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Letters including letters from Thomas Telford (L65/1, 10-11, 25), Judge William Wingfield (L65/17), John, marquis of Bute (L65/19), Rev. W. B. Knight, rector of Merthyr Tydfil (L65/30), William van Mildert, bishop of Llandaf (L65/31, 33), Wyndham Lewis, MP (L65/32, 35, 37 et seq.), and Charles Morgan of Tredegar (L65/34). The correspondence includes letters relating to proposed improvements to the Glamorganshire canal and the port of Cardiff, Feb. - March (L65/1, 10-12, 25), reform of the Welsh judiciary, including a Bill for regulating the levying of estreats and recognizances, April - May (L65/14, 17, 19), the Commission of the Peace, June (L65/24), the livings of Roath and Cardiff, Nov. (L65/27, 31, 33), the Glamorgan militia, Aug. (L65/28), iron and coal leases, including that there is scarcely a blast furnace in Scotland for pig or bar iron, owing to the cheap production of pig iron in Wales, Oct. (L65/29), a proposed Anglican chapel at Rhigos, p. Ystradyfodwg, and the proposed Llantrisant school, Dec. (L65/38) and the stewardship of Cardiff races, Dec. (L65/42).

Letters including letters from Thomas Telford (L66/1), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais (L66/2), Wyndham Lewis, MP (L66/3, 5), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L66/7, 10, 14 et seq.), William van Mildert, bishop of Llandaf (L66/9), John, marquis of Bute, suspending negotiations with the Dowlais Co., April (L66/12), Philip Henry, fourth earl of Harrington (L66/32) and Lord Palmerston, Secretary at War (L66/36). The correspondence includes letters relating to the proposed Anglican chapel at Rhigos, p. Ystradyfodwg, co. Glam., March (L66/4), parliamentary business, including the Bill for the commutation of tithes in Ireland, [Henry] Brougham's Bill for regulating the sale of beer, and a Bill for amending the Poor Laws, March (L66/5), the Glamorganshire canal and Thomas Telford's proposed improvements to the port of Cardiff, April - June (L66/7, 10, 17-21), a proposed tramroad through the Taff valley from Merthyr Tydfil to the river Ely near Penarth in order to ruin the canal and bypass Cardiff, April - Oct. (L66/10, 13-14, 29), proposed endowment of the Anglican chapel at Dowlais, p. Merthyr Tydfil, April (L66/9), the Glamorgan militia, Aug. - Nov. (L66/22, 32, 34), William Crawshay's proposals for the renewal of the lease on the Hirwaun Ironworks, Nov. - Dec. (L66/31, 35), and an application to Lord Bute to become vice-president of the Cambrian Institution for the Encouragement of Pursuits in Geology, Mineralogy and Natural History, Nov. (L66/33).

Letters including letters from William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L68/2, 5), T. S. Forman, having agreed to buy the Rhymney estate requests assistance with the deposit, May (L68/9), William van Mildert, bishop of Llandaf (L68/13, 19, 34), L[ewis] W[eston] Dillwyn of Penlle'r-gaer (L68/14, 17, 21 et seq.) and H. J. Grant of the Gnoll (L68/22). The correspondence includes a letter hinting at the sale of the Hirwaun Ironworks, Jan. (L68/2), the opening of Llantrisant school, Feb. (L68/3-4), and preparation for a girls' school at Llantrisant, Sept. (L68/23), the Glamorgan militia, March - Sept. (L68/6, 16), Cardiff gaol, May (L68/8), a proposed school at Aberdare, June (L68/10), building on Hirwaun Common at Aberdare, July (L68/11-12), two proposed Anglican chapels in Merthyr Tydfil and Dowlais, Aug. - Oct. (L68/13, 19, 28), J[osiah] J[ohn] Guest's disputes with Lord Bute, including reference to a printed placard 'No Popery - No Stuart - Lewis for ever', Aug. - Sept. (L68/14, 17, 24), Neath school, Aug. (L68/15), the annual Swansea boat races, Sept. (L68/17, 21), the Commission of the Peace, Sept. (L68/18), the death of Colonel Henry Knight, and the proposed disposal of the Tythegston estate, Sept. - Nov. (L68/20-1, 23, 27 et seq.) and the living of Neath, Sept. - Nov. (L68/20, 22, 25-6 et seq.).

Letters including letters from John B. Bruce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L71/1-3, 7, 10 et seq.), James Coke of Neath (L71/6), Robert Bald of Edinburgh, mining engineer (L71/12, 64, 70), Sir Charles Morgan (L71/15), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais, MP (L71/16, 30, 43), Robert Peel, Home Secretary (L71/19-21, 31, 40 et seq.), Rev. William Williams of Cowbridge Free School (L71/32), Charles Morgan of Tredegar (L71/42), J. E. Dorington, parliamentary agent (L71/47, 52), Lord Palmerston, Secretary at War (L71/56), Evan David of Radyr, secretary of the Glamorgan Agricultural Association (L71/60), Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretary at War (L71/87), and John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor (L71/83). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Merthyr Tydfil Police Act and the work of John B. Bruce, magistrate, Jan. - Nov. (L71/1-3, 7, 10 et seq.), including the hope of catching 'the notorious Dai Gam, the Rob Roy of this District', May (L71/66), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Dec. (L71/4, 8-9, 13 et seq.), a Cardiff to Clifton steam packet and the proposed steamboat wharf at Cardiff, Jan. (L71/5), proposed parochial banks, Jan. (L71/6), the excess on the Cardiff 'Eight Acres Charity', Jan. - March (L71/11, 51, 53, see also L70/85), report on iron mining [at ?Karuna] in Sweden, Jan. (L71/12), the living of Roath, March (L71/53), Aberdare school, including a subscription list, March - Nov. (L71/55, 84), scales of corn duty proposed to be levied on foreign wheat, April (L71/60), Calvert Jones declared to be sufficiently proficient in Welsh to undertake a Welsh cure, April (L71/62) and application for the living of Loughor, Sept. (L71/77, 83), invitation to be a director of a company to make a canal between the Bristol and English Channel, Aug. (L71/75), Llantrisant school, including a list of the schoolboys, Nov. (L71/80), William Price, a Brecon saddler sentenced to transportation for stealing a saddle, and said to have been granted a free pardon through the influence of his friends, Nov. - Dec. (L71/88, 92), the queries of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the Welsh judicature (L71/89), together with drafts of the Marquis of Bute's answers [printed in the First Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Practice and Proceedings of the Superior Courts of Common Law, 1829, Appendix E, pp. 380, 406-7] (L71/90-1) and replies from a canvass of co. Glam., Dec. (L71/93, 95).

Letters including letters from Colonel Richard Morgan of Llandough Castle (L72/2, 19), Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretary at War (L72/5, 39, 72 et seq.), John B. Bruce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L72/6-7, 9, 11 et seq.), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L72/14, 21, 33 et seq.), Rev. W. B. Knight of Margam (L72/16-18, 23), Onesipherus Tyndall Bruce of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland (L72/26, 35, 94 et seq.), Walter Coffin of Llandaf Court (L72/27, 47, 49), Robert Peel, Home Secretary (L72/29, 38, 52 et seq.), John, marquis of Bute (L72/36), Richard Neave of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea (L72/45), Charles Kemeys Kemeys-Tynte of Kefnmably (L72/55), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L72/60), Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin (L72/85), Charles Morgan of Ruperra (L72/86) and Edward Copleston, bishop of Llandaf (L72/109). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Aug. (L72/1-5, 10, 12 et seq.), the Merthyr Tydfil Police Bill, Jan. - July (L72/6-7, 9, 11 et seq.), typhus fever at Llantrisant, Jan. - Feb. (L72/9-10, 15, 19), the Glamorganshire Canal Co., and the proposed improvement of the port of Cardiff, Feb. - Dec. (L72/14, 21, 33 et seq.), a petition from Cardiff to Parliament against Roman Catholics, March (L72/27), the inquiry into the Welsh judicature including a reference to Lord Cawdor in cos Pemb. and Carm., and the 'anti-abolitionist' in co. Glam., March - Nov. (L72/27, 42, 44 et seq.), the livings of Llantrisant, Llantwit Major and Lisworny, May (L72/43, 46, 50 et seq.), Newport's continued exemption from the coal duty, May (L72/47, 49, see also L49 et seq.), invitation to subscribe to an intended Caerphilly to Cardiff road, May (L72/50), invitation to subscribe to the completion of Aberafan town hall, and a school intended to be held there, including mention of schools at [Cwmavon?] and at the English Copper Co. at Tai-bach, May - June (L72/51, 58), the ruinous state of Llantrisant town hall and market place, June (L72/63), the system of cottage gardening, including a reference to the first show of the Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and South Wales Horticultural Society at Tredegar, Aug. (L72/82, 91), Llantrisant school, Sept. - Nov., (L72/98, 109), reference to the Golden Grove MSS at Stackpole, co. Pemb. (L72/103) and Aberdare National School, Dec. (L72/117).

Letters including letters from John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr (L74/1, 28), Colonel Richard Morgan of Llandough Castle (L74/2, 20-1, 25 et seq.), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L74/4, 19, 22 et seq.), John B. Bruce of Dyffryn Aberdare, stipendiary magistrate of Merthyr Tydfil (L74/5, 9-10, 15 et seq.), Walter Coffin of Llandaf Court (L74/23), L[ewis] W[eston] Dillwyn of Penlle'r-gaer (L74/26, 68, 79 et seq.), William Lamb, second viscount Melbourne, Home Secretary (L74/27, 35, 46 et seq.), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais (L74/44, 71), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L74/49, 66, 77 et seq.), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L74/102, 105, 109 et seq.), Henry Parnell, Secretary at War (L74/116), [William] Thompson (L74/119), Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam (L74/123, 136), Colonel Brotherton, commanding officer of the regular troops at Merthyr Tydfil (L74/125, 128, 138), Charles, second earl Grey, Prime Minister, declining to give Merthyr Tydfil its own MP, Aug. (L74/159), Sir Christopher Cole, MP (L74/180), and Rowland Hill, second viscount Hill, (L74/212). The correspondence includes letters relating to the New Mill turnpike road and the Bill relating to the co. Glam. roads, Jan. - April (L74/1, 4, 19-22 et seq.), the Glamorgan incendiaries, Jan. - April (L74/2, 20), including a shepherd of Mr Williams of Aberpergwm caught in the act of attempting to destroy a hay stack, April (L74/20), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Nov. (L74/2, 11, 14 et seq.), including its disbandment in the aftermath of its poor performance at Merthyr Tydfil, June - Nov. (L74/112, 119, 123 et seq.), the improvements to the port of Cardiff, Jan. (L74/4), a proposed market place and vestry room at Aberdare as schemes to create employment there Jan. - Feb. (L74/5, 9-10), reform and anti-truck meetings at Merthyr Tydfil, including a reference to David John, a Socinian [Unitarian] preacher, Feb. (L74/9), electoral reform, Feb. - Dec. (L74/10, 15-16, 20 et seq.), including the threat to reform from the riot at Merthyr Tydfil, June (L74/97), the new judges on the Welsh circuits to be Sir Nicholas Tindall and Judge Bolland, Feb. (L74/10), a proposed Church and Government newspaper at Cardiff, opposed to the Swansea-based The Cambrian, Feb. - Aug. (L74/14, 157, 163), the 1821 census 'scandalously taken at Merthyr [Tydfil] by a drunken Clerk of the Friendly Societies', and the 1831 census just taken, March (L74/15), and the population after the riot, July (L74/146), a proposed National School at Llantwit Major, March (L74/17), the Swansea Savings Bank and the Swansea Infirmary, April (L74/31), the living of Cardiff, the new curate being unacquanted with the Welsh language, July (L74/142), letters relating to the riots at Merthyr Tydfil, May - Dec. (L74/33-95, 97-128 et seq.), the formation of union lodges (L74/108, 118, 120 et seq.) and the opposition of the ironmasters to them (L74/164, 166, 168 et seq.), riots at Bristol, threats to burn Cardiff castle and arson of ricks at Llanmihangel (L74/201-202, 208), men returning to work at the Plymouth and Dowlais ironworks having renounced the union (L74/207-8, 210), with references to David Thomas (Dai Llaw Haearn), David Thomas (Dai Solomon), Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr, 'if he is not hanged no man will ever be hanged again', L74/78), Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) and other Merthyr rioters, James Abbott the hairdresser, the principal witness against Dic Penderyn, and William Twiss, a union delegate from Bolton, and containing a list of the wounded men of the 93rd Regiment, June (L74/76), and references to Samuel Hill and Aaron Williams, executed in 1801 or 1802, 'not guilty of the twentieth part of the atrocities lately committed' (L74/145, cf, L48/47-9, 57).

Letters including letters from Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L78/1, 6), John B. Bruce, stipendiary magistrate of Merthyr Tydfil (L78/2-3, 5, 8 et seq.), John Nicholl of Merthyr-Mawr, MP (L78/4, 41, 49 et seq.), Joseph Snow, editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L78/10, 33, 97 et seq.), J[ohn] H[enry] Vivian of Singleton (L78/20), Henry Goulburn, Home Secretary (L78/22), Edward Price, dean of Gloucester (L78/28), Alfred Mallalieu, publisher of the Merthyr Guardian (L78/32, 107-8), Walter Coffin of Llandaf (L78/35, 40, 45 et seq.), Richard Morgan of Llandough Castle (L78/38, 55-6, 93), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L78/39, 48, 81 et seq.), John, marquis of Bute (L78/48, 68), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L78/50, 53-4, 104 et seq.), Lord John Russell, Home Secretary (L78/67-8, 72, 153), William Rees of Llandovery, co. Carm., publisher of Yr Haul (L78/75), John Dixon of Cwm Gwrach, Cwm Nedd, a Socinian schoolteacher (L78/95), Henry A. Bruce, editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L78/109, 117), John Deering, Cardiff Castle architect (L78/118, 124), George Rice, fourth baron Dynevor (L78/140), [Charles Grey] Foreign Secretary, Lord Howick, Secretary at War (L78/141), Lord Palmerston, (L78/144), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais, MP (L78/150), and the directors of the Taff Vale Railway Co. (L78/166-7). The correspondence includes letters relating to the general election, Jan. - April (L78/1-7, 13, 34 et seq.), the Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Nov. (L78/10-12, 14-15, 18-19 et seq.), peers and clergy condemned for supporting the Cambrian newspaper, despite its continuous attacks on Church and State, Aug. (L78/120, 125), the anticipated laying of the first stone of Cardiff Infirmary, March (L78/42), the proposed merger of the diocese of Llandaf with that of Bristol, March-May (L78/43, 47, 80), the livings of St Andrews, Gelli-gaer and Cardiff, March-May, (L78/44, 46-7), and the necessity of having a Welsh speaking curate, April-May (L78/44, 46/71), application by T. Redwood of Cae Wern near Neath on behalf of the newly established Neath Museum and Society for Promoting the Arts and Sciences, including reference to the bard Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), April (L78/61), the result of the first day's poll in the election for Devon, May (L78/66), Wales to be included in the circuit of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court, May (L78/68), the living of Cowbridge, May (L78/73), Yr Haul, the Tory anglican monthly, to be sent to public houses in Aberdare, May (L78/74-5), the living of Aberdare, May (L78/77), proposed improvements to the pilotage regulations at Cardiff, including the pilotage of foreign vessels east of Lundy claimed by the port of Bristol, May - July (L78/70, 78-9, 83 et seq.), a proposed resident coroner in Merthyr Tydfil, July (L78/96), a Jamaican planter's opinion of the future of the island after the end of the period of negro apprenticeship in Aug. 1840, July (L78/98), the registration of conservative electors, July - Oct. (L78/104, 111, 113 et seq.), the Swansea regatta, Aug. (L78/112, 117), the passage of the Municipal Corporations Act, Aug. (L78/120, 128), Daniel O'Connell in Manchester, Sept. (L78/137), the Brecon races, Sept. (L78/142), the Barbados estates of Charles Alleyne, Oct. (L78/149), the recovery in the iron trade, including an order for 400 miles of rail road for America, Oct. (L78/149), Cowbridge hunt week, Nov. (L78/158), the first meeting of the county's Constitutional and Conservative Association at Bridgend, Nov. (L78/161), a bardic meeting at Abergavenny, Nov. (L78/161) and the burning of Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, Nov. (L78/168).

Letters including letters from John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, MP (L79/2, 74, 77 et seq.), Lord John Russell, Home Secretary (L79/4, 7-8, 26 et seq.), Bryan Holme, London newspaper agent (L79/5-6, 21, 25 et seq.), John Deering, architect at Cardiff Castle (L79/9, 44), John B. Bruce, stipendiary magistrate of Merthyr Tydfil (L79/10-11, 17, 30 et seq.), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L79/18, 23, 27), Henry Scale of Penydarren Ironworks (L79/29), Lord James Stuart (L79/35), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L79/36, 51, 82 et seq.), William Williams of Aberpergwm (L79/37, 63, 79), Thomas Powell of The Gaer, near Newport, co. Mon., one of the directors of the Taff Vale Railway Co. (L79/41), Joseph Snow, proprietor of The Merthyr Guardian (L79/45), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais (L79/53, 111, 138), Colonel Richard Morgan of Llandough Castle, from Heidelberg, Germany (L79/78), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L79/81, 95, 103 et seq.), Onesipherous Tyndall Bruce (L79/85), John, marquis of Bute (L79/102, 122), Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Lord Cottenham, Lord Chancellor (L79/116), Lord Howick, Secretary at War (L79/118, 150, 161), Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar, requesting the Glamorgan militia band for Christmas 'as usual', Dec. (L79/155) and Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam (L79/162). The correspondence includes letters relating to The Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Sept. (L79/1-2, 5-6, 21 et seq.), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - May (L79/3, 87), work at Cardiff Castle, Jan. - March (L79/9, 44), the Cardiff Visiting Society and the Cardiff Merciful Society, Jan - May (L79/14, 84), the living of Cardiff, Jan. - April (L79/16, 32, 68), a subscription to a publication of the poems of Thomas Miller, a Nottingham basket maker, 'equal to Shelley - let us hope superior in higher matters', Jan. (L79/17), proposed new Llantrisant to Park road, Feb. (L79/24, 63), the sale of the Aberdare Ironworks by auction, Feb. (L79/29), opposition to a renewal of the stipendiary magistrate at Merthyr Tydfil under the Police Magistrates Act, Feb. - Aug. (L79/30, 40, 53 et seq.), the Glamorganshire Canal Co. Bill and the Merthyr and Taff Vale Railway Bill in Parliament, March - May (L79/36, 38, 47 et seq.), a proposed church at Newbridge to serve a growing population and the new tinworks, 'which will certainly be the largest in the world', in p's Eglwysilan, Llantwit Fardre and Llanwynno, March (L79/46, 57), Merthyr Tydfil toll roads, April (L79/56), subscriptions to Edward Williams ('Taliesin ab Iolo')'s The Doom of Colyn Dolphyn, April (L79/57), the establishment of a Merthyr Tydfil savings bank, April (L79/60, 65), discharge of Sergeant William Lewis, on the staff of the Glamorgan militia, for being employed in a flogging in Cardiff gaol, April - June (L79/61-2, 66-7, 70 et seq.), including confusion with the Sergeant William Lewis at the capture of Lewsyn yr Heliwr, April - June (L79/70, 87, 91 et seq.), the Neath Valley to Merthyr section of a proposed Swansea - Brecon - Abergavenny road, May (L79/75, 79, 139), The Silurian, a Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil radical and anti-church newspaper, and its links with The Workman, May - Oct. (L79/86, 89, 123-124), a prospectus circulating for a radical Brecon printed newspaper supported by [Josiah John] Guest, to be called The Breconshire Iris, June (L79/89), the proposed re-establishment of the Cardiff Races, June (L79/99), William Manuel, a child prodigy able to read Greek and Hebrew, and several languages backwards, Aug. (L79/114), Cardiff Infirmary nearing completion, Sept. - Dec. (L79/121-122, 128, 144 et seq.), rumour that the next vacancy in a Welsh diocese would be filled by a Welshman, probably by Mr Williams, headmaster of Edinburgh High School, and former master of Ystradmeurig School, co. Card., Oct. (L79/126), formation of the Cardiff Poor Law Union Oct. (L79/127), application by John Wood to dedicate his map of Cardiff, one of a series of the principal towns of Wales, to Lord Bute, Oct. (L79/137, see also L81/124), a society for the preservation and rescuing from destruction surviving Welsh manuscripts, Nov. - Dec. (L79/142, 146, 149 et seq.), a proposed Dowlais to Brecon Railway, Nov. (L79/143, 146), [Josiah John] Guest's proposed market at Dowlais, threatening to ruin William Thomas of The Court's unfinished market at Merthyr Tydfil, Nov. (L79/145), last year's Cardiff Eisteddfod and the inexpediency of keeping up Welsh as a colloquial language, Nov. (L79/147, 149), a new anti-church newspaper, The Reporter, to be started in Merthyr Tydfil, Dec. (L79/153), application for a letter of introduction for Wiltshire Austin, vicar of Milford and former incumbent of Aberdare, for his return visit to Barbados, the planters having been furious at his warm espousal of the abolition of slavery, Dec. (L79/157) and an application by David Jenkin of Swansea for a subscription to The Glamorganshire Pedigrees, Dec. (L79/158).

Letters including letters from Constantine Henry Phipps, first marquis of Normanby, Home Secretary (L83/1, 8-9, 22 et seq.), Sir Charles Shaw, police commissioner for Manchester, Lancashire (L83/4, 11), J[ohn] H[enry] Vivian of the Gnoll (L83/5, 290), Thomas Dalton of Cardiff, deputy Clerk of the Peace (L83/10, 16, 66 et seq.), William Thomas of the Court, Merthyr Tydfil (L83/12, 213, 333), Rowland Fothergill of the Aberdare Iron Works (L83/14), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L83/15, 240), John Bruce Pryce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L83/20, 28, 30 et seq.), Sir Benjamin Hall of Llanofer, co. Mon. (L83/29, 273, 287), Joseph Snow, former proprietor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/36), John Edward Dibb, editor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/44, 99, 109 et seq.), Thomas W. Booker of Velindra (L83/45, 83, 259 et seq.), E. J. Hutchins, MP (L83/61), Lord Adare of Dunraven Castle, MP for co. Glam. (L83/67, 176), Richard Hill, Lord Hill, at Cwrtyrala (L83/68), George Insole of Cardiff, coal-owner (L83/77), Henry Stuart, MP for Bedford (L83/81), J. W. Liddell, MP (L83/85), [Phillip Henry Stanhope], Lord Mahon, MP (L83/86), [John Home-Cutts, afterwards Egerton], Lord Alford, MP for Bedfordshire (L83/88), Captain Richard J. Eaton, MP for Cambridgeshire (L83/89), Eliot T. Yorke, MP for Cambridgeshire (L83/92), John Nicholl, MP for Cardiff boroughs (L83/94, 100, 152 et seq.), Charles M. R. Morgan of Ruperra, MP for Brecon borough (L83/95), Henry Scale of Aberaman House, Merthyr Tydfil (L83/96, 119, 135 et seq.), G. G. V. Harcourt, MP for Oxfordshire (L83/97), Captain Martin White of Jersey, hydrographer and nautical engineer (L83/102, 125, 161 et seq.), Colonel Richard Morgan on tour at Rome, and on return from Germany (L83/110, 464, 472), G. Rice Trevor, MP for co. Carm. (L83/112), Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Lord Cottenham, Lord Chancellor (L83/132), G. W. Butland of London, Cardiff-born artist (L83/138, 215, 415 et seq.), Lord James Stuart, MP (L83/153, 382, 406-7 et seq.), [William] Thompson, MP for the city of London (L83/191, 198, 201), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L83/212, 343), Edward Copleston, bishop of Llandaf (L83/228), Lewis Lewis, Clerk to the Merthyr Tydfil magistrates (L83/233, 354, 363 et seq.), L. Box Stockdale, Cardiff police superintendant (L83/244), Alfred Mallalieu, co-proprietor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/269, 283, 426-7 et seq.), Onesipherous Tyndall Bruce of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland (L83/270), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L83/278-9, 291, 301 et seq.), Sir Thomas Phillips of Newport, co. Mon. (L83/289, 297, 300 et seq.), James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, baron Wharncliffe (L83/292), Sir Josiah John Guest of Dowlais, MP for Merthyr Tydfil (L83/300, 337), John Smeaton of London, harbour engineer (L83/368, 375, 380 et seq.), Capel Hanbury Leigh of Pontlotyn (L83/371), L[ewis] W[eston] Dillwyn of Sketty Hall (L83/442), James Berkeley of London, for Robert Stephenson, railway engineer (L83/450, 454) and Arthur Charles Luthman, co-proprietor and resident editor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/451). The correspondence includes letters relating to Chartism, Jan. - Nov. (passim), including the state of Chartism in Manchester, Lancashire, Jan. - Dec. (L83/4, 11, 475), that Dr William Price is believed to be living at Havre, France, that William David and Ebenezer Davis of Newbridge, were last seen at Liverpool, Lancashire, and are believed to have sailed for America, Jan. (L83/7), a list of the leading Chartists in Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, Jan. (L83/12), the condition of co. Mon, including a reference to Ribbonism in Co. Galway, Ireland, in 1820, Jan. (L83/24), references to Thomas Jones Philips, clerk to the Newport magistrates, who arrested John Frost, Feb. - Dec. (L83/65, 128, 136 et seq.), the return of Dr William Price to Newbridge, March (L83/83, 197), references to Chartists increasing in number and 'armed to the teeth' in Northumberland, co. Durham and Yorkshire, March (L83/96), a sale of the effects of Ebenezer Davies, secretary of the Newbridge Chartists, including a Chartist banner, bought by subscription and burnt on the spot, March (L83/98), newspaper cuttings relating to a Merthyr Tydfil public meeting to form a loyal address to Queen Victoria on her marriage and the insertion of a Chartist-inspired clause petitioning for the release of John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones, April (L83/135), newspaper cutting of the Welsh custom of decorating graves on Palm Sunday including those of the Newport Chartists, May (L83/173), reference to Thomas John, a noted Chartist of Merthyr Tydfil, June (L83/197), the return of William Davies of Dinas, active at Newport, from America, and a warrant and reward out against him, Aug. (L83/278), Chartists concealing their real views under the pretence of forming temperance societies, Sept. (L83/319), the state of Chartism at Maes-teg, Nov. - Dec. (L83/411, 471), the discovery of Thomas Giles, who led 200 Llanfabon Chartists to Newport on 4 Nov. 1839, Nov. - Dec. (L83/425, 430, 433-4), the establishment of a Chartist lodge at Cardiff, and an attempt to get a police spy into the meeting room, Dec. (L83/429, 435-8, 440-1 et seq.), 'it is very certain, I understand, that a great deal of information given in at Newport regarding arms, and regarding other alleged proceedings of the Chartists was the invention of the party who furnished it', Dec. (L83/438), the failure of a Chartist inspired run on a Swansea savings bank, Dec. (L83/442), a Christmas Day public meeting at Merthyr Tydfil for the release of Zephaniah Williams, John Frost and William and John William Jones, Dec. (L83/466-469, 477-478), and the arrest of Richard Jones, an unemployed weaver of Llanidloes, co. Mont., for selling Chartist publications and bailed by Dr William Price, and Thomas Morgan of Newbridge, carpenter, Dec. (L83/477). The correspondence also includes references to The Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Dec. (L83/2, 6, 30 et seq.), March - May (L83/99, 109, 117 et seq.), the printed resolutions of a meeting of Conservatives for the removal of the newspaper to Cardiff from Merthyr Tydfil, April (L83/130), and a proposal to merge with The Monmouthshire Beacon, the Conservative paper in co. Mon., Nov. (L83/426), the Glamorgan Militia, Jan. - Nov. (L83/13, 33 et seq.), the Aberdare Canal Co., Jan. (L83/15), the new church at Cardiff, Jan. - Dec. (L83/19, 40, 47 et seq.), the Welsh Manuscript Society including the presidency on the death of Sir W. W. Wynne, Jan. (L83/29), progress in printing Liber Landavensis, March - Nov. (L83/78, 248, 424), and objections to incorporation into the Cymmrodorion Society and progress on the Lives of the Welsh Saints and Lewys Dwnn's Visitations, Aug (L83/273), the proposed rebuilding of the church of Llanilltud Nedd, Feb. - July (L83/54, 60, 223), Whitehall circular to prevent the diffusion of blasphemous and immoral doctrines by printed publications and by other illegal means endorsed 'Circular as to Socialism', Feb. (L83/55, 73), a proposed chapel of ease at Merthyr Tydfil, Feb. - July (L83/57, 62, 137 et seq.), the Cowbridge and Glamorgan Agricultural Society, March (L83/79), the Taff Vale Railway Bill, March - May (L83/80 et seq.), parliamentary election in Perth, March (L83/85), a new Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Hirwaun, March (L83/106, 114), Yr Udgorn Cymru / The Trumpet of Wales, a Chartist monthly, published at Merthyr Tydfil by David John and Morgan Williams, including reference to The Vindicator and The Southern Star, March - Dec. (L83/108, 119, 135-6 et seq.), the school at Llantrisant, May - July (L83/167, 263), detailed account of the Southampton Railway disaster outside Winchester, Hampshire, May (L83/181), a proposed permanent barracks near Cathays Park, Cardiff, and other establishments at Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea, co. Glam., Newport and Abergavenny, co. Mon., and Brecon, June (L83/192-3, 197-8, 201 et seq.), the Cardiff free school, June (L83/195), the new church at the Rhymney Iron Co. works, June (L83/199), the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria in June, including the possibility that Daniel O'Connell might try to lay it at the door of the King of Hanover and the Tories (L83/205, 218) and a notice of a public meeting to agree on a loyal address on the occasion (L83/213), The Advocate and Merthyr Free Press, an English-language Chartist journal, July - Dec. (L83/229, 237, 271 et seq.), including being referred to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes with a view to its suppression, Oct. (L83/338, 347), a proposed infants' school at Cardiff, including a list of subscribers, July - Sept. (L83/239, 243, 327), a police magistrate at Merthyr Tydfil, July - Dec. (L83/240, 455, 459 et seq.

), the appointment to the vacant see of St David's, including a deputation of Liverpool Welsh to Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister, that the next bishop be a Welshman, July (L83/250-251, 259, 261), the appointment of special constables following a complaint of tumults at the Cambrian Ironworks Aug. (L83/294), a subscription for improvements in Swansea, Aug. (L83/295), references to socialism, Sept. - Oct. (L83/297, 379), return of co. Mon. miners to work, the coal-masters having submitted to the miners' terms, Sept. - Oct. (L83/315, 400, 402), the suicide of Henry Rowles, manager of the Rhymney Ironworks, Oct. (L83/387, see also L18/199), printed advertisement from The Monmouthshire Merlin of the circulation figures of newspapers in south Wales, Oct. (L83/403), a proposed Aberdare valley branch railway from the Taff Vale Railway at Navigation House to the Rhigos colliery, Nov. (L83/405), application for an additional subscription to the improvements to the Neath to Merthyr Tydfil turnpike road at Dulais, Nov. (L83/421) and a proposed Glamorgan Vale Union Railway, Dec (L83/450).

Letters including letters from Robert Daw, secretary of the Cardiff and Glamorgan Literary and Scientific Institution (L90/1, 18), John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, MP for the Cardiff boroughs, and chairman of the Quarter Sessions (L90/5, 91, 97 et seq.), Thomas Dalton of Cardiff, Deputy Clerk of the Peace (L90/6, 15, 93 et seq.), Lord James Stuart at Cardiff Castle, MP for the Ayr district of burghs, and trustee of the co. Glam. estate (L90/9-10, 16, 27-9 et seq.), John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor (L90/12), John Bruce Pryce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L90/21, 69-70, 89 et seq.), George Overton of Merthyr Tydfil, owner of a moiety of the Dowlais Old Works (L90/44, 61, 276 et seq.), Lord FitzRoy Somerset (L90/46), Onesipherous Tyndall Bruce of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland, personal adviser, and trustee of the co. Glam. estate (L90/56-7, 78, 129 et seq.), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L90/132, 141, 294), John, marquis of Bute (L90/153, 171), Sir James Graham, Home Secretary (L90/186, 203, 290), Captain Charles Napier of Bridgend, chief constable of Glamorgan (L90/190, 197, 219), Edmund Corr of Bridgend, superintendant of the Glamorgan constabulary (L90/197), Anthony Hill of the Plymouth Ironworks (L90/229, 252), Henry John George Herbert, 3rd earl of Carnarvon (L90/236), Sidney Herbert, Secretary at War (L90/242, 274), Alderman William Thompson of Penydarran (L90/249, 275), Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, enquiring whether his Glamorganshire Pedigrees and The Charters of Kemeys Barony had arrived at Cardiff Castle and asking for a list of the valuable paintings and manuscripts lost in the fire at Luton Hoo, Nov. (L90/268), Andrew Miller of Cardiff, secretary of the Cardiff Infants' School (L90/307) and Prince George, duke of Cambridge (L90/333). The correspondence includes letters relating to the award by the Public Works Loans Commissioners for consolidating the turnpike trusts in South Wales relating to the New Mill Turnpike Trust, Jan. - Sept. (L90/2, 177), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Dec. (L90/3, 25, 41 et seq.), including reference to the regimental records, April - Dec. (L90/96, 172, 335) and the desirability of having a Welsh speaking adjutant, Dec. (L90/278 et seq.), the County Roads Board, Jan. - March (L90/5, 33-4, 49), the provision of churches at Merthyr Tydfil, Jan. - Dec. (L90/7, 17, 48 et seq.), including the desirability of having separate churches for Welsh and English language congregations, Jan. (L90/7), Cardiff Castle, Jan. - Dec. (L90/9-10, 31, 37 et seq.), references to dances, Jan. - Feb. (L90/10, 37), gas lighting at the Castle and the Bute Docks, Nov. (L90/239), the new Glamorgan Commission of the Peace, Jan. - March (L90/11-12, 19, 66), the Merthyr Guardian, Jan. (L90/21), an anonymous letter from Bridgend naming conspirators plotting to blow up the House of Commons, Jan. (L90/28), the renewal of the Dowlais lease and the division of the coal under Merthyr Tydfil Great Common, Feb. - Dec. (L90/45, 50, 54 et seq.), shares in the South Wales Railway, March (L90/52, 60), list of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners who generally attend meetings, March (L90/58), a testimonial to Thomas Attwood, clerk to the Swansea magistrates, for his conduct during the Rebecca riots, May - Oct. (L90/112, 196, 213), Bute Docks, Cardiff, March - Dec. (L90/67, 82, 94 et seq.), a proposal for turning the course of the Taff below Cardiff bridge, March (L90/72), and a proposed Brecon to Leominster railway with branches to Carmarthen, Swansea, Llandeilo and Llanelli, joining the Taff Vale Railway at Merthyr Tydfil, and connecting Nant-y-glo, Tredegar and the principal iron manufactories, March - May (L90/73, 98, 101 et seq.), petitions from the Guardians of the Bridgend and Cowbridge Union and the Cardiff Union against the New Settlement Bill, April - May (L90/81, 99, 104), the consecration of the church and dis-uniting of Cardiff St Mary's from Cardiff St John the Baptist, May - Nov. (L90/116, 168, 218 et seq.), the Tithe Commissioners at Merthyr Tydfil, May (L90/120), application to lay gas pipes in Bute Street, Cardiff, June (L90/133), additional minerals and coals for the Rhymney Iron Co., having built three blast furnaces in addition to the three already on the Bute site, Aug. - Oct. (L90/171, 209), the complaint of Morgan Davies of Llangynwyd Village, Maes-teg, against Messrs Malins and Rawlinson of Coed-y-garth colliery, for withholding pay and operating a Truck shop, and against Rev. Robert Knight, a partner in the colliery's railway, and Rev. H. L. Blose and Mr Llewellyn, his sons-in-law, all Bridgend magistrates, for operating proverbially corrupt justice against the colliers and miners, Sept. - Nov. (L90/178, 197, 257), Scottish tour of Lord James Stuart, Sept. - Nov., including comments on the road and weather between Oban, Argyll, Scotland, and Fort William, Inverness-shire, Scotland, including the Ballachulish ferry, Argyll, Scotland (L90/187), a visit to Culloden Field, Inverness-shire, Scotland (L90/202), a proposed Great Welsh Central Railway, Oct. (L90/236) and a proposed Ogmore and Garw Vales and Cardiff Union Railway, Dec. (L90/326).

Letters mainly from Lord Windsor to Edmund Lloyd at Cardiff, his Glamorgan steward. The letters include reference to the walking of bounds 'over the Hill', May 1754 (L92/1), the price of corn, Jan. 1756 - Nov. 1757 (L92/6, 13, 27 et seq.), distribution of relief to the poor of Cardiff, including the discharge of gaoled debtors in gratitude for the recovery of Lady Windsor from illness, Jan. 1756 - July 1757 (L92/6, 13, 18-19 et seq.), the Ten Commandments, Creed and Lord's Prayer to be put up in Llanmaes church, May 1756 (L92/10), elections, June 1756 - May 1757 (L92/12, 14-15, 32-3), the execution of 'that enemy to his country', Admiral John Byng, Feb. - March 1757 (L92/26-28), Mr Traherne's lead mining lease, March - Nov. 1757 (L92/27-8, 37-40, 44) and a proposed Monmouth to Usk turnpike road, Nov. 1757 (L92/43).

Letters mainly to Thomas Edwards, the Glamorgan steward, including from Lady Alice Windsor (L93/2-3, 12), Lord Mountstuart (L93/4-5, 10, 13-23 et seq.), Thomas Browne of London, estate secretary (L93/7, 24, 26 et seq.), Thomas Coutts, banker, (L93/34), Sir Herbert Mackworth (L93/40, 55, 58-9 et seq.), Robert Stephenson of Plawsworth, co. Durham, steward (L93/86, 90, 92-4), and Sir William Musgrave (L93/98), together with some draft replies (L93/1, 8, 11 et seq.). The letters include letters relating to the Glamorgan militia, Jan. 1776 - May 1783 (L93/4, 13, 41-4 et seq.), Lord Mountstuart rumoured to depart for Spain as ambassador to Madrid, May 1776 - May 1783 (L93/10, 95, 99), opinion that Lady Windsor will never consent to purchase anything in Wales, June 1776 (L93/14), Cardiff Castle, including Lord Pembroke insisting that Cardiff borough includes the castle which is denied by Lord Mountstuart, Oct. 1776 - Oct. 1777 (L93/15, 20, 23 et seq.), straggling seamen to be apprehended for service in the king's Navy, Nov. 1776 (L93/16), Lord Mountstuart's order that no new burgesses are to be made in the boroughs of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant, April 1777 (L93/21), the livings of p's Neath, Merthyr Tydfil, Gelli-gaer and Llanmaes offered for sale by Thomas Edwards, May - June 1777 (L93/25, 29), a violent spirit raised among the Presbyterians against enclosing the waste in Glynrondda, Sept. 1777 (L93/35), appointment of Robert Stephenson as manager of the Mountstuart estates in Wales and the north of England, Aug. - Oct. 1778 (L93/86, 89), reports on the estate in north Glamorgan, including 'there cannot at present be a more neglected estate, or wretched set of tenants, with miserable habitations, indeed, to dwell in', Sept. 1779 (L93/90), and an attack on letting on leases for lives or 99 years (L93/91), the borough of Cardiff, including Jane Herbert's charity school and non-resident aldermen, May 1783 (L93/95, 99-100), the election of aldermen to the borough of Llantrisant, May 1783 (L93/97) and a Scottish factor or doer recommended to be made agent of the Welsh estates 'and if he understands Erse it will facilitate his learning Welsh', May 1783 (L93/98).

Letters mainly to Henry Hollier mostly from John, Lord Mountstuart, and also from James Harford of Bristol, banker and ironmaster (L94/13), John Stuart (L94/62, 153), Charlotte, lady Mountstuart (L94/73, 123, 126 et seq.) and Justice [George] Hardinge (L94/194). The letters relate mainly to estate matters but include references to the Melingriffith copper company, Nov 1783 - July 1784 (L94/4-5, 6, 13), Cardiff Castle, including Matthew's tan-yard and William Lewis's ironworks, both adjoining, Nov. 1783 - June 1788 (L94/4-5, 17-19, 25 et seq., see also C 91, C 125, and D 152/15 et seq.), Lord Mountstuart's resignation of the Spanish embassy, Jan. 1784 (L94/7), relief of the poor, including an offer of £50 which would liberate more than half the debtors in Cardiff gaol, or to be given to the more deserving poor, Feb. 1784 (L94/8), an offer of £50-60 for the relief of debtors or for provisions for the poor, 'we have had here for near three weeks the hardest winter I ever recollect', Dec. 1784 (L94/26-7), relief of the poor in Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant, Jan. 1789 and Jan. 1790 (L94/131, 166), arrangements for the return of Sir Herbert Mackworth, Lord Mountstuart's nominee, as MP for the Glamorgan boroughs, and the Duke of Beaufort's nominee as MP for co. Glam., March 1784 (L94/11), the disputed title to Llanblethian Castle, July 1784 - June 1785 (L94/13-14, 17, 40), arrangements to bring forward Frederick, brother of Lord Mountstuart, as MP for the Glamorgan boroughs should Sir Herbert Mackworth's disorder prove fatal, the creation of dependant voters in the borough of Cardiff, and enquiry as to the number of freemen in the borough of Kenfig, Nov. 1784 (L94/23, 25), anonymous letter attacking William Davies, the Llantrisant agent, Nov. 1784 (L94/26), the loss of the pre-1770 Llantrisant borough records, including the burgess admission records, and the desirability of supplying the deficiency secretly, as the other boroughs are probably in the same predicament, which might be taken advantage of should any electoral opposition arise, Nov. 1785 - May 1786 (L94/51, 53, 65, cf. C123 and L43/81 et seq.), the Glamorgan militia, including 'the military are always obnoxious ... we must in future look alone to natives' to fill commissions, Jan. 1786 - Nov. 1790 (L94/59-60, 62-3, 79 et seq.), an old charter granted to the borough of Llantrisant by Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick (d. 1439) or his son (d. 1445) found in the private possession of an alderman, including reference to two missing charters of Cardiff, Jan. - Feb. 1787 (L94/85-6, 88), the return of the Great Sessions from Cowbridge to Cardiff, May - Dec. 1787 (L94/90, 92-3, 105), doubts as to the attachment of the borough of Cowbridge to the Mountstuart interest and the need to introduce dependant voters and 'some confidential person' to take the chief lead in borough affairs, Oct. 1787 - Jan. 1790 (L94/103, 105-6, 156 et seq.), a proposal to introduce a large body of sure voters into the borough of Cardiff, Oct. 1787 - May 1788 (L94/104, 106, 119-20), Jane Herbert's charity school, Cardiff, Jan. 1788 (L94/109), and praise for the accuracy, completeness and neatness of Bird's records, Jan. - June 1788 (L94/109, 120), the corporation pews in the church of Cardiff, June 1788 (L94/120, plan transferred to the Dept. of Picture and Maps), the need for dependant burgesses in the borough of Llantrisant, June 1788 - Feb. 1789 (L94/121, 124-5, 136), the Spinning School at Cardiff, July 1788 - Aug. 1789 (L94/123, 126, 151), Mr Ibbetson, painter, engaged to take views in co. Glam., and to be made acquainted with the most beautiful spots, June 1789 (L94/145), complaint about Mr Guest enclosing commons comprised in the Dowlais lease, June 1789 (L94/146), Cardiff gaol, Nov. 1789 - Jan. 1790 (L94/162, 166), the loss of the Great Sessions to Cardiff unless at least one third of the ale-houses are shut down, Dec. 1789 - Sept. 1790 (L94/164, 181), the proposed Glamorganshire Canal, Feb. - Sept. 1790 (L94/168, 180, 182) and parliamentary election, June - Aug. 1790 (L94/173-5, 178).

Letters mainly to Henry Hollier, from various correspondents, including John Bird of Cardiff (L97/7, 10, 53), Lord Mountstuart (L97/25), Augustus Henry FitzRoy, third duke of Grafton (L97/26), William Cook the younger of Afan Forges, ironmaster (L97/27, 31, 38 et seq.), Sir Herbert Mackworth of Gnoll Castle (L97/28), Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa, ironmaster (L97/39), Richard Hill of Cyfarthfa, ironmaster (L97/42, 45, 78), John Wood of Cardiff (L97/50, 73), Thomas Guest of Dowlais Furnace (L97/57), and William Lewis of the Pen-tyrch Co. (L97/62, 64, 70 et seq.). The letters include letters relating to the Clergy Charity in the diocese of Llandaf, including printed rules and list of subscribers for 1783, Aug. 1783 - June 1786 (L97/4, 30, 80 et seq.), references to the disputed titles to Llanblethian Castle, May 1784 (L97/33), and to the College estate, May 1784 - Aug. 1785 and undated (L97/33, 96, 148), plea to have a dispute relating to hunting at Aberdare settled, 'or there is some people here very angry ... Lodovick John has almost been kilt in drinking my Lord's health', Jan. 1785 (L97/60), and the Swansea coach robbed twice between Cardiff and Chepstow, Feb. 1785 (L97/75).

Letters mainly to Henry Hollier, including letters from John Morgan of Neath, clerks of the various hundreds of co. Glam., (L9 et.seq.) and Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L98/18). The letters include references to the Glamorgan militia, March 1793 - Sept. 1794 (L98/1-14, 16-17, 19-22 et seq.), the substitution of regimental band musicians as volunteers for ballotted men, including John Powell, harper, April - June 1794 (L98/21, 24, 30-1) and the desertion of a party of 35 ballotted men at Cardiff after refusing to march to the regiment before receiving their marching guinea, June - July 1794 (L98/37, 40-1),.

The letters include copy correspondence with the Earl of Findlater's factor relating to the engagement of John Coul as Lord Mountstuart's Welsh agricultural agent, Sept. - Oct. 1786 (L101/17), the Llantrisant charter in the hands of the alderman and other charters granted by the ancient Lords of Glamorgan, translated and copied into a book, Nov. 1786 - Oct. 1787 (L101/18, 23, 33 et seq.), the removal of the Great Sessions from Cowbridge to Cardiff, May 1787 (L101/33), references to the seizure of muslin and other linen clothes by the Customs, Oct. 1788 (L101/65-7, 71), the removal of the estate records from the damp office adjoining Cathays to Cardiff Castle, Nov. 1788 (L101/72), reform of the system of keeping accounts, Nov. 1788 - Oct. 1789 (L101/72, 75, 89-91 et seq.), approval of the relief of the poor of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant during the late severe weather and regret that the debtors and criminals in Cardiff gaol were not also relieved, Jan. 1789 (L101/76), alarm at the number of new burgesses created at Cardiff and the early dissolution of Parliament, March - April 1789 (L101/82, 84, 87-8), the Glamorgan militia, Nov. 1789 - April 1795 (L101/98, 175, 182 et seq.), reference to the mayor of Nottingham being a dissenter, and that an application to the Court of King's Bench, which has alarmed the bailiffs of the borough of Cardiff, is a prelude to a trial of strength between the Church parties, Feb. 1790 (L101/101), the Glamorganshire Canal Bill, March - April 1796 (L101/103-110, 112, 114 et seq.), dissolution of Parliament, June 1790 (L101/120, 122-3), the election of Captain Evelyn James Stuart as MP for the Glamorgan boroughs, Jan. 1794 (L101/181), the Cardiff subscription fund for supplying the poor with corn, June - July 1795 (L101/207-208), the living of Merthyr Tydfil, July - Nov. 1795 (L101/210, 214, 220), the levelling of enclosures made on Cardiff Great Heath, Feb. - Sept. 1796 (L101/226, 229, 231 et seq.) and the dissolution of Parliament and the re-election of Lord Evelyn Stuart as MP for the Glamorgan boroughs, including reference to an election ball, May 1796 (L101/239-243).

The letters include references to the renewal of the Dowlais lease, Oct. 1848 - March 1849 (L108/5-7, 12-14, 16, et eq.) and the reservation of land for ballast ground, on the basis of an export trade of 1 million tons of coal and iron a year, and imported ballast to be one sixth of the exports, March 1849 (L108/17-18).

Letters to John, marquis of Bute, including letters from Edward Maltby, bishop of Durham (L110/6), Matthew Plummer, chairman of the Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle Railway Co., relating to a Central Union Railway to Edinburgh (L110/9), Charles Thorpe, archdeacon of Durham (L110/11, 13), Rev. Thomas Jackson, curate of Collierley (L110/19, 45, 51-2), Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, baron Ravensworth (L110/20, 34-5, 43 et seq.), John, marquis of Bute (L110/31), Thomas Liddell, son of Lord Ravensworth (L110/53) and Charles Whitby, librarian of the University of Durham (L110/61). The letters include a printed letter from the Newcastle upon Tyne Coal-Trade Office, July 1843 (L110/2), the chaplaincy of the Northern Asylum for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Newcastle upon Tyne, including 'we have a difficulty, partly from the scruples of dissenters', March - April 1844 (L110/11, 13), Tanfield National School, May 1844 - Dec. 1845 (L110/15-16, 18, 42), Collierley National Schools, including that 'the principal land & coal owner here is of the Roman Catholic church', May 1844 - July 1846 (L110/19, 45, 51-2), the repewing of Lanchester church, March - Dec. 1845 (L110/31, 33, 41), the Newcastle upon Tyne meeting of the Agricultural Society of England, Feb. - June 1846 (L110/44, 47) the prisoners in Durham prison, Dec. 1846 (L110/64), the purchase of the living of Kirknewton, Dec. 1844 - Dec. 1845 (L110/24, 26, 32 et seq.), the purchase of the Brandling Junction Railway, Dec. 1844 - Sept. 1845 (L110/25-7, 29, 36-8) and the election of secretary of the Newcastle Infirmary, April 1845 (L110/34).

Letters to John, marquis of Bute, and to Thomas Collingdon from Matthew Thompson, fitter at the Pontop Office, and later at the Garesfield Office. The letters include a reference to a renewal of the contract to supply Garesfield coal to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Jan. - Feb. 1845 (L113/2, 5), monthly estimates of monies required at the fitting office of the Tanfield Lea and Garesfield collieries, Feb. 1845 - Jan. 1847 (L113/3, 6, 13 et seq.), the Stanhope and Tyne Railway Co.'s 'Original Tanfield' coal introduced into the Lynn coal market, in competition to Lord Bute's 'Original Windsor's Tanfield', May 1845 (L113/14, 16-17), the break-up of the coal combination, May 1845 (L113/15-16), production figures for the collieries and coke ovens, June 1845 - July 1846 (L113/18, 20, 25 et seq.), printed bill of the Hareshaw Iron Co., Hexham, Northumberland, Nov. 1841 (L113/36), the coal trade, particularly the London market, has not been worse for 12-15 years, Feb. 1846 (L113/48), including a possible contract to supply Donald R. Macgregor with 10,000 tons of coking coal a year for the North British Railway or the Edinburgh and Berwick Railway, Feb. - May 1846 (L113/48-9, 51, 58), a return of the 1845 consignments of Tanfield Lea coal to the London market, showing the date, ship and loss on each consignment, July 1846 (L113/63), an attempted combination by the collieries on the Tanfield branch of the Newcastle and Darlington Railway July 1846 (L113/64), a contract secured to supply the Dundee and Arbroath Railway, and reference to the opening of the Dundee and Perth Railway, Aug. 1846 (L113/65), lists of the collieries belonging to the 'Grand Alliance', the coal-seams worked, the names under which their coals are sold, and their quality and uses, Sept. - Oct. 1846 (L113/67, 69), the 1842 Newcastle and Darlington Railway Act, Oct. - Dec. 1846 (L113/70-72), the Pontop and South Shields Railway Co. sold to [George] Hudson for £450,000, Oct. - Dec. 1846 (L113/70, 73), who is anxious to buy the North British Railway to bring the whole line from Rugby to Edinburgh under his control, but in competition with the North Western Co., who have secured the Edinburgh and Glasgow, Dec. 1846 (L113/72), Garesfield coking coal supplied to the German railways, March 1848 (L113/77), the coal trade depressed, May 1848 (L113/83-4), the coke trade must remain depressed until the Danish - Prussian/Schleswig-Holstein war is settled as a considerable quantity goes to the Baltic, May 1848 - April 1849 (L113/84, 92, 100), the sale of the Tanfield Lea colliery to James Joicey, June 1848 - Jan. 1849 (L113/85, 93-5), the Aberdeen Junction Co. contract won by the Brancepeth Coking Co., Oct. 1848 (L113/89), and production figures for Garesfield colliery and the coke ovens, Dec. 1848 (L113/92).