File Clenennau letters and papers 913. - O(wen Wynne) to Sir Robert Owen, MP, at Porkington,

Personal matters. If Owen is for the Bath good company will keep him there, so that the writer begins to doubt of seeing him in London, though perhaps a London plaster will be as good as the Bath waters. The writer has now before him a lump of ore which promises well at view, and he has been told that it was dug up behind or near Owen's house in Merioneth, and that a quantity of it has been sent to other parts. If it is from Owen's ground, he should see to it that it be not begged from him. Sir O. Price is like to lose his for upon a late trial a rich silver mine is found and Lord Newport is one of the chief against him. Owen's may be as good, and while it sleeps in the earth will not disturb its neighbours, and one would rather let it sleep on in its dross and dust than rouse it to make war against its proprietor. A trial cannot well be made under two or three pound' weight of ore.