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Biographical notes on Sir Robert Mansel and the Button family; notes on the bardic order, on Margam and on customs, notions, pastimes and diversions prevalent in Glamorgan; lists of manors, notes on abbeys and priories, and a list of bishops of Llandaff. The work is mainly that of William Davies, Cringell, but with additions by Richard Bevan and Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg').

Correspondence, deeds etc., relating to mines, clay works, furnaces, and estates etc., in Glamorgan, mostly addressed to Thos. Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. (a) 1784, Nov. 30. Letter: G. Smith, Sec. [Copper works?] to Mr Thomas Tyler. Exportation of clay. (b) 1793, Aug. 16. Copy of a draft of a lease of Melyn y Court Furnace etc, from the Right Hon. Lord Vernon to Messrs Bush, Walker and Wade (c) 1795, Nov. 10. Letter. 'Jno. Gunston, Sec. 'Govn. & Comp. of Copper miners in England' to [T. Mansel Talbot]. Mynith Bychan mine. (d) 1795, Nov. 15. Letter. Thomas Lott, Forest to Prices of clay and fire bricks. (e) 1796, Jan. 25. Copy of lease of Penrwtting Furnace, etc., for 21 years, from the Right Hon. Lord Vernon to Alexander Raby, Merchant. (f) 1796, Jan. 25. Copy of lease of coal mines and iron mine in Michaelstone Super Avan and Baglan, from the Right Hon. Lord Vernon to Alexander Raby, Merchant. (g) 1797, Nov. 19. Letter. T.M. Ta[lbot], P[enrice] Castle to [Thomas Powell]. Property at Llanrhidian. (h) 1797, Nov. 22. Letter. Thomas Powell, Swansea to [Thos. Mansel Talbot ]. Ownership of land at Llanrhidian, etc. (i) 1798, Aug. 3. Letter. J.N. Miers, Cadoxton, to [T. Mansel Talbot]. Leases of ironworks. (j) 'An account of money received from the English copper co. for coal, clay, and timber, furnished them by contract from Sept. 28, 1798-Dec. 28, 1799.' (k) 1798, Dec. 26. Letter. James Cockshutt, Wortley Ironworks. Near Barnsley to T. Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Mines and ironworks. (l) 1799, Feb. 23. Letter. John Wade, No. 50 Cannon Street, London to T. Mansel Talbot. Lease of Aberavon Forge, etc. (m) 1799, July 26. Bill, for £722. 14s. issued from the tax office to Thos. Mansel Talbot, esq., Penrice. Signed Wm. Tucker, collector. (n) 'An account of timber sold from Margam estate exclusive of the forge and copper company's contracts from Lady day 1799'. (o) 1799, Oct. 23. Letter. Richard Crawshay to Thos. Mansel Talbot. Suitability of land for furnace building etc. (p) 1800, Feb. 4. Letter. Griff. Llewellyn, Baglan to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Rents etc. (q) 1800, March 6. Letter. Robert Thomas, Ponteynon to Mr Talbot. Conditions of certain property. (r) 1800, March 17. Letter. Griff. Llewellyn, Baglan to [T. Mansel Talbot]. Lease and rent of a tenement in Hafodyporth, etc. (s) 1800, March 21. Income tax bill for £261. 7s signed by Wm. Tucker, collector, made out to Thos. Mansel Talbot, esq., Penrice Castle. (t) 1800, March 30. Letter. Griff. Llewelyn, Cardiff to Thos. Mansel Talbot, Penrice castle. Mine surveying, etc. (u) 1804, April 4. Letter. M. Horton, Bath to [Hicks Beach?]. Amount of rent due, etc. (v) 'A survey of Kenffigg farm' (25 acres 3r 13p). (w) 'Proposals for an Iron work at Mynydd bychan'. (x) 1805, May 30. Letter. M. Hicks Beach, Williamstrip Park to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle, re money matters. (y) 1805, July 2. Letter. M. Hicks Beach, Williamstrip Park to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Personal; money matters. (z) 1805, Aug. 2. Letter. M. Hicks Beach, Williamstrip Park to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Money matters. Copies of letters from T. M[ ansel] T[albot] to [M. Hicks Beach] promising the loan of money. (z1) 1805, Sept. 20. Letter. M. Hicks Beach, Williamstrip Park to Thomas Mansel Talbot, Penrice Castle. Money matters; a loan from Talbot. (z2) Tables [printed] showing the number of tons of iron sent down the Glamorgan & Monmouthshire Canals for the years 1829 to 1838, inclusive. (z3) Extract from 'The Cambrian' for (Dec. 1844?), giving 'a description of the mineral district of South Wales', and 'the advantages of the proposed railway' by J.M. Buckland. [Reprinted from the 'Mining Journal']. (z4) An account of coal shipped to sea at Briton Ferry, from June 1, 1712, to July 1, 1712, sent by Tho[mas] Williams to the Right Honourable Lord Mansel. (z5) 'Account sheet of Thos. Price, Esq. & Co. with Lle. Treherne, for lead ore raised and sold from Clunn Park from Xmas 1754 to May 23, 1760'.

One hundred and forty-six holograph letters, 1846-1847 and undated, written to A. C. Ramsay. The writers include D. T. Ansted (payment for the recipient's professional services to the corporation of Liverpool), Ann Aveline, Oatlands (William Aveline's eye trouble), J. T. Brown?, Berwick ( the writer's professional activities), R. Chambers, Edinburgh (raised beaches in Wales), C. C. Cookman [from Dolaucothi] (violets from Mrs. Johnes), J. Crombie, Edinburgh (a lecture to the Royal Institution, personal), John Crombie, Edinburgh (Dr. Arnott's lecture, the recipient's professorship, news of friends), Geo. Fossett, Aberystwyth (geological studies, an inspection of Cwm Ystwyth lead mine, personal), Eleanor Howden [ from Edinburgh and London] (personal, the writer's visit to France), Oliver Howden, Edin[burgh] (the writer's wedding), Elizabeth Johnes, Dolau Cothi (a search for gold on Gogofau, Glanyrannell sale, news of friends) ( with botanical specimens enclosed), 'Betha' Johnes (thanks for a book, the solution of a riddle, personal), D[avid] Landsborough, Saltcoats (the publication of the writer's 'Excursions to Arran'), Robert Mallet, Dublin ( observations on volcanic vents, earthquakes, etc.), B.? Marshall (an invitation to dinner), J. P. Nichol, Observatory [at Dowanhill], etc. ( astronomical maps and publications), Lyon Playfair (the publication of an article, personal), M. E. Playfair (an Admiralty report by Lyon Playfair, Jenny Lind's recitals in London, the recipient's professorship, Lyon Playfair's health), C. Puggaard, Bewdley, etc. (a geological tour of Wales, personal), E. Ramsay, his mother, Glasgow, etc. (family news, the writer's visit to Arran, the recipient's professorship, the business affairs of J. C. Ramsay), Eliza Ramsay, his sister, [Glasgow and] Edinburgh (personal, news of friends, the business affairs of J. C. Ramsay), J. C. Ramsay, Trinidad (the future of the writer's business, personal), W. Ramsay, Glasgow, etc. (the business affairs of J. C. Ramsay, the recipient's professorship, observations on a visit to the Highlands, the affairs of the North and South Wales Bank, the solution of a geological problem, Frank McGill's concert, a sewerage scheme for Edinburgh, news of friends), James Sharpe [from Glasgow] (business affairs, deaths from typhus fever in Glasgow, the recipient's professorship, news of friends), J. Trimmer, Dublin (the writer's work as inspector of relief committee in Cavan and Fermanagh), W. Walton, Bath (an invitation), Anna Maria Williams, Llandovery (family and local news, the recipient's professorship, a curacy for Steuart Williams, an offer of ℗Đ73,000 for a grove of oaks at Margam), 'Fanny' [Williams] (personal, the recipient's professorship, enclosing verses), W. R. Steuart Williams, Llandovery, etc. (the writer's ordination, the opening of Llandovery Grammar School, personal), John Wilson, Roy[al] Agric[ultural] Coll[ege], Cirencester (the progress of the College, the recipient's accident), and R. O. Wilson, London (an enquiry concerning Mr. Davys Harries, Neuaddfawr, Carmarthen). Some of the letters are addressed to the Geological Survey at Ludlow, at Bishops Castle, at Pen-y-bont (Radnorshire), and at Llanberis, and to the Museum of Economic Geology, Charing Cross, London.

Estate and family records of Mansel, later Talbot, of Penrice, and its estates in Gower, Glamorgan, from the 16th cent.; including records of Margam Abbey, 12-19th cent., including charters from its foundation in c. 1147, together with royal charters, charter rolls and papal bulls, which form one of the most complete series of archives of any medieval abbey in Great Britain; substantial early archives for Penrice, and other estates, mostly in Glamorgan; manorial records for the manor of Margam Abbey and others; early records of the coal industry in Glamorgan; a large group of Mansel correspondence, 1568-1848, along with some papers relating to Williams of Plas Dyffryn Clydach, largely literary, 17th cent.-18 cent.

A notebook containing pedigrees, history notes, etc. and including the pedigree of the Talbot family connected with Margam and Penrice, together with extracts entitled Births and Baptisms recorded in the Qto Bible at Penrice.

Manuscript journal of a tour of south and west Wales, as well as parts of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, 4 June-2 October 1805 (ff. 3-32 verso passim), also including several contemporary illustrations and later pasted-in engravings.
The writer is unknown but appears to be female and was travelling in the company of her 'Papa' and several other presumed relatives. Beginning in Gloucester (ff. 3-4), the journal then recounts a journey down the River Wye from Ross-on-Wye to Chepstow (ff. 7-8, 10-11 verso) and an extended stay at Swansea, 16 June-30 July (ff. 13-14, 16-17, 19, 21-22), before proceeding to Pembrokeshire (ff. 22 verso-23, 26-28 verso), Aberystwyth (ff. 29-31 verso) and Dolgellau (ff. 32 recto-verso), where the narrative ends abruptly, mid-sentence. The volume includes descriptions of Gloucester Cathedral (ff. 3-4), Margam Park (ff. 12-13), the Brownslade estate, [Castlemartin] (ff. 26-27 verso), St Govan's Head (ff. 26 verso-27 verso), the lower River Teifi (ff. 28-29), Devil's Bridge (ff. 29 verso-31) and the house at Hafod, Cardiganshire (f. 31 recto-verso). The illustrations are of pen and wash in a naïve style and comprise eight full page drawings (ff. 2, 6, 9, 15, 18, 20, 24, 25) and three text illustrations (ff. 8, 14, 17) all depicting views along the route. Conversely the fifteen engravings, [1831]-[1845], pasted into the volume depict various views in England, Wales and India and are, with a single exception, unrelated to the text (inside front cover, ff. 1 verso, 2 verso, 33-44 (rectos only)).