File NLW MS 12566D. - Letters to David Howell,

Nineteen holograph letters and copies of letters addressed to David Howell at Machynlleth, etc., 1837-1887 and undated. The writers include Sam[ue]l Bakewell, Oulton [near] Stone [Staffordshire], 1845 (acknowledging receipt of money due in respect of the recipient's brother [Samuel Howell], who had been placed in the writer's care [owing to his mental illness]), John Breese, Llanbrynmair, 1887 (requesting a donation towards a prize of ten pounds and a chair worth five guineas, which were to be awarded for the best 'pryddest' submitted in memory of 'y diweddar enwog dri Brawd o Gonwy' [Samuel Roberts ('S.R.'; d. 1885), and his brothers, John (d. 1884) and Richard (d. 1883), all of whom had settled at Conway] at an eisteddfod to be held at Llanbrynmair), [the Misses] A. and M. Griffiths, Minsterley [co. Salop], 1837 (their readiness to receive [recipient's sister] into their school, a statement of their terms) (in third person), A[braham] Howell [recipient's brother], Welchpool, 1844-1845 (10) (financial and legal matters) (carbon copies, some barely legible), E[linor] H[owell], recipient's mother, 18[ ]5 and undated (3) (the condition of [recipient's brother] Samuel, the school expenses of [recipient's sister] Hannah) (one of the letters is endorsed with a note from [recipient's brother] Abraham] Howell), Geo[rge] Howell [recipient's brother], Liverpool, 1841 (2) (personal and financial), and Morris Cha[rle]s Jones, Liverpool, 1841 (arrangements for employing [recipient's brother] George ? in the writer's office in Liverpool).