On Harriet's change of name.

BR is considering buying a house at Richmond.

Re insurance.

Tylor, too, bought a house "on the Green" in Richmond.

To buy a house, BR needs a mortgage of £4,000 or £5,000.

Pennington's have found someone to lend BR £4,000 for a mortgage.

The address of the house BR might buy is 2 Old Palace Terrace, Richmond. See record 131914 for the surveyor's report.

In addition to the letter, there are 16 pages of detailed notes on the condition of 2 Old Palace Terrace, all in a custom folder.

Re Dora's quarterly £50.

BR encloses a cheque for Dora.

Re Griffiths' pay.

Tylor's charges for April–September 1958.

Re Dora's quarterly £50.

Tylor's charges.

BR will now be purchasing 43 Hasker St. for £3,300.

BR has paid the water and general rates.

Re the deeds of covenant for the 3 grandchildren.

Re the deeds of covenant that expired 30 April: "I regret that you did not bring the matter to my notice again sooner."

Re deeds of covenant.

Re deeds of covenant.

Re deeds of covenant.

Re deeds of covenant.

Tylor returns a cheque so BR can write the amount in words.

Dora can't have the grandchildren to Cornwall after Christmas.

Re charges for 2 Old Palace Terrace.

Re payment of legal charges. The enclosed accounts relate to 2 Old Palace Terrace and 43 Hasker St.

Tylor encloses 3 forms R. 185 (not present) for BR to sign re Deeds of Covenant.

Tylor cannot accept John's gift of £100.

Re John's gift of £100 for Tylor and Mrs. Tylor, and John's improvement in some respects.

Re the grandchildren's Easter holidays.

Re the normal quarterly payment to Dora.

BR sends a cheque.

Re receipt of cheque.

Re the Easter holidays in Cornwall for the grandchildren.

The carbon of BR's reply is typed over Tylor's letter; see record 131942.

The Easter vacation dates are satisfactory.

Re legal charges.

Re Dora's new bank account for John.

Re a new draft will for BR. Tylor has provided that BR's literary trustees are to be Edith and Stanley Unwin.

Receipts for legal charges.

Tylor sends a draft codicil for Edith's will. There is no longer a legacy for Edith's mother.

Edith states that she and BR agree to the draft changes in their wills.

A page (at least) is missing from Tylor's letter. At one time it was stapled to it.

Re Dora assisting Kate to come to England, and John spending too much money.

BR, puzzled how Dora is able to contribute to the Tait family's fares to the UK, is willing to pay for their stay except for the time they spend with Dora.

On the new wills and codicils for the Russells.

Tylor will contact Miss Lloyd-Williams.

Edith need not resign her codicil before a notary because she has no real estate.

Tylor returns BR's cheque for signing.

It would suit BR much better if Tylor came to 43 Hasker St.

Re putting financial proposals for Conrad into immediate effect.

Re Conrad's finances.

Thanks for BR's signed letter of instructions regarding Conrad's finances.

Tylor encloses (not present) a detective's report on Susan Russell.

BR refers to a letter from [Christopher] Wordsworth that BR is returning with the detective's report on Susan.

Tylor will write soon about the grandchildren.

John's £400 was repaid to Child & Co.

Thanks for cheque for Trustees' account.

On making legal provision for the guardianship of the children after BR's death.

On the guardianship of the grandchildren following BR's death and an affidavit he is to sign.

On the drafting of BR's affidavit.

Certificates are sent for BR's signature.

Re charges from Coward Chance.

BR writes: "I enclose a letter [not present] from John which, as you will see, seems hopelessly insane."

Tylor will show John's letter to his doctor.

BR enumerates the Plas Penrhyn staff.

On no need for extra insurance for domestic help. On the affidavit re the grandchildren; and Dora and John.

On the need for fuller affidavits.

On signing the affidavits in Portmadoc. Tylor asks BR to attach the second of two ["hopelessly insane"] letters from John. The enclosed letter quotes Dora.

BR has John's second letter (re the affidavits), Susan's visits to the children, and the joint present from Dora and John to them.

On the intervention of BR and Edith in John's divorce proceedings re custody of the grandchildren. Edith's role is being opposed.

The Trustees' account will be in deficit, partly due to an increase in the school fees.

BR is willing that Edith's custody of the grandchildren be held in abeyance. BR is anxious that the framework of their lives be secure. He will not repeat the experience of joint custody with Dora (re John and Kate).

Re an insurance increase at 43 Hasker St.

Tylor believes no increase in insurance is needed.

BR should see counsel in conference re the grandchildren.

BR asks to be rung up any time after 7:30 pm at Hasker St.

Re an order of the court for "care and control" by BR.

BR asks Tylor to write Lloyd-Williams at Moreton to explain "care and control" vs. "custody".

On the grandchildren's vacation with Dora at Easter.

Edith has 7 numbered points about the Easter vacation.

On the grandchildren's summer holidays.

On finding out about the summer holidays.

On the grandchildren's summer holidays. Dora's solicitor, Taylor, talked with Tylor at considerable length.

A long letter summarizing the Tylor–Taylor interview on the grandchildren, John and Dora, provision for John after BR's death, and Dora's report of John's wish to be invited by BR to see John.

Note in Edith's hand at top: "Discussed with Tylor, June 4, 1960 at 43 Hasker St."

Guardian Assurance wants a cheque.

Cheque received.

Tylor suggests automatic quarterly payment of £50 to Dora. He is redrafting BR's will.

BR opposes making automatic the quarterly payment of £50 to Dora.

A judge has requested a welfare officer's report on the grandchildren. The judge does not like the idea of John, "a schizophrenic", being with the children.

Griffiths is leaving the Russells. She says she cannot work with the Welsh servants. That is not, apparently, the whole story.

"The difficulties at present seem to be of the Judge's noting.…"

A new codicil to BR's will is attached, as is a copy of his will. Pigott and Woodburn are to be Trustees. Tylor explains how the Trust Fund is to be divided.

BR asks for the new will to be sent "with two witnesses" to 43 Hasker St.

Pigott arranges for the new wills to be signed.

A copy of the codicil to BR's will, with the date filled in by hand.

A copy of the codicil to Edith's will, with the date filled in by hand.

On Griffiths' wages and the Trustees.

Reference to Edith's letter of 1960/09/03 is made. There is no such letter in the file and indeed in BRACERS.