Travel journal belonging to Bryan Cooke of Owston, Yorkshire, recording various tours undertaken between 1790 and 1797 through Wales and the north of England and other journeys between his seats at Owston, [near Doncaster], and [Hafod-y-Wern], Wrexham.
The volume describes tours of North Wales, beginning and ending at Wrexham, 13-20 September 1790 (ff. 1 verso-3), the Lake District, 14 June-3 July 1793 (ff. 4 verso-9 verso), and South Wales (in the company of his second cousin George Cooke[-Yarborough] and his sons), 10-29 July 1793 (ff. 10 verso-19 verso), together with brief accounts of journeys from Owston to Wrexham, via Leeds and Ripon, 8-15 July 1790 (ff. i verso, 1), Wrexham to Owston, 23-25 September 1790 (ff. 3 verso-4), Owston to Wrexham, May 1791 (ff. 3 verso-4), Owston to Wrexham, via Kilnwick Percy, Ripon and Storrs, May 1797 (ff. 21, 22), Wrexham to Askrig[g], 9-[?10] August 1797 (ff. 22 verso-23 verso), and Askrig to Wrexham, 20-[?22] August 1797 (ff. 24 verso-25). Each account includes a table listing places visited, distances, inns visited, time on the road and remarks on the state of the roads, etc. (ff. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 21, 23, 25); the remaining pages contain general remarks and notes. Items found inside the pocket have been placed in an archival envelope (ff. 35-37). These include a table, [?1793], detailing a tour of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, similar but not identical to that on ff. 10 verso-14 verso, possibly in the hand of George Cooke[-Yarborough] (f. 35 recto-verso).

Cary's New Itinerary ... throughout England and Wales (London, 1806), together with additional manuscript notes, including particulars of the expenses and mileages of journeys through parts of England and Wales (e.g. to Monmouthshire) between 1807 and 1839, rough pencil sketches of Lichfield, Gloucestershire, etc., and an 'Index Begun by E[gerton Grenville Bagot] P[hillimore] Nov. 17, 1907'.

Twenty-eight notebooks and bundles, 1796-1815, consisting of travel journals and agricultural notes relating mainly to Iolo Morganwg's work for the Board of Agriculture in Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire in 1796 and his contribution to Gwallter Mechain's General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales (London, 1815).
Also included are fragments of tours in parts of England (E5/13); a journal of his tour to North Wales in 1799, collecting materials for the Myvyrian Archaiology (E5/18, formerly 'IAW 144'); bundles of loose agricultural notes (E5/26-27); and geological notes relating to Glamorgan (E5/28).

Four autograph letters, July-October 1804, from Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, to his mother, Mary, written mainly on a tour of Wales, in the company of his friend Laurence Sulivan, describing their journey and places visited.
The letters were sent from Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, 18 July (f. 11), Bala, Merionethshire, 28 [recte 27] July (f. 12), and Shrewsbury, 1 August (f.13); with a final letter from St John's College, Cambridge, 26 October 1804 (f. 14). There are references to Sir Francis Burdett, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and William Wilberforce (f. 12 verso), and an eyewitness account of the Ladies of Llangollen (f. 13 verso); the partly constructed Pontcysyllte aqueduct is also described (f. 13 verso).

Notes compiled by Jan Morris in the course of research for 'The matter of Wales: epic views of a small country', together with some notes on her writings relating to India and America, especially Miami (in volume 17).

Typescript draft of part of 'The matter of Wales: epic views of a small country', from Chapter 9 onwards, with manuscript revisions.

Two notebooks marked 'Welsh Tour 1818' containing an account of part of a tour made by an unidentified writer, apparently an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, with two companions, 'Eliza' and 'Harriet'. The present narrative covers the period between 25 July 1818, when they left Tenby, and 28 August, when they reached home, 'having traversed in ye same vehicle 680 miles without a single accident or even alarm.' The itinerary includes Stackpool [sic], Pembroke, Pater [church], Haverfordwest, Picton Castle, Milford, Egglwys Wrw [sic], Newcastle, Cenarth Bridge, Cilgerran, Aberayron, Aberystwith, Borth, Llanbadern [sic], Devil's Bridge or Pont y Monach [sic], Hafod, Machynlleth, Tal y Llyn, Dolgelly, Barmouth, Rhaiadr dû, Cader Idris, Tan y Bwlch, Tremadoc, Capel Careg [sic], Snowdon, Bangor, Conway, Llanrwst, Cerig y Druidian [sic], Corwen, Llangollen, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Iron Bridge in Coalbrook Dale, Shiffnal, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Worcester and Glocester [sic]. Mention is made of meeting 'Mr Sims' by chance at 'Aberayron'; others met en route were three clergymen, Oxonians, viz. Mr Natt of St John's, Mr Yeden [sic] of Lincoln and Mr Hughes of Jesus, who consented to accompany the writer's party on the ascent of Snowdon, and Mr Mitchell, an artist in lodgings [? at or near Betws-y-coed]. The writer also mentions writing to his brother Henry and on 27 August records 'Left my Brother Thomas'. There is no indication where the writer lived but he appears to have had an interest in schools. Loose in (2) are some notes on an itinerary corresponding in part to the one followed but also including the Lake District.

Articles, reviews, correspondence, addresses, etc., by T. I. Ellis, 1949-1959, including Welsh travel articles; radio talks on travel, with related correspondence; book reviews; addresses concerning Thomas Edward Ellis's centenary, [1959]; and some correspondence with publishers.
Also included are manuscript translations, 1940, by TIE of three poems by Walter de la Mare, submitted for competition at that year's National Eisteddfod.