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Allen, Charles Francis Egerton, 1847-1927 -- Correspondence.
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Correspondence

Drafts of letters, 1918, from Allen to Sir Thomas Meyrick, bart, MP, Bush, Pembrokeshire, and to Lady Meyrick, with a reply from Lady Meyrick; correspondence with Henry Owen, Poyston, 1902; etc.

Heraldry,

Draft notes, extracts, memoranda, etc., by C. F. Egerton Allen relating to the arms of Pembrokeshire and other families. The material is based on printed sources, memorial stones and tablets, and bookplates, and among the longer items are 'Notes for Ordinary of Arms in Enderbie' (see N.L.W. MS. 12219D) and 'An attempt to trick the coats of arms blazoned in an App[endi]x to Laws 'Little England beyond Wales' pp. 424-446'. Much of the material is written on the dorse of a variety of printed sheets relating to the disarmament conference summoned by Nicholas II of Russia [1899]. Accompanying the material are holograph letters and post cards to C. F. Egerton Allen from E. Hewlett Edwards, Tenby, 1911, J. T. Evans, Stow-on- the-Wold, [19]04, Francis Green, St. Davids, 1910, Mabel Lloyd, Cresborough, Haverfordwest, etc., [19]05-1906 (together with a letter from C. F. Egerton Allen to Mabel Lloyd, [19]05), [Sir] H[enry] O[wen] [London] 1904, and D. P. S. Reid, Boulston, near Haverfordwest, [19]03.