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Owen family, of Brogyntyn, Clenennau, and Glyn -- Correspondence. File
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Abstracts of Clenennau correspondence,

  • Brogyntyn MS II.50 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [mid-18 cent.], [late 19 cent.].

    • Part of Brogyntyn manuscripts

A volume containing abstracts, [late 19 cent.], of official correspondence and documents dated 1485-1645, arranged chronologically, relating to members of the Owen family of Clenennau; the original letters are to be found among the Clenennau Letters and Papers in NLW, Brogyntyn Estate and Family Records.
Tipped in is a short account, [mid-18 cent.], of 'The civil War between K. Charles 1st & his Parliament', with the note 'To be put in Manuscript cupboard, WWEW' added in pencil in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne, Peniarth (ff. 29, 30).

Letters ,

Letters concerning estate management and leases on properties at Kaer berllan [Llanfihangel-y-pennant], [c. 1638], William Owen's Hitchin estate, 1666, Moynes Court, Monmouthshire, [1764x1823], Mrs Owen's house at Datchet, 1778, Tetworth House, 1864-1887, and a house rented by Lady Harlech at Lydham [Shropshire], 1938. Points of interest include lead and copper mining in Cornwall and elsewhere, 1793-1794, 1878; enclosure of common land in Caernarfonshire; and recommendation of a servant, 1831.

Poetry and prose,

  • Brogyntyn MS II.57i-ii [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [1640s]-[19 cent., first ½].

    • Part of Brogyntyn manuscripts

Poetry and prose compiled at Brogyntyn for an album (cf. Brogyntyn MS I.29), but left unbound. The items, in various hands, are mainly in English but with a few in Latin, Welsh and French, and consist of political, satirical and occasional verse, both published and apparently unpublished (ff. 1-212 verso), together with a few letters (ff. 214-228), miscellaneous prose and commonplace entries (ff. 229-306), and printed material including song-sheets, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings (ff. 307-390). A number of items relate to Brogyntyn or Wynnstay or are addressed to family members.

Poetry, prose and estate accounts,

Outsize volume in modern binding containing manuscript and printed poems, songs, ballads, riddles, letters, concert programmes, notices and press cuttings, 1744-1800, and the remains of an account book of labourers and haymakers working for Robert Godolphin Owen at Porkington, 1770. Among the literary material there are poems to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn upon his second birthday, 1751, and upon the Act of Union, 1800; memorials to Mr Mytton and the rector of Hordley, 1765; a personal letter in verse by Mary Owen to Margaret Godolphin [1730x1766]; letters to an unknown addressee concerning the history of Valle Crucis, 1773, to Owen Ormsby on Irish estate business, 1785 and to William [Owen?] on family relations [early 18th cent]; a list of well-wishers' contributions upon the birth of Mrs Ormsby 's daughter, 1781; a poem on the marriage of George Prince of Wales to Caroline of Brunswick, 1795; and a poem entitled A Picture of Porkington addressed to Mrs [Margaret] Ormsby, 1797.