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His opinion, after consultation with Richard Crawshay, that the miners ought to participate in the better times, as they have done in Staffordshire, and that recipient should not risk a stoppage by being severe.

W(illiam) C(rawshay), Junior, (II), Cyfarthfa, to David Stewart (agent for Lord Bute), to intimate that he has persuaded his father to sell Hirwain works in the present period of high prices, unless supplies of better coal can be got, more suited to furnaces, and unless the proposed renewal of the lease can be granted; and to advise that Lord Bute would do well to buy the works and re-let them to the Abernant Coal Company, which union would produce the best iron concern in the country.

His inability to see the justice of recipient's view that as long as the miners are given increased wages they will ask for more, and his opinion that "at present they scarcely have enough". Routine business advices.

Accepting recipient's offer of half the interest in 5 Aberdare shares, and explaining his sale of Glamorganshire Canal Shares. The "Rumney" coal was designed by nature for Newport, and the proposed rail road to join the Canal will threaten his interests (by benefiting Cardiff and by offering an alternative to recipient's road to Newport).

His opposition to the "odious monopoly" of Newport as a coal port, and not hostility to recipient's road to Newport, is the reason for the proposal of the Glamorganshire Canal Company that a railroad be built to join (the Rhymney Valley to) the Canal at halfway. Recipient would be allowed to build all or part of this road, which would benefit the Rhymney Valley.

Lord Bute prefers to make arrangements with recipient (and not with the Abernant Co. as proposed in Letter 286) who is advised to get possession of the coal lands of Mr. (Thynne Howe) Gwynn, or take Lord Bute's land at Aberdare and convey the coal to Hirwain by locomotive.

The prematurity of recipient's information that the writer is a promoter of the South Wales Mining Scheme' to which he is however favourably disposed and in connection with which he will be approached. A request that recipient communicate on this matter directly with Mr. O. Tyndall.

Expressing gratitude for the generosity shewn by recipient to herself and her children in extricating them from debt and in making them annual payments.

Sends a copy of a letter from Mr. Roper, and requests recipient to send the Probate of the Will of the late Mr. Thompson to the Custom House. [Copy].

A complaint against recipients for putting him to so much trouble in procuring the Probate of the will of William Thompson, or the actual will, for exhibition at the Custom House Chepstow, and so hindering the writer and his neighbours from obtaining their share in "the vessel". [A copy, inscribed on Letter 292(a).].

Expressing strong disapproval of recipient's having taken the Chair at a meeting of ironmasters at Gloucester, which proposed a levy upon the trade and formation of an association. Such action will not move either Parliament or the Public to deem the ironmasters proper subjects for protection against new companies, and association of the Crawshays with leadership of the drive for prodigious increases in iron prices will expose them to calumny. Recipient is requested to confine himself to the execution of orders, and leave all other matters to the writer, who has been too little consulted, and who believes that they must keep free from conbinations in which they are likely to be duped by Guest and Hill. Routine advices.

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.

Advising recipient of the despatch to him of a "small Gas apparatus", with apologies for the delay.

Expressing pleasure over recipient's letter [relative to Letter 293] and emphasising that whilst recipient confines himself to the works no man can be better approved by the writer, who arranged for the sale of Cyfarthfa Metal to be conducted by the London House for the harmony of both houses.

O. Tyndall, Lincoln's Inn, to William Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil, to announce that the British Iron Company have approached Lord Bute for a tenancy of part of the Rhigos [Hirwain] district, and to request the views of recipient, as a prior negotiator, on the matter.

Condolence on the death of recipient's child. [Annette, b.1824].

Condolence on the death of recipient's child.

Routine business instructions and advices.

A confidential proposal for linking the Hirwain Iron Works to the iron mines of Rhigos, by the sale for £200,000 of the Hirwain Works to one of the iron companies, to whom Lord Bute could extend the lease and also charge a royalty for the minerals. This would produce "a famous concern". [In postscript - asks why the Marquis of Bute allows so much suffering to be inflicted on Cardiff by Bute, Blakemore & Co.].

Concerning the reduction of [Excise] Duty on Swedish Iron which should make recipient less sanguine of obtaining £14 a ton for his iron; the proposed sale of Gwaelodygarth House to Meyrick (the solicitor), the re-sale of Rumney [Iron Works] at which he writer will force up the bidding. Routine advices.