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An album of nearly four hundred holograph and autograph letters, with some accounts and other papers, 1846-1856, of the Committee of Visitors of the United Lunatic Asylum for the counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, and Pembroke (to be established under the provisions of Act 8 & 9 Victoria, c. 126). Almost all of the letters are addressed to the clerk of the Committee, namely Thomas Dalton, Cardiff, who was Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan, and the writers include John Nicholl, M.P., Merthyr-mawr, etc.; [Sir] Denis Le Marchant, Whitehall [Under-Secretary to the Hom Department]; Walter Coffin, Llandaff, etc.; George Child-Villiers, 5th earl of Jersey; [Colonel] N. Cameron, London, etc.; and [Sir] George Tyler, M.P. The majority of the letters relate to negotiations for the purchase, as a site for the lunatic asylum, of part of the Danygraig estate near Swansea in the possession of Lord Jersey and in the occupation of Col. Cameron. Towards the beginning of the volume are orders and/or resolutions of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and/or the provisional county committees of Justices of the Peace for the counties of Pembroke, Monmouth, Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Glamorgan, the county borough of Carmarthen, and the town and county of Haverfordwest, 1846-1848; printed minutes of the united Committee of Visitors of the proposed asylum, 1848-1849; and the opinion, 1849, of Arthur Morgan, Equitable Assurance Office [London], on the value of the fee simple of the proposed site. Inset are statements of accounts due to Edmd. Scott Barber, civil engineer and surveyor, 1849-1852 (with a covering letter to Thomas Dalton, 1853), and to Thomas Dalton, 1853-1854; resolutions of the Courts of Quarter Sessions for the counties of Glamorgan and Cardigan, 1855-1856; a resolution of the Committee of Visitors, 1855, endorsed with the approval of [Sir] George Grey, Home Secretary; and draft minutes of the Committee of Visitors, 1856.

This collection comprises forty petitions submitted by various ratepayers and parishes to county magistrates, expressing both opposition to and support for the proposed erection of a joint "lunatic asylum". Included are printed agreements concerning the establishment of the asylum, along with correspondence regarding the proposed site. A letter from the Clerk of the Peace Office in Stafford is accompanied by a county's asylum map layout . The collection also contains several drafts of meeting minutes, letters, and attendance records related to the proposed joint asylum for the counties of Carmarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgan, and Pembroke. the collection also includes a draft agreement dated 17 June 1847, approved by committees, for the union of Carmarthen, Glamorgan, and Pembroke for the construction of the asylum, followed by a formal agreement dated 4 August 1847. Additionally is a that bundle that contains draft agreements for the sale and purchase of land in the parishes of Swansea and Llansamled, including a 1000-year lease of the Danygraig Fawr estate in Glamorgan. There are also Legal documents titled case for the opinion of Mr. E. R. Williams on the interpretation of clauses 8 and 9 of 9 Vic. c.126, and the response of William Llewellyn to a bill of complaint filed by John Austin on 22 March 1861.

Minute book, 1846-1847, of the Committee of Visitors appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions for Glamorgan (under 8 & 9 Vict., c. 126, as amended by 9 & 10 Vict., c. 84) to erect and build a Lunatic Asylum for the county alone or to treat with any other county or counties for its erection. The volume also contains the following transcripts:- orders for the appointment of the committee at the Epiphany Sessions of 1846 and 1847; a letter, 14 October, 1847, from R. W. Lutwidge, secretary to the Commissioners in Lunacy, to Sir Denis Le Marchant, Home Office, and a letter, 16 October, 1847, from the latter to [Thomas Dalton], Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan; and representations [1847] by the committee to Sir George Grey, Home Secretary.