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His approval of the general meeting in opposition to the Application to Parliament (for powers) to extend the (Glamorganshire) Canal which recipient had once supported in common with heir enemies Guest and Hill. Personal.

W(illiam) C(rawshay), Jnr., Merthyr Tidvil, to William Crawshay, (I), his father, London, to explain fully his attitude to the Glamorganshire Canal schemes; he believes alteration necessary, and his opposition is only to a counter-line across the land of one individual. The great possibilities of Cardiff as a coal port, if the canal were properly altered there to allow all vessels to be fully loaded at the wharves; the present congestion and muddle at Cardiff; the gain to Cyfarthfa if coal freights were reduced; his readiness to give up the recipient's proxy vote and sell his interest in the canal if the alterations are opposed. [A copy, inscribed on Letter 209a.].

Sends the Stock Accounts which shows a large reduction. Routine business advices.

Personal, and matters relating to the executorship of the will of the late Mr. Thompson, whose investments on behalf of the widow and Mrs. Pullen the writer has attempted to trace.

Concerning the serious loss of orders for Bolts and No. 3 iron occasioned by the inferior quality of these articles and the strong complaints of buyers; his father's displeasure over Letter 209 because of the tone. Personal.

The inability of the London House to get orders for Pig Iron for France, in view of the low prices charged by Guest, can only be remedied by quotation of a lower price to the writers.

The uncalled for violence of Letter 209; an insistence that every possible ship should be chartered to carry off iron even at high freightage. [Inscribed on Letter 213(a)].

His surprise and vexation to find that recipient has put a furnace on ballast production with a view to selling ballast at a lower price, which proceeding the writer will not allow and instructs recipient to blow out the furnace or alter it somehow. Routine advices.

W(illiam) C(rawshay) Jr. (II), Merthyr Tidvil, to William Crawshay (I), London, his father, to express his surprise at recipient's vexation; routine business matters. [Inscribed on Letter 214 (a) - a copy].

A frank intimation that although he has always been a "supporter of Price" and would like to join recipient's country in any measure for the benefit of trades yet he does not think the Gloucester Meeting would have any useful result, [On Letter 215a - a copy].

Concerning the inability of the London House to sell the Cyfarthfa pig-iron at Guest's prices unless a commission is allowed to the House; the desirability of arranging whether Cyfarthfa or the House is to have the sale of pig-iron; the good demand for iron. Routine advises.

William Crawshay (I), London, to William Crawshay (II), his son, Merthyr Tidvil, to question recipient's policy of buying Lancashire ore in order to prevent the Welsh ironworkers from forcing an increase in wages, in view of the possibility that an increase would lead to greater production by the men. The brisk demand for every sort of iron: the undesirability of making ballast.

A request for a meeting with recipient to discuss the question of making ballast and other matters on which there is a difference of opinion; an emphatic insistence that his one ambition in life is to make Cyfarthfa pre-eminent; his desire to avoid difference between father and son. [A copy, inscribed on Letter 217(a)].

His inability to see the wisdom of making ballast; his desire for friendship and co-operation with recipient; his arrangement for a meeting with recipient. [Footnote by George Crawshay - a request to obtain a salmon at Gloucester].

Concerning the preparation of balance sheets and his coming visit to recipient. Personal.

His happiness because the new arrangements which will leave his sons in control of his two concerns apart from the shares held by Routh and Moser, have produced harmony; his acquiescence in death. The briskness of trade. Personal. [Vide L.276(a)]. [Arrangement explained in Letter 396, Box II].

Concerning the difficulty of selling ballast, and other routine business advices.

Instruction to cease from making ballast. Personal.

Concerning a test at Brunton's of recipient's bolts and Harford's bolts, which proved the Cyfarthfa product to be ten times the tougher article and likely to monopolise the trade. Personal: Fothergill's inability to remember, owing to his drunken states that recipient had struck him.

Routine advises concerning the making of ballast. Personal concerning his illness and continued decline; T. Franklyn's offer to sell 80 Canal Shares and a life interest in his wife's Settlement to the writer, who will not consider such a proposition.