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Miscellaneous items of or relating to family members of Mary Cowper Powys, including photographs and estate papers.

Photocopied and transcribed correspondence (from originals and from printed sources) and photocopied fair-copied and draft poetry (one signed) of Alun Lewis, many of the correspondence items annotated by Pikoulis and others, together with notes by John Pikoulis.

Each envelope marked with correspondent(s') name(s) and date(s) of correspondence.

Dates or estimated dates noted are those of original items, not of copying/transcription.

Photocopy of a published play by Gwladys Lewis titled 'Pleasant Place', with accompanying note by John Pikoulis.
Date is that of the original play, not that of the photocopy nor of Pikoulis's note.
See also under Gwladys Lewis (Alun Lewis research papers).

Rentals of arrears due on the Gogerddan estate, 1812, 1842, 1855, 1931.

Title deeds for properties in the village of Cwmsymlog in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1562-1668, 1851-1930. They record an early acquisition of property by John Pryse, 1562; sales and mortgages by the families of Evans, Cwm Cynfyn, 1668, and Pugh of Cwmsymlog, 1799-1877, until the purchase by Sir Pryse Pryse upon default of the mortgage, 1877; a lease of land for Cwmsymlog chapel, 1862; and a draft deed of sale by Sir Lewes Pryse, 1930.

Two small volumes containing accounts of the Gogerddan trustees and agents with Messrs Hoare, bankers, 1862-1926

Additional rentals of the Gogerddan estate which cover the years 1719, [pre-1779] 1787-1788, 1792-1793, 1818, 1847-1848, 1855-1858, and [?1900x1925] (undated)

Letters from the solicitors, Hale, Boys and Austen (later Boys and Tweedie) of Ely Place and Lincolns Inn Fields, London, to Sir Pryse Pryse, Capt. Edward Lewis Pryse, Pryse Pryse Pryse, George Rice Pryse, Sir Edward John Webley-Parry Pryse and the agents, John Graham Williams, Col. George Griffith Williams and William Lloyd, 1852-1924. Many of the letters deal with the legal and financial aspects of the Gogerddan estate management, such as leases, property conveyances, recovery of rent arrears, liablity for payment of chief rent, tithes, taxes and insurance; investments and interest payments;; leasing of the Gogerddan mines, game and sporting rights; family settlements and the involvement of the trustees. Topics of major concern include the title and rights of the Pryse family as lords of the manor of Genau’r-glyn; administration of the estates by trustees following the death of Pryse Loveden in 1855; legal disputes, principally with Matthew Lewis Vaughan Davies of Tanybwlch, from 1857; the sale of Buscot Park, 1859-1861; the mortgage to Hart Logan of Montreal for £10,000 and other mortgages on the Welsh estates, 1860-1895; sales of Gogerddan properties and ground rents from 1888; probate of the will of Sir Pryse Pryse, the discharge of debts, implementation of the family settlements, particularly the younger children’s allowances, and special provision for Richard Pryse, from 1906; and the installation of electric lighting at Gogerddan from 1907

Bundles of loose tack notes granted to mining prospectors on the Gogerddan estate by Thomas Pryse, Richard Richardson, David Morgan and John Pughe Pryse or their agents, for mining in Henfwlch, Allt y Crib, Nantcoch near Ceulan, Nantycagle, Blaenceulan, Esgair Hir, Esgair Fraith and elsewhere in the lordship of Genau’r-glyn, 1732-1772; and tack notes issued by Pryse Loveden (later Sir Pryse Pryse), for mining in Henllys Farm, Cwmere, Cwmeinion, Blaenclettwr, Nantyrarian, Darren, Penpompren Ucha, Blaendyffryn Isa, East Bronfloyd, Ffosfudr, Troedrhiwsebon, Lluest Gotta, Cwmbwa, part of Glanravon, Bwlchyr Adwy, Nantyperfedd, Bryngwyn Mawr, Bryngwyn Canol, Bwlch Glas, Craignant Bach or Bog Pool, Neuadd-yr-ynys, Llawr Cwmbach, Lletty Evan Hen, Cwmglo, Troedrhiwseiri, Camdwr Mawr, Camdwr Bach, Braichgarw, and numerous other locations in Cwmrheidol, Elerch, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cynull Mawr, Ysgubor-y-coed, Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn and Llangynfelyn, and the lordship of Genau’r Glyn, Cardiganshire, and occasionally in Llechweddmor, Tynohir and Dolgarnedd otherwise Felin Llyfnant, Montgomeryshire, 1859-1903. The tack notes often provide the tithe map reference numbers.