XD2/15014-24339
Correspondence
[The correspondence preserved among the Glynllifon papers relates principally to the time of the executors of the first Lord Newborough, the lifetime of the second and third Lords and the early period of the Hon F.G. Wynn’s ownership of the estate. There are a few letters prior to the 19th century and a very few post 1900 personal letters (business letters of the 20th century, having been kept totally separately and have been listed with other estate Management records – see nos. XD2/11349-12122).
For virtually the whole of the nineteenth century, business, family, personal, estate and public correspondence was all contained in a single series. Typically, it was filed in monthly bundles, folded small, with the date of receipt, the correspondent’s name and frequently a note of the reply, all written on the dorse by Lord Newborough; these monthly bundles were stored in annual parcels. Some letters escaped this system, or strayed therefrom, but it has been deemed appropriate to list each item of correspondence separately and then arrange it in a purely chronological order. Those documents not originally part of the normal filing arrangement can easily be distinguished by their lack of notation. At some point in the past all postage stamps have been cut out of the correspondence, resulting in some damage; few enevelopes are present.]
Cyngor Gwynedd