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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.

Routine instructions concerning the shipping and invoicing of ballast. Personal - his health and the possibility of peace at Newington (in the matter of Mary Crawshay?).

His pleasure aver the excellent report of conditions at Cyfarthfa presented by Mr. Moser; his illness; the proposition placed before Mary Crawshay that the interest on her marriage settlement of £20,000 should he at her disposal by will.

The acceptance of the offer made to Mary Crawshay, the probability of her marriage to Wood shortly, and his determination never to have any connection with Wood; the smoothness and briskness of trade since the establishment of the new partnership arrangements. (Vide Letter 219).

The trustees to be nominated in the matter of Mary Crawshay's marriage settlement. Personal and family matters.

A request that recipient should inform those persons "who have put down their names to build houses on Lord Bute's land at Hirwaun" that the leases will be granted them on the terms previously arranged.

Personal and family matters; the magnanimity of recipient's agreement to the recent partnership rearrangement which benefitted others more than himself; the careful tying-up of Mary Crawshay's marriage settlement.

William Crawshay (I), London, to William Crawshay (II), his son, Merthyr Tidvil, to intimate his agreement with recipient that they may have to sell iron at £7 per ton if others do so, but that in the meantime he is keeping up the price. [Footnote by another hands- warning as to a French Tinplate maker who may seek to visit Cyfarthfa.].