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Although professional standards were largely a matter for the heads of the new repositories, there was a considerable amount of cooperation and sharing of ideas, resulting in a broadly similar approach. Consequently there was a great deal more expertise and experience for librarians at the Royal Institution to draw upon than there had ever been before. In 1948 the decision was taken by Thomas Baker Jones, a local solicitor, to make a concerted effort to describe the archives. His handwritten catalogue survives in two small notebooks and a bundle of foolscap pages, in which he made a detailed list of the recently received Mackworth Collection, and summary descriptions of the Padley, Ainsworth, Whitney and James and Collins collections. The task was continued by Arthur Peplow in 1957 with a catalogue of the Padley papers. It was at this stage in proceedings that the situation regarding the provision of a record office in Swansea was receiving the attention of the Borough Council. In a report to the council of 6 February 1953, the Town Clerk declared 'There is no Public Record Office in Swansea. The facilities that exist for the reception, custody, care and maintenance of documents of historical interest and importance are inadequate and unsatisfactory.'3 Overtures were made to the Glamorgan Record Office to explore the possibility of setting up a second access point in Swansea to provide a service at the western end of the county. It is a tribute to the Royal Institu- tion as a keeper of archives that the museum was considered as a possible site. Of course, this did not come to fruition at the time, and the Glamorgan Record Office eventually established the West Glamorgan Area Record Office in the new County Hall in 1984. Meanwhile arguably the most important and valuable collection, George Grant Francis's deeds and charters, had no satisfactory catalogue. George T. Clarke had included what he saw as the most important documents (approximately half of them) in his book Cartae et Munimenta de Glamorgan, published in 1910. The remainder were uncatalogued. A catalogue was compiled in 1962 by John Cochlin, who began by checking Clarke's transcriptions and then described each document on index cards. He explained the approach he had taken in a report to the RISW Council when the cataloguing was complete.4 An elaborate letter M from a rental of the Manor of Bayvil, Pembrokeshire, 1605 (RISW DOC 2/1 ).