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A manuscript account of an excursion to North Wales and Cheshire, 3-[6] September 1829, by Elizabeth Bower, [of Broxholme House, Doncaster], travelling with her husband John Seddon Bower (f. 1-19).
The couple left their lodgings at Crosby on 3 September and boarded the Prince Llewelyn steam packet at Liverpool (f. 1 verso), sailing along the North Wales coast (ff. 2-5) to Beaumaris (ff. 5-6 verso). They crossed the Menai Bridge (ff. 7-9) and proceeded to Bangor (ff. 9-10 verso), Conway (ff. 12-13 verso) and Chester (ff. 14 verso-18), returning to Liverpool and then Crosby on the [6] September (f. 19). Included are descriptions of Penrhyn Castle, Bangor (f. 11 recto-verso), and Eaton Hall, Chester (ff. 16-18).

An undertaking to provision Beaumaris castle, 1645; transcripts of Beaumaris coroners' inquisitions, 1707; autograph letters of Nicholas Bagenall, 1708, Henry Rowlands, 1717, Maurice Evans, 1718, and Cadwaladr Williams, 1719; a letter concerning Beaumaris churchwardens, 1714; a receipt by John Williams for a quarter's salary for officiating at Llangwyllog, 1738; translations of Of a noble race was Shenkin into Welsh, Latin and Greek; Welsh and Latin verses on Hugh Pugh's high jump at Oxford; notes on Owen of Trefeilir; an epitaph on Evan Rice, huntsman to Sir Thomas Mansell; an abstract of the life of John Ray; a list of alpine plants mentioned by Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709) in Gibson's Cambden; a list of plants by William Morris, with a note of a botanical expedition to Snowdon, 1741; printed miscellanea.