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Further accounts of work done; garden produce; referring to buying some horses, a plague of rabbits. [A note from Sj on the same paper refers to the children].

Referring to the oven to be used at Singleton; the grapes grown on the estate; promising to have a word with Gregory, and the story of the white pony, offer of a horse from H. Watkins.

Accounts of work done; further matter relating to M. P[hillips]; Gregory's intention to sell land, [on the back of the letter is a note from S. Jones referring to the children].

Accounts of work done, the departure of the Bainys, the children's health, a riding accident; Col (?Skewen) assaulted by his groom. [On the back is a note from S. Jones].

Referring to the children; county meeting discussion of road building, and the technicalities involved.

Giving a draft reply of a letter to the Cambrian concerning its article on copper smelting.

Accounts of work done, referring to the health of John Henry Vivian and Sarah Vivian; sale of cow and calf; the article in the Cambrian.

Accounts of work done; the running of the farm of the estate; Sir John's visit and the purchase of land; a dog fight.

The possibility of buying Gregory's land, and Sir John selling land; alterations at Singleton [on the back is a note from Sj referring to the health of the children].

Further references to the building of roads; accounts for Marino.

Disagreements about property among owners in Swansea; John Vivian's health; a local hunt; further problems with road building; Sir John Nicholl's fall from a horse.

Accounts of work done; concern about John Henry Vivian's illness, and his intention of sending grapes.

Account of work done, the delivery of cargoes to Swansea harbour, and the stock on the estate.

Matters concerning the Canal, a certain MP's actions.

Personal and family news.

Samuel Holland's journal, January 1, 1823 - May 29, 1824.

Five volumes of a journal for the years 1846-1853 kept by David William Pughe, Bron Dirion, Caernarvonshire.

A journal (?copy) of a voyage from London to Capetown, 1831-2, on board the barque 'Science' of Scarbro [sic] bound for Hobart's Town [Tasmania]. The writer of the journal states 'We have received letters from Lord Goderich to the Secretaries of the Australian Colonies, sanctioning their granting us leave to visit the Convicts remaining under the special care of Government'. A note in pencil by J. R. Hughes in 1953 reads 'Voyage to Africa & Australia by James (?) Backhouse of York in the service of Friends (Quakers). Given to me by Mrs Mabel Backhouse (84) Caer Tegla Arthog Merioneth'. (A James Backhouse, 1794-1869, is described as 'minister of Society of Friends 1824; missionary to Australia and South Africa, 1831-41'. See Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography, vol. 1, p. 120.). Incomplete.

A journal in 3 volumes kept on a tour of Europe. Conventional observations apart from those on gardens and artistic works, which are in greater detail. [See also related papers B279-307.] B351 (46 ff.) was written in July, while travelling through Calais; Antwerp (pictures of Van Dyke and Rubens); Amsterdam; Hague (Holland a dirty country); Brussels; Waterloo (village and battlefield); Liege; Aachen; Cologne, through Rhine Gorge to Frankfurt and Heidelberg. B352 (62 ff.) was written in August on the journey from Strasbourg - Zurich - Lucerne - Interlaken - Geneva to Chamonix. It includes climbing the Rigi and Brienig mountains to see sunset and rise, views of the Eiger Munch and Jungfrau; an avalanche seen at Grindelwald and notes on the number of cases of goitre in Switzerland. B353 (51 ff.) was written in September on the journey through Simplon Pass - Como - Milan - Turin - Lyons - Fontainbleu - Paris - London. It includes further notes on goitre cases, the heat of Northern Italy, Catholic christening and funeral at Milan, the gardens at Fontainbleu and the sights of Paris. B354 is a precis of the three volumes, kept in B351.

B361 (80 ff.) covers the journey through France to Marseilles, on to Genoa and Pisa, to Rome. ff. 20-80 cover the period spent in Rome and includes detailed descriptions of buildings, works of art visited (with some sketches) and notes on Mediterranean vegetation. B362 (f. 26) also covers the period spent in Rome, including Christmas Day, 1850 (ff. 18-20), and seeing the Pope (f. 25).