William Jones, to W(illia)m Gray, (London),
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Acknowledging the receipt of a transfer form, and instructing recipient to invest the £10,000 trust money in the Hull Dock Co. in Mr Crawshay's own name, so that no dividends can be obtained nor shares sold without his consent.
William Jones, to W(illia)m Grays Esq,
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Mr. Crawshay desires recipient to invest £1283 for Mrs. Crawshay in Canadian Securities unless recipient has reasons against the proposal.
William Jones, to William Grays Esq., London,
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A request to complete a copy of the Executorship Account Pass book up to date and return it to the writer.
William Jones, to William Grays Esquire, London,
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Sends the numbers of £40,120 worth of Spanish Certificates which were being forwarded to recipient by Registered Letter.
William Jones, to W(illia)m Grays Esquire, London,
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Returns duly signed, the Power of Attorney for recipient to sell stock to pay Capt. Ralston's Legacy Duty.
William Jones, to William J. Epps, Maidstone,
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A remittance in payment of Robert Crawshay's account.
William Jones, to William Simons, Merthyr,
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Mr Robert Crawshay has received a circular convening a meeting to settle the accounts of the Reading Room, but declines to have anything to do with the matter because he has heard nothing since his original subscription to start the Room.
William Jones, to W(illia)m Smith, Bath,
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A remittance - Mr Robert Crawshay's subscription for the year to the Bath and West of England (Agricultural) Society.
William Jones, to William tray, Esq., London,
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Encloses 148 Spanish Certificates, of which details are sent separately.
William Jones, to William Williams, Brecon,
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Mr Crawshay is a donator, not a subscriber, to the Brecon Races and cannot understand the use by recipient of such peremptory terms of request for a subscription.
W(illia)m Jones, to Wm. Allen Miller, King's College,
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Mr Crawshay requires a statement of what it is proposed to do with regard to Dr Todd, not two circulars such as have been sent to him.
William Jones, to Wm. Pulling & Sons, Hereford,
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A remittance for a cask of gin.
William Jones, to, "The Cottage Gardener" Office, London,
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An order for 100 Copies of "Allotment Farming" for distribution amongst Mr Robert Crawshay's men.
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A suggestion that recipient should call upon Mr Saunders, Secretary of the Great Western Railway Co., to complain about the broken greenhouse and other matters. Mr Crawshay has prepared Mr Saunders for the visit.
W(illia)m mouth, London, to William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil,
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Concerning the efforts of recipient's father to extricate them from Bibby's order of 3215 tons, with a promise of a further 450 tons, on the score that the offer was only for any amount that Bibby could himself take away from the Cardiff Stock in April; the offer to ship away 2000 tons for Bibby immediately the skips were sent. Routine advices. [Inscribed on Letter 500(a)].
William) Mouth), London, to William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil,
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Routine advices. (Inscribed on L. 576(a)).
[William Roath, partner in the London House], to [William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil],
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Routine advices concerned with the drawing and discounting of Bills of Exchange on Coffin and others; malicious and untrue rumours concerning [William] Thompson.
W(illia)m Routh (a partner in the London House), to William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil,
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The unwillingness of the partners in the London House to embark on the Rumney Venture, which would require an outlay of £200,000 in Capital and which, if run for recipient and his father only, would revive the discord recently removed by the partnership rearrangement. Recipient's father if the proposal is abandoned, will attend the sale and force up the price to an unprofitable level for Bailey.
W(illia)m Routh (partner in the London House), to William Crawshay (II), London,
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An account of what passed between himself and recipient's father on his reporting the Gloucester meeting to the latter, when the latter violently attacked the meeting and charged it "with supporting a ruinous and dishonest system of extortion", and declared that far from wishing to oppose the Joint Stock Companies he wished them to succeed. His attempt to explain that recipient had not allowed the subject of an increase in price to be discussed at the meeting.
W(illia)m Routh (partner in the London House), to William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil,
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Concerning the acquiescence of recipient's father in the sale of iron at £5. 10s. per ton; the prices of pig-iron at Cardiff and in London; the iron stocks of various firms at Liverpool and the general prices there. Routine advises.