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A volume containing a fair copy, [?1799] (watermarks 1794, 1796, 1798), of a journal of a tour through parts of England and Wales, August-September 1797, describing in particular country houses and other sites visited, road conditions and scenery.
Departing from London on 17 August, the itinerary included Oxford (ff. 8 verso-28 verso), Cheltenham, Gloucester and Worcester (ff. 37-51), Coalbrookdale (ff. 56 verso-58 verso), Shrewsbury (ff. 60-65), Welshpool (ff. 65 verso-69), Llangollen (ff. 73 verso-80), Corwen, Bala, Dolgellau and Barmouth (ff. 80 verso-89 verso), Aberystwyth and the vicinity (ff. 90-95 verso), Kington (f. 98 verso), Herefordshire (ff. 99-103), the lower Wye Valley from Hereford to Chepstow (ff. 103-113), and various houses in Wiltshire (ff. 114-134 verso). Included in the journal are descriptions of William Herschel's telescope at Slough (ff. 6-7 verso), various Oxford Colleges (ff. 9-27 verso), Chirk Castle (ff. 70 verso-72), Valle Crucis Abbey (ff. 78-79 verso) and the Hafod Estate, Cardiganshire (ff. 92-94 verso). The descriptions of Blenheim Palace (ff. 30-35 verso), Attingham House, Shropshire (ff. 63-64 verso), Stourhead (ff. 114 verso-120 verso), Fonthill (ff. 120 verso-124), Wardour Castle (ff. 124-127 verso) and Longford Castle (ff. 128-131), all Wiltshire, include lists of the paintings housed there. A note and partial list of contents, April 1872, by Ev[elyn] Ph[ilip] Shirley is on f. i.

One of three volumes containing a journal of a tour, 1831, through parts of Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, illustrated with numerous engraved prints and maps.

One of three volumes containing a journal of a tour, 1831, through Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, illustrated with numerous engraved prints and maps.

One of three volumes containing a journal of a tour, 1831, through Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, illustrated with numerous engraved prints and maps.

The journal of William Williams (1774-1839), sometime MP for Weymouth and Melcomb Regis, co. Dorset, describing a walking tour through Wales and to Liverpool and Chester, May-June 1796, accompanied by the Reverend James Burgess. A note on f. i verso - 'The following Copy was made from the original Tour by a Welsh servant, not well acquainted with the English language. Hence the errors in spelling & grammar, with which it abounds' - is in the same hand as the final paragraph of the narrative and as emendations and additions to the text. Other additions, mainly on the blank dorse of folios, are in a different hand, possibly that of James Burgess.

The journal of Charles Brodie Sewell, London, medical practitioner, describing a tour in North Wales and counties Pembroke and Devon, 24 August - 19 October 1889, accompanied by his daughter Annie Graham Sewell, with photographic illustrations.

Journal of a tour from Brecon to Carmarthen, undertaken in August 1844, by an unidentified traveller, possibly from London, including references to Hay-on-Wye (ff. 3 verso-4).

Journal, attributed to Major-General William Brooke of Bath, describing a tour of counties Pembroke, Carmarthen and Glamorgan, July-November 1819.

Journal, 1830 (watermark [18]28), of a tour primarily of Pembrokeshire, the Lake District and Edinburgh by an un-named Cornishman, in the company of his niece Anne Kendall of Lostwithiel.
The volume begins with a retrospective recounting of the journey from Lostwithiel, Cornwall, to Bath, Somerset, 5-29 [recte 10] April 1830 (ff. 1-4 verso). The journal proper begins in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 7 July (f. 11) and continues with excursions and tours to Pembroke, Haverfordwest, Solva, St Davids and elsewhere within the county, 7-26 July (ff. 11-62 verso), followed by the journey through parts of mid and north Wales and north west England, 27 July-5 August (ff. 63-65 verso), the Lake District, 5-8 August (ff. 65 verso-70), and the Southern Uplands of Scotland, 9-12 August (ff. 71-76), ending in Edinburgh and its environs, 12-30 August (ff. 76-91 verso). The journal includes descriptions of the Stackpole, Orielton, Slebech and Picton Castle estates (ff. 14-15 verso, 19-20, 22-23, 25 recto-verso, 26-27 verso), St Mary's Church, Haverfordwest (ff. 29 verso-33), and the Bishop's Palace and Cathedral at St Davids (ff. 42 verso-50) and an eyewitness account of the launch of the frigate HMS Seahorse at Pembroke on 21 July (ff. 57 verso-58 verso). The writer is presumably one of Anne Kendall's four uncles then living, namely the Rev. Francis John Hext (1779-1842), Captain William Hext (1780-1866), James Cotes Kendall (1770-1836) or the Rev. Nicholas Kendall (1781-1844).

Journal of Gertrude J. Stratton describing a tour of Chester and North Wales, August-September 1865, illustrated with contemporary engravings.

Journal of Charles H. New, Norwich, describing a tour of North Wales, August-September 1871, illustrated with contemporary engravings, photographs, one original pencil sketch (f. 40 verso), pressed plants and route map.

Journal of a tour of North and Central Wales from July to September 1810 by the Reverend Corbet Hue (ca. 1770-1838), Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, illustrated with ink drawings and rough pencil sketches and including a map showing his itinerary.

An account of a tour of North Wales, August-September 1860, by John [ ] of Bath, in the form of letters to his parents, together with a pencil sketch of 'My Villa [Snowdon House] at Llanberis' (f. 1).

Journal of William Foyl, Liverpool, describing a tour in counties Caernarfon and Anglesey, 12 September-9 October 1857, illustrated with coloured engravings.

A journal describing a tour in North Wales, preceded by a visit to London and Oxford, 18 August - 30 September 1860, by an unidentified lady, a resident of Boughspring, Tidenham, co. Gloucester; the journal is illustrated with engravings and pressed plants.

Journal of Mary Anne Eade describing a tour, May-June 1802, from Clapton through North Wales to Ireland, with an explanatory note, 1803, by her husband William Eade (f. ii).

Journal of a walking tour in Merionethshire and Caernarfonshire made in August and September 1884 by the geologist Dr Edward Greenly, later of Llandegfan, Anglesey, and described by him in his memoirs, A Hand through Time, 2 vols (London, 1938), I, 104-7. The journal includes four maps and is illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings, the one on p. 194 of the journal, entitled 'Llyn-y-Gader', being reproduced as plate XVI in A Hand Through Time. A few annotations and corrections were added by Greenly in 1935 and 1939.

Journal of a tour of North Wales, 17 May - 2 June 1826, with sketches by the unidentified author.