| Description | Bundle includes :
a) Letter from the quarrymen of Caebraichycafn about their demands and proposed standing out, 21 March 1825
b) Observations on cottage encroachment on Llanllechid waste lands, Dec 1815
c) Agreement for twenty one years from 12 May 1803 between the Lord Penrhyn and James Greenfield for a farm at Coed y Parc to be called Brynderwen.
d) Elegy to the memory of Mrs Barrington wife of Captn Barrington of the 70th Reg of Foot who was droen'd on her passage to Halifax in Nova Scotia
e) Articles of sale and agreement for the timber at Penrhyn 1774
f) Letter from ?Frese Cooke, Abergavenney regarding iron rails and the construction of a railway, n.d.
g) Letter to G.H. Dawkins Pennant from Jos. Hume regarding experiments on mine samples and their results (searching for minerals), 28 June 1823
h) Letter from Mr. Wright about the quarry & estate rents, and the unusually large amount of timber requested for repairs from tenants. Also mentions his role as undersheriff at the quarter sessions in Chester, 23 March 1772
i) Account of Mr Rogers for submitting timber to the quarry, 5 March 1825
j) Observations concerning the timber growing on the Penrhyn Estate in the county of Caernarvon belonging to the Hon. Hugh Warburton and John Pennant Esq. , c. 1770
k) Voucher for work done by Henry Williams on the quarry, 23 March 1825
l) Letter to George Hay Dawkins Pennant concerning the estate in Clarendon, Jamaica, 21 April 1821
m) Letter from Benjamin Wyatt discussing the slate trade and potatoes. Discusses the American market and the fact that any price reductions made on slate should be kept secret from the Caernarvonshire quarries, 27 December 1803
n) Draft of a letter from George Sholto Douglas Pennant to Carmen Sylva, Queen of Romania, thanking her for her gift, c.1900 |