File NLW MS 11767E. - Letters,

Sixteen holograph letters from J. Lewis, Ashton Vicarage [Bristol], etc., to David Davies, Froodvale, 1822-1835 (money matters and the recipient's management of the writer's two farms Cefntellch and Bryntelich [in Cynwil Gaeo], the writer's engagement as servant of the boy at Nyssau [Ynysau] Gate, the opinion of the writer's brother Thomas Lewis on a claim made against Evan John, a request for a supply of ale to be provided for the writer at Bryntelich, the commission and military service of the writer's son Charles, a gift of rum and gin to the recipient, the death of the recipient's father, specifications of a cottage to be erected for a labourer at Bryntelich, the marriage of the writer's daughter, a proposed reduction in the number of excisemen, rioting in the recipient's neighbourhood, the 'turbulent state' of Carmarthenshire and the Boroughs following the parliamentary elections [of 1832], the birth of a son [John Morgan Davies] to the recipient); and one holograph letter from George Horton, Ashton Vicarage, to [David] Davies, 182[ ] (a change in the political atmosphere with regard to 'our Question') (with an addition by J. Lewis acknowledging the receipt of bills).