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Accounts of the banking transactions of Thomas Davies and David Davies, Cardigan, with Sir James Esdaile & Co., bankers, London and with Messrs Morris & Sons, bankers, Cardigan during the first half of the nineteenth century; shipping accounts, including details of ships owned or partly owned by Thomas and David Davies; household accounts; and notes of miscellaneous financial transactions.

This collection, which came from Castle Green, Cardigan, contains material relating to railways in West Wales, the Tivy Improvement Scheme and other matters of Cardiganshire interest.

Papers, 1871-1884, of D[avid] Griffith Davies, Castle Green, mainly relating to the Cardigan and River Tivy Improvement Scheme; official reports on the alleged pollution of the river Tivy by lead mines, etc.; an official letter written from Whitehall by Henry Fitzroy on behalf of Viscount Palmerston, 1853, relating to the withdrawal of troops stationed at Cardigan.

A property rating book covering parishes in north Pembrokeshire and kept by Griffith Davies, Cardigan.

Ledgers containing accounts of rents received, 1854-1884, by David Davies, Cardigan; etc.

Letters and papers relating to railways in South Wales, particularly to the South Wales Railway and the Whitland and Cardigan Railway.

A copy, which belonged to D[avid] G[riffith] Davies, Castle Green, Cardigan, of The Proposed Improvement of the River Tivy. Agitation at Cardigan on the Scheme and the Provisional Order of the Board of Trade ... (Carmarthen, 1880); a printed poem entitled 'To the Memory of the late Rev. David Griffith Vicar of Nevern'; verses by David Owen ('Brutus') entitled 'Ychydig Benillion a Gyfansoddwyd ar yr achlysur o weled Marwolaeth Mrs. Davies, Castle Green, Aberteifi, yn cael ei hysbysu yn y Newyddiadur. Yr oedd yn wraig i David Davies, Ysw., ac yn ferch i'r diweddar Barch. D Griffiths, Nefern'.