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Tredegar Breconshire estate letters and other papers relating to specific subjects that created substantial quantities of correspondence. Some of the files (ABC 2/2/1-2, 5, 7-8, 10) are original bundles created by the staff of the Tredegar estate office, Brecon. The other files comprise letters that were found loose and would otherwise have become part of the annual files (ABC 2/1), but have been gathered together for convenience.

Original files of letters received at the Tredegar estate office, Brecon, comprising files of letters from J. E. W. Rider of Lincolns Inn, Lord Tredegar's London solicitor, 1911-1915, and annual bundles of letters received by J. H. Rosser, along with drafts of his replies, 1927-1930. The letters relate to all aspects of the administration of the estate, and particularly to the sale of property in 1915 and 1930.

Files of letters received by H. Edgar Thomas & Henry F. W. Harries of Brecon, solicitors, successive agents of the Breconshire estate. The letters relate to all aspects of the administration of the estate, including the sale of property in 1915.

Pension books of Mrs Margaret Meredith of Talach-ddu, Feb. 1916-July 1924 (d. 8 July 1924), Mrs Margaret Watts of Llan-faes, Feb. 1916-Jan. 1932 (d. 9 Feb. 1932), Mrs Mary Watkins of Fenni-fach, Feb. 1916-Nov. 1935 and Dec. 1935-Oct. 1938 (buried 18 Oct. 1938), Thomas Bufton, Jan. 1920-Nov. 1933, and Mrs Margaret Lewis of Llys-wen, March 1921-Nov.1925 (d. 1 Nov. 1925), and three letters and a note relating to pensions, including those of David Walters (d. c.Jan. 1931), John Rogers, former under-agent at Ystradgynlais, and Gwen Morgan, widow of John Rogers's predecessor.

Labourers' work and wages books, containing details of work done, such as alterations, cutting timber, erecting bridges, fencing, gamekeeping, making and hanging gates, planting, and repairs (including roofs, skylights and windows). Each man's receipt (frequently his wife's receipt) is written across a stamp for his monthly wages. The value of the work done is summarized fortnightly under various headings, including Castle Hotel, Castle farm (Brecon), Cefnbrynich building, Coedowen farm, estate office, game, general repairs, Glangwt building, gratuity, Llwch farm, mansion house, Ruperra house, sick pay, shooting box, Sunnybank, Therrow farm, Therrow waterwheel, Wern farm, and woods and plantations.

Papers relating to charities in co's Brec., Rad. and Mon., including charities sponsored by the Morgan family of Tredegar or administered by their agents, and charities where the papers came into the possession of the family.

Letters extracted from a binder entitled 'Christchurch Highway Board, letter file, to April 1890'. The letters are addressed to H. J. Davis of Newport, solicitor, in his capacity as clerk to the Christchurch Highway Board. He was also an agent of the Tredegar estate, and presumably this file was caught up by mistake with the Tredegar estate letter files. The letters include circulars from the Highway Board Clerks' Society, 1882-83 (69, 73-74, 114), the orders of the Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions for regulating main roads, 1882 (195), a memorial from G. H. Thorne, surveyor to the board, in answer to the remarks of William Williams, waywarden of p. Redwick, that he has been extravagant with the ratepayers' money, 1885 (198), a notice from the Monmouthshire Commission of Sewers that the commutation of the board's liabilities on its lands in Caldicot under the Caldicot and Wentlloog Level Act of 1884 has been prepared, 1887 (239), a number of the quarterly reports to the Quarter Sessions of William Tanner, county surveyor, on the main roads, 1885-88 (221, 265).

Claims for promotion; Bradstreet's estates in America and England following his death in 1774; legal problems over his two wills, claims of his daughters Mrs Agnes Du Bellamy (later Agnes Butter, later Agnes Evans), Martha Bradstreet and Elizabeth Bradstreet (later Elizabeth Livius), and of his widow Mary Bradstreet to his estate.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Gould as chancellor of the diocese of Salisbury and receipts for payments of various taxes by the tenants of the Tredegar London estate.