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A file of draft letters and extracts by Hugh Davies (1739-1821), author of Welsh Botanology ... .

A file of letters addressed to Hugh Davies, naturalist, by fellow-botanists and others, mainly relating to botanical studies and to Davies's Welsh Botanology.
The correspondents include Sir Joseph Banks, William Bingley, Jane Bourne (5), Warren Bulkeley (4), Lewis Weston Dillwyn (3), James Donne (2), George Garkin (2), Samuel Goodenough (7), William Higgon, William Jones, W. Marchant (3), Walter Miche Moseley (2), T. E. Owen, William Parker, Miss Pocock (2), Messrs. Poole and Harding, William Owen[-Pughe] (5), John Prichard (2), R. Prichard, Peter Roberts, Jos. Sabine (4), George Shaw, W. Sheffield, Sir James Edward Smith (2), James Sowerby (26), Jonathan Stokes (17), David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), T. Velley (3), Michael Ward (4), Thomas Wenman, E. Williams (7), and Peter Williams, Llanbedrog.

A letter, 4 August 1819, from William Owen Pughe, London, to the Rev. Hugh Davies, Beaumaris, relating to Coll Gwynfa (London, 1819), Pughe's recently published translation of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Pughe quotes extracts of letters in praise of Coll Gwynfa from John Humphreys Parry (f. 23) and William Probert (f. 23 recto-verso). He also discusses the search for the so-called 'Welsh Indians' and includes a sketch of a Native-American pipe (f. 23 verso).