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Letters, copies of agreements and other papers, [1771-c. 1841], with later memoranda, mainly relating to ironworks in south-east Wales. They include letters from J. Parry de Winton to Lewis William (Neath), and from Jeremiah Homfray, Samuel Homfray, John Jones (Velindre), Edward Kendall, Watkin Powell (Brecon), P. Sittitoes, and William Taitt.

Documents, including several copies and drafts, 1795-1796 and undated, of the Company of Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation, relating especially to a petition for An Act to Amend an Act of the Thirtieth Year of His present Majesty, for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Merthyr Tidvile, to and through a Place called The Bank, near the Town of Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, and for extending the said Canal to a Place called The Lower Layer, below the said Town. They include the printed Act, 1796; notices and minutes of the Company; a letter to the Company from Cha. Hassall; and letters to John Wood, Cardiff, law clerk to the Company, from Edwd. Barwell, Abingdon Street [London], Rd. Crawshay, Cyfa[rth]fa, etc., W. Taitt, Cardiff, Benjamin Hall, Landaff, C. Brown, Cardiff, W. Richards, Abingdon Street [London], and Tho. Key, St. Fagans.