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"Carmarthen,
14 January, 1844.

My dear Sir,

I am sorry I cannot accept your invitation to Langenech as I go tomorrow to Saunders-Davies and Goring Thomas's and return on Tuesday, after which I go to Dynevor Castle till after the adjourned Quarter Sessions on the 24th, and on the 26th to London.

I am sorry you do not get on with the Ponthenry case.

It is well known there is £500 reward under Queen's Proclomation for the conviction of any one of the offenders and a pardon for any accomplice not being the person who actually set fire to the premises, who shall give such information and evidence shall lead to the same result.

Pray have you got any forwarder with the Ponthenry case?

Yours very truly,
Geo. Rice Trevor."

[Source: George Eyre Evans, 'Rebecca Riots: Unpublished letters, 1843-44', The Transcations of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, vol. XXIII, p. 74]