Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1890-1899 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
3 bundles, 2 envelopes
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Letters to Sir Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Pryse Pryse Pryse of Lodge Park, George Griffiths Williams of Ffynon Caradog and others, mainly from estate tenants, local vicars, George Jones of Aberystwyth, architect, J.E. James, auctioneer, Hugh Hughes, A.J. Hughes, and Roberts and Evans, solicitors, 1890-1899. Most files also contain occasional third party letters and copies of outgoing correspondence. Recurrent subjects are repairs to estate properties, bridges and roads from 1890; repairs and subscriptions to local schools at Penrhyn-coch, Tal-y-bont, Llangorwen, Trefeurig and Ceulan a Maes-mawr from 1890; the Hafan tramway and Esgair Hir road from 1893; the sale of Gogerddan estate properties from 1894; rights and encroachments in the crown manor of Perfedd from 1896; flooding of the river Leri at Ynyslas and drainage at Ynysfergi from 1897; lead mining from 1897; and a request to purchase land adjoining the vicarage of Llngynfelyn, 1897-1898.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Chronological order by file and roughly within each file.