Draft Letter from Lord Penrhyn to W.Rathbone

The subject of Technical Education in Wales, especially for the quarry districts, is one of the highest importance. Rathbone's offer of devoting to technical and intermediate education the same amount of pecuniary support at which he has bestowed on the North Wales College marks the generosity of his views and the substantial aid which he is prepared to give. He has long felt anxiety as to the fate of the population in the quarry districts of Caernarvonshire. The lads and young men have little or no idea of getting on in the world in any way outside local quarry employment. Refers to their ignorance of English and to the claims of "Cymru Fydd" also refers to his promise to give a siet at bethesda for an Intermediate School, etc.