A commonplace book of Robert Edwards, Tai Draw, near Bala. It contains notes on astrology, witchcraft, legerdemain, geography, natural history, Biblical history, medicinal and household recipes, arithmetical and other tables, algebraical problems, poems, and a copy of a Welsh letter written in 1722-3, by a man born and bred in America to his kindred in the Bala district.

Culinary and medicinal recipes, collected apparently by Jane Tonyn of Berwick-on-Tweed, co. Northumberland, with some early nineteenth-century additions by Rice Hughes, son of Richard Hughes, rector of Dolgellau, co. Merioneth. Sources are frequently named, and dates sometimes given.