Thomas Williams, Tir-y-Cwm, etc,
Advice regarding the management of the estate during Rees's minority. Purchase of properties and leasing of farms, minerals, etc. Deterioration in colliery and estate. Incompetence of agents. Loss of coal trade and decrease in income of estate.
Wintry weather. All the other English families had left but her father had taken the Campagne for five months. Arrangements for their journey to Marseilles. Description of travels and activities.
Sailed from Brindisi on the 31st. Splendid steamer over 2000 tons with 120 first class passengers. Nine bachelors. Passed over the place where Pharaoh is said to have crossed the Red Sea. [Describes routine on board ship]. Get to Aden tomorrow and start again for Bombay and arrive there in six days. There is a steamer from Bombay to Calicut where the hacks and bullock waggons will meet the party and then to Major Rossall's bungalow. Will write a letter to Jocky [his brother, George] as it is his birthday tomorrow.
Received a letter from addressee complaining she has not received a letter since the Red Sea. Laid up with biliousness. Rosall killed elephant after seven shots. Elephant with one tusk has killed a man called Hughes of the 66th Regiment. It is good of Jocky to take care of Aberpergwm and to keep those brutes in some terror. Please order plenty of fires at Aberpergwm. Write to Hotel Maurice, Rue de Rivoli Paris.
Personal money matters.
Enclosing passport (76a). Hopes he will have no trouble or occasion to use it.
Cookson Wainewright and Co., 6 Lincolns Inn,
Opinion of Mr Druce regarding claim to insurance policy.
Cookson, Wainwright & Co, 6 Lincoln's Inn,
Acknowledges receipt of copy of will of Rees Williams. [Pencilled note on the reverse of the letter states that Aunt Jane wishes to offer the Drim lease as a gift.].
Receipt of copy of the will of Elizabeth Anne Williams.
Receipt of the will of Rees Williams, dated 1811.
James Hampton, Penbwch Isha, to Morgan Stuart Williams,
Directed by Mrs Wyndham Lewis to inform him that Mr Lloyd is felling timber in Castella Vach coppice that was not sold in the sale.
Her proposed activities during Morgan Stuart Williams's absence.
Cheques for pay received. Estate matters. [Incomplete].
Sent letter to Geneva. Sold ponies at St Mary's Hill to Williams of Miskin. Stopped cleaning of canal. The Coedcae is being finished. Mason's price is ridiculous. Pugh absent again. John the Smith's son ran away as he could earn 13s. a day at Resolven Colliery and only 4s.6 at Aberpergwm. Houses at Pentre Malwod and Abernant Hir need rethatching. Had another offer for Gwain Clawdd.
Is sending ponies to show at Abergavenny. Rain continues and hundreds of acres of hay not cut, corn damaged. Canal work will begin next week.
Miles And Co., Bristol Bank, 71 Jermyn Street, St James, London, to MSW,
Sale of East India bonds on account of the estate of the late Mrs R. M. Smith. Money deposited in account at the Glamorganshire Banking Co., as directed.
Robert Newns, 46 Piccadilly, London, to ?MSW,
Descriptions of two London properties for lease. Recommendation of former, terms of lease.
John Nicholl, Merthyr Mawr, to MSW,
Requests subscription to Clergy Charity.
Augusta Norton, Rannoch Lodge, Pitlochrie,
Photograph of pony. Gift of head-stall from addressee.