Ffeil NLW MSS 12412-12413C. - Letters to Phoebe Lloyd,

Eighty-eight holograph letters to Phoebe Lloyd at Soughton, near Northop, at Havodunos, near Mold, etc. The writers include Messrs. Barker & Porter, Chester, 1837 (3) (the purchase by the recipient of the Tyn y Caea estate in the parish of Cloecaenog) (together with a receipt for the payment of a deposit of £125), D[orothea] Clough, Buxton Hall, etc., 1778-1797 (2) ( personal, visitors to Buxton, Mr. [Thomas] Clough's choice of the living of Denbigh), Roger B. Clough, 1799 (the payment of interest, personal), A. M. Crew, Mold, [17]91 (personal, news of relatives and friends) (together with an addition by M. E. Potter), Thomas Evans, Mold, 1841-1842 (3) (a claim for money expended by the writer on the recipient's property), Holland Griffith, Carreglwyd, etc., 1815 and undated (2) (condolence, personal, anxiety about the safety of the Tremadoc Embankment), Richard Griffith, Beaumaris, 1810 (thanks for condolence, news of friends at Carreglwyd, a casual meeting with [Euseby Cleaver] archbishop of Dublin), S. Holland, 1804 (condolence to Mrs. Parry on the death of her husband), R. Howard, undated (personal, visits to Cerrigllwydion and Lluesog, news of friends), E. B. Howard and ?Jane Howard, Beaumares, undated (birthday greetings, cholera at Denbigh, personal) (children's letter), Edw. Jones, Wepre Hall, undated (2) (the recipient's promise to be godmother to the writer's daughter), Richd. Jones, Chester, undated (presents of ear-rings and necklaces), Catha[rine] Lloyd (nee Potter), Carreglwyd, etc., [17]83-1792 and undated (20) (a description of Carreglwyd, copious news of relatives and friends, electioneering in Anglesey (1794), accounts of visits to Dublin and Nantwich), E. Lloyd, Rhagatt, etc., 1810-1821 (3) (personal, offer of a calf, the tenancy of Ddolfechlas, the death of the writer's niece Margaret Price of Rhiwlas), M[argaret] Lloyd, Ruthin, [17]84 and undated (2) (personal), Margt. Lloyd, London, etc., [17]96-1803 and undated (14) (personal, family news, news of friends, an account of a visit to Scotland, business matters), M. Lloyd, Bodfach, etc., 1811-1817 and undated (6) (personal, visits to Rhiwlas and elsewhere, business matters, Ruthin Hunt), M. Lloyd, undated (personal, hops at the County Hall at Ruthin, news of friends), M. E. Lloyd, Carreglwyd, [17]83-1787 and undated (6 ) (personal, family news, a service at Halkin Church, an oratorio at Northop, an accident to the writer), S. Lloyd, [17]85-1787 and undated (3) (news of relatives and friends, money matters), F. B. Potter, Wygfair, undated (personal, the discovery of bank-notes in a clock at Wygfair, news of relatives and friends) (with an addition by M. E. Potter, touching the sale of plate, the living of Halkin, etc.), F[rances] Price, Rhiwlas, 1817 and undated (5) (personal, news of relatives and friends, the miseries of the poor, the children's schooling, the unfortunate business of the Denbigh Bank, the marriage of Sir Watkin [Williams-Wynn, 5th bart.], the contrast between the families of Wynnstay and Powis Castle, visits to Rhagatt, the apprehension at Trawsfynydd of a forger of notes and the presence of a large gang of forgers with a rendezvous at Holyhead), C. Roberts, Oakland, 1810 (condolence, personal), J. Smedley, Llanrhydd, 1794-1795 (2) (the illness of the writer's sister Maria, news of relatives and friends), Jane Taylor, Lymm Hall, [1824] (thanks for congratulations to Bessey), J. Trulock, Black heath, Coleraine, 1801 (personal, the purchase of a chaise, family news), E. Wynne, Garthewin, [17]99 (a proposed visit, Sir John Williams's accident, melancholy weather), [ ], undated (personal, news of relatives and friends) (with a draft or copy letter by Phoe. Ll[oyd] touching a nurse for her friend), etc.