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A journal [in the hand of Sir Robert Ker Porter, painter and traveller], of a tour of parts of North Wales, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, undertaken by the writer and his companion, Thomas Underwood, July - August 1799. The travellers, commencing their journey at Shrewsbury, visited or passed through Welsh Pool, Cans Office, Mallwyd, Dinas Mowddy, Dolgelly, Barmouth, Harlech, Manturogg, Bethkelert (with an ascent of Snowdon), Cearnarfon, Llanberris, Capel kerrig, Aber, Conway, Llanrwst, Denbigh, Northorpe, Haywarden, Chester, Northwich, Macclesfield, Buxton, Tiddswell, Castleton, Matlock, and Derby, whence the writer returned to London. En route, between Castleton and Derby, the travellers visited Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, and Kiddstone House. At the end of the account of the tour is a character sketch of the Welsh people, and, at the reverse end of the volume, observations on the various inns at which the travellers stayed. The volume contains some four pencil sketches of unnamed persons.

Journal of a tour in Cornwall and Devon by A[ugusta] H[all], later Baroness Llanover. English. Between boards. Purchased from Winifred Myers, London, October 1963.

Journal of a tour from Penarth to Leamington, etcby John Parker to study the styles of Gothic architecture. English. Boards. Donated by Mrs M. E. Leighton, Oswestry, February 1959.

The journal of a tour from York to parts of South Wales, 1796.

A brief journal of a tour from London to the West of England and Wales, 2 June-25 July 1743.

Journal of a tour of North Wales and the North of England, 11 July-8 August 1848, by the sisters E[lizabeth] and Jane Weston of Brixworth, Northamptonshire, and their nephew R[obert] Henry Hewitt of Dodford, Northamptonshire (ff. 1-22 verso). The volume is mostly in the hand of Elizabeth, except for a single entry by Henry (ff. 16 verso-17 verso) and possibly Jane (ff. 4 verso-5).
The Welsh itinerary included Conwy (ff. 1-2), Caernarfon (ff. 4-8), [Llan] Ffestiniog (ff. 9-12 verso), Llanberis (ff. 13-14 verso) and Caernarfon (ff. 14 verso-15). The group's excursions included visits to Anglesey (f. 2 verso), Llanddwyn Island (ff. 5-6), a Nantlle slate quarry (ff. 6 verso-7 verso), and Blaenau Ffestiniog (ff. 11-12) as well as to the various castles (ff. 1 verso-2, 2 verso, 5, 14 verso), waterfalls (ff. 9-10, 12) and other sights. In Llanberis they visited the grave of the Rev. Henry Wellington Starr of Northampton, who died on Snowdon in 1846 (f. 14). They subsequently went by ship to Liverpool (ff. 15-16 verso), and by train to Scarborough (ff. 16 verso-21), finally returning, via York (ff. 21-22), home to Northamptonshire. Items loose within the volume have been tipped in; these comprise a transcript, by Elizabeth Weston, of the inscription on the gravestone of the Rev. Starr (f. 24), a printed obituary relating to Daventry, 1863 (f. 25), and a printed hymn, 1864 (f. 26).

Journal of a short tour in South Walesby John Parker. English. Between boards. Donated by Mrs M. E. Leighton, Oswestry, February 1959.

Journal of a continental tour from Chamonix to Italyby John Parker. English. Boards. Donated by Mrs M. E. Leighton, Oswestry, February 1959.

Journal of Susan Eleonora Watkins (1768-1847), widow of the Reverend Thomas Watkins of Penoyre, co. Brecon, describing a tour, 1830, from London through Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy to Zurich (ff. 1-36v), and a visit to the Isle of Wight, 1835 (ff. 37v-43).

Journal kept by a policeman during a strike of workers at Hawarden Bridge Steel Works, Shotton. English. Boards.

A copy, made about 1842, of a journal, in verse, of a tour or sojourn in South Wales, with a close association with Cilybebyll, together with a collection of poems, including translations from German, by the same anonymous author. The sub-sections of the journal have the following topographical titles: 'Graig Alltwen and the Mumbles', 'Cwm Clic', 'Llanguicke', 'Llyn-y-Fan', 'Coed-y-Brain and Carrig Marie', 'Gelli-Onnen', 'Carrig-Dinas and Cil-Hepste', and 'Plas Cil-y-bebyll'. At the beginning of the volume is a letter in the same hand as the text, signed 'M.E.D.B.' and written from Sevenoaks, 31 August 1838, to James -----, referring to the 'journal' and giving an account of Knole Abbey.

A copy of Almanac a Dyddiadur, Am y Flwyddyn 1843 (Carmarthen, 1843), printed by Josiah Thomas Jones (1799-1873), Carmarthen, publisher and Independent minister, containing business and household accounts in English, 1843, in his hand, together with bills and receipts, 1841-1844.

Joseph Welch: A list of scholars of St Peter's College, Westminster ... (1788), with MS additions. English. 1/2 leather. Donated by Lt-Col. R. H. Richards, Dolgellau, January 1961.

A copy of Dyddiadur Methodistaidd for 1869, kept to record preaching and other engagements by Joseph Thomas (1814-1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister, Carno, Montgomeryshire.

Transcript by ?William Lewis of the manuscript score of the 1st violin parts in Joseph Parry's opera 'Blodwen'. Musical notation.

Two letters, dated 31 December 1902 and 10 January 1903, from Joseph Parry to T. W. David, his impresario, relating to the first performance of Parry's opera, 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa', at the Grand Theatre, Westgate Street, Cardiff, on 15 December 1902 (ff. 1-4).
Also included is a typescript letter, dated 29 June 1906, from W. W. Jones of Evan Jones & Co., steamship owners and brokers, Cardiff to T. W. David (f. 5), enclosing a statement of accounts (ff. 6-10) relating to the 'private affairs' of the late Joseph Parry, and to his opera, 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa'.

A volume, [17 cent., third ¼], containing manuscript copies, in an unknown hand, of at least fifty-five sermons of the Rev. Joseph Caryl, preached April 1650-May 1653, all on the Epistle to the Romans 8:9-28.
Parts of the text are accompanied by copious marginal annotations (pp. 1-125, 188-192, 213-216, 241-250, 273-278, 339-351, 372-373, 700-707, 716-727), the remainder is only very sporadically annotated. Marginal notes by the transcriber and gaps left by him (pp. 193-200, 216a-h, 446-448, 549-556, 585-588, 600-604, 629-636, 661-668, 708-712, 784-788, 861-864 and 905 onward) attest to at least twelve missing sermons. Also included are proof sheets (2 copies), [19 cent.], apparently for p. 27 of an edition of the text, corresponding almost exactly to p. 27 of the manuscript; no edition is known to have been published (tipped in on pp. 909, 911).