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PFA - Penrhyn Castle Further Additional

1 - Early deeds

7 - Surveys, valuations and inventories

8 - Post 1800 Correspondence

1 - Estate including county matters

2 - Slate trade including Penrhyn Quarry, Port Penrhyn, Strike etc.

3 - Household including chattels, provisions, staff etc.

4 - Charitable including begging and thank you letters, subscriptions etc.

5 - Legal including documents relating to W.J. Parry

6 - Political

7 - Financial

8 - Personal and family correspondence

9 - Leisure including horse racing, hunting etc.

10 - Mixed bundles

1 - Box file of 'Old Letters', includes:

2 - Bundle of correspondence relating to estate matters (the Capel Curig road, coaches and tenants in particular) and the slate trade/quarry

3 - Bundle of correspondence relating to estate matters, including purchases, deeds, mortgages, requests from tenants, subscriptions, valuations and the Beddgelert road. Includes letters from Mr Roberts, Bangor, Samuel Worthington, and Benjamin Wyatt among others

4 - Bundle of personal/estate correspondence. Includes some correspondence relating to the Jamaica estate. Also includes copy of a letter (14 November 1859) on behalf of Queen Victoria sent to accompany a cup to be presented to the choir who sang for them at Penrhyn Castle during their visit 'testifying the approval with which Her Majesty and His Royal Highness regard the cultivation by all under your employment of so laudable and humanizing a taste, and of their wish that all should unite in encouraging a mode of employing their leisure hours so likely to prove beneficial to their social and moral condition.'

5 - Box file of correspondence. relating to estate matters, shipping and slate sales, as well as one letter concerned with a dispute with a Mr Hales. Includes letters from, Mr B. Chipney, Mr John Wyatt, Mr Arthur Wyatt, Austen & Co and Mr James Wyatt

6 - Box file of correspondence from James Wyatt. Details development of the estate & quarries, purchase of land (including Penmachno estate from Lord Mostyn), slate prices and the market, the use of horses at the quarry, the visit of the King of Saxony to the quarry (but not the castle) in 1844 and includes Plan for re-modelling the Penrhyn estate farms 1843. Mentions possible purchase of the Bodegroes estate 1857

7 - Box file of various personal correspondence relating to estate matters, county duties, Y Dywysogaeth paper, army commissions and militia and leisure pursuits. Includes letters from Sir R. Bulkley, Hon. W. O. Stanley, Lord Newborough and Mr Gladstone etc.

8 - Box file of correspondence to and from Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Lord Penrhyn. Letters mainly concerned with estate/quarry matters. Includes correspondence with W.E. Gladstone relating to an accusation of intimidation at the quarry/quarry wages, correspondence about land for chapels, various parishes, and weirs on the estate

9 - Small bundle of correspondence relating to county matters. Organised by category, with envelopes marked: 1868 Proposed Royal Visit to Carnarvon (sic) Afgan War & Radical memorial from Four Crosses, 1875 Telegraph Station - Abersoch 1861 Holyhead Road Trust

10 - Box file of documents from Sir Llewelyn Turner of Parkia, Caernarfon includes letters, speeches and press clippings, mainly concerned with issues relating to the Welsh language and home rule for Wales

11 - Box file of correspondence from Mr Kneeshaw, Mr Naylor, Col Platt, Mr Platt Star. Correspondence relates to the Police Committee, the politics of Mr Naylor, correspondence regarding the Caernarfon militia, speech on the Trade Unions and the Jockey Club

12 - Box file of correspondence from Mr Livesey, Sir William Lewis, Mr & Mrs Assheton Smith, Hon F.G. Wynn, Hon W.W. Vivian. Also contains printed pamphlet Trade Unions Their claims and their methods , Press clipping of letter from Mr Livesey The Times 30 December 1901. Letters discuss the estate, the quarries and their management, trade unionism etc.

13 - Large bundle of applications. Includes applications for various estate and quarry positions, inspector of taxes, chief constable, appointments to the Board of Agriculture etc.

14 - Box file of miscellaneous personal correspondence. Includes letters from Lord Salisbury, the Duke of Richmond and his sister Caroline Gordon Lennox, Sir Harry Keppel, Charles Wigley Wicksted of Shakenhurst, Lord Londonderry, Lord Stanley, Hen Rev Jacob Marshon, Lord Cawdor and 'Sam' writing from Camp Suakin during the Sudan/Egypt wars 1885

15 - Box file of correspondence from Mr Hughes of Kinmel Park, Abergele. Documents discuss property defence, Lord Rosebury, game, strike, Archbishop Williams, Welsh names, election fund, Bodelwyddan ball, and honours list among other topics. Also includes documents relating to the Order of the Bards of Glan Geirionydd

16 - Box file of correspondence from Rev D.O. Davies, Col Wynn-Finch of Voelas, Mr A. Priestley and W.A. Darbishire. Correspondence on diverse topics including missionary work, rent abatement, county council meetings, Police Joint Committee, the Penrhyn strike, politics, W.J. Parry, the 5th Marquis of Anglesey and includes correspondence between Lord Penrhyn and W.A. Darbishire written in verse

17 - Book containing miscellaneous personal correspondence. Includes letters from Cornelia Wimborne, J Capellini, Earl of Denbigh, and other various letters including a letter of thanks for hospitality shown towards the sons of the King of Siam on their visit to North Wales, and a letter requesting that a child from the local workhouse be sent to a farm

18 - Box file of correspondence from and relating to J.E. Vincent (brother of the solicitor Hugh Vincent.) Much of the correspondence relates to the proposition that Vincent write a 'Strike Book' telling the story of the strike from Lord Penrhyn's perspective. File contains first 182 pages of draft of the book. Correspondence also relates to a publication J.E. Vincent proposed on trade unionism and the labour question, put forward by the North Wales Property Defence Association (who state he has written much for them in the past). Includes draft of this publication. Also contains documents relating to Vincent's application for a County Court Judgeship

19 - Box file of congratulatory correspondence received by Lord and Lady Penrhyn following the libel action against W.J. Parry and the end of the strike. Includes handwritten letters, poems and copies of letters printed in newspapers. Letters come from all walks of life, from workers, servants and trade unionists to trades people, bankers and aristocracy

20 - Bundle of three envelopes containing correspondence from Hugh Vincent, solicitor and one from Henry Kneeshaw concerning policing at Bethesda.

11 - Miscellaneous

9 - Post 1800 Printed Material (including translations of printed items)

10 - Post 1800 Financial Papers including accounts, vouchers, cash books etc.

11 - Post 1800 Legal documents

12 - Post 1800 Mixed bundles

13 - Post 1800 Miscellaneous

14 - Estate Administration

15 - Penrhyn Quarry

16 - Politics and electioneering

17 - Personal

18 - Patronage

19 - Events

20 - Printed material

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