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NOTES This article is intended as a sequel to my previous Architectural development of Hafod 1786- 1807 (CEREDGIGION, Vol. VII No. 2, 1973), hereafter ADHI786—I807. As with that article, this one is essentially devoid of general background information, which can easily be obtained from published sources cited below this is less the case with the later parts, however, which deal with areas less covered by other work. iBritish Museum, Cumberland papers. This letter is in the Add. Mss. 36501 group, not 36497, as stated in Note 53 of ADHI786—I807. It is also in H. M. Vaughan, Some letters of Thomas Johnes of Hafod YCymmrodor, 1925. %John Nash architect to King George IV, 2nd, 1949, p. 60. Nash may not have been available, however, being very busy at the height of his country house building phase. 1805-10 saw work on more than 13 projects, all over England and Ireland. 3Elizabeth Inglis-Jones, Peacocks in paradise (paperback) 1971 (hereafter PinP), p. 208. 4Ditto, p. 207. 51nformation on Baldwin comes from Walter Ison's The Georgian buildings of Bath, 1948, 1969, es- pecially pp. 37-40. 6Ditio, p. 40. 71 am indebted to the Hon. Archivist to the Dean & Chapter of Bristol Cathedral, for information supplied. According to Ison, Baldwin died in 1820, aged 70. 8P. 421, PinP p. 212. Thomas Johnes' loss was C70,000 (Rees, Beauties, p. 420). 9PinP, pp. 207, 208, and 212. H. M. Vaughan (article cited) tells us that Thomas Johnes Sr. bought the Priory in the mid eighteenth century from the Pryse family of Gogerddan. 10Information on Fonthill Splendens, Beckford, and the sales comes from Boyd Alexander's England's wealthiest son, 1962, and Guy Chapman's William Beckford, 1952. 11PinP, p. 208. UDilto, p. 209, 244. lzDitto, p. 215. 14Beauties of England and Wales, p. 421. 15This letter is in the Roscoe correspondence in Liverpool Central Library. I am indebted to Mr. James Dearden for supplying this information. 16See my discussion of the problems surrounding this in ADHI786—I807, p. 160, 161. 17P. 359, note from p. 356. 18Beauties of England and Wales, p. 421. 19This is reproduced in Dafydd Jenkins' Thomas Johnes o'r Hafod, 1948, facing p. 33. ^Samuel Rush Meyrick's History and antiquities of the County of Cardigan, 1810, p. 351 ff. aMr. James Dearden suggests ("Thomas Johnes and the Hafod press The Book collector, Autumn 1973, P- 331, note 11) that this may mean antiquarian library'—a fact I failed to report in my previous article. Miss Inglis-Jones tells me that Mr. T. J. Waddingham also used this term. 22The 1832 sale catalogue is in the National Library of Wales. 231n the National Library of Wales. "This may date from 1792, as I stated in ADHI786—I807, or 1796, or slightly later the point, for our purposes, is that it is a depiction of the first Baldwin Hafod, probably before any changes had taken place. 25Two drawings in the National Library of Wales which Mr. A. Wilton of the British Museum suggested might be by Stothard see ADH1786—1914, p. 164 and Note 71. 26In Wales illustrated in a series of views published in parts as Jones' Views in Wales it could be dattd c. 1815-17. 27 A small picture in the National Library of Wales. ISIn the collection of Mrs. Margaret Evans, Aberystwyth. 29In the National Library of Wales, and the collection of Mrs. Margaret Evans. 30These were used to illustrate his article Decrepit glory', Architectural review, June 1940, repr. Buildings and prospects, 1948, p. 36. I am indebted to Mr. Piper for enabling me to make copies of these, and for additional help and support. aMr. Allison was a student at the Northern Polytechnic, London, School of Architecture. Copies of these drawings are in the Royal Commission on Historic Monuments library (Wales), Queen's Road, Aberystwyth, and the National Library of Wales. One of the originals is illustrated in Plans and prospects architecture in Wales I780—I914 (exhibition catalogue written by John Hilling), 1975, plate 2. Even in these drawings there is an oddity. The main facade (as Hilling, plate 2) is a drawing of the right-hand side reproduced in mirror-image for the left (shown by the reproduction of one heraldic device on both sides of the main window, where there were really two devices). This, therefore, gives us no real information about the left-hand half of the facade. ^Prints are in the National Library of Wales. A room-list is given in the 1939 effects sale catalogue but the furnishings are of a later age, of course (see below).