| Disgrifiad | This folder contains mainly contains letters between the National Trust and Lady Janet Douglas Pennant relating to the transfer of the Penrhyn Estate to them and the opening of the Penrhyn Castle to the public. Topics discussed are the Penrhyn Castle garden, opening the castle on Sundays and there is a letter from the National Trust to Lady Janet Douglas Pennant with an attached document with the memoir of the experiences of Arthur Brown who worked in the Castle gardens in early twentieth century. There are also many letters from various individuals giving their memories of the castle and family. There are also letters with notes of Adela Douglas Pennant on the history of the castle and Pennant family, and a letter from the Archivist A. Giles Jones from the Department of Manuscripts at the U.C.N.W (University College of North Wales), Bangor, thanking Lady Janet Douglas Pennant for a recent deposit to the archive. There are invoices from Sotheby's for the sales of works of art belonging to Lady Janet Douglas Pennant. This folder also includes the following minutes, ‘Minutes of meeting of the sub-committee of the Wales Advisory Committee of the National Trust at Penrhyn Castle on Wednesday 30th January at 2.00pm and ‘The Penrhyn Charitable Trust Minutes of a Meeting of the Trustees held at Penrhyn, Gwynedd at 2.30pm on Saturday 17 Jan 1987’. There is also an interesting document titled, ‘Notes taken RE Transfer of Yspytty Ogwen and Castle Areas to National Trust, decisions made on the castle grounds- December 1977’. There is an article called, ‘ ‘Penrhyn: diligent detective work has restored to full glory the last outpost of the Norman conquest, built 1820 onwards’, from the magazine, ‘World of Interiors’ June 1987. There are also booklets, one titled ‘Views of the Thames Greenwich to Windsor’ Marble Hill House, Twickenham, Greater Council London- which contains a catalogue of 3rd exhibition at Marble Hill House Summer 1968. The other booklet is titled, ‘Offprint Yearbook Amstelodamum XXXI (1934) H.F.Wynman, Amsterdam’. |