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Correspondence and papers, including parliamentary papers and letters relating to a petition from Sir Charles Morgan to grant linger leases, Monmouthshire Volunteers and Christmas celebrations at Tredegar House.

Volumes containing carbon copies of letters sent by J. G. Palling (1869-1880), Frederick J. Justice (1869-75, 1880-1902), H. P. Williams (1897-1905) and G. P. Mitchell-Innes (1903-1905), all of the Tredegar estate office, Newport. Besides AEC 1/1 and 1/3, which are Frederick Justice's letter books for the period Aug. 1869-Aug. 1875, the volumes (with a missing volume covering Nov. 1890-July 1891) form a single chronological sequence of volumes, passing from one agent to the next. H. P. Williams was possibly the agent's deputy or clerk, and possibly acting agent in 1902-1903, between the death of Colonel Justice and the appointment of Mitchell-Innes. Typewritten letters first appear in Dec. 1902.

Copies of the audited accounts between the estate agent and the estate owner. Some of these volumes are more in the nature of drafts, and include remarks relating to increases and decreases in rent and to rents written off that are not included in the final version of the audit (eg, 'a decrease of £1-0-4 for building burnt down', 1872, Llan-ddew). From 1891 these copy audit books contain the rentals only, although ABA 2/15 (1903-1905) contains the accounts of H. Edgar Thomas with Lord Tredegar for woods and plantations; private bills; rents, rates and taxes; management expences including salaries and wages; subscriptions, donations and pensions; Coutts & Co.; improvements; and repairs.

Letters relating to Cardiff ground rents. The letters for the period Jan. 1899-June 1902 were numbered and filed in binders in chronological order, with a name index to each file. These binders were intitled 'HJD letters, from [start date] to [end date]'. The letters for July 1902-Aug. 1905 were filed in ring binders in roughly alphabetical order. These later binders were variously entitled 'Cardiff ground rents', 'Cardiff rents a/c', and simply 'Cardiff'. The letters have now been extracted from their original binders, which were rusty and dirty, but kept in their original order.

These cash books are initially intitled 'Cardiff ground rents', 1877-1919 (AGH 2/1-3), the last volume closing with the words 'Balance carried forward to Glam'n town estate cash book no. 1'. The change to 'Glamorgan town estate' cash books, 1920-1942 (AGH 2/4-6), however, appears to be merely nominal. AGH 2/1 is also intitled 'Mr H. J. Davis. From 1st Jan'y to 31 Dec'r 1896'. -- There is no balance carried forward to AGH 2/1, which may therefore be the first cash book to have been used by this estate. The last transactions in AGH 2/6 are in Dec. 1942, when the account was closed and 'Balance transferred to Mon town a/c'.

The settled accounts of Henry John Davis (1877-1902), G. P. Mitchell Jones (1903-1918), John Ireland Storrar (1919-1940) and their successors with Lord Tredegar and the trustees of the Tredegar settled estates for the Cardiff and Pontypridd ground rents, along with miscellaneous receipts and promiscuous payments. This series of audit books was initiated in 1877, when the Cardiff and Pontypridd ground rents were taken out of the Glamorgan estate audit books (AGR 3), which continued as the Glamorgan agricultural estate audit books. -- In 1877 the rental contained ground rents in Cardiff, Tredegarville, Oakville, Roath, Splottlands and Newbridge (later Pontypridd); ground rents in Llanwynno were added in 1878, South Splottlands in 1883, Canton in 1887, Penylan in 1900, Llan Wood in 1906. There was no further change until 1920, when the Pontypridd, Llanwood and Llanwynno ground rents were transferred to a new series, the Glamorgan town estate audit books (AGR 5), and the books of the remaining Cardiff estate renamed 'Cardiff lease rent audit books'. The Glamorgan town series comes to an end in 1938, and in 1939 rents in Pontypridd, Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Llys-faen, Rhyd-y-gwern, Peterston-super-montem, Rhydri and Whitchurch are added to the Cardiff books, which are renamed 'Glamorganshire town and Cardiff audit books'. -- The audit books for 1941-42 end with balances struck on the accounts, but the parties to the accounts are not named; the books for 1943-54 end simply with a summary of the rents, balanced with the total of rents according to the collection books, and lack the supplementary accounts or a balance struck. In 1949 the title of the books changes to reflect the change that they are no longer settled accounts, changing from 'audit book' to 'rental'. The book for 1952 was originally intitled '1950', and the series lacks a book for 1950. The series ends in 1954. -- In common with the other estates of the Tredegar estate, the Cardiff ground rents estate produced duplicate audit books, one for the estate and one for the agent, until the practice was abandoned, in the case of the Cardiff estate after 1890.

The Glamorgan estate began to gather rural cottage and farm rents and urban ground rents accounts into separate ledgers almost from the begining of the estate in 1846. However the first ledgers described on their spines as Cardiff ledgers are dated 1893, and these form the first volumes in this series. Their predecessor volumes will be found among the Glamorgan estate ledgers (AGD 1), as will contemporaneous ledgers of ground rents in Splott and Roath while they continue to be described as Glamorgan ground rents. -- The rent ledgers were reorganised in 1925, with two series of loose-leaf volumes intitled Cardiff Urban A to K (AGD 2/27-37), and Glamorgan Urban W to X (AGD 1/27-28) gathering together groups of streets in alphabetical order, A (A-Br), B (Bu-Cl), C (Co-D) etc. Many of the accounts end with the freehold being conveyed, mostly in the period 1955-60, and often to the tenant, but also, for example, to the Cardiff & Co. Superanuation & Benefit Society, Cardiff Corporation, Cossam Investment Co. Ltd, Glam. Estates Ltd, Gwalia Land & Prop. Dev. Ltd, and Valley Properties (Hengoed) Ltd. Notes on the accounts include the deaths of tenants and other changes of tenant, war damage and war damage compensation, and mortgagors. AGD 2/38-40 contain of folios taken out of AGD 2/27-37 and AGD 1/27-28. These folios appear to apply to properties, the freeholds of which were conveyed during the life of the volumes. Most, if not all, of the freeholds were conveyed in the period 1926-52.

Cardiff rents account drainage books, giving details of drainage, certificate and private improvement charges, by tenant and property. Both volumes were in use at the same time.