Series GCA3 - Letters to Capt. Edward Lewis Pryse, Pryse Loveden, Sir Pryse Pryse and Gogerddan agents

Letters mainly to Capt. Edward Lewis Pryse of Gogerddan, John Graham Williams of Aberystwyth and Gloucester Hall, Pryse Loveden, Sir Pryse Pryse, Henry Charles Fryer of Lodge Park, George Griffiths Williams of Rhoscellan and Ffynon Caradog, 1850-1918. Most files also contain occasional third party letters and copies of outgoing correspondence. The majority are from tenants of the Gogerddan estate, owners and agents of neighbouring estates, local tradesmen, solicitors, mortgagees, the Office of Woods and Forests, the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway Company, mining companies and county officials. Particular correspondents are noted at file level. Many letters discuss the tenancies and property repairs on the Gogerddan estates, land drainage at Borth, the payment of accounts and bills, subscriptions to local schools, Aberystwyth shipping, chief rents, crown rents, tithes, poor rates, administration of the poor law, enclosures, the occupation and management of sheepwalks on the Gogerddan and Wynnstay estates, manorial rights in Genau’r-glyn and in the crown manors of Perfedd and Cyfoethybrenin, illicit turf cutting and poaching. Specific topics include the leases on the Gogerddan Arms, Ponterwyd, Our Lady’s Mill in Aberystwyth and Cwmcynfelyn; building at Gogerddan, Borth, Llandre, Tal-y-bont and Derwenlas from 1852; Cardiganshire elections, 1852, 1859; grants of land for the nonconformist chapels at Goginan, Blaendyffryn, Ponterwyd Derwenlas, Borth and Tal-y-bont, from 1854; Machynlleth Agricultural Society from 1856; the mortgage to Hart Logan [of Montreal], from 1857; the development of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway, from 1861; and mining at Esgair Hir, Bryn-yr-afr, Troedrhiwsebon, Grogwynion, Cwm Darren, East Darren, South Darren, etc. from 1880. There are several single-subject files which relate to particular Gogerddan estate matters, the town of Aberystwyth and foxhunting on the Crosswood (Trawsgoed) estate..