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Volume intitled 'Survey. Breconshire estates. 1820', being a survey of the Breconshire and Herefordshire estates of Sir Charles Morgan, presented to him by Thomas Bold, agent, March 1821. The estates are divided into the Tredegar estate (4,555a), Dderw estate (1,572a.), Palleg estate (2,164a.) and Herefordshire estate (487a.), and include interests in canals and other utilities.

The file contains papers of F. E. Llewellyn Jones's, grandfather, Thomas Francis of Blackmoore Farm, Abbeydore, Herefordshire, mainly probate, executorship and death duty papers, and accounts of his father Phillip Francis of Coity Mawr, Llanfeugan, Breconshire, farmer, who died in 1851. It also includes an agreement for letting Blackmoore Farm, and authority for his wife to continue farming.

The file comprises invitations to exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, British Museum, Hanover Gallery, Leicester galleries and various other galleries, predominantly in London, 1945-1970 (with gaps) with exhibition catalogues for George Stubbs (1957), Augustus John (1948), Andre Bauchant (1960), Paule Vezelay and Winifred Nicholson (1954), Ben Nicholson (1954), Lady Patricia Ramsay (1959), the '56 Group [Wales]', and The New English Art Club (1945).

Papers, 1973-2004, relating to the Royal Academy of Arts, including minutes of the General Assembly, 1976-1977.

An Advertisement, [1795x1810], concerning animals on show at Exeter Change, Strand, proprietor G[ilbert] Pidcock (d. 1810). On the reverse side are 'Fragments - Iolo'.

The series comprises diaries detailing farming activities on the farms of Penyffridd, 1883-1891, Felindre, 1892-1914, Cil, 1926, all in Berriew, Wales, and Lower House farm, Little Ness, England, 1933. 1/1-5, 1/8 also include notes on the sermons of Rev. E Thomas at Byrwyrdd chapel, Castle Caereinion, Wales.

Black and white photographs documenting research into the life cycle of mushrooms with a view to increasing crop size. There is some duplication.