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[Bedwellty Pits coal mine, Wales; Tredegar Iron & Coal Co Ltd] Robert Waters of Newport [Henry Mostyn, solicitor, Usk, MonmouthsBiblio.com

Coal mining in early Victorian Wales. Manuscript copy of agreement 'for the Coal Lease' between Mrs Williams of Pen y Van Bedwellty and Messrs. Powell and Williams with Autograph Letter Signed from Robert Waters to Usk solicitor Henry Mostyn.

ref. 15667Letter: Tredegar Monmouthshire Wales. 12 July 1844. Copy agreement: 29 October 1841. Copy agreement: 2pp. 4to. Letter: 1p. 4to. The two on a single bifolium with the agreement on both sides of the first leaf and the letter on the recto of the second. The reverse of the second leaf is addressed with Penny Red stamp and Newport and Tredegar postmarks to 'Henry Mostyn Esq Solr Usk'. In good condition lightly aged and worn. The agreement begins: 'Mrs Williams to let to Mr Powell and Mr William Protheroe her Coal under lands at Pen y Van Bedwellty whilst any Marketable Coal remains unworked paying 1s/- Royalty 2520 lbs to the ton weighed at Court y bella or any other public machine. . Mr Powell and Mr William Protheroe are to work the Coal belonging to Sir H. Protheroe's representatives under the undivided lands held by them with Mrs Williams as well as some other adjoining lands.' Other topics include the 'Usual covenants' 'Way leave' 'rubbish room'. In the letter signed 'R. Waters' Waters explains that he is sending 'a copy of the agreement which was entered into by Mrs. Lawrence & Messrs. Powell & Protheroe as the basis or instruction for the Coal Lease entered into between the parties'. While conceding that the agreement 'was not signed by Mrs. Lawrence' Waters explains that it was made 'with her sanction & approval & in the presence of all the parties interested therein.' Bedwellty Pits coal mine was sunk in 1850 by the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. Letter: Tredegar [Monmouthshire, Wales]. 12 July 1844. Copy agreement: 29 October 1841. unknown

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William Arthur Bone, scientist [THE COAL INDUSTRY]:Biblio.com

William Arthur Bone scientist; Coal Industry Four Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Signed to George. Kenneth. Menzies Secretary Royal Society of Arts.

ref. 415931 Oct. 1913 and 6 Feb. 2 March and 5 and 12 Oct. 1919.; the first three on Imperial College of Science and Technology letterhead the fourth from St Albans and the fifth from Stockton on Tees. English scientist 1871-1938 Professor of Chemical Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. All items quarto and very good though lightly grubby creased and stained in places. All five docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. LETTER ONE one page: He will be happy to give 'a course of Cantor lectures . on the subject of "Surface Construction" provided that you will put in the requisite gas & air services at your cost for the practical Demonstration'. LETTER TWO one page typed: He has decided that 'Coal and its Conservation" is a better title for the Cantor lectures that he is to give the following month than 'Fuel Economy'. He explains why he cannot be present 'when Sir Frank Heath gives his Address on "Government and Scientific Research". LETTER THREE two pages: He has been 'laid up at home with a chill' and hopes that the outline of the lectures which he is now sending has not arrived too late. 'The economic aspects of the Coal Question are so rapidly changing that it is not easy to decide long beforehand how and on what lines to deal with it in such a course of lectures and I shd. like to reserve for myself some latitude.' The outline is on the reverse of the leaf together with directions for printing the letter proper being crossed through in pencil so that it is not printed. LETTER FOUR one page: He is enclosing 'the scripts of my 2nd. & 3rd. Cantor Lectures which I trust you will find in order & intelligble for your printers' not present. 'In view of the settlement of the railway strike it is probable that I shall have to go away from home on business .'. Gives directions regarding proofs. LETTER FIVE one page: Returns proof of the first lecture 'duly corrected'. Asks that the printers send 'a galley of the corrected sheet because I am delivering the same Lecture to an audience in Tyneside on the 26th. inst and it wd. be very convenient to have a corrected "galley" sheet to read from'. All five items signed 'William A. Bone'. 31 Oct. 1913 and 6 Feb., 2 March, and 5 and 12 Oct. 1919.; the first three on Imperial College of Science and Technology letterh unknown

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