosophy; and a statement of account by Edward Archer, Irish Poplin Mercer, to Mrs Beadon, 1787.

Miscellaneous papers, notes on historical, philosophical, and medical subjects, in several hands, including that of David Williams; a copy of a declaration clearing David Williams of responsibility for writing an anonymous letter, 1769; a draft statement on the policy of admitting colonies to a full participation in the rights of the mother country; notes of proceedings on the motion of an address to the King from the inhabitants of Monmouthshire, 1795; a draft letter to Thomas Pelham, Earl of Chichester; incomplete drafts of statements on the East India Company and on the copper trade, including testimony by John Vivian and Thomas Williams; a statement by Richard Ellis, Llanbeblig, miller, concerning votes for Sir Robert Williams at a Caernarvonshire election; and a memorandum of agreement for letting rooms at Lower Sloane Street to Mary Watkins, 1822.

A volume of 'Unpublished Letters from Joanna Southcott, To her Friends And various other persons. Collected by Gwilym Owain. Vol. V', the letters belonging to the years 1802 and 1803. The manuscript has 'MSS TRACTS' '5' in gold on the spine. The contents, a list of which is to be found at the beginning of the volume, are transcripts of letters, mainly from Joanna Southcott to the following persons: J. E. Field; the Reverend Stanhope Bruce; Ben Hadad, [London]; W[illiam] Sharp; [Richard] Brothers; [Beilby Porteus], Bishop of London; [Elias] Carpenter; [Nathaniel Brassey] Halhed; and the Reverend Mr. Wood, Lisson Green. Some of the letters have been written from Old-swinford and short letters from the Reverend Thos. P. Foley are appended to four of them. There is also a letter from Thos. P. Foley to W[illiam] Sharp and another from Geo[rge] Turner, Leeds, to E. T. Field with copies of letters from Turner to Lord Pelham and to [Henry Addington], Chancellor of the Exchequer. A loose leaf within the volume, in the hand of William Owen [-Pughe], would appear to contain an index of subjects connected with the Joanna Southcott material.