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Urging recipient to come up as his father really desires to retire altogether. [Inscribed on Letter 373(a)].

In complaint against their father's policy of refusing to sell iron at the present low prices, in the absence of which policy the London House would be £54,000 richer; a plea against extending the Harfords Mortgage; the decision of the Staffordshire meeting to reduce output, and the consequent better spirits of the London partners; their efforts to economise; the injustice of Richard Crawshay's living by "grants from the Crown" (i.e. their father).

Their father does not intend to retire from the business because none of the partners is capable of paying him for it, but is agreeable to granting a lease of his lands, minerals, etc., for a separate and new work on his property under the ownership of his sons in partnership. This could be easily arranged and recipient is asked to send his estimates of capital required, location, etc.

Concerning an enquiry for railway iron sent by Gerard Ralston, of A. & G. Ralston Philadelphia, which is an example of the great and increasing demand for rails for export; recipient is asked whether the manufacture of such iron is worth while. The request of T. Brown wino is tendering for the Clifton Bridge that the partners should stand security for £10,000.

Concerning a test at Brunton's of recipient's bolts and Harford's bolts, which proved the Cyfarthfa product to be ten times the tougher article and likely to monopolise the trade. Personal: Fothergill's inability to remember, owing to his drunken states that recipient had struck him.

Bad news of the failure of "Swan, Chappell and Heywood", a firm carried on by "Heywood and two dead men" instead of three living persons as was supposed, and which owes the London House £3,600.

Defends himself against recipient's reproaches for changing his attitude and declares the position remains as at the beginning; his forecast that their father will allow them to sell the iron as they please and considers a new partnership arrangement necessary.

Sends a copy of a letter from the firm of John Abbot, Gateshead, declining to buy their iron, and violently accuses his father of deliberately seeking to ruin all the partners and make them pensioners. His determination not to stay the London House; a copy of his letter to Eliza Crawshay, their sister.

G(eorge) Crawshay, London, to William Crawshay (II), his brother, Merthyr Tidvil, to explain letter 176(b): his discovery of an unfounded fear on recipient's part that the London House is obtaining too much profit from the (Cyfarthfa & Hirwaun) works and his request that recipient adapt a more liberal attitude to the London concern. A gift of another thirty-second share in the London Concern from his father to himself. Personal and family matters.

G(eorge) Crawshay, London, to William Crawshay (II), his brother, Merthyr Tidvil, to thank recipient for his kindness and hospitality to Dufaud the writer's father-in-law and to protest strongly against his father's jealousy and suspicion of Dufaud as a spy; the presence of Crawshay Bailey in France, perhaps to buy a works; the undercutting tactics of Thompson of Pendarran. Personal, his intention to intercede with Mary Crawshay.

Personal. [Inscribed on L. 576(a)] The balloon ascent of Richard Crawshay (2 1/2 miles high); the madness and incarceration of Ward, whose family is ruined.

Concerning the letter to Brown Lennox & Co. admitting the inferior quality of bolts; their father's attitude to further outlay on the works and the improbability of his retirement. [Inscribed on Letter 701(a)].

The necessity of feeling their way to an advance in prices, but of first giving their "enemies enough of it"; the intention of the London House not to sell below £6. 5s.; the desirability of selling out stocks when prices rise, so that they may possibly be able to buy out their father. [Inscribed on Letter 593(b)] Routine advices.

Announces a loss of £3,609 for the year after paying interest, and complains about Hirwain, as to which recipient should come to a decision. It is 10/- or 15/- behind other works in production-costs. [Inscribed on Letter 571(b)].

His alarm over recipient's accident; the freedom of their firm from bad debts; personal news. [Inscribed on Letter 585(a)].

Reproaches recipient for being angry over Letter 611 and any other attempt to discuss the relationship between Cyfarthfa, the position of Hirwaun, the policy of stocking, etc., and roundly denies that recipient has "kept" the writer or any other partner by his exertions and abilities. Denial of any part in his fathers will-making. Personal.

The dismay caused to the partners in the London House by the "scrape" into which his father's offer to Bibby has got them. Personal.

A detailed and lengthy arraignment of the "absurd and unjust way of trading" between the Works and the London House, by which the London House is exploited for the works, rendered incapable of competing with other houses and burdened with a stock of £100,000 at Cardiff and of £20-40,000 in London. His belief that their father will not retire either from the works or the House, nor yield any control; the father's action in allowing Bibby, who owes £22,000 to pay at leisure.

Geo(rge) Crawshay, London, to William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil, to beseech withdrawal of the accusation in Letter 613 that he had influenced his father in the matter of the wills or had acted or argued with hostility towards recipient. The depreciation of Cyfarthfa's value was in fact favourable to recipient, as it would give him a larger share of the whole estate.

George (Crawshay), London, to William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil, to defend himself against recipient's accusation of undervaluing Cyfarthfa; he values it highly but objects to the terms of trade between it and the London House he does not make out Bailey's Nantyglo works to be better than Cyfarthfa, nor Bailey a better manager than recipient; but does say that Bailey has made better profit by sales of rail iron rather than of bars. Personal. [Inscribed on better 629(a)].