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A promised improvement in the sales when ships are available and other routine business matters. His deep thought over the tatter of the note issues which is not yet decided. Personal.

His disapproval of recipient's offers to Liverpool firms; such business must be done only through the London House; to whom recipient is asked to offer whatever he has to dispose of at low prices to avoid damaging the market. Personal: the trouble over Mary Crawshay.

Personal - a plea to recipient, who is escorting his mother to Bloomsbury, to stay a few days for discussion with the writer.

Personal - to welcome recipient's visit to himself, [inscribed an Letter 202(a).].

Routine orders and advises.

His intention to let the matter of the hate issue stand over for some months; his resolve that all the sale of iron should be done through the London House, "Our prosperity has risen that way and will be best maintained that way. I will not risk the fall and disunion attendant on any other plan".

All matters must stand for decision until the meeting of the partners after the balance sheets are drawn. Routine matters. His intention to retire if it can be accomplished with certainty of concord to all parties, but to stay on and exert all his powers to prevent mischief if such concord cannot be gained.

Personal - gardening topics. [Inscribed on Letter 205(a)].

Assurance of his desire for concord between himself and his brothers, Cyfarthfa and the London House, and of his willingness to facilitate recipient's retirement. [Inscribed on Letter 205(a)].

Personal and family matters; a plea to recipient not to move in the matter of Mary Crawshay and Mr. Wood as either friend or foe.

Routine business advices: personal.

William) Crawshay (II), Merthyr Tidvil, to William Crawshay, (I), his father, London, to report on the visit of Mary Crawshay, escorted by himself to Capt. Ralston's place at Presteign to meet Mr. Frederick Wood. The views of himself and Capt. Ralston on tube matter; the decision of Mary Crawshay and Frederick Wood not to marry but to pledge themselves and wait events; the honourable character of Mr. Wood. [Copy].

On the report that the writer had believed himself to have been "cuts" by the recipient at Cardiff; and to explain that he opposes the union of recipient with Mary Crawshay, that he has sought to dissuade her from the marriage but has not imputed anything to recipient's dishonour nor changed in friendly regard for him.

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)].