Correspondence arising out of a tedious and protracted dispute between John Sanderson as agent to Lord Anglesey and J.H. Clough, tenant of Plas Llanfair Preliminary negotiations with John Sanderson were not very auspicious; there was a good deal of quibbling about terms - the amount of rent and the liability for improvements and repairs. Clough eventually agreed to take the property at an annual rent of £120, on the understanding that the Marquess should undertake all necessary repairs and alterations (2886, 2890). It was over the latter that the ensuing dispite arose; Sanderson, contending that Clough was bent on effecting certain alterations to the premises which were in excess of the estimates originally agreed upon (2904), proposed an addition of 35 to the rent by ways of interest on the additional outlay. Clough cavilled at such an increase, and was two years later, in 1830, still voicing his grievance. In a fit of pique in March 1830, he proposed giving up the tenancy (2922); Sanderson promptly took him at his word, and despite Clough's subsequent endeavours to retract, his term in Plas Llanfair was accepted as ending in July 1831 (2937). "I have not known in the course of my official life" remarks Sanderson, "any case which like this of Llanfair, has expended itseld in so many topics of disputation" (2932) 1827-1831