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Over sixty letters, 1840-1890, including some transcripts, mostly addressed to George Crawshay, from prominent political figures, reflecting his active rôle in politics, particularly with regard to the 'Foreign Affairs Committee' of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Among the correspondents are John Bright (1) 1854, Richard Cobden (13) 1844-1855, Ralph Waldo Emerson (4) 1847-1848, William Ewart Gladstone (1) 1857, Henry George Grey, 3rd earl Grey (7, including four transcripts) 1858-1880, Lajos Kossuth (1) 1855, John Stuart Mill (1) 1867, and Sir Robert Peel (1) 1846. Also included are eleven letters, 1854-1892, from George Crawshay including letters to Richard Cobden, Henry George Grey, 3rd earl Grey, and Harriet Angelina Urquhart, wife of David Urquhart, and transcripts of a letter from Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1859, and John Ruskin, 1860.

One hundred and thirty holograph letters and imperfect letters, 1845-1864 and undated, written by J[ohn] Jones ('Pyll Glan Conwy'), together with some additions by his wife [Jane Jones]. The majority of the letters are written to his son Evan, printer, Portmadoc, but a few are addressed to others of his children, namely Catherine, Edward, Jane, Owen E[van(s)], and Eliza[beth Margaret]. Among the topics discussed by the writer are printing processes and the purchase of equipment; printing estimates; publications by the writer and by his son Evan; news of relatives and friends; money matters, with copious references to negotiations for loans; an invitation to Dublin Exhibition (1853); the purchase of writing slates; travelling booksellers; the exchange of publications with other publishers; an address by Kossuth; a legal action against Evan Jones; the revival of the Rifle Corps at Llanrwst; a lecture on Garibaldi by W[illiam] Rees ['Gwilym Hiraethog']; the writer's decision to discontinue the publication of books; the writer's health; the writer's gardening and farming activities; the boy Hartwell [i.e., Griffith Hartwell Jones, rector of Nutfield, Surrey]; etc. Also included in the volume are a holograph letter from D. O. D., Baptist Printing Office, Llangollen, from Bala, to [ ], 1852 (the writer's career as a printer, a recommendation for the bearer as a printer's apprentice); a holograph letter from O. Evans, Bethesda, to O. E. Jones, Llanrwst, [18]56 (personal); a holograph letter from Robert [ ], Llanrwst, to [Evan] Jones, Porthmad[o]c, undated (Llanrwst eisteddfod, the clearing of the office, personal); and a series of five 'englynion' [? to Evan Jones].