| Description | Local appointments under the Excise are in particular much sought after - the comptrollership of Holyhead (1877) and the place of coast-waiter at Red Wahrfe, for which John Price, the Plas Newydd agent, specially recommends the "Welsh Bard". David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), then (1798) employed as coal - metre at Amlwch (1893). There are letters from parents anxious for their sons' advancement (1867, 1895); from the wife of a bankrupt Caernarvon merchant trading on an acquaintanship with his Lordship during his schoolboy days at Beaumaris (1874); from a persistent old sailor hankering after his pension (1889). On a rather more dignified level is the letter from John Parry, the sitting member for Caernarvonshire, and Attorney-General for North Wales : understanding that "some new arrangements in the law are likely to take place" he begs Uxbridge to intercede with Pitt to have him appointed a Welsh Judge; his hopes, alas, went unfulfilled (1869) |